Data Center News

Sila agrees to sell all its data centers to Mapletree for $1.3bn

Sila Realty Trust announced that it has agreed to sell all its 29 data centers in the US to Mapletree Investment Trust for $1.3 billion. The 29 data centers are all the data centers in Sila’s portfolio which means upon completion; it will be an exit from the data center industry for Sila. ...

May 20, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Mapletree Redwood Data Centre Trust

Digital Realty Introduces New Connections to Google Cloud In 5 Major Metros

Digital Realty recently said that it has expanded secure, private access to Google Cloud’s global network in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Vienna in Austria, and Dusseldorf in Germany. Digital Realty also announced that it had added its second direct interconnect to Google Cloud in Frankfurt.The direc...

March 23, 2021

Eric Bell

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty Relocates Headquarters to Austin

Digital Realty (DLR) has announced it will relocate its corporate headquarters to Austin, Texas from San Francisco, California. DLR will maintain a presence in the San Francisco Bay Area as one of the world's leading technology hubs.Digital Realty already operates a significant data center foo...

January 15, 2021

Eric Bell

Digital Realty Trust

Mapletree Industrial Trustto Acquire Remaining 60% Interest in 14 Data Centres in the United States

SINGAPORE: DBS Trustee Limited, a trustee of Mapletree Industrial Trust (MIT), has entered into agreements for the proposed acquisition of the remaining 60% interest in the 14 data centres in the United States of America currently held by Mapletree Redwood Data Centre Trust (MRDCT) at a purcha...

June 23, 2020

Eric Bell

Mapletree Redwood Data Centre Trust

Segra Acquires NorthState

Charlotte, NC – Segra, one of the largest fiber infrastructure bandwidth companies in the Eastern U.S., today announced it has acquired NorthState, a provider of high-speed bandwidth services in the fast-growing Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina. The acquisition expands Segra’s fiber ne...

May 19, 2020

Eric Bell

Segra

TierPoint Raises $320 Million from Consortium of Investors (PR)

ST. LOUIS – TierPoint, a leading provider of secure, connected data center and cloud solutions at the edge of the internet, announced it has reached an agreement that will result in new, preferred equity investments totaling $320 million, which the company expects to be closed and funded by m...

March 24, 2020

Eric Bell

TierPoint

Digital Realty completes Acquisition of Interxion, a European Colocation Provider

Digital Realty Trust has closed its acquisition of Interxion. Interxion was one of the largest independent colocation providers in Europe. It was a smart pick up by Digital. The Interxion portfolio includes many densely interconnected buildings which will include Frankfurt, Madrid, Vienna, Ams...

March 13, 2020

Eric Bell

Digital Realty Trust

GIGA Data Centers Launches New Facility in Charlotte

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 ...

June 20, 2019

Eric Bell

GIGA Charlotte (Mooresville)

Digital Realty And Ascenty Are Building New Facility in Chile to Support a Multi-Megawatt Cloud Deployment (Press Release)

Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, and Ascenty, a market leader in data center services in Latin America, announced today a long-term, multi-megawatt agreement with a leading global cloud provider to build a new facil...

April 25, 2019

Eric Bell

Digital Realty Trust

ScaleMatrix Acquires Instant Data Centers for High-Density Edge

There are many layers and facets to edge computing, which is the focus of a growing list of companies, including everyone from startups to the largest cloud platforms. As a result, edge strategies will drive an active season for mergers and acquisitions. That’s true for the data center sec...

March 19, 2019

Eric Bell

ScaleMatrix

TierPoint Launches Cloud Connect Express for connections to Azure and AWS from All TierPoint Locations

TierPoint, a leading provider of secure, connected data center and cloud solutions at the edge of the internet, today announced the launch of its new Cloud Connect Express (CCX) service.Leveraging TierPoint’s network assets and Zayo’s CloudLink solution, CCX provides TierPoint customers with ...

October 16, 2018

Eric Bell

TierPoint

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

Eric Bell

Charlotte

Digital Realty, IBM Expand Cloud Connections

Digital Realty, a global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions and an IBM Business Partner, announced today it will expand dedicated, private access to the IBM Cloud in 15 major metropolitan areas around the world. These on-ramps help ensure efficient and secure access...

July 24, 2018

Eric Bell

Digital Realty Trust

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

Eric Bell

Digital Realty Trust

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