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

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

May 27, 2022 Spain

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...

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Read NTT Opens Data Center in Madrid, Spain
NTT Opens Data Center in Madrid, Spain

NTT Opens Data Center in Madrid, Spain

May 25, 2022 NTT Madrid 1

NTT has announced the opening of its first facility in Spain. The data center is located in Las Rozas, outside Madrid. According to NTT, the data center sits on 134,720 square feet (12,516 square meters) of land in the Europolis Business and Technology Park. Currently, the facility offers 38,750...

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Read Lancom to Develop a Data Center in Crete
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Lancom to Develop a Data Center in Crete

May 24, 2022 Greece

Lancom has announced that it is developing a data center on Crete Island. The Greek telecommunication company said it would be developing the facility to Tier III standards. Lancom did not reveal its exact location, specifications, cost, or timeline details. However, it seems the data center...

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Read EirGrid halts up to 30 potential data centers
EirGrid halts up to 30 potential data centers

EirGrid halts up to 30 potential data centers

May 22, 2022 Republic of Ireland

The pressure on the Irish power supply is starting to bite, as state-owned grid manager EirGrid announces that it has stopped talks with dozens of data center companies and halted plans for up to 30 data centers. Currently, there are some 70 data centers in the State, which have become a huge...

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Read Green innovations: Algae and sunlight power computing
Green innovations: Algae and sunlight power computing

Green innovations: Algae and sunlight power computing

May 19, 2022 United Kingdom

As the race towards more green tech solutions continues, researchers from the University of Cambridge have announced that they have been working on an interesting energy innovation that could, in the future, replace batteries in small off-grid Internet of Things devices. The device was found to...

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Read XL360 Opens First Data Center in Toulon, France
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XL360 Opens First Data Center in Toulon, France

May 19, 2022 France

A new company called XL360 has launched a new data center in Toulon, France. The 17,200 square feet (1,600) square meters data center has the capacity to hold 105 computer racks. The building will also be used as a coworking space. The data center is situated on the Boulevard du Commandant...

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Read 40-acres of Land Camro Data Park in Cambridgeshire On Sale and Lease For Data Center Development
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40-acres of Land Camro Data Park in Cambridgeshire On Sale and Lease For Data Center Development

May 17, 2022 United Kingdom

Per a Realla listing, developers are offering a 43-acre land for lease or sale for data center development in Cambridgeshire, UK. The Camro Data Park available is located in the Elean Business Park. According to confirmed reports, the Data Park has planning permission for 700,000 square feet...

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Read Alibaba Opens Data Center in Frankfurt, Germany
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Alibaba Opens Data Center in Frankfurt, Germany

May 17, 2022 Frankfurt

Alibaba has announced that it opened a data center in Frankfurt, Germany. The new data center is the company’s third facility in the country. According to the company, the new data center will help support the increasing needs for digital transformation from customers across the European...

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Read Figures from the Central Statistics Office reveal huge energy consumption by data centers in Ireland
Figures from the Central Statistics Office reveal huge energy consumption by data centers in Ireland

Figures from the Central Statistics Office reveal huge energy consumption by data centers in Ireland

May 06, 2022 Republic of Ireland

New figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) have outlined that the energy consumption situation in Ireland is just as bad as groups such as An Taisce have warned. According to the Office's statistics, last year, data centers consumed more energy than rural homes. According to the...

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Read Data center on the way to Didcot, Oxfordshire
Data center on the way to Didcot, Oxfordshire

Data center on the way to Didcot, Oxfordshire

May 05, 2022 United Kingdom

According to reports, Reef Group is planning to build a technology park and data center near Didcot, Oxfordshire. The proposed plans, which have the company seeking a Local Development Order (LDO), detail a 23-hectare site located in Appleford, on the northern edge of Didcot. Public consultation...

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Read Aire Networks Opens New Data Center in The Malaga TechPark of Spain
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Aire Networks Opens New Data Center in The Malaga TechPark of Spain

May 03, 2022 Spain

Aire Networks has announced the opening of its new data center in Malaga, Spain. The new data center is located in the Malaga TechPark, and it cost the company spent €2.5 million ($2.6m) to develop. Aire Networks did not reveal the specifications of the data center. A statement from the company...

