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Equinix Completes US$780 Million Acquisition of 13 Bell Data Centers in Canada

Equinix has completed it's acquisition of 13 Bell Canada's data centers. The acquisition was first announced in June 2020. Bell had operated the facilities under the Q9 brand. It partially acquired Q9 in 2012 for $1.1 billion and in 2016 it acquired the remainder for $675 million. This deal ...

October 01, 2020

Eric Bell

Equinix

STACK closes an additional $325 Million in Debt Financing

Denver-based Stack Infrastructure, a data center company, has closed a $325 million debt offering. Stack also issued securitized notes in February and November of last year. Including the latest round, the company has so far raised a total of $1.4 billion to fuel its growth. Stack's Press Rel...

September 01, 2020

Eric Bell

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Colony Capital and Vantage Data Centers to Form Strategic Partnership to Advance Data Center Growth

Vantage has announced that Colony Capital will invest $1.2 billion into Vantage. This is on top of the $800 million it raised in February 2020 and $692 million it raised in 2019. A massive war chest to fund Vantage's aggressive expansion into Europe. Earlier this year the company announced it ...

July 08, 2020

Eric Bell

Vantage Data Centers

Equinix Prices Offering Of $2.6 Billion Senior Notes (PR)

REDWOOD CITY, Calif /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. ("Equinix") (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, announced the pricing of its underwritten public offering of $2.6 billion aggregate principal amount of senior notes, consisting of $500,000,000 of 1.250% Senior No...

June 08, 2020

Eric Bell

Equinix

NEXTDC signed 6MW in Victoria in the last month, Announces expansions

NEXTDC announced it signed an additional 6 megawatts in Victoria. This is over and above the 27 MW of customer commitments that were announced in March 2020. The contracted customer commitments will support approximately 60 MW of growth in the state of Victoria, which represents the company's ...

May 01, 2020

Eric Bell

NEXTDC

Macquarie finalizes acquisition of AirTrunk

Macquarie has finalized the acquisition of AirTrunk. The deal, which values AirTrunk at $1.9B (USD), was led by Macquarie Asia Infrastructure Fund 2 (MAIF2) and other MIRA-managed partners. The 88% stake was acquired from Goldman Sachs, Sixth Street Partners (formerly TSSP) and from AirTrunk f...

April 08, 2020

Eric Bell

AirTrunk

Vantage Acquires NGD, one of Largest Data Centres in Europe

Vantage has announced it is set to acquire Next Generation Data (NGD), one of the largest data centres in Europe. The NGD campus is in the Cardiff Capital Region in South Wales.The acquisition provides Vantage with one of Europe’s largest data center campus totaling 180MW, including an existin...

April 07, 2020

Eric Bell

Vantage Data Centers

NEXTDC raised $408 million (USD) and announced Sydney expansion

NEXTDC, The Australia-based data centre operator, completed a $408 million USD ($672 million AUD) in institutional placement and announced plans to accelerate the development of its S3 Sydney data center. The first phase will be 12 MW and is expected to be completed by the first half of fiscal...

April 02, 2020

Eric Bell

NEXTDC

SUNeVision lands Microsoft ExpressRoute on MEGA Campus

SUNeVision Holdings Ltd, a Data centre provider in Hong Kong, has announced a new Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute on-ramp. Enterprises will have the ability to directly connect to Azure in MEGA-i, either through an onsite point of presence (PoP) or via telco partners, managed service providers or...

April 01, 2020

Eric Bell

Microsoft Azure

Digital Realty completes Acquisition of Interxion, a European Colocation Provider

Digital Realty Trust has closed its acquisition of Interxion. Interxion was one of the largest independent colocation providers in Europe. It was a smart pick up by Digital. The Interxion portfolio includes many densely interconnected buildings which will include Frankfurt, Madrid, Vienna, Ams...

March 13, 2020

Eric Bell

Digital Realty Trust

Vantage makes big bet on Europe, Buys Etix and expands into 4 new markets

Vantage Data Centers announced its expansion into Europe through the acquisition of Etix Everywhere and greenfield developments in four additional European markets. Etix’s data center portfolio includes a 55MW hyperscale data center campus in Frankfurt, Germany, which is currently under constr...

February 10, 2020

Eric Bell

Vantage Data Centers

Macquarie to acquire AirTrunk

Bloomberg reports that AirTrunk has agreed to be acquired by Macquaire Infrastructure & Real Assets for $2.1 billion USD ($3 billion AUD). AirTrunk, an Australian based provider, operates data centers in Sydney, Melbourne, and Singapore and has announced plans to open a facility in Hong K...

January 10, 2020

Eric Bell

AirTrunk

Equinix Completes US$175 Million Acquisition of Three Axtel Data Centers in Mexico

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced the completion of its acquisition of three data centers from Axtel S.A.B. de C.V. (BMV: AXTELCPO) that serve the Mexico City and Monterrey metro areas of Mexic...

January 09, 2020

Eric Bell

Equinix

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE Expands Securitization by $225 million to Fund Growth

Long-Term, Low-Cost, Investment-Grade Facility Provides Additional Capital to Drive Market and Client Expansion DENVER, CO – NOVEMBER 22, 2019 – STACK INFRASTRUCTURE (“STACK” or the “Company”), the data center company built from the ground up to address the technology infrastructure needs of...

November 22, 2019

Eric Bell

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

AirTrunk appoint Mark Adams as Advisory Board Member

AirTrunk today announced the appointment of Mark Adams as an independent advisory board member. Along with advising the AirTrunk board, Mark will provide strategic input into AirTrunk’s Asia-Pacific expansion plan. Mark is a seasoned strategy and M&A executive and brings to AirTrunk his e...

October 28, 2019

Eric Advinci

AirTrunk

Equinix to Expand into Mexico With US$175 Million Acquisition of Three Axtel Data Centers (PR)

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced it has entered into an agreement with Axtel S.A.B. de C.V. (BMV: AXTELCPO) to acquire three data centers that serve the Mexico City and Monterrey metro areas o...

October 04, 2019

Eric Bell

Equinix

Equinix Appoints Jon Lin as President, Americas

Congrats to Jon Lin who was promoted by Equinix to President of the Americas. Jon will oversee existing operations in North and South America. Equinix Press Release: REDWOOD CITY, Calif – Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that it...

June 17, 2019

Eric Bell

Equinix

Digital Realty And Ascenty Are Building New Facility in Chile to Support a Multi-Megawatt Cloud Deployment (Press Release)

Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, and Ascenty, a market leader in data center services in Latin America, announced today a long-term, multi-megawatt agreement with a leading global cloud provider to build a new facil...

April 25, 2019

Eric Bell

Digital Realty Trust

Eugene Henegouwen is Appointed as President of EMEA for Equimix

Equinix has appointed Eugene Bergen Henegouwen as the new President of EMEA. Eugene has been at Equinix since 2013. Since that that time, he has held the role of SVP of Sales in the EMEA region, overseeing the tripling of revenue in the region over the last 6 years. Before joining Equinix, He...

April 15, 2019

Eric Bell

Equinix

5G Networks acquires Melbourne Data Centre for 5.7 million

Australian telecommunications carrier 5G Networks (ASX: 5GN) will add $3 million of annualised revenue to its books through the $5.7 million acquisition of Melbourne Data Centre (MDC). The investment will enable a strategic expansion of 5GN’s infrastructure footprint and strengthen its cur...

April 03, 2019

Eric Bell

5G Networks (5GN)

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