Europe’s largest data centre capital commitment of 2021, the EUR 3.5 million (US$4.2 billion) Sines 4.0 campus in Portugal, is set to break ground before the end of 2021. The first phase of the project is a EUR 100 million to EUR 110 million proof-of-concept (PoC) building dubbed as the “Nest”. The 15MW PoC facility is expected to be brought online in Q1 2023. The ...

Portugal’s largest data centre project to date has received Lisbon’s go-ahead amid calls for the US$4.2 billion project to be relocated as it is currently planned for a protected area. The land in Sines, around 150 kilometres south of the capital Lisbon, was awarded the Special Conservation Zone (SCZ) status just a year before the project was announced. Under the pro...

Colt Technology Services said it is increasing its coverage in the Iberian Peninsula, to accelerate customers’ digital transformation in the region through the addition of 600km of additional fibre between Madrid and Toulouse across the Pyrenees. This additional network will connect Paris in the North and Marseilles in the East with a new route to the Iberian Peninsula, t...