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Read Interxion data center to heat Vienna hospital
Interxion data center to heat Vienna hospital

Interxion data center to heat Vienna hospital

April 29, 2022 Digital Realty: Vienna

Interxion's Vienna data center campus is set to heat the nearby Floridsdorf Hospital, it has been announced. This will be facilitated by the Austrian government injecting €3.5 million ($3.7m) from environmental funds into the project, which will see the construction of an insulated pipe between...

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Read Energia Group granted permission for data centers in Dublin, Ireland
Energia Group granted permission for data centers in Dublin, Ireland

Energia Group granted permission for data centers in Dublin, Ireland

April 27, 2022 Dublin

Energia Group has announced that Fingal County Council has granted the company planning permission for two new data centers next to the Huntstown Power Station in Dublin, Ireland. The two facilities, known as Buildings A and B, are expected to have a gross floor area of c. 37,647 sqm (400,000 sq...

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Read Datum Datacentres To Double The Space at Its Farnborough Facility
Datum Datacentres To Double The Space at Its Farnborough Facility

Datum Datacentres To Double The Space at Its Farnborough Facility

April 27, 2022 Datum FRN1

Datum Datacentres has begun an expansion process on its facility nine months after UBS Asset Management bought it. The company plans to double the space of its data center located at Farnborough, Hampshire, London. The facility currently has 3,750 square meters of space. It will now have 7,500...

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Read atNorth Launches its SWE01 DC Facility
atNorth Launches its SWE01 DC Facility

atNorth Launches its SWE01 DC Facility

April 26, 2022 atNorth Stockholm SWE01

atNorth has announced the launch of its new SWE01 DC facility in Kista, Sweden. The new data center is the first in the country designed to manage high-density workloads, including risk analysis, simulations, and AI. The facility has a total IT capacity of more than 11MW, spanning 6,400 square...

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Read Thor Equities Sets Up Data Center Unit, To Develop a 100MW Facility in Madrid, Spain
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Thor Equities Sets Up Data Center Unit, To Develop a 100MW Facility in Madrid, Spain

April 22, 2022 Madrid

Thor Equities has announced its plans to move into data centers. The US real estate group, is also looking to develop its first data center in Madrid, Spain. Thor Equities will be doing this by launching a new data center division called Thor Digital. The new unit will be headed by Roy Gibbens,...

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Read Castle IT To Develop Data Centers in Reims and Aix-en-Provence
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Castle IT To Develop Data Centers in Reims and Aix-en-Provence

April 22, 2022 France

According to La Tribune, Castle IT is looking to develop two more data centers in 2023. The report shows that the French colocation firm plans to build these facilities in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône and Reims, Marne. The development will also cost the company up to €30 million ($32.3m)....

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Read Interxion Developing New 13.6MW Data Center in Belgium
Interxion Developing New 13.6MW Data Center in Belgium

Interxion Developing New 13.6MW Data Center in Belgium

April 21, 2022 Digital Realty: BRU4

Digital Realty’s Interxion has broken ground on a new facility in Belgium. The company laid the first stone of the data center called BRU4, which will be located in Zaventem, Belgium. According to Interxion, the data center will offer 13.6MW of capacity. It will also offer 72,100 square feet...

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Read TikTok's European data center encounters further delays
TikTok's European data center encounters further delays

TikTok's European data center encounters further delays

April 14, 2022 Dublin

Further delays have been announced regarding TikTok’s first data center in Europe. Its Dublin-based facility was initially planned to be up and running by early 2022, but due to what the company said were delays related to Covid, the facility’s opening was pushed back to late 2022. Now the...

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Read 'Trash-powered' data center campus on its way to East London
'Trash-powered' data center campus on its way to  East London

'Trash-powered' data center campus on its way to East London

April 12, 2022 London

Stratus Data Centres has announced its intention to construct two 18MW Tier III data centers on a brownfield site at Belvedere, South East London, part of Riverside Energy Park. The Riverside Energy Park is a development of waste management firm Cory, which, it says, intends to meet "London's...

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