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Amsterdam’s Next Data Center Clusters Will Be Built Out of Town
The city is out of space and power, and there are signs of government and industry agreement on a new location. Now, they have to convince the public.
Amsterdam is preparing to build its next cluster of data centers in a neighboring county, after officials and experts concluded that the capital does not have the space to accommodate the mushrooming number of gigantic hi-tech warehouses nor the electricity to satisfy their extraordinary power load.
The group that effectively made the decision has been tackling the dilemma of where to put Amsterdam's data centers for the last three years. Pending a final, formal decision, they will be built in Almere and Zeewolde, counties wrought from the sea with dam walls on Amsterdam's Eastern flank in the 1960s. Their spacious province, Flevoland, has become home to growing wind farms and new towns. Official studies have declared it the best spot to build data centers.

Beverwijk , Noord-holland , Netherlands , Groningen , Zeewolde , Flevoland , Velsen , Delft , Zuid-holland , Haarlemmermeer , Oostzaan , Amsterdam