Western Europe Data Center News

Stoneshield looking to Raise €300 million ($307.3m) to Fund 100MW Madrid Campus

According to Cinco Dias, Spanish data center developer Xdata is looking to offload a stake in its company to help fund its 100MW Madrid data center campus development. The company has reportedly contacted CBRE and Morgan Stanley to seek an investor. Stoneshield established XData Properties in ...

July 25, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Madrid

SiteGround announces it has opened a new data center in Spain

Web hosting service, SiteGround, has announced that it has opened a new data center in Madrid, Spain, the seventh SiteGround data center to open around the world and the fourth in Europe. In addition to the new facility, the company also announced the expansion of its content delivery network ...

July 18, 2022

Madrid

Merlin breaks ground on Bilbao, Spain data center

Merlin Properties has announced that it is soon to break ground on its first data center located near Bilbao, Spain. The Iberian real estate company reportedly laid its first stone at the Arasur data center, based near Vitoria, last week. This announcement is part of an almost €600 million ($6...

July 12, 2022

Spain

Another Hurdle For The Development of Hyperscale Data Centers in The Netherlands

The Netherland's Hollands Kroon municipal is looking to prevent the development of more data centers in the area. The plan comes even after being one of the only two regions the country's government exempted from the ban on hyperscale data centers. The new coalition of Independent Hollands Kro...

June 30, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Netherlands

Plans For Facebook's Zeewolde Data Center Finally Comes To an End

Facebook has finally announced that it has canceled its plans for the Zeewolde data center. This move comes after it first announced a pause to the project in March. The data center was poised to be largest data center in the Netherlands. Facebook’s plan was to develop a 200MW data center acro...

June 29, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Facebook Zeewolde

The Camro Data Park To Create New Data Center after Receiving Funding

Camro Data Park has announced a refinancing deal with Topland Group. The property investment firm agreed to a two-year financing deal worth £9.25 million ($11.3m) with Camro Data Park. The new data center site is located within the Elean Business Park in Cambridgeshire. Camro already has pe...

June 29, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

FMC GlobalSat Closes Acquisition of Santander Teleport in Spain

FMC Globalsat has acquired Santander Teleport, located in Spain. The Santander Teleport was formed as a joint venture between MTN Satellite Communications and Erzia in 2010. It spans over 9,290 square meters (100,000 square feet) and operates up to 30 antennas. These antennas range from 3 t...

June 24, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Spain

Minister Announces New Public Data Center in Greece

The Greek government has announced that it will develop a new data center powered by green energy. The data center will be called Knossos II. Greece's Minister of State and Digital Government, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, made the data center announcement when he visited the University of Crete. Acco...

June 22, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Greece

Hyperco Acquires Equinix and Thales-Occupied Data Center in Helsinki, Finland

Hyperco has made its first acquisition as it takes over a property belonging to TS-Yhtyma. The company paid more than €35 million ($36.4m) for the property. The building is located at Myllynkivenkuja 4 in Vantaa, Helsinki, Finland. Thales and Equinix are also occupying the property. The bui...

June 16, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Helsinki

Euronext announces completion of data center migration from UK to Italy

Euronext has announced it has completed its data center migration project, which involved moving its data infrastructure from the UK to Italy, (Basildon, UK, to the Aruba Global Cloud data center IT3 in Bergamo, Italy.) According to the company, the new core data center will be completely powe...

June 16, 2022

Italy

Dutch Government Decide Not To Sell Zeewolde Land To Meta

The Dutch Government has revealed that it will not be selling the land in Zeewolde to Meta. Meta had initially earmarked the land to develop a massive data center. The Dutch Government partially owns the land in question. However, Meta hoped to reach an agreement to take over the land to devel...

June 14, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Facebook Zeewolde

New legislation to enable UK financial watchdog to visit and regulate cloud data centers and other "critical third parties"

HM Treasury has published a policy paper which is proposing a new regulatory framework, whereby the Bank of England (BoE) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) would have powers to visit and regulate the cloud sector. The ministry outlined that currently, over 65% of UK banking and insuran...

June 14, 2022

United Kingdom

Denmark: Telenor and Telia sign solar PPA

Telenor and Telia have teamed up with Better Energy in Denmark to sign a PPA, which will lead to the development of a new solar park. Together the telcos will be able to access 125GWh of green energy per year over the next 10 years. According to reports, the park's energy production will be en...

June 13, 2022

Denmark

Schneider Electric research reveals "sustainability action gap" in data centres

Schneider Electric recently commissioned three independent research studies which sought to understand better the maturity of sustainability initiatives within both IT and data center organizations, and where the two industries are currently situated with regards to achieving a net zero vision...

June 10, 2022

France

Apple's Hopes of Developing Its Athenry Data Center Dashed

Ireland’s High Court has rescinded a decision to allow more time for Apple to develop a data center in Athenry, Galway County. Earlier in 2021, the Galway County Council extended Apple’s planning permission for a data center development in the county. This extension happened at a time when ...

June 10, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Apple Athenry

Verne Global partners with Icelandic New Energy and Landsvirkjun to trial hydrogen fuel cells

Verne Global is partnering up with Iceland's national power company Landsvirkjun to trial and deploy hydrogen fuel cells to its data center campus in Iceland. As data center companies push to make their operations greener, many have transitioned to renewables to fuel their facilities, however...

June 01, 2022

Verne: Reykjanesbr Campus

UK government launches eight-week consultation on data centers and the cloud

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport recently announced the commencement of an eight-week consultation, part of the National Data Strategy, to explore strengthening the security and resiliency of the UK's data centers and cloud services. Specifically, it is calling for view...

May 31, 2022

United Kingdom

Winter power cuts ahead for the UK?

The UK government has hit back at rumors that this winter, as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the UK could experience blackouts. The government has said that this would be a "worst-case scenario" and a result of Russia cutting off more supplies to the EU. Commenting on whether or ...

May 31, 2022

United Kingdom

Best Wonder Business (BWB) to develop a data center powered entirely by solar power in Aragon, Spain

Best Wonder Business (BWB) has announced its intentions to develop a 16MW data center, powered solely by solar power, and located at the Huesca Logistics Platform (Plhus) business park outside Huesca, in the Aragon region. Reported to be worth €230 million ($264m); the company hopes the facili...

May 27, 2022

Spain

Telefónica's sustainable funding increases to over more than €4 billion

Telefónica has announced that it has successfully issued its first senior sustainable bond to fund sustainability projects and initiatives amounting to €1 billion ($1.06bn) with a term of nine years. Telefónica has now made five ESG issuances in the last three years totaling €4.25 billion ($4...

May 27, 2022

Spain

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