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Meta/Facebook got permission to develop Netherlands' largest data center in Zeewolde

Meta has been granted permission to build the Netherlands’ largest data center for its Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp applications in the small town of Zeewolde. Reports have it that the facility will use 200MW of electrical power and have five data center halls. The town council had a meet...

December 17, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Facebook Zeewolde

Meta/Facebook is expanding its Odense data center campus in Denmark

Meta, formerly known as Facebook, plans to expand its Odense data center campus in Denmark. Meta says it will be adding two buildings with a total space of 969,000 square feet (90,000 square meters). The addition will bring the total floor space at the facility to up to 2.1 million square m...

December 13, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Facebook Odense Denmark

Green Mountain its expanding Oslo campus with a 13.5MW data center

Green Mountain has announced that it is expanding its Oslo, Norway campus by building a new data center at the facility. Green Mountain revealed that it bought a 570,500 square foot (53,000 square meters) plot of land next to its DC3-Oslo data center campus. According to Green Mountain, the Os...

December 09, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Green Mountain OSL1-Enebakk

Vattenfall partners with Cloud&Heat Technologies

Vattenfall has formed a strategic partnership with Cloud&Heat Technologies in a joint sustainable data centre pilot project. Together, the companies will work to construct a facility at Vattenfall’s biomass-fired district heating plant in Jordbro, south of Stockholm.Speaking about the part...

December 06, 2021

Stockholm

Meta (Facebook) confirms it's behind the 200MW data center in Zeewolde

Meta, formerly known as Facebook, has confirmed that it is behind the development of the proposed 200MW data center in Zeewolde, the Netherlands. According to specifications, the facility could cover five data halls and have up to 200MW of capacity upon full buildout. However, the Zeewolde cit...

November 26, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Facebook Zeewolde

Supernap Italia opens second data center on its Siziano Campus

Supernap Italia has announced the opening of its second data center on its Siziano campus in Milan, Italy. The new data center has two independent data halls. With this, the facility now has 1 million square feet of space (100,000 square meters) and 40MW of capacity. CEO of Supernap Italia,...

November 25, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

STACK Milan Campus

CyrusOne: Frankfurt expansion goes ahead

CyrusOne has announced that it is expanding its data center footprint with the purchase of land in Hanau, East of Frankfurt. The company's plans outline that the facility will have an incoming power of 90MW and a critical power capacity of 63MW, once complete, spanning 18,000 sqm.According to...

November 22, 2021

CyrusOne Frankfurt V

Cellnex buys Red Bee Media data center in the Netherlands

Cellnex has completed the acquisition of Der Bee Media’s Media Gateway data center in Hilversum in the Netherlands. The acquired facility is 15,000 square feet (1,400 square meters) in size. It provides connectivity and colocation for commercial and public broadcasters. It also provides servic...

November 19, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Netherlands

Ar Telecom to invest €10 million ($11.3m) in developing a data center in Lisbon, Portugal

Portuguese telecommunication company Ar Telecom has revealed its plans for a new data center in Lisbon, Portugal. According to Eco, the telco wants to invest up to €10 million ($11.3m) in developing a 15,000 square feet (1,400 square meters) facility in Lisbon. Reports have it that the facilit...

November 18, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Portugal

Climate protestors gather outside Data Centres Ireland event in Dublin

People Before Profit, is calling for an end to new data centers being buillt in Ireland, and picketed outside Data Centres Ireland event in Dublin on 16 November in protest of the dangerous and continual expansion of data center building in Ireland.The protest held outside the annual data ce...

November 17, 2021

Republic of Ireland

Verne Global to expand data center campus 10MW

Verne Global, a provider of sustainable data center solutions, has announced that it is expanding its 40-acre data center campus by 10MW of capacity. This will be funded by $50m from Digital 9 Infrastructure plc (D9), the investment trust which recently acquired Verne. In an effort to “optimi...

November 16, 2021

Verne: Reykjanesbr Campus

COP26 and OpenUK's 'Patchwork Kilt' Edge data center blueprint

At the COP26 event in Glasgow, OpenUK shared its net-zero data center blueprint. The not-for-profit organisation's "Patchwork Kilt" framework aims to make new Edge data centers more sustainable and promote the curricular economy. The project proposes using derelict building stock and creating ...

November 12, 2021

Glasgow

Blackstone acquires Equinix-occupied data center in London for £196.5 million

Land Securities Group has announced the sale of an office and data center property located in the Canary Wharf side of London. The sale price of the property is £196.5 million ($262.82 million). Equinix is currently occupying the property as its LD8 IBX data center. Land Securities Group so...

November 12, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Equinix London LD8 Harbour Exchange (Docklands)

Government of Galicia plans data center outside Santiago, Spain

The Regional Government of Galicia has plans to build a new data center in the Galicia region of Spain. According to reports, the planned facility will double Galicia's digital capacity. The government first announced a data center called Gaiás Integral Data Processing Center in 2011. The faci...

November 11, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Spain

Hetzner completes expansion at Finnish campus, starts work on two more

German cloud and hosting firm Hetzner has completed the expansion of its Finish data center campus. It has also broken ground on other buildings on the same campus. Earlier in July, Hetzner completed the development of a new building at the Tuusula campus which is to the north of Helsinki. ...

November 09, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Hetzner Finland

Yondr Group announces plans for a 100MW data center campus in Slough, UK

Yondr Group has revealed its plans to develop a hyperscale data center campus in Slough, just outside London. The initial phase of the development of the data center campus will see Yondr develop a 30MW facility. This phase is scheduled to be in operation by the first quarter of 2023. In ad...

November 04, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Yondr: Slough Campus

Energia Group plans 800,000 sq ft data center in Dublin, Ireland

Huntstown Power Company, a subsidiary of Energia Group, plans to build two data centers next to its Power Station in Dublin, Ireland. Hunstown has filed for planning permission with Fingal County Council. It is looking to build two data center buildings on 13.3 hectares of land. Each building ...

November 04, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Dublin

Plans for Swansea seafront data center and the $2.8 billion Blue Eden Project

DST Innovations, in association with several other business partners, with support from Swansea Council and Associated British Ports, have announced a £1.7 billion ($2,3 billion) project: Blue Eden project. On Swansea's seafront, Wales, this project will include a newly-designed tidal lagoon, ...

October 26, 2021

Wales

Hydrogen powered data centers: Research begins in County Offaly

Ireland's County Offaly is investigating hydrogen as a green energy that could power data centers. The study, 'Exploring Data Centre Integration with Renewable Energy and Green Hydrogen in the Midlands', will look into the feasibility of integrating data centres with renewable energy and will ...

October 26, 2021

Republic of Ireland

Securing sustainability: Wipro teams up with National Grid to consolidate data centres

Wipro has reportedly signed “a multi-year global strategic IT and digital deal” with National Grid. Through the deal, Wipro will assist National Grid with digital transformation, while integrating its managed services, and consolidating multiple data centers across both the UK and US to next g...

October 21, 2021

United Kingdom

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