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Read Virtus Plans 32.5MW Data Center in Slough, UK
Virtus Data Centres is planning a new data center in Slough, west of London. The company this week announced London19, a 32.5MW facility at the Slough Trading Estate. Planning permission has alread...

Virtus Plans 32.5MW Data Center in Slough, UK

June 30, 2026 VIRTUS Data Centres Ltd

Virtus Data Centres is planning a new data center in Slough, west of London. The company this week announced London19, a 32.5MW facility at the Slough Trading Estate. Planning permission has already been secured through the estate's Simplified Planning Zone, with Segro set to develop the powered...

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Read Mayor of London Commits to Joint Effort on Data Center Growth Challenges
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has pledged "coordinated action" to address the challenges posed by rising data center demand across the capital, particularly growing pressure on power infrastructure. A re...

Mayor of London Commits to Joint Effort on Data Center Growth Challenges

June 17, 2026 London

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has pledged "coordinated action" to address the challenges posed by rising data center demand across the capital, particularly growing pressure on power infrastructure. A report commissioned by the Greater London Authority and prepared by Buro Happold found that while...

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Read Magnora Secures Milan-Area Land for 30 MW Data Center, Its Second Italy Project
Magnora Secures Milan-Area Land for 30 MW Data Center, Its Second Italy Project

Magnora Secures Milan-Area Land for 30 MW Data Center, Its Second Italy Project

May 18, 2026 Milan

Norwegian renewables and data center developer Magnora ASA has secured land for a new 30 MW data center project in the Milan area, the company announced on Monday. The wholly owned project is Magnora's second in Italy and brings its data center development portfolio to 585 MW gross and 460 MW...

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Read Virtus Starts on 204MW Data Center Campus Near Berlin
Virtus Starts on 204MW Data Center Campus Near Berlin

Virtus Starts on 204MW Data Center Campus Near Berlin

April 15, 2026 Berlin

European data center operator Virtus has begun construction of a 204MW facility outside Berlin, Germany. Located around 12km (7.4 miles) west of the capital in the municipality of Wustermark, the company plans to invest a total of €3 billion ($3.5 billion) in the project.“This ambitious...

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Read Viasat launches new headquarters in London
Viasat launches new headquarters in London

Viasat launches new headquarters in London

April 15, 2024 London

Satellite firm Viasat last week officially launched its new office, at 50 Finsbury Square in London, as the combined offices of both Viasat and Inmarsat, the rival vendor it acquired last year. The new 121,000 square feet site includes new satellite, network, and cyber operations centers for the...

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Read Oriole Networks raises £10 million in seed funding
Oriole Networks raises £10 million in seed funding

Oriole Networks raises £10 million in seed funding

March 29, 2024 London

University College London (UCL) spinout Oriole Networks has raised £10 million ($12.6m) in a seed funding round co-led by UCL Technology Fund, Clean Growth Fund, XTX Ventures, and Dorilton Ventures, with support from Innovate UK Investor Partnership. “As the demand for compute continues to...

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Read Segro to develop new data centers after £900 million share issue
Segro to develop new data centers after £900 million share issue

Segro to develop new data centers after £900 million share issue

February 29, 2024 London

Property investor Segro has raised £900 million ($1.1 billion) in a share issue and intends to use this funds to develop its portfolio across the UK and Europe. The London-listed business had initially been hoping to raise £800 million ($1.01bn), but on Tuesday evening its directors said strong...

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Read Swiss Life Asset Managers acquires major stake in Telecom Infrastructure Partners
Swiss Life Asset Managers acquires major stake in Telecom Infrastructure Partners

Swiss Life Asset Managers acquires major stake in Telecom Infrastructure Partners

January 10, 2024 London

Investment firm Swiss Life Asset Managers this week entered an agreement with London-based InfraBridge, an infrastructure investment management division of DigitalBridge Group, to acquire a co-controlling equity stake in Telecom Infrastructure Partners (TIP). Gianfranco Saladino, head of...

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Read Ridge purchases UK data center consultancy Concert
Ridge purchases UK data center consultancy Concert

Ridge purchases UK data center consultancy Concert

November 18, 2023 London

Building consultancy Ridge recently acquired London-based Concert, a data center-focused consulting company, to boost its business in that sector. Both companies finalized this acquisition on November 3, but the terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Concert will operate under its current...

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Read ICG completes £125 million purchase of London DC portfolio
ICG completes £125 million purchase of London DC portfolio

ICG completes £125 million purchase of London DC portfolio

October 23, 2023 London

Asset management firm Intermediate Capital Group recently completed a £125 million purchase of offices and data center portfolio in London leased to UK telco Vodafone. The 260,000 square feet portfolio comprises five data centers which was initially acquired from British Land who announced the...

