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Raxio Data Centres raises up to $170m sustainability-linked debt facility

Raxio, Roha and Meridiam have successfully secured a sustainability-linked debt facility of up to USD 170 million in multiple tranches for Raxio Data Centres, a leading pan-African data centre developer and operator.

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Digital Realty's APAC sustainability initiatives

Completed solar energy project at SIN11 data center; commenced solar project at SIN12.

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Hyperscale and edge drive data centre demand as cloud adoption and AI take centre stage

European data centre market set for further growth as uptake increases by over one third in 2022.

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IONOS and Fasthosts achieve tier IV certification for Worcester data centre

IONOS, a leading European digitalisation partner for small and medium-sized businesses (SMB), and its UK subsidiary, Fasthosts, have secured Tier IV certification from the Uptime Institute, for their £21M state-of-the-art data centre, situated at Worcester Six Business Park.

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Aruba acquires two new hydroelectric power plants

This adds to the company's seven existing hydroelectric plants located in northern Italy, currently at a total of 9.2 MW of clean energy production capacity.

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First data centre operators certify adherence to Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact

Independent certification demonstrates real, measurable progress towards becoming the first European climate neutral sector by 2030.

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Actis makes Americas acquisitions

Actis, a global investor in sustainable infrastructure, has agreed to acquire 11 data centres across six countries in Latin America and the US from Nabiax, a European Data Center operator owned by Asterion Industrial Partners and Telefonica. At close, Actis will become the sole owner of the data centres.

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BNP Paribas increases Grid Computing capacity thanks to atNorth

The IT migration to atNorth’s data campus in Stockholm will help BNP Paribas continue its mission towards carbon neutrality, sustainability, and efficiency.

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Stellium Datacenters and ITPS forge strategic alliance

Stellium Datacenters has formed a strategic partnership with ITPS, enabling the fast-growing County Durham headquartered technology services provider to bolster its failover and disaster recovery (DR) capabilities at its own state of the art data centre.

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Global Technical Realty completes first phase of Underground Data Centre

Global Technical Realty (GTR), a $1bn European build-to-suit data center platform - funded by KKR, a leading global investment firm – has confirmed successful completion of a critical first phase in the development of its IS One facility in Petah Tikva, Israel’s premier data centre hub.

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atNorth Appoints Sales Director for the US

atNorth brings experienced data centre professional onboard to raise awareness of its sustainable and cost-efficient data colocation services in the US market.

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SUNeVision celebrates of hyperscale MEGA Gateway data centre

SUNeVision Holdings recently celebrated an exciting milestone with the grand opening of its hyperscale data centre MEGA Gateway located in Tsuen Wan, the seventh data centre on its portfolio.

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HireHigher opens students’ eyes to exciting career opportunities in data centre industry

As part of its campaign to address the ongoing skills shortage in the data centre and cloud industry, HireHigher has brought together Rising Stars within the industry and 60 sixth form students from two London schools (Logic School and St Marks) in a productive day of workshops and a tour of CyrusOne’s datacentres.

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Green Mountain and KMW partners to build sustainable data center site in Germany

Norwegian data center company, Green Mountain, has entered into an agreement with energy company, KMW, to establish a new 54 MW data center site in Mainz, 30 km outside Frankfurt. Both companies have a 50% stake in the new joint venture. The data center will be supported by renewables from KMW’s portfolio and operated according to high sustainability standards.

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Video promises 'enlightenment' for Europe's data centre users

A new animated video from the European Data Centre Association provides an education in the criticality of data centres, the cloud and digital infrastructure to modern Europe, clearing up potential misconceptions for those curious to know more about the sector.

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Videos

For further information on VM Backup V9 https://bit.ly/3I3oLHw Irvin Shillingford, Regional Manager Northern Europe at Hornetsecurity, discusses the current backup landscape, with particular reference to the company’s recently launched VM Backup Version 9, featuring immutable cloud storage.
John Godwin, VP of Retail UK at Intellias, shares some fantastic insights as to the key challenges and opportunities when it comes to implementing digital transformation strategies and solutions in the retail industry.
Jurg van Vliet, CEO of Aknostic, discusses the emergence of regional clouds within Europe, based on open source software and Kubernetes in particular, as an alternative to the large public cloud offerings. Trial projects are in progress to demonstrate the economic, environmental and societal benefits that such regional clouds can provide.
Mark Fenton, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Cadence, discusses the company’s recent research, which identifies the most pressing challenges and opportunities within the data centre space. The major problem seems to be one of demand outstripping IT infrastructure/data centre supply, but there are grounds for optimism, as Mark outlines.

Expert Opinions

By Federica Monsone, founder and CEO of A3 Communications, the data storage industry PR agency.
By Victoria Marshall-Rice, Chief Human Resources Officer at Expereo.
By Josh Mesout, Chief Innovation Officer, Civo.
By Catherine Boddy, Head of Vulnerability Operations Centre, Orange Cyberdefense.