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Thrive expands data center footprint with acquisition of UK firm Oni

Thrive has jumpstarted its expansion with the acquisition of data center services provider Oni. Backed by private equity firm Court Square Capital Partners, the deal gives the fast-growing MSP a European data center footprint.Although the deal's financial terms have not yet been disclosed, thi...

June 07, 2021

Thrive Luton

Iron Mountain to expand EMEA Data Center footprint with new facility in Sough

Iron Mountain has announced its plans for a 27MW data center in Slough, East of London. The new data center dubbed LON-2 will be a three-story building with up to 25,000 sq m of space. It will also have a capacity of 27MW at full buildout. Moreover, the building will have three 9MW data halls,...

June 02, 2021

Iron Mountain London LON-2

Microsoft Begins Using Eco-Diesel in Data Center Generators

Ahead of its 2030 goal of eliminating its reliance on diesel fuel for backup power, Microsoft has announced that it would be the first to use a lower carbon renewable fuel for backup power in its Sweden datacenter region. Microsoft’s backup generators in the Sweden region will run on Preem Evo...

June 01, 2021

Microsoft Gävle, Sweden

EPH proposes data center at Kilroot Power Station, Northern Ireland

EPH has announced that it is looking into the prospects of building a data center in Kilroot, Northern Ireland (NI). The company has commissioned TechRE to conduct a study to assess the feasibility of construction at NI’s last coal-fired power station due to close between 2023 and 2024. EPH ha...

May 27, 2021

Northern Ireland

Digital Realty opens new Toronto facility and broke ground in Marseille

Digital Realty has announced that it has opened its new YYZ12 data center in Toronto, Canada, while breaking ground on its Marseille facility.The new facility, located at 151 Front St (Toronto's carrier hotel), is DRT's third data center in the metro and will be fully interconnected with redu...

May 27, 2021

Digital Realty: MRS4

Adam launches Madrid data center

Adam, a data center Company in Spain, announced that it would be opening a new data center in Madrid, Spain's capital. The new facility will be Adam’s third and will be situated in the Tecnoalcala Technology Park. The facility will be built in phases, and the first phase will have 3,500 squar...

May 25, 2021

Adam MAD Alcala

Microsoft plans to use rainwater to cool Dutch data centers after facing protests

After facing backlash from the resident of the Hollands-Kroon province, Netherlands, that its data center in the region could cause a shortage of drinking water, Microsoft has announced that it would now be using rainwater. Microsoft promised on TV that it would be using rainwater to cool its ...

May 24, 2021

Microsoft Amsterdam

Lunar data center on the horizon

While a data center on the moon may seem outlandish now, soon it could very much be a reality, that’s according to NASA and ASI, the Italian space agency. As part of the NASA Artemis Moon program, ASI has teamed up with Thales Alenia Space (TAS) to study design concepts to support a facility b...

May 24, 2021

Paris

Frankfurt to restrict and regulate data centers

Frankfurt has proposed a development plan to regulate data centers in the area. The plan, it says, will prevent the “uncontrolled growth” of data centers. The city is the hub of the data center industry in Germany, and one of the four largest hubs in Europe, taking up 64 hectares (640,000 sqm...

May 14, 2021

Frankfurt

Rolls-Royce set to power Madrid data center in outages

Rolls-Royce has announced that it has installed and commissioned eight mtu emergency gensets with 9.2MWe power output at a major bank in Madrid. The installation was made to secure power supply in case of a public power grid failure in the region. Rolls-Royce will ensure power s...

May 14, 2021

Madrid

Scottish data center firm DataVita acquires Fortis data center

DataVita has announced the acquisition of the Fortis Tier-III certified data center, based in Glasgow, Scotland, after operating the facility since 2016. The acquisition was made with £45 million ($63.1 million) of support by HFD Group, and Datavita will now take full ownership.Built by HFD gr...

May 13, 2021

DataVita: Lanarkshire DV1

Zayo Group to connect to Netwise's new London East data center

Netwise, A data center firm in the UK, has announced that Zayo Group would be the first major Tier 1 carrier to connect to its new London East data center officially. The new data center is 13,000 square feet in size with a 1.5MW capacity. Netwise also claimed that its new data center would u...

May 12, 2021

Netwise London East (NLE)

Supernap Italia to expand Milan data center

Supernap Italia has announced expansion plans for its data center campus in Milan, Italy, after acquiring development-ready land totaling 170,000sq m (1,830,000 sq ft). It is situated in the same location as the company’s other Siziano campus. The land acquisition gives the company the abilit...

May 06, 2021

STACK Milan Campus

atNorth expands its Mjölnir data center

atNorth has announced it is expanding its Mjölnir ICE02 data center in Keflavík, Iceland. The facility currently stands at 13,750 sqm (148,000 sqft), with 80MW of power. The company plans to expand the data center by 10%. This will mean an additional 1,250 sqm (13,400 sq ft) of space, and 4MW...

May 05, 2021

atNorth ICE02: Reykjanesbær

Amazon submits plans for second data center in County Meath, Ireland

According to Planning documents filed with Meath Local Authorities, Amazon is proposing to build a new data center at the IDA Business & Technology Park in Drogheda, County Meath. The new data center will be a two-story building, and it will have a floor area of 28,566 square meters. Tunis...

May 05, 2021

Amazon Drogheda I

Microsoft partners with defense company Leonardo to offer cloud services to Italian public sector

Microsoft is partnering with Leonardo, an Italian defense group, to provide Italy’s public sector and critical infrastructure providers with cloud services. The deal will see Leonardo offer cybersecurity services and act as a System integrator while Microsoft will provide a cloud platform and ...

April 26, 2021

Italy

Green Mountain Secures More Land for Data Center Expansion In Norway

Green Mountain has announced that it has secured 50,000 sqm (538,000 sq ft) of land in Norway in an option agreement with Haugaland Business Park. Located in Gismarvik in Tysvær municipality, the land will enable Green Mountain to begin constructing a fourth data center site as early as 2022.T...

April 23, 2021

Green Mountain Gismarvik

EdgeConneX enters the Spanish Market

EdgeConnex has announced its entry into the Spanish data center market with its new edge data center facility in the Sant Boi de Llobregat region of Spain. The new center is only 15 km from the Barcelona city center. The data center is a 7,600 square meter, 8 MW N+1 facility. This facility is ...

March 31, 2021

Edgeconnex Barcelona

OVH Data Center SBG2 Destroyed by fire in Strasbourg

A fire destroyed SBG2 and part of SBG1 data centers in Strasbourg, France. The facilities are part of a data center campus owned by OVH Cloud, a French cloud computing company. The fire destroyed completely destroyed SBG2 and 4 rooms out of 12 in the adjacent SBG1 data center. At this time, it...

March 10, 2021

OVH Strasbourg Campus

Equinix to Open First Carrier-Neutral Data Center in Bordeaux, France

Equinix has announced plans to open its first data center in Bordeaux, France. The company announced that the new facility will be known as BX1 and is projected to open in the third quarter of 2021. The company is planning to provide approximately 32,000 square feet (3,000 square meters) of co...

March 04, 2021

Equinix Bordeaux BX1

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