Global Data Center News

June 26, 2020

DataBank Commissioned its Second Data Center in Pittsburgh

DataBank Pittsburgh PIT2

DataBank has opened its second Pittsburgh data center in North Fayette Township, which it acquired from PNC Bank in January 2019. The PIT2 facility, DataBank’s second in the Pittsburgh area, brings the company’s total data center count to 20 facilities in nine markets.

June 24, 2020

Global Switch expands its European footprint as construction begins at its Amsterdam data centre campus

Global Switch: Amsterdam West

AMSTERDAM- Global Switch, a leading owner, operator and developer of large scale network dense, carrier and cloud neutral multi-tenanted data centres in Europe and Asia-Pacific has announced that in response to growing demand construction has started on the first stage of a new data centre in ...

June 24, 2020

Equinix Launches DA11 Adjacent to the Infomart and a 5G Proof of Concept Center

Equinix Dallas DA11

Equinix has commissioned DA11, a $142m data center expansion nextdoor to the Infomart in Dallas. Equinix acquired the iconic carrier hotel in 2018 for $800m. Equinix also announced the launch of a 5G and Edge Proof of Concept Center (POCC) to provide a sandbox environment for Mobile Network Op...

June 23, 2020

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

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 purcha...

June 22, 2020

DCI Indonesia has opened JK3 in Jakarta

DCI Indonesia: H1-JK3

DCI Indonesia has announced that they have completed the company's third data center on the campus in Cibitung in West Java, Indonesia. The JK3 facility has seven floors with four data hall floors with the remaining floors for M&E equipment. Constructed in collaboration with Equinix, JK3 h...

June 21, 2020

MEEZA reveals its 4th Data Centre

Meeza

Doha, Qatar – June 21 2020 – MEEZA, Qatar’s pioneering Data Centre business, revealed the launch of its 4th state-of-the-art Data Centre in Doha, as the latest addition to its nationwide plans, to support Qatar’s digital transformation and smart future. The new data centre, M-VAULT 4, is part ...

June 18, 2020

Sabey is adding 3.6 MW to Manhattan data center

Sabey Intergate.Manhattan

Sabey announced it was adding 3.6 megawatts to its Integrate.Manhattan facility. The construction will be completed by the end of the year.Intergate.Manhattan is Sabey Data Centers’ 1.1 million square foot building located in Lower Manhattan. It is a mixed used building with data center/infr...

June 17, 2020

Digital Realty Breaks Ground on 1st Facility in South Korea

Digital Seoul 1 (ICN10)

Digital Realty has begun construction on its first facility in Seoul, South Korea. Digital Seoul 1, also know as ICN10, will be built on a 22,000 square foot land parcel within the Sangam Digital Media City in northwest area of the city.The new facility will have 12 megawatts of critical (IT) ...

June 16, 2020

Andy Stewart becomes Evoque's new CEO

Csquare

Evoque Data Center Solutions has appointed Andy Stewart as CEO, effective immediately. Stewart brings more than 15 years of senior management experience, including a decade of strategic development and execution, to Evoque. He previously served chief strategy officer at TierPoint, where he was...

June 16, 2020

DRFortress will expand its Hawaiian data center

DRFortress Honolulu

DRFortress is expanding its Honolulu facility. The Hawaiian colocation firm will add 130 cabinets to its existing facility, creating a total of more than 600 cabinets for lease and a space of 55,000 square feet. Upon completion, DRFortress will expand on its role as the largest data center in...

June 16, 2020

New Dark Fiber Provider, DF&I, Announced Investment from IPI (PR)

Northern Virginia

ASHBURN, Va., /PRNewswire/ -- Dark Fiber & Infrastructure, LLC ("DF&I" or the "Company") today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to receive a majority investment from IPI Partners, LLC ("IPI"). IPI's investment will be used to accelerate the growth of DF&I's footprint ...

June 15, 2020

GIGA Data Centers Building New Colocation Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (PR)

GIGA Oak Ridge, TN

Atlanta, GA — GIGA Data Centers, LLC (GIGA), a new breed of data center provider creating affordable, multi-tenant colocation facilities with unprecedented energy efficiency, today announced the company is building its newest Data Center in Oak Ridge, TN. GIGA secured unanimous approval of i...

June 12, 2020

QTS Creates the New Jersey Network Access Point (NJ NAP)

QTS Piscataway

QTS has announced that it is creating a new Internet Exchange Point (IXP) called the NJ NAP in their Piscataway facility. Baxtel is skeptical that the IXP will thrive unless it is extended into other carrier-neutral data centers in the greater New York region.

June 11, 2020

Facebook announces ninth data center in Prineville

Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook has announced their ninth data center on the Prineville, Oregon campus. The building will be 450,000 sqft and be completed in 2023. Rendering of the 9th data center accompanied the announcement

June 10, 2020

Duocast add POP at QTS Eemshaven

QTS Eemshaven

QTS announced that Duocast, a Dutch internet service provider, has established a point of presence in QTS' Eemshaven data center. Duocast offers a portfolio of Internet and Ethernet services, IP Transit, IoT backbone and dedicated hosting servicesThe QTS Press Release - June 10th, 2020: New ...

June 10, 2020

Northern Data AG provides an update on Texas data center (PR)

Crypto Mining Data Center

Initial commissioning successfully completed / Innovative cooling and proprietary AI systems are online and running well Area of 40 hectares / utilization of one gigawatt is now expected by the end of 2020 Expansion to 3.6 gigawatts planned by 2023 Frankfurt am Main – June 10, 2020 – Norther...

June 08, 2020

Equinix Prices Offering Of $2.6 Billion Senior Notes (PR)

Equinix

REDWOOD CITY, Calif /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. ("Equinix") (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, announced the pricing of its underwritten public offering of $2.6 billion aggregate principal amount of senior notes, consisting of $500,000,000 of 1.250% Senior No...

June 04, 2020

ServerFarm Adds 14MW to Toronto Data Center

ServerFarm Toronto TOR1

ServerFarm has upgraded its Toronto facility. The project to add 14MW of new critical capacity to ServerFarm’s existing Toronto data center included a major construction phase, which was completed during the COVID-19 lockdown. The facility’s utility power availability is now over 21MW.ServerFa...

June 03, 2020

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE Launches Construction on New Campus in Arizona

STACK: Phoenix 01 Campus

Stack Infrastructure, a company that develops data centers and digital infrastructure, acquired 79 acres just outside Phoenix, where it plans to develop up to 1 million square feet of data centers in the up-and-coming Southwest tech market. The Denver-based company bought land in Avondale, Ari...

June 03, 2020

Netrality Acquired INAP's Houston Data Center

1301 Fannin - Netrality Houston

Netrality has announced that the company has acquired the Internap Holding (“INAP”) data center in Houston. The facility is located in 1301 Fannin, Houston's carrier hotel. The deal seems to work for both sides. Netrality gets more colocation space to sell in their marquee building and INAP ge...

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DataBank Commissioned its Second Data Center in Pittsburgh

Global Switch expands its European footprint as construction begins at its Amsterdam data centre campus

Equinix Launches DA11 Adjacent to the Infomart and a 5G Proof of Concept Center