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Read Advania Data Centers Expands to Sweden in a deal with Stockholm Exergi (PR)
Advania Data Centers Expands to Sweden in a deal with Stockholm Exergi (PR)

Advania Data Centers Expands to Sweden in a deal with Stockholm Exergi (PR)

November 06, 2019 atNorth Stockholm SWE01

The excess heat from new data center will be used for local house-heating in Stockholm. Located in the largest Information and Communications Technology (ICT) cluster in Europe, Advania’s new data center is a first-rate option for high tech companies in the region. A new data center investment of...

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Read Hetzner received the ISO 27001 certification for Helsinki data center
Hetzner received the ISO 27001 certification for Helsinki data center

Hetzner received the ISO 27001 certification for Helsinki data center

September 30, 2019 Hetzner Finland

Hetzner‘s Data Center Park Helsinki has reached a new milestone by receiving the ISO 27001 certificate for information security. Only 18 months after going live, the park today already has 6,000 m² of web hosting infrastructure in operation. In addition to information security, several other...

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Read DigiPlex invests with two new green data centres in Oslo (PR)
DigiPlex invests with two new green data centres in Oslo (PR)

DigiPlex invests with two new green data centres in Oslo (PR)

September 16, 2019 STACK OSL01 Ulven

DigiPlex has broken ground on the construction of two new data centres near Oslo, Norway. The two centres will have a combined facility size of 8,500 m² and represent an investment of NOK 600 million. The centers are set to be operational in just 12 months, before the end of 2020.International...

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Read Protacon sells is data center business to Ficolo
Protacon sells is data center business to Ficolo

Protacon sells is data center business to Ficolo

August 15, 2019 Verne: Pori (The Rock)

Ficolo and Protacon agreed on the sale and leaseback of Protacon’s data center business to Ficolo. The partnership allows Protacon to free up resources and take advantage of Ficolo’s value-adding services in their own service portfolio. The responsibilities of the partnership are clearly divided:...

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Read Northern Bitcoin scales the Lefdal deployment
Northern Bitcoin scales the Lefdal deployment

Northern Bitcoin scales the Lefdal deployment

June 12, 2019 Northern Data Lefdal

Starting signal for the scaling of sustainable mining activities 6 additional mobile mining containers commissioned in June More green sites worldwide to be started up shortly Frankfurt am Main, Germany / Lefdal, Norway – Northern Bitcoin AG (XETRA: NB2, ISIN: DE000A0SMU87) has begun the scaling...

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Read Apple Stops Construction at Kassø Facility in Aabenraa Denmark
Apple Stops Construction at Kassø Facility in Aabenraa Denmark

Apple Stops Construction at Kassø Facility in Aabenraa Denmark

June 11, 2019 Hyperscale Data Center

Apple has canceled plans to construct a data center in Kassø, Denmark citing 'business decision.' Apple also plans to sell the land, with no intention to construct anything else on the property, a statement from the municipality reads. It's unknown how this will impact the planned Google data...

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Read Ficolo Invests Over 50 Million Euros in Building a Cloud Delivery Center, Making it the Largest Domestic Player in Findland (PR)
Ficolo Invests Over 50 Million Euros in Building a Cloud Delivery Center, Making it the Largest Domestic Player in Findland (PR)

Ficolo Invests Over 50 Million Euros in Building a Cloud Delivery Center, Making it the Largest Domestic Player in Findland (PR)

May 08, 2019 Verne: FL-HEL-DC01

PORI, Finland, /PRNewswire/ -- The data center and cloud delivery company Ficolo buys a data center in Vantaa and will make a major investment to expand it into a modern Cloud Delivery Center. The total investment amounts to over 50 million euros, most of which will be used during the first 12...

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Read Microsoft Plans 2 New Data Centers in Sweden
Microsoft Plans 2 New Data Centers in Sweden

Microsoft Plans 2 New Data Centers in Sweden

March 25, 2019 Sweden

Microsoft is reportedly building two new datacenters in Sweden, according to Swedish Newspaper Gefle Dagblad (via MSN). It was previously reported in December that the company had acquired 130 hectares of land in the municipalities of of Gävle and Sandviken, near the Swedish capital Stockholm....

