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Read Microsoft buys 21 acres in San Jose for $78m
Microsoft buys 21 acres in San Jose for $78m

Microsoft buys 21 acres in San Jose for $78m

May 05, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center

Microsoft has acquired 21.25 acres of underdeveloped land in San Jose for $78.7 million. The expanse of land is situated near the corner of Orchard Parkway and Component Drive. Microsoft purchased the land from LBA Realty which initially wanted to use the land to build villages of offices, hotel...

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Read NTT launches "Earthquake Resistant" data center
NTT launches "Earthquake Resistant" data center

NTT launches "Earthquake Resistant" data center

April 29, 2021 NTT Silicon Valley SV1

NTT has announced the launch of its "Earthquake Resistant" data center in Silicon Valley, the first of its kind in the US market. The facility has a capacity of 16MW and uses a base isolation system, enabling seismic stability and ensuring 60% less motion than a non-isolated, fixed building. The...

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Read EdgeConneX Expands in 6 North American Markets
EdgeConneX Expands in 6 North American Markets

EdgeConneX Expands in 6 North American Markets

April 28, 2021 EdgeConneX

EdgeConneX has announced that it will add almost 20MW of new capacity across six of its data centers in North America. The facilities that will benefit from this expansion are Seattle, Portland, Phoenix, Miami, Detroit, and Chicago. According to Phillip Marangella, Chief Marketing Officer at...

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Read Serverfarm acquires El Segundo facility from T5
Serverfarm acquires El Segundo facility from T5

Serverfarm acquires El Segundo facility from T5

April 20, 2021 Serverfarm LAX1

Serverfarm, supported by its partner NantWorks, has entered the Los Angeles data center market with the acquisition of a 12-megawatt, 117,500-square-foot data center in El Segundo, CA. T5 Data Centers was the selling party. T5 originally bought and developed the facility in 2011 for $30 million....

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Read Cologix Acquires vXchnge's Santa Clara Facility
Cologix Acquires vXchnge's Santa Clara Facility

Cologix Acquires vXchnge's Santa Clara Facility

April 15, 2021 Cologix Santa Clara

Cologix has announced it has acquired a silicon valley data center from vXchnge. The Santa Clara facility sits on 5 acres with a 84,000 sqft building. The building currently supports 9MW of critical load with the ability to expand to a total 19 MWs. The acquisition provides an instant entry into...

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Read NTT Opens SV1
NTT Opens SV1

NTT Opens SV1

April 13, 2021 NTT Silicon Valley SV1

NTT Ltd., has announced that its Global Data Centers Americas division has opened a new 16MW Silicon Valley Data Center called SV1. NTT Ltd. is a world-leading global technology services provider and this center marks the sixth U.S. data center campus and third data center opening in 2021. The...

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Read Digital Realty plans to build 430,000 sqft four story Santa Clara facility
Digital Realty plans to build 430,000 sqft four story Santa Clara facility

Digital Realty plans to build 430,000 sqft four story Santa Clara facility

February 05, 2021 Digital Realty: SJC37

Digital Realty will add to its dominant position in the Silicon Valley data center market with a new 48 MW, 430,000 sqft, four-story data center. The first phase 8-megawatts of customer capacity is targeted for the third quarter of 2022.The facility's address is 641 Walsh Ave and is adjacent to...

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Read CoreSite launches LA3
CoreSite launches LA3

CoreSite launches LA3

December 02, 2020 CoreSite LA3

CoreSite has officially launched LA3, which was built in the parking lot of LA2 at 900 N Alameda. LA2 has an interesting history as it was that was built in 1940 as a Postal Annex and it was the central mail processing facility for the Los Angeles metro until 1989. The LA2/LA3 campus is connected...

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Read Prime Data Centers Develops New 9MW Santa Clara Data Center
Prime Data Centers Develops New 9MW Santa Clara Data Center

Prime Data Centers Develops New 9MW Santa Clara Data Center

October 20, 2020 Prime Santa Clara

SANTA CLARA, CA — Prime Data Centers, a wholesale data center real estate developer, today announces the development of a four-story, 121,000-square-foot data center in the heart of Silicon Valley. Located at 1111 Comstock Street in Santa Clara, CA, Prime will begin construction within the next...

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Read T5 Acquires an Apple data center in Silicon Valley
T5 Acquires an Apple data center in Silicon Valley

T5 Acquires an Apple data center in Silicon Valley

October 07, 2020 T5@Silicon Valley Bldg 1

T5 has announced that it has acquired an enterprise data center in Newark, CA. The description matches an Apple data center near Fremont. It's a legacy site and Apple is continuing to build monster data center campuses, so it makes sense that the iPhone make would divest the property. The nearest...

