Western Europe Data Center News

Nestlé sells Swiss data center to local real estate firm

The multinational food conglomerate Nestlé has sold a Swiss data center. This week, Baker McKenzie Switzerland revealed that it advised Nestlé Global Real Estate on the transfer of its data center and office property to Orllati Real Estate SA. The site at Rte de Buyère 4 in Bussigny, canton of...

September 06, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Switzerland

LyonTech La Doua data center construction commences in France

Work has begun on the LyonTech La Doua Calculation and Data Center (CCDD) project in Villeurbanne, France. The University of Claude Bernard Lyon 1, collaborating with the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon (Lyon INSA) on the facility, has begun earthwork and structural development....

September 06, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

France

Google signs first Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in Ireland

Google has announced that it has signed its first Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in Ireland. The 14-year agreement is with Power Capital Renewable Energy for 58MW of new-to-the grid capacity from the Tullabeg Solar Farm in County Wexford.The solar project, currently under construction, spans 2...

September 05, 2023

Republic of Ireland

CapMan Infra takes over the Danish colocation company Fuzion

CapMan Infra has acquired the Danish data center colocation company Fuzion. This week, the transaction via the CapMan Nordic Infrastructure II fund was announced. The acquisition terms were not disclosed. Fuzion was founded in 2001 and operates out of four data centers in the Jutland region of...

September 04, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Denmark

Belgian emergency services numbers go offline after Proximus data center fire

Last week, a fire in a data center operated by the Belgian telecommunications company Proximus temporarily disrupted phone services for contacting emergency services.Last Wednesday morning, emergency numbers 112 (firefighters and ambulances in a hazardous situation) and 101 (police) were inacc...

September 01, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Belgium

Varonis Opens Data Center in the United Kingdom to Serve SaaS Customers

Varonis Systems, Inc., an industry leader in data security, has announced the opening of its first data center in the United Kingdom to support customers migrating to its SaaS offering. Varonis customers will be able to show compliance with national data protection laws and utilize Varonis' wo...

August 29, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

DataQube, a UK Edge data center firm, enters insolvency

Edge data center company DataQube Global Ltd of the United Kingdom has declared bankruptcy. Creditors convened today, August 29th, to deliberate a nomination of liquidators and, if necessary, appoint a liquidation committee. DataQube reps did not acknowledge requests for comment regarding the ...

August 29, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Genesis launches cryptomine in Sweden

Genesis Digital Assets Limited (GDA) has established a crypto mining data center in northern Sweden. Located near the 417 MW Porjus hydroelectric power station, the current capacity of this facility is 8MW, but expansion is planned for the future. It was previously used as a 'traditional' data...

August 24, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Sweden

A consortium of UK universities is looking for vendors for a data center contract

This month, seven of the United Kingdom's Higher Education purchasing consortia (UKUPC), managed by the North Eastern Universities Purchasing Consortium (NEUPC), issued a request for proposals (RFP) for a new data center framework. The contract runs from January 2024 until January 2027 and is ...

August 18, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

UK Gov't cloud & data center bids close at $152.76m

Bids for a $152.76 million cloud services and data center management deal with the United Kingdom government closed last week. The contract, which was published for the first time on June 23, calls for a variety of services that can be categorized as cloud hosting and support services, cloud a...

August 18, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) finishes fit-out data center in Frankfurt, Germany

Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS)' data center fit-out in Frankfurt, Germany, is complete, it has announced. Called Frankfurt West, the facility consists of 14 data halls with a total IT capacity of 25MW. This is two fewer than originally planned.Mercury Engineering, the main contractor on ...

August 08, 2023

Colt Frankfurt West

SCC installs solar panels on its Birmingham data center

SCC has installed solar panels on its data center in Birmingham, it has announced. Its flagship CV1 facility will have a 737kWp roof-mounted solar-PV system attached that will cover just over five percent of the facility's total energy needs. This new development has been made possible in part...

August 03, 2023

Birmingham UK

Hill International to support building of two Digital Realty data center projects in Greece

Hill International, Inc. has announced it will work with Digital Realty to support the construction of two new data centers in Greece. The first will be in Heraklion, Crete, while the second will be located in Athens. The latter location is where the company's Greek data center campus is based...

August 03, 2023

Digital Realty: Athens ATH1

Ireland's low tax advantage boosts data center construction

Despite repeated calls from different parties in Ireland to halt data center building, a recent report has shown that Ireland's low tax advantage is stimulating further growth in data center construction. According to a recent market review, Ireland's corporation tax rate, being one of the lo...

August 02, 2023

Republic of Ireland

Cellnex contemplates selling a stake in its Nordic enterprises

Cellnex is contemplating the sale of a minority stake in its Nordic operations, which could fetch up to $1.11 billion. Reuters reported last week that Cellnex would use the earnings to pay down debt, according to sources familiar with the matter.Reuters reported that Cellnex is collaborating w...

August 01, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Nordics

The UK government to commit an additional $51 million for 5G

The British government has committed $51 million to nationwide 5G innovation. The government announced on July 31 that funding applications are now being accepted. According to the government, the investment is intended to accelerate innovation in industries such as advanced manufacturing, tra...

July 31, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Thames Water considers restricting London data centers' water usage

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 wat...

July 27, 2023

London

Remov announces 7.2MW heat-sharing data center

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 c...

July 19, 2023

Finland

Norwegian government approves Green Mountain TikTok data facility

The government has granted Green Mountain permission to construct a data center campus for TikTok. However, stricter data center regulations may shortly be introduced in Norway. Green Mountain announced in March 2023 that it would construct three 90MW buildings in the Hamar region by November ...

July 19, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Norway

Port of Valencia gives up data center proposals for docks building

The municipal council of Valencia has abandoned plans to construct a data center in a port docks building. More than a year had passed since the local government began considering multiple proposals for establishing a data center in a building on the Marina de Valencia. Nevertheless, this week...

July 18, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Spain

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