Private equity-grown Euclyde Datacenters has announced the commissioning of two new rooms on its DC 5 campus in Lyon. The French data centre operator and hosting provider has invested more than €2 million (US$2.19 million) in the expansion. The rooms can accommodate 140 bays and will enable customers to outsource their infrastructure and applications. According to t...

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. has agreed to acquire majority holding shares in French data centre firm Data4, in what is the investment group’s first data centre purchase in Europe. Data4’s shareholder and asset management company AXA IM announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to sell its shares in the operator, however, it has not shared financial details. ...

French data centre operator Data4 has unveiled plans to develop a c. €1 billion (US$1.1 billion) data centre campus south of Paris. The project will be developed on a Nokia site in Nozay, which the operator has already bought. The location is a few kilometres away from Data4’s flagship site in Marcoussis, Essonne. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclo...