Data Center News

Zayo Completes Transition to a Private Company

Zayo

Zayo is now a private company, owned by a joint venture of Digital Colony and EQT after completion of a $14.3 billion purchase, 10 months after it was announced. Digital Colony said the deal was the largest syndicated private equity investment, the fifth largest media and communications levera...

Equinix opens WA3 data center in Warsaw, Poland

Equinix WA3

Equinix has opened WA3, the company's third data center in Warsaw. WA3 opened on March 5th 2020 and reportely cost $34 million to construct. The first phase has 475 cabinets and more than 1,400 sq m (15,000 sq ft) of colocation space. Once the data center is fully built out, the facility will ...

Yann Lechelle joins Scaleway as CEO alongside Arnaud de Bermingham as President

OpCore

Paris,   March   2,   2020  -   Arnaud de Bermingham, founder and former   CEO of Scaleway, a European cloud provider, has chosen Yann Lechelle   as Chief Executive Officer; Arnaud de Bermingham will carry on as President of the company. Effective today, the appointment of Yann Lechelle aims a...

DataBank Announces Partnership with Pittsburgh Internet Exchange (PR)

DataBank Pittsburgh PIT1

Dallas, Texas – DataBank, a leading provider of enterprise-class data center, connectivity and managed services, announces the Pittsburgh Internet Exchange (PIT-IX) is now available at its Pittsburgh data center (PIT1). Located in NOVA Place, in the newly updated Allegheny Technology Center M...

American Internet Services (AIS) Services Becomes NFINIT (PR)

NFINIT

AIS, a Full Stack Technology Services Company Unveils New Corporate Brand Identity, NFINIT SAN DIEGO, CA – AIS Technology Services (AIS), Southern California’s leading provider of cloud, colocation and connectivity services, today announced the company's complete rebrand to NFINIT. The new bra...

QTS Pre-leases 100% of Its Initial Development in Hillsboro OR

QTS: Hillsboro 1 DC1

QTS has signed an anchor tenant for it's new Hillsboro campus. QTS has pre-leased the entire first phase (4.5 MW) to a global software-as-a-service provider. The Company expects to complete the first phase of development in Hillsboro by mid-2020 with additional power capacity available for cus...

Microsoft Plans New Grange Castle Data Center

Hyperscale Data Center

Independent.ie reports that Microsoft is in discussions with the South Dublin County Council to acquire 20 more acres in the Grange Castle Business Park. The acquisition would lead to the expansion of the company's already massive data centre campus. The facility will have enough room for 120 ...

NLDC and The Datacenter Group Rebrand as NorthC

NorthC Datacenters

The Datacenter Group (TDCG) and NLDC, who merged in July of 2019, will be rebranded under a new name: NorthC. With ten data centers across the Netherlands, NorthC is the largest regional data center business in the country, serving both large organizations and government institutions as well a...

Digital Realty gains control of Seattle's Carrier Hotel, the Westin Building

Westin Building Seattle

Digital Realty will gain control of Seattle's Carrier Hotel, the Westin Building.  Digital announced it will acquire an additional 49% stake in the Westin Building Exchange from Clise Properties. Digital already had a 49% stake in the project which it acquired in 2006. For more info please ref...

Big Data Exchange (BDx) Announces Construction of Nanjing Data Center (PR)

BDx Nanjing

HONG KONG -- BDx announced the construction of its newest data center in Nanjing, China this week, set to launch June 2020. Including facilities currently being acquired, BDx will have eight data centers in cities across two continents, including Nanjing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Singapore and Lo...

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...

Vantage makes big bet on Europe, Buys Etix and expands into 4 new markets

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers announced its expansion into Europe through the acquisition of Etix Everywhere and greenfield developments in four additional European markets. Etix’s data center portfolio includes a 55MW hyperscale data center campus in Frankfurt, Germany, which is currently under constr...

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

NTT: 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: SVY01A

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.