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Motion Hosting opens new data center in Europe

InMotion Hosting has announced the opening of its first international data center in Europe. The three-story data center is located in Amsterdam, Netherlands and will reportedly offer customers NVMe Hardware, 99.99% Network Uptime and Security Monitoring, refined UltraStack Server Configuratio...

April 03, 2023

Amsterdam

SES is in Merger Negotiations With Intelsat

Last week, SES said that it had been in merger negotiations with Intelsat, a competitor in the satellite industry. Luxembourg-based SES made the statements in reaction to a Bloomberg article claiming that a merger worth $10 billion is in the works. In a statement released in reaction to market...

April 03, 2023

Luxembourg

OVHcloud announces it will report on Scope 3 emissions to customers

OVHcloud has announced that it will release a full report of Scope 3 emissions produced by its cloud usage beginning this summer. Scope 3 emissions are those which are produced by a company indirectly up and down its value chain, and are increasingly coming under scrutiny. Despite flying under...

March 31, 2023

France

Ammunition firm accuses TikTok data center of using too much power in Norway, preventing expansion

Nammo, one of the largest manufacturers of ammunition, co-owned by the Norwegian government and a Finnish state-controlled defense company, has claimed that it is being prevented from expansion, due to TikTok's data centers guzzling the electricity in the area. Elvia, the local energy company,...

March 30, 2023

Norway

HOCHTIEF and Palladio Partners to build and operate sustainable data center in Heiligenhaus, Germany

HOCHTIEF and infrastructure investor Palladio Partners have announced they have partnered to jointly build and operate a sustainable data center in Heiligenhaus, located in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Work on the 9,000-square-meter site in the Heiligenhaus Innovation Park is to commence t...

March 30, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

Battery System Suspected to be Cause of Fire at Maxnod Data Center in France

A massive fire at a Maxnod-run data center forced the closure of the French facility and seriously damaged the infrastructure. No casualties have been reported; however, it is believed that one firefighter suffered just minor injuries. According to the local government Ain, the Saint-Trivie...

March 29, 2023

France

nLighten to provide waste heat to City of Eschborn

Joining the swathe of data center operators pushing forward circular economy principles, nLighten recently signed a Letter of Intent with the City of Eschborn and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmBH (GIZ) to provide its data center waste-heat for reuse. The company...

March 27, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

UK's Effectiveness IT Introduces a Range of Prefabricated Data Centers

EfficiencyIT, a UK data center company, has introduced its own line of prefabricated modular data centers. This week, the company unveiled ModularDC, a new line of adaptable, prefabricated data centers for on-premises, distributed IT, and edge computing settings that can be deployed in 12 t...

March 23, 2023

United Kingdom

Nokia involved in ocean plastic prevention project

Nokia has outlined its involvement in a project to prevent ocean plastic pollution as part of The Ocean Cleanup project, which is a non-profit organisation that seeks to extract ocean plastic pollution through technological development. To help clear ocean plastic, the company has partnered wi...

March 22, 2023

Netherlands

Nordic Data Center Company Glesys is purchased by Cube IM

European investment company Cube Infrastructure Management has purchased a controlling share in the Nordic data center company Glesys. The agreement's terms were kept confidential. The purchase was completed through the Cube Infrastructure Fund III with funding from the VIA Equity Fond III,...

March 22, 2023

Nordics

Akamai Technologies Will Purchase Ondat, a Cloud Storage Company

Akamai Technologies, an American provider of content delivery services, and Ondat, a provider of cloud storage, have signed a binding agreement. The transaction is anticipated to occur in the first quarter of 2023, and Akamai anticipates no major changes to its annual financial forecast. The a...

March 21, 2023

London

Germany's Onlime Teleport Has Been Acquired by Data Grid Network

Data Grid Network has purchased a teleport outside of Hannover, Germany. This week, Data Grid, a Commercis firm, revealed that it had acquired the TechnoPark facility between the villages of Hamelin and Aerzen and teleport operator Onlime GmbH. The Talia Communications division of Commercis wi...

March 20, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

Britain's swimming pools to be heated with waste data center heat with Deep Green technology

In Exmouth, Devon, a small Edge data center, named the "digital boiler" has been installed at a local leisure center by UK startup, Deep Green, to heat the swimming pool. While initially, the company planned to target seven swimming pools across the UK with the boilers, this has now been incre...

March 17, 2023

United Kingdom

Goonhilly, a UK Company, Purchases Two Comsat Teleports in the US

Goonhilly, a UK ground station operator, has purchased two teleports in the US. Satcom Direct's SD Government and Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd. this week stated that they had agreed for the UK company to purchase the Comsat teleports located in Southbury, Connecticut and Santa Paula, California...

March 17, 2023

United Kingdom

LUMI Data Center awarded 'Green Data Centre of the Year'

At the recent Data Center World awards, the LUMI data center was awarded the Green Data Centre of the Year for its sustainability focus. The award was introduced to recognize the efforts made to reduce emissions and demonstrate a life cycle approach of recycling and reuse within the sector. Th...

March 16, 2023

Finland

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

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

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

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