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QTS files plans to expand Richmond campus in White Oak Technology Park

A development plan was filed in March by an entity tied to QTS Data Centers for new two single-story data center buildings totaling 710,500 square feet on county-owned land in Sandston’s White Oak Technology Park, near Interstates 64 and 295. Dubbed in planning documents as “Project Isaac,” th...

March 13, 2019

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ScaleMatrix Open Its First Data Center in Seattle

ScaleMatrix has opened its newest data center, operated by Centeris, in the southern part of metro Seattle. The new facility is ScaleMatrix’s first expansion in the Pacific Northwest and will provide a plethora of services for potential enterprise clients. The New ScaleMatrix Sit...

March 08, 2019

ScaleMatrix Seattle

Cavern Expanding KC Data Center by 40,000 SqFt

Cavern Technologies announced via Twitter that the company is building a 40,000 SqFt expansion at their Underground Kansas Facility. The data center, which is used by the Kansas City Chiefs, is one of the largest facilities in Kansas City. Cavern said the space will be available by June and it...

March 07, 2019

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Microsoft and EDP Renewables Execute a Wind Energy Agreement in Ohio

HOUSTON, and REDMOND, Wash. — March 7, 2019 — EDP Renewables SA (EDPR), through its fully owned subsidiary EDP Renewables North America LLC, and Microsoft Corp. have executed two 15-year power purchase agreements (PPA) totaling 125 megawatts (MW) that will bring the Timber Road IV Wind Farm t...

March 07, 2019

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DataBank Opens their new ATL1 Facility with Georgia Institute of Technology as an Anchor Tenant

Atlanta, GA – February 25, 2019 – DataBank, a leading provider of enterprise-class data center, connectivity and managed services, announces the opening of its ATL1 data center in Atlanta. Located at 760 West Peachtree Street NW, ATL1 is part of the CODA development, a 645,000 square foot ...

February 28, 2019

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Cologix Acquires Metro Optic: Adds Carriers & Hyperscale Edge Capacity

Metro Optic’s Montreal Interconnection hub is key termination point for subsea cables and adds a further 30+ carriers to the Cologix ecosystem.DENVER – February 26, 2019 — Cologix, a network-neutral, interconnection and Hyperscale edge data center company, today announced it has acquired Mont...

February 26, 2019

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CyrusOne Expands Santa Clara Campus While Still Under Construction

CyrusOne is expanding it's Santa Clara data center campus just months after announcing their first data center in Silicon Valley. Demand must be strong. It was only in Q3 2018 when the company began building it's first data center in Santa Clara. CyrusOne Press Release: SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(B...

February 19, 2019

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Stream Data Centers to Develop Hyperscale Data Center Campus in Phoenix Market

DALLAS, Feb. 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Stream Data Centers, an industry leader in providing premium data center solutions, announces today that it has acquired a 418,000-square-foot facility on 157 acres of land in Goodyear, Arizona, where it will establish a data center campus for hyperscale a...

February 15, 2019

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Google data center in Clarksville to get power from Yum Yum solar farm

The Yum Yum solar farm will be about 175 miles southeast of the Clarksville site. The solar farm is expected to produce about 150 megawatts of clean energy. A large solar farm in West Tennessee will provide carbon-free renewable power for tech giant Google’s data center in Clarksville. Chica...

February 15, 2019

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Google's Curie Cable System to Land at Equinix LA4 (PR)

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that Google has selected Equinix for its Los Angeles area cable landing station (CLS) supporting the Curie subsea cable system, the first subsea cable to Ch...

February 07, 2019

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DataBank Announces Acquisition of PNC Bank’s Pittsburgh Data Center Through Strategic Sale-Leaseback Transaction (PR)

Dallas, Texas – DataBank, a leading provider of enterprise-class data center, connectivity and managed services, announced today the acquisition of PNC Bank’s data center located in North Fayette Township near Pittsburgh, PA. This marks DataBank’s second data center in the Pittsburgh market a...

January 30, 2019

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GI Partners Announces Data Center Acquisitions From NTT DATA

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – GI Partners, a leading private investment firm, continues its strategy of investing in the infrastructure of technology with the recent acquisition of two technology intensive properties from NTT DATA located in Plano, Texas and Quincy, Washington. The Plano property is an ...

January 29, 2019

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EdgeMicro Begins Testing on Flexential Englewood with 10 Companies

The hype of the Edge data center will be put to the test with EdgeMicro's test lab in Denver. Edgemicro has lined up 10 companies to participate. Looking forward to seeing the results. Denver, Colorado – January 18, 2019– EdgeMicro and many of the most influential companies in the technolo...

January 25, 2019

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Microsoft Announces Sixth Expansion in Mecklenburg County, Virginia

Microsoft Corporation will invest significant capital to expand its Boydton enterprise data center in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. The project is Microsoft’s sixth expansion at the facility since 2010 and will allow the company to further enhance its ability to serve customers in the U.S. and...

January 24, 2019

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STACK Plans New Data Center on the AllianceTexas Campus

A new data center company is teaming up with the developers of Fort Worth's huge AllianceTexas development to build a major data center campus in northern Tarrant County. Denver-based Stack Infrastructure and AllianceTexas developer Hillwood will build the 400-plus-acre tech project east of In...

January 18, 2019

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CoreSite Adds New Amazon Web Services Direct Connect Endpoint at their SV2 Site

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CoreSite Realty Corporation (NYSE:COR), a premier provider of secure, reliable, high-performance data center and interconnection solutions across the U.S., today announced availability of a second native point of connectivity to Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect at...

January 18, 2019

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Compass is Building a Hyperscale Campus in Goodyear, Arizona

Dallas-based Compass Datacenters has acquired more than 200 acres of land in Goodyear, a suburb of Phoenix. The company is building a hyperscale campus that could offer up to 180MW of power capacity once complete. Compass hasn't made a public announcement; the new project was originally dis...

January 18, 2019

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eStruxture Expands Vancouver Data Center; Hires Andrew Fowler to Lead Western Region Sales

MONTREAL – January 15, 2019 – eStruxture, a leading pan-Canadian provider of network and cloud-neutral data center solutions, announces the expansion of its Vancouver-based VAN-1 facility. The company also announces that Andrew Fowler, a colocation veteran with 30 years of sales experience, h...

January 15, 2019

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Element Critical Enters Chicago Market Acquiring Two Data Centers in the Suburbs (PR)

Data Center and Colocation Provider Adds 195,000 Square Feet of Space with Plans to Invest $40 Million to Expand and Enhance Facilities Located in Wood Dale, IL CHICAGO – Element Critical, a leading provider of data center and IT infrastructure services driven by customer-centric, solutions ...

January 07, 2019

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South Loop data center sells for $27 million

A partnership between CIM Group, one of the more prominent real estate developers in Chicago, and a New Jersey-based data center operator bought a South Loop data center for $27 million. Anderson Pacific Group, a Chicago-based investor that specializes in telecom projects, started developing t...

January 02, 2019

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