October 22, 2021 DataBank Kansas City MCI3
DataBank has announced that it has expanded its KC3 facility in Kansas City. The expansion sees DataBank expanding its digital footprint in Kansas. DataBank has built out two new Data Halls; Halls 2 and 3. Hall 2 adds 9,300 square feet of space, while Hall 3 adds 8,050 square feet of space. The...
Read more
October 22, 2021 United States
The US army has announced that it will further its data center reduction to six over the next seven years. Army CIO Raj Lyer made the announcement on Thursday and said the move is an effort to transfer more data to cloud-based systems to enhance security. This includes moving complex enterprise...
Read more
October 22, 2021 Validus Power: North Bay
Today, the new owners of the former Atlantic Power Corp. power plant in North Bay, Ontario, Validus Power Corp and Hut 8 Mining, held a ground- breaking ceremony signalling the start of development on the site. The proposed 32,000-square-foot data center will see an injection of over $100 million...
Read more
October 20, 2021 Orlando
Regency Commercial Properties, Inc. has completed the sale of Central Corporate Center at 5915-6035 South Rio Grande Ave in Orlando, Florida, for $15.1 million. This is a five-building office park with 318,516 square feet of space spread across 21.7 acres of land. The property firm sold the...
Read more
October 15, 2021 Argentina
The Inter-American Development Bank has approved a digital infrastructure loan of $100 million repayable in 25 years to improve connectivity in Argentina. With the loan, the development of digital connectivity in remote areas will become a reality. The loan will also be used to improve the...
Read more
October 13, 2021 Northern Virginia
Landmark Dividend, which DigitalBridge acquired earlier in the year, has acquired what it refers to as a “portfolio of assets” in Northern Virginia. It acquired 1.2 million square feet of data center space within the Quantum Park in Northern Virginia. According to Landmark Dividend, the property...
Read more
October 12, 2021 Northern Virginia
Northern Virginia is in the midst of a data center boom. This has partly developed due to a demand for new data centers resulting from the pandemic, which means that it currently has the highest density of data centers in the world. Loudoun County alone has over 100 data centers, with more than...
Read more
October 08, 2021 North America
Yesterday, Honeywell released its most recent report, "Rethinking Data Centers as Resilient, Sustainable Facilities." The report explored a number of different factors, including the challenges, and priorities of facility managers in the sector across the United States, China, Germany and Saudi...
Read more
October 07, 2021 Core Scientific: Denton, TX
Core Scientific has announced a significant expansion in Denton, Texas. This expansion will see the construction of a 300- megawatt (MW) blockchain data center, and is in association with Tenaska Energy. This announcement was made in a statement by the company on Thursday, which outlined that the...
Read more
October 06, 2021 TierPoint Milwaukee-Burnham
According to Biz Times, investors group KCMJ Investments LLC has sold TierPoint’s Milwaukee data center to Milwaukee-based WSP Burnham LLC for $4.66 million. The deal includes the sale of a 3.3-acre plot with the facility. TierPoint’s Milwaukee data center has 70,000 square feet of space with...
Read more
October 06, 2021 Massachusetts
Westfield’s City Council has become skeptical about the 40-year tax break deal it wants to grant the developers of the $2.7 billion data center in the city. The council sat on the matter on Monday, October 4, 2021, but they were not expected to make a final decision then. The project will get...
Read more
October 06, 2021 Equinix Sao Paulo SP5x
Equinix has announced the opening of its new hyperscale data center facility in São Paulo, Brazil, called SP5x. The new facility is located next to Equinix’s SP3 IBX data center in Santana de Parnaíba. The facility has 5MW of capacity in its first phase. It is also expected to have a total...
Read more
October 05, 2021 DataBank Orangeburg LGA3
DataBank has announced that it has acquired 34 acres of land in Orangeburg, New York. The land it bought would be the home of its future data center in New York. Building the data center on the land will help the data center firm meet the increasing demand for mission-critical IT infrastructure...
Read more
October 05, 2021 Rowan: Moriah DC
Rowan Green Data has announced big plans. The developer and infrastructure builder is to build a 500-megawatt (MW) multi-tenant campus in Temple, Texas. $300 million of investment will go into the construction of 135,000 sqft of new buildings and data center space. The project will be completed...
Read more
October 01, 2021 AWS US East (Ohio)
Amazon Web Services plans to start the construction of its second data center campus in Hilliard, Ohio. The Company revealed that work would begin in the next few months. Hilliard Economic Development Director David Meadows said to BizJournals that AWS would start construction on its second data...
Read more
October 01, 2021 Five 9s: Blue Shield Phoenix
Five 9s Digital has completed the acquisition of a data center in Phoenix, Arizona, from Blue Cross Blue Shield. The facility is at 2525 W Townley Avenue. Also, the Phoenix facility has 50,000 square feet of space. None of the companies revealed the terms of the transaction. However, Five 9s...
Read more
October 01, 2021 Brazil / Brasil
Brazilian operator Ava Telecom has started deploying Edge data centers in São Paulo, Brazil. The company provided little information about what it is doing. It didn’t reveal the number of sites it is building, or how much it is planning to invest in deploying the Edge data centers. However,...
Read more
September 30, 2021 Element Critical Houston One
Element Critical has started its first expansion project on the Houston One data center it acquired earlier in the year. The US colo provider acquired the facility for an undisclosed fee from Skybox Datacenters in March. The first phase of the expansion will see Element Critical extend the...
Read more
September 30, 2021 Northern Virginia
On Wednesday, Loudoun county supervisors came together to discuss the county's energy strategy. This discussion has come following a surge of data centers in the area over the past 15 years. The county's "Data Center Alley" is pinned as the world's largest concentration of data centers, totalling...
Read more
September 29, 2021 Massachusetts
Westfield Data-Center Project is reportedly almost at the finish line as it enters the local approval phase. The $2.7 billion proposal of a hyperscale data center would make the region a big player in big data. Demetrios Panteleakis, the principal commercial broker with Springfield-based...
Read more