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Read Equinix Announces Build of New Data Center in Helsinki
Equinix Announces Build of New Data Center in Helsinki

Equinix Announces Build of New Data Center in Helsinki

November 29, 2018 Equinix Helsinki HE7 Sinimäki

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and HELSINKI, Nov. 29, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced it will build a new International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center in Helsinki, Finland. The data center – called HE7 – will...

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Read Google Breaks ground in Fredericia, Denmark
Google Breaks ground in Fredericia, Denmark

Google Breaks ground in Fredericia, Denmark

November 20, 2018 Hyperscale Data Center

Alphabet’s Google is to invest 600 million euros ($685.98 million) to build its first data center in Denmark.In a blog post, Google’s Vice President for Global Data Centers, Joe Kava, said the facility would be located just outside Fredericia, in the west of the country. Kava added that Google...

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Read Germany’s Hetzner opens major colocation campus in Helsinki
The site in Tuusula offers cloud and colocation services, with 2,000 square meters of space available immediately. It benefits from fast connectivity to central Europe, thanks to Hetzner’s investme...

Germany’s Hetzner opens major colocation campus in Helsinki

October 02, 2018 Hetzner Finland

The site in Tuusula offers cloud and colocation services, with 2,000 square meters of space available immediately. It benefits from fast connectivity to central Europe, thanks to Hetzner’s investment into C-Lion 1 cable system (also known as the Northern Digital Highway) between Helsinki and...

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Read Ficolo acquires Cybercom data center in Tampere
Ficolo acquires Cybercom data center in Tampere

Ficolo acquires Cybercom data center in Tampere

August 29, 2018 Verne: Tampere (The Deck)

Ficolo has acquired Cybercom’s data center business in Tampere. Cybercom’s data centers will be transferred to Ficolo and additionally Cybercom outsources data center operations services to Ficolo. The transfer takes place on August 31st, 2018 and does not impact Cybercom’s data center customers....

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Read DigiPlex data center will help keep Oslo warm
Nordic data center operator DigiPlex has announced plans to recover waste thermal energy from its campus in Ulven, Oslo, and use it to heat residential properties.

The company has agreed on a pa...

DigiPlex data center will help keep Oslo warm

August 22, 2018 STACK OSL01 Ulven

Nordic data center operator DigiPlex has announced plans to recover waste thermal energy from its campus in Ulven, Oslo, and use it to heat residential properties. The company has agreed on a partnership with a subsidiary of utility provider Fortum, which has similar arrangements with data center...

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Read Construction of data center prototype starts in Boden
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Construction of data center prototype starts in Boden

July 18, 2018 Stockholm

After a few months of planning and preparatory works the European consortium broke ground and started the construction works of building the prototype of one of the worlds most efficient data center. The project funded by EU’s innovation and research programme Horizon 2020 kicked-off in October...

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Read Facebook and Luxcara sign 294MW Norwegian wind deal
Facebook and Luxcara sign 294MW Norwegian wind deal

Facebook and Luxcara sign 294MW Norwegian wind deal

May 23, 2018 Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook and European asset manager Luxcara have entered into long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) for 100 percent of the output and environmental (green) attributes of three contiguous wind projects (Gravdal, Skinansfjellet and Eikeland-Steinsland) in southwest Norway. In addition,...

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Read Google buys plot near Apple's planned Danish data center
Google buys plot near Apple's planned Danish data center

Google buys plot near Apple's planned Danish data center

November 30, 2017 Hyperscale Data Center

Google has acquired a 131 hectares of land in the Aabenraa Municipality of Denmark. “I am pleased and proud that Google has chosen Aabenraa Municipality. It confirms that we have the potential to become a data centre cluster for the world’s largest IT companies,” said Mayor Thomas Andresen. “We...

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