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phoenixNAP to Expand its Data Center in Phoenix, Arizona

PhoenixNAP just announced that it had acquired land to expand its data center in Phoenix, Arizona. The land it purchased is next to its flagship data center in Phoenix. Furthermore, the planned data center will support 10MW of capacity and, it could be expanded in the future. Phoenix also add...

June 10, 2021

Eric Bell

PhoenixNAP-Phoenix

Stockland to build new data center in Macquarie Park, Sydney

Stockland has announced plans to build a five-story new data center in Sydney, which, according to the Australian Financial Review, might be for Amazon Web Services (AWS). The facility, worth AU$264 million (US$204.3 million), was reportedly fast-tracked by the New South Wales Government due t...

June 09, 2021

Eric Advinci

Sydney

Valterra Partners & 1547 CSR acquire Miami-based ColoHouse

Valterra Partners LLC and Fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty LLC have acquired ColoHouse, a managed service provider with headquarters in Miami, Florida. Valterra Partners is an equity firm, while Fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty is a data center Company. The deal also includes...

June 09, 2021

Eric Bell

1547 Critical Systems Realty (fifteenfortyseven)

Facebook's Huntsville data center campus exceeds $1 billion

Facebook's Huntsville data center campus will reportedly top $1 billion following ongoing expansion. This announcement comes after the social media giant's initial investment of $750 million back in 2018.Once completed, the facility will employ over 200 people, two times its expectation three ...

June 09, 2021

Eric Bell

Meta Huntsville Campus

FiberLight announces fiber expansion in El Paso

FiberLight has announced the completion of its fiber expansion in the greater El Paso, Texas market with a new Point of Presence (PoP) at the MDC El Paso facility. The fiber infrastructure provider can now connect El Paso with Laredo, McAllen, and Brownsville. Moreover, this expansion will ena...

June 09, 2021

Eric Bell

MDC Data Centers

Colony Capital Rebrands as DigitalBridge, Sells non-digital Assets

Colony Capital announced that it has sold most of its non-digital assets to Fortress Investment group. It has also rebranded to DigitalBridge. This will see Colony Capital start using the Digital Bridge name after acquiring Digital Holdings in 2019. Asides from that, the Company will now focu...

June 09, 2021

Eric Bell

DigitalBridge

EIC launches project to store energy for data centers in compressed and liquid air

Energy Internet Corporation (EIC), a startup for renewable energy for data centers, has teamed up with Lummus Technology to use compressed air to store excess energy. The Companies seek to use this stored energy when renewable energy sources like wind and solar aren’t available.EIC will be pr...

June 09, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Real estate firm Hickory enters the data center arena, with plans for a 36MW facility in Melbo

Hickory, an Australian real estate development firm, has announced that it is entering the data center arena with plans to construct a 36MW facility in Truganina, west Melbourne, following development approval from Wyndham City Council.The data center will be built on a 3.5-hectare site and ha...

June 09, 2021

Melbourne

The FBI is looking for a vendor to manage its five data centers

The FBI is looking for a vendor to help manage its major data centers across the United States. The data centers are located in Huntsville- Alabama, Pocatello- Idaho, Vienna- Virginia, Washington- DC, and Clarksburg- West Virginia. Also, the winning vendor will provide engineering and technica...

June 08, 2021

Eric Bell

Federal Bureau of Investigation

DigiPlex and CTS awarded the Data Center Construction Award 2021

DigiPlex, and one of its construction partners CTS have received the Data Center Construction Award at the Datacloud Global Awards 2021. The award recognizes excellence in data center construction and obstacles overcome during this.The two teamed up for a joint entry for the second and third ...

June 08, 2021

Eric Bell

DigiPlex Norway AS

UK DWP signs £27 million contract extension with Ark Data Centers

The UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has extended its contract with Ark Data Centers for £27 million ($38.1 million). The contract starts in June 2021 and would run till May 2026. Also, this deal will see DWP continue to occupy four 760kW dedicated data halls in Ark Data Center’s faci...

June 08, 2021

Eric Bell

Ark Data Centres (UK)

Maxihost expands footprint to Mexico City

Maxihost is partnering with KIO Networks, the leading provider of mission-critical IT infrastructures in Mexico and Central America, to launch a new Point of Presence for its platform in Mexico. The partnership will see Maxihost add a third location to its Latin America trail. Maxihost said t...

June 08, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Maxihost

Blackstone to acquire QTS Realty Trust for $10 billion

Blackstone Group Inc has reportedly entered into an agreement to purchase QTS Realty Trust Inc for a total of $6.7 billion.According to the WSJ, the group's infrastructure unit, Blackstone Infrastructure Partners, with BREIT, its non-traded real-estate investment trust, has agreed to pay $78 a...

June 07, 2021

Eric Bell

QTS Data Centers

MeluXina supercomputer inaugurated in Luxembourg

Atos’s MeluXina supercomputer, first announced in September was inaugurated on June 7th, and will be hosted by LuxConnect’s data centers in Bissen. The MeluXina supercomputer The supercomputer is co-financed by the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking and ...

June 07, 2021

Luxembourg

Beeline and Russian Railways sign digital services agreement

Beeline, a Russian mobile operator, has signed a deal to develop digital services with Russian Railways. The agreement will see Beeline and Russian Railways explore IT infrastructure development using Russian Railways’ data center infrastructure. In addition, the Companies look to improve the...

June 07, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Evoque Data Center Solutions partners with four additional network service providers

Evoque Data Center Solutions has announced partnerships with four Network Service Providers (NSPs). It looks to use the partnership to expand its vendor-neutral approach to offering state-of-the-art connectivity to its customers. The new NSPs include Bandwith IG, Everstream, United Private Ne...

June 07, 2021

Eric Bell

Csquare

Thrive expands data center footprint with acquisition of UK firm Oni

Thrive has jumpstarted its expansion with the acquisition of data center services provider Oni. Backed by private equity firm Court Square Capital Partners, the deal gives the fast-growing MSP a European data center footprint.Although the deal's financial terms have not yet been disclosed, thi...

June 07, 2021

Thrive Luton

QScale breaks ground on AI-focused data center in Levis, Quebec

Qscale, a new Canadian company, has announced plans to build at least three renewable energy-powered data centers in Quebec. The facilities will specialize in AI, and construction has already begun on the first campus in Levis, with an expected delivery of November 2022.The project, forecast t...

June 04, 2021

Eric Bell

QScale

Tencent Launches Four New Data Centers in Asia and Europe

Tencent Cloud has announced its expansion with the launch of four new data centers in Bangkok, Frankfurt, Hong Kong and Tokyo, with a view to launch an additional facility in Bahrain by the end of 2021. This follows the opening of new facilities in South Korea, Indonesia, Singapore. This expan...

June 04, 2021

Eric Bell

Tencent Cloud

Togo inaugurates its first data center

The Ministry of the Digital of Economy and Digital Transformation recently announced the inauguration of Togo’s first data center. A Tier III+ facility built by CFAOP Technologies will provide sensitive data hosting as a neutral colocation facility.The facility took two and a half years to bui...

June 04, 2021

Eric Bell

Togo

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