March 04, 2022 QTS Data Centers
The IPCC'S most recent report on climate change has once again warned that our ecosystem is at a crisis point, and without significant and real action, the situation will only worsen. Coinciding with the release of the IPCC report, QTS and Sabey announced they have joined the DOE's Better Climate...
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March 02, 2022 QTS Data Centers
In Northern Virginia, tensions are running high as locals continue to express their opposition to QTS’s proposals for a new data center campus in Prince William County. Although previously locals cited a number of reasons for opposition, including environmental concerns and a desire to preserve...
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February 25, 2022 Cologix
Cologix and CIM Group have entered a Joint Venture (JV), which will see them develop, construct and operate a new data center located in Markham, near downtown Toronto. The facility, namely TOR4, will be a 50K SQFT purpose-built data center. The new build will have a capacity of 15 MW and will be...
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February 16, 2022 Cologix
Cologix has announced that it is funneling further investment in its expansion to accelerate its growth, adding to the number of hyperscale edge data centers in its portfolio. Alongside this announcement, the company also published the new name of its hyperscale edge data centers, Scalelogix....
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February 10, 2022 QTS Data Centers
QTS has revealed its plans to develop a data center on an 800-acre site in Prince William County, Virginia. The company’s plans are part of the controversial move by the county to rezone over 2,100 acres of land in Manassas, Northern Virginia, for developing data centers. A spokesperson for QTS...
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January 07, 2022 Cologix
Investment firm Stonepeak has revealed that it has recapitalized Cologix. Stonepeak is an Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund, and it has decided to pull out its investment in Cologix. The agreement sees Stonepeak Infrastructure Fund II LP and its co-investors sell Cologix to vehicles managed by...
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December 16, 2021 Facebook Altoona Iowa
Meta/Facebook has revealed that it is expanding its Altoona, Iowa data center facility again. The company announced that it is developing two new buildings at the campus that will bring the facility to five million square feet. Meta noted that the expansion will be its seventh, and by so doing,...
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December 14, 2021 Cologix
According to Asset Securitization Report, Cologix is planning to raise funds through a $1.1 billion securitization. Cologix will be issuing Asset-Backed Security notes by using proceeds from seventeen properties as backing. According to filings with the Kroll Bond Rating Agency, Deutsche Bank is...
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August 27, 2021 QTS Data Centers
The shareholders of QTS Realty Trust have finally approved the Company’s acquisition by Blackstone. The deal is expected to be close before the end of August. The two companies first agreed on a deal in June. However, there was a 40-day period in which QTS was given to look for alternative...
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August 20, 2021 Cologix
Cologix recently released its first Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) report. Within the report, the hyperscale company made a number of commitments, including a pledge to improve its energy efficiencies and harness renewable energy options "where available." Currently, Cologix powers...
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August 16, 2021 QTS Data Centers
2021 has been an eventful year in the data center industry as we’ve seen some major merger and acquisition activities as these firms look to expand their capacities. We are going to shine the spotlight on the top five merger and acquisition activities in Q2 of 2021. We’ll be able to see which...
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June 07, 2021 QTS Data Centers
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...
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June 01, 2021 QTS Data Centers
QTS Realty Trust has announced its new Smart Family of data center remote management solutions. The Smart Family solution is built on advanced tech, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and preemptive understanding into customers’ colocation environment.QTS Smart family solutions...
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May 28, 2021 Facebook Altoona Iowa
Facebook has announced that it would be expanding its Altoona data center campus. The expansion will see Facebook add two more buildings to its existing eight buildings at the facility. The expansion will also see the total area space to 4.1 million square feet. Facebook initially announced its...
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January 05, 2021 Bluebird Quad Cities
Bluebird Press Release on January 5, 2021 COLUMBIA, MO – Bluebird Network – a communications infrastructure provider and data center operator – is excited to announce that effective December 31, 2020, it acquired the ColoHub Data Center—previously owned by Geneseo Communications—located in...
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December 10, 2019 CyrusOne Council Bluffs
CyrusOne is building a new data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Located just across the river from Omaha the facility will be near two large Google facilities. CyrusOne choose the location because the company believes more companies will want to store their large data sets near cloud compute...
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December 10, 2019 CyrusOne Council Bluffs
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 10, 2019-- CyrusOne a premier global data center REIT, has celebrated breaking ground for its data center site in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Located at 4700 Gifford Rd, the first phase of the facility will be ready for occupation in the Fall of 2020. Upon...
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September 03, 2019 Bluebird Network
COLUMBIA, MISSOURI — Bluebird Network, LLC (“Bluebird”), a Midwest telecommunications company, is excited to announce the close of its acquisition by Macquarie Infrastructure Partners (MIP), one of the largest infrastructure funds in the world. Through this acquisition, Bluebird will increase...
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May 07, 2019 Facebook Altoona Iowa
Facebook is building a fifth data center on their campus in Altoona Iowa. The company expect to invest $400 million to build a 1 million sqft H-shapped data center. Altoona City Council approved a deal that would make Facebook exempt from paying property taxes on the new building for 20 years....
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November 12, 2018 Cologix
Cologix, a network and cloud-neutral interconnection and data-center company, today announced it has added two new executives to its leadership team as the company prepares to rapidly expand its data center colocation and interconnection services. Laura Ortman joins Cologix as President and Chief...
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