Global Data Center News

May 25, 2020

Facebook gets approval for a Tennessee data center

Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook will purchase a $15 Million USD parcel of land for a 970,000 square foot data center campus in Gallatin, Tennessee. Facebook is using the shell company Woolhawk LLC as the acquiring entity. What we know: On May 19th the Gallatin City Council approved tax breaks and a development agre...

May 21, 2020

Sabey adds Azure ExpressRoute to Quincy Campus

Sabey Intergate.Quincy

Sabey announced that it has added a Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute node to its Intergate.Quincy data center campus in central Washington, enabling Sabey’s customers to create private connections between their IT environment and Microsoft Azure and Office 365.Sabey Press Release on May 21st 2020

May 19, 2020

Segra Acquires NorthState

Segra

Charlotte, NC – Segra, one of the largest fiber infrastructure bandwidth companies in the Eastern U.S., today announced it has acquired NorthState, a provider of high-speed bandwidth services in the fast-growing Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina. The acquisition expands Segra’s fiber ne...

May 15, 2020

STACK Acquires Land in Atlanta and plans to Expand Campus Capacity to 20 MW

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Stack Infrastructure announced plans to expand its Alpharetta facility and more than double its digital infrastructure capacity to nearly 20 megawatts.STACK currently operates a 105,000 sqft, 7 MW data center on 12 acres at 3200 Webb Bridge Road. The company now plans to build a 2-story facili...

May 12, 2020

EdgeMicro raises $5 million from DH Capital (PR)

EdgeMicro

Denver, Colo. – EdgeMicro, a leading edge colocation company, lands $5 million to accelerate its expansion. DH Capital, LLC, an investment banking firm serving companies in the internet infrastructure, communications, and software sectors, served as EdgeMicro’s financial advisor. “We are plea...

May 11, 2020

PFA buys 20% of DATA4 from AXA IM for €200m

DATA4 Group

Denmark’s largest commercial pension fund PFA has bought a 20% stake in data centre platform DATA4 from AXA in its continued drive to pile on foreign real estate. The DKK688bn (€92.2bn) pension fund said it bought the shares from AXA Investment Managers - Real Assets, which was also serving as...

May 11, 2020

Internap Emerges from Bankruptcy

HorizonIQ

Internap (INAP) has completed a financial restructuring and emerged from bankruptcy. On March 16, Internap filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to strengthen its capital structure. INAP negotiated a “prepackaged” bankruptcy with its lenders: Completed the reorganization in just seven weeks It emerg...

May 11, 2020

Aligned Increases Facility to $575 Million (PR)

Aligned

DALLAS – Aligned, a leading data center provider offering innovative, sustainable and adaptable colocation and build-to-scale solutions for cloud, enterprise, and managed service providers, announces it has increased its secured credit facility to $575 million as the company experiences conti...

May 10, 2020

Teraco announces new 30 MW facility in Cape Town

Teraco Cape Town CT2

South African data center operator Teraco is building a new data center, Cape Town 2 (CT2). Construction on the site commenced in early March 2020 and will continue in line with local COVID-19 restrictions with a targeted completion date of Q3 2021. The completed facility will comprise of eigh...

May 07, 2020

Aptum sells fiber and transport business to Beanfield Metroconnect

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Beanfield Metroconnect, a Canadian independent telecommunications infrastructure provider, has added to its bank account and its fiber network footprint. According to owners Digital Colony, the global digital infrastructure investment platform of Colony Capital, Inc. (NYSE: CLNY), Beanfield ha...

May 07, 2020

Flexential Announces it's third Facility in Portland

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Flexential has announced it will build its largest data center yet in Portland metro. The facility will be 358,000 square feet, offering 36 megawatts of power on a 20-acre lot. Groundbreaking is scheduled for the summer of 2020. This new data center will connect to Flexential’s Portland-Hills...

May 06, 2020

DartPoints Receives Investment from Astra Capital Management

DartPoints

Majority Investment Will Accelerate Buy and Build Strategy Across North America - DartPoints is an owner and operator of edge colocation data centers, which offer secure and reliable infrastructure in close proximity to users, particularly beyond Tier I markets - Accomplished telecommunication...

May 06, 2020

Compass completes ROOT integration

Compass Datacenters

Compass has announced on their blog that they have completed the integration of the ROOT data centers. ROOT was acquired in July 2019. The announcement states, "Over the past few months, we’ve been hard at work integrating the two companies’ construction, operations, marketing, and sales teams...

May 06, 2020

CoreSite raises $150 million in debt offering

CoreSite

CoreSite has raised $150M in a debt offering, via a private placement to accredited investors. According to CoreSite, the 3.75 percent Senior Notes are due in 2027. The company said the proceeds of the financing will go to refinance existing debt and for general corporate purposes.

May 05, 2020

Compass enters new market in Canada with Etobicoke Data Center

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Compass Datacenters acquired an existing building and land in Etobicoke, Ontario to build a campus. Etobicoke is just West of Toronto. Costing $100 million USD, the first phase, the initial data hall will support 10MW of critical IT load when construction is completed in Q3 of 2020. The data c...

May 05, 2020

DRFortress Strengthens Board of Directors with Appointment of Hawaii Telecommunications, Financial Industry Veteran (PR)

DRFortress

HONOLULU /PRNewswire/ -- DRFortress, the largest carrier-neutral data center and cloud marketplace operating in Hawaii, announces today that as it focuses on providing uninterrupted mission-critical technology to support the emergency communication infrastructure of Hawaii and the Pacific duri...

May 05, 2020

DC BLOX hires David Armistead as VP of Sales

DC BLOX

DC BLOX has announced that it has hired David Armistead as their new Vice President of Sales.Armistead has spent 25 years in the industry at other companies in the industry including C Spire and SunGard. Links: Press Release David Armistead Linkedin

May 04, 2020

Amazon adds 112-acre lot adjacent to its New Albany campus

Hyperscale Data Center

Amazon acquired a 112-acre lot adjacent to its New Albany campus. The lot is on the Northeastern corner of Beech Road Northwest and Jug Street. It's just to the north of its 68-acre New Albany campus.Amazon Data Services bought the new lot for $21.8 million on April 20. The $195,000-an-acre p...

May 01, 2020

NEXTDC signed 6MW in Victoria in the last month, Announces expansions

NEXTDC

NEXTDC announced it signed an additional 6 megawatts in Victoria. This is over and above the 27 MW of customer commitments that were announced in March 2020. The contracted customer commitments will support approximately 60 MW of growth in the state of Victoria, which represents the company's ...

April 30, 2020

Sabey Data Centers Successfully Issues $800M in Securitized Notes (PR)

Sabey Data Centers

Sabey Data Centers, one of the largest privately-owned multi-tenant data center owner/developer/operators in the United States, announced today that it has completed a major financing by successfully completing its inaugural issuance of $800 million in securitized notes. Structured by Guggenhe...

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