Engineering firm Avacon has announced it has topped out its Sehnde data center in the Hanover region of Germany
First announced in 2023
the Avacon Data Center GbmH is being developed in a joint venture between Avacon’s Avacon Connect and enviaM subsidiary enviaTEL
The project is set to see a €40 million ($43.65m) investment and includes a 2,000 sqm (21,530 sq ft) facility
The shell is expected to be completed shortly
with construction of the interior having begun in January
said: “The Avacon data center is growing impressively quickly
The fact that we can already celebrate the topping out ceremony today shows the precision and professionalism with which work is carried out here
The data center will not only be an important building block for the region’s digital infrastructure
but also a sign of economic strength and innovation
We are delighted that Sehnde is the location of such a pioneering project.”
Avacon Connect provides Internet and networking solutions to customers in Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt
Its parent company Avacon specializes in engineering solutions across the electronics
Based in Markkleeberg, envia TEL is a regional telecommunications service provider and network operator in Central Germany. The company already operates a data center campus in Leipzig and announced plans to expand the facility in October last year
Hanover is currently home to operators such as nLighten and Exa Infrastructure
Data Centre Dynamics Ltd (DCD), 32-38 Saffron Hill, London, EC1N 8FH Email. [email protected]DCD is a subsidiary of InfraXmedia
WATCH: Ben Leo outlines ‘difference’ between Madeleine McCann case and Jay Slater disappearance
The prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann case is planning to flee Europe and undergo plastic surgery to change his appearance upon his release from prison
has discussed plans to relocate to a country without extradition treaties with Europe or Britain
according to his defence attorney Philipp Marquort
I would leave Europe and look for a state which doesn't extradite to Europe or Great Britain
maybe like Suriname," Marquort told the Mirror
The convicted rapist has expressed concerns about his public notoriety and is considering altering his appearance to avoid recognition
Madeleine McCann vanished from a family holiday in Portugal in 2007
Brueckner is set to be released from Sehnde Prison
this September after serving a seven-year sentence for raping a pensioner in Praia da Luz
The German prisoner could be granted day release within weeks
with such privileges typically beginning eight months before the end of sentence
Day release activities would include visits to cafes
shops and estate agents to arrange accommodation
who previously spent over two years in solitary confinement before moving to a normal prison wing
must pay an outstanding fine of approximately £1,400 before release or face detention until January 2026
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Marquort also revealed he has advised his client to undergo facial surgery to ensure anonymity
"I would get a face operation if I were him
I mentioned to him it would be nice for him to change his face or how he looks so that nobody can recognise him anymore," the lawyer said
But cash struggles currently limit Brueckner's options for such procedures
maybe like Suriname,' Marquort told the Mirror
"Right now he doesn't have any money to do that
Right now he's just the guy who tries to get a fake moustache or sunglasses or a hat," Marquort explained
Brueckner will receive a German taxpayer-funded discharge grant of around £2,000 to help him readjust to life outside prison
And German prosecutor Hans-Christian Wolters has admitted "there is currently no prospect of an indictment in the Maddie case."
Brueckner is currently holed up at Sehnde Prison
Brueckner is now considering legal action against the German state over his public identification as a suspect
His lawyer revealed Brueckner could pursue the case in Germany or the United States
"I think he could get a seven-figure sum
but it'll take a long time and the state will try not to pay," Marquort said
Brueckner remains convinced authorities planted surveillance equipment in his cell
claiming he discovered a microphone there late last year
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Hundreds of gigawatts of wind energy projects are waiting for permits to connect to Europe’s power grid
a backlog that threatens to slow the shift to green energy
industry association WindEurope said on Friday (5 July)
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A wind turbine and power poles stand on a field near Sehnde-Muellingen in the region of Hanover
Company to build out 1,000 sqm at facility
German data center firm Envia Tel is expanding its data center in Leipzig
The regional telecommunications service provider this week announced it is expanding the capacity in the Leipzig 2 data center and is starting with the expansion of the third and fourth construction phases
The company will be building a 1,000 sqm (10,765 sq ft) area able to host up to 20,000 additional servers
Commissioning and the move-in of the first customers are planned for the summer of 2025
also covering a total area of 1,000 square meters
in total the data center will offer space for around 40,000 servers across 2,000 sqm (21,530 sq ft)
and scalable IT infrastructures are the basis for digital transformation
This is what the Leipzig 2 data center stands for
It grows as companies need data center capacity
Thanks to the regional proximity and the establishment of the DE-CIX Leipzig internet node
we are also strengthening the competitiveness of companies and the Central Germany region," said Stephan Drescher
The company aims to reuse the waste heat and provide it to the city of Taucha
A subsidiary of German energy firm EnviaM Group
Envia Tel operates two data centers – Leipzig 1 and 2 – at its Leipzig campus
with a total area of 3,000 sqm (32,290 sq ft) and space for around 60,000 servers
The company also operates around 7,000km of fiber across the country
Last year EnviaM announced it was partnering with engineering firm Avacon Group to develop a 2,000 sqm data center in the Sehnde-Ost industrial area of Hanover
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Separation & Flow Technologies covers process engineering components and machines
Partnering with the logistics company Kuehne+Nagel
GEA’s focus is on state-of-the-art automated storage systems
The logistics center is scheduled to open in the second quarter of 2024
The spare parts portfolio will be gradually relocated from other European sites to Sehnde over the coming year
with a total area of approximately 22,000 m2
is a multi-user warehouse in which GEA can expand if required
State-of-the-art IT systems and robot-assisted warehouse automation enable orders to be processed quickly and precisely
we will be able to supply our customers with spare parts highly efficiently in the future
scalability and new digital services lay the foundation for future growth and innovation," said Dr Andreas Seeringer
chief service officer of GEA Separation & Flow Technologies division
"We are pleased to have found a suitable partner in Kuehne+Nagel
who will realize this project with us according to the latest standards in warehouse technology and sustainability."
