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

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

May 05, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center

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...

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

April 26, 2021 Italy

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...

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Read Green Mountain Secures More Land for Data Center Expansion In Norway
Green Mountain Secures More Land for Data Center Expansion In Norway

Green Mountain Secures More Land for Data Center Expansion In Norway

April 23, 2021 Green Mountain Gismarvik

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. The...

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Read EdgeConneX enters the Spanish Market
EdgeConneX enters the Spanish Market

EdgeConneX enters the Spanish Market

March 31, 2021 Edgeconnex Barcelona

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...

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Read OVH Data Center SBG2 Destroyed by fire in Strasbourg
OVH Data Center SBG2 Destroyed by fire in Strasbourg

OVH Data Center SBG2 Destroyed by fire in Strasbourg

March 10, 2021 OVH Strasbourg Campus

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 is...

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

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

March 04, 2021 Equinix Bordeaux BX1

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...

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Read IPI Partners Announces Acquisition of SUPERNAP Italia
IPI Partners Announces Acquisition of SUPERNAP Italia

IPI Partners Announces Acquisition of SUPERNAP Italia

February 26, 2021 STACK Milan Campus

SUPERNAB Italia announced that 100% of ACDC Holding’s share capital, a controlling shareholder in the company, has been acquired. The acquisition was made by affiliates of IPI Partners, LLC from affiliates of Accelero Capital Holdings. The CEO of SUPERSNAP, Sherif Rizkilla, said that IPI is the...

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Read Equinix to expand two data centers in Helsinki, Finland
Equinix to expand two data centers in Helsinki, Finland

Equinix to expand two data centers in Helsinki, Finland

January 25, 2021 Equinix Helsinki HE5

The company announced that it will add approximately 800 cabinets to its HE5 and HE7 International Business Exchange (IBX) sites in Helsinki at a cost of $38.8M (€32M). Equinix currently operates six data centers in Helsinki, all of which run on 100% renewable energy.Equinix Press Release on...

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Read Green Datacenter Invests in large Zurich Campus
Green Datacenter Invests in large Zurich Campus

Green Datacenter Invests in large Zurich Campus

January 18, 2021 Green Datacenter Dielsdorf Campus

Green Datacenter announced they will begin construction on a new data center campus North of Zurich in the town of Dielsdorf. The campus, named "Zurich Metro Campus", will have three data center buildings and will contain over 46,000 sqm (495,000 sq ft). There will also be three office buildings...

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Read Vantage Data Centers Completes First Phase of Zurich Facility
Vantage Data Centers Completes First Phase of Zurich Facility

Vantage Data Centers Completes First Phase of Zurich Facility

December 18, 2020 Vantage Zurich ZRH1

Vantage announced the completion of an 8-megawatt concrete shell in Winterthur, Switzerland which is Northeast of Zurich. The facility is Vantage's first greenfield EU hyperscale building that will be delivered as part of an aggressive $2 billion EU expansion announced in February 2020. At full...

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Read Interxion expands in Zurich
Interxion expands in Zurich

Interxion expands in Zurich

November 25, 2020 Digital Realty: Zurich

ZURICH, Nov. 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Interxion: A Digital Realty Company (NYSE: DLR) and a leading European provider of carrier- and cloud-neutral colocation data centre solutions, announced today it has begun construction on a major expansion project in Zurich. The new facility will be developed...

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

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

October 30, 2020 CyrusOne Middenmeer, Netherlands

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- CyrusOne Inc. (NASDAQ: CONE), a premier global data center REIT, today announced entry into 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...

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Read DigiPlex opens another Norwegian data center in Hobøl
DigiPlex opens another Norwegian data center in Hobøl

DigiPlex opens another Norwegian data center in Hobøl

October 13, 2020 Stack OSL04C

DigiPlex continues to expand. The company announced it has opened a new data center in Hobol, a rural town 45 km Southeast of Oslo. It is DigiPlex's seventh data center in the Nordic region. DigiPlex press release below:OSLO, Norway, Oct. 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- DigiPlex, the Nordic leader for...

