January 04, 2022 AWS EU Frankfurt Region (eu-central-1)
Amplitude has announced that it is expanding its data center footprint into Germany with a facility in Frankfurt. The data center, which is certified in ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, will be hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), for both its “privacy” and “security.” Speaking about its move into...
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December 21, 2021 Republic of Ireland
TikTok has revealed that its planned data center opening in Ireland will be delayed due to issues caused by the pandemic. The company revealed to Business Post Ireland €420 million ($473m) that the facility will be launched in late 2022 instead of the planned early 2022 launch. CSO of TikTok,...
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December 21, 2021 nLighten Edge 8 Birmingham
Proximity Data Centres has announced that it has opened its Birmingham facility near the new HS2 rail station and BBC campus. The company outlines the facility site spans, with 63,000 sq ft (5,800 sq m) available in the actual facility with space for 2000 racks located across three data halls....
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December 17, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
Meta has been granted permission to build the Netherlands’ largest data center for its Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp applications in the small town of Zeewolde. Reports have it that the facility will use 200MW of electrical power and have five data center halls. The town council had a meeting...
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December 17, 2021 T-Mobile Warszawa-Szlachecka
T-Mobile has opened a new data center in Warsaw, Poland. The new 46,200 square feet (4,300 square meters) data center has three stories, and it offers 18,300 square feet (1,700 square meters) of colocation space across eight data halls. T-Mobile claims to have secured a top business customer as a...
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December 13, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
Meta, formerly known as Facebook, plans to expand its Odense data center campus in Denmark. Meta says it will be adding two buildings with a total space of 969,000 square feet (90,000 square meters). The addition will bring the total floor space at the facility to up to 2.1 million square meters...
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December 09, 2021 Green Mountain: OSL1 DC1
Green Mountain has announced that it is expanding its Oslo, Norway campus by building a new data center at the facility. Green Mountain revealed that it bought a 570,500 square foot (53,000 square meters) plot of land next to its DC3-Oslo data center campus. According to Green Mountain, the Oslo...
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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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December 02, 2021 Zagreb
A1 Croatia has opened a new data center in Zagreb. The company began construction on the facility in October 2020. The 21,500 square feet (2,000 square meters) data center cost the company €11 million ($13m). In addition, the data center was designed to withstand earthquakes up to 9 on the...
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December 01, 2021 Rostelecom Yekaterinburg
Rostelecom has increased the capacity of its Yekaterinburg data center in central Russia. The company revealed that it would be expanding the capacity of its facility on the Iset River in Sverdlovsk Oblast. With the new expansion, the facility has added an extra 216 racks and a total capacity of...
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November 26, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
Meta, formerly known as Facebook, has confirmed that it is behind the development of the proposed 200MW data center in Zeewolde, the Netherlands. According to specifications, the facility could cover five data halls and have up to 200MW of capacity upon full buildout. However, the Zeewolde city...
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November 25, 2021 STACK: MIL01A
Supernap Italia has announced the opening of its second data center on its Siziano campus in Milan, Italy. The new data center has two independent data halls. With this, the facility now has 1 million square feet of space (100,000 square meters) and 40MW of capacity. CEO of Supernap Italia,...
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November 23, 2021 Rostelecom Biryulevo
Rostelecom has announced its plans to develop a hyperscale data center campus in Moscow, Russia. The company revealed that its subsidiary Rostelecom DPC acquired a facility at Nikopolskaya street. Rostelecom plans to develop four data center buildings at the site. The buildings will cover a total...
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November 22, 2021 CyrusOne Frankfurt V
CyrusOne has announced that it is expanding its data center footprint with the purchase of land in Hanau, East of Frankfurt. The company's plans outline that the facility will have an incoming power of 90MW and a critical power capacity of 63MW, once complete, spanning 18,000 sqm. According to...
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November 19, 2021 Netherlands
Cellnex has completed the acquisition of Der Bee Media’s Media Gateway data center in Hilversum in the Netherlands. The acquired facility is 15,000 square feet (1,400 square meters) in size. It provides connectivity and colocation for commercial and public broadcasters. It also provides services...
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November 18, 2021 Portugal
Portuguese telecommunication company Ar Telecom has revealed its plans for a new data center in Lisbon, Portugal. According to Eco, the telco wants to invest up to €10 million ($11.3m) in developing a 15,000 square feet (1,400 square meters) facility in Lisbon. Reports have it that the facility...
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November 17, 2021 Republic of Ireland
People Before Profit, is calling for an end to new data centers being buillt in Ireland, and picketed outside Data Centres Ireland event in Dublin on 16 November in protest of the dangerous and continual expansion of data center building in Ireland. The protest held outside the annual data...
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November 16, 2021 Verne: IS-KEF-DC01
Verne Global, a provider of sustainable data center solutions, has announced that it is expanding its 40-acre data center campus by 10MW of capacity. This will be funded by $50m from Digital 9 Infrastructure plc (D9), the investment trust which recently acquired Verne. In an effort to “optimize...
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November 12, 2021 Equinix London LD8 Harbour Exchange (Docklands)
Land Securities Group has announced the sale of an office and data center property located in the Canary Wharf side of London. The sale price of the property is £196.5 million ($262.82 million). Equinix is currently occupying the property as its LD8 IBX data center. Land Securities Group sold the...
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November 12, 2021 Glasgow
At the COP26 event in Glasgow, OpenUK shared its net-zero data center blueprint. The not-for-profit organisation's "Patchwork Kilt" framework aims to make new Edge data centers more sustainable and promote the curricular economy. The project proposes using derelict building stock and creating...
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