Western Europe Data Center News

CyrusOne Expands in the Netherlands to Develop Next-Gen Data Center at PolanenPark in Partnership with SADC

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)- CyrusOne Inc. (NASDAQ: CONE), a premier global data center REIT, today announced the acquisition of 15.5 acres of land from Schiphol Area Development Company N.V. (“SADC”), a developer of high-quality business parks in the Amsterdam metropolitan area, for the developme...

December 06, 2018

Eric Bell

CyrusOne Amsterdam I

Equinix Announces Build of New Data Center in Helsinki

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and HELSINKI, Nov. 29, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced it will build a new International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center in Helsinki, Finland. The data center – called HE7 – will p...

November 29, 2018

Eric Bavto

Equinix Helsinki HE7 Sinimäki

Google Breaks ground in Fredericia, Denmark

Alphabet’s Google is to invest 600 million euros ($685.98 million) to build its first data center in Denmark.In a blog post, Google’s Vice President for Global Data Centers, Joe Kava, said the facility would be located just outside Fredericia, in the west of the country. Kava added that Google...

November 20, 2018

Eric Bell

Google Fredericia Denmark

CyrusOne Enters Into Strategic Partnership to Develop Hyperscale Data Centers in The Netherlands

CyrusOne Inc announced an agreement with Agriport A7 for the development of hyperscale data centers in Middenmeer, The Netherlands. Under the terms of the agreement, CyrusOne will have the option to purchase up to 33 hectares of land, in parcels as demand dictates, for a 270MW master planned mult...

November 11, 2018

Eric Bell

CyrusOne Middenmeer, Netherlands

e-shelter to Develop Large UK Data Center Campus in London

NTT Communications subsidiary, e-shelter, a European data center colocation operator with presence in all key city-markets of the DACH-region leveraging 300MW of power capacity to deliver scalable data center solutions, has announced the development of a new, large data center campus in the UK....

November 05, 2018

Eric Bell

NTT London 1 (Dagenham)

Alibaba Cloud to launch London region

China’s favorite e-commerce giant Alibaba is planning the launch of a cloud region in London, two years after entering the European market with a data center in Frankfurt.The move was not highly publicized; the company merely updated its website to advertise the future availability zones in t...

October 02, 2018

Eric Bell

London

T-Systems completes 'House of Clouds' data center expansion in Biere

Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems has completed the expansion of its data center in Biere, a village near Germany's Saxony-Anhalt state capital, Magdeburg.The facility, which serves enterprise and government customers, offers 11,000 square meters of technical space, enough to house 100,00...

October 02, 2018

Eric Bell

T-Systems Biere

Germany’s Hetzner opens major colocation campus in Helsinki

The site in Tuusula offers cloud and colocation services, with 2,000 square meters of space available immediately. It benefits from fast connectivity to central Europe, thanks to Hetzner’s investment into C-Lion 1 cable system (also known as the Northern Digital Highway) between Helsinki and Rost...

October 02, 2018

Eric Bell

Hetzner Finland

Ficolo acquires Cybercom data center in Tampere

Ficolo has acquired Cybercom’s data center business in Tampere. Cybercom’s data centers will be transferred to Ficolo and additionally Cybercom outsources data center operations services to Ficolo. The transfer takes place on August 31st, 2018 and does not impact Cybercom’s data center custome...

August 29, 2018

Eric Bell

Verne: Tampere (The Deck)

DigiPlex data center will help keep Oslo warm

Nordic data center operator DigiPlex has announced plans to recover waste thermal energy from its campus in Ulven, Oslo, and use it to heat residential properties.The company has agreed on a partnership with a subsidiary of utility provider Fortum, which has similar arrangements with data cen...

August 22, 2018

Eric Bell

STACK OSL01 Ulven

MIX Peering PoP Established at Aruba’s Global Cloud Data Center

Aruba S.p.A. inked a deal with the Milan Internet eXchange (MIX) to see the addition of new interconnections with Aruba launching a point of presence (PoP) directly accessible from its Global Cloud Data Center – the largest data center campus in Italy – thanks to equipment linked to Milan via two...

July 19, 2018

Eric Bell

Aruba Global Cloud IT3

Keysource Expands ITPS Data Centre In Response to Azure and NHS Cloud Demand

Keysource has been brought in by managed IT services firm ITPS to upgrade and expand its colocation facility in County Durham, north east England. The need was driven by increased demand for ITPS’ services, following its selection by Microsoft as one of the early adopters of the Azure Stack roll-...

July 19, 2018

Eric Bell

ITPS Newcastle

Construction of data center prototype starts in Boden

After a few months of planning and preparatory works the European consortium broke ground and started the construction works of building the prototype of one of the worlds most efficient data center. The project funded by EU’s innovation and research programme Horizon 2020 kicked-off in October 2...

July 18, 2018

Eric Bell

Stockholm

VIRTUS Opens London’s Largest Colocation Campus

VIRTUS Data Centres (VIRTUS), the UK’s fastest growing data centre provider, has announced that its Stockley Park campus is now online, with the first pre-let customer to be live imminently. VIRTUS LONDON5 and LONDON6 are the first two data centres to open on the campus, delivering 40 MW of IT ca...

July 18, 2018

Eric Bell

VIRTUS Stockley Park Campus

Global Switch Expands European Footprint With Frankfurt Construction

Global Switch’s move further adds to the data centre ‘hotspot’ reputation of Frankfurt, and with the arrival of a new Chinese customer to Europe as part of the development currently going up, Global Switch says it’s keen to add to its sites to support further demand.Construction has started o...

July 13, 2018

Eric Bell

Global Switch: Frankfurt South

NTT adds it's First PoP in Dublin at Equinix DB1

NTT Communications has launched a new point of presence in Ireland, located at Equinix’s DB1 data centre in Dublin, marking its first PoP in the city.The global carrier said its new PoP will allow it to offer high-quality global IP transit services to a number of companies which have set up E...

July 11, 2018

Eric Bell

Equinix Dublin DB1

Iron Mountain Acquires Evoswitch's Amsterdam Data Centers

Iron Mountain, the storage and information management services company, acquired EvoSwitch's Amsterdam Data Centers for €205 ($235) million. The transaction provides 11 megawatts (MW) of existing data center capacity in the Netherlands, which is 100% leased, with expansion capability of an addit...

July 09, 2018

Eric Bell

Iron Mountain Amsterdam AMS-1

Colt deploys to EdgeConneX's Amsterdam Datacenter

Colt will be deploying to EdgeConneX's datacenter in Amsterdam.Colt Technology Services and EdgeConneX have partnered to link up Colt’s IQ Network to several EdgeConneX facilities, offering connectivity closer to the edge.Andrew Edison 100x150The partnership will see Colt’s high-bandw...

July 02, 2018

Eric Advinci

EdgeConnex Amsterdam

Facebook plans two more data centers in Dublin

Two years after breaking ground on its first Irish data center, Facebook is planning another two facilities on the same campus in Clonee, Meath County, 10 miles (17km) north of Dublin, according to the Irish Times.The data centers, representing an investment nearing €300 million ($349m), will...

June 30, 2018

Eric Advinci

Facebook Clonee Ireland

Facebook and Luxcara sign 294MW Norwegian wind deal

Facebook and European asset manager Luxcara have entered into long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) for 100 percent of the output and environmental (green) attributes of three contiguous wind projects (Gravdal, Skinansfjellet and Eikeland-Steinsland) in southwest Norway. In addition, Face...

May 23, 2018

Eric Bell

Facebook Luleå

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