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Read EdgeConneX Acquires Expansion Facilities in Santa Clara
EdgeConneX Acquires Expansion Facilities in Santa Clara

EdgeConneX Acquires Expansion Facilities in Santa Clara

August 19, 2020 EdgeConneX Santa Clara

EdgeConneX has bought 3 buildings in Santa Clara totaling 229,000 square feet. The Mercury News reports that "An EdgeConneX affiliate, EdgeConneX Silicon Valley Holdings II, paid $83.3 million for the buildings, Santa Clara County documents filed on Aug. 14 show." 1700 Richard Ave: Current...

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Read EQT acquires EdgeConneX
EQT acquires EdgeConneX

EQT acquires EdgeConneX

August 19, 2020 EdgeConneX

The Swedish investment firm EQT AB has announced that it acquired the US-based colocation company EdgeConneX. EdgeConneX has a global footprint, operating over 40 facilities in 33 markets across North America, Europe and South America and continues to expand after being founded a decade ago. EQT...

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Read Colovore Adds 3.5MW High-Density Colocation Capacity to Silicon Valley
Colovore Adds 3.5MW High-Density Colocation Capacity to Silicon Valley

Colovore Adds 3.5MW High-Density Colocation Capacity to Silicon Valley

August 18, 2020 Colovore: SJC01

SANTA CLARA, Calif., /PRNewswire/ -- Colovore, the Bay Area's leading provider of high-performance colocation for high-performance computing infrastructure, today announced that it has expanded again and now has 3.5 MW of high-density capacity currently available in supply-constrained Silicon...

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Read STACK is adding a second facility next to its existing San Jose data center
STACK is adding a second facility next to its existing San Jose data center

STACK is adding a second facility next to its existing San Jose data center

January 17, 2020 Stack: SVY01A

STACK has announced that it will build a second building on its Silicon Valley Campus. The planned 32 megawatt and 240,000 square foot data center will be served through PG&E’s Direct Access program. Data Center Frontier has a more in depth article detailing STACK's new build.

Read Prime Data Centers Launches 8MW Data Center at McClellan Park, Sacramento
Prime Data Centers Launches 8MW Data Center at McClellan Park, Sacramento

Prime Data Centers Launches 8MW Data Center at McClellan Park, Sacramento

January 14, 2020 Prime: Sacramento Bldg1

SACRAMENTO, Calif./PRNewswire/ -- Prime Data Centers Corporation is announcing the immediate availability of an 8MW data center facility located within McClellan Business Park in Sacramento California, a Federal Qualified Opportunity Zone. This brand-new facility with ~70,000 SF of N+1...

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Read Evocative Acquires VPLS, Inc. and VPLS Solutions and will Consolidate under VPLS Brand (PR)
Evocative Acquires VPLS, Inc. and VPLS Solutions and will Consolidate under VPLS Brand (PR)

Evocative Acquires VPLS, Inc. and VPLS Solutions and will Consolidate under VPLS Brand (PR)

November 14, 2019 Evocative

Evocative Data Centers (“Evocative”), a leading provider of Internet infrastructure, colocation, hosting and managed services, announced today that it has acquired VPLS, Inc. and VPLS Solutions, LLC to form one of the fastest growing cloud, managed services, colocation and value added resellers...

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Read Taboola has Expanded with Internap in Los Angeles
Taboola has Expanded with Internap in Los Angeles

Taboola has Expanded with Internap in Los Angeles

April 16, 2019 Evocative Redondo LAX14

Internap (INAP) has announced that Taboola has expanded in their flagship data center in Redondo Beach (South of Los Angeles.) Taboola is known for its "Recommended For You" articles that appear at the bottom of news articles. The articles are actually advertisements that are made to appear as...

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Read L.A. Moving City Operations to State Data Center in $10.5M Deal
L.A. Moving City Operations to State Data Center in $10.5M Deal

L.A. Moving City Operations to State Data Center in $10.5M Deal

March 21, 2019 Dept of Technology Rancho Cordova

The city of Los Angeles is giving up on its 30-year-old legacy mainframe system and is contracting with the California Department of Technology to move its operations to the State Data Center in Sacramento. The city will pay the state $10.5 million for three years of service, with an option to...

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Read CyrusOne Expands Santa Clara Campus While Still Under Construction
CyrusOne Expands Santa Clara Campus While Still Under Construction

CyrusOne Expands Santa Clara Campus While Still Under Construction

February 19, 2019 Tishman Speyer: Santa Clara

CyrusOne is expanding it's Santa Clara data center campus just months after announcing their first data center in Silicon Valley. Demand must be strong. It was only in Q3 2018 when the company began building it's first data center in Santa Clara. CyrusOne Press Release: SANTA CLARA,...

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Read Google's Curie Cable System to Land at Equinix LA4 (PR)
Google's Curie Cable System to Land at Equinix LA4 (PR)

Google's Curie Cable System to Land at Equinix LA4 (PR)

February 07, 2019 Equinix El Segundo LA4

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that Google has selected Equinix for its Los Angeles area cable landing station (CLS) supporting the Curie subsea cable system, the first subsea cable to Chile in...

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