Data Center News

Digital Realty opens new Sydney Data Center at Erskine Park

Digital Realty Erskine Park (Sydney)

Digital Realty’s SYD11 data center at Erskine Park in Sydney is scheduled to open in the fourth quarter of 2018. To look at how the new facility reflects both the evolution of Digital Realty’s global design standards and Australia’s capacity for early adoption of data center innovation, DCD spoke...

Chesterfield County Data Center That Hosts the Virginia Information Technologies Agency Was Sold For $44 Million

Virginia Information Technologies Agency

With work on one of the region’s largest data centers underway in Henrico County, a smaller facility on the southern end of metro Richmond has changed hands in an eight-figure deal. The two-story, 193,000-square-foot data center at 11751 Meadowville Road in Chesterfield County’s Meadowville Techn...

Equinix Expands NAP of the Americas on the 5th Floor

NAP of the Americas - Equinix Miami MI1

Equinix has completed the first of two construction phases on the fifth floor of NAP of the Americas, Miami’s big data center and interconnection hub that serves as the biggest gateway the world’s data traffic travels through to reach markets in Latin America and the Caribbean. The phase, which c...

Close to Chicago-Indiana NAP’s ‘Digital Crossroads’ development will first comprise a 105,000 square foot data center

Digital Crossroad (Indiana NAP)

Workers have broken ground on a $40 million data center in the city of Hammond, Indiana, on the 77-acre site of a former coal plant on Lake Michigan. Led by developers Tom Dakich and Peter Feldman from Indiana NAP, the Digital Crossroads project will comprise a 105,000 square foot (9,755 sq m) da...

Virginia Beach's new data center park expects to draw the likes of Snapchat, IBM and Uber

Virginia Beach

A Dutch company wants to create a new data center park to draw the likes of Snapchat, IBM and Uber. NxtVn will spend $1.5 billion to $2 billion to build a hub off General Booth Boulevard to attract companies that seek high-capacity connections from the U.S. to Europe. The company also plans to in...

DigiPlex data center will help keep Oslo warm

Vaultica: OSL01

Nordic data center operator DigiPlex has announced plans to recover waste thermal energy from its campus in Ulven, Oslo, and use it to heat residential properties. The company has agreed on a partnership with a subsidiary of utility provider Fortum, which has similar arrangements with data center...

Sabey Data Centers to add 14MW in Washington

Sabey Intergate.Columbia

Intergate.Columbia is adding another data center building. Seattle-based wholesale colocation provider Sabey Data Centers has started work on a new facility at its Intergate.Columbia campus in East Wenatchee, Washington. Building D will span 140,000 square feet (13,000 sq m) across four data hall...

AirTrunk raises $621m for expansion

AirTrunk

Singapore-based AirTrunk announced that it has successfully completed an AU$850 million (US$621m) financing round to fund a major expansion of its Australian data centers in Sydney and Melbourne, as well as across key Asia-Pacific markets. Deutsche Bank is the underwriter for the new financing ro...

EdgeConneX Announces Second Atlanta Data Center (PR)

Herndon, VA  – EdgeConneX®, specializing in global data center solutions at the edge of the network, today announces the creation of an Edge Data Center® (EDC) campus in Atlanta, Georgia. The new EDC, ATL02, brings 15MW of additional critical power capacity to market. The Edge Campus will be ...

Keppel DC REIT expands to Australia through new data centre

It will spend $26.3m to $36.41m on the construction. Keppel DC REIT will be expanding in Australia through a new shell and core data centre which will be built on the vacant land within the Macquarie Business Park precinct in Sydney, it said in an announcement. Macquarie Telecom, the master lesse...

Google plans $600M data center expansion in South Carolina

Hyperscale Data Center

MONCKS CORNER, S.C. (AP) — Google plans a $600 million expansion of its data center in South Carolina. The Post and Courier of Charleston reports records regarding the expansion were filed with Berkeley County, which will consider a property tax break for the unit of California-based Alphabet ...

DATA4 is now Fully Owned by Axa Investment Managers – Real Assets, Acting on Behalf of Axa France

DATA4 Group

Involved in the governance of DATA4 since 2012, AXA IM – Real Assets has supported the company in taking on the challenges of the digital transformation of companies and recognised the strong potential of the Internet infrastructure sector, two areas that are key to the digital economy. Establ...

Cologix Announces 3rd Vancouver Data Center to be Ready in Q2 2019

Cologix Vancouver VAN3

Cologix, a network-neutral interconnection, data center and cloud exchange company, announced today the development of its new VAN3 data center located at 2828 Natal Street, just a 20-minute drive from the heart of downtown Vancouver. VAN3 is expected to be completed in Q2 2019 and will deliver a...

Colony Bank Chooses Colo Atl Data Center

American Tower: 55 Marietta

Colo Atl, the leading provider of carrier-neutral colocation, data center and interconnection services at 55 Marietta Street in Atlanta, is proud to welcome Colony Bankcorp, Inc., a bank holding company headquartered in Fitzgerald, GA with twenty-seven offices located in central, southern and coa...

Digital Realty, IBM Expand Cloud Connections

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty, a global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions and an IBM Business Partner, announced today it will expand dedicated, private access to the IBM Cloud in 15 major metropolitan areas around the world. These on-ramps help ensure efficient and secure access...

Facebook Migrates to Solar Energy for Oregon Data Centers

Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook and Pacific Power said they are joining up to construct solar projects that will generate energy to offset what Facebook uses at its data centers in Prineville, Oregon. The solar projects, two near Prineville and four in Utah, expect to produce 437 megawatts of power when finished by the...

MIX Peering PoP Established at Aruba’s Global Cloud Data Center

Aruba: IT3 DC-A

Aruba S.p.A. inked a deal with the Milan Internet eXchange (MIX) to see the addition of new interconnections with Aruba launching a point of presence (PoP) directly accessible from its Global Cloud Data Center – the largest data center campus in Italy – thanks to equipment linked to Milan via two...

Keysource Expands ITPS Data Centre In Response to Azure and NHS Cloud Demand

Partnership House

Keysource has been brought in by managed IT services firm ITPS to upgrade and expand its colocation facility in County Durham, north east England. The need was driven by increased demand for ITPS’ services, following its selection by Microsoft as one of the early adopters of the Azure Stack roll-...

Construction of data center prototype starts in Boden

Stockholm

After a few months of planning and preparatory works the European consortium broke ground and started the construction works of building the prototype of one of the worlds most efficient data center. The project funded by EU’s innovation and research programme Horizon 2020 kicked-off in October 2...

VIRTUS Opens London’s Largest Colocation Campus

VIRTUS: London 5

VIRTUS Data Centres (VIRTUS), the UK’s fastest growing data centre provider, has announced that its Stockley Park campus is now online, with the first pre-let customer to be live imminently. VIRTUS LONDON5 and LONDON6 are the first two data centres to open on the campus, delivering 40 MW of IT ca...