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Read GIGA Data Centers Launches New Facility in Charlotte
GIGA Data Centers Launches New Facility in Charlotte

GIGA Data Centers Launches New Facility in Charlotte

June 20, 2019 GIGA Charlotte (Mooresville)

GIGA Data Centers, LLC (GIGA) today announced the company officially opened its 165,800 square foot CLT-1 Data Center in Mooresville, NC.The facility, located in the former Dale Earnhardt racing building cost $20 million to construct. It's located at 1035 Mecklenburg Highway in Mooresville is...

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Read EdgeConneX Launches Multi-Cloud Access in Memphis
EdgeConneX Launches Multi-Cloud Access in Memphis

EdgeConneX Launches Multi-Cloud Access in Memphis

June 19, 2019 EdgeConneX Memphis

EdgeConneX continues to add cloud on-ramps in their facilities. Today they announced that Megaport and Comcast will be providing access to all the major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google, IBM, Oracle, Alibaba) from the Edgeconnex data center in Memphis. The Edgeconnex press release: MEMPHIS,...

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Read IX-Denver Extends to the H5 Denver Facility
IX-Denver Extends to the H5 Denver Facility

IX-Denver Extends to the H5 Denver Facility

June 12, 2019 H5 Denver

IX-Denver has extended their peering fabric to H5 in Denver. The non-profit Internet Exchange (IXP) is now natively available at three locations in the Denver metro. * H5 Denver at 5350 S Valentia Way, Greenwood Village * 910 Telecom at 910 15th Street, Denver * Flexential Aurora at 11900 E...

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Read Landmark Dividend Acquires Flexential Data Center (PR)
Landmark Dividend Acquires Flexential Data Center (PR)

Landmark Dividend Acquires Flexential Data Center (PR)

June 12, 2019 Flexential Fort Lauderdale

EL SEGUNDO, CA (June 12, 2019) – Landmark Dividend LLC (“Landmark”) today announced that it acquired the Flexential data center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in February 2019. The 64,000 square foot data center is fully occupied by Flexential, a leading data center services provider with 41 data...

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Read NewCloud Establishes New Node at H5 in Atlanta
NewCloud Establishes New Node at H5 in Atlanta

NewCloud Establishes New Node at H5 in Atlanta

June 06, 2019 H5 Atlanta

H5 has announced a customer expansion at its Atlanta data center. NewCloud Networks, a Denver based cloud services provider, has chosen the H5 facility as a new market deployment. The announcement comes on the heals of NewCloud's expansion with H5 Cleveland back in March.Data Center sales often...

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Read Ascenty Announced the Launch of a New Data Center in Paulínia
Ascenty Announced the Launch of a New Data Center in Paulínia

Ascenty Announced the Launch of a New Data Center in Paulínia

June 06, 2019 Ascenty Paulinia

Ascenty has announced it has launched it's new 16 MVA data center in Paulínia outside of São Paulo.Ascenty will have 16 data centres in operation in Brazil by the end of the year, and now has 17 data centres in operation and construction, interconnected by 4,500 km of proprietary fibre optic...

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Read DC Blox wins MARTA as a customer in Chattanooga
DC Blox wins MARTA as a customer in Chattanooga

DC Blox wins MARTA as a customer in Chattanooga

June 05, 2019 DC BLOX Chattanooga

DC Blox has announced that MARTA, the Atlanta regional public transport organization, will deploy to the DC Blox Chattanooga data center for disaster recovery purposes. The contracted deployment is for 100 kW of critical IT load. The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) Chooses DC...

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Read Microsoft buys Redmond Ridge data center property for $6.2 Million
Microsoft buys Redmond Ridge data center property for $6.2 Million

Microsoft buys Redmond Ridge data center property for $6.2 Million

June 04, 2019 Hyperscale Data Center

The Puget Sound Business Journal Reports that Microsoft has acquired the property that holds its Redmond Ridge data center and offices. The report is below. Microsoft paid nearly $6.2 million to acquire the site of the company's data center in Redmond, King County property records show.The...

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Read H5 Data Centers Announces Phase Two Expansion at its Phoenix Data Center
H5 Data Centers Announces Phase Two Expansion at its Phoenix Data Center

H5 Data Centers Announces Phase Two Expansion at its Phoenix Data Center

May 30, 2019 H5 Phoenix

Chandler, AZ-H5 Data Centers, a national colocation and wholesale data center provider, today announced a 25,000 SF expansion of its Phoenix colocation facility located at 2600 W. Germann Road in Chandler, AZ. The second phase development at the 180,000 square-foot data center adds needed...

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Read First Solar, Rocky Mountain Power to Build 122 MW Solar Facility to Support Facebook's Utah Data Center
First Solar, Rocky Mountain Power to Build 122 MW Solar Facility to Support Facebook's Utah Data Center

First Solar, Rocky Mountain Power to Build 122 MW Solar Facility to Support Facebook's Utah Data Center

May 30, 2019 Hyperscale Data Center

The 122-MW Cove Mountain 2 solar plant will support the Facebook data center through a PPA with Rocky Mountain Power, a division of PacifiCorp and part of Berkshire Hathaway Energy. The facility will be built near the town of Enterprise in Iron County, Utah, and is scheduled to begin operations...

