Western Europe Data Center News

Apple Stops Construction at Kassø Facility in Aabenraa Denmark

Apple has canceled plans to construct a data center in Kassø, Denmark citing 'business decision.' Apple also plans to sell the land, with no intention to construct anything else on the property, a statement from the municipality reads. It's unknown how this will impact the planned Google data ...

June 11, 2019

Apple: Aabenraa Kassø

Kao Data deploys 100% renewable energy at London One campus

June 5th, 2019, London, United Kingdom, Kao Data, the home of innovation and UK’s leading entrant to the wholesale colocation data centre market, has announced it will operate using 100 percent renewable energy and be cost neutral to its customers. When the campus is operating at full load (4...

June 05, 2019

Kao Data: Harlow KLON-01

Ficolo Invests Over 50 Million Euros in Building a Cloud Delivery Center, Making it the Largest Domestic Player in Findland (PR)

PORI, Finland, /PRNewswire/ -- The data center and cloud delivery company Ficolo buys a data center in Vantaa and will make a major investment to expand it into a modern Cloud Delivery Center. The total investment amounts to over 50 million euros, most of which will be used during the first 12...

May 08, 2019

Verne: Helsinki (The Air)

Equinix Acquires Switch Datacenter's AMS1 Facility in Amsterdam

Equinix has acquired Switch Datacenter's AMS1 facility in Amsterdam for $34 million. Here are the quick facts: The facility, located at Lemelerbergweg 28, will be renamed to AM11 and will be Equinix's 9th data center in Amsterdam. The AM11 site is close to Equinix's existing southeast Am...

April 24, 2019

Equinix AM11

e-shelter Acquired Land for 2nd Berlin Data Center

e-shelter announced today that it acquired land for its 2nd Berlin facility. This one will be big. When fully complete it will be 60,000 sqM (645,000 SqFt) and 90 MVA (72 Megawatts.) The site will sit on the South side of Berlin in an area called Marienpark, which is approximately 14 km fr...

April 16, 2019

NTT Berlin 2 (Marienpark)

e-shelter Opens Their First Data Center in Amsterdam

e-shelter, a subsidiary of NTT, opened a data center in Amsterdam. This is the company's first foray into The Netherlands. The campus which is just South of the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport will eventually support 2 buildings and approximately 16,000 square meters and 40 MWs of critical IT load....

April 12, 2019

NTT Amsterdam 1

Amazon will Power Mulhuddart campus with 91.2 megawatt Wind farm in Donegal

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it will invest in a the Donegal wind farm, a renewable energy project in Ireland. The 91.2 megawatt wind farm will be developed by Invis Energy and is expected to begin providing energy to AWS Data Centers in Ireland by the end of 2021.The Donegal wind farm ...

April 09, 2019

Amazon Dublin Mulhuddart Campus

DE-CIX and Datacenter One Partner to Offer DE-CIX in DC1's Sites

DE-CIX and Datacenter One have formed a partnership to offer DE-CIX’s services in Datacenter One (DC1) sites in Germany. DC1's LEV1 facility in Leverkusen will be the first DC1 data center connected as part of the new partnership. DE-CIX is one of the largest Internet Exchange operators in...

April 01, 2019

AtlasEdge: Leverkusen

Microsoft Plans 2 New Data Centers in Sweden

Microsoft is reportedly building two new datacenters in Sweden, according to Swedish Newspaper Gefle Dagblad (via MSN). It was previously reported in December that the company had acquired 130 hectares of land in the municipalities of of Gävle and Sandviken, near the Swedish capital Stockho...

March 25, 2019

Sweden

Orange Belgium Opens a New Data Center in Antwerp

Orange Belgium has opened a $15.8 million data center in Antwerp, Belgium. Michaël Trabbia, CEO of Orange, and president of the board Johan Deschuyffeleer officially opened the 1,000 square meter (10,800 sq ft) data center at a event yesterday. Orange Datacenter in Belgium ...

March 19, 2019

Orange Belgium Hoboken

Google Launches New GCP Region in Zurich

Google announced on their Blog that they have launched the Zurich region. Our Google Cloud Platform (GCP) region in Zurich is now live and ready for business. Our sixth European region and nineteenth overall, this new region gives companies doing business in Switzerland more opportunities wit...

March 12, 2019

Google Zurich

EdgeConneX Enters the Munich Market with the Acquisition of a Vodafone Facility

EdgeConneX is entering Munich market through the acquisition of a Vodafone data center. The facility will be ready by Q2 2019. The Press Release is below. Munich facility becomes EdgeConneX’s 9th Data Center in Europe Herndon, VA, – January 21, 2019 — EdgeConneX®, pioneers in edge data...

January 26, 2019

EdgeConnex Munich

Equinix to Extend Interconnection and Data Center Services to Hamburg (Press Release)

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 10, 2019 / -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that it has closed a transaction for the purchase of a commercial building at Vierenkamp 1, Hamburg, Germany, from Aspen REG 1. Management GmbH for $11 mil...

January 10, 2019

Equinix Hamburg HH1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

T-Systems Biere

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