Global Data Center News

December 16, 2020

Cologix Starts Construction on Large Ashburn Data Center

Cologix: ASH1

Cologix has announced it broke ground on a large data center near the Equinix Ashburn campus. The Cologix campus will eventually be 1 million sqft and 120-megawatts. The two-story first phase will be 350,000 sqft spread across 16 data halls. Later phases call for the removal of the church and ...

December 15, 2020

DataBank closes Acquisition of Zayo's data centers

DataBank

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 10, 2020

AirTrunk launches Singapore and Hong Kong Facilities

AirTrunk Singapore SGP1

On the same day, AirTrunk launched into two new markets, Singapore and Hong Kong. The Macquarie-owned AirTrunk is known for building large data centres in Australia and the new sites are no exception. Singapore SGP1 is a 6o megawatt and 20,000 square metres of floor space. The facility is in...

December 09, 2020

Stream Expands in Elk Grove

Stream Chicago II

Stream has announced that is expanding in the Chicago metro. The new building will be near the company's first data center in Elk Grove and will have 130,000 sqft of raised floor and 32-megawatts at full build-out. The first phase will begin in February 2021 and will finish in Q3 with 4 MW ini...

December 08, 2020

Advania Data Centers Rebrands to atNorth

atNorth

Advania Data Centers, a high-density computing technology company headquartered in Reykjavik, Iceland, announced today that it had changed its name and will now be known as atNorth. Among the other changes will be its logo, tagline, and domain name to atnorth.com. "Rebranding is a logical step...

December 02, 2020

CoreSite launches LA3

CoreSite LA3

CoreSite has officially launched LA3, which was built in the parking lot of LA2 at 900 N Alameda. LA2 has an interesting history as it was that was built in 1940 as a Postal Annex and it was the central mail processing facility for the Los Angeles metro until 1989. The LA2/LA3 campus is conne...

November 25, 2020

Interxion expands in Zurich

Digital Realty: Zurich

ZURICH, Nov. 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Interxion: A Digital Realty Company (NYSE: DLR) and a leading European provider of carrier- and cloud-neutral colocation data centre solutions, announced today it has begun construction on a major expansion project in Zurich. The new facility will be develo...

November 23, 2020

Vantage Acquires Hypertec's Data Centers becomming a large provider in Montreal

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has acquired the data center business of services company Hypertec. With Hypertec's facilities, Vantage will become a large player with additional capacity in the Montreal market. Hypertec’s 49MW campus includes 25MW across two existing facilities and 24MW of expansion cap...

November 19, 2020

Vantage Raises an additional 1.25 Billion in Equity Capital from Digital Colony

Vantage Data Centers

DENVER (November 19, 2020) – Vantage Data Centers, a leading global provider of hyperscale data center campuses, today announced that it has raised US$1.25 billion in incremental equity capital from its existing investors, led by Digital Colony. This funding will be used to fuel ongoing expan...

November 16, 2020

365 Data Centers Acquires Atlantic Metro

365 Data Centers

365 Data Centers, a leading provider of network-centric colocation and other Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions, announces its acquisition of Atlantic Metro Communications, which provides tailored colocation, network and cloud services to large and mid-size enterprises. While contin...

November 10, 2020

Colt DCS launches Inzai 3 near Tokyo

Colt Tokyo Inzai

Colt Data Centre Services has completed the construction of Inzai 3, a 27 MW, carrier-neutral facility in Japan. The facility expands Colt's Inzai campus where the company has two hyperscale data centers. Demand has been strong and the new facility is already 90 percent pre-leased.Colt Press R...

October 30, 2020

CyrusOne Enters Into Strategic Partnership to Develop Hyperscale Data Centers in The Netherlands

CyrusOne Middenmeer, Netherlands

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- CyrusOne Inc. (NASDAQ: CONE), a premier global data center REIT, today announced entry into an agreement with Agriport A7 for the development of hyperscale data centers in Middenmeer, The Netherlands. Under the terms of the agreement, CyrusOne will have the option to ...

October 28, 2020

DartPoints Acquires Metro Data Centers

DartPoints

Acquisition expands DartPoints’ North American footprint to Central OhioDALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DartPoints, an owner and operator of edge colocation data centers, announces its acquisition of Metro Data Centers (MDC), a full-service provider of interconnection and data center solutions in Du...

October 23, 2020

Zayo hires Steve Smith as CEO, Caruso steps down

Zayo

Steve Smith, who left Equinix in 2018, will join Zayo as CEO. Dan Caruso, who has lead Zayo since its founding in 2007 will remain on Zayo's board. Zayo Press Release on Oct 22nd: BOULDER, Colo--Zayo Group Holdings, Inc., the global leader in Communications Infrastructure, announced today ...

October 20, 2020

Prime Data Centers Develops New 9MW Santa Clara Data Center

Prime Santa Clara

SANTA CLARA, CA — Prime Data Centers, a wholesale data center real estate developer, today announces the development of a four-story, 121,000-square-foot data center in the heart of Silicon Valley. Located at 1111 Comstock Street in Santa Clara, CA, Prime will begin construction within the ne...

October 16, 2020

GTT sells Infrastructure Division for $2.15 Billion (Hibernia, KPN, Interoute)

EXA Infrastructure

GTT has announced that it has signed an agreement to sell its Infrastructure division to I Squared Capital (ISQ) for $2.15 billion. GTT signaled plans to sell the infrastructure business last fall when it hired Credit Suisse Group and Goldman Sachs as financial advisors. It's expected that IS...

October 15, 2020

DC BLOX reportedly has the Remainder of Trinity Steel Campus Under Contract

DC BLOX: BHM1-A

The Birmingham Business Journal is reporting that DC BLOX has contracted to buy the remaining lot of the former Trinity Steel campus. The site will be built in phases. The first phase which was built in 2019 has 31,000 sqft and 5 megawatts (MW) of customer capacity.As customers are added, the ...

October 15, 2020

Stream Commissions New Phoenix Data Center Campus

Stream: PHXA1

Stream has officially launched its data center campus in Goodyear Arizona, which is West of Phoenix. The building will start with 4.5 MWs of critical power and can expand to 40 MW. The building is the first of five 40 megawatt buildings on the campus. Stream Press Release on October 15, 2020: ...

October 13, 2020

DigiPlex opens another Norwegian data center in Hobøl

Stack OSL04C

DigiPlex continues to expand. The company announced it has opened a new data center in Hobol, a rural town 45 km Southeast of Oslo. It is DigiPlex's seventh data center in the Nordic region. DigiPlex press release below:OSLO, Norway, Oct. 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- DigiPlex, the Nordic leader fo...

October 07, 2020

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (Thailand) Awarded LEED Gold Certification for STT Bangkok 1

STT Bangkok 1

BANGKOK, /PRNewswire/ -- ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (Thailand) or "STT GDC Thailand", a leading data centre service provider, today announced that it has been awarded the LEED® Gold v.4 certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) for its STT Bangkok 1 data centre that will...

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