April 29, 2022 Digital Realty: Vienna
Interxion's Vienna data center campus is set to heat the nearby Floridsdorf Hospital, it has been announced. This will be facilitated by the Austrian government injecting €3.5 million ($3.7m) from environmental funds into the project, which will see the construction of an insulated pipe between...
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April 27, 2022 Dublin
Energia Group has announced that Fingal County Council has granted the company planning permission for two new data centers next to the Huntstown Power Station in Dublin, Ireland. The two facilities, known as Buildings A and B, are expected to have a gross floor area of c. 37,647 sqm (400,000 sq...
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April 27, 2022 Datum FRN1
Datum Datacentres has begun an expansion process on its facility nine months after UBS Asset Management bought it. The company plans to double the space of its data center located at Farnborough, Hampshire, London. The facility currently has 3,750 square meters of space. It will now have 7,500...
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April 26, 2022 atNorth Stockholm SWE01
atNorth has announced the launch of its new SWE01 DC facility in Kista, Sweden. The new data center is the first in the country designed to manage high-density workloads, including risk analysis, simulations, and AI. The facility has a total IT capacity of more than 11MW, spanning 6,400 square...
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April 22, 2022 Madrid
Thor Equities has announced its plans to move into data centers. The US real estate group, is also looking to develop its first data center in Madrid, Spain. Thor Equities will be doing this by launching a new data center division called Thor Digital. The new unit will be headed by Roy Gibbens,...
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April 22, 2022 France
According to La Tribune, Castle IT is looking to develop two more data centers in 2023. The report shows that the French colocation firm plans to build these facilities in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône and Reims, Marne. The development will also cost the company up to €30 million ($32.3m)....
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April 21, 2022 Digital Realty: BRU4
Digital Realty’s Interxion has broken ground on a new facility in Belgium. The company laid the first stone of the data center called BRU4, which will be located in Zaventem, Belgium. According to Interxion, the data center will offer 13.6MW of capacity. It will also offer 72,100 square feet...
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April 14, 2022 Dublin
Further delays have been announced regarding TikTok’s first data center in Europe. Its Dublin-based facility was initially planned to be up and running by early 2022, but due to what the company said were delays related to Covid, the facility’s opening was pushed back to late 2022. Now the...
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April 12, 2022 London
Stratus Data Centres has announced its intention to construct two 18MW Tier III data centers on a brownfield site at Belvedere, South East London, part of Riverside Energy Park. The Riverside Energy Park is a development of waste management firm Cory, which, it says, intends to meet "London's...
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April 08, 2022 Amsterdam
In Amsterdam, an argument around data center energy usage has been brewing for some time. Back in 2019, in response to the amounts of energy being used up by data centers, the municipalities of Amsterdam and Haarlemmermeer announced a moratorium on new projects. This was eventually lifted, but...
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April 08, 2022 Switzerland
In a bid to make lithium-ion batteries more sustainable and long lasting, a new research program has been launched. CircuBAT, a Swiss project of Innosuisse, led by Bern University of Applied Sciences Technology, will be joined by Green Cubes Technology, a company that makes lithium-ion batteries...
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April 08, 2022 Italy
The Rural Vivaistico Ornamentale District of Pistoia and The CNA Toscana Centro have proposed to develop a data center on a former waste management plant in Tuscany, Italy. Claudio Bettazi, CNA Toscana Centro’s President, said developing a data center in the locality through an excellent...
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April 04, 2022 Brittany
Stratosfair has announced plans for a second facility, located in Pontivy in Brittany, west of Rennes. Due to come online in the second quarter 2023, the Pontivy facility will span 500 sqm (5,380 sq ft) and be built from recovered containers. This announcement comes just a month after the company...
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March 29, 2022 United Kingdom
The former Royal Bank of Scotland data center in Stone Business Park could be demolished, it has been reported. This news comes as Stafford Borough Council announces it has received a demolition application for the 10,500 sqm (34,500 sq ft) facility. The town council has reportedly raised no...
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March 28, 2022 Hyperscale Data Center
Meta’s Plans for a data center in Zeewolde has suffered another major setback. Lawmakers in the Netherlands voted last week to prevent the company from continuing any groundwork on the site. This move comes after Meta received approval from the Zeewolde council for zoning changes and plans for...
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March 28, 2022 Brittany
Stratosfair has announced that it has broken ground on its first data center based in the Lanester area of France to the tune of €800,000 ($900,000). The edge facility in the Northwest of the country spans 150 sqm (1,600 sq ft) and sits on a 500 sqm (5,380 sqft) site. Due to come online in June,...
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March 25, 2022 Telehouse South
Telehouse has announced the launch of its new data center in London, UK. This will be the company’s fifth data center in London. This data center is being built in stages. The first stage sees development of 2MW of capacity and up to 668 racks, across 18,300 square feet of space and two data...
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March 24, 2022 United Kingdom
Loughborough University has announced that it has filed to build a data center in its student village in Leicestershire, UK. According to the University, the IT facility, part of the Energy and Data Hub, will also be used to supply district heating services to local student housing. The hub,...
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March 21, 2022 Hyperscale Data Center
Meta’s data center proposal in Zeewolde, the Netherlands, appears to have hit another roadblock. The current Minister of Housing of the Netherlands, Hugo de Jonge, has revealed that he plans to prevent the development of the facility. Although the Zeewolde council has approved the zoning change...
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March 15, 2022 Dublin
Continuing to pursue the ban on new data center builds in Dublin, People Before Profit Councillor Madeleine Johansson recently put forward an amendment to do just that, a motion, which was voted through by 18 votes to 13 against, with one abstention. Despite the vote to curb further builds, there...
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