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Comarch to build its first US data center in Mesa, Arizona

Comarch has announced plans to build its first data center in the US, located in Mesa, Arizona. The Polish software firm has said that construction on the 32,000 sq ft (3,000 sqm) facility is due to commence this month, and will be its flagship building.The data center, which will see a $22 mi...

June 11, 2021

Comarch Mesa

Principal Real Estate raises over half a billion for first dedicated US data center fund

Principal Real Estate has announced that it has secured over half a billion dollars for its US data center fund, following the final investor close on 30 April. The $533 million comes from a total of 15 limited partners, including insurance companies, wealth managers, endowments, and foundatio...

June 10, 2021

United States

Volcanic geothermal energy for Bitcoin mining data centers in El Salvador

Following El Salvador declaring Bitcoin as legal tender, the country's president Nayib Bukele has instructed state-owned geothermal electric company, LaGeo, to create a plan to offer geothermal energy to Bitcoin mining data centers.On Twitter, Bukele announced the news, saying: "I've just inst...

June 10, 2021

El Salvador

phoenixNAP to Expand its Data Center in Phoenix, Arizona

PhoenixNAP just announced that it had acquired land to expand its data center in Phoenix, Arizona. The land it purchased is next to its flagship data center in Phoenix. Furthermore, the planned data center will support 10MW of capacity and, it could be expanded in the future. Phoenix also add...

June 10, 2021

PhoenixNAP-Phoenix

Facebook's Huntsville data center campus exceeds $1 billion

Facebook's Huntsville data center campus will reportedly top $1 billion following ongoing expansion. This announcement comes after the social media giant's initial investment of $750 million back in 2018.Once completed, the facility will employ over 200 people, two times its expectation three ...

June 09, 2021

Meta Huntsville Campus

Scala Data Centers acquires Algar Tech data center

Scala has announced its acquisition of Algar Tech’s data center and colocation operations in Capinas near São Paulo for $183 million. The company plans to modernize and expand the Tier III building and use it as a base for a new data center campus.Once the facility, which utilizes photovoltaic...

June 04, 2021

Scala: Campinas SVCPCP01

Plans for Harvard's old Motorola factory to become solar-powered data center

The former Motorola manufacturing and distribution facility in Harvard, Illinois, may be given new life, with prospective planners looking into transforming the building into a solar-powered data center.Green Data Center Real Estate in Vancouver is reportedly working with Solar Alliance of Kno...

June 04, 2021

Illinois

Yondr purchases 270 acres for Northern Virginia data center campus

After announcing a major $2 billion American expansion plan back in May, Yondr has acquired 270 acres of land in Northern Virginia. Although the specific location details are still under wraps, the company has disclosed that the sites are “in close proximity to Northern Virginia’s major fiber ...

June 03, 2021

Yondr Arcola, VA

Equinix plans to open $142m Silicon Valley data center this month

Equinix will be opening its new $142 million data center at its Silicon Valley on the 30th of June. The data center dubbed SV11 has a colocation space of 61,000 sqft with enough room for 1,450 cabinets. Also, Equinix plans to expand its existing Bloom Energy fuel cell deployment to use as a p...

June 03, 2021

Equinix SV11

Switch buys land from Dell for Austin data center campus

Switch has revealed the primary location of its Fifth Prime data center campus in Texas, following a purchase land agreement with Dell Technologies. The campus will be called "The Rock" and powered by 100% renewable energy.The land, located next to Dell's global headquarters in Round Rock, wil...

June 03, 2021

Switch Austin "The Rock"

COPT forms joint ventures with Blackstone, buys two data center shells

Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT) has announced a new joint venture with funds affiliated with Blackstone Real Estate to purchase data center shells.The JV has acquired a 90% stake in two single-tenant data center shell properties totalling 432,000 square feet (40,100 sqm). The propert...

June 03, 2021

Maryland

Bechtel and Nautilus form partnership to build sustainable, high-performance data centers

Bechtel and Nautilus have formed a partnership to deliver data centers with better environmental footprints. The centers will reportedly be energy-intensive, delivering high-performance while prioritizing sustainability. The centers will use Total Resource Usage Effectiveness (TRUE) technology...

June 03, 2021

Americas

DivcoWest acquires New York carrier hotel in New York; H5 will manage interconnection and colocation

DivcoWest, a real estate investment firm based in San Francisco, has announced that it has acquired a 10-story, mixed-used building carrier hotel from Jamestown Properties for $135 million. The building is located at 325 Hudson St., in Hudson Square. In concert with this transaction, H5 Data ...

June 01, 2021

H5: 325 Hudson Street

Facebook announces another data center expansion in Altoona, Iowa

Facebook has announced that it would be expanding its Altoona data center campus. The expansion will see Facebook add two more buildings to its existing eight buildings at the facility. The expansion will also see the total area space to 4.1 million square feet. Facebook initially announced it...

May 28, 2021

Facebook Altoona Iowa

Digital Realty opens new Toronto facility and broke ground in Marseille

Digital Realty has announced that it has opened its new YYZ12 data center in Toronto, Canada, while breaking ground on its Marseille facility.The new facility, located at 151 Front St (Toronto's carrier hotel), is DRT's third data center in the metro and will be fully interconnected with redu...

May 27, 2021

Digital Realty 151 Front

Hanley Energy expands in Virginia, will base US headquarters in Loudoun County

Hanley Energy has decided to expand its operations in Loudoun County, Virginia. The Irish company will be leasing a 36,600 square foot building from Merritt Properties for this purpose. Merritt initially bought the 6.7-acre site with plans to build a light industrial building over it. Besi...

May 26, 2021

Northern Virginia

$800M Data Center Coming To Mesa, Arizona Amidst Water Concerns

The Mesa City Council just approved the development for a Company that plans to build a data center on Elliot and Ellsworth roads in the northwest corner of Eastmark. Although the Company remains in mystery, the Mayor of Mesa City said the mystery Company would be investing $800 million to bri...

May 26, 2021

Phoenix

Facebook boosts capacity with multi-storey data center design

Following the trend of building taller buildings, Facebook has revealed that it is boosting its capacity with a new multi-storey data center design as part of its global infrastructure expansion. The design is being rolled out in its Prineville, Oregon campus, deployed in two new facilities.Th...

May 25, 2021

Facebook Prineville

DataBank expands SLC5 data center in Salt Lake City

DataBank has announced its recent expansion, adding a third data hall at its SLC5 data center. Based in Bluffdale, Utah, at its Granite Point North campus complex, the new addition takes its current capacity to 30,000 sq ft (2,790 sq m), with a 6MW of critical IT load.The center first opened ...

May 25, 2021

DataBank SLC5

Yondr Group Announces $2 Billion Investment in Data Centers in the Americas

Yondr Group has announced a major $2 billion expansion plan to deliver data infrastructures spanning across the US, Canada, Central, and South America as part of its global scaling strategy. By 2024, the group plans to deliver data centers across five continents. Yondr Group has appointed Éann...

May 20, 2021

North America

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