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Read Principal buys a pair of telco-occupied facilities in Dublin, Ireland
Principal buys a pair of telco-occupied facilities in Dublin, Ireland

Principal buys a pair of telco-occupied facilities in Dublin, Ireland

September 06, 2023 Vodafone

Principal Asset Management bought two data centers located in Dublin, Ireland, that are leased. Principal European Data Centre Fund I has made its fourth and fifth investments in Europe, this time in the capital of Ireland, according to IPE Real Assets and PropertyEU. The company has acquired two...

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Read atNorth purchases HPC company Gompute
atNorth purchases HPC company Gompute

atNorth purchases HPC company Gompute

August 29, 2023 atNorth

atNorth, a Nordic data center company, has acquired Gompute, a Swedish High-Performance Computing (HPC) services provider. The terms were not disclosed. Gompute, a company founded in 2002, provides HPC-as-a-cloud services with bare-metal compute nodes for computer-aided engineering (CAE)...

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Read Icelandic hydroelectric plant receives a micro data center installation from Japan's IIJ
Icelandic hydroelectric plant receives a micro data center installation from Japan's IIJ

Icelandic hydroelectric plant receives a micro data center installation from Japan's IIJ

July 14, 2023 Iceland

Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ) has installed a micro data center (MDC) at an Icelandic hydroelectric power station. In April 2023, IIJ announced intentions for a data center trial project in Iceland in collaboration with Landsvirkjun, the country's national power company. From April until...

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Read Vodafone signs Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to procure solar energy in Europe
Vodafone signs Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to procure solar energy in Europe

Vodafone signs Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to procure solar energy in Europe

July 12, 2023 Vodafone

Vodafone has signed a PPA with Iberdrola for 410GWh of annual solar spread across Spain, Portugal, and Germany, as part of the company's wider net-zero ambitions. The renewable energy comes from three solar plants, the Velilla solar PV plant located in Palencia, Spain, the Cedillo PV plant...

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Read Vodafone is selling its portfolio of data centers in London
Vodafone is selling its portfolio of data centers in London

Vodafone is selling its portfolio of data centers in London

July 12, 2023 Vodafone

Savills is looking for buyers for the Network Portfolio, a collection of six buildings totaling 260,000 square feet. The portfolio is reportedly worth $128.3 million. The properties are leased to Vodafone Enterprise UK through April 2032. They generate $7.8 million per year in total passing...

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Read AtNorth unveils a 12 MW data facility in Iceland.
AtNorth unveils a 12 MW data facility in Iceland.

AtNorth unveils a 12 MW data facility in Iceland.

June 13, 2023 atNorth

AtNorth's newest 12MW data center in Iceland is now running. The colocation company announced on June 12 that ICE03, its third facility in Iceland, has begun operations. The site's initial plans were released in April 2022. The data center is located in the northern Icelandic city of Akureyri....

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Read atNorth opens its sixth data center in the Nordics
atNorth opens its sixth data center in the Nordics

atNorth opens its sixth data center in the Nordics

June 12, 2023 atNorth

atNorth has announced that its third Iceland data center, ICE03, is now operational. The facility, located 250 km north of Reykjavík, offers an initial capacity of 12 MW, expandable to 50MW. Completed in just 11 months, the company now has a portfolio of six operational data centers, with an...

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Read Verne Global receives $100m loan
Verne Global receives $100m loan

Verne Global receives $100m loan

June 06, 2023 Verne: IS-KEF-DC01

Verne Global, an Icelandic data center company, received a $100 million loan. This week, the board of directors of Digital 9 Infrastructure announced that the business had inked a new $100 million green term loan debt financing for Verne Global Iceland, along with a $50 million accordion...

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Read Vodafone announces solar panels at Gloucester mobile telephone exchange in UK
Vodafone announces solar panels at Gloucester mobile telephone exchange in UK

Vodafone announces solar panels at Gloucester mobile telephone exchange in UK

April 12, 2023 Vodafone

Vodafone has announced that it is deploying solar panels at a mobile telephone exchange site in Gloucester, England, to cover approximately 12% of the site’s annual energy consumption requirements. This is in line with its wider energy efficiency goals and 2027 net-zero pledge. The telecoms...

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Read Vodafone May Sell Its Spanish Commercial Unit For $4 Billion
Vodafone May Sell Its Spanish Commercial Unit For $4 Billion

Vodafone May Sell Its Spanish Commercial Unit For $4 Billion

April 11, 2023 Vodafone

Reportedly, Vodafone Group is contemplating proposals for its Spanish business, which could fetch as much as $4 billion. As first revealed by Bloomberg, potential purchasers, including Apollo Global Management, are showing interest in the operator's Spanish unit. According to sources familiar...

