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Issue 16, June/July
HETZNER STARTS MASSIVE GERMAN NEWBUILD
International web hosting company Hetzner Online has broken ground on its fi rst data center planned for a 40,000 sq m site in Nuremberg, Germany.
The fi rst two units of the data center build will house up to 30,000 servers, and room has been set aside for future expansion which could see the company accommodate as many as 100,000 servers.
UK
US data center provider CyrusOne’s fi rst European data center operation will be run out of Sentrum’s data center in Woking, on the edge of Greater London.
The US-based colocation provider, which largely services Fortune 1000 customers from the oil and gas and fi nancial markets, has leased 10,000 sq ft of data center space and provisioned for an additional 10,000 sq ft to come online if required.
Welsh data center operator Next Generation
Data (NGD) has
secured a package of mezzanine and debt investment totalling £5m from investors for the expansion of its NGD Europe Newport data center. The hosting and colocation company wants to add four data halls to the Tier III facility, which already measures 74,600 sq m.
Sentry42 opened a 60,000 sq ft facility in Norwich, East Anglia, England. The fi rm said its refurbished Gatehouse Data Centre underwent a £12m refurbishment that was managed by
Migration Solutions.
The site has N+1 power redundancy, with diverse supply to all cabinets and the backup of UPS and generators with enough fuel to run the entire data center for up to eight days at full load.
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In Spain, energy prices can be double those in the US, so the facility has used integrated facilities management, IT, virtualization and automation for its fi rst phase 500 sq m data center to bring down running and staff costs.
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Hetzner Online said the site has strong fi ber optic connections, allowing for the fast exchange of data and a readily available power supply with a substation close by.
Direct free cooling will be used as part of the project.
The fi rst phase is due to start operations at the end of this year.
THE NETHERLANDS Cisco is building a new data center in Amsterdam. Once complete, the facility will be one of a pair of data centers supporting the company’s activities in Europe. The data center will support about 2.5MW of IT load on 22,700 sq ft of data center fl oor. The company is planning to complete construction of the facility in early 2013.
Cisco currently has two data centers in Amsterdam, one of which is in an external colocation facility.
SPAIN
Datacenter Leaders Award 2010 winner Tissat has received a Tier IV rating by the Uptime Institute for its Walhalla data center in Valencia, due to open in July this year. The facility has an effi cient design that follows the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres and uses cogeneration and hydrogen fuel cells.
Its free cooling equipment can be deployed depending on the required temperature levels at the data center.
South African hosting company Hetzner has broken ground in Germany
The data center has a high-power density of 6,500 watts per rack. Stage two will include two rooms, at 500 sq m each.
GERMANY
Relatively new mobile virtual network operator Polar Wireless plans to open a data center in Frankfurt for voice, data and SMS messaging for its European and Asian operations.
Polar said the data center will replace its current operations in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
The company did not give specifi cs about whether the data center would be standalone or hosted, but did say it would act as a secondary data center to its global site in Toronto, Canada.
ARMENIA
Armenia’s Internet came down for up to fi ve hours on 28 March after a 75-year-old woman hit an underground cable with a spade while she was searching for scrap copper in neighbouring Georgia.
Services in Azerbaijan and some parts of Georgia were also affected. Georgia provides 90% of Armenia’s Internet connections.
The woman’s spade sliced through an underground fi ber optic cable, cutting off Internet access. She is now being investigated for the
damage caused to the property. If convicted, she could be jailed for up to three years, according to reports.
ITALY
Italian data center provider InAsset has opened a new carrier- neutral data center, spanning 28,000 sq ft, in Udine, north-east Italy, close to the border of Austria and Slovenia. The data center contains three suites, uses four redundant UPSs at 160KW each and free cooling.
IRELAND
A regulatory board has shut down a plan to build a massive data center campus in the greater Dublin area. It said it favoured arguments put forward by a group that opposed development of an 82-acre campus in Wicklow County, according to a report by Irish Times.
The board said that the site, put forward by Ecologic Datacentres, was not in an area identifi ed for urban growth and that the proposed campus would be poorly served by public transport, which would lead to a heavy reliance on private cars.
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