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CAPACITY MORE THAN DOUBLES AT ECODATACENTER 1 IN SWEDEN
EcoDataCenter is investing further in the EcoDataCenter 1 facility in Falun , Sweden , to more than double its current capacity .
The expansion is driven by the company ’ s success in securing a major global customer as well as increased interest from companies worldwide .
“ Since AI exploded at the turn of the year , we have witnessed an unprecedented increase in demand for our services ,” said Peter Michelson , CEO of EcoDataCenter .
During 2023 , the company and its owner Areim has raised approximately EUR620 million in capital to fuel the expansion of the company . Now EUR200 million will be invested , making the data centre one of the largest in Sweden . The expansion will more than double the existing capacity with the first phase to be completed by Q3 2024 and the full build out by Q2 2025 . The expansion will bring the site ’ s total capacity to 45MW .
“ For a company that opened its doors in 2019 , signing the largest agreement of its kind in Sweden just four years later is an incredible achievement and a testament to the extraordinary work done by the team from the very beginning ,” said Michelson .
The expansion also holds significant importance for the local municipality , as it will create jobs and require services to support the expansion . Approximately 300 construction workers per day will be needed during the construction period , along with about 30 permanent jobs .
Kao Data , a specialist developer and operator of data centres engineered for AI and advanced computing , has announced that construction of its second Harlow data centre , KLON-02 , is now fully complete , commissioned and operational .
The new 10MW , NVIDIA DGX Ready data centre – designed and built to the highest standards of sustainability and efficiency – marks a key step forward in the continued expansion of Kao Data ’ s high performance infrastructure platform . It further underpins its Harlow campus as one of the UKs preeminent locations for advanced computing . taking advantage of the campus ’ s world-class connectivity and rapid on-ramps into all major cloud providers .
Furthermore , KLON-02 has been designed to deliver the highest levels of sustainability , meeting BREEAM ‘ Excellent ’ certified criteria and being powered by both 100 % certified renewable energy and hydrotreated vegetable oil ( HVO ).
Following significant growth across its customer portfolio , which includes organisations working within AI , financial services , cloud and life sciences , Kao Data ’ s second Harlow data centre provides a further 3,400m2 of high-density , scalable , technical space to its data centre portfolio , with room for up-to 1,800 racks of GPUpowered IT equipment ( ITE ) across four technology suites .
The new data centre will continue to follow Kao Data ’ s awardwinning , OCP-Ready and hyperscale-inspired design blueprint , providing customers with a secure , sustainable and scalable home for their mission critical workloads . Organisations can fully customise their deployments within the data centre , incorporating liquid-cooled hardware where necessary , and
KAO DATA ANNOUNCES SECOND 10MW HARLOW DATA CENTRE IS OPERATIONAL
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