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Read The colocation and hosting business of Ntirety acquired by Data Canopy
The colocation and hosting business of Ntirety acquired by Data Canopy

The colocation and hosting business of Ntirety acquired by Data Canopy

July 03, 2023 DataCanopy

The just-bought colocation company Data Canopy took over the colocation data center hosting division of IT security provider Ntirety. The deal's terms were not disclosed. Data Canopy, founded in 2007, provides colocation, connectivity, and cloud services from numerous data centers worldwide. It...

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Read Digital Realty buys 9 acres in Amsterdam for a 20MW data center
Digital Realty buys 9 acres in Amsterdam for a 20MW data center

Digital Realty buys 9 acres in Amsterdam for a 20MW data center

June 30, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has bought additional land for data centers in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This week, the company disclosed the acquisition of a 387,500-square-foot (8.9-acre) land parcel on its Amsterdam Schiphol campus. According to reports, the acquired land parcel can sustain a 40MW data center...

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Read Sobrato sells Equinix-leased Silicon Valley data facility to Invesco for $86 million
Sobrato sells Equinix-leased Silicon Valley data facility to Invesco for $86 million

Sobrato sells Equinix-leased Silicon Valley data facility to Invesco for $86 million

June 22, 2023 Equinix

Invesco has purchased a data center in San Jose, California, run by Equinix. Mercury News reports that the Sobrato Organization recently sold 1735 Lundy Avenue in San Jose to Invesco Real Estate for $86.3 million, citing documents from Santa Clara County. The single-story building encompasses...

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Read External construction work on Digital Realty’s latest Frankfurt data center now complete
External construction work on Digital Realty’s latest Frankfurt data center now complete

External construction work on Digital Realty’s latest Frankfurt data center now complete

June 14, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty’s new data center, FRA33 facility in Hattersheim, Frankfurt, Germany, has now been completed, it has been announced. The new facility will reportedly offer 40MW of IT capacity spanning 16,000 square meters (172,222 sq ft) of white space. The construction firm that worked on the...

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Read Equinix to open its first data center in Kuala Lumpur in 2024
Equinix to open its first data center in Kuala Lumpur in 2024

Equinix to open its first data center in Kuala Lumpur in 2024

June 12, 2023 Equinix

Equinix is expanding its data center footprint in Malaysia, with plans for a new data center in Kuala Lumpur called KL1, which, the company said, will provide greater digital infrastructure capacity in the country. The new facility, which follows the company's announcement of JH1 in Johor, will...

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Read Digital Realty designs data center on Marseille sugar silo site
Digital Realty designs data center on Marseille sugar silo site

Digital Realty designs data center on Marseille sugar silo site

June 09, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty will construct a new data center on the site of an ancient sugar silo at the Port of Marseille-Fos, having won a bid to acquire and develop the land. The new MRS5 facility will reportedly encompass approximately 107,640 square feet and will be operational by the end of 2025....

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Read Digital Realty gets $1.1 billion, sells Texas and Illinois data facilities
Digital Realty gets $1.1 billion, sells Texas and Illinois data facilities

Digital Realty gets $1.1 billion, sells Texas and Illinois data facilities

June 07, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty, a US data center company, has had an eventful week raising money and selling data centers. The company announced that it had raised over $1 billion through the sale of shares, with the money going to be used for expansion and debt reduction. Digital is selling the vast majority...

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Read Equinix to open its third International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Dubai
Equinix to open its third International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Dubai

Equinix to open its third International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Dubai

May 31, 2023 Equinix

Equinix has announced that it is opening its third International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Dubai, which, at full build-out, will offer 1,800 cabinets of capacity across two phases or a total footprint of 12,000 square meters (135,000 square feet). The facility will support the...

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Read Digital Realty Plans to Construct a Thirteen-story Data Center in Los Angeles
Digital Realty Plans to Construct a Thirteen-story Data Center in Los Angeles

Digital Realty Plans to Construct a Thirteen-story Data Center in Los Angeles

May 26, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has applied to construct a new data center in Los Angeles, California. The company has applied to construct a thirteen-story data center at 727 S Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. The prospective applicant is GIP 7th Street LLC, a well-known subsidiary of Digital Realty. At...

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Read Manulife Inve Management Buys a Majority Stake in Serverfarm
Manulife Inve Management Buys a Majority Stake in Serverfarm

Manulife Inve Management Buys a Majority Stake in Serverfarm

May 22, 2023 ServerFarm Realty

Manulife Investment Management (Manulife IM) bought the majority of Serverfarm's shares. This week, the investment firm announced that, on behalf of Manulife Infrastructure Fund II and its affiliates, it had signed an official contract to acquire a controlling stake in Serverfarm. The terms of...