The logistics center will be mainly supplied with green electricity
part of which comes from the company's own photovoltaic system
The surplus will be available via charging columns for e-cars
recreation and social rooms will be generated by an air-to-water heat pump
There are also plans to green the facade and roof
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the GEA Technology Center for Alternative Proteins will develop industry-ready alternatives to meat
GEA aims to support manufacturers in meeting the demand for complementary proteins and ingredients to traditional animal-based products
“This investment underscores our commitment to innovation and sustainability in the food industry,” said Arpad Csay
who leads GEA’s new food activities in North America
The center, which will complement an existing production facility in Janesville
will house pilot lines for cell cultivation and precision fermentation
bridging the gap between benchtop and commercial production of alternative proteins
“The technology center will offer foodtech businesses a platform to develop and derisk their processes to ensure technological and commercial viability
It helps startups in the sector implement a business strategy that requires little upfront investment
we help accelerate the development of market-ready products,” explained Csay
Senior GEA representatives have emphasized the importance of this project as an engine for future growth and innovation in the US Midwest
a region with a strong agricultural tradition
“Novel food production methods are going to gain prominence in the coming decades,” added Csay
“This development will require a diverse pool of skilled professionals from operators in the plants to bioprocessing engineers designing production systems and scientists pushing boundaries through research and development
Our technology center will help develop this future workforce by educating students and young professionals about the underlying biology and bioprocesses
We are excited to work with community colleges and universities to build these competencies in the region.”
Diplomats pay homage to French “righteous gentiles.” The author laments how those who committed smaller acts of kindness during the Holocaust
like those from her father’s village
A rainbow spans over fields near Sehnde in the Hanover region
who grew up in the same German village as my father
showed me the Torah that had been rescued during Kristallnacht — not by the Jews
the Christians decided to save what they could for the Jews
They buried the Torah outside the Jewish cemetery
We were in the Memorial Room on a moshav in Israel
founded by a group of Jews from the village who left Germany together for Palestine in 1937
shared the wall with the names of the village Jews murdered in the Holocaust
126 of them carved into stone beside an eternal flame
circular needlepoint warned “Never Again” in Hebrew
donated to the moshav because my American family had stayed connected to my father’s boyhood friends
watching Hollywood movies of evil Germans killing Jew — and never thought of Germans rescuing anything Jewish
my father often reminisced about his Schwarzwald village where
before Hitler “everyone — Christian and Jew — got along
” But that was in the early 1900s; the Torah was rescued in the middle of the Third Reich
I ended up in dozens of living rooms and kitchens
interviewing the village Jews who fled Hitler
only Germans remembered by most as decent people
Bad Times: Echoes of My Father’s German Village,” published in 2008
with refrains that I kept discovering in my new book
a surprise because I was focusing on my assimilated American life
I would love to say that half of my father’s village rescued the Torah
plus a handful of others that buried two Torah breastplates and a sword owned by a Jewish war hero from World War I
backed them up: Many neighbors were decent people
They hated Hitler’s Germany and its betrayal
And then a fourth — these Christians and Jews told overlapping stories of small decencies: how the shoemaker fixed Jewish shoes and shared his ration cards
How the barber cut Jewish hair under the sign “No Jews Allowed Here.” How the former mayor’s wife lent her good raincoat to someone heading to the East
How the farmer’s daughter cleaned the house of
washed and brought food to her old Jewish neighbor
How the shopkeeper gave food over the back fence at night
How a farmer who had power of attorney over Jewish fields returned the fields after the war
How the three Catholic nuns who were nurses kept treating sick Jews until they were reassigned to another village far away
How the mayor kept helping the Jews until he was transferred
How the priest spoke out against what was happening to the Jews in a sermon until he was severely reprimanded
How the head of Hitler Youth lighted the Shabbat candles for the Jewish youth group that met in the same building on Friday nights
How someone let the Jewish schoolteacher file an official complaint about the vandals in the Jewish cemetery in 1940
“Unheard of!” How a farm wife said at the farmers’ meeting
I will not force Jews to work for me on their Sabbath.” How someone hid the plaque of the Jewish war veteran that died during WW1 that I saw in the town hall of the village
How neighbors helped a half-Jewish family live in the village throughout the war
How the carpenters fixed the Jewish windows after Kristallnacht and were sent to the Front a week later “as punishment,” and none came back
