Global Data Center News

April 15, 2021

Cologix Acquires vXchnge's Santa Clara Facility

Cologix Santa Clara

Cologix has announced it has acquired a silicon valley data center from vXchnge. The Santa Clara facility sits on 5 acres with a 84,000 sqft building. The building currently supports 9MW of critical load with the ability to expand to a total 19 MWs. The acquisition provides an instant entry in...

April 14, 2021

IPI Partners Closes Second Data Center Fund at $3.8 Billion

IPI Partners

IPI Partners have announced the final closing of IPI Partners II at $3.8 billion. The funds raised, which is IPI’s second, attracted more than the target, which shows the company has robust support from investors. Matt A’Hearn, Partner at IPI, said the fundraising for IPI II was a tremendous s...

April 13, 2021

NTT Opens SV1

NTT Silicon Valley SV1

NTT Ltd., has announced that its Global Data Centers Americas division has opened a new 16MW Silicon Valley Data Center called SV1. NTT Ltd. is a world-leading global technology services provider and this center marks the sixth U.S. data center campus and third data center opening in 2021. The...

April 13, 2021

PRINCETON DIGITAL GROUP Secures $230 Million Financing, Charts Out $1 Billion Expansion in China (PR)

Princeton Digital Group

Continued progress against an aggressive 300MW expansion plan Confirms completion of fully contracted 42MW Shanghai data center campus Largest international partner to domestic and international hyperscaler customers in China SINGAPORE & SHANGHAI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Singapore-based Princet...

April 12, 2021

Element Critical’s Chicago Data Centers secure $72M loan

Element Critical CH1

Element Critical and parent company Safanad Inc. recently secured a $71.5 million loan to refinance their Chicago data center portfolio. The loan provided by Annaly Capital Management Inc. will go towards renovations for two data center facilities based in the Elk Grove Village area of Chicago...

April 08, 2021

Riot to Acquire Whinstone, Creating a US-Based Industry Leader in Bitcoin Mining

Riot Platforms

Combination of leading US-based Bitcoin miner with owner and operator of America’s largest Bitcoin hosting facility will create leading US-based corporate pillar in support of the Bitcoin mining networkCastle Rock, CO, April 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Riot Blockchain, Inc. (NASDAQ: RIOT) ("...

April 08, 2021

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres to Expand Its Flagship Defu Campus

STT Singapore 3

Singapore, 8 April 2021 – ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) today announced the construction of STT Defu 3, its newest data centre facility in Singapore to date, the group’s eighth local facility and the latest addition to their flagship Defu data centre campus. STT Defu 3 will boast...

April 07, 2021

DATA4 secures €620 million in debt financing

DATA4 Group

Data4 has announced that it has raised €620 million ($737.5 million) in debt financing, which will allow it to overcome new digital challenges and execute its 2024 growth plan. The financing, secured from three banks - Deutsche Bank, Société Générale and SMBC, means the company now has access ...

April 01, 2021

Digital Edge to Expand Platform Footprint in South Korea

Digital Edge DC

Acquires two data centers in South Korea and forms a long-term strategic alliance with Sejong TelecomSINGAPORE, April 1, 2021 – Digital Edge (Singapore) Holdings Pte. Ltd. (“Digital Edge” or the “Company”), a leading data center platform, established to transform the digital infrastructure in ...

April 01, 2021

DC BLOX Breaks Ground in Greenville SC

DC BLOX Greenville

DC BLOX recently announced the construction of its new Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina data center. The data center is being built on 8.5 acres of land in the Global Business Park Interstate 85 and will be the first-of-its-kind multi-tenant data center in South Carolina. It will have an...

March 31, 2021

Microsoft begins $140M data center in San Antonio

Hyperscale Data Center

Plans are in place for Microsoft to build another data facility in San Antonio. According to a filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, the data facility will be 79,385 square feet in size. It will be constructed at the 15000 block of Lambda Drive at Texas Research Park to...

March 31, 2021

STT GDC to go carbon neutral by 2030

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

STT Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has pledged to become carbon-neutral by 2030 it unveiled in its new environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategy. This strategy marks out the group's goals and targets for the next 5-10 years. Currently, 43% of the group’s electricity consump...

March 31, 2021

EdgeConneX enters the Spanish Market

Edgeconnex Barcelona

EdgeConnex has announced its entry into the Spanish data center market with its new edge data center facility in the Sant Boi de Llobregat region of Spain. The new center is only 15 km from the Barcelona city center. The data center is a 7,600 square meter, 8 MW N+1 facility. This facility is ...

March 30, 2021

eStruxture will acquire Aptum's Canadian Colocation Business

eStruxture

eStruxture has announced that it will acquire Aptum's Canadian colocation business. With the addition of the new facilities (five in Toronto, two in Montreal and one in Vancouver), eStruxture will operate a total of 14 facilities across Canada, increasing its total footprint to over 600,000 s...

March 30, 2021

DC BLOX secures $187 million in Financing

DC BLOX

DC BLOX has announced that they have secured $187 million for long-term financing of their operations. The funding was led by Post Road Group and Bain Capital Credit. Kevin O’Donnell, the Chief Financial Officer of DC BLOX, commented that the capital raised would support the growth of the Comp...

March 30, 2021

American Tower open Pittsburgh Edge Facility

American Tower: Pittsburgh

American Tower has announced it has opened a new Edge colocation facility in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It's a small edge facility located to the south of the city and below Mount Oliver, the 360 square foot Edge facility offers eight customer cabinets, 20 quarter-cabinet lockers, and three ful...

March 29, 2021

Microsoft buys land for data center campus in Central Washington

Hyperscale Data Center

Microsoft has purchased 170 acres of underdeveloped land north of Pangborn Memorial Airport for $19.3 million. The investment could well rise to over $1 billion in the next five years to build a multi-phase data center. Microsoft has also started leveling the construction site in preparation f...

March 26, 2021

Mapletree acquires Bank of America campus in Richmond VA

Mapletree: 8011 Villa Park

Mapletree Industrial Trust (MIT), a Singapore based REIT, acquired Bank of America’s campus at 8011 Villa Park Drive on March 12 for $208 million. The 46-acre campus in Richmond Virginia has five office buildings with a mix of office and data center space. The campus is 100 percent leased by C...

March 25, 2021

Global Switch launches final stage of HK data centre

Global Switch Hong Kong

Global Switch has launched the final stage of its Hong Kong center, located in the Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate. The latest development provides an additional 35,600 sqm and 58MVA of utility. Now, the total infrastructure services of Global Switch Hong Kong's is 70,228 sqm, with a total uti...

March 24, 2021

Facebook expanding Papillion Campus

Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook just announced that it would be expanding its data center campus in Papillion for the second time. Facebook said it would be expanding the data center facility at the intersection of Capehart Road and Nebraska 50 by about 1 million square feet. It also noted that the project would cos...

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