Los Angeles Data Center News

New European Clean Hydrogen Partnership announced

The European Clean Hydrogen Partnership has announced its €2.5 million EcoEdge PrimePower project (E2P2). The tech consortium making up the partnership includes Equinix, InfraPrime, RISE, Snam, SolidPower, TEC4FUELS and Vertiv. Together, they will pursue the development of low-carbon fuel cell...

December 15, 2021

Equinix

SeverFarm becomes signatory of European Climate Neutral Data Center Pact

ServerFarm is the latest signatory of the Climate Neutral Data Center Pact (CNDCP), a pact that commits signatories to become climate neutral by 2030. Achieving this goal will involve the company reducing the emissions its operations produce. Alongside joining the CNDCP, the company has also ...

December 13, 2021

ServerFarm Realty

Equinix's PE3 data center launched in Perth, Australia

Equinix has announced that its PE3 data center in Perth, Australia, has launched, the third IBX facility in the city. According to reports, the first phase of the project provides a capacity of 700 cabinets spanning 1,830 sqm (38,600 sqtf), following an investment of US$54 million (A$71.7 mill...

December 10, 2021

Equinix

China Telecom leaving the US in January after appeal fails

News emerging is that China Telecom Americas will be leaving the United States. This comes after the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied China Telecom’s emergency motion to pause an FCC order that revoked its authorizations to continue operations in the country. ...

December 08, 2021

China Telecom

Equinix expanding into Africa through $320m MainOne acquisition

Equinix has announced that it is acquiring West Africa’s data center company MainOne for $320 million. The acquisition sees Equinix expand its operations into Africa for the first time. Funke Opeke founded MainOne in 2010 through its MDXi brand. The company has three data centers in operati...

December 07, 2021

Equinix

CoreSite’s VA3 Data Center goes green, powered by 100% renewables

CoreSite has announced that its VA3 data on its Northern Virginia campus is powered by 100% renewable energy. This move to green has been achieved through Dominion Energy’s 100% Renewable Energy Program, which has a portfolio of locally-sourced solar, hydroelectric, and biomass energy. Com...

December 01, 2021

CoreSite

Digital Realty teams up with CoolestDC for liquid cooling for SIN11 data center

Digital Realty is partnering with Coolest DC to develop high-efficiency thermal management solutions for the industry following a pilot program supported by Temasek Foundation. The initial pilot scheme sought to improve energy consumption by data centers and enhance efficiency and had deploye...

November 30, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty: Sustainability-linked refinancing

Digital Realty has announced that it has "amended, extended, and upsized" its existing global revolving credit facility from $2.35 billion to $3.0 billion, which now feature a sustainability-linked pricing component. Moreover, the pricing will be "subject to adjustment" based on performance ta...

November 25, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

VPLS acquires Wave Broadband's data center Silicon Valley

VPLS has completed the acquisition of its third data this year by buying Wave Broadband’s facility in Santa Clara, California. The 3MW, 30,000 square feet data center located at 3080 Raymond Street, was acquired for an undisclosed fee. VPLS will rename the data center to SV3. According to r...

November 25, 2021

Evocative

Atlanta: Serverfarm makes 110,000 sqft more of data center space available

Severfarm has made 110,000 square feet (10,200 sqm) of new capacity available at its Atlanta data center, which it acquired from AMD back in 2017. According to the company, the facility's tenant had developed it as an 'enterprise data center' but in fact only occupied around a quarter of the a...

November 18, 2021

ServerFarm Realty

CoreSite exploring sale

According to Reuters, CoreSite is looking at the possibility of a sale. The real estate trust is working with an investment bank to see its options. CoreSite currently operates over 25 data centers across North America. It also has a market of over $8 billion. According to reports, CoreSite ha...

November 12, 2021

CoreSite

Databank moves into Ashburn, Virginia

Databank has announced that it is breaking ground on a new facility in Ashburn, Northern Virginia. This data center, IAD3, will initially have a capacity of 4MW of capacity expandable to 40MW and will span 200,000 sq ft (18,600 sqm). According to the company, the facility will be ready for ser...

November 10, 2021

DataBank

Equinix announces plans for its new data center in Manchester, UK

Equinix has revealed its plans for a new data center in Manchester, UK. The MA5 facility is the company’s fifth IBX facility in Manchester. It is situated in the Agecroft Commerce Park in Salford. The first phase of the facility will provide up to 3,600 square meters of colocation space. It...

October 28, 2021

Equinix

Digital Realty forms JW with Pembani Remgro to acquire Nigeria's Medallion Data Centres

Digital Realty has announced that it has formed a joint venture with Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Fund to acquire Medallion Data Centres. Medallion is Nigeria’s top interconnection and colocation provider. The company operates two data centers in the country. One of the facilities is in Abuja...

October 27, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

Equinix and PGIM Real Estate form a $575 Million Joint Venture to Develop Hyperscale Data Centers in Australia

Equinix and PGIM Real Estate have formed a new $575 million joint venture with an aim to develop hyperscale data centers in Sydney, Australia. PGIM is the real estate investment and financing division of Prudential Financial. The facilities the companies will be developing under this JV are...

October 19, 2021

Equinix

Digital Realty makes strategic investment in AtlasEdge

Digital Realty has reached an agreement to make a strategic investment in AtlasEdge Data Centres. The investment will also see Digital Realty’s Executive VP, Strategic & Business Segments, Giuliano Di Vitantonio, join AtlasEdge as CEO, starting January 2022. AtlasEdge delivers smooth, loca...

October 15, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

Sustainable Finance: New way to address the environmental footprint of data centers

Much has been said about how data centers adversely affect the environment. However, more data centers have begun to become 'Greener.' Besides, in order to leave a better environmental footprint, many data center companies are now spending more on green energy. Investors and data center fin...

September 27, 2021

Aligned

Menlo Equities acquires four Digital Realty data centers in Silicon Valley

Menlo Equities has completed the acquisition of four Digital Realty data centers in Silicon Valley. The firm acquired the facilities for a combined $108.8 million. First, it acquired a facility at 4650 Old Ironside Drive in Santa Clara for $35.8 million. The facility has 124,400 square feet...

September 24, 2021

Menlo Digital

Edge Centres drives forward plans for solar-power edge data center site Australia

Edge Centres has set its sights on Victoria to be home to its first edge data centers. The site in Bendigo, just outside of Melbourne, has been sought out as the first in a long line of prospective sights for development plans.Its data center designs have carbon-negative footprints, and the si...

September 24, 2021

Edge Centres

Prime Data Centers to invest $1 billion in 150MW campus in Elk Grove, Chicago

Prime Data Centers has revealed that it wants to build a new data center campus in Elk Grove, Illinois. The data center company says it has plans to invest up to $1 billion in developing a 150MW, 750,000 square feet campus that features three three-story facilities. The facility will be sit...

September 17, 2021

Prime Data Centers

Data Center News

Ready to Level up Your Data Center Strategy?

Ready to Level up Your
Data Center Strategy?