Western Europe Data Center News

Network Spin Off by Italy's Wind Tre

According to reports, the Italian telecom giant Wind Tre is considering spinning off its network assets. A Reuters source noted that the operator continues to explore a potential sale with the Swedish private equity firm EQT while also expressing a desire to spin off its network assets into a...

March 16, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Italy

Italy's Bergamo Will Soon Have a Campus For Data Centers

A new data center is being planned by the local real estate company Vitali outside of Bergamo, Italy. The Municipality of Arcene in northern Italy is reportedly in talks with Vitali s.p.a. to create a new data center campus, according to the local Italian press.The commune of Arcene is located...

March 15, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Italy

Thor Equity launches Form8tion Data Centers

Thor Equities has announced it has launched its own data center development company, named Form8tion data centers, which is reportedly now marketing Thor’s maiden project in Madrid, Spain, named ‘Madrid One’ campus. This facility will offer up to 100MW of capacity spanning 60,000 sqm (645,850 ...

March 14, 2023

Madrid

Climate disasters endanger subsea cables

New research from the UK's National Oceanography Centre and the University of Central Florida has found that thousands of miles of cables on the seafloor are increasingly at risk due to climate-related disasters. This, experts say, makes the world's internet connectivity vulnerable to outages ...

March 09, 2023

United Kingdom

Impulsa Galicia and Ingenostrum's 'carbon-neutral' data center in Spain

Impulsa Galicia, a public-private partnership from the Galician local government, has announced that it has partnered with Ingenostrum for a carbon-neutral data center project. The project is set to see an investment of €400m ($424m), and will see Ingenostrum assess the feasibility of a carbon...

March 09, 2023

Spain

Bahnhof Intends to Install a Nuclear Power Station at its Stockholm Facility

According to reports from Swedish news outlets, Bahnhof, a company that operates data centers, has plans to construct a nuclear reactor in order to power a new data center. Plans are being drafted for a small modular reactor (SMR) to be constructed on an industrial site in the Hjorthagen neigh...

March 08, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Stockholm

LSEG Data Center Hosts TNS Trading & Market Data Systems

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...

March 01, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

London

Transaction Network Services Moves to New LSE Data Facility

The new London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) data center is now home to a number of clients of Transaction Network Services (TNS). TNS was compelled to move after LSEG declared that its present City of London data center would be shut down. The brand-new colocation facility in Docklands still...

March 01, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

London

Deutsche Telekom deploys 300MWh battery storage rollout

Deutsche Telekom has announced its plans to rollout battery energy storage systems across Germany. The company has outlined that the systems will support 300MWh.The first system, which is a 1MW/6MWh unit, has already been deployed at Deutsche Telekom's head office in Munich. This is part of th...

February 23, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

Plans For a Three-story Data Facility in Loughton, Northeast London

A 185,150-square-foot data center is projected for northeast London. Alandale Scaffolding has applied to Epping Forest District Council for permission to construct a new center in Loughton, close to the Debden station, as first revealed by EssexLive. The company intends to construct a three-st...

February 23, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

London

Lunar Digital Purchases Equinix's Manchester Facility

UK MSP Lunar Digital has acquired a Manchester data center owned by Equinix in the upcoming months. This week, Manchester-based Lunar Digital, a provider of managed cloud, data center, and cyber security solutions, revealed that it had bought Reynolds House, a leased Equinix building former...

February 21, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Equinix Manchester MA2

Equinix Shuts Paris PA1 Data Center, Inks Pre-lease With Icade For New Site

Equinix has shut down a data center in Paris and inked a new pre-leasing agreement for new construction in the French city with French real estate firm Icade.In its Q4 2022 financial report issued last week, the colo company said PA1 had been shut down. The purpose-built facility at 167 Rue...

February 21, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Equinix Paris PA1

LEW TelNet to build new green data center in Augsburg

LEW TelNet has announced the construction of a new green data center in Augsburg, Germany, which will operate with a PUE of 1.2. Work on the facility, which is located on Oskar-von-Miller-Strasse, will begin in summer 2023, with the first phase of the two-phase project going live mid-next year...

February 15, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

NRB Group Purchases The Wallonia Data Center in Belgium

Belgian IT services provider Win and its data center affiliate Wallonia Data Center have been bought by Belgian ICT company NRB Group. This week, the business disclosed that it had purchased Nethys, a telecom owned by Enodia, as well as Win and its affiliate Wallonia Data Center (WDC). The ...

February 09, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Belgium

German Edge Data Center Company nLighten Launched by I squared Capital

I Squared Capital's latest portfolio company, nLighten, is introducing an Edge network in Germany. This week, the company disclosed plans for a formal debut in Germany across 10 sites later this year. Exa Infrastructure, another I Squared Capital venture, sold its initial data centers to nLigh...

February 08, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Germany / Deutschland

DTiX Proposing New Facility in Chalon-sur-Saône, France

DTiX, a French data center operator, is constructing a major data center in Chalon-sur-Saône, France. The company is constructing a second facility in the Saône-et-Loire department of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. There will be enough for 100 racks in two data rooms spanning around 7,...

February 06, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

France

NTT Third Building at its Vienna Data Center Comes Online

NTT has opened a brand-new facility on its Vienna, Austria data center campus. The extension, which was announced in October 2021, increases the site's size to 92,500 square feet and its capacity to 15.2 megawatts. In 2015, NTT purchased the Austrian data center when it purchased German firm e...

February 06, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

NTT Vienna

The Spanish Tax IT Agency Allotted $76m For an Innovative HQ and Data Center

The Department of Tax Information Technology (DIT) of Spain has been awarded $76.2 million for a new headquarters in Madrid, which will include a new on-premises data center. The facility will be located at 480 Calle Alcala and will contain the DIT, allowing for the creation, installation, ...

February 01, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Spain

Bradford Data Center To Become A College Institute

A British office and data center will be converted into a college teaching facility. This week, CECOS College was awarded permission to convert data center on 8 Currer Street in Bradford, West Yorkshire, into an IT teaching facility. The City Council of Bradford accepted a change of use propo...

January 31, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Aire Networks’ Ar Telecom acquires land in Portugal for data center

Ar Telecom has acquired land in Lisbon, Portugal, for a new data center, which it announced on LinkedIn and in ECO this week. The land acquired by the Portuguese telco is located in the Alfragide area of the city and the data center project has now moved on to the design and licensing phase. ...

January 25, 2023

Portugal

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