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Read NTT launches "Earthquake Resistant" data center
NTT launches "Earthquake Resistant" data center

NTT launches "Earthquake Resistant" data center

April 29, 2021 NTT Silicon Valley SV1

NTT has announced the launch of its "Earthquake Resistant" data center in Silicon Valley, the first of its kind in the US market. The facility has a capacity of 16MW and uses a base isolation system, enabling seismic stability and ensuring 60% less motion than a non-isolated, fixed building. The...

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Read Microsoft pays $3m to add 1.4 acres to its Atlanta campus
Microsoft pays $3m to add 1.4 acres to its Atlanta campus

Microsoft pays $3m to add 1.4 acres to its Atlanta campus

April 29, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center

Tech giants Microsoft has bought 1.4 acres of land for $3 million to expand its planned Westside campus. The land is situated on Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway, in the Grove Park area close to Atlanta. This purchase is after Microsoft acquired 90 acres of land in February for its proposed Westside...

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Read Vantage Data Centers Opens Second Data Center on its Northern Virginia Campus
Vantage Data Centers Opens Second Data Center on its Northern Virginia Campus

Vantage Data Centers Opens Second Data Center on its Northern Virginia Campus

April 28, 2021 Vantage Ashburn Campus

Vantage Data Centers just announced that it has completed the first phase of VA12. VA12 is the second of the five planned facilities situated at its Northern Virginia campus. The completed first phase of VA12 will provide 16MW of critical IT capacity to enterprises, hyperscalers, and cloud...

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Read Aligned starts work on Chicago Hyperscale Data Center Campus
Aligned starts work on Chicago Hyperscale Data Center Campus

Aligned starts work on Chicago Hyperscale Data Center Campus

April 28, 2021 Aligned Chicago ORD-01

Aligned has announced that it has begun work on its latest hyperscale data center campus in Chicago, Illinois. The 48MW data center is the first to be constructed on the 18.5 acre campus and stands at 220,000 sqft. Once completed, the campus will offer 100+MW of capacity. The data center, known...

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Read Quintillion connects Polar Orbiting Satellites to Equinix SE2
Quintillion connects Polar Orbiting Satellites to Equinix SE2

Quintillion connects Polar Orbiting Satellites to Equinix SE2

April 26, 2021 Equinix Seattle SE2

Quintillion has announced plans to connect its new Arctic ground station to Equinix’s Seattle data center. It will extend its network via a subsea fiber network, where, in Seattle, it will connect to Equinix Fabric, a software-defined interconnection service. Located 72 degrees north, at...

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Read Serverfarm acquires El Segundo facility from T5
Serverfarm acquires El Segundo facility from T5

Serverfarm acquires El Segundo facility from T5

April 20, 2021 Serverfarm LAX1

Serverfarm, supported by its partner NantWorks, has entered the Los Angeles data center market with the acquisition of a 12-megawatt, 117,500-square-foot data center in El Segundo, CA. T5 Data Centers was the selling party. T5 originally bought and developed the facility in 2011 for $30 million....

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Read Cologix Acquires vXchnge's Santa Clara Facility
Cologix Acquires vXchnge's Santa Clara Facility

Cologix Acquires vXchnge's Santa Clara Facility

April 15, 2021 Cologix Santa Clara

Cologix has announced it has acquired a silicon valley data center from vXchnge. The Santa Clara facility sits on 5 acres with a 84,000 sqft building. The building currently supports 9MW of critical load with the ability to expand to a total 19 MWs. The acquisition provides an instant entry into...

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Read NTT Opens SV1
NTT Opens SV1

NTT Opens SV1

April 13, 2021 NTT Silicon Valley SV1

NTT Ltd., has announced that its Global Data Centers Americas division has opened a new 16MW Silicon Valley Data Center called SV1. NTT Ltd. is a world-leading global technology services provider and this center marks the sixth U.S. data center campus and third data center opening in 2021. The...

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Read Element Critical’s Chicago Data Centers secure $72M loan
Element Critical’s Chicago Data Centers secure $72M loan

Element Critical’s Chicago Data Centers secure $72M loan

April 12, 2021 Element Critical CH1

Element Critical and parent company Safanad Inc. recently secured a $71.5 million loan to refinance their Chicago data center portfolio. The loan provided by Annaly Capital Management Inc. will go towards renovations for two data center facilities based in the Elk Grove Village area of Chicago,...

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Read DC BLOX Breaks Ground in Greenville SC
DC BLOX Breaks Ground in Greenville SC

DC BLOX Breaks Ground in Greenville SC

April 01, 2021 DC BLOX Greenville

DC BLOX recently announced the construction of its new Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina data center. The data center is being built on 8.5 acres of land in the Global Business Park Interstate 85 and will be the first-of-its-kind multi-tenant data center in South Carolina. It will have an...

