Data Center News

Northern Data to successfully merge with Whinstone US (PR)

Crypto Mining Data Center

The merger creates world’s leading blockchain infrastructure company High-Performance Computing Infrastructure in addition to blockchain for game streaming and AI Company to close strategic partnerships Frankfurt on the Main – February 10, 2020 – Northern Data AG (XETRA: NB2, ISIN: DE000A0SM...

NTT Ltd. to Expand U.S. Data Center Footprint to Hillsboro, Oregon

NTT Hilsboro HI1

NTT (formerly RagingWire) is building a new data center campus in Hillsboro, outside of Portland. Quick Facts: The first 6 MW will be available in mid-2020 and the 47-acre campus can be expanded to support five buildings with 144 MW and about 1 million square feet.  RagingWire acquired the bui...

365 Data Centers Acquires Commack, Long Island Data Center From mindSHIFT Technologies (PR)

365 Long Island LI1

mindSHIFT remains a managed IT infrastructure provider, continuing its commitment to local and national customers, and signs long-term colocation services agreement with 365. Norwalk, CT — 365 Data Centers, a leading provider of cloud, connectivity, and data center services for enterprise, ca...

Beanfield Technologies Expands Fiber Footprint into Montreal with Acquisition of Openface (PR)

Beanfield Metroconnect

TORONTO /PRNewswire/ -- Beanfield Technologies Inc. ("Beanfield"), an independent telecommunications infrastructure provider in Canada serving the enterprise, carrier and multi-dwelling units  markets, today announced its acquisition of Openface Inc. ("Openface"), a leading provider of fiber-b...

Compass Adds Second Campus in Dallas Metro

Compass Red Oak Campus

Compass Data Centers announced it acquired 225 acres in Red Oak, located Ellis County, South of Dallas TX metro. Construction has already begun with the first data center at the site, and it's slated for delivery in the second quarter later this year. The campus is located adjacent to Google's...

Long Ridge Energy Terminal to Develop 300+ Megawatt Data Center Campus

DP Facilities: Hannibal

HANNIBAL, OH (PRWEB) -- Long Ridge Energy Terminal, located on 1,600 acres in Hannibal, Ohio announced today its plans to develop a 125-acre data center campus in conjunction with its on-site 485 MW combined cycle power plant currently under construction. Situated between Columbus, Ohio and Pi...

Amazon purchases 100 acres in Chantilly for $73 million

Amazon Data Services has acquired 100 acres in Chantilly as part of a $73 million deal.The Washington Business Journal first reported earlier this month that H&M Gudelsky Asset Management LLC sold the land shortly before Christmas for well over the assessed value of nearly $3.5 million.  T...

T5 adds a second facility in suburban Chicago

T5 Chicago II

T5 Data Centers has acquired a data center in Elk Grove, on the West side of Chicago. The 164,000 sqft facility is located in the Elk Grove Technology Park and is the company's second facility in Elk Grove. T5's first Chicago area data center is 1.5 miles away at 1441 Touhy Ave The facility ...

STACK is adding a second facility next to its existing San Jose data center

STACK Silicon Valley SVY01

STACK has announced that it will build a second building on its Silicon Valley Campus. The planned 32 megawatt and 240,000 square foot data center will be served through PG&E’s Direct Access program. Data Center Frontier has a more in depth article detailing STACK's new build. 

Servpac Announces New Data Center and Disaster Recovery Office in Hawaii (PR)

Servpac MTP Mililani Tech Park

HONOLULU, HI — Servpac Inc., Hawaii’s Largest Independent Telecom Provider, announces a new data center in Mililani Tech Park. Known as MTP, the new data center facility offers state-of-the-art colocation, disaster recovery, and other interconnection services available to new and existing cust...

GI Partners Invests in DR Fortress (PR)

DRFortress

/PRNewswire/ -- GI Partners, a leading private investment firm, announced the acquisition of a majority interest in DR Fortress, LLC, in partnership with the company's management team, including President Fred Rodi and CFO Rosa White, both co-founders. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Hono...

Prime Data Centers Launches 8MW Data Center at McClellan Park, Sacramento

Prime Sacramento

SACRAMENTO, Calif./PRNewswire/ -- Prime Data Centers Corporation is announcing the immediate availability of an 8MW data center facility located within McClellan Business Park in Sacramento California, a Federal Qualified Opportunity Zone.  This brand-new facility with ~70,000 SF of N+1 concur...

Macquarie to acquire AirTrunk

AirTrunk

Bloomberg reports that AirTrunk has agreed to be acquired by Macquaire Infrastructure & Real Assets for $2.1 billion USD ($3 billion AUD). AirTrunk, an Australian based provider, operates data centers in Sydney, Melbourne, and Singapore and has announced plans to open a facility in Hong K...

Equinix Completes US$175 Million Acquisition of Three Axtel Data Centers in Mexico

Equinix

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced the completion of its acquisition of three data centers from Axtel S.A.B. de C.V. (BMV: AXTELCPO) that serve the Mexico City and Monterrey metro areas of Mexic...

Google is Planning the Biggest Solar + Storage Array

Hyperscale Data Center

Google and NV Energy have agreed to power a new $600 million data center in Henderson, NV, through what they say is the world’s biggest battery-backed solar deal for a corporate customer. The agreement involves roughly 350 MW of solar photovoltaics and between 250 and 280 MW of battery storage...

Ascenty opens second data center in Vinhedo

Ascenty Vinhedo 2

Ascenty, the leading data center company focused on the Latin American market, added yet another data center to its network. Located at the company’s mega campus in the town of Vinhedo, the facility is expected to start operations in the second half of 2020. The company invested BRL 200 millio...

DataBank Announces $185 Million Equity Investment from Colony Capital (PR

DataBank

DALLAS, Jan. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- DataBank, a leading provider of enterprise-class data center, connectivity and managed services, today announced that Colony Capital (NYSE: CLNY) has made a $185 million investment into DataBank through the purchase of secondary equity interests from existi...

Interxion to acquire controlling interest in Icolo

InterXion

Interxion has entered into an agreement to acquire a controlling interest in Icolo, a Kenyan data centre operator, and that it has also entered into a strategic partnership with the Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Fund (PRIF). PRIF will invest in Icolo and will continue to co-invest with Interx...

New Albany Council Approves Incentives for 3rd Amazon facility

Hyperscale Data Center

Amazon Web Services appears once again to be expanding its footprint in New Albany. The company now has three sites for data-center complexes in the city, with a total investment of $1.7 billion in the New Albany International Business Park, according to a fact sheet provided at the New Albany...

Chris Bair joins Stream Data Centers as SVP of Sales

Stream Data Centers

Chris Bair has joined Stream Data Centers as the SVP of Sales and Leasing. Bair, who has arguably the quickest wit in the industry, has over 20 years of experience in the sector. Bair started his career as a Pilot and Captin in the US Air Force. Had a stint at Time Warner Telecom before joi...