February 14, 2022 Europe
With the UN chief recently declaring that it's "code red for humanity," it has never been more clear that immediate action is required on the part of governments and industry leaders to make big sustainability changes. Of course, the data center and digital infrastructure industries have caught...
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February 10, 2022 Netherlands
The newly formed Dutch government has announced that going forward, it will impose environmental controls on hyperscale data centers, which it said is in response to protests around Facebook’s proposed 166 hectare hyperscale data center in Zeewolde. The proposal received an outcry of opposition...
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February 08, 2022 United Kingdom
BNP Paribas Real Estate has announced that it has launched a new data center team in the UK, with Michael Umfreville as the lead. It will be responsible for leasing and land acquisitions. This launch is reportedly in response to REITs, institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds and...
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February 07, 2022 Equinix Munich MU4
Equinix has announced the opening of a new facility in Ascheim, outside Munich, Germany. The company unveiled the opening of the International Business Exchange (IBX) called MU4. Equinix invested $90 million in the development of MU4’s first phase. The facility offers over 24,200 square feet...
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February 07, 2022 Kao Data Slough
Kao Data has announced that it has opened a new data center in Slough, UK. The UK data center operator revealed that it opened the 16MW facility to the west of London. The data center will match the operational blueprint and design of Kao’s Harlow campus. In addition, it will also provide a PUE...
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January 31, 2022 Dublin
IDA Ireland Irish Development Agency (IDA) has announced that looking ahead, it is “unlikely” that any new data centres will be built in Dublin or along the east coast. However, Martin Shanahan, the head of the state’s development agency, has said it will build data centers if they are required...
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January 31, 2022 Equinix Manchester MA2
Equinix has announced that it will be closing its MA2 facility in Manchester, UK. The data center says it will no longer operate the facility when the lease on the property expires in June 2023. According to Equinix, the data center does not meet its evaluation criteria anymore. Besides, the...
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January 28, 2022 Data4: Warsaw 1 DC1
Data4 has announced that it has broken ground on its first data center campus in Poland. The French data center company announced earlier in July last year that it would invest up to €200 million ($237m) in developing the data center campus in Warsaw, Poland. The company has now confirmed that it...
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January 26, 2022 Madrid
Great news for Spain as plans for a 360MW data center campus in Madrid, Spain, is underway. The data center will be developed on a 700-hectare site, and investment is expected to reach up to €5 billion ($5.67bn). The Digital Valley project is to be a ‘reference model’ for sustainability in data...
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January 26, 2022 United Kingdom
UK data center company ServerChoice has announced the expansion of its facility in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. The company added a new data hall which hosts 47 racks. In addition, the new hall uses hot aisle containment that ensures greater efficiency. In addition, the racks are backed up by a...
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January 25, 2022 Belgium
Belgian infrastructure investment company TINC has made investments in Belgian data center firm Datacenter United. TINC says the €5 million ($5.6m) investment in Datacenter United is to fund the acquisition of DC Star. Datacenter United was founded in 2011. It currently operates three data...
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January 18, 2022 Equinix Saint-Denis PA10
Equinix is adding a tenth data center into Paris on its Paris Equinix's Saint-Denis campus, with the new site named PA10. In the first phase of construction, the project will offer 3,775 sqm and 1,525 cabinets of capacity. Meanwhile, it will offer 5,775 sqm (62,100 sq ft) of colocation space and...
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January 14, 2022 Republic of Ireland
EirGrid has made a decision on data center building in Ireland. The state-owned electric power transmission operator has outlined that it will not accept any further applications to build facilities in Dublin for "the foreseeable future" and perhaps not until 2028. That said, the data center...
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January 14, 2022 Wales
Gibtelecom has teamed up with the charity Protect Earth for a forestation project. Already, it has planted over 600 native British trees at the Pantpurlais farm, Llandrindod Wells, Wales, including 12 species of native saplings, including 100 Silver Birch, 50 Common Alder, 25 Bird Cherry, and...
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January 12, 2022 Verne: IS-KEF-DC01
Verne Global has announced that it will be expanding its campus in Iceland. According to the company, this expansion will take place over the next year with a $93 million additional investment from Digital 9 Infrastructure (D9), following its acquisition of Verne Global in September 2021. The...
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January 07, 2022 Digital Realty: FRA1
Interxion's latest data center in Frankfurt, Germany, FRA16, has been completed, it has announced. Located on the company's Ostend campus at Hanauer Landstrasse, the facility spans 4,800 sqm (51,600 sq ft) of white space, with a capacity of 16.5MW. The data center is expected to go live later...
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January 07, 2022 Telia Lietuva Raisteniškės
Telia Lietuva has announced that it is to invest EUR 10 million in the construction of a data center located in Raisteniškės, next to the Vilnius-Panevėžys highway. This facility will join two Telia Lietuva other data centers in Vilnius, which will mean it will be the largest data center...
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January 06, 2022 Hyperscale Data Center
Controversy is looming around Facebook's new data center in the Netherlands. Critics of the facility argue that Meta's 166-hectare complex at Zeewolde will undermine the country's sustainability targets. This is because the data center is predicted to use around 1,380GWh hours of energy a year....
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January 05, 2022 Wales
Cardiff Metropolitan University in Wales has announced that it is relocating its primary data center to L block in the Llandaff Learning Centre. According to the university, the reasoning behind this move is due to its School of Technologies expanding into A block in January. The relocation also...
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January 05, 2022 Republic of Ireland
There is an ongoing power issue in Ireland as the data center industry in the country continues to boom. Being the host of 70 data centers it is now the fastest-growing data center market in Europe. However, with data centers accounting for 11% of Ireland’s total energy supply, there are...
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