June 14, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
Amazon’s second data center in Drogheda, Ireland is going ahead after County Meath Council approved the two-story, 28,566 sqm (307,400 sq ft) facility to be built. Based at the Drogheda IDA Business & Technology Park, the facility will reportedly receive an investment of €350 million ($424m)...
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June 13, 2021 STACK OSL03C
DigiPlex has just opened its new data center in Norway. This is the Company’s third data center at its Fetsund Campus. With white space of 9,700 square feet and a 3MW capacity, this would bring the total floorspace at the Fetsund campus to 64,500 square feet. The campus’s total capacity is also...
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June 12, 2021 Virgin Media Leeds (Temple House)
Temple House in Leeds, Yorkshire, which houses a data center used by UK telco Virgin Media, is up for sale for £7 million ($9.9 million). The building spans 102,400 sq ft (9,500 sqm), with a combined 3.06 acres across two plots, 44,333 sq ft (4,100 sqm) of which is used by Virgin. Speaking about...
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June 10, 2021 Republic of Ireland
In Ireland, over 30 proposed data centers face uncertainty. This comes after the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) instructed national grid manager, Eirgrid and ESB Networks to prioritize applications for data centers in areas with reliable power supplies. As a result, Eirgrid has...
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June 10, 2021 United Kingdom
Digital 9 Infrastructure, a UK investment trust, has raised £175 million ($246.7 million). The Company initially offered an offering to raise £100 million through new ordinary shares. However, it was oversubscribed, and it raised a total of £175 million ($246.7 million). The Company says it plans...
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June 07, 2021 Luxembourg
Atos’s MeluXina supercomputer, first announced in September was inaugurated on June 7th, and will be hosted by LuxConnect’s data centers in Bissen. The MeluXina supercomputer The supercomputer is co-financed by the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking and The Grand Duchy of...
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June 07, 2021 Thrive Luton
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, this...
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June 02, 2021 Iron Mountain London LON-2
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,...
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June 01, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
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...
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May 27, 2021 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 has...
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May 27, 2021 Digital Realty: MRS4
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...
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May 25, 2021 Adam MAD Alcala
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 square...
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May 24, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
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...
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May 24, 2021 Paris
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...
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May 14, 2021 Frankfurt
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) of...
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May 14, 2021 Madrid
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 supply is secured...
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May 13, 2021 DataVita: Lanarkshire DV1
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...
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May 12, 2021 Netwise London East (NLE)
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 use...
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May 06, 2021 STACK Milan Campus
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 ability to...
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May 05, 2021 atNorth ICE02: Reykjanesbær
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 of...
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