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Nokia to sell management businesses to Lumine Group

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 SM...

December 26, 2023

Finland

Avacon & enviaM partner to develop new facility in Hanover, Germany

Engineering firm Avacon Group and regional energy provider enviaM Group have patnered to develop a data center in the Sehnde-Ost industrial area of Hanover, Germany. This facility will span 2,000 square meters and will potentially house 28,000 servers. The data center is being developed by a j...

December 26, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

Iliad secures €300 million EIB loan

Iliad Group has secured a €300 million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to use in supporting its 5G network expansion in France. This marks the seventh loan issued to the telco by the EIB since 2009. Thomas Reynaud, CEO of the Iliad Group, said, “This financing transaction – the s...

December 22, 2023

France

Dutch firms win finding for Edge data center-related project

A group of seven Dutch companies and research institutes recently won funding of €70 million for a project looking at efficient Edge data centers. The members include liquid cooling specialist Asperitas, along with BetterBe, Deerns, Eurofiber, NBIP (National Internet Providers Management Orga...

December 22, 2023

Netherlands

Gigaclear secures £1.5 billion debt facility

UK alternative network provider Gigaclear has recently secured a new debt facility of up to £1.5 billion, which is split between an upfront facility of around £1bn ($1.26bn) and an uncommitted accordion of circa £500 million. This new debt facility was provided by a consortium of banks includi...

December 18, 2023

United Kingdom

UK government proposes new regulations for data center security

UK government launched a new consultation for data center security and resiliency regulation. The consultation dubbed “Protecting and enhancing the security and resilience of UK data infrastructure” is to source views on proposed regulations to improve the security and resilience of data infra...

December 16, 2023

United Kingdom

EE installs 4G mast in two remote Scottish Islands

UK mobile operator EE has installed new 4G mobile masts in two remote Scottish islands; Out Skerries, one of the UK's most remote islands with a population of around 70, and another on Foulda, Shetlands. This is as a part of the Scottish Government’s £28.75 million Scottish 4G Infill program, ...

December 06, 2023

Scotland

Evroc to build its first data center in Stockholm

New data center firm Evroc announced last week that it has signed an agreement with Arlandastad Group to select Stockholm as the location for its first facility and build it in 2024. The company also mentioned that it plans to invest €600 million in the project, which is one of ten it intends ...

December 04, 2023

Stockholm

Sines facility in Portuguese scandal also destroyed natural habitats

The Sines data center campus in Portugal involved in the Portuguese government corruption scandal is reported to have also destroyed natural habitats protected by Portuguese and European legislation. A report by the INCF revealed Start Campus built its first data center on the site in Sines on...

December 01, 2023

Portugal

Nexspace unveils new data center facility in Heidelberg, Germany

New colocation operator Nexspace recently unveiled its first facility in the Heidelberg Innovation Park (HIP) in Germany this month. The three-story site offers 2MW of IT load across 4,000 square meters, which is reportedly expandable to 8,000 square meters in the future. Germany’s Data C...

November 25, 2023

nexspace: Heidelberg

Gigas to expand footprint in Lisbon

Spanish cloud company Gigas has planned to invest €3 million this year in its Oni data center in Lisbon, Portugal. The company purchased Portuguese telco Oni from MásMóvil in November 2020 for €40 million and plans to double the number of data rooms the 2,000 square meters site offers to ten, ...

November 25, 2023

Spain

Germany’s Hauck Aufhäuser Lamp Privatbank to launch new data center fund

Germany’s Hauck Aufhäuser Lamp Privatbank announced that its real estate investment management unit is launching a €300 million fund for institutional investors, targeting data centers in major German cities. This is the company’s first-ever data center-focused fund. Patrick Brinker, head of ...

November 24, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

Ridge purchases UK data center consultancy Concert

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 curre...

November 18, 2023

London

Fibra Medios Telecom unveils new data center in Murcia, Spain

Fibra Medios Telecom announced the launch of a new data center facility in Murcia, Spain, this week. This new facility known as the CPD Titan facility spans across 1,400 square meters and can host up to 120 cabinets across nine data rooms. This new facility also features two fiber entry vaults...

November 17, 2023

Spain

Xavier Niel acquires 6% stake in Belgian telco Proximus

Xavier Niel, the founder of French telecoms company Iliad, has acquired a six percent stake in Belgian telco Proximus through his holding company Carraun.The Belgian government has a majority stake of 53.51% in this telco, while the company holds 4.59 percent of its share capital. Niel said, "...

November 15, 2023

Belgium

Liberty Latin America to sell telecom towers to PTI for $407m

Liberty Latin America (LLA) recently agreed to sell about 1,300 telecom towers to Phoenix Tower International (PTI) for $407 million. Tower sites to be monetized in this transaction include towers in locations across Panama, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Barbados, and the British Virgin I...

November 13, 2023

France

Hausbank München to relocate German data centers to Kyndryl premises

IT services firm Kyndryl announced this week that it will be helping German cooperative bank Hausbank München to relocate two of its data centers from on-premise facilities to Kyndryl’s own facilities in Frankfurt. Kyndryl will rebuild the dedicated server infrastructure, establish a moderniz...

November 10, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

Deutsche Telekom’s subsidiary signs solar energy in Germany

Power and Air Condition Solution Management GmbH (PASM), a wholly owned subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, has signed a long-term PPA with energy group EnBW. Following this 15-year agreement, PASM will offtake 100MW from the 960MW He Dreiht offshore wind farm in the North Sea. Construction of the...

November 08, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

UK gov pours $36 million into district heating system to heat 10,000 homes

The UK Government has awarded £36 million to a district heating system in West London, which will share data center waste heat with up to 10,000 new homes. The Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC) will be paid this fund to create the heating system to harness waste heat betwee...

November 07, 2023

United Kingdom

Goodman says it has capacity for 3.7GW of data centers

Real estate group Goodman has over 3GW of potential data center capacity in its pipeline, according to a Q1 2024 operational update published yesterday. The company notes that this is an opportunity worth tens of billions of dollars as it outlines its ambitions for the data center space. The ...

November 07, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

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