The City of Mortágua in Portugal is planning to upgrade its data center.
As reported by local publication Jornal Do Centro, the Mortágua council is planning to spend around €176,000 ($185,000) on modernizing the data center's hardware and software.
The municipality said in a statement: “The renovation of the data center aims to modernize the municipality's technological infrastructure, namely computing capacity, availability, storage, as well as disaster recovery capacity."
It added that the upgrade will improve the "response capacity of the computer system, reducing response times” and help “safeguard and recover information in the event of a cyberattack or other type of catastrophe.”
The upgrade will also increase the data center's storage and processing capacity.
Details about the data center have not been publicly shared. DCD has contacted the council for further information about the size, capacity, and planned hardware upgrades.
Mortágua is in the Viseu district of Portugal and south of Porto. Most of Portugal's data center market is centered around Lisbon, however, Porto has a small market too.
Elsewhere in Portugal, the first data center of the Sines Smart Campus was launched this month. The campus is eventually planned to offer 1.2GW of IT capacity.
