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Swedish Solar Firm Targets Finnish Data Center Development

A solar farm developer is expanding into the data center sector, with plans to develop a campus in Finland. The municipality of Iisalmi this week announced that Swedish energy company Helios Nordic Energy is planning a new data center in the Tervamäki area. While full details have not been dis...

April 10, 2026

Finland

FCDC Plans New Data Center Campus in Vaasa, Finland

Finnish data center FCDC is planning a new campus in western-central Finland. FDFC Corp Oy aims to develop a 66,000 sqm (710,420 sq ft) campus in GigaVaasa, located in the Laajametsä business area near the airport. Two data center buildings are planned."The data center project supports Vaasa's...

December 31, 2025

Finland

Elisa Confirms Plans to Cut 357 Jobs Following Personnel Negotiations

Finnish telco Elisa has confirmed it will cut 357 jobs. The announcement comes after the company launched its transformation program in October, when the carrier hinted up to 450 jobs could be lost."As part of the transformation program, Elisa is streamlining its organization and optimizing it...

December 30, 2025

Finland

Bitzero Breaks Ground on Finland Data Center

Data center and cryptomine firm Bitzero has broken ground on a data center campus in Finland. Iit has begun Phase I development at its nearly 100-hectare data center site in Kokemäki, Finland."This site provides the space and power capacity we need to achieve our aggressive growth plans and de...

December 04, 2025

Finland

Nscale Signs 15MW Lease Agreement with Verne for Data Center Capacity

AI cloud provider Nscale has signed on to lease 15MW of capacity at Verne's data center campus in Iceland. The agreement will see Nscale deploying 4,600 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs across Verne's campus through 2026. The GPUs will be 85 percent liquid-cooled and 15 percent air-cooled.Dominic W...

November 19, 2025

Verne Global

Verne Sells Two Finnish Data Centers to Glesys

Nordic data center firm Verne this week announced it has sold the Finnish operations, including facilities in Pori and Tampere, to Nordic cloud firm Glesys. “We’re pleased to welcome a talented team and a strong customer base through this agreement with Verne. It expands our data center footpr...

October 15, 2025

Verne Global

Scale42 Plans Data Center in Kitee, Finland

Kitee this week announced plans to sign a preliminary property purchase agreement with data center developer Scale42. The deal, to be discussed at a city meeting next week, concerns a 10-hectare plot in the northern part of the Kitee Puhos industrial area.William Tasney, CEO of Scale42, said: ...

October 11, 2025

Finland

Helen Seeking Data Center partners

Helen, one of Finland's largest energy companies, has announced that it is open to supporting data center operators in joining its “comprehensive energy system” in Helsinki, where facilities can be connected to the city’s advanced district heating and cooling network."The synergy benefits of d...

September 12, 2025

Finland

DataCrunch Proposes Data Center in Akaa, Finland

Helsinki-based AI cloud company DataCrunch is looking to develop a data center in Akaa, Finland and has purchased 10 hectares of land in the Akaa Point business district for around €600,000 ($698,200). "The scale of the investment is significant and it strengthens our city's tax revenue base, ...

September 08, 2025

Finland

DayOne Plans 128MW Data Center in Finland

APAC data center firm DayOne this week announced plans to develop a campus in Lahti, some 100km northeast of Helsinki. The €1.2 billion ($1.4bn) project will be located in a former industrial site in Kiveriö. At full build-out, the project could total 128MW IT load."Finland is an ideal strateg...

August 15, 2025

Finland

New Data Center Campus Planned in Keuruu, Finland

The Keuruu government last week announced that Suomen Energiainsinöörit Technology Oy plans to build a data center on a 40-hectare site on the western side of the Karjola industrial area. The company aims to develop a 200,000 sqm (2,152,782 sq ft) facility on the site, which is currently owned...

June 20, 2025

Finland

APL Plans 100MW Data Center Campus in Finland

International private equity firm APL Group (also known as Asia Pacific Land) this week announced the development of a hyperscale data center campus in Varkaus, in the province of Eastern Finland.The data center will be built on a 28-hectare site and has a planned capacity of up to 100MW. The ...

May 29, 2025

Finland

Airbus to develop Gaia-X data space

Aerospace giant Airbus is aiming to move all of its data-sharing capabilities to a Gaia-X data space. The company announced its plans at the Gaia-X Summit 2024 in Helsinki, Finland, explaining that it hopes to increase transparency with its massive network of suppliers.According to Catherine J...

November 15, 2024

Finland

Neste to supply Verne's Finnish data centers with HVO

Finnish oil refining firm Neste Oyj has signed an agreement with European data center firm Verne to supply renewable diesel to power the company's backup generators in Finland. The oil firm will deploy the renewable diesel at all of Verne’s Finnish data centers. Verne currently has three opera...

October 18, 2024

Finland

Nebius to expand Mäntsälä data center capacity

European AI data center developer Nebius has announced plans to triple the capacity of its data center in Mäntsälä, Finland. This expansion will see Nebius place upwards of 60,000 GPUs at the facility, growing its capacity from 25MW to 75MW. This is part of a broader program that will see the ...

October 09, 2024

Finland

IQM has manufactured 30 quantum computers at Espoo, Finland

IQM Quantum Computers revealed on September 16 thst it has manufactured 30 full-stack quantum computing machines to date at its Espoo, Finland, manufacturing facility. In addition, it has delivered and installed six full-stack quantum computers to customers including the VTT Technical Research...

September 21, 2024

Finland

Ardian completes Verne acquisition

Investment firm Ardian this week said it had completed the acquisition of European data center firm Verne from UK infrastructure firm Digital 9 Infrastructure plc (D9). The company will support the expansion of Verne with up to $1.2bn committed investment through equity and debt to “deliver an...

March 16, 2024

Verne Global

Boldyn Networks finalizes acquisition of Cellnex's private network business

Boldyn Networks has completed its acquisition of Cellnex's private network business for an undisclosed sum. This acquisition includes Edzcom, Cellnex’s Finnish subsidiary that specializes in private networks for industrial environments.“By bringing Cellnex's private networks business unit und...

March 04, 2024

Finland

Nokia to sell management businesses to Lumine Group

Finnish vendor Nokia has agreed to sell its device management and service management platform (SMP) businesses to Lumine Group. This deal, valued at €185 million is expected to close in the first quarter of next year, subject to approval.According to Nokia, Lumine "intends to operate DM and SM...

December 26, 2023

Finland

Verne Global introduces cooling liquid to underground Finnish facility

UK and Nordic provider Verne Global has added liquid cooling to its underground Finnish data center campus in conjunction with Dell and Intel. Verne is now offering direct liquid cooling (DLC) for systems installed in the Rock data center, which occupies ex-military tunnels in the bedrock at P...

December 01, 2023

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