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Read Green Mountain expands DC1-Stavanger data center by 2.5 MWs
Green Mountain expands DC1-Stavanger data center by 2.5 MWs

Green Mountain expands DC1-Stavanger data center by 2.5 MWs

September 21, 2020 Green Mountain SVG1-Rennesøy

Green Mountain, a Norwegian data center provider, has expanded its DC1-Stavanger data center with a new 2.5MW data hall. The Green Mountain press release is below: Green Mountain expands its mountain hall data center in NorwayThe Norwegian colocation provider, Green Mountain, recently opened...

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Read SUPERNAP Italia Becomes the Only Operational Data Center in Italy to Earn ANSI/TIA-942 Rated 4 (Tier 4) Certification from EPI
SUPERNAP Italia Becomes the Only Operational Data Center in Italy to Earn ANSI/TIA-942 Rated 4 (Tier 4) Certification from EPI

SUPERNAP Italia Becomes the Only Operational Data Center in Italy to Earn ANSI/TIA-942 Rated 4 (Tier 4) Certification from EPI

September 13, 2020 STACK Milan Campus

SUPERNAP Italia Becomes the Only Operational Data Center in Italy to Earn ANSI/TIA-942 Rated 4 (Tier 4) Certification from EPI Milan, Italy, September 13, 2020 -- SUPERNAP Italia, the most advanced data center in Southern Europe, has achieved the ANSI/TIA-942 Rated 4 (formerly known as Tier 4)...

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Read Colt Pre-Leases all of its Frankfurt West Facility 16 months Before Construction is Complete
Colt Pre-Leases all of its Frankfurt West Facility 16 months Before Construction is Complete

Colt Pre-Leases all of its Frankfurt West Facility 16 months Before Construction is Complete

September 09, 2020 Colt Frankfurt West

Colt Colt Data Centre Services has announced that its data centre in West Frankfurt has secured customer commitments for all of the space and power in the facility. The facility is due to be completed in late Q4 2021 and will have a capacity of 25.2 megawatts. This underscores the demand in the...

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Read DigiPlex opens 2nd data centre on their Fetsund campus in Lillestrom
DigiPlex opens 2nd data centre on their Fetsund campus in Lillestrom

DigiPlex opens 2nd data centre on their Fetsund campus in Lillestrom

September 09, 2020 STACK OSL03 Campus

Data center provider DigiPlex has announced that it opened a second facility at Fetsund in Lillestrom borough in the county of Viken. The new data centre is 2,200 square metres and is built to support 3 MW. The new facility is adjacent to the existing Fetsund facility, a 10 MW data center.The 3...

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Read Apple Launches Danish Data Center with Green Power
Apple Launches Danish Data Center with Green Power

Apple Launches Danish Data Center with Green Power

September 03, 2020 Hyperscale Data Center

Apple has announced that it has launched its Danish data center in Foulum just outside of Viborg. In the announcement, Apple also shared that it will invest in the construction of two large onshore wind turbines in Esbjerg to source clean power for the site. The Esbjerg wind project is in...

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Read Equinix to open ML5 in Milan near Via Caldera
Equinix to open ML5 in Milan near Via Caldera

Equinix to open ML5 in Milan near Via Caldera

July 16, 2020 Equinix Milan ML5

Equinix has announced that it will open ML5, its fourth data center in Milan. The first phase will cost $51 million and will provide 15,000 square feet (1,400 sqM). When all phases are complete, ML5 is expected to provide a total of 45,000 square feet (4,200 sqM) of colocation space. The location...

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Read Iron Mountain Announces 27 Megawatt Pre-Lease in Frankfurt with Fortune 100 Customer
Iron Mountain Announces 27 Megawatt Pre-Lease in Frankfurt with Fortune 100 Customer

Iron Mountain Announces 27 Megawatt Pre-Lease in Frankfurt with Fortune 100 Customer

July 13, 2020 Iron Mountain Frankfurt FRA-1

-- New FRA-1 Data Center 100% Pre-Leased -- BOSTON, June 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the storage and information management services company, today announced that it has signed a 27 megawatt data center lease with a U.S.-based Fortune 100 customer in Frankfurt,...

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