August 15, 2022 Republic of Ireland
Environmental group Futureproof Clare is opposing the approval of a €450 million ($464.3m) data center project in Ennis, in the West of Ireland, over concerns around public health, and a projected use of "inordinate amounts of water and electricity." The facility, an Art Data Centres project, was...
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August 15, 2022 Netherlands
Eurofiber Cloud Infra has announced that it is exploring employing circular economy principles in association with housing corporation Volkshuisvesting, infra-specialist for new energy Firan, and Eurofiber-owned Dataplace, for its data center in Arnhem, the Netherlands. The three have partnered...
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August 10, 2022 Spain
Many US data center firms and developers are looking to enter the Spanish data center market. They are looking to develop or acquire the facilities in the country. According to Cinco Dias, Blackstone – through QTS, Prime DC, Pure, and DAMAC are exploring options to buy land and build data...
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August 10, 2022 France
French data center company Nation Data Center has revealed it will be developing a second data center. The facility will be located in Val-de-Reuil in Normandy. According to a LinkedIn post from the company, it says it is proud to announce its second data, which it referred to as a fortress. NDC...
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August 09, 2022 London: Slough
Segro has announced that it has applied to build a new data center park, near Slough, UK. Details outline that the park will span 65,000 sqm (700,000 sq ft) and be located within the Thorney Business Park in Iver. According to the planning statement, the proposed building (DC1) is also...
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August 08, 2022 Frankfurt
Frankfurt recently announced an updated plan for commercial developments in the city, which will place a limitation on cloud and colocation data center buildings. This comes as a response to concerns around their land and energy usage. Alongside this announcement, the city also outlined its...
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August 08, 2022 Germany / Deutschland
Deutsche Telekom has announced that it has signed a 150MW PPA with Statkraft and Power & Air Solutions, which will provide the company with energy from between 2023 to 2028. According to Statkraft, this deal means that 16 of its own wind farms that no longer receive EEG subsidies will...
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August 05, 2022 France
Arcep, the French government telecom regulator, has announced that it will start measuring the greenhouse gas emissions emitted from data centers, alongside the volume of water and where that water is sourced from. This comes following the enactment of the Chaize Act, which awarded the regulator...
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August 02, 2022 London
In the wake of a housing crisis, the Greater London Authority (GLA) has informed developers must halt new housing projects, with talk of a potential ban that could last until 2035, in response to energy constraints caused by data centers. Ealing, Hounslow and Hillingdon, which contributed to 11%...
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July 29, 2022 Stack: MIL01A
Stack Infrastructure has announced the opening of a data center in Siziano, outside Milan, Italy. The MIL02 data center has a capacity of 10MW, and it spans 97,000 square feet (9,000 square meters). Interestingly, Stack completed the data center in under 12 months. The new data center was...
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July 26, 2022 Republic of Ireland
According to Taoiseach Micheál Martin, despite EirGrid warning that data centers are an energy drain and could also prevent the country from reaching its sustainability goals, there will be no data center moratoriums ahead. This news comes following the latest report from the Environmental...
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July 25, 2022 Madrid
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...
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July 18, 2022 Madrid
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 in...
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July 12, 2022 Spain
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...
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June 30, 2022 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 Kroon,...
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June 29, 2022 United Kingdom
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...
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June 29, 2022 Hyperscale Data Center
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 across...
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June 24, 2022 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 to 15...
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June 22, 2022 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....
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June 16, 2022 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 powered...
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