AFR-IX Telecom said it is closer to getting approval from the Portuguese State to moor its new subsea cable Medusa Submarine Cable System in Sines and the Greater Lisbon region. The cable is designed to be 8,700Km long and will land at the multi-billion Dollar hyperscale data centre campus Start Campus in Sines with a second location in Carcavelos in the outskirts of the Po...

The European data centre market is in frank expansion and expected to reach revenues of €14,722 million by the end of 2024. The 46% increase follows the record set in 2020 of €10,063 million, according to research and analysis firm Datacentre Pricing (DCP). Covering 17 European countries, 650 data centre providers and over 1,300 data centre facilities, analysts at th...

Forty-two cloud infrastructure providers, data centre operators and industry organisations have today established the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact to make data centres across Europe 100% green by 2030. The parties have agreed to a Self-Regulatory Initiative, which has been dubbed by the sector as “an historic and unprecedented commitment by an industry to proactively ...