Data Center News

atNorth expands its Mjölnir data center

atNorth ICE02: Reykjanesbær

atNorth has announced it is expanding its Mjölnir ICE02 data center in Keflavík, Iceland. The facility currently stands at 13,750 sqm (148,000 sqft), with 80MW of power. The company plans to expand the data center by 10%. This will mean an additional 1,250 sqm (13,400 sq ft) of space, and 4MW...

Amazon submits plans for second data center in County Meath, Ireland

Hyperscale Data Center

According to Planning documents filed with Meath Local Authorities, Amazon is proposing to build a new data center at the IDA Business & Technology Park in Drogheda, County Meath. The new data center will be a two-story building, and it will have a floor area of 28,566 square meters. Tunis...

TA Realty planning $1.8 billion, 300MW data center campus in Loudoun County, Virginia

Northern Virginia

TA Realty has announced that it will be developing a new $1.8 billion secure data center in Loudoun County, VA. The initial buildings of the data center are expected to be ready by late 2021. Upon completion, the fully built-out campus will be over 1.5 million square feet. It will also have 30...

Equinix prices $2.6 billion "Green" Bond Sale

Equinix

Equinix has announced that it priced $2.6 billion principal amount of notes, including $1.0 billion of green bonds in its third green bond offering. The green bonds will be used to help advance the company's longstanding commitment to sustainability leadership and reducing its environmental im...

AES to provide Google with 500 MW of Green Power in Northern Virginia

Hyperscale Data Center

An agreement has been reached between AES and Google for AES to supply Google’s Northern Virginia data centers with renewable energy. The deal will see AES construct 500 MW of renewable energy and storage projects with a mix of wind, solar, hydro, and battery storage for Google’s data centers ...

Verizon sells media group including Yahoo and AOL for $5 billion

Yahoo

Apollo will be acquiring Verizon Media, which includes Yahoo and AOL, for $5 billion. Also, the deal will see Verizon Media receive $4.25 billion in cash, $750 million preferred interests, and retain a 10% stake in Verizon Media which will be known as Yahoo. The two companies expect to finaliz...

Switch to acquire Data Foundry for $420m

Data Foundry

Switch will acquire Data Foundry for $420m in an all-cash transaction. The acquisition is expected to close by mid-2021 if it meets all customary closing conditions. Data Foundry has three highly connected data centers in Austin with an expansion capability of up to 44 MW. It also has one data...

DataBank is Expanding its IND1 data center

Databank Indianapolis IND1

DataBank has announced an expansion of its IND1 data center in Indiana. The company is a leading provider of enterprise-class colocation, connectivity, and managed services. Part of the expansion includes 6,500 square feet of raised floor space and an additional megawatt of power to meet the g...

Microsoft pays $3m to add 1.4 acres to its Atlanta campus

Hyperscale Data Center

Tech giants Microsoft has bought 1.4 acres of land for $3 million to expand its planned Westside campus. The land is situated on Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway, in the Grove Park area close to Atlanta. This purchase is after Microsoft acquired 90 acres of land in February for its proposed Westsi...

NTT launches "Earthquake Resistant" data center

NTT Silicon Valley SV1

NTT has announced the launch of its "Earthquake Resistant" data center in Silicon Valley, the first of its kind in the US market. The facility has a capacity of 16MW and uses a base isolation system, enabling seismic stability and ensuring 60% less motion than a non-isolated, fixed building. ...

EdgeConneX Expands in 6 North American Markets

EdgeConneX

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...

Aligned starts work on Chicago Hyperscale Data Center Campus

Aligned Chicago ORD-01

Aligned has announced that it has begun work on its latest hyperscale data center campus in Chicago, Illinois. The 48MW data center is the first to be constructed on the 18.5 acre campus and stands at 220,000 sqft. Once completed, the campus will offer 100+MW of capacity. The data center, ...

Vantage Data Centers Opens Second Data Center on its Northern Virginia Campus

Vantage Ashburn Campus

Vantage Data Centers just announced that it has completed the first phase of VA12. VA12 is the second of the five planned facilities situated at its Northern Virginia campus. The completed first phase of VA12 will provide 16MW of critical IT capacity to enterprises, hyperscalers, and cloud pro...

Apple officially opens data center in Guizhou China

Hyperscale Data Center

According to reports, Apple has opened a new data center in Guizhou, China. The data center was jointly built by both Apple and Guizhou-Cloud Big Data Industry Co Ltd. The data center will offer iCloud services to its customers on the mainland of China. Asides from that, it is also expected th...

Microsoft partners with defense company Leonardo to offer cloud services to Italian public sector

Italy

Microsoft is partnering with Leonardo, an Italian defense group, to provide Italy’s public sector and critical infrastructure providers with cloud services. The deal will see Leonardo offer cybersecurity services and act as a System integrator while Microsoft will provide a cloud platform and ...

Quintillion connects Polar Orbiting Satellites to Equinix SE2

Equinix Seattle SE2

Quintillion has announced plans to connect its new Arctic ground station to Equinix’s Seattle data center. It will extend its network via a subsea fiber network, where, in Seattle, it will connect to Equinix Fabric, a software-defined interconnection service. Located 72 degrees north, at Utqi...

Green Mountain Secures More Land for Data Center Expansion In Norway

Green Mountain Gismarvik

Green Mountain has announced that it has secured 50,000 sqm (538,000 sq ft) of land in Norway in an option agreement with Haugaland Business Park. Located in Gismarvik in Tysvær municipality, the land will enable Green Mountain to begin constructing a fourth data center site as early as 2022.T...

Bit Digital Expands North American Footprint with New 40MW Agreement with Compute North

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., April 21, 2021 – Compute North and Bit Digital, Inc. (Nasdaq: BTBT), are pleased to announce an additional 40MW hosting agreement for the expansion of Bit Digital’s bitcoin mining operations in North America, with an important sustainability feature. As part of the agreem...

Iron Mountain Completes Agreement to Expand footprint to India with JV with Web Werks

Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain is expected to invest $150 million over the next two years in a joint venture with Web Werks. Web Works is one of India’s top colocation data center providers. Iron Mountain, which is a storage and information management services company first announced its plan to invest on Febr...

Serverfarm acquires El Segundo facility from T5

Serverfarm LAX1

Serverfarm, supported by its partner NantWorks, has entered the Los Angeles data center market with the acquisition of a 12-megawatt, 117,500-square-foot data center in El Segundo, CA. T5 Data Centers was the selling party. T5 originally bought and developed the facility in 2011 for $30 millio...