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Read Prea obtains authorization for 100MW Berlin data center
Prea obtains authorization for 100MW Berlin data center

Prea obtains authorization for 100MW Berlin data center

September 20, 2023 Berlin

The construction of a 100MW data center in Berlin, Germany, has received planning approval. This week, the German consulting and services firm Prea announced that it has received approval to construct a new data center in Berlin in collaboration with the Dutch developer Van Caem. Four four-story...

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Read Virtus to build 300MW data facility outside Berlin
Virtus to build 300MW data facility outside Berlin

Virtus to build 300MW data facility outside Berlin

September 05, 2023 VIRTUS Data Centres Ltd

Virtus Data Centers plans to construct a new 300MW campus outside Berlin in Germany. This week, the company, a division of STT GDC, announced the Wustermark Megacampus in Brandenberg, west of the capital. The first phase of the campus in the municipality of Wustermark will encompass 3.7 million...

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Read Thames Water considers restricting London data centers' water usage
Thames Water considers restricting London data centers' water usage

Thames Water considers restricting London data centers' water usage

July 27, 2023 London

Thames Water has announced that it is considering restricting data center water-use in London. The measure could reportedly include charging operators more at peak times and adding flow restrictors to pipes.Initially, the private utility undertook an assessment to get insight into how much water...

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Read 98MW data center facility planned outside Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire
98MW data center facility planned outside Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire

98MW data center facility planned outside Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire

July 05, 2023 London

Greystoke Land Ltd has applied to the Three Rivers District Council to demolish extant structures on a 33-hectare site north of Mansion House Farm through Bedmond Road in Abbots Langley to construct a data center campus. The company intends to construct two data center structures totaling up to...

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Read Havering Friends of the Earth raise concerns over data center plans
Havering Friends of the Earth raise concerns over data center plans

Havering Friends of the Earth raise concerns over data center plans

June 14, 2023 London

Havering Friends of the Earth has voiced concerns over an application to build a data center on Green Belt land. Digital Reef is proposing a huge data center campus in East Havering, within a new 500-acre site, with 67% of the land dedicated to an "ecology park." The company has offered the...

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Read GTR plans to launch UK data center campus before summer
GTR plans to launch UK data center campus before summer

GTR plans to launch UK data center campus before summer

May 05, 2023 London: Slough

After breaking ground on its new Slough-based campus in January, KKR-funded Global Technical Realty (GTR) has announced that it plans to launch the site before summer 2023. The $1 billion campus, GB One, comprises three independent facilities, each providing 5373 sqm of net technical space and a...

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Read Virtus Data Centres to build in Berlin
Virtus Data Centres to build in Berlin

Virtus Data Centres to build in Berlin

May 02, 2023 VIRTUS Data Centres Ltd

Virtus Data Centres has announced its plans to build a new data center campus in Berlin, Germany, as part of its global expansion plans. Named Virtus Berlin 1, the facility will be built in Marienpark Berlin and will feature four buildings, offering at least 90MVA of power. The project will be...

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Read AtlasEdge forms partnership with PacketFabric
AtlasEdge forms partnership with PacketFabric

AtlasEdge forms partnership with PacketFabric

April 05, 2023 Berlin

Atlas Edge has announced that it has partnered with PacketFabric, to expand cloud access across its network. The strategic partnership will see the company’s facilities connect to PacketFabric’s TruNaas Converge Platform, which will reportedly allow AtlasEdge customers to access PacketFabric’s...

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Read Akamai Technologies Will Purchase Ondat, a Cloud Storage Company
Akamai Technologies Will Purchase Ondat, a Cloud Storage Company

Akamai Technologies Will Purchase Ondat, a Cloud Storage Company

March 21, 2023 London

Akamai Technologies, an American provider of content delivery services, and Ondat, a provider of cloud storage, have signed a binding agreement. The transaction is anticipated to occur in the first quarter of 2023, and Akamai anticipates no major changes to its annual financial forecast. The...

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Read LSEG Data Center Hosts TNS Trading & Market Data Systems
LSEG Data Center Hosts TNS Trading & Market Data Systems

LSEG Data Center Hosts TNS Trading & Market Data Systems

March 01, 2023 London

The trading and market data systems of its clients are being transferred from the Main Data Center, which is now in the City of London, to the new London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Data Center, which is located close to the Docklands. After securing considerable infrastructure capacity in the...

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