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Read BNP Paribas To Transfer Part of IT Infrastructure to atNorth's Swedish Facility to Enhance Grid Computing Performance by 20%
BNP Paribas To Transfer Part of IT Infrastructure to atNorth's Swedish Facility to Enhance Grid Computing Performance by 20%

BNP Paribas To Transfer Part of IT Infrastructure to atNorth's Swedish Facility to Enhance Grid Computing Performance by 20%

March 28, 2023 atNorth

BNP Paribas, a long-time client of atNorth, a prominent pan-Nordic colocation, high-performance processing, and artificial intelligence service provider, has revealed that it is still moving some of its workloads to the Nordic area. This will allow the top financial institution to keep up with...

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Read Vodafone inks another PPA in the UK
Vodafone inks another PPA in the UK

Vodafone inks another PPA in the UK

February 28, 2023 Vodafone

Vodafone has announced the signing of a new PPA with Centrica and Mytilineos for solar power in the UK. The 10-year deal signed by the companies will see the telco procure energy from five solar farms in Norfolk, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Dorset. In total, the energy...

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Read Finnish Company atNorth Plans To Construct a 15MW Data Center in Espoo
Finnish Company atNorth Plans To Construct a 15MW Data Center in Espoo

Finnish Company atNorth Plans To Construct a 15MW Data Center in Espoo

February 07, 2023 atNorth

Colocation service provider atNorth will construct a new data center in the Helsinki region of Finland. This week, the firm revealed that it has struck a deal to acquire a new site in Finland, which would become its third data center in the nation. The facility, which was acquired from the local...

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Read Vodafone Sells Part of its Stake in Vantage Towers Unit to GIP and KKR
Vodafone Sells Part of its Stake in Vantage Towers Unit to GIP and KKR

Vodafone Sells Part of its Stake in Vantage Towers Unit to GIP and KKR

November 11, 2022 Vodafone

Vodafone has announced the sale of some of its stake in Vantage Towers to Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) and KKR while also creating a new joint venture with them. Per the deal, the tower unit is worth €16.1 billion ($16.1bn). The sale also sees Vodafone receive €3.2 billion ($3.2bn)...

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Read Vodafone NZ Sells Towers For $1 Billion
Vodafone NZ Sells Towers For $1 Billion

Vodafone NZ Sells Towers For $1 Billion

November 07, 2022 Vodafone

Vodafone NZ has sold off its tower infrastructure business. The deal is reportedly worth NZ $1.7bn ($1bn). One of the owners of Vodafone NZ- Infratil said the conditions for the transaction has been met and the sale was completed in the first week of November. Co-investors in Vodafone NZ-...

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Read KKR The Favorite To Acquire Vodafone's Tower Unit
KKR The Favorite To Acquire Vodafone's Tower Unit

KKR The Favorite To Acquire Vodafone's Tower Unit

November 04, 2022 Vodafone

According to Bloomberg, Investment company KKR is the frontrunner in the race to acquire Vodafone’s tower arm unit, Vantage Towers. The unit is worth a stunning $14 billion. KKR is competing with Cellnex Telecom for the acquisition. Vodafone is trying to sell off its 82% stake in the business to...

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Read Verne and Volta announce they're team up
Verne and Volta announce they're team up

Verne and Volta announce they're team up

September 23, 2022 Verne: IS-KEF-DC01

Verne Global and Volta Data Centres have announced that they have teamed up and will now be operating under the Verne Global brand, spanning from Iceland to the UK. Speaking about the decision to merge, Dominic Ward, CEO of Verne Global, said: “With two complementary, best-in-class data centers,...

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Read Borealis Data Center Buys Data Center For Undisclosed Fee in Reykjavík, Iceland
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Borealis Data Center Buys Data Center For Undisclosed Fee in Reykjavík, Iceland

September 23, 2022 Iceland

Icelandic data center company Borealis Data Center has completed the acquisition of a data center just outside Reykjavik, Iceland. According to Visir, the company purchased the facility from Islandsbanki. However, the terms of the acquisition weren’t revealed. Borealis currently operates two...

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Read Verne Global partners with Icelandic New Energy and Landsvirkjun to trial hydrogen fuel cells
Verne Global partners with Icelandic New Energy and Landsvirkjun to trial hydrogen fuel cells

Verne Global partners with Icelandic New Energy and Landsvirkjun to trial hydrogen fuel cells

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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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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