March 16, 2024 Verne Global
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...
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March 04, 2024 Finland
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 under...
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December 26, 2023 Finland
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 SMP...
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December 01, 2023 Verne Global
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...
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November 28, 2023 Verne Global
French private equity firm Ardian just purchased data center company Verne Global from Digital 9 Infrastructure. D9 bought Verne for $320 million in 2021 and has since then acquired and merged Finnish data center firm Ficolo and London’s Volta Data Centres into the Verne brand. However, D9 had...
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July 19, 2023 Finland
Remov has announced it is set to begin work on the construction of a new 7.2MW data center. The facility will be powered entirely by renewable energy, have a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.1, an "energy flow ratio" of 1.0, and will recover 96 percent of its waste heat. According to the...
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March 16, 2023 Finland
At the recent Data Center World awards, the LUMI data center was awarded the Green Data Centre of the Year for its sustainability focus. The award was introduced to recognize the efforts made to reduce emissions and demonstrate a life cycle approach of recycling and reuse within the sector. The...
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January 14, 2022 Verne Global
Digital 9 Infrastructure has revealed that it is investing an extra $93 million in Iceland’s data center company Verne Global. The investment is to fund a further expansion of the data center firm. Triple Point Investment Management manages D9, and it acquired Verne Global in September last year...
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August 29, 2018 Verne: Tampere (The Deck)
Ficolo has acquired Cybercom’s data center business in Tampere. Cybercom’s data centers will be transferred to Ficolo and additionally Cybercom outsources data center operations services to Ficolo. The transfer takes place on August 31st, 2018 and does not impact Cybercom’s data center customers....
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