Swedish Parliament approves lowered tax rates for data centres

The decision taken by the Swedish legislator lowers the electricity tax rate for data centers in Sweden to 0.005 SEK or USD 0.00054 per kWh. This 97% tax cut will come into effect by January 1st, 2017 and will be applicable to both existing and new data centers exceeding 0.5 MW capacity.

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Rackspace opens German data centre

Leading managed cloud services provider makes significant technology investment to serve European firms' data hosting needs.

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Alibaba Cloud launches first data centre in Europe

Alibaba Cloud has announced a  new agreement with Vodafone Germany to co-locate Alibaba Cloud’s first European datacentre at Vodafone’s datacentre facilities in Frankfurt, Germany.

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maincubes one data center - the second stage

The new data center maincubes one in the centre of the Rhein/Main area, has reached the second stage of construction.

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JCA Engineering appointed on KAO Data Campus in Harlow, Essex

KAO Data London One is the first (of a final four) data centre building(s) and will support a...

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ZTE launches its next-generation green data centre ZEGO

ZTE Corporation has launched ZEGO, its next-generation green data centre to decrease the total...

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Demand for data centre space puts NGD on Cloud 9

Leading cloud provider and a US bank order three data halls totalling 5MW  .

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Teraco aims for 50-megawatt data centre offering in South Africa

Africa’s largest colocation data centre provider, Teraco Data Environments, has kicked off...

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Zenium appoints head of facilities

Reinforces focus on service excellence and driving operational efficiencies.

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Cloud traffic to dominate the data centre

In the unveiling of the sixth annual Cisco® Global Cloud Index (2015-2020), cloud traffic is...

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Huawei and ADMA-OPCO data centre is now operational

Huawei and the Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company have announced at the Huawei Global Energy Summit...

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CenturyLink sells data centres and colocation business

CenturyLink to retain hosting and cloud assets supporting network-first and hybrid-IT strategy.

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Record numbers for the masters degree in data centre leadership and management

The fourth intake for the world’s first and only Masters Degree in Data Centre Leadership and...

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maincubes expands data center in Amsterdam

Data center operator maincubes is completely modernizing the data center it took over in May in...

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Amazon Web Services launches Amazon Wind Farm US Central 2

This is AWS’s fifth renewable energy project globally and its second wind farm in Ohio.

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