A massive $1.5 billion data center project near Lockerbie, Scotland is a step closer to reality after receiving the blessing of local planning officials.
Next Generation Data Ltd has secured "significant" debt financing from a unit of the Royal Bank of Scotland, which will help it complete one of the world's largest data center projects.
A roundup of news announcements from Akamai (AKAM), Emerson Network Power (EMR), Level 3 (LVLT) and the new $300 million Next Generation Data facility Wales.
Paris is a hot market for Interxion, which said today that its sixth Paris data centre, at Ivry-sur-Seine, is now operational, with a "majority" of the space pre-sold.