Data Center

Vantage Data Centers today announced its entrance into the Irish market with the development of a multi-phase data center campus (DUB1). The company will invest more than €1 billion over multiple phases to support the construction and delivery of the campus in one of the largest data center markets in Europe.

AtlasEdge celebrates its entry into the Portuguese market with the acquisition of two adjacent sites in Lisbon that will deliver more than 20MW of IT load. These sites mark the first stage in a strategic plan for Portugal by the data centre provider, which will see the company invest more than €500 million in the coming years.

AtlasEdge opens its Leeds data centre. Located just four miles from the centre of Leeds, the new site provides connectivity, colocation, and cloud services in one of the UK’s fasting growing cities economically and an increasingly influential digital hub. With Hardy Fisher Services established as the anchor customer, the site...

AtlasEdge announces the completion of a key acquisition in Vienna, marking its entry into the Austrian market. The acquired site, currently part of the Siemens Campus in Vienna-Floridsdorf, houses an existing data centre, with expansion space to become a 10MW facility. The site will be technically and physically separated fro...

Demand for colocation data centre space outstripped supply in 2023, despite facilities of unprecedented size being delivered across Europe for the industry’s largest customers. According to new research from CBRE, there was 601MW of take-up across the 14 largest markets in Europe in 2023.

Starwood Capital Group had made a strategic investment in Echelon Data Centres via a controlled affiliate. The transaction will see Starwood Capital commit approximately $850 million through Starwood Opportunity Fund XII and Starwood Real Estate Income Trust, Inc, becoming a 50% shareholder in Echelon and providing material c...

The Real Estate Investment Management of the private bank Hauck Aufhäuser Lampe has acquired a colocation data center on behalf of the „HAL Digitale Infrastruktur Deutschland 1“ fund from x-ion GmbH. The purchase is a share deal and marks the first investment of the special AIF launched at the end of 2023.

Skanska has signed a contract with WS Computing AS for preparatory groundwork for a new data center facility at Gromstul in Skien municipality. The contract is worth NOK 1.1 billion, about SEK 1.1 billion, which will be included in the Nordic order bookings for the first quarter 2024. The contract consists of preparatory grou...

Azora and Core Capital launch the Quetta Data Centers platform to invest more than €500 million in the construction of a network of 6 highly efficient „Edge“ data centers in Spain and Portugal.

Data Castle, a joint venture between US investment manager Angelo Gordon and Munich-based DCD Data Center Developers GmbH, has acquired the Berlin data center on the site of the Open Innovation Space at Juliusturm from Invesco and Kauri Cab. The „in.grid“ will put the full 40 MVA into operation in the fourth quarter of 2025.

MEAG invests with DigitalBridge and Infranity in European data centres managed by Vantage Data Centers. The €2.5 billion portfolio comprises six hyperscale data centres in the UK and Germany.

Asset management firm Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) has acquired a portfolio of offices and data centers in London leased to UK telco Vodafone.

ASK4, today announced that GI Partners has signed a definite agreement to acquire the company from Bowmark Capital. ASK4 will be GI Partners’ first data infrastructure investment in Europe. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals.

CyrusOne is building another data centre in the Rhine-Main region. The global data center developer and operator has announced plans for its seventh data center campus in Frankfurt, named FRA7, located on a 63,000 square meter plot at Frankfurt Westside. In Hanau, the company recently obtained planning permission for the FRA5...

It is anticipated that there will be 4GW of installed capacity in Europe’s top colocation data centre markets by the end of 2023, a 17% rise compared to the previous year, according to CBRE.

Principal Asset Management has acquired a Dutch logistics facility for data centre conversion on behalf of the Principal European Data Centre Fund I for €39m.

Azora announces that it has launched a new European multi-strategy vehicle having raised €270 million in equity commitments from a leading sovereign wealth fund, giving it a total investment capacity of up to €500 million.

GI Partners, a leading private alternatives investment firm, has announced the acquisition of a 65% interest in the ownership of two hyperscale data centers in Elk Grove Village, IL in partnership with Digital Realty Trust (NYSE: DLR). GI Partners is making the investment on behalf of its Essential Tech + Science Fund (GI Par...