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USDA awards Lumen with a $1.2 billion network services contract

Lumen Technologies has won a $1.2 billion contract from the US Department of Agriculture. Lumen is to deliver a fully integrated wide-area data transport service to over 9,500 US Department of Agriculture locations across the country and around the world. With this contract, Lumen will offer a...

January 21, 2022

Lumen Technologies

Verizon expands in Colorado Springs

Verizon has announced that it is expanding its digital footprint with the addition of a second data center in Colorado Springs. The company has submitted a proposal for a 49,000 square-foot (4,500 sqm) data center on Arrowswest Drive in El Paso County, with plans for a potential second phase ...

January 18, 2022

Verizon Enterprise

EdgeConneX strategically invests in China's Chayora

EdgeConneX has announced that it has made a strategic investment in Chinese data center company Chayora. The investment will see both EdgeConneX and Chayora offer data center services out of Chayora’s data centers in China. The firm will also expand on the existing data centers across Mainland...

December 28, 2021

EdgeConneX

Edgeconnex expands in Benelux region

EdgeConnex has announced that it is to enter the Belgian market with the construction of a data center campus near Brussels in Ternat. The first facility will comprise 4 data halls supporting over 20MW of capacity. According to the company, the site is expected to be ready in the first quarte...

December 02, 2021

EdgeConneX

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

Expedient acquires data center in Phoenix, Arizona

Expedient has acquired a data center in Phoenix, which Blue Cross Shield formerly owned. The facility it acquired is located at 2475 West Townley Avenue. It is a 2.4MW capacity data center with 45,000 square feet of space. Expedient says the facility was built to Tier III standards. Expedient’...

November 03, 2021

Expedient Data Centers

Expedient expands with Addition of New Milwaukee Data Center

Expedient has acquired a new data center in Franklin City, Wisconsin. The facility has 28,500 square feet of space, and it offers 1.2MW of critical power. It also has the capacity for over 8,000 physical servers. The facility will help Expedient serve its growing customer demand for cloud-b...

October 21, 2021

Expedient Data Centers

Lumen pays $275,000 to DoJ for contacting former customers it divested

Lumen Technologies, formerly known as CenturyLink, has agreed to pay $275,000 to resolve a Civil Contempt Claim by the Department of Justice for its acquisition of Level 3 Communications Inc in 2016. The Justice Department accused Lumen (formerly CenturyLink) of violating the terms designed...

September 07, 2021

Lumen Technologies

DataBank announces it has started construction on sixth Salt Lake data center

DataBank has broken ground on its sixth Salt Lake data center, SLC6. The facility will see DataBank increase capacity to meet the increasing demand for mission-critical IT infrastructure in the Salt Lake City and Utah market. The site is located in Bluffdale, between Utah’s Silicon Slopes a...

August 30, 2021

DataBank

EdgeConneX agrees to acquire Israel's Global Data Center

EdgeConneX will be acquiring Israeli-based Global Data Center (GDC). Global Data Center was founded in 2013, and it operates two data centers in Petah Tikva and Herzliya, near Tel Aviv. The Petah Tikva and Herzliya facilities have 64,600 square feet and 48,400 square feet, respectively. GDC...

August 17, 2021

EdgeConneX

Lumen divests CenturyLink ILEC assets

Lumen Technologies has announced that it is selling its current local exchange carrier (ILEC) business in 20 states for $7.5 billion. The firm will be selling the business to Apollo Funds. Lumen Technologies currently operates the ILEC business under the CenturyLink name, and the business incl...

August 06, 2021

Lumen Technologies

Lumen is selling its Latin American business to Stonepeak for $2.7 billion

Lumen Technologies has announced the sale of its entire Latin American business to Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners. The sale is said to be worth $2.7 billion. Australia’s largest pension fund, AustralianSuper, is also investing funds in the deal with Stonepeak. The current leadership team...

July 28, 2021

Lumen Technologies

DataBank purchases existing building for fifth data center in Denver

DataBank has announced that it has purchased an existing land and building in Denver. The land and building acquired would be DataBank’s home for its fifth data center in Denver. This facility is located at 6961 S. Quentin Street in Centennial, CO. DataBank says the facility will help it me...

July 27, 2021

DataBank

EdgeConneX Expands in 6 North American Markets

EdgeConneX has announced that it will add almost 20MW of new capacity across six of its data centers in North America. The facilities that will benefit from this expansion are Seattle, Portland, Phoenix, Miami, Detroit, and Chicago.According to Phillip Marangella, Chief Marketing Officer at Ed...

April 28, 2021

EdgeConneX

DataBank issues $658M of Secured Notes

Colocation provider DataBank will issue $658 million of secured notes. The new securitization notes will refinance DataBank's existing credit facility. This securitization and refinancing of previous loans adds more than $200M in liquidity to DataBank's balance sheet, providing funding for gen...

March 12, 2021

DataBank

DataBank closes Acquisition of Zayo's data centers

DataBank has closed deal to acquire 45 of Zayo's data centers across 20 markets in the US and UK. A second closing for zColo’s data centers in France is expected to be completed in Q1 2021. The deal instantly transforms Databank into a large player in the colocation market. With zColo's facili...

December 15, 2020

DataBank

DataBank acquires zColo sites from Zayo for $1.4 Billion

DataBank will acquire Zayo's zColo division for $1.4 billion. The deal includes the sale of 44 data centers in more than 20 markets across the United States and Europe. The transaction is expected to close in December 2020. Once closed, DataBank will operate 1.1 million square feet of data cen...

September 30, 2020

DataBank

EQT acquires EdgeConneX

The Swedish investment firm EQT AB has announced that it acquired the US-based colocation company EdgeConneX. EdgeConneX has a global footprint, operating over 40 facilities in 33 markets across North America, Europe and South America and continues to expand after being founded a decade ago. ...

August 19, 2020

EdgeConneX

DataBank Announces $185 Million Equity Investment from Colony Capital (PR

DALLAS, Jan. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- DataBank, a leading provider of enterprise-class data center, connectivity and managed services, today announced that Colony Capital (NYSE: CLNY) has made a $185 million investment into DataBank through the purchase of secondary equity interests from existi...

January 06, 2020

DataBank

AMP Capital acquires Expedient Data Centers

AMP Capital, An Australian investment firm, has acquired Expedient from Landmark Media Enterprises, the company's current investor. Expedient is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service business focused on colocation, cloud, managed services and networks with a base of over 1,200 customers. Terms were n...

October 23, 2019

Expedient Data Centers

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