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    Business Sweden leads delegation to COP16 in Colombia

    Fri, 25 October 2024 08:00 CET Between 25 October and 1 November, Business Sweden is coordinating Team Sweden’s inaugural participation at COP16 in Cali, Colombia. This year’s conference is the first since the signing of the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) in Montreal in 2022 and is regarded as the inaugural “implementation COP”. Governments and non-state actors – including businesses, financial institutions, cities, and civil society – will convene to assess progress and plan future actions to reverse nature loss by 2030. Sweden will participate with an official negotiation

    Amazon Web Services’ three data centers in Sweden go live to serve Nordic market

    Cloud services giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) has today open three new data centers in the Stockholm region in a major push to build on and capture the fast-growing Nordic market opportunity.  Sweden offers the lowest total cost of electricity in the EU following a 2017 government decision to cut energy tax for data centers. The country is also the EU leader in sustainability and has the highest share of renewables coupled with a 98 percent carbon-free energy footprint. “Today’s announcement represents a milestone for Sweden and the Nordic region. This expansion of the AWS

    The Swedish municipalities of Gävle and Sandviken sell 130 hectares of land to Microsoft

    The municipalities of Gävle and Sandviken confirmed today they have agreed to sell several properties in the region to Microsoft, in total 130 hectares. The decision was approved today by the executive boards of the two municipalities. The announcement demonstrates and reconfirms that Sweden is an attractive and competitive country for international companies to expand and grow. Microsoft has been active in Sweden since the early 1980’s and is a recognised leader and innovator in the technology sector. “We are very pleased that Microsoft, one of the world's most well-known and

    Facebook expands in Luleå - confirming Sweden as a world-class destination for data centers

    Facebook today announced an expansion of its Luleå site to almost double its current size which will make the Luleå site one of the largest data centers in the world. Sweden has perfect conditions and is today one of the world's most attractive locations for data centers.Facebook first decided to establish a data center in Sweden in 2011, where Facebook have invested 1.2 bn USD to date. When the new data center goes operational in 2021, the Luleå campus will be more than 100 000 m2/1 million sq ft. This will make it one of the largest data centers in the world. -        Facebook’s

    Swedish tech news in English for a global audience

    Data Centers by Sweden is launching a tech news channel with The Local, enhancing the prominence of Swedish tech news with a mix of independent news stories and branded feature articles designed to help raise awareness internationally for Sweden’s growing data center industry.Tech giants like Facebook and Amazon have already committed to building data centers in Sweden, and other international players including Interxion, Equinix, Sungard, Tieto, Digiplex, and Hydro 66 have made data centers an increasingly important industry for the country. “We are very excited to be working with The

    Sweden is back at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile with ‘Swedish Design Goes Milan’ and the exhibition #swedenmingle

    After last year’s success, Swedish design will once again be in the limelight of the Salone del Mobile with a collective exhibition of 15 companies and four designers from the Swedish design scene. The new project, coordinated by the famous architectural studio White, collects mixed styles and new materials based on experimentation and a shared commitment to sustainability.Swedish Design goes Milan brings a blended exhibition of traditional Scandinavian style and design based on new technology and materials, curated  by the internationally renowned architectural studio White. The exhibition

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the establishment of a datacenter region in Stockholm

    STOCKHOLM -- April 4, 2017 – Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the establishment of a new datacenter region in the Stockholm area. The new AWS EU (Stockholm) Region will be operational in 2018.“AWS’s decision to open a new region in Sweden to serve the Nordics with flexible, secure, reliable, and low latency cloud services confirms that Sweden has the best possible conditions to operate large-scale datacenters,” says Tomas Sokolnicki, head of datacenters at Business Sweden . “This investment will further accelerate Sweden’s position as a leading

    Sweden ranked best in the Nordics

    The Data Centre Risk Index 2013 evaluates risks likely to affect the successful operation of datacenter facilities in the 30 most important global markets. According to the report, Sweden ranks 3rd globally, only surpassed by the US and Great Britain.The aim of the Data Centre Risk Index is to help companies to make informed investment decisions about where to locate their datacenters to increase efficiency, lower costs and to develop strategies to mitigate anticipated risk. In the report, factors such as sustainability, internet connectivity, ease of doing business and the likelihood of

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