"Dutch project gets funding to reduce data center energy consumption and CO2 emissions" , by Eurofiber

A consortium of seven Dutch companies and research institutes will receive funding from the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate after the European Commission gave the green light to the IPCEI-CIS program on December 5th of this year. This stands for Important Project of Common European Interest - Cloud Infrastructure and Services. The consortium will receive the funding for the Modular Integrated Sustainable Datacenter project (MISD). Participants in the consortium are Eurofiber, Asperitas, BetterBe, Deerns, NBIP (National Internet Providers Management Organization), TNO and University of Twente. The Dutch government is allocating €70 million for MISD and other Dutch IPCEI-CIS projects. In total, IPCEI-CIS will provide €1.2 billion in funding to a variety of initiatives to drive the development of a European cloud infrastructure.  Read more on Eurofiber’s webpage.