Western Europe Data Center News

Icelandic hydroelectric plant receives a micro data center installation from Japan's IIJ

Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ) has installed a micro data center (MDC) at an Icelandic hydroelectric power station. In April 2023, IIJ announced intentions for a data center trial project in Iceland in collaboration with Landsvirkjun, the country's national power company.From April until...

July 14, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Iceland

Spanish insurer Mapfre looks for buyer of 8MW Madrid data center

In anticipation of a potential sale-leaseback transaction, Spanish insurance company Mapfre is listing its data center for sale. According to Cinco Dias, the company has hired CBRE to find a buyer for the Tales de Mileto building in the Alcalá de Henares neighborhood of Madrid.Mapfre launched ...

July 13, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Madrid

Application filed for Oxfordshire data center stirs up controversy amongst locals

De Montalt Life Sciences is planning to build a campus comprising seven 25m high buildings, a data center, and two multi-story car parks on the outskirts of an Oxfordshire town in the UK. Planned at the former Wicklesham Quarry in Faringdon and spanning 42,286 sqm (455,163 sq ft), the proposal...

July 12, 2023

United Kingdom

Further details released about 60MW four-story data center campus planned in Berlin

Further details have been released regarding Van Caem's Berlin data center plans. The company has partnered with Prea Group for a 60MW four-story data center campus near Rhinstraße 139 in Berlin-Lichtenberg. Named Bluestar, the campus will see an investment of €1 billion ($1bn) and will be th...

July 11, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

98MW data center facility planned outside Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire

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 t...

July 05, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

London

UK’s Loughborough University renovates its two data centers

UK's Loughborough University has announced that it has completed its renovation project, upgrading two of its data centers in Leicestershire. Schneider Electric delivered the data center modernization on the Haslegrave and Holywell Park data centers, adding EcoStruxure Row Data Center, InRow C...

June 23, 2023

United Kingdom

Van Caem shares plans for €1 billion data center in Berlin

Van Caem, a Dutch developer, has shared its plans to develop a 100MW data center in Germany on a brownfield site near Rhinstraße 139 in Berlin-Lichtenberg. With an investment of €1 billion ($1bn), the facility is set to be the fifth largest in the country and the largest in Berlin.Earlier desi...

June 23, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Germany / Deutschland

IonQ proposes quantum data facility in Switzerland

IonQ, a quantum computing company based in the United States, intends to deploy two of its facilities in Switzerland and establish a quantum data center in Europe. This week, the company disclosed its collaboration with QuantumBasel to deploy two quantum computers at QuantumBasel's Center of C...

June 23, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Switzerland

IT disruptions at the Guernsey government caused by data center cooling and power issues

The States of Guernsey in the United Kingdom discovered that a series of IT disruptions were caused by the inability of backup systems and the use of outdated equipment. Between November and January, the authorities of the British Isles experienced four disruptions, rendering the state's websi...

June 22, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

FullSave launches data center in Auch, France

FullSave has announced the opening of a new data center in Auch. Offering 30-rack and spanning across two 70 sqm (753 sq ft) IT rooms, the facility also has a PUE of 1.4. Arnaud Turpin, IT manager at FullSave, said: "Our site has its own 144-fiber artery between Auch and Toulouse. Our data cen...

June 21, 2023

France

Secure IT Environments provides the ICU of a UK hospital with a micro data center

Secure I.T. Environments, a provider of modular data centers, has delivered a micro data center to a healthcare facility in London, United Kingdom. The intensive care unit (ICU) at Barnet Hospital got the 42U Micro Data Centre 3 this past week. The encapsulated facility has a maximum load capa...

June 20, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

In light of Ireland's inaction on data center expansion, Ireland's Labour Party calls for hault

Following concern being raised over the dangers posed by continued data center expansion, Ireland’s Labour Party has joined the call to halt data center building and, instead, introduce a temporary surcharge.Speaking about this, Labour leader and climate spokesperson Ivana Bacik, said that the...

June 19, 2023

Republic of Ireland

Plans for a new data center in Buckinghamshire, UK return following legal challenge

Following a successful legal challenge, Link Park Heathrow’s plans for a new data center in Buckinghamshire are going ahead. First filed in December 2020, the company was seeking to demolish the existing buildings at its site on Thorney Mill Road in Iver to develop a 55,000 sqm (592,000 sq ft)...

June 19, 2023

United Kingdom

Google signs PPA with Kronos Solar EDPR in the Netherlands

Google has signed a new PPA for solar energy with Kronos Solar EDPR. The 15-year PPA will see the giant offtake part of the output from the company's four photovoltaic plans currently in the works in the municipalities of Smallingerland in the province of Friesland, Lochem and Berkelland, bot...

June 16, 2023

Google Eemshaven Netherlands

Scotland continues to pursue data center developers and suggests five possible locations

The Scottish authorities are still trying to attract data center developers to their country. Twenty potential data center sites in the nation have been identified in a report created by Host in Scotland in support of the Scottish Authorities, including five additional spots not mentioned in a...

June 16, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Scotland

As amber energy alert is issued in Ireland, government has no plan to pause data center growth

Startling new figures released by the Central Statistics Office have revealed that in just a year, data center power consumption in Ireland has increased by 31 percent; 18 percent of all electricity used in 2022. Yet, Ireland's government is not intending to reduce the number being built in th...

June 14, 2023

Republic of Ireland

Havering Friends of the Earth raise concerns over data center plans

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 co...

June 14, 2023

London

University of York moves data to Sweden for sustainability

The University of York has outlined that it is moving its data to Sweden in a bid to make its operations more sustainable. The UK university has chosen the EcoDataCenter in Falun, Sweden, to store its data, which it says has aided it in reducing its emissions from data by 98%. This has been ma...

June 12, 2023

EcoDataCenter Falun, Sweden

Nabiax increases the capacity of the Alcala data facility in Spain to 22MW

The data center operator Nabiax has begun expanding its Alcala Data Center in Spain. The company plans to increase the facility's capacity by 47% by the end of the year, from 15.1MW to 22MW. The center is located northeast of Madrid in Alcalá de Henares. After the expansion process, the compan...

June 09, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Nabiax: Alcalá de Henares

Evroc aims to raise $3.2 billion for tw hyperscale data centers

A new Swedish startup called Evroc intends to open several large data centers throughout Europe. In its pre-seed round, the company raised $13.9 million, but it hopes to raise $3.2 billion in the following two years to build and run two hyperscale data centers in Europe. Long-term, Evroc aims ...

June 08, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Sweden

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