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Read DataBank expands Its DFW3 Dallas Fort Worth data center
DataBank expands Its DFW3 Dallas Fort Worth data center

DataBank expands Its DFW3 Dallas Fort Worth data center

July 14, 2021 DataBank: DFW3

DataBank, a leading provider of enterprise-class colocation, connectivity, and managed services, just announced the expansion of its DFW3, Dallas Fort Worth Data Center. It is expanding to meet the increasing demand for mission-critical IT infrastructure in the Dallas Fort Worth market. The...

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Read Prime Data Centers announces new 9MW data center in Silicon Valley
Prime Data Centers announces new 9MW data center in Silicon Valley

Prime Data Centers announces new 9MW data center in Silicon Valley

July 14, 2021 Prime Santa Clara (Martin)

Prime Data Centers has announced that it is building a new 9MW data center on Martin Avenue in Santa Clara, California. With this new data center, it is expanding its presence in Silicon Valley as this is its second facility in Silicon Valley. Prime says it is strategically building the data...

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Read Microsoft wants to build five more data centers in San Antonio, Texas
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Microsoft wants to build five more data centers in San Antonio, Texas

July 13, 2021 San Antonio

According to recent documents filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, Microsoft has applied to build five more data centers in San Antonio, Texas. The data centers will have a total space of 350,000 square feet. It will also cost over $200 million. The construction of the...

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Read Telmex opens fifth data center in Mexico
Telmex opens fifth data center in Mexico

Telmex opens fifth data center in Mexico

July 13, 2021 Telmex Cancun

Telmex, a Mexican telco, has opened a new data center in Cancún, Mexico. The Company first announced that it was opening this data center in August 2020. Besides, according to El Economista, Telmex chose Cancún to access the Equinix-operated NAP of the Americas IEX in Miami via submarine cables....

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Read Bailard sells Comcast-occupied data center in Maryland for $14.85 million
Bailard sells Comcast-occupied data center in Maryland for $14.85 million

Bailard sells Comcast-occupied data center in Maryland for $14.85 million

July 08, 2021 Comcast Nottingham

Bailard, an investment management firm, just sold a data center and office property in Maryland for $14.85 million. It is a two-story 66,000 square-foot property currently occupied by Comcast. The building is also located at 8031 Corporate Drive in White Marsh, Maryland. CEO of Bailard Real...

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Read Regulators instruct Facebook to review power purchase agreements in New Mexico
Regulators instruct Facebook to review power purchase agreements in New Mexico

Regulators instruct Facebook to review power purchase agreements in New Mexico

July 05, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center

Regulators have instructed Facebook to renegotiate the terms of its proposed power purchase agreements regarding solar energy and energy storage facilities in New Mexico.The agreement relates to 50MW of solar energy from Encino North Solar Energy Center, 190MW of solar from Sky Ranch Solar...

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Read Ohio’s school retirement fund aims to invest in target data centers in future
Ohio’s school retirement fund aims to invest in target data centers in future

Ohio’s school retirement fund aims to invest in target data centers in future

July 05, 2021 Ohio

Ohio’s school retirement fund wants to invest in life science offices and data centers in 2022. The Ohio School Employees Retirement System plans to hire managers to look into real estate investment like data centers since it offers higher rent growth opportunities in its annual investment plans....

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Read Amazon files an application to build four data centers in Manassas, Virginia
Amazon files an application to build four data centers in Manassas, Virginia

Amazon files an application to build four data centers in Manassas, Virginia

July 02, 2021 AWS US East (N. Virginia)

Amazon has filed an application to build four data centers on land in Manassas, Virginia. It filed to build the data centers on empty land that’s between Sudley Road and Ashton Avenue. The piece of land is presently owned by the estate of Lewis Percival Ashby Jr., and it is being used as a family...

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Read Gerald R. Ford International Airport is building an operations center in Grand Rapids, Michigan
Gerald R. Ford International Airport is building an operations center in Grand Rapids, Michigan

Gerald R. Ford International Airport is building an operations center in Grand Rapids, Michigan

June 30, 2021 Grand Rapids MI

Gerald R. Ford International Airport is building a new operations and communications center, which includes, a data center in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The project will cost the Company $7.7 million. Gerald R. Ford International airport says the new facility will be on the east side of the...

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Read Rocky Mountain Power to build 120MW solar farm in Utah for Facebook power
Rocky Mountain Power to build 120MW solar farm in Utah for Facebook power

Rocky Mountain Power to build 120MW solar farm in Utah for Facebook power

June 30, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center

Rocky Mountain Power has announced that it would be building a new 120MW solar farm in Iron County, Utah, for Facebook. The solar farm will power Facebook’s Eagle Mountain data center. Head of renewable energy at Facebook, Urvi Parekh, commented on the development. He said the Company is happy to...

