Global Data Center News

September 01, 2020

STACK closes an additional $325 Million in Debt Financing

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Denver-based Stack Infrastructure, a data center company, has closed a $325 million debt offering. Stack also issued securitized notes in February and November of last year. Including the latest round, the company has so far raised a total of $1.4 billion to fuel its growth. Stack's Press Rel...

August 25, 2020

Digital Edge and Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners Announce Formation of a Diversified Asia Pacific Data Center Platform, With a USD1 Billion Capital Commitment

Digital Edge DC

SINGAPORE & NEW YORK-- August 25, 2020 --Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners (“Stonepeak”), an infrastructure-focused private equity firm, and a group of seasoned senior executives formerly with Equinix, Facebook, Tata Communications and Macquarie, have formed a diversified, independent data...

August 25, 2020

Montreal Internet Exchange expanding to Hypertec YUL01

Hypertec YUL01B

Montreal Internet Exchange (QIX) has announced that it is expanding its fabric to Hypertec's Pointe-Claire two-facility campus (YUL01.) The announcement was made on twitter. See below.

August 20, 2020

Cologix Acquires vXchnge's Minneapolis facility in 511 Building

Cologix: Minnesota Technology Center

Cologix has announced it has acquired vXchnge's 16,000 square foot data center in the 511 Building in Minneapolis. The move further strengths Cologix's dominant position in the building. The company's press release is below. Previously in 2015, vXchnge acquired the site from SunGard.Cologix Pr...

August 19, 2020

EdgeConneX Acquires Expansion Facilities in Santa Clara

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 Ed...

August 19, 2020

EQT acquires EdgeConneX

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. ...

August 18, 2020

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

Colovore: Santa Clara 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 ...

August 13, 2020

Facebook Announces Gallatin Data Center in Tennesse

Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook has formally announced its data center project in Gallatin Tennesse via a column Sheryl Sandberg wrote in the Tennessean. The social media company will build a 982,000 square foot facility with a total investment of $800 million. The 809-acre campus will be powered with 220MW of renew...

August 04, 2020

SBA buys JAX NAP

JAX NAP

SBA Communications, a wireless tower provider, has acquired JaxNAP. JaxNAP is the primary carrier hotel in Jacksonville. This is the second data center acquisition for SBA. In September 2019, the company acquired New Continuum, a Chicago based data center provider. Read More: LightReading Dat...

August 03, 2020

Servpac opens MTP Facility in Hawaii (PR)

Servpac MTP Mililani Tech Park

MILILANI, Hawaii -- This week, Servpac Inc. announced the official opening of their MTP Data Center and has begun scheduling tours for interested parties. The state-of-the-art facility opens to meet growing demand for a reliable local data solution in a time plagued by uncertainty and enhanc...

August 01, 2020

NEXTDC launches P2

NextDC: P2 Perth

NEXTDC has officially launched its new P2 data center in Perth. The initial phase has 1 megawatt of capacity. When fully built out the building will support 20 MW. P2 is directly connected to NEXTDC’s P1 Perth data centre in Malaga via NEXTDC’s Data Centre Interconnect (DCI) services. ...

July 28, 2020

Console Connect now live in all Global Switch data centres worldwide

Global Switch

July 28, 2020 – PCCW Global today announced that its Console Connect Software-Defined Interconnection® (SDI®) platform is now available in many more data centres via an extended collaboration with Global Switch, a leading owner, operator and developer of large-scale carrier and cloud neutral ...

July 22, 2020

DataBank opens SLC5

DataBank SLC5

DataBank announced it has opened SLC5 in Salt Lake City. The facility is on the Granite Point campus in Bluffdale, UT. The large campus has room for one additional building, SLC6 which is currently in the design phase. DataBank's Press Release on July 22nd 2020: DataBank Announces Opening of ...

July 20, 2020

Ficolo Named Leader In Colocation

Ficolo Oy

The global technology research and advisory Information Services Group, ISG, has named Ficolo a Leader in Colocation in the Nordics. The ISG Provider Lens™ study covered the outsourcing provider landscape in the Nordic data center market and examined capabilities and competitive strengths bet...

July 16, 2020

Equinix to open ML5 in Milan near Via Caldera

Equinix Milan ML5

Equinix has announced that it will open ML5, its fourth data center in Milan. The first phase will cost $51 million and will provide 15,000 square feet (1,400 sqM). When all phases are complete, ML5 is expected to provide a total of 45,000 square feet (4,200 sqM) of colocation space. The loca...

July 13, 2020

Iron Mountain Announces 27 Megawatt Pre-Lease in Frankfurt with Fortune 100 Customer

Iron Mountain Frankfurt FRA-1

-- New FRA-1 Data Center 100% Pre-Leased --BOSTON, June 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the storage and information management services company, today announced that it has signed a 27 megawatt data center lease with a U.S.-based Fortune 100 customer in Frankfur...

July 09, 2020

Element Critical promotes Wayne Dietrich to COO and hired Ed Grndhauser for head of Sales & Marketing

Element Critical

VIENNA, Va. /PRNewswire/ -- Element Critical, a leading provider of IT infrastructure with premium data centers in Silicon Valley, Chicago, and Northern Virginia today announces the promotion of Wayne Dietrich to Chief Operating Officer. With diverse management experience spanning over two dec...

July 08, 2020

Colony Capital and Vantage Data Centers to Form Strategic Partnership to Advance Data Center Growth

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage has announced that Colony Capital will invest $1.2 billion into Vantage. This is on top of the $800 million it raised in February 2020 and $692 million it raised in 2019. A massive war chest to fund Vantage's aggressive expansion into Europe. Earlier this year the company announced it ...

July 02, 2020

Facebook will build a new Data Center Campus in Illinois

Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook has announced that it will build a new data center campus in DeKalb Illinois The DeKalb Data Center facts: The campus is on 505 acres located on Route 23 and Gurler Road. The Facebook-owned land can accommodate five buildings, and two will be completed by 2022. The five buildings wil...

July 01, 2020

Interxion announces the opening of MRS3 in Marseille (PR)

Digital Realty: Marseille MRS3

PARIS – Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier- and cloud-neutral colocation data centre solutions and a Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR) company, announced today the opening of the first phase of MRS3, its third data centre in Marseille. The Marseille campus sits at the heart of the gl...

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Data Centre Developer Sues New Jersey Town for $300m

STACK closes an additional $325 Million in Debt Financing

Digital Edge and Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners Announce Formation of a Diversified Asia Pacific Data Center Platform, With a USD1 Billion Capital Commitment

Montreal Internet Exchange expanding to Hypertec YUL01

Cologix Acquires vXchnge's Minneapolis facility in 511 Building