NEWS
DigiPlex invests
with two new
green data
centres in Oslo
igiPlex has broken ground on
the construction of two new
data centres near Oslo, Norway.
The two centres will have a combined
facility size of 8,500 m² and represent
an investment of NOK 600 million. The
centres are set to be operational in just 12
months, before the end of 2020.
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The two new state-of-the art and
environmentally friendly data centres will
follow DigiPlex’s modular design principles
and will be equipped with the company’s
award-winning air-to-air cooling system.
The high-efficiency system is uniquely
suited to the Nordic climate where
DigiPlex operates, yielding efficiencies
and cost savings up to 25% beyond the
industry average. The majority of the
capacity across both centres is already
reserved for global customers.
DigiPlex’s two new data centres will be
constructed at Fetsund and Hobøl. The
new Fetsund facility will be located at the
DigiPlex Fetsund campus adjacent to the
company’s current 10MW facility. The
second centre will be located in Hobøl,
where DigiPlex has acquired a 40,000
m² plot with an option to purchase an
additional 27,000 m².
The size of the plot allows for construction
of a data centre campus. The Hobøl and
Fetsund developments are estimated to
generate several hundred new local jobs,
including subcontractors and suppliers to
the sites.
Plans announced to build world’s
largest ocean powered data
centre in Scotland
IMEC Atlantis Energy
Limited (‘Atlantis’), a
global developer, owner
and operator of sustainable energy
projects, has announced ambitions
for a tidal-powered data centre in
the Caithness region of Scotland. reliable connection to London, Europe
and the USA.
The power supply for such a data
centre would include electricity
supplied via a private wire network
from tidal turbines at the existing
MeyGen project site. The MeyGen project has a seabed lease
and consents secured for a further
80MW of tidal capacity, in addition to
the 6MW operational array which has
now generated more than 20,000MWh
of electricity for export to the grid.
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This would be the first ocean
powered data centre in the world,
with the potential to attract a
hyperscale data centre occupier
to Scotland. It is expected that the
data centre would be connected to
multiple international subsea fibre
optic cables, offering a fast and
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Further connectivity to the central belt
using domestic terrestrial networks
could significantly improve Scottish
data and connectivity resilience.
The target operations date for the
data centre is expected to be 2024, in
line with the expansion plans for the
tidal array, however a smaller initial
data centre module could be deployed
sooner to draw on the output from the
existing tidal array.
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