September 10, 2021 TierPoint
TierPoint has announced that it is expanding in Missouri by investing $20 million into building a 23,000 square feet Tier III data center in the St. Louis region. The data center firm already has three facilities in Missouri; two in St. Louis and one in Kansas City. TierPoint has also secured an...
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September 07, 2021 Lumen Technologies
Lumen Technologies, formerly known as CenturyLink, has agreed to pay $275,000 to resolve a Civil Contempt Claim by the Department of Justice for its acquisition of Level 3 Communications Inc in 2016. The Justice Department accused Lumen (formerly CenturyLink) of violating the terms designed to...
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August 25, 2021 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has filed for permission to build data centers in Clondalkin, Ireland. According to Digital Realty’s application, the Company wants 10-year permission to build two data center buildings called DUB15 and DUB16 close to its existing facilities in Clondalkin. These buildings will have...
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August 18, 2021 Mapletree Redwood Data Centre Trust
As part of its acquisition of Sila Realty Trust’s data center portfolio, Mapletree Investment Trust has also acquired a Lumen data center in Minnesota. The facility is at 5400-5500 Feltl Road inside the Opus Business Park, Minnetonka. It is reported that Sila paid $26 million for the facility....
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August 16, 2021 Mapletree Redwood Data Centre Trust
2021 has been an eventful year in the data center industry as we’ve seen some major merger and acquisition activities as these firms look to expand their capacities. We are going to shine the spotlight on the top five merger and acquisition activities in Q2 of 2021. We’ll be able to see which...
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August 06, 2021 Lumen Technologies
Lumen Technologies has announced that it is selling its current local exchange carrier (ILEC) business in 20 states for $7.5 billion. The firm will be selling the business to Apollo Funds. Lumen Technologies currently operates the ILEC business under the CenturyLink name, and the business...
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August 06, 2021 Flexential
Flexential has made a leaseback agreement with Legacy Investing and Invesco Real Estate for its data center facility in Plano. The deal will see Flexential add 130,000 square feet to its existing space, which means it will be doubling its capacity with the expansion. None of the companies...
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July 30, 2021 Compass Datacenters
As Compass Datacenters expands across North America, it is prioritizing sustainability in the building of its data centers. Using technology created by Nova Scotia-based CarbonCure Technologies means that not only is less cement required in the mixing of concrete, but CO2 is also permanently...
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July 28, 2021 Lumen Technologies
Lumen Technologies has announced the sale of its entire Latin American business to Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners. The sale is said to be worth $2.7 billion. Australia’s largest pension fund, AustralianSuper, is also investing funds in the deal with Stonepeak. The current leadership team of...
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July 16, 2021 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has announced that it has entered into a 50/50 joint venture agreement with Brookfield Infrastructure to develop data centers in India. The brand name of the joint venture is BAM Digital Realty. Although precise details around the project are yet to be released, reports indicate...
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July 16, 2021 Digital Realty Trust
According to its latest ESG report, Digital Realty is meeting its sustainability targets in the push for carbon-neutrality. The company, as part of the Science-Based Target Initiative (SBTi), has committed to reducing its Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 68% and Scope 3 emissions by 24% by 2030. Its...
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June 17, 2021 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has announced in its third ESG report that half of its global data center portfolio is now powered by green energy. It did this by increasing the portfolio of its data centers being powered by renewable energy by 20% in 2020. Impressively, it also increased its energy consumption...
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June 10, 2021 Digital Realty Trust
According to a report from Bloomberg, Digital Realty is considering an Initial Public Offer (IPO) of a Singaporean trust that could raise between $300 million to $400 million. The report says Digital Realty is working with its advisers on the listing, and they are looking to conclude the IPO...
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May 20, 2021 Digital Realty Trust
SAN FRANCISCO, May. 20, 2021 -- Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, announced today its Brazilian subsidiary, Stellar Participações Ltda., has completed the previously announced acquisition of Ascenty, the leading data...
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May 20, 2021 Mapletree Redwood Data Centre Trust
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. CEO and...
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March 23, 2021 Digital Realty Trust
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 direct...
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January 15, 2021 Digital Realty Trust
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...
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June 23, 2020 Mapletree Redwood Data Centre Trust
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 purchase...
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May 19, 2020 Segra
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...
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May 06, 2020 Compass Datacenters
Compass has announced on their blog that they have completed the integration of the ROOT data centers. ROOT was acquired in July 2019. The announcement states, "Over the past few months, we’ve been hard at work integrating the two companies’ construction, operations, marketing, and sales teams....
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