Data Center News

Digital Realty Introduces New Connections to Google Cloud In 5 Major Metros

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty recently said that it has expanded secure, private access to Google Cloud’s global network in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Vienna in Austria, and Dusseldorf in Germany. Digital Realty also announced that it had added its second direct interconnect to Google Cloud in Frankfurt.The direc...

AirTrunk opens 2nd Sydney facility

AirTrunk Sydney SYD2

Airtrunk recently announced the opening of its second Sydney data center- Airtrunk SYD2 to help the growth of cloud customers. The new facility has 110MW of capacity and will be the 3rd largest single-campus data center in the entire Asia-Pacific region. SYD2 is powered by a dedicated 200MVA 1...

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE Raises $400 million in Another Round of Structured Debt Financing

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE has lined up another large round of financing. The Data Center operator has borrowed $400 million through the sale of securitized notes, the latest in four transactions that have raised $1.8 billion to build more data centers.Last September STACK raised $325 million in sec...

DRFortress Completes Hawaii Data Center Expansion

DRFortress Honolulu

HONOLULU, Hawaii  – DRFortress, the largest carrier-neutral data center and cloud marketplace operating in Hawaii, announces a major expansion to its data center campus in Honolulu is complete and ready for service. DRFortress added 125 cabinets, creating a total of 600 cabinets for lease and...

NEXTDC launches NEXTneutral, its carbon neutrality program

NEXTDC

NEXTDC recently reaffirmed its commitment to sustainability by announcing its new data center carbon neutrality program, NEXTneutral. It is the first carbon-neutral colocation solution available in the local market and accredited as 100% carbon neutral under the Australian Federal Government's...

Skybox sells Houston Facility to Element Critical

Element Critical Houston One

Element Critical has acquired Skybox's Houston One facility. Element Critical is the new owner, but Skybox will continue to operate the facility and handle wholesale leasing. Skybox and Element Critical jointly issued the press release below on March 16th 2021: Vienna, VA, — Element Critical, ...

DartPoints acquires Immedion

DartPoints

DartPoints that it has signed an agreement to acquire Immedion and all its eight data centers. The eight data centers are in seven metropolitan areas, which are; Asheville, NC., Charleston, SC., Columbia, SC., Greenville, SC., Spartanburg, SC., Columbus, Ind., and Cincinnati. The transaction f...

eStruxture Data Centers Names Al Shulman As New Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing

eStruxture

MONTREAL –  eStruxture, the largest Canadian-owned provider of network and cloud-neutral data center solutions, announces today the addition of Al Shulman as Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing. With more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunication and energy industries, Shulm...

Oi Group begins selling its assets, closing the data centers deal with Piemonte Holding

Elea Data Centers

SÃO PAULO, March 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The financial group Piemonte Holding, from Rio de Janeiro, closed last Friday (12) the acquisition of five data centers from Oi for a total amount of R$ 367 million (approx. USD 70 million). The transaction is in accordance with the amendment to the ju...

DataBank issues $658M of Secured Notes

DataBank

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...

OVH Data Center SBG2 Destroyed by fire in Strasbourg

OVH Strasbourg Campus

A fire destroyed SBG2 and part of SBG1 data centers in Strasbourg, France. The facilities are part of a data center campus owned by OVH Cloud, a French cloud computing company. The fire destroyed completely destroyed SBG2 and 4 rooms out of 12 in the adjacent SBG1 data center. At this time, it...

Aligned Launches 2nd Salt Lake Facility

Aligned Salt Lake City

Aligned recently announced the completion of its second data center in the Salt Lake Metro Area, West Jordan, UT. The 48 MW (expandable to 60MW), 240,000 square-foot facility will feature Aligned’s patented cooling technology, which consumes 80% less energy and 85% less water than traditional ...

VPLS Acquires New York Data Center

Evocative Chappaqua JFK2

VPLS, a cloud-to-edge computing and solutions provider, announces today its successful partnership with Summit Development to oversee data center operations at the data center facility located at 480 N. Bedford Plaza in Chappaqua, New York. The Chappaqua data center will be known as NY2 within...

Microsoft is planning 400,000 sqft Campus in Hoffman Estates

Hyperscale Data Center

According to plans submitted to the Hoffman Estates council, Microsoft aims to build two data centers on the 53-acre site on the north side of Lakewood Blvd in two phases. Phase one would see a 250,000 sq ft (23,200 sqm) building erected by the end of 2022. The second phase would be a 150,000 ...

Interxion to Build a Third Data Centre In Brussels

BRUSSELS, /PRNewswire/ -- Interxion: A Digital Realty Company (NYSE: DLR) and leading European provider of carrier- and cloud-neutral colocation data centre solutions, has begun construction of a third data centre in Belgium. The first phase of the project, which is expected to be completed Q4...

Facebook signs for 150 MW of Solar Power from TVA

Hyperscale Data Center

Tennessee Valley Authority has clinched a deal to partner with Origis Energy to build a 150 MW solar farm and a 50 MW battery energy storage system for Facebook. TVA and Origis Energy will build this project in Lowndes County, Mississippi which will support Facebook’s two data centers in the T...

Equinix to Open First Carrier-Neutral Data Center in Bordeaux, France

Equinix Bordeaux BX1

Equinix has announced plans to open its first data center in Bordeaux, France. The company announced that the new facility will be known as BX1 and is projected to open in the third quarter of 2021. The company is planning to provide approximately 32,000 square feet (3,000 square meters) of co...

Cologix Constructing COL4 as it Expands its Columbus Campus

Cologix Columbus COL4

Cologix has announced it is building a fourth data center on its campus in Columbus, Ohio. The campus already has 3 existing facilities.  COL1 & COL2 are in the same building. The facilities were acquired via DataCenter.BZ in 2014 COL3 (160,000sqft) was built in 2018 COL4 is the newest ad...

Cosentry’s Omaha-Midlands Data Center Becomes the First LEED Gold Certified Data Center in Iowa

TierPoint Omaha Midlands

OMAHA, NE (PRWEB) Cosentry, the Midwest leader in data center services, announced today that their Omaha-Midlands Data Center has achieved LEED Gold Certification from the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), making it the only LEED Gold Data center in Nebraska and one of just 21 dat...

IPI Partners Announces Acquisition of SUPERNAP Italia

STACK Milan Campus

SUPERNAB Italia announced that 100% of ACDC Holding’s share capital, a controlling shareholder in the company, has been acquired. The acquisition was made by affiliates of IPI Partners, LLC from affiliates of Accelero Capital Holdings.The CEO of SUPERSNAP, Sherif Rizkilla, said that IPI is the...