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DataBank Begins Construction of a New Data Facility in Atlanta, Georgia

DataBank has begun constructing a new data center in Atlanta, Georgia, and has completed an expansion in San Diego, California.The US-based business announced the start of construction on its ATL4 data center in Atlanta last week. The colocation facility, located at 200 Selig Drive, will incl...

May 04, 2023

DataBank

QTS reveals latest plans for campus in Prince William County's Digital Gateway

Last week, QTS submitted the third draft of its plans for the controversial and hotly debated Prince William Digital Gateway to the Prince William County government. The updated plan shows the company's intention to increase the size of its proposed buildings. QTS has also requested a waiver t...

May 03, 2023

QTS Data Centers

Equinix Plans 30MW+ Data Facility in Slough, UK

Equinix plans to construct a new 30MW+ data center in Slough Trading Estate, Berkshire, just outside of London. Late last year, as initially reported by the Royal Borough Observer, the corporation submitted a planning application for LD14. The Slough planning commission voted unanimously in...

April 27, 2023

Equinix

QTS Data Centers Suspends its Request For $45 million in Tax Benefits at its Atlanta Location

QTS Data Centers has refrained from requesting $45 million in tax incentives for its massive data center project near the Westside Trail of the Atlanta BeltLine. According to the Atlanta Business Chronicle, QTS halted its request for incentives for a $1.3 billion proposal involving two data ce...

April 27, 2023

QTS Data Centers

DataBank to expand one of its Seattle, Washington facilities

DataBank has announced it is expanding one of its Seattle, Washington facilities. The company plans to increase the floor space to 27,900 square feet (2,590 sqm) and up the available critical IT power to 3MW.“We decided to expand our footprint in the Seattle area based on how fast its digital...

April 18, 2023

DataBank

Digital Realty makes a series of renewable energy announcements

Digital Realty has announced that it has signed a number of renewable energy deals in line with its net zero and sustainability goals. In Australia the company has signed a renewable electricity supply contract with Origin Energy. The colocation company will procure energy from the Origin Sto...

April 14, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

GI Partners Acquires Ashburn Facility From Digital Realty

Digital Realty has sold GI Partners a data center in Ashburn, Virginia. According to Dgtl Infra, Digital Realty has sold the property at 43915 Devin Shafron Drive in Loudoun County to a private equity company. The single-story, 9 MW, 132,280 square foot building, also known as Building A, purp...

April 13, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Astra Establishes a Partnership With Equinix For a Data Center in Jakarta

Astra has joined Equinix's plans to develop a data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. This week, Astra and the colocation company announced a new joint venture, with Equinix holding 75 % of the new endeavor. The initial proposal for this joint venture is to build and operate a JK1 International ...

April 11, 2023

Equinix

DataBank Obtains Credit Facility of $325 Million

To help support its development aspirations, US colocation provider DataBank has obtained a new $325 million credit line. The facility, led by TD Securities, consists of a $50 million conventional credit line, a $125 million deferred draw term loan, and a $175 million five-year term loan. The ...

April 07, 2023

DataBank

Equinix expands footprint in Canada

Equinix has announced plans for a facility in Montreal, Canada. Known as MT2, the new facility is projected to be operational in the second half of 2023. In the first phase of the project, the facility will offer 500 racks from Q3, phase two, meanwhile, will add a further 500 racks by the fou...

April 06, 2023

Equinix

Equinix to expand Infomart building in Dallas, Texas

After acquiring the Infomart building in Dallas, Texas in 2018, Equinix has announced that it is expanding the property. This expansion will see $180 million injected into the 1990 N. Stemmons Freeway property.The addition will involve the company adding more than 211,000 square feet (19,600 s...

April 03, 2023

Equinix

Iberian Peninsula, Spain's Digital Infrastructure Receives a $42.5 million Investment From Exa Infrastructure

Since its founding in 2021, Exa Infrastructure has spent $42.5 million in digital infrastructure for the Iberian Peninsula, Spain. Sixty-two miles of Barcelona's metro network have been upgraded, linking various data centers, including those owned by Interxion, Equinix, Edge Energy, and EdgeCo...

March 30, 2023

EXA Infrastructure

Landowners sue City of Chicago over blocked sale for Equinix expansion

Landowners in Chicago are suing the city over the blocked sale of their property to Equinix, a data center company. The landowners allege that the city's actions were unconstitutional and violated their property rights. Equinix had planned to build a data center on the site at 2545 South Marti...

March 27, 2023

Equinix

Equinix announces new sustainability initiative to share waste heat in Paris

Equinix, in another move in alignment with its sustainability goals, has announced the opening of a rooftop urban farm at its PA10 data center in Paris, France. Promoting circular economy principles, the company will use its servers' waste heat to heat the greenhouse, which was built by Reid ...

March 17, 2023

Equinix

Anybotics Mechanical Dogs Installed in a Swiss Data Center by Digital Realty

At a data center in Switzerland, Digital Realty has installed a robotic dog to do routine inspections. Anybotics has detailed how Digital Realty has utilized its Anymal robot dog for data center checks for over a year in a published case study. Anymal is a quadruped robot that resembles Boston...

March 13, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty & Options Technology Increase Collaboration to Enhance Low-Latency, Cost-effective Asian Trading

With the extending of its collaboration with Options Technology, a top provider of capital markets services, Digital Realty, the top global provider of cloud or carrier-neutral data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions, has made its suite of managed financial markets services offe...

March 01, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Equinix signs solar PPAs in Spain

Equinix has inked five new long-term PPAs in Spain from solar farms, totalling 225MW, which will be managed by IGNIS. This reportedly brings the company's contracted PPA capacity to 595 MW globally. While specific details regarding the location of the farms have not yet been shared, the compa...

February 28, 2023

Equinix

QTS plans for Northland data center in question

Following speculation that QTS Realty Trust Inc. was the company seeking new development within Rocky Branch Creek Technology Park, and later confirmation, it looks like the company's Northland data center plans have now fallen through.The company was reportedly set to acquire the property nor...

February 24, 2023

QTS Data Centers

DataBank Secures $715m For Data Center Development

DataBank is collecting $715 million on the market for asset-backed securities (ABS) to develop its data center infrastructure. Kroll Bond Rating Agency has disclosed in a pre-sale report information on the financing. The deal's issuer and co-issuer are represented by DataBank Issuer, LLC and D...

February 23, 2023

DataBank

A 185,000-square-foot Data Center is Being Planned by Digital Realty for Manassas, Virginia.

Digital Second Manassas LLC plans to build a 185,000-square-foot, one-story data center at 9905 Godwin Road in Manassas, as previously reported by Potomac Local News and InsideNoVa. The current Glen-Gary brickyard, which opened about 1964 and shut down in 2019, is being demolished for the faci...

February 20, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

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