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Data Centre Developer Sues New Jersey Town for $300m

Data centre developer Hexa Builders is seeking $300 million in damages from Monroe Township, New Jersey, after officials rejected its proposed 1 million sq ft data centre in May. The lawsuit, filed in New Jersey Superior Court, alleges the township council and planning board violated multiple constitutional rights, including zoning authority, fundamental fairness, and First and Fourteenth Amendment protections. Hexa argues the application was rejected because of the township’s opposition t...

August 01, 2026

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Orange acquires nordic provider Basefarm

Major European telecom operator Orange has acquired Basefarm Holding AS, a Norwegian-founded cloud infrastructure and critical application services company, for €350 million. The deal has been made by Orange Business Services, the telco's enterprise subsidiary.

July 16, 2018

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Cirrus Data Services plans 160MW campus in Salt Lake City

SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Cirrus Data Services believes the Salt Lake City region can support hyperscale and wholesale data center colocation offerings and this week publicly announced the View 78 data center campus in Midvale; a suburb of Salt Lake City. The first phase includes a 32MW wholesal...

July 16, 2018

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Flexential Adds 70,000 SqFt of Capacity at Alpharetta Data Center

Flexential is expanding at their Alpharetta data center site. The new two-story data center will add 75,000 sqft to the existing 15,000 sqft site. The new site will host both retail and wholesale customers. Press Release: <a href="https://www.flexential.com/knowledge-center/newsroom/flexentia...

July 15, 2018

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Global Switch Expands European Footprint With Frankfurt Construction

Global Switch’s move further adds to the data centre ‘hotspot’ reputation of Frankfurt, and with the arrival of a new Chinese customer to Europe as part of the development currently going up, Global Switch says it’s keen to add to its sites to support further demand. Construction has started o...

July 13, 2018

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Fairfax County Approves CoreSite's 22-Acre Data Center Campus Expansion In Reston

CoreSite is closer to approval at Sunrise Technology Park, a 21-acre office park in Reston with four existing buildings slated for data center redevelopment. The Fairfax County Planning Commission approved the project by CoreSite Realty Corp. on June 28. The proposal is part of a move by CoreS...

July 13, 2018

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Sentinel buys Washington Dulles Gateway for $82.5m

Sentinel Data Centers is buying a 280-acre plot in Dulles, Loudoun County, for $82.5m. One of the largest available properties for data center development in the region, the site was marketed by real estate management company Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) on behalf of its majority owner, H. Christo...

July 13, 2018

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MAREA and BRUSA Subsea Cables Managed by Telxius will Extend to Equinix DC2 Data Center

Equinix has won two subsea deployments (MAREA and BRUSA) that will extend from their landing in Virginia Beach to Equinix DC2 in Ashburn. From the Press Release: The two subsea cables will terminate in the U.S. directly into the MAREA and BRUSA cable landing station located in Virginia Be...

July 12, 2018

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Asian investor consortium acquires 24.99% stake in Global Switch in preparation for listing on a leading international stock exchange

A consortium of six Asian institutional and private investors has acquired a 24.99% stake in the Company in a transaction valued at £2.1 billion The investment by Strategic IDC Limited further diversifies Global Switch’s sources of equity capital, supports a continuation of the Company’s strat...

July 11, 2018

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NTT adds it's First PoP in Dublin at Equinix DB1

NTT Communications has launched a new point of presence in Ireland, located at Equinix’s DB1 data centre in Dublin, marking its first PoP in the city. The global carrier said its new PoP will allow it to offer high-quality global IP transit services to a number of companies which have set up E...

July 11, 2018

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DC BLOX Building ‘Flagship’ Data Center on 27-acre former Trinity Steel site in Birmingham

Atlanta-based DC BLOX said today it is building a data center on the former Trinity Steel site in downtown Birmingham, creating 20 jobs initially with the potential to grow up to $785 million in capital investment and add jobs over the next decade. “The significant investment being made by DC ...

July 11, 2018

DC BLOX Birmingham

Digital Realty considering $1bn Acquisition of Ascenty

Digital Realty is in talks about buying Ascenty, which operates eight data centres in Brazil and is planning six more. A still unconfirmed report says that Digital Realty is talking to Great Hill Partners, the private-equity owner of Ascenty. None of the partners are commenting on the report f...

July 10, 2018

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Compass Datacenters To Build Second Data Center Facility For American Electric Power (PR)

DALLAS /PRNewswire/ -- Compass Datacenters has completed an agreement with American Electric Power (AEP) to build a second data center facility in southwestern Ohio that expands the company's IT infrastructure and supports its resiliency strategy for IT operations. Compass built AEP's primary ...

July 10, 2018

Compass New Albany

Equinix Partners with Omantel to Open a Data Center in Oman

Colocation giant Equinix has partnered with Oman Telecommunications Company (Omantel) to build its first data center in Oman. At full capacity, the facility near capital Muscat will offer 18,600 square feet of white space – enough for approximately 750 IT cabinets. The first phase of the project ...

July 09, 2018

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Iron Mountain Begins Expansion at Phoenix Data Center Campus

Iron Mountian announced on July 9th 2018 that it has started construction to expand its data center campus in Phoenix, one of the fastest growing markets in the U.S. The new 550,000 square-foot, 48-megawatt (MW) multi-tenant and cloud facility is designed to meet the security and performance e...

July 09, 2018

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Iron Mountain Acquires Evoswitch's Amsterdam Data Centers

Iron Mountain, the storage and information management services company, acquired EvoSwitch's Amsterdam Data Centers for €205 ($235) million. The transaction provides 11 megawatts (MW) of existing data center capacity in the Netherlands, which is 100% leased, with expansion capability of an add...

July 09, 2018

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Equinix Says Its New Wholesale Data Center Business is Much Bigger Than Previously Thought

Equinix is in the sweet spot to capture a bigger share of the wholesale data center market, which are generally deployments larger than 1 megawatt. Equinix's Interconnection ecosystems are a strong magnet, even for larger compute deployments. The mid-point of guidance for Equinix’s new whole...

July 09, 2018

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QTS is Building a 100MW Data Center on 92 Acres in Hillsboro

QTS Data Centers, a Kansas data hosting company, is the most recent in a line of large data companies to build in Hillsboro, enticed by tax breaks worth $7.6 million USD total over the past three years. These tax breaks have become arguably less valuable due to Hillsboro moving in 2016 to match t...

July 05, 2018

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Infomart hires Phil Koen as Interim CEO

Infomart Data Centers, a national wholesale carrier-neutral data center provider, announced today that its board of directors has appointed Phil Koen as a new member. Mr. Koen will also serve as the company’s Interim Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Infomart’s founder and former President, Joh...

July 05, 2018

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Tata Communications Deploys IP Transit Service at EdgeConnex in Portland

EdgeConneX, specializing in global data center solutions at the edge of the network, today announces that Tata Communications, a leading global provider of digital infrastructure, has established a Point of Presence (PoP) at the EdgeConneX Portland Edge Data Center (EDC). The presence provides i...

July 05, 2018

EdgeConneX Portland

T5 Data Centers Signs Hospital Tenant for T5@LA Facility

T5 Data Centers, innovators in providing secure, customizable, hyperscale computing environments for enterprise companies, today announced that a large regional hospital has signed as the newest tenant for its T5@LA data center. The hospital plans to migrate all data operations into T5@LA to take...

July 05, 2018

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