Telecity has announced the acquisition of Dublin’s leading and longest established colocation provider Data Electronics Group.  The privately held company was bought for just under £90m and operates two data centres offering a combined capacity of 4600 sq m or about 4MW of customer power.  The two DE [...]

We were able to take a look at progress on Telecity’s massive expansion to their Powergate, Park Royal facility.
Construction of the 21Mw extension to Powergate is now well underway with the first phase due for delivery in the third quarter of 2011.  The existing Powergate site which opened [...]

Overall occupancy in the Docklands area remains extremely high and list pricing at over £600 per kW per month expensive, but capacity can be found and deals are available if you know where to look!
Telehouse – interest in this key network hub remains unsurpassed.  Telehouse West, the new [...]

Dutch ICT provider Previder has just opened a 2,500 sq m colocation facility Hengelo, located some 150kms east of Amsterdam and only 20km from the German boarder.  Previder claim the carrier neutral data centre is the largest in Eastern Holland and also has strong green credentials using free [...]

We were interested to see Terremark announcing their first major foray into Northern Europe.  The Press Release confirms Terremark are leasing an initial 25,000 sq ft from DLR inside the Schipol Airport Area and indeed Terremark confirm their anchor customer is Schipol Group themselves, the airport operator.   Terremark [...]

Interxion have announced the systems integrator and IT services provider Bull has expanded its data centre footprint with Interxion Netherlands.  Bull’s clients include DetailResult Services.

Telecity have announced the much anticiapated expansion at their Park Royal flagship facility Powergate.  But few would have anticipated the expansion would be an effective tripling of their capacity at this site.  An additional 20MW of client power is being made available across 10, 000 sq m of new space [...]

Telecity have announced a 4000 sq m or 6MW expansion to their Gutleutstasse facility in central Frankfurt.
This is yet another in a string of capacity enhancements in Frankfurt from the big 3 pan-European operators, so demonstrating the health of the colocation market in a market that for a [...]