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Read Netrality Data Centers to expand capacity in Houston
Netrality Data Centers to expand capacity in Houston

Netrality Data Centers to expand capacity in Houston

May 15, 2023 Houston

Netrality Data Centers has announced that it is expanding capacity at its Houston data center at 1301 Fannin Street. The company has shared that it will add two new data center halls spanning 17,000 square feet and offering over 2.5 megawatts of critical capacity.Due to come online at the end of...

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Read Digital Realty Sets Up Direct Liquid Cooling at Paris "HPC-capable" Data Center
Digital Realty Sets Up Direct Liquid Cooling at Paris "HPC-capable" Data Center

Digital Realty Sets Up Direct Liquid Cooling at Paris "HPC-capable" Data Center

May 12, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Direct liquid cooling (DLC) capabilities have been implemented at Digital Realty's La Courneuve data center in Paris, France. According to the company, its new facility is capable of high-performance computing (HPC). Fabrice Coquio, SVP and managing director – France at Digital Realty stated that...

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Read Equinix signs 150MW PPA in Spain
Equinix signs 150MW PPA in Spain

Equinix signs 150MW PPA in Spain

May 09, 2023 Equinix

Equinix has announced that it has inked a ten-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Sonnedix. The deal will see the colocation provider source energy from three PV plants in the Castilla-La Mancha region of Spain. The three plants are pegged to be operational by the end of 2024; collectively,...

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Read DataBank Begins Construction of a New Data Facility in Atlanta, Georgia
DataBank Begins Construction of a New Data Facility in Atlanta, Georgia

DataBank Begins Construction of a New Data Facility in Atlanta, Georgia

May 04, 2023 DataBank

DataBank has begun constructing a new data center in Atlanta, Georgia, and has completed an expansion in San Diego, California. The US-based business announced the start of construction on its ATL4 data center in Atlanta last week. The colocation facility, located at 200 Selig Drive, will include...

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Read Equinix Plans 30MW+ Data Facility in Slough, UK
Equinix Plans  30MW+ Data Facility in Slough, UK

Equinix Plans 30MW+ Data Facility in Slough, UK

April 27, 2023 Equinix

Equinix plans to construct a new 30MW+ data center in Slough Trading Estate, Berkshire, just outside of London. Late last year, as initially reported by the Royal Borough Observer, the corporation submitted a planning application for LD14. The Slough planning commission voted unanimously in favor...

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Read EdgeConneX Increases the Size of Its Israeli Data Centers
EdgeConneX Increases the Size of Its Israeli Data Centers

EdgeConneX Increases the Size of Its Israeli Data Centers

April 25, 2023 EdgeConneX

The construction of a new facility in Rishon will allow EdgeConneX, an innovator in global Hyperlocal to Hyperscale Data Center Solutions, to increase its data center impact in Israel. The new data center will meet the region's growing demand from hyperscalers, cloud service providers, and...

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Read DataBank to expand one of its Seattle, Washington facilities
DataBank to expand one of its  Seattle, Washington facilities

DataBank to expand one of its Seattle, Washington facilities

April 18, 2023 DataBank

DataBank has announced it is expanding one of its Seattle, Washington facilities. The company plans to increase the floor space to 27,900 square feet (2,590 sqm) and up the available critical IT power to 3MW. “We decided to expand our footprint in the Seattle area based on how fast its digital...

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Read Digital Realty makes a series of renewable energy announcements
Digital Realty makes a series of renewable energy announcements

Digital Realty makes a series of renewable energy announcements

April 14, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it has signed a number of renewable energy deals in line with its net zero and sustainability goals. In Australia the company has signed a renewable electricity supply contract with Origin Energy. The colocation company will procure energy from the Origin...

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Read GI Partners Acquires Ashburn Facility From Digital Realty
GI Partners Acquires Ashburn Facility From Digital Realty

GI Partners Acquires Ashburn Facility From Digital Realty

April 13, 2023 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has sold GI Partners a data center in Ashburn, Virginia. According to Dgtl Infra, Digital Realty has sold the property at 43915 Devin Shafron Drive in Loudoun County to a private equity company. The single-story, 9 MW, 132,280 square foot building, also known as Building A,...

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Read Astra Establishes a Partnership With Equinix For a Data Center in Jakarta
Astra Establishes a Partnership With Equinix For a Data Center in Jakarta

Astra Establishes a Partnership With Equinix For a Data Center in Jakarta

April 11, 2023 Equinix

Astra has joined Equinix's plans to develop a data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. This week, Astra and the colocation company announced a new joint venture, with Equinix holding 75 % of the new endeavor. The initial proposal for this joint venture is to build and operate a JK1 International...

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