June 14, 2021 Penta Infra: Glostrup
Penta Infra has announced its expansion into the Nordics by acquiring Sentia Denmark's data center in Smedeland, Glostrup. Jakob Høholdt, Managing Director of Sentia Denmark, explained that the move to form a partnership with Penta Infra is due to the operating data center's not being Sentia's...
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June 14, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
Amazon’s second data center in Drogheda, Ireland is going ahead after County Meath Council approved the two-story, 28,566 sqm (307,400 sq ft) facility to be built. Based at the Drogheda IDA Business & Technology Park, the facility will reportedly receive an investment of €350 million ($424m)...
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June 13, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
Amazon Web Services has announced that it would be opening its new data center region in Israel. Jeff Barr, the Chief Evangelist for AWS, said that plans for the new data center region are in place and that it would open in the first half of 2023. He further added that the region would have three...
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June 13, 2021 STACK OSL03C
DigiPlex has just opened its new data center in Norway. This is the Company’s third data center at its Fetsund Campus. With white space of 9,700 square feet and a 3MW capacity, this would bring the total floorspace at the Fetsund campus to 64,500 square feet. The campus’s total capacity is also...
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June 13, 2021 ClusterPower Craiova
ClusterPower, a Romanian cloud services startup, has announced that it is building the first hyperscale data center in southern Romania, based near Craiova. The center is to be the first of five planned on 25,427 sq m of company-owned land in Mischii, Dolj county. The campus, powered by natural...
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June 12, 2021 Virgin Media Leeds (Temple House)
Temple House in Leeds, Yorkshire, which houses a data center used by UK telco Virgin Media, is up for sale for £7 million ($9.9 million). The building spans 102,400 sq ft (9,500 sqm), with a combined 3.06 acres across two plots, 44,333 sq ft (4,100 sqm) of which is used by Virgin. Speaking about...
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June 10, 2021 Republic of Ireland
In Ireland, over 30 proposed data centers face uncertainty. This comes after the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) instructed national grid manager, Eirgrid and ESB Networks to prioritize applications for data centers in areas with reliable power supplies. As a result, Eirgrid has...
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June 10, 2021 Saudi Arabia
Al Moammar Information Systems Co. (MIS) announced that it expects its data fund to commence development within the next six months. The fund will go towards the development, ownership and operation of data centers across Saudi Arabia. This follows MIS signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)...
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June 10, 2021 United Kingdom
Digital 9 Infrastructure, a UK investment trust, has raised £175 million ($246.7 million). The Company initially offered an offering to raise £100 million through new ordinary shares. However, it was oversubscribed, and it raised a total of £175 million ($246.7 million). The Company says it plans...
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June 07, 2021 Luxembourg
Atos’s MeluXina supercomputer, first announced in September was inaugurated on June 7th, and will be hosted by LuxConnect’s data centers in Bissen. The supercomputer is co-financed by the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking and The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, and will be run and...
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June 07, 2021 Thrive Luton
Thrive has jumpstarted its expansion with the acquisition of data center services provider Oni. Backed by private equity firm Court Square Capital Partners, the deal gives the fast-growing MSP a European data center footprint. Although the deal's financial terms have not yet been disclosed, this...
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June 04, 2021 Togo
The Ministry of the Digital of Economy and Digital Transformation recently announced the inauguration of Togo’s first data center. A Tier III+ facility built by CFAOP Technologies will provide sensitive data hosting as a neutral colocation facility. The facility took two and a half years to build...
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June 02, 2021 Iron Mountain London LON-2
Iron Mountain has announced its plans for a 27MW data center in Slough, East of London. The new data center dubbed LON-2 will be a three-story building with up to 25,000 sq m of space. It will also have a capacity of 27MW at full buildout. Moreover, the building will have three 9MW data halls,...
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June 01, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
Ahead of its 2030 goal of eliminating its reliance on diesel fuel for backup power, Microsoft has announced that it would be the first to use a lower carbon renewable fuel for backup power in its Sweden datacenter region. Microsoft’s backup generators in the Sweden region will run on Preem...
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May 28, 2021 United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Amazon Web Services has announced plans to build a new data center region in UAE. The new zone will have three Availability Zones, and it will be open before the mid of 2022. Upon completion, the region will be AWS’s second region in the Middle East after opening a Bahrain region two years ago....
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May 27, 2021 Northern Ireland
EPH has announced that it is looking into the prospects of building a data center in Kilroot, Northern Ireland (NI). The company has commissioned TechRE to conduct a study to assess the feasibility of construction at NI’s last coal-fired power station due to close between 2023 and 2024. EPH has...
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May 27, 2021 Digital Realty: MRS4
Digital Realty has announced that it has opened its new YYZ12 data center in Toronto, Canada, while breaking ground on its Marseille facility. The new facility, located at 151 Front St (Toronto's carrier hotel), is DRT's third data center in the metro and will be fully interconnected with...
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May 27, 2021 Raxio Uganda
Raxio Data Center just opened a new data center in Kampala, Uganda. The new facility was built to Tier III standards, and it has a colocation space of up to 400 racks. Plans were already in place for a data center in Uganda since 2018 and the data center general manager, James Byaruhanga, spoke...
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May 26, 2021 Digital Realty: Mombasa MBA2
Icolo.io, part of Digital Realty, has announced that it is constructing a new data center based in Nyali, Mombasa. The MBA2 facility will span 1,200 sq m of floor space, with a capacity of 1.6MW. It is the company’s second data center in the city, and it’s third in total. Expected to be completed...
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May 26, 2021 Saudi Arabia
Thirty-nine human rights groups, including Amnesty International, have called on Google to stop building data centers in Saudi Arabia. They also said Google should stop its plans to open a cloud region in the country in partnership with Saudi Aramco. These groups noted that Google should at least...
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