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Equinix Is Closing Its MA2 Facility in Manchester

Equinix has announced that it will be closing its MA2 facility in Manchester, UK. The data center says it will no longer operate the facility when the lease on the property expires in June 2023. According to Equinix, the data center does not meet its evaluation criteria anymore. Besides, th...

January 31, 2022

Equinix Manchester MA2

€5 billion ($5.67bn), 360MW data center campus coming to Madrid, Spain

Great news for Spain as plans for a 360MW data center campus in Madrid, Spain, is underway. The data center will be developed on a 700-hectare site, and investment is expected to reach up to €5 billion ($5.67bn). The Digital Valley project is to be a ‘reference model’ for sustainability in dat...

January 26, 2022

Madrid

ServerChoice Adds New data hall to Its Stevenage, UK Facility

UK data center company ServerChoice has announced the expansion of its facility in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. The company added a new data hall which hosts 47 racks. In addition, the new hall uses hot aisle containment that ensures greater efficiency. In addition, the racks are backed up by a d...

January 26, 2022

United Kingdom

TINC invests €5 million ($5.6m) in Datacenter United, acquires DC Star

Belgian infrastructure investment company TINC has made investments in Belgian data center firm Datacenter United. TINC says the €5 million ($5.6m) investment in Datacenter United is to fund the acquisition of DC Star. Datacenter United was founded in 2011. It currently operates three data cen...

January 25, 2022

Belgium

Paris to house Equinix's tenth data center

Equinix is adding a tenth data center into Paris on its Paris Equinix's Saint-Denis campus, with the new site named PA10. In the first phase of construction, the project will offer 3,775 sqm and 1,525 cabinets of capacity. Meanwhile, it will offer 5,775 sqm (62,100 sq ft) of colocation space a...

January 18, 2022

Equinix Saint-Denis PA10

Eirgrid report makes decision on data centers in Ireland

EirGrid has made a decision on data center building in Ireland. The state-owned electric power transmission operator has outlined that it will not accept any further applications to build facilities in Dublin for "the foreseeable future" and perhaps not until 2028. That said, the data center a...

January 14, 2022

Republic of Ireland

Gibtelecom initiates tree planting scheme in Wales

Gibtelecom has teamed up with the charity Protect Earth for a forestation project. Already, it has planted over 600 native British trees at the Pantpurlais farm, Llandrindod Wells, Wales, including 12 species of native saplings, including 100 Silver Birch, 50 Common Alder, 25 Bird Cherry, and ...

January 14, 2022

Wales

Verne Global to expand its Iceland data center

Verne Global has announced that it will be expanding its campus in Iceland. According to the company, this expansion will take place over the next year with a $93 million additional investment from Digital 9 Infrastructure (D9), following its acquisition of Verne Global in September 2021.The ...

January 12, 2022

Verne: Reykjanesbr Campus

Interxion's Frankfurt data center completed

Interxion's latest data center in Frankfurt, Germany, FRA16, has been completed, it has announced. Located on the company's Ostend campus at Hanauer Landstrasse, the facility spans 4,800 sqm (51,600 sq ft) of white space, with a capacity of 16.5MW. The data center is expected to go live later...

January 07, 2022

Digital Realty Frankfurt Campus

The Netherlands’ climate goals at risk with new Facebook data center?

Controversy is looming around Facebook's new data center in the Netherlands. Critics of the facility argue that Meta's 166-hectare complex at Zeewolde will undermine the country's sustainability targets.This is because the data center is predicted to use around 1,380GWh hours of energy a year....

January 06, 2022

Facebook Zeewolde

Cardiff Met Uni announces relocation of campus data center

Cardiff Metropolitan University in Wales has announced that it is relocating its primary data center to L block in the Llandaff Learning Centre. According to the university, the reasoning behind this move is due to its School of Technologies expanding into A block in January. The relocation...

January 05, 2022

Wales

Further danger ahead for Ireland's power grid as data centers continue to sap energy

There is an ongoing power issue in Ireland as the data center industry in the country continues to boom. Being the host of 70 data centers it is now the fastest-growing data center market in Europe. However, with data centers accounting for 11% of Ireland’s total energy supply, there are conce...

January 05, 2022

Republic of Ireland

Amplitude branches out into Germany with new data center

Amplitude has announced that it is expanding its data center footprint into Germany with a facility in Frankfurt. The data center, which is certified in ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, will be hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), for both its “privacy” and “security.”Speaking about its move into ...

January 04, 2022

AWS EU Frankfurt Region (eu-central-1)

Launch of TikTok's €420m Irish data center Postponed to Late 2022

TikTok has revealed that its planned data center opening in Ireland will be delayed due to issues caused by the pandemic. The company revealed to Business Post Ireland €420 million ($473m) that the facility will be launched in late 2022 instead of the planned early 2022 launch. CSO of TikTok, ...

December 21, 2021

Republic of Ireland

Proximity Data Centers opens new facility in Birmingham, UK

Proximity Data Centres has announced that it has opened its Birmingham facility near the new HS2 rail station and BBC campus. The company outlines the facility site spans, with 63,000 sq ft (5,800 sq m) available in the actual facility with space for 2000 racks located across three data halls....

December 21, 2021

nLighten Edge 8 Birmingham

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

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

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

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

Facebook Zeewolde

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