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Read VIRTUS Opens London’s Largest Colocation Campus
VIRTUS Data Centres (VIRTUS), the UK’s fastest growing data centre provider, has announced that its Stockley Park campus is now online, with the first pre-let customer to be live imminently. VIRTUS...

VIRTUS Opens London’s Largest Colocation Campus

July 18, 2018 VIRTUS: London 5

VIRTUS Data Centres (VIRTUS), the UK’s fastest growing data centre provider, has announced that its Stockley Park campus is now online, with the first pre-let customer to be live imminently. VIRTUS LONDON5 and LONDON6 are the first two data centres to open on the campus, delivering 40 MW of IT...

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Read Global Switch Expands European Footprint With Frankfurt Construction
Global Switch’s move further adds to the data centre ‘hotspot’ reputation of Frankfurt, and with the arrival of a new Chinese customer to Europe as part of the development currently going up, Globa...

Global Switch Expands European Footprint With Frankfurt Construction

July 13, 2018 Global Switch: Frankfurt South

Global Switch’s move further adds to the data centre ‘hotspot’ reputation of Frankfurt, and with the arrival of a new Chinese customer to Europe as part of the development currently going up, Global Switch says it’s keen to add to its sites to support further demand. Construction has started on...

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Read NTT adds it's First PoP in Dublin at Equinix DB1
NTT Communications has launched a new point of presence in Ireland, located at Equinix’s DB1 data centre in Dublin, marking its first PoP in the city.

The global carrier said its new PoP will al...

NTT adds it's First PoP in Dublin at Equinix DB1

July 11, 2018 Equinix Dublin DB1

NTT Communications has launched a new point of presence in Ireland, located at Equinix’s DB1 data centre in Dublin, marking its first PoP in the city. The global carrier said its new PoP will allow it to offer high-quality global IP transit services to a number of companies which have set up...

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Read Iron Mountain Acquires Evoswitch's Amsterdam Data Centers
Iron Mountain, the storage and information management services company, acquired EvoSwitch's Amsterdam Data Centers for €205 ($235) million.  The transaction provides 11 megawatts (MW) of existing ...

Iron Mountain Acquires Evoswitch's Amsterdam Data Centers

July 09, 2018 Iron Mountain Amsterdam AMS-1

Iron Mountain, the storage and information management services company, acquired EvoSwitch's Amsterdam Data Centers for €205 ($235) million. The transaction provides 11 megawatts (MW) of existing data center capacity in the Netherlands, which is 100% leased, with expansion capability of an...

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Read Colt deploys to EdgeConneX's Amsterdam Datacenter
Colt will be deploying to EdgeConneX's datacenter in Amsterdam.

> Colt Technology Services and EdgeConneX have partnered to link up Colt’s IQ Network to several EdgeConneX facilities, offering c...

Colt deploys to EdgeConneX's Amsterdam Datacenter

July 02, 2018 EdgeConnex: AMS01

Colt will be deploying to EdgeConneX's datacenter in Amsterdam. Colt Technology Services and EdgeConneX have partnered to link up Colt’s IQ Network to several EdgeConneX facilities, offering connectivity closer to the edge. Andrew Edison 100x150The partnership will see Colt’s high-bandwidth IQ...

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Read Facebook plans two more data centers in Dublin
Two years after breaking ground on its first Irish data center, Facebook is planning another two facilities on the same campus in Clonee, Meath County, 10 miles (17km) north of Dublin, according to...

Facebook plans two more data centers in Dublin

June 30, 2018 Hyperscale Data Center

Two years after breaking ground on its first Irish data center, Facebook is planning another two facilities on the same campus in Clonee, Meath County, 10 miles (17km) north of Dublin, according to the Irish Times. The data centers, representing an investment nearing €300 million ($349m), will be...

