November 09, 2022 EdgeConneX
AdaniConneX, the joint venture between EdgeConneX and Adani Enterprises, has launched its first data center in Chennai, Chennai 1 Data Center. Its first phase will reportedly offer 17MW and 33MW of IT load at full build-out. “The wait is over! We proudly announce that our state-of-the-art Chennai...
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November 07, 2022 Lumen Technologies
Lumen has announced that it will sell its Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) operations to Colt in a $1.8 billion deal. The deal will see Lumen divest its EMEA business, including its data centers, terrestrial and subsea networks, and network equipment in the EMEA region, to Colt. The deal is...
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November 04, 2022 Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain has announced the acquisition of XData Properties of Spain. The acquisition sees the company take over a data center in Madrid, Spain. Iron Mountain also acquired land in Phoenix, Arizona, and Mumbai, India in a separate acquisition . XData was developing the large data center...
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October 31, 2022 CoreSite
Investment company Stonepeak has increased its investment in CoreSite by $570m. The data center company was acquired in 2021 by American Tower Corporation for $10 billion. After the acquisition, Stonepeak invested $2.5 billion in the data center company in the summer. Stonepeak’s new investment...
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October 27, 2022 DataBank
DataBank has announced the opening of its latest Salt Lake City data center, SLC6. According to the company, the facility was built to meet the growing demand for increased capacity and mission-critical IT infrastructure.“We are pleased to open this new facility, providing additional capacity to...
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October 25, 2022 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty and NTT are looking to develop new data centers in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. The firms filed applications for the new data centers with the State’s Department of Licensing. The plots of land in question are within one mile of one another. Digital Realty plans to develop a...
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October 24, 2022 DataBank
The Investment Management Corporation of Ontario (IMCO) will invest around US$450m in DataBank. The Canadian firm signed an agreement to invest the funds as part of DataBank’s recapitalization process. DataBank is expected to close the deal in Q4 2022. The Chief Investment Officer of IMCO,...
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October 18, 2022 EdgeConneX
EdgeConneX has reportedly secured $150 million in sustainability-linked financing for its expansion in Latin America. This follows the company obtaining a series of sustainability-linked financings earlier in 2022 totaling $1.7 Billion. The loan facility promotes EdgeConneX's sustainability...
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October 11, 2022 Equinix
Equinix has revealed its plans to develop a new data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. This will be the company's first facility in the Asian country. Equinix noted that it would be investing $74m in developing the new IBX facility. The data center will be located in the Central Business District of...
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October 07, 2022 EdgeConneX
EdgeConneX has announced a partnership with Aboitiz, a local firm in the Philippines, alongside its plans to build two data centers around Manila; one near the National Capital Region of Manila and the second in the Greater Manila Area. Speaking about the partnership, Sabin Aboitiz, President,...
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October 05, 2022 CoreSite
CoreSite has announced the acquisition of a data center in Miami, Florida. The data center acquired is a purpose-built 9,550 square meter (103,000 square feet) facility located at 2100 NW 84th Avenue. The company didn’t reveal the terms of the transaction. CoreSite is naming the new data center...
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September 30, 2022 Equinix
Equinix is the latest company in the industry to trial hydrogen fuel cells as a power source for data centers. The company will be working in partnership with the Centre for Energy Research & Technology (CERT) under the National University of Singapore's (NUS) College of Design and...
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September 29, 2022 Evocative
Evocative has announced that it has completed and closed the acquisition of the majority of INAP’s data center facilities. The acquisition also covers colocation and related network services. With the acquisition, the Evocative data center portfolio reaches nine. In addition, the company’s...
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September 28, 2022 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has reportedly filed to construct a new data center in Chicago, Illinois. The application for construction on the facility outlines that it would span 565,000-square-foot (52,500 sqm) as a 13-story building at 321-337 E. 21st Street, which is opposite 350 E Cermak carrier hotel....
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September 26, 2022 Cogent Communications
Cogent Communications Holdings has acquired T-Mobile’s wireline business for $1 billion. In addition, T-Mobile expects to have a pre-tax charge of $1 billion from selling the unit to Cogent. T-Mobile will also pay Cogent $350m in the first 1 year of closing the deal and another $350m over the...
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September 16, 2022 Equinix
Equinix has announced the expansion of one of its data centers in Zurich, Switzerland. Its ZH4 IBX facility, located at Josefstrasse 225, will see the addition of 850 square meters (9,150 sq ft) of whitespace and more than 200 cabinets. The facility first opened in 2010, and since then, it has...
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September 14, 2022 Digital Realty Trust
In Virginia, a former Digital Realty data center is gearing up for a dramatic transformation. Located in Herndon, the company’s old data center will become an agricultural facility, specifically a vertical farm. Vertical farms have similar power, water, and air conditioning requirements to data...
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September 13, 2022 Evocative
San Jose, CA, –Evocative, a global provider of Internet infrastructure, announces today that the company has consolidated its portfolio to one brand: Evocative. Evocative enables enterprise organizations with a full suite of digital transformation solutions including colocation, network, bare...
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September 09, 2022 Digital Realty Trust
Environmentalists are appealing against two data centers Interxion is planning to build in Dublin. The appeal, lodged with An Bord Pleanála (ABP) by John Conway and Louth Environmental Group, argues that there are a "disproportionate" number of data centers in the area and that the facilities'...
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September 05, 2022 Equinix
According to Bloomberg, Equinix and DigitalBridge are the final two companies looking to buy Time Dotcom’s data center business. The companies are looking to sign an agreement to take over the business called Aims Data Centre within the next few weeks. Per sources, Time Dotcom might also retain a...
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