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Read TPG teams up with Quantum Loophole to redevelop Old Alcoa Plant
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TPG teams up with Quantum Loophole to redevelop Old Alcoa Plant

June 28, 2021 TPG Real Estate: Frederick Campus

TPG Real Estate Partners (TREP) and Quantum Loophole have joined forces to acquire a 2,100-acre industrial site near Frederick, Maryland, for its first major campus. The joint venture will see the two redevelop the site of the Old Alcoa Plant and transform it into a gigawatt scale data center...

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Read Silicon Valley Power to build a substation for AWS's planned data center in Santa Clara
Silicon Valley Power to build a substation for AWS's planned data center in Santa Clara

Silicon Valley Power to build a substation for AWS's planned data center in Santa Clara

June 27, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center

Silicon Valley Power will build a new substation for AWS’s upcoming data center in Santa Clara. Oppidan Investment Company will develop and pay for the data center facility on behalf of Amazon Web Services. Besides, Amazon acquired the site for $100 million in 2020, which will make it AWS’s first...

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Read Digital Crossroad data center in Hammond to expand following a $28 million investment
Digital Crossroad data center in Hammond to expand following a $28 million investment

Digital Crossroad data center in Hammond to expand following a $28 million investment

June 25, 2021 Digital Crossroad (Indiana NAP)

The Digital Crossroad data center based in Hammond has received a $28 million investment from Energy Solutions Group and United Leasing and Finance for further expansion. Currently, in its first phase, the Digital Crossroad site features 105,000 sq ft of space and 6MW of capacity and is...

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Read Dakota State University wants $6m for data center remodeling
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Dakota State University wants $6m for data center remodeling

June 25, 2021 South Dakota

Dakota State University (DSU) has requested $6 million and $1.8 million to replace its existing data center and IT hardware, respectively. The request was made during a meeting between South Dakota’s public university system and its governing body. DSU asked for funds to replace its existing data...

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Read Cologix acquires Zayo's Vancouver facility and announces Toronto expansion
Cologix acquires Zayo's Vancouver facility and announces Toronto expansion

Cologix acquires Zayo's Vancouver facility and announces Toronto expansion

June 22, 2021 Cologix VAN4

Cologix is branching out in Canada. It has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Zayo's 65,000 sq ft (6,000 sqm) interconnection facility in Vancouver. Cologix will add 4.2MW of capacity to the site. In addition to this, the company has also announced plans to add a...

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Read Intermarket seeks approval for 100,000 square feet data center in Canada
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Intermarket seeks approval for 100,000 square feet data center in Canada

June 21, 2021 Toronto

Intermarket Properties wants to build a data center in Cambridge, Canada. According to Canada Construct Connect, the Company is seeking approval for a 100,000 square feet data center. The proposed data center site is a 40 acre Waterloo Corporate Campus with mixed-use redevelopment that consists...

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Read Data center plans discussed for NRG Power Plant in Dunkirk, New Yorksite
Data center plans discussed for NRG Power Plant in Dunkirk, New Yorksite

Data center plans discussed for NRG Power Plant in Dunkirk, New Yorksite

June 20, 2021 Buffalo

Discussions have begun around the transformation of the disused NRG Power Plant in Dunkirk, New York, into a new data center. The 76-acre site was operational from the 1950s to 2015 has been pinned as a potential location in a report by the City of Dunkirk and Chautauqua County. Dunkirk is near...

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Read Sabey secures $250 million refinancing deal for 375 Pearl Street
Sabey secures $250 million refinancing deal for 375 Pearl Street

Sabey secures $250 million refinancing deal for 375 Pearl Street

June 20, 2021 Sabey Intergate.Manhattan

Sabey has secured a $250 million refinancing deal for its office and data center at 375 Pearl Street, New York City. According to Commercial Observer, J.P. Morgan and Wells Fargo will be providing a $220 million, 10-year, fixed-rate CMBS loan and a further $30 million mezzanine debt. Sabey will...

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Read DataBank completes the expansion of its PIT2 data center in Pittsburgh
DataBank completes the expansion of its PIT2 data center in Pittsburgh

DataBank completes the expansion of its PIT2 data center in Pittsburgh

June 17, 2021 DataBank Pittsburgh PIT2

DataBank has expanded its PIT2 data center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by adding 25,000 square feet of raised floor space to the facility. The company also added an extra 2.5MW capacity to the facility to bring its total floor space and capacity to 40,000 square feet and 4.5MW respectively. The...

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Read AWS wants to buy 41 acres of land in Warrenton, North Virginia if town reverses regulation barring the construction of data centers
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AWS wants to buy 41 acres of land in Warrenton, North Virginia if town reverses regulation barring the construction of data centers

June 17, 2021 Northern Virginia

The Fauquier Times reports that Amazon Web Services is planning to buy 41.7 acres of land in Warrenton, North Virginia if the town finally changes its rules to allow the construction of data centers. At a Warrenton Planning Commission, it was proposed that the rule be changed and data centers...

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