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MERLIN outlines progress and plans for Edged Energy in Spain, Portugal; AI angle

July 4, 2024
Sacha Kavanagh

Spain’s MERLIN Properties released its results for the quarter ended March 31 2024 which provided ...

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Google Cloud and Telefonica renew, extend partnership

July 4, 2024
Sacha Kavanagh

Google Cloud and Telefonica renewed and extended (for a further three years) an existing partnership...

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Digital Parks Africa expanding in Johannesburg

July 3, 2024
Sacha Kavanagh

Digital Parks Africa is expanding its Samrand data centre in Johannesburg. ...

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Equinix launches program to export heat from data centres

June 27, 2024
Sacha Kavanagh

Equinix unveiled the Equinix Heat Export programme with the aim of signing up new partners. ...

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Penta Infra acquires newly built Brussels data centre

June 27, 2024
Sacha Kavanagh

Penta Infra acquired its first data centre in Belgium, from real estate developer Ghelamco which des...

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SEGRO gets green light for new Slough, Iver data centres

June 27, 2024
Sacha Kavanagh

SEGRO received approval for two more data centres in Slough and one in Iver. ...

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AWS partners with Orange for launch of first Wavelength nodes in Africa

June 27, 2024
Sacha Kavanagh

AWS will open new Wavelength Zones in Morocco (North Africa) and Senegal (West Africa) later this ye...

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New subsea cable coming to northern Europe

June 27, 2024
Sacha Kavanagh

A new company, IOEMA Fibre, is planning a 1.4k km subsea cable to connect the UK, Netherlands, Germa...

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Oracle Cloud to invest $1b in Spain

June 26, 2024
Sacha Kavanagh

Oracle Cloud announced plans to invest over $1b in Spain in new cloud infrastructure and to drive th...

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Ooredoo carves out data centre business; names new CEO

June 25, 2024
Sacha Kavanagh

Qatar’s Ooredoo Group set up a new company for its data centre business, Mena Digital Hub, and bro...

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Africa Data Centres secures funds for expansion

June 25, 2024
Sacha Kavanagh

Africa Data Centres, part of Cassava Technologies, secured ZAR2m (~$110m) in funding. ...

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Amazon plots €10b investment in Germany, most for existing AWS Frankfurt region

June 24, 2024
Sacha Kavanagh

Amazon announced a €10b investment plan for Germany on top of the €7.8b it committed last month ...

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