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Read Indiana Signs New Tax Exemption Law to Spur Data Center Construction
Indiana Signs New Tax Exemption Law to Spur Data Center Construction

Indiana Signs New Tax Exemption Law to Spur Data Center Construction

May 30, 2019 Indiana

On June 27nd 2019 Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb signed into law the Indiana Data Center Sales Tax Exemption as an incentive to lure more data center construction to the state. The new legislation pushed by Digital Crossroads and other data centers in Indiana. The Data Center Gross Retail and Use...

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Read CyrusOne Helps Launch ODATA’s First Data Center in Colombia (PR)
CyrusOne Helps Launch ODATA’s First Data Center in Colombia (PR)

CyrusOne Helps Launch ODATA’s First Data Center in Colombia (PR)

May 28, 2019 ODATA BG01

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CyrusOne (NASDAQ: CONE), a premier global data center REIT, today announced that it has helped ODATA construct and launch the company’s first data center in Bogotá, Colombia. ODATA’s new data center, DC BG01, is the second ODATA data center, the first outside Brazil after...

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Read Digital Realty Acquires 13-acre property in Ashburn
Digital Realty Acquires 13-acre property in Ashburn

Digital Realty Acquires 13-acre property in Ashburn

May 23, 2019 Digital Realty: IAD-56

Washington Business Journal Reports that Digital Realty acquired a 13-acre property for $28 million. That puts the cost per acre at $2.14 million, which is a record in the region. The property was a former Airbus facility and is adjacent to the Equinix Ashburn Campus. Satellite view of the...

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Read Compass Datacenters Begins Construction on 75 MW Data Center Campus in Northern Virginia (PR)
Compass Datacenters Begins Construction on 75 MW Data Center Campus in Northern Virginia (PR)

Compass Datacenters Begins Construction on 75 MW Data Center Campus in Northern Virginia (PR)

May 16, 2019 Compass Loudoun County

Dallas – Compass Datacenters is beginning construction of its first data center in Loudoun County, Virginia. The 6MW building is on Compass’ Loudoun campus, which is planned for 500,000 square feet and 75MW of critical IT capacity. “Northern Virginia is one of the most dynamic data center markets...

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Read Flexential Announced the Completion of the Alpharetta 70,000 SqFt Expansion
Flexential Announced the Completion of the Alpharetta 70,000 SqFt Expansion

Flexential Announced the Completion of the Alpharetta 70,000 SqFt Expansion

May 15, 2019 Flexential Atlanta-Alpharetta

In a press release, Flexential announced the completion of the Alpharetta expansion. The expansion added 70,000 square feet of additional space.The company stated it is targeting FinTech with the data center and pointed to their current customer Delta Community Credit Union as an example...

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Read Beeks Expands to Equinix NY5 facility
Beeks Expands to Equinix NY5 facility

Beeks Expands to Equinix NY5 facility

May 14, 2019 Equinix New York Secaucus NY5

Beeks announced on its website that it is growing its portfolio of datacentre locations by deploying in the Equinix NY5 New York datacentre. In addition to this, Beeks has extended its current rackspace in Equinix LD4 by taking a third cage in the London datacentre. With presence in 11 total...

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Read CoreSite Lands a Hyperscale Pre-lease at SV8
CoreSite Lands a Hyperscale Pre-lease at SV8

CoreSite Lands a Hyperscale Pre-lease at SV8

May 13, 2019 CoreSite Santa Clara Campus

In April, CoreSite pre-leased approximately 108,000 net rentable square feet, or about two-thirds of its SV8 data center that is under construction, including phases 1 and 2. CoreSite expects to complete construction on phases I and 2 late in the third and fourth quarters of 2019, respectively....

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Read DXC Acquires New Jersey Data Centre Signing Colocation Deal With Credit Suisse (PR)
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DXC Acquires New Jersey Data Centre Signing Colocation Deal With Credit Suisse (PR)

May 13, 2019 Credit Suisse: Clifton

TYSONS, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC), the world’s leading independent, end-to-end IT services company, has expanded its presence in data center co-location services by signing a long-term 13-plus year managed co-location services agreement with Credit Suisse (USA), Inc....

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Read Facebook Adding a Fifth Facility in Altoona
Facebook Adding a Fifth Facility in Altoona

Facebook Adding a Fifth Facility in Altoona

May 07, 2019 Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook is building a fifth data center on their campus in Altoona Iowa. The company expect to invest $400 million to build a 1 million sqft H-shapped data center. Altoona City Council approved a deal that would make Facebook exempt from paying property taxes on the new building for 20 years....

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Read Databank is Expanding their Granit Point Campus in Salt Lake City with SLC5
Databank is Expanding their Granit Point Campus in Salt Lake City with SLC5

Databank is Expanding their Granit Point Campus in Salt Lake City with SLC5

May 01, 2019 DataBank Bluffdale Granite Point Campus

Databank is expanding their Granit Point Campus with SLC 5. Adding 10 MWs, 90,000 gross sqft, and 50,000 sqft of raised floor. Databank Press Release: Dallas, TX – April 30, 2019 – DataBank, a leading provider of enterprise-class data center, connectivity, managed services and cloud solutions,...

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