European news in the data center industry includes funding for Facebook's Swedish campus from the EU; Service provider FFastFill locating in Interxion's London data centre; and $10.8 million in funding for energy-efficiency building software firm...

Firehost launches services in Phoenix, Telx selected by Black Lotus, Internap selected by Sahara Force India, TelecityGroup data centers in France recertified for ISO 27001.

Switch Datacenters, a carrier-neutral facility in Amsterdam, is partnering with Custom Connect to offer ultra low-latency connectivity to its clients.

Source Managed Services is expanding its operations in the London market by leasing turn-key data center space from Digital Realty, the companies said today.

Phoenix NAP is expanding its operations into Europe with a new node in Amsterdam, where it will house infrastructure in a data center operated by Interxion. The move is part of a broader globalization move for Phoenix NAP and its IaaS platform.

Here's a round-up of news in the European data centre markets, including news from Level 3, Pivot3, Data City Exchange, HCL Technologies and the formation of the European Data Centre Association.

Leading European research centers are teaming with commercial service providers to create a European cloud computing platform that can provide data storage and processing power for scientific research projects, including the Large Hadron Collider.

Amsterdam is seeing the highest take-up of all across European Tier one markets. Eric Boonstra of EvoSwitch discusses some of the reasons..

Building on the arrival of a huge Facebook data center, economic development officials in Sweden are marketing the country as an ideal location for data center development, with the full backing of the Swedish government.