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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 e-shelter Announces It Will Open Another Data Center Campus in Frankfurt in Early 2019 (PR)
e-shelter Announces It Will Open Another Data Center Campus in Frankfurt in Early 2019 (PR)

e-shelter Announces It Will Open Another Data Center Campus in Frankfurt in Early 2019 (PR)

March 21, 2018 NTT Frankfurt 4

FRANKFURT, Germany & TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--e-shelter, a leading data center provider in Europe and an NTT Communications Group Company, has today announced the acquisition of new development site in Frankfurt, which will be its 4th location in the city. The expansion comes on the back of...

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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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Read Iron Mountain Buys Credit Suisse Data Centers in London and Singapore (PR)
Iron Mountain Buys Credit Suisse Data Centers in London and Singapore (PR)

Iron Mountain Buys Credit Suisse Data Centers in London and Singapore (PR)

October 05, 2017 Iron Mountain London LON-1

Iron Mountain to acquire two Credit Suisse data centers in London and Singapore for approximately $100 million, which would add 273,000 square feet to its growing data center portfolio Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the global leader in storage and information management services, today...

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Read Zenium Announces London Two (PR)
Zenium Announces London Two (PR)

Zenium Announces London Two (PR)

March 17, 2017 CyrusOne London II (Stockley Park)

Stockley Park data center acquiredLondon, UK – 22 March 2017: Zenium has announced that it has completed the purchase of Infinity’s Stockley Park data center. The assets, employees and customers of the data centre have also transferred to Zenium as part of the agreed transaction. This will be the...

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Read Interxion Buys Amsterdam Data Center from Dutch Service Provider Vancis
AMSTERDAM 27 February 2017 – Interxion Holding NV (NYSE: INXN), (“Interxion”), a leading European provider of carrier and cloud-neutral colocation data centre services, announced today that it has ...

Interxion Buys Amsterdam Data Center from Dutch Service Provider Vancis

February 28, 2017 Digital Realty: AMS9

AMSTERDAM 27 February 2017 – Interxion Holding NV (NYSE: INXN), (“Interxion”), a leading European provider of carrier and cloud-neutral colocation data centre services, announced today that it has acquired a data centre business from Vancis Holding BV, a leading independent Dutch provider of...

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Read Equinix to Acquire ICT-Center Zurich's Data Center Business
ICT-Center's Zurich data center is located in the same building as Equinix's ZH2 & ZH4 datacenters. 

Source: <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/equinix-to-acquire-ict-center-zurich...

Equinix to Acquire ICT-Center Zurich's Data Center Business

February 28, 2017 Equinix Zurich ZH2 ZH4

ICT-Center's Zurich data center is located in the same building as Equinix's ZH2 &amp; ZH4 datacenters. Source: Press Release Febuary 28, 2017. REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and ZURICH, Feb. 28, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today...

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Read SUPERNAP launches in Italy
SUPERNAP launches in Italy

SUPERNAP launches in Italy

December 16, 2016 STACK: MIL01A

MILANO, Italy, Dec. 16, 2016­ /PRNewswire/ -- SUPERNAP International today announced the opening of the largest, most advanced data center in Southern Europe. With 500 cabinets and more than 3.3 megawatts of power already sold, SUPERNAP International is delivering on the promise of bringing...

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Read UPS Outage at Global Switch's London GS2 site

> The Global Switch data center outage in the London Docklands earlier this month has been traced to a cable end box on a UPS system. The power interruption lasted less than a second, but it took...

UPS Outage at Global Switch's London GS2 site

September 21, 2016 Global Switch: London East

The Global Switch data center outage in the London Docklands earlier this month has been traced to a cable end box on a UPS system. The power interruption lasted less than a second, but it took at least one customer two days to fully recover. The 222 millisecond outage was caused by a fault in a...

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Read New data center for DATEV
New data center for DATEV

New data center for DATEV

April 28, 2011 DATEV: Am Tower 5

Cologne/Nuremberg, April 29 2011. QSC AG, a provider of voice and data communication as well as the ICT services that build upon them, is making data center resources on more than 1,000 square meters of floor space available to Nuremberg-based DATEV eG. The project was implemented by IP Partner...

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