London-based DigiPlex is expanding its Scandinavian presence, purchasing a 10-acre site outside Stockholm, Sweden, which will be used to build the country’s first wholesale data center offering.

The site, which comes with power supply delivered by renewable hydro and wind sources, already houses a 12,785 sq m factory, which will be redeveloped as part of the project.

DigiPlex chairman Byrne Murphy said it is located in Upplands, Vasby, which is between the capital Stockholm and the international Arlanda airport.

“The existing site building infrastructure lends itself to redevelopment into a data center with one meter deep floor spaces, four meter ceiling heights and generous inside spacing,” Murphy said.

“It’s great to be able to turn this factory, which has historical importance in the area, into a state-of-the-art facility that will continue to add to Sweden and indeed Europe’s cloud and data storage capabilities.”

The retrofit project will provide 6,000 sq m of technical data center space once complete in Autumn 2014.

It will have a minimum of 20MW of power and offer high-speed connectivity, and the site offers room for growth at a later date.

DigiPlex plans to build the facility in modules, for both retail and wholesale space, and will use its Air-to-Air (A2A) cooling system and its own Hypoxic Air Fire prevention system in conditioned modules and plant areas.

The A2A module, which provided DigiPlex with the DatacenterDynamics Leaders Award for Innovation and Future Thinking in 2012, is a modular indirect evaporative cooling system which can cater for high density spaces – up to 23kW per rack.

DigiPlex has been making some big announcements around new builds in Scandinavia recently.

In July it said it was investing €60m to build a data center for Oslo-based IT solutions company Evry in Norway.

The Fetsund site will contain four buildings, each with 4,200 sq m of net whitespace. DigiPlex claims it is one of the largest data center deals signed in Europe so far this year.

It currently has two operational facilities in Oslo, and on top of the Evry facility, others in development in London and Finland.