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Verizon kickstarts construction of new cell tower in Texas

Verizon has started construction of a new cell tower at Fort Bliss Army Post in El Paso, Texas. This tower will be constructed by Boldyn Networks and will provide connectivity to service military personnel in Texas and New Mexico. “Verizon supports our military partners through a number of in...

February 21, 2024

Verizon Enterprise

FirstNet and AT&T announces $8 billion investment

US operator AT&T and the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) have announced a ten-year, $8 billion investment to expand and upgrade the nationwide public safety network. FirstNet will invest $6.3 billion through its network contract with AT&T and "anticipates an additional $2...

February 15, 2024

AT&T

GI Partners' managing director, John Sheputis, announces resignation

GI Partners' managing director, John Sheputis, who has been with the company for over four years, has now announced his resignation. According to his LinkedIn profile, he left the MD role in November 2023, carrying on as a senior advisor until the end of the year before finally departing. He i...

February 09, 2024

GI Partners

Equinix signs new PPA in Australia

Global colocation giant Equinix recently announced that it has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for 151MW of wind power in Australia. The company will pay for 20 percent of the first phase of the giant Golden Plains Wind Farm project, which is being built in rural Victoria, not far fro...

February 07, 2024

Equinix

Michael Winterson leaves Equinix after 24 years

Michael Winterson has left colocation provider Equinix after 24 years to take on the role of managing director for the European Data Centre Association. Winterson wrote on LinkedIn, “Exactly 24 years ago I started my data center career at IXEurope, not 300 meters from our current Equinix offic...

January 18, 2024

Equinix

LightEdge acquires data center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

GI Partners-owned company LightEdge this week announced it had acquired a 76,000-square-foot, 3.6MW facility, located at 1708 West Creek Lane in Carver County, Chaska, Minnesota. This data center houses 30,000 square feet of data hall space across three private data center suites. LightEdge ...

January 18, 2024

GI Partners

AT&T’s outage impacts South Texas

The outage from AT&T which was blamed on copper thefts in the area have now impacted residents in South Dallas, Texas. Thiis outage which led to services going down since Christmas day have reportedly caused losses of revenue for businesses in the area. AT&T said in an announcement, "W...

January 08, 2024

AT&T

Telehouse launches fifth facility in Frankfurt

Telehouse has launched and fully leased its fifth data center at its Frankfurt campus dubbed building M. This data center now adds 4.5 MW of IT capacity which has been fully leased less than two months since its opening. Dr. Béla Waldhauser, managing director of Telehouse Deutschland said, "I...

December 29, 2023

Telehouse

Digital Realty signs energy deal with Süwag Energie

Digital Realty has announced that it signed a renewable energy agreement with the energy service provider Süwag Energie AG to procure hydroelectric power in Germany. Following this agreement, Digital Realty has secured Guarantees of Origin (GoOs) for 6,000MWh of hydropower – originating from t...

December 28, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Equinix becomes one of U.S largest green bond issuers

Equinix is now one of the top ten largest green bond issuers in the United States after allocating $4.9 billion in green bonds to building and efficiency projects. These bonds will fund 172 green building projects on 105 sites, along with 33 energy efficiency projects. Equinix first issued gre...

December 28, 2023

Equinix

CoreSite plans new facilities in Secaucus and Denver

American Tower subsidiary CoreSite revealed its plans to expand its data center footprints in New Jersey and Colorado. The company revealed that it is already making plans for a data center in New Jersey which will be located adjacent to its NY2 facility at 2 Emerson Lane in Secaucus. It has a...

December 15, 2023

CoreSite

Equinix to roll out support for liquid cooling at over 100 facilities

Colocation firm Equinix announced this week that it plans to expand support for liquid cooling technologies – including direct-to-chip – to more than 100 of its International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers in more than 45 metros globally. Tiffany Osias, VP of global colocation at Equinix...

December 12, 2023

Equinix

Nokia foresees revenue dip after losing multi-billion dollar AT&T contract

Nokia has mentioned that it expects to see a dent in its revenues following AT&T's decision to award a lucrative Open RAN contract worth $14 billion to rival Ericsson. The company added that it expects revenue from AT&T in mobile networks to decrease over the next two to three years as...

December 09, 2023

AT&T

Digital Realty plans new hyperscale JV with Blackstone

Digital Realty recently revealed plans to set up a joint venture with Blackstone-affiliated funds led by Infrastructure, Real Estate, and Tactical Opportunities. This joint venture worth $7 billion will be used to develop four hyperscale data center campuses in Frankfurt, Germany; Paris, Franc...

December 07, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Equinix signs new energy deal in Portugal with Sonnedix

Equinix announced this week that it signed a ten-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to procure solar energy in Portugal Sonnedix’s first Portuguese solar PV project, the 149MW Sonnedix Douro. Axel Thiemann, CEO of Sonnedix, said, “We are very pleased to be extending our relationship with Equi...

December 05, 2023

Equinix

DataBank raises capital for new data centers

DataBank has raised $533 million of capital to build new data centers through debt and equity. This brings the total funds raised by the company this year to $1.6 billion, with $715 million of secured notes issued in February and a $350 million credit facility announced later in March. DataBa...

November 29, 2023

DataBank

DataBank plans 192MW data center facility in Virginia

DataBank announced it has acquired 85 acres of land in Culpeper, Virginia, to construct a new data center campus, which will host up to three two-story data centers offering 1.4 million square feet of space. The new facility will use DataBank’s recently announced Universal Data Hall Design (UD...

November 16, 2023

DataBank

Digital Realty and Realty Income Corporation form a data center JV in Northern Virginia

Digital Realty and Realty Income Corporation established a joint data center venture in Northern Virginia. Following their agreement, the real estate investment firm invested $200 million and will get an 80 percent equity interest in two data centers currently under construction in Northern Vi...

November 16, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

US Defense Information Systems Agency awards $110 million contract to Lumen

The US Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Lumen Technologies a $110 million contract to provide mission-critical network services to the US Department of Defense (DoD). This contract has a timeline of five years, from November 30, 2023, through September 30, 2028. This contract is...

November 10, 2023

Lumen Technologies

DataBank purchases new parcel in Atlanta, Georgia, for DC campus

US colocation provider DataBank recently purchased 95 acres of land near Lithia Springs within a mile of the 18 acres where it is already building its ATL4 facility in Atlanta, Georgia. The newly acquired parcel can accommodate two multi-story data centers totaling 1 million gross square feet....

November 01, 2023

DataBank

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