Western Europe Data Center News

Vantage Acquires NGD, one of Largest Data Centres in Europe

Vantage has announced it is set to acquire Next Generation Data (NGD), one of the largest data centres in Europe. The NGD campus is in the Cardiff Capital Region in South Wales.The acquisition provides Vantage with one of Europe’s largest data center campus totaling 180MW, including an existin...

April 07, 2020

Vantage Data Centers

Datacenter One Launched New Location in Dusseldorf, Its Fourth Data Center Facility In Germany

Datacenter One announced that DUS1 has been officially launched in Hilden to the West of Dusseldorf.The construction of ‘DUS1’ started in 2019 and the data center was put into operation in January 2020.The data center is expandable with an overall capacity of over 10,000 square meters of custo...

April 07, 2020

AtlasEdge: Düsseldorf

Facebook Suspends Construction at Clonee, Ireland Data Center

Facebook is suspending construction at it's Clonee data center in Ireland due to concerns over the Covid-19 virus. Facebook's contractor, Mace, agreed to temporarily halt work at the site. Facebook had planned to double the size of the facility with two new buildings announced last year.Read ...

March 25, 2020

Facebook Clonee Ireland

NTT completes shell of 14 MW data center on Munich, Germany, campus

NTT has announced that it completed the shell of a second building on it's Munich 2 campus. The NTT Munich 2 (MUC2) data center will have 66,700 SqFt of IT space and 14 MW of total IT load. The new building is scheduled to go online in Q4 2020.Read more on NTT.com

March 20, 2020

NTT Munich 2

QTS acquires 100% Renewable Energy for its Groningen Data Center in the Netherlands

QTS Realty Trust (NYSE: QTS) has announced that it has signed agreements to purchase renewable energy via European Guarantees of Origin equal to the expected electricity needs of the company’s newly acquired data centre in Groningen, Netherlands. Under the agreement, QTS has purchased environm...

March 12, 2020

QTS Groningen

Microsoft Plans New Grange Castle Data Center

Independent.ie reports that Microsoft is in discussions with the South Dublin County Council to acquire 20 more acres in the Grange Castle Business Park. The acquisition would lead to the expansion of the company's already massive data centre campus. The facility will have enough room for 120 ...

February 17, 2020

Microsoft Dublin Grange Castle

RTB House Expands European IT Infrastructure, Selects Amsterdam Data Center from maincubes for Its New OCP infrastructure

RTB House, a global company that provides state-of-the-art marketing technologies for top brands worldwide, has selected the maincubes Amsterdam AMS01 data center to co-locate its OCP (Open Compute Project) hardware. OCP-ready equipment requires very specific data center power and cooling tech...

December 04, 2019

maincubes AMS01

Bulk Infrastructure opens DK01 campus in Esbjerg, Denmark

Bulk Infrastructure has opened a new data center campus in Esbjerg, on the west coast of Denmark. The 50 sqm campus can initially support to 20 megawatts and there is room for expansion. It took Bulk six months to build the first facility on the campus and anchor customers have already in...

December 03, 2019

Bulk Infrastructure: Esbjerg Denmark DK01

Bouygues to build second data center on Virtus' London campus

The French contractor, Bouygues Energies & Services Contracting, has been selected by VIRTUS Data Centres for the delivery of its LONDON6 data centre, located in Stockley Park and the second data centre in its hyper scale campus. Bouygues Energies & Services Contracting will be res...

November 27, 2019

VIRTUS Stockley Park Campus

Advania Data Centers Expands to Sweden in a deal with Stockholm Exergi (PR)

The excess heat from new data center will be used for local house-heating in Stockholm. Located in the largest Information and Communications Technology (ICT) cluster in Europe, Advania’s new data center is a first-rate option for high tech companies in the region. A new data center investmen...

November 06, 2019

atNorth Stockholm SWE01

Telxius Opens Purpose-Built Infrastructure in EMEA: Derio Communications Hub (PR)

Leverages the Full Potential of Subsea Cable MAREA Unlocking Opportunities for Global Organizations Madrid, 29 October 2019. Telxius, the communications infrastructure company of the Telefonica Group, has announced today the launch of its purpose-built, interconnection-rich, Derio communicat...

October 29, 2019

Telxius Derio Communications Hub

Hetzner received the ISO 27001 certification for Helsinki data center

Hetzner‘s Data Center Park Helsinki has reached a new milestone by receiving the ISO 27001 certificate for information security. Only 18 months after going live, the park today already has 6,000 m² of web hosting infrastructure in operation. In addition to information security, several other s...

September 30, 2019

Hetzner Finland

DigiPlex invests with two new green data centres in Oslo (PR)

DigiPlex has broken ground on the construction of two new data centres near Oslo, Norway. The two centres will have a combined facility size of 8,500 m² and represent an investment of NOK 600 million. The centers are set to be operational in just 12 months, before the end of 2020.Internationa...

September 16, 2019

STACK OSL01 Ulven

Digital Realty opens new Docklands facility

The new 120,000 square foot facility is located in the London Docklands, a highly connected area of London. The new facility will be interconnected with Digtial Realty's Sovereign House with a redundant 3,400 metre 432-count fiber ring. DRT Press Release LONDON, Sept. 11, 2...

September 12, 2019

Digital Docklands: Cloud House

Construction is started on the AWS Facility in Mulhaddart, Ireland

The Business Post reports that work has begun on the Amazon Mulhuddart data center campus. The project was known as "Project G" was originally approved in 2017, but was held up by environmental groups. The initial phase will be over 220,000 and is expected to be completed by mid-2021 at the ...

September 09, 2019

Amazon Dublin Mulhuddart Campus

Leaseweb expands with maincubes at AMS01

maincubes landed a large deal with Leaseweb in Amsterdam. Leaseweb which has 20 locations across the world has a large presence in the legacy EvoSwitch facilities. (EvoSwitch was acquired by Iron Mountain in 2018.) The deal allows Leaseweb to further diversify their providers. maincubes Press ...

September 04, 2019

maincubes AMS01

Protacon sells is data center business to Ficolo

Ficolo and Protacon agreed on the sale and leaseback of Protacon’s data center business to Ficolo. The partnership allows Protacon to free up resources and take advantage of Ficolo’s value-adding services in their own service portfolio. The responsibilities of the partnership are clearly divi...

August 15, 2019

Verne: Pori (The Rock)

Echelon gets final approval for massive Arkow data center project

The Irish Times reports that Echelon Data Centres has been granted planning permission for a 45,000sq m (484,000sq ft) data centre in the Avoca River Business Park in Arklow, Co Wicklow. Planning permission for the 100MW centre was originally granted by Wicklow Co Council in February, but wa...

July 19, 2019

Echelon: Arklow DUB20 Campus

Colt announces a new data centre "Frankfurt West" to be completed by Q4 2020

First phase of delivery expected to complete in H4 2020 Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) today announced the expansion of its presence in Germany with its new Frankfurt West data centre. The strategic decision to expand comes alongside demand in the region from cloud service providers, but also...

June 12, 2019

Colt Frankfurt West

Northern Bitcoin scales the Lefdal deployment

Starting signal for the scaling of sustainable mining activities 6 additional mobile mining containers commissioned in June More green sites worldwide to be started up shortly Frankfurt am Main, Germany / Lefdal, Norway – Northern Bitcoin AG (XETRA: NB2, ISIN: DE000A0SMU87) has begun the sca...

June 12, 2019

Northern Data Lefdal

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