Western Europe Data Center News

Germany’s Hetzner opens major colocation campus in Helsinki

The site in Tuusula offers cloud and colocation services, with 2,000 square meters of space available immediately. It benefits from fast connectivity to central Europe, thanks to Hetzner’s investment into C-Lion 1 cable system (also known as the Northern Digital Highway) between Helsinki and Rost...

October 02, 2018

Hetzner Finland

Ficolo acquires Cybercom data center in Tampere

Ficolo has acquired Cybercom’s data center business in Tampere. Cybercom’s data centers will be transferred to Ficolo and additionally Cybercom outsources data center operations services to Ficolo. The transfer takes place on August 31st, 2018 and does not impact Cybercom’s data center custome...

August 29, 2018

Verne: Tampere (The Deck)

DigiPlex data center will help keep Oslo warm

Nordic data center operator DigiPlex has announced plans to recover waste thermal energy from its campus in Ulven, Oslo, and use it to heat residential properties. The company has agreed on a partnership with a subsidiary of utility provider Fortum, which has similar arrangements with data cen...

August 22, 2018

STACK OSL01 Ulven

MIX Peering PoP Established at Aruba’s Global Cloud Data Center

Aruba S.p.A. inked a deal with the Milan Internet eXchange (MIX) to see the addition of new interconnections with Aruba launching a point of presence (PoP) directly accessible from its Global Cloud Data Center – the largest data center campus in Italy – thanks to equipment linked to Milan via two...

July 19, 2018

Aruba Global Cloud IT3

Keysource Expands ITPS Data Centre In Response to Azure and NHS Cloud Demand

Keysource has been brought in by managed IT services firm ITPS to upgrade and expand its colocation facility in County Durham, north east England. The need was driven by increased demand for ITPS’ services, following its selection by Microsoft as one of the early adopters of the Azure Stack roll-...

July 19, 2018

Partnership House

Construction of data center prototype starts in Boden

After a few months of planning and preparatory works the European consortium broke ground and started the construction works of building the prototype of one of the worlds most efficient data center. The project funded by EU’s innovation and research programme Horizon 2020 kicked-off in October 2...

July 18, 2018

Stockholm

VIRTUS Opens London’s Largest Colocation Campus

VIRTUS Data Centres (VIRTUS), the UK’s fastest growing data centre provider, has announced that its Stockley Park campus is now online, with the first pre-let customer to be live imminently. VIRTUS LONDON5 and LONDON6 are the first two data centres to open on the campus, delivering 40 MW of IT ca...

July 18, 2018

VIRTUS Stockley Park Campus

Global Switch Expands European Footprint With Frankfurt Construction

Global Switch’s move further adds to the data centre ‘hotspot’ reputation of Frankfurt, and with the arrival of a new Chinese customer to Europe as part of the development currently going up, Global Switch says it’s keen to add to its sites to support further demand. Construction has started o...

July 13, 2018

Global Switch: Frankfurt South

NTT adds it's First PoP in Dublin at Equinix DB1

NTT Communications has launched a new point of presence in Ireland, located at Equinix’s DB1 data centre in Dublin, marking its first PoP in the city. The global carrier said its new PoP will allow it to offer high-quality global IP transit services to a number of companies which have set up E...

July 11, 2018

Equinix Dublin DB1

Iron Mountain Acquires Evoswitch's Amsterdam Data Centers

Iron Mountain, the storage and information management services company, acquired EvoSwitch's Amsterdam Data Centers for €205 ($235) million. The transaction provides 11 megawatts (MW) of existing data center capacity in the Netherlands, which is 100% leased, with expansion capability of an add...

July 09, 2018

Iron Mountain Amsterdam AMS-1

Colt deploys to EdgeConneX's Amsterdam Datacenter

Colt will be deploying to EdgeConneX's datacenter in Amsterdam. Colt Technology Services and EdgeConneX have partnered to link up Colt’s IQ Network to several EdgeConneX facilities, offering connectivity closer to the edge. Andrew Edison 100x150The partnership will see Colt’s high-bandw...

July 02, 2018

EdgeConnex Amsterdam

Facebook plans two more data centers in Dublin

Two years after breaking ground on its first Irish data center, Facebook is planning another two facilities on the same campus in Clonee, Meath County, 10 miles (17km) north of Dublin, according to the Irish Times. The data centers, representing an investment nearing €300 million ($349m), will...

June 30, 2018

Facebook Clonee Ireland

Facebook and Luxcara sign 294MW Norwegian wind deal

Facebook and European asset manager Luxcara have entered into long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) for 100 percent of the output and environmental (green) attributes of three contiguous wind projects (Gravdal, Skinansfjellet and Eikeland-Steinsland) in southwest Norway. In addition, Face...

May 23, 2018

Facebook Luleå

e-shelter Announces It Will Open Another Data Center Campus in Frankfurt in Early 2019 (PR)

FRANKFURT, Germany & TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--e-shelter, a leading data center provider in Europe and an NTT Communications Group Company, has today announced the acquisition of new development site in Frankfurt, which will be its 4th location in the city. The expansion comes on the back of...

March 21, 2018

NTT Frankfurt 4

Google buys plot near Apple's planned Danish data center

Google has acquired a 131 hectares of land in the Aabenraa Municipality of Denmark. “I am pleased and proud that Google has chosen Aabenraa Municipality. It confirms that we have the potential to become a data centre cluster for the world’s largest IT companies,” said Mayor Thomas Andresen. “W...

November 30, 2017

Google Aabenraa (Prospective)

Iron Mountain Buys Credit Suisse Data Centers in London and Singapore (PR)

Iron Mountain to acquire two Credit Suisse data centers in London and Singapore for approximately $100 million, which would add 273,000 square feet to its growing data center portfolio Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the global leader in storage and information management services, t...

October 05, 2017

Iron Mountain London LON-1

Zenium Announces London Two (PR)

Stockley Park data center acquiredLondon, UK – 22 March 2017: Zenium has announced that it has completed the purchase of Infinity’s Stockley Park data center. The assets, employees and customers of the data centre have also transferred to Zenium as part of the agreed transaction. This will b...

March 17, 2017

Infinity Data Centers

Interxion Buys Amsterdam Data Center from Dutch Service Provider Vancis

AMSTERDAM 27 February 2017 – Interxion Holding NV (NYSE: INXN), (“Interxion”), a leading European provider of carrier and cloud-neutral colocation data centre services, announced today that it has acquired a data centre business from Vancis Holding BV, a leading independent Dutch provider of colo...

February 28, 2017

Digital Realty: AMS9

Equinix to Acquire ICT-Center Zurich's Data Center Business

ICT-Center's Zurich data center is located in the same building as Equinix's ZH2 & ZH4 datacenters. Source: Press Release Febuary 28, 2017. REDW...

February 28, 2017

Equinix Zurich ZH2 ZH4

SUPERNAP launches in Italy

MILANO, Italy, Dec. 16, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- SUPERNAP International today announced the opening of the largest, most advanced data center in Southern Europe. With 500 cabinets and more than 3.3 megawatts of power already sold, SUPERNAP International is delivering on the promise of bringing st...

December 16, 2016

STACK Milan Campus

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