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Another data center in the works for Sarpy County

PAPILLION — Another company data center is in the works for Sarpy County in eastern Nebraska — a project that's raised questions about data center saturation. The identity of the company is being kept a secret until the land transaction on the west side of Papillion is ensured and utility agre...

December 31, 2018

Omaha

Iron Mountain Building a $75 Million Facility in Des Plaines, IL

The Daily Herald reports that a $75 million data center will replace the former Des Plaines location of men's suit manufacturer Hart Schaffner Marx, which relocated within the city this year. The city council unanimously recommended a property tax break Monday to lure Iron Mountain Data Cente...

December 05, 2018

Iron Mountain Chicago

City of Reno's data servers will be moved to Switch campus next year

The City of Reno will move its data servers to the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center next year after getting approval for a contract with Switch on Wednesday. Reno City Council members unanimously approved a multi-year contract with Switch and Trace3 to move the city's primary IT center, a step tha...

December 05, 2018

Switch: Tahoe Reno (The Citadel Campus)

Green House Data to Complete Phase 3 Data Center Expansion in Cheyenne Facility

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Green House Data, a leader in platform-agnostic managed IT infrastructure solutions including cloud hosting, colocation, and disaster recovery, has announced it will complete the Phase 3 expansion of its Cheyenne, Wyoming data center and headquarters by addin...

December 04, 2018

Lunavi Cheyenne

Globalinx Data Centers has completed a diverse fiber cable network tie in into the MAREA and BRUSA CLS

Virginia Beach, VA: Globalinx Data Centers LLC, Virginia Beach’s first and only Tier III carrier neutral data center campus that resides less than 800 yards away from MAREA and BRUSA CLS in Virginia Beach has completed its diverse fiber cable tie in. Globalinx strategic campus location offers ...

December 01, 2018

Globalinx Virginia Beach

DCN completes Tier III Great Plains Data Center expansion

DCN (Dakota Carrier Network) today announced it has completed a 13,280 square-foot data center expansion at its Great Plains Data Center in Fargo. The addition more than doubles DCN’s Fargo footprint and increases its server floor space by six times. Business leaders and representatives from S...

November 30, 2018

DCN: Fargo Great Plains

H5 Data Centers Announces San Antonio Carrier Hotel Acquisition

Denver, CO - H5 Data Centers, a national colocation and wholesale data center provider, today announced it has acquired 100 Taylor Street, an 85,000 square-foot data center and carrier hotel in downtown San Antonio. The acquisition expands H5 Data Centers' national portfolio to Texas and now ...

November 28, 2018

H5 San Antonio - 100 Taylor

Utilities plan two 50MW solar plants for Facebook’s Los Lunas data center

As Facebook’s $1bn data center expansion in Los Lunas steams ahead, a joint venture established by several New Mexico utilities is planning to build two 50MW solar farms to power the facility. NM Renewable Development (NMRD), made up of subsidiaries of American Electric Power and local provide...

November 27, 2018

Meta Los Lunas Campus

Flexential Completes $32M Portland Data Center Expansion, Adds 115,000 Sq. Ft.

Flexential, formerly known as Peak 10 + ViaWest, has completed a $32 million expansion of its data center at 5737 NE Huffman Street outside of Portland, Oregon. This Portland data center houses the U.S. cable landing station for the Hawaiki submarine cable, which delivers “low-latency” connection...

November 11, 2018

Flexential Hillsboro 2

Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT II Completes a $23.2 Million Acquisition of Canton Data Center

On October 3, 2018, the Company acquired the Canton Data Center for approximately $9.4 million excluding acquisition fees and costs. The facility is a colocation data center delivering 1.5 Megawatts of existing capacity expandable to 3.0 Megawatts. Located in Canton, Ohio, the data center is situ...

November 02, 2018

Ark: Canton

AT&T Data Center Fire in Richardson Texas Causes Internet Outage for North Texas Customers

Electrical fire at an AT&T data center in Richardson, Texas, caused the company’s customers in North Texas to lose internet connectivity and U-Verse TV services for several hours Monday, city officials said in a statement. The fire started in the facility’s power switch and “burned primary and...

October 26, 2018

AT&T Switching Station (Richardson)

Huge Expansions in Montreal Makes COLO-D one of the Largest Data Center Providers in Canada

MONTREAL - COLO-D is proud to announce that it will develop a new 150 MW data center in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, 15 km from downtown Montreal. This move makes COLO-D Canada's largest data center provider for enterprise customers. Simultaneously, COLO-D will add 15 MW to its D2 facility in Lon...

October 26, 2018

Cologix Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville (Colo-D3 Proposed)

Facebook and First Solar plan a 58 MW solar project for Prineville Oregon data center

Story originally appeared on Solar Power WorldA solar power plant developed and to be built by First Solar will help support Facebook’s Prineville, Oregon, data center with 100% renewable energy. Through a power purchase agreement (PPA) with PacifiCorp, the 58-MWac Cove Mountain Solar Project ...

October 23, 2018

Facebook Prineville

Netrality Properties Extends Amazon Web Services Direct Connect in Kansas City

Netrality Properties, owner and operator of network neutral interconnection and data center properties, announced today the immediate availability of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect service in its Kansas City facility — 1102 Grand. Netrality can now offer customers secure and private con...

October 22, 2018

1102 Grand St (Netrality) Kansas City Carrier Hotel

Opus Interactive Launches New Federal Cloud Services Offering from Iron Mountain’s Northern Virginia Data Center

Opus Interactive is expanding to the East Coast. The new Opus data center is located in Iron Mountian's Northern Virginia data center in Manassas. Source: Bu...

October 17, 2018

Iron Mountain Northern Virginia (Manassas)

Vantage expands first Santa Clara campus to 75MW

American colocation provider Vantage Data Centers has completed the final expansion of its first campus in Santa Clara, California. The four-story building, codenamed V5, adds 15MW of power capacity, bringing the campus total to 75MW and securing the company’s position as the owner of the larg...

October 02, 2018

Vantage: Santa Clara CA1

DC Blox is opening 10MW data center in Huntsville, Alabama

Atlanta-based cloud and colocation provider DC Blox is about to open a data center in Huntsville, Alabama. The first phase of the project offers 9,000 square feet of white space and 3,600 square feet of office space, including conference rooms, staging areas and workstations. The building i...

October 02, 2018

DC BLOX Huntsville

Facebook expand Prineville, Oregon data center for $750m

Social network and advertising giant Facebook plans to add another two buildings to its data center campus in Crook County, Oregon, by mid-2020. The $750 million investment will bring the company's total footprint at the site to more than 3.2 million square feet (300,000 sq m), making it Faceb...

October 02, 2018

Facebook Prineville

Charlotte-IX is Launched, Flexential is an Early Supporter

Charlotte-IX was launched with the support of Flexential. The new peering exchange point is available at Flexential's Charlotte and Raleigh data centers. Learn more at: Charlotte IX Peeringdb.com entry <a href="https://www.p...

September 12, 2018

Charlotte

Google Acquired 80 MW of Solar Power for Santiago Data Center

Google purchased 80MW of electrical power from Acciona Energy. The power will come from a 1.5 million sqm solar campus built in a piece of land measuring 280 hectares in the Atacama Desert, west of the Andes mountains and 645Km north of capital Santiago. Solar energy will be used to power both...

September 09, 2018

Google Quilicura (Santiago) Chile

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