I would feel better had I done any or many of those small acts
And if I had known that others were also doing them
But decency is often a solitary act; it is evil that draws the noisy crowd
Holocaust historians have a hierarchy of goodness for those days
perpetrators on the bottom and one notch up are bystanders
I read there’s a fourth category: the upstanders
I thought: these are the ones in my catalog of small decencies
no upstander from my father’s village is named as a righteous Christian; their deeds were too small for public recognition
these former neighbors have been building a bridge of reconciliation
they exchanged visits between their Schwarzwald village and the Israeli moshav
telling the history of the local Jews in German and Hebrew
beginning with the first family who came from Poland in 1645 and ending with the last group of Jews deported in 1942
who bought the farmhouse down the road from the old Jewish cemetery and became interested in the former local Jews
who were dedicated to keeping the lessons of the Holocaust alive
they spearheaded an exhibition called “Ort der Zuflucht und Verheissung
how a group of village Jews escaped Hitler and started again in Israel
Over 5,000 Germans from southwest Germany came to see the exhibit
the exhibition went to the moshav in Israel—and on to Jerusalem
Central to the exhibit was a photo of the rescued Torah with its soiled edges
It inspired many Germans to visit the original
still mounted in the Memorial Room of the moshav
a symbol of survival and one policeman’s decency
But the other small decencies that I’d discovered
I wish the list of other small acts had traveled with the exhibit
I wish bystanders everywhere would read them and imagine new possibilities for defying the haters who have dominated our headlines
probably only 15% of the villagers were upstanders during the Third Reich
But what if 80% had risked small acts of decency and defiance
This week I read how the citizens of very conservative Morristown
Tennessee raised $60,000 to help their Latino neighbors after an ICE factory raid broke up the lives of eighty-nine families
a salesman who had voted for Trump in 2016
and was “indifferent to the anti-immigrant invective until the raid,” according to reporter Jonathan Blitzer who interviewed him — contributed
Smith said he had second thoughts: “I am a Christian; God loves everybody equally
and I never had a problem with anyone being here.” His pastor
confirms that such feelings led to raising $60,000: “The people in the middle have had their hearts soften because of the raid.” In other words
a clear example of bystanders becoming upstanders
If only the story had made front-page news in major newspapers and trended on Twitter; but I found it in a “New Yorker” daily email
This week I received an invitation to attend the 80th birthday celebration of the moshav
the German publishing couple in my father’s village who are determined as ever to keep Germans and Jews remembering the past together:
As we told you in our summer 2017 newsletter
we would like to visit Israel with a delegation from Horb/Rexingen in the fall and also spend some days in Shavei Tzion…It would be wonderful if this day could see a big get-together of Shavei Tzion families and friends from all over the world
please get in touch with Menachem…We hope to see you all again in Shavei Tzion this October
I hope to go — my small gesture in the ongoing need to build bridges of connection and honor decency
Mimi Schwartz is an award-winning, socially conscious American author, educator and public speaker. Her latest book, “When History Is Personal,” explores the connections between her personal stories, mid-twentieth century to today, and history’s larger story — be they of immigration, the women’s movement, social justice or end-of-life issues. For more information, go to her website
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Sehnde: Cool Planet Technologies Limited announced that Holcim Germany received funding to construct a carbon capture demonstration plant using CPT’s membrane technology
a company using advanced membrane carbon capture technology
announced that Holcim Germany has received funding approval from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) towards the construction of a carbon capture demonstration plant using CPT’s membrane technology
At the core of the cooperation between the two companies is the construction of a 10,000 tons per annum CO2 capture plant based on CPT’s innovative membrane capture process
The chemical-free process uses significantly less energy than established carbon capture technologies and can be powered entirely from renewable electrical power
making it an environmentally friendly technology choice
The demonstration facility will have a one-year active test phase
during which the innovative technology will be investigated in long-term commercial operation
the plant would be gradually expanded so that after the final expansion stage the plant can separate around 90 per cent of the CO2 emissions from the Höver cement plant
CPT’s Managing Director said: “We are delighted that Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action has approved the grant funding to Holcim for the Demonstration plant at Höver
Construction of the demonstration plant is about to start
and we look forward to continuing our work with Holcim and the team at Höver and helping them to meet their decarbonisation objectives and further proving up the commerciality of our membrane capture technology.”
