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Equifax to Decommission Data Center outside Atlanta

The City of Alpharetta last week announced that Equifax was investing $25 million to expand its Alpharetta campus, located in Fulton County. The expansion includes the renovation of the third floor of the JV White 1 building, converting it from a data center into collaborative office space. “T...

September 12, 2025

Atlanta

Atlanta City Council members propose new bill to block data center developments

Atlanta City Councilmen Jason Dozier and Matt Westmoreland have introduced bills to block data center developments around certain areas of the Georgia city near transit stops and the Beltline.“Excited to introduce legislation alongside Matt Westmoreland to address the rapid growth of data cent...

May 10, 2024

Atlanta

GI Partners acquires fiber firm DQE Communications

Investment firm GI Partners this week announced the closing of the acquisition of Pennsylvanian regional fiber firm DQE Communications from DQE’s parent company, Pittsburgh-based Duquesne Light Holdings Inc. The company has also appointed Michael T. Sicoli as CEO of the company, effective imme...

May 06, 2024

GI Partners

GI Partners' managing director, John Sheputis, announces resignation

GI Partners' managing director, John Sheputis, who has been with the company for over four years, has now announced his resignation. According to his LinkedIn profile, he left the MD role in November 2023, carrying on as a senior advisor until the end of the year before finally departing. He i...

February 09, 2024

GI Partners

LightEdge acquires data center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

GI Partners-owned company LightEdge this week announced it had acquired a 76,000-square-foot, 3.6MW facility, located at 1708 West Creek Lane in Carver County, Chaska, Minnesota. This data center houses 30,000 square feet of data hall space across three private data center suites. LightEdge ...

January 18, 2024

GI Partners

Edged Energy begins work on Atlanta data center

Construction on Edge Energy's Atlanta, Georgia data center is underway, with the company commencing work on July 1st. Located at Tilford Yard, the company bought the 158 acre-site back in July 2021; 70 acres will be dedicated to data center development. In January 2023, it filed a building per...

July 04, 2023

Atlanta

NCR Resume Additional Services After a Ransomware Breach

After a ransomware assault caused a data center outage that disrupted its Aloha cloud-based services and Counterpoint apps, NCR is making progress toward restoring services. For the subset of CMC customers who were impacted by the incident, online ordering has resumed and NCR's Command Center...

April 28, 2023

Atlanta

A new data center is planned for Tilford Yard

According to reports, a new data center is planned for Tilford Yard, on Atlanta’s Westside, under the project name Edged. This announcement comes following the filing of a building permit for a nearly 210,000-square-foot, two-level data center.Further to this, records show that Endeavour, the ...

January 23, 2023

Atlanta

GI Partners Buys Sentinel's 22262 Cloud Plaza in Sterling, Virginia

GI Partners has completed the acquisition of a data center in Sterling, Virginia. The investment firm announced that it acquired the 22262 Cloud Plaza from Sentinel Data Centers. The companies did not reveal the terms of the deal. 22262 Cloud Plaza was first launched and fully commissioned ...

May 19, 2022

GI Partners

GI Partners completes the acquisition of LightEdge

GI Partners has completed the acquisition of Des Moines-based colocation provider LightEdge. LightEdge operates seven data centers in Kansas City, Des Moines, Raleigh, Austin, and Omaha. Anschutz Corporation has owned the majority of the firm since 2018. CEO of LightEdge, Jim Masterson, sai...

September 14, 2021

GI Partners

GI Partners new ETS Fund to target data centers and life sciences

GI Partners has launched the GI Real Estate Essential Tech + Science Fund (ETS Fund), which will look to acquire data center properties and life sciences assets. The fund will also focus on always-on R&D facilities in the office and industrial sectors. Former president of Infomart, John...

July 14, 2021

GI Partners

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