Western Europe Data Center News

atNorth buys land for data center in Långsele, Sweden

Nordic colocation provider atNorth has bought a 30-hectare plot for a potential data center in Långsele, Sweden. Located in the Sollefteå municipality in Hamre Industripark, the land will host the company’s first ‘mega site.'“This is a fantastic opportunity for Sollefteå municipality and the H...

December 19, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Sweden

HPE to build Blue Lion supercomputer at LRZ

HPE will build an Nvidia-powered supercomputer at the Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ) in Germany. Dubbed Blue Lion, the system will employ 100 percent direct liquid cooling. The water-cooling solution will allow waste heat from the supercomputer to be reused for heating local buildings.“Pr...

December 19, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Germany / Deutschland

IPTO, Serverfarm form JV to build hyperscale data centers

The Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO) of Greece and Serverfarm have signed a Heads of Term agreement to form a joint venture. The joint venture, Gemini, aims to construct and operate hyperscale-ready data center facilities on IPTO-owned sites in Athens and elsewhere in Greece.Gemi...

December 18, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Greece

Vard delivers cable-laying ship to I.T.

Nordic shipbuilder Vard has successfully delivered a cable-laying vessel to I.T. International Telecom Marine (IT), a submarine cable installation and maintenance firm. The vessel was formerly a platform supply vessel and was converted into a specialized cable-laying ship, named IT Infinity, t...

December 14, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Norway

Edgnex Data Centers announces new data center in Athens, Greece

Edgnex has announced plans to develop a 12.5MW data center in Athens, Greece. The Attica facility will be built in a joint venture - dubbed Data In Scale - between Edgnex’s parent company Damac and electricity utility PPC Group.“By leveraging Edgnex’s expertise in delivering reliable and agile...

December 09, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Greece

T.Loop appoints Helena Fagraeus Lundström as CEO

Swedish Edge data center firm T.Loop has appointed Helena Fagraeus Lundström as its new CEO. Lundström was most recently at solar developer Solkompaniet, where she was chief strategy office and then business unit director for land development. Prior to that, she had held roles at Swedish boat ...

December 04, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Sweden

Portus plans Luxembourg data center expansion

European operator Portus Data Centers this week announced the expansion of its facility in the Grand Duchy with a further 1,350 sqm of white space and additional capacity that will take the site to 3.4MW. The company is also rebranding the unit, previously known as European Data Hub (EDH), to ...

November 28, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Luxembourg

Telenor Sweden CEO to step down at end of year

Telenor Sweden CEO Bjørn Ivar Moen has announced he will step down as CEO at the end of this year, and the hunt for a successor has already begun, as confirmed by the company in a statement. "All good things eventually come to an end," said Moen on LinkedIn this week. "Today, we announced that...

November 28, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Sweden

Civo launches second UK cloud region

Cloud computing company Civo has launched a second cloud region in the UK with sustainability-focused data centre provider Deep Green, which is also set to launch another data centre that will heat a local swimming pool located at the York Stadium Leisure Complex. Civo's newest cloud region, k...

November 25, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

RackNerd expands offerings to Dublin, Ireland

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider RackNerd has expanded its offering to Dublin, Ireland and will be offering its IaaS from the Digital Realty DU10 data center located in Dublin, Ireland."Our expansion into Dublin represents a strategic response to the growing demand for high-performa...

November 21, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Dublin

France Télévisions selects Thésée Datacenter for cloud migration

France Télévisions, Radio France, France Médias Monde, and TV5 Monde have partnered with Thésée Datacenter to assist with their transition to cloud solutions.The migration aims to make the media companies more resilient against the risks of cyber attacks, reduce the environmental impact of bro...

November 21, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

France

Nationwide migrates on-premises IT Estate to HPE GreenLake cloud

UK-based bank and building society Nationwide has migrated its on-premises IT Estate to HPE GreenLake cloud. GreenLake is HPE's Edge-to-cloud solution, and sees HPE servers and storage deployed on-premises with cloud-like capabilities.“In today’s world our customers expect us to deliver an alw...

November 20, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Innovate UK announces fund to support quantum projects

Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), has announced a £9.5 million ($12.2m) fund to support quantum computing and quantum network projects. Eligible UK businesses will be able to apply for a share of the funding, with projects expected to align with the UK government’s five ‘...

November 15, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Airbus to develop Gaia-X data space

Aerospace giant Airbus is aiming to move all of its data-sharing capabilities to a Gaia-X data space. The company announced its plans at the Gaia-X Summit 2024 in Helsinki, Finland, explaining that it hopes to increase transparency with its massive network of suppliers.According to Catherine J...

November 15, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Finland

Volvo Penta invests in UIG

Swedish marine and industrial engine manufacturer Volvo Penta has announced a follow-up investment in UtilityInnovation Group (UIG), an US and Irish company specializing in utility systems and decentralized energy solutions. Following the investment, UIG aims to combine Volvo’s battery energy ...

November 15, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Sweden

ENEA selects Lenovo for new HPC cluster

Italy’s National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) has chosen Lenovo for its new HPC cluster, dubbed CRESCO8. It consists of 758 nodes with 2 Intel Xeon Platinum 8592+ CPUs, meaning the cluster will bring the compute power of CRESCO (Computational ...

November 15, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Italy

EE expands mobile coverage to mast at Ben Nevis mountain

UK mobile operator EE has deployed its mobile coverage to an existing mast site, located at the base of Ben Nevis, Scotland. Ben Nevis is the tallest mountain in the British Isles, with a summit of 1,345 meters. According to EE, the purpose of the deployment is to aid search and rescue operati...

November 14, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

XeedQ installs ita Baby Diamond computer at Goethe University

Quantum computing company XeedQ has installed its so-called Baby Diamond quantum computer at Goethe University in Germany. The five-qubit machine is an XQ1 system from XeedQ’s XQ series. On its website, XeedQ describes the XQ1 as “the first multi-qubit mobile quantum processor that is room-tem...

November 12, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Germany / Deutschland

Schneider Electric appoints Olivier Blum as new CEO

French energy equipment giant Schneider Electric, a significant supplier of the data center industry has removed CEO Peter Herweck and has appointed long-time employee Olivier Blum as the new chief executive, effective immediately. Schneider said that its Board of Directors "decided to remove ...

November 04, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

France

UK government launches National Quantum Computing Centre in Harwell

The UK government has announced the opening of the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) in Harwell, UK. The 4,000 sqm (43,056 sq ft) facility will house 12 quantum computers and will provide industry, academia, and other sectors with open access to quantum computing platforms. It forms par...

October 31, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

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