Thursday, December 15, 2022

Meta halts data center expansion construction in Denmark

Meta has terminated a contract for the expansion of a major data center in Odense, Denmark. 

Per Aarsleff, the lead contractor for project, valued the cancelled contract at DKK 2.4 billion. As a result, all construction work on the data center will be halted immediately. 

https://www.aarsleff.com/about-aarsleff/news/news/termination-of-contract-for-data-centre-in-odense#

Facebook to build Next Data Center in Odense, Denmark

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