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Engineering firm Avacon Group and regional energy provider enviaM Group are developing a data center in the Sehnde-Ost industrial area of Hanover
The data center will span 2,000 sqm (21,530 sq ft) and be able to house around 28,000 servers
Avacon and enviaM are investing a total of €40 million ($43.65m) in developing the data center
which is expected to be operational by mid-2025
Groundbreaking is expected to occur in 2024
and once completed the data center will be powered by renewable energy and will reuse its wasted heat
The data center is being developed by a joint venture between Avacon subsidiary Avacon Connect and enviaM subsidiary en-via TEL called Avacon Data Center GmbH
“The Avacon Data Center in Sehnde not only sets new standards for security and performance but is also an important stimulus for the economic development of the Hanover region
With minimal latency times and maximum data security
we are strengthening the competitiveness of local companies and making the Hanover region even more attractive for investments,” said Marten Bunnemann
envia TEL builds and operates telecommunications networks
the company operates a data center in Leipzig
and networking solutions to customers in Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt
Data Centre Dynamics Ltd (DCD), 32-38 Saffron Hill, London, EC1N 8FH Email. [email protected]DCD is a subsidiary of InfraXmedia
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The German company is investing around US$20 million in the new greenfield site to meet growing demand for separators
“The Janesville facility will bring us closer to our growing Midwest customer base and it will enable us to meet the growing demand for our products,” said Azam Owaisi, CEO of GEA North America. “As the new facility will have production capabilities to finalize separator, decanter, valve and pump assembly, GEA will fully meet the ‘Built in America’ mandates if required.”
The 85,000 sq ft building is scheduled for completion in late 2023
the facility will house a training centre for customers and employees
The remaining space will be used for the repair of mechanical equipment and for logistics
Located approximately 80 miles west of Milwaukee and 40 miles south of Madison
the new GEA facility will create more than 70 jobs
The building is being constructed as a net-zero facility and will include a high efficiency heating and cooling system
GEA is working with Blackhawk Technical College in Janesville to develop an educational and training program
This will provide GEA with a pool of graduates with the desired skillset to meet the current and future workforce needs
automation and modern manufacturing technologies
GEA is targeting further growth in its key markets
GEA centrifuges are used in more than 3,500 different processes in a wide range of industries
All GEA production sites are already powered by green electricity
In the long term the electricity supply for GEA’s sites will come from local renewable energy sources
several large-scale photovoltaic systems will cover about one-tenth of the site’s electricity requirements
including the provision of electromobility
An in-house combined heat and power plant currently generates around 30% of the electricity required
94% of the primary energy utilized is recycled
will also be converted to alternatives such as electric steam generation
which will enable the Oelde and Niederahr sites to operate without gas in the near future
2023 marks 130 years of GEA separation technology at its Oelde site
"I am pleased that the planned investments will make the world's largest GEA site in Oelde strong for the upcoming decades," says Klaus Stojentin
CEO of GEA's Separation and Flow Technologies Division
GEA is one of the global technology leaders in centrifuge production
We are proud to be able to expand our production facilities to better support our customers with first-class products for their manufacturing processes."
“This year, we look back with pride at 130 successful years in separation technology,” said GEA CEO Stefan Klebert
"We owe our success story to our committed employees
who work tirelessly and with a high level of engineering skill every day to ensure that we fulfill our purpose of “Engineering for a better world.”
which produces decanter centrifuges mainly used in the food
chemical and environmental technology sectors
is also celebrating its 60th anniversary this year
GEA also operates two additional centrifuge plants: one in Bengaluru
GEA BetterBot AI was developed in-house and trained on current GEA data
It enables GEA employees to retrieve publicly available information relating to the company that is relevant to them in a matter of seconds
The proprietary tool is securely operated in a private cloud environment in Microsoft’s data centers
so that no confidential data or entries are leaked
which has the potential to enhance our work through productivity and efficiency gains as well as time savings
This puts us among the pioneers in our industry
An interdisciplinary team is responsible for developing GEA’s in-house AI tool
The alpha version has already been tested by 500 employees worldwide
with their feedback now factored into the tool’s ongoing refinement
Another 1,200 employees have signed up for the beta test phase
This will help customize the tool even more closely in line with GEA’s needs and requirements
“Using GEA BetterBot AI opens up significant possibilities for working more efficiently,” added Niederhagemann
be used by employees to provide swifter responses to customer service inquiries
receive support with job advertisements and request market intelligence data
or for social media and marketing activities.”
GEA BetterBot AI is continuously being fine-tuned and
in the future will be capable of responding to questions on a wide range of topics in different languages
Global rollout is scheduled for the first quarter of 2024
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