June 14, 2022 United Kingdom
HM Treasury has published a policy paper which is proposing a new regulatory framework, whereby the Bank of England (BoE) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) would have powers to visit and regulate the cloud sector. The ministry outlined that currently, over 65% of UK banking and insurance...
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June 14, 2022 Hyperscale Data Center
The Dutch Government has revealed that it will not be selling the land in Zeewolde to Meta. Meta had initially earmarked the land to develop a massive data center. The Dutch Government partially owns the land in question. However, Meta hoped to reach an agreement to take over the land to develop...
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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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June 13, 2022 Europe
Agility CMS has announced that it has launched a new EU data center in an effort to improve the speed of content management access, and provide localized support for its customers in both Europe and the UK. This move also comes after a year in which sales doubled and is accompanied by the growth...
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June 10, 2022 France
Schneider Electric recently commissioned three independent research studies which sought to understand better the maturity of sustainability initiatives within both IT and data center organizations, and where the two industries are currently situated with regards to achieving a net zero vision....
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June 10, 2022 Africa
In Freetown, Sierra Leone, construction has commenced on Africell’s data center, and a groundbreaking ceremony was recently held in the country’s capital to mark the occasion. According to the company, this facility will become the “center of the Africell network” in Sierra Leone, where it will...
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June 10, 2022 Hyperscale Data Center
Ireland’s High Court has rescinded a decision to allow more time for Apple to develop a data center in Athenry, Galway County. Earlier in 2021, the Galway County Council extended Apple’s planning permission for a data center development in the county. This extension happened at a time when Apple...
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June 10, 2022 Bulgaria
Telecommunication company, Neterra, has launched a new data center in Sofia, Bulgaria. The new data center is called Sofia Data Center 2 (SDC 2). SDC 2 is located next to Neterra’s existing SDC 1 data center. Neterra first announced plans for SDC 2 in April 2021. The data center is housed in a...
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June 03, 2022 Etisalat Kalba
e& and Etisalat- its subsidiary have opened a cable landing station and data center in Kalba, UAE. e& which used to be called Etisalat Group, opened SmartHub Kalba earlier. According to Telco Etisalat, the new data center was developed to Tier III standards. The data center will also...
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June 01, 2022 Verne: IS-KEF-DC01
Verne Global is partnering up with Iceland's national power company Landsvirkjun to trial and deploy hydrogen fuel cells to its data center campus in Iceland. As data center companies push to make their operations greener, many have transitioned to renewables to fuel their facilities, however,...
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May 31, 2022 United Kingdom
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport recently announced the commencement of an eight-week consultation, part of the National Data Strategy, to explore strengthening the security and resiliency of the UK's data centers and cloud services. Specifically, it is calling for views...
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May 31, 2022 United Kingdom
The UK government has hit back at rumors that this winter, as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the UK could experience blackouts. The government has said that this would be a "worst-case scenario" and a result of Russia cutting off more supplies to the EU. Commenting on whether or not...
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May 30, 2022 United Arab Emirates (UAE)
GMT has announced its plans to develop a data center in the UAE. The Singapore-based crypto mining company revealed in a Medium post that it would be investing heavily in developing a data center in the region. According to GMT, there’s no exact location for the data center yet, but more...
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May 27, 2022 Spain
Best Wonder Business (BWB) has announced its intentions to develop a 16MW data center, powered solely by solar power, and located at the Huesca Logistics Platform (Plhus) business park outside Huesca, in the Aragon region. Reported to be worth €230 million ($264m); the company hopes the facility...
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May 27, 2022 Spain
Telefónica has announced that it has successfully issued its first senior sustainable bond to fund sustainability projects and initiatives amounting to €1 billion ($1.06bn) with a term of nine years. Telefónica has now made five ESG issuances in the last three years totaling €4.25 billion...
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May 27, 2022 Czech Republic
České Radiokomunikace has announced that it is looking to develop a new data center in Prague, Czech Republic. HN first announced the plans of the Czech telecommunication firm before the company confirmed it. Although Miloš Mastník, CR’s sales director, didn’t share details of the data center, he...
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May 26, 2022 Senegal
A new ground station is set to be built at a Free-operated data center in Senegal, satellite firm Avanti has announced. This announcement comes following the signing of a five-year partnership agreement between the two companies, through which the telco will build and host a new satellite gateway...
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May 25, 2022 NTT Madrid 1
NTT has announced the opening of its first facility in Spain. The data center is located in Las Rozas, outside Madrid. According to NTT, the data center sits on 134,720 square feet (12,516 square meters) of land in the Europolis Business and Technology Park. Currently, the facility offers 38,750...
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May 24, 2022 Greece
Lancom has announced that it is developing a data center on Crete Island. The Greek telecommunication company said it would be developing the facility to Tier III standards. Lancom did not reveal its exact location, specifications, cost, or timeline details. However, it seems the data center...
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May 22, 2022 Republic of Ireland
The pressure on the Irish power supply is starting to bite, as state-owned grid manager EirGrid announces that it has stopped talks with dozens of data center companies and halted plans for up to 30 data centers. Currently, there are some 70 data centers in the State, which have become a huge...
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