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Read Microsoft begins $140M data center in San Antonio
Microsoft begins $140M data center in San Antonio

Microsoft begins $140M data center in San Antonio

March 31, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center

Plans are in place for Microsoft to build another data facility in San Antonio. According to a filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, the data facility will be 79,385 square feet in size. It will be constructed at the 15000 block of Lambda Drive at Texas Research Park to...

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Read American Tower open Pittsburgh Edge Facility
American Tower open Pittsburgh Edge Facility

American Tower open Pittsburgh Edge Facility

March 30, 2021 American Tower: Pittsburgh

American Tower has announced it has opened a new Edge colocation facility in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It's a small edge facility located to the south of the city and below Mount Oliver, the 360 square foot Edge facility offers eight customer cabinets, 20 quarter-cabinet lockers, and three full...

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Read Microsoft buys land for data center campus in Central Washington
Microsoft buys land for data center campus in Central Washington

Microsoft buys land for data center campus in Central Washington

March 29, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center

Microsoft has purchased 170 acres of underdeveloped land north of Pangborn Memorial Airport for $19.3 million. The investment could well rise to over $1 billion in the next five years to build a multi-phase data center. Microsoft has also started leveling the construction site in preparation for...

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Read Mapletree acquires Bank of America campus in Richmond VA
Mapletree acquires Bank of America campus in Richmond VA

Mapletree acquires Bank of America campus in Richmond VA

March 26, 2021 Mapletree: 8011 Villa Park

Mapletree Industrial Trust (MIT), a Singapore based REIT, acquired Bank of America’s campus at 8011 Villa Park Drive on March 12 for $208 million. The 46-acre campus in Richmond Virginia has five office buildings with a mix of office and data center space. The campus is 100 percent leased by...

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Read Facebook expanding Papillion Campus
Facebook expanding Papillion Campus

Facebook expanding Papillion Campus

March 24, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook just announced that it would be expanding its data center campus in Papillion for the second time. Facebook said it would be expanding the data center facility at the intersection of Capehart Road and Nebraska 50 by about 1 million square feet. It also noted that the project would cost...

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Read DRFortress Completes Hawaii Data Center Expansion
DRFortress Completes Hawaii Data Center Expansion

DRFortress Completes Hawaii Data Center Expansion

March 17, 2021 DRFortress Honolulu

HONOLULU, Hawaii – DRFortress, the largest carrier-neutral data center and cloud marketplace operating in Hawaii, announces a major expansion to its data center campus in Honolulu is complete and ready for service. DRFortress added 125 cabinets, creating a total of 600 cabinets for lease and a...

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Read Skybox sells Houston Facility to Element Critical
Skybox sells Houston Facility to Element Critical

Skybox sells Houston Facility to Element Critical

March 16, 2021 Element Critical Houston One

Element Critical has acquired Skybox's Houston One facility. Element Critical is the new owner, but Skybox will continue to operate the facility and handle wholesale leasing. Skybox and Element Critical jointly issued the press release below on March 16th 2021: Vienna, VA, — Element Critical, a...

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Read Aligned Launches 2nd Salt Lake Facility
Aligned Launches 2nd Salt Lake Facility

Aligned Launches 2nd Salt Lake Facility

March 10, 2021 Aligned Salt Lake City

Aligned recently announced the completion of its second data center in the Salt Lake Metro Area, West Jordan, UT. The 48 MW (expandable to 60MW), 240,000 square-foot facility will feature Aligned’s patented cooling technology, which consumes 80% less energy and 85% less water than traditional...

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Read VPLS Acquires New York Data Center
VPLS Acquires New York Data Center

VPLS Acquires New York Data Center

March 09, 2021 Evocative Chappaqua JFK2

VPLS, a cloud-to-edge computing and solutions provider, announces today its successful partnership with Summit Development to oversee data center operations at the data center facility located at 480 N. Bedford Plaza in Chappaqua, New York. The Chappaqua data center will be known as NY2 within...

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Read Microsoft is planning 400,000 sqft Campus in Hoffman Estates
Microsoft is planning 400,000 sqft Campus in Hoffman Estates

Microsoft is planning 400,000 sqft Campus in Hoffman Estates

March 09, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center

According to plans submitted to the Hoffman Estates council, Microsoft aims to build two data centers on the 53-acre site on the north side of Lakewood Blvd in two phases. Phase one would see a 250,000 sq ft (23,200 sqm) building erected by the end of 2022. The second phase would be a 150,000 sq...

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