DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Europe, Will Calvert, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Japan's Air Water acquires UPS maker Hitec
Diesel rotary UPS creator gets a new parent
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Echelon given go-ahead for 100MW Ireland campus
After beating an appeal against the campus' planning permission
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Goonhilly Earth Station opens Cornwall, UK data center
The facility will be used for AI and machine learning applications and will be powered by on-site solar arrays
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Digital Realty buys 3.5 acres in Paris to build 12MW data center
After selling its sole Paris facility in 2016
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GTT to acquire Dutch telco KPN for €50 million in cash
Increasing the company's IP network in Europe and adding long-haul fiber routes and metro rings in Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam and Paris
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CyrusOne breaks ground on third Frankfurt data center
As part of a planned European expansion
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NTT's e-shelter opens first phase of Frankfurt 4 data center campus
The first of five phases planned for the 80MW campus
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Google to invest $1.1 billion in Netherlands data centers
Bringing Google's total investment in the Netherlands to $2.8 billion since 2016
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Google's $1.1 billion Bissen, Luxembourg data center clears regulatory hurdle
But the planned facility will still need more approvals before construction can begin
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Aqua Comms pitches Blackpool, UK landing station for US-Northern Europe submarine cable
As well as building a 3.2 million square foot data center development site
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Colt DCS to open 25MW Frankfurt facility
The company's fourth in Germany
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Report: K2 Data Centres plans two Dublin facilities
And might expand into a hyperscale campus
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Sweden's EcoDataCenter to merge with Fortlax
With the aim of consolidating the Nordic data center region
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Infineon to acquire Cypress Semiconductor for $9.4 billion
In an effort to grow in the IoT market
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Google plans fourth Belgian data center for €600 million
Bringing investment in the Saint-Ghislain campus to €1.6 billion ($1.79bn)
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1GW capacity greenfield site announced for Finland
As part of a collection of hyperscale greenfield sites in the country
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Microsoft to build "sustainable" data centers in Sweden
With renewable energy supplied by Vattenfall
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Construction due to start on Serbian state data center
The facility will be five times the size of the state-run data center in Belgrade, Serbia
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Microsoft signs 15 year PPA for 90MW in Netherlands
Bringing the company's global clean power purchase to 1.5GW
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Report: AWS considers data center in Brétigny-sur-Orge, France
After plans for a distribution center on the site were scrapped
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Atos launches AI edge server BullSequana Edge
Built for real-time processing and analysis
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Autonomy's ex-CFO given five-year jail term for HPE sale fraud
As well as a $10 million fine
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GlobalConnect building 21,500 sq ft data center in Hørning, Denmark
Opening is set for January 2020
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Fresh objections jeopardize $40 million floating Irish data center
Local business group pour cold water on Nautilus' Limerick barge facility project - again
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BSO acquires IX Reach, becomes world's largest privately-owned telco operator
The company's third acquisition in 18 months
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QTS buys two facilities in the Netherlands for $44 million
And it's going to cost them another $15 million to recommission the data centers
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Equinix opens £90 million London data center
As part of a £295m ($387m) UK expansion
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EWL starts construction on 4MW nuclear bunker data center in Switzerland
It's nuke-proof, tsunami-proof and cooled using renewable energy, what's not to like?