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Read Denmark: Telenor and Telia sign solar PPA
Denmark: Telenor and Telia sign solar PPA

Denmark: Telenor and Telia sign solar PPA

June 13, 2022 Denmark

Telenor and Telia have teamed up with Better Energy in Denmark to sign a PPA, which will lead to the development of a new solar park. Together the telcos will be able to access 125GWh of green energy per year over the next 10 years. According to reports, the park's energy production will be...

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Read atNorth joins Swedish Data Center Industry Association (SDIA)
atNorth joins Swedish Data Center Industry Association (SDIA)

atNorth joins Swedish Data Center Industry Association (SDIA)

May 05, 2022 atNorth

atNorth has announced that it has joined the Swedish Data Center Industry Association (SDIA), alongside members Schneider Electric, Huawei and CBRE. The SDIA, represents the data center industry within Sweden and, according to the body, centers on sustainability as an organizational priority and...

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Read atNorth Launches its SWE01 DC Facility
atNorth Launches its SWE01 DC Facility

atNorth Launches its SWE01 DC Facility

April 26, 2022 atNorth Stockholm SWE01

atNorth has announced the launch of its new SWE01 DC facility in Kista, Sweden. The new data center is the first in the country designed to manage high-density workloads, including risk analysis, simulations, and AI. The facility has a total IT capacity of more than 11MW, spanning 6,400 square...

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Read atNorth expands data center footprint in Iceland
atNorth expands data center footprint in Iceland

atNorth expands data center footprint in Iceland

April 08, 2022 atNorth

atNorth has announced that it is to build a third data center campus in Iceland, on a plot of land in Akureyri in the northern part of the country. Named IC03, the site will span 4,000 sqm (43,000 sq ft), and include six data halls with 12MW of capacity. According to Eyjólfur Magnús Kristinsson,...

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Read atNort's Data Center in Stockholm Finally Comes Online
atNort's Data Center in Stockholm Finally Comes Online

atNort's Data Center in Stockholm Finally Comes Online

March 11, 2022 atNorth Stockholm SWE01

atNorth has announced the launch of its first data center in Stockholm, Sweden. The Icelandic company revealed that its Kista data center is now up and running. According to atNorth, the facility is Sweden’s first data center designed for high-density workloads such as risk analysis, simulations,...

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Read AtNorth Mulling Over Location For ‘50MW mega-site’ in Northern Europe
AtNorth Mulling Over Location For ‘50MW mega-site’ in Northern Europe

AtNorth Mulling Over Location For ‘50MW mega-site’ in Northern Europe

February 04, 2022 atNorth

AtNorth has revealed that it is mulling over locations for a potential 50MW data center campus. It also hopes to decide before the end of Q1 2022. The CEO of AtNorth, Eyjólfur Magnús Kristinsson, discussed the company’s plans in an interview with He said Stockholm is the company’s first...

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Read Vattenfall partners with Cloud&Heat Technologies
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Vattenfall partners with Cloud&Heat Technologies

December 06, 2021 Stockholm

Vattenfall has formed a strategic partnership with Cloud&Heat Technologies in a joint sustainable data centre pilot project. Together, the companies will work to construct a facility at Vattenfall’s biomass-fired district heating plant in Jordbro, south of Stockholm. Speaking about the...

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Read atNorth opens its first Swedish data center
atNorth opens its first Swedish data center

atNorth opens its first Swedish data center

November 24, 2021 atNorth

atNorth has announced that it is opening its first data center in Sweden in Kista, northern Stockholm. The SWE01: SIF DC facility underwent the first phase of construction at the end of 2020, and plans are to build out the second phase of the project shortly. The second phase will see an...

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Read Denmark issues new regulations around surplus heat
Denmark issues new regulations around surplus heat

Denmark issues new regulations around surplus heat

September 22, 2021 Denmark

Denmark’s Energy Ministry has announced a new agreement, which outlines regulations and taxation on heat sent to district heating networks. This agreement, which will come into effect by 2022, will encourage businesses and district heating companies to utilize surplus heat. The Ministry of...

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Read TDC Net expands eco-footprint with four solar farms
TDC Net expands eco-footprint with four solar farms

TDC Net expands eco-footprint with four solar farms

July 06, 2021 Denmark

TDC Net, the Danish telecoms firm, has announced that it is moving forward with four new solar parks. This comes following TDC Net signing a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Better Energy. By 2023, the four farms will be capable of supplying 140GWh of energy each year. By 2028, the company...

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Read Court grants Google's subsidiary, DSC International AB, permission for data center in Sweden
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Court grants Google's subsidiary, DSC International AB, permission for data center in Sweden

June 25, 2021 Sweden

Sweden’s Land and Environment Court at Nacka District Court has granted Google’s subsidiary, DSC International AB, permission to build a data center in Horndal, Sweden. Although Google said the land was a potential data center location when they acquired the 109-hectare site in 2017, they said...

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Read atNorth expands its Mjölnir data center
atNorth expands its Mjölnir data center

atNorth expands its Mjölnir data center

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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Read Advania Data Centers Rebrands to atNorth
Advania Data Centers Rebrands to atNorth

Advania Data Centers Rebrands to atNorth

December 08, 2020 atNorth

Advania Data Centers, a high-density computing technology company headquartered in Reykjavik, Iceland, announced today that it had changed its name and will now be known as atNorth. Among the other changes will be its logo, tagline, and domain name to atnorth.com. "Rebranding is a logical step...

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

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

November 06, 2019 atNorth Stockholm SWE01

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 investment of...

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Read Microsoft Plans 2 New Data Centers in Sweden
Microsoft Plans 2 New Data Centers in Sweden

Microsoft Plans 2 New Data Centers in Sweden

March 25, 2019 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 Stockholm....

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Read Construction of data center prototype starts in Boden
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Construction of data center prototype starts in Boden

July 18, 2018 Stockholm

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...

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