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Long Ridge Energy Terminal to Develop 300+ Megawatt Data Center Campus

DP Facilities: Hannibal

HANNIBAL, OH (PRWEB) -- Long Ridge Energy Terminal, located on 1,600 acres in Hannibal, Ohio announced today its plans to develop a 125-acre data center campus in conjunction with its on-site 485 MW combined cycle power plant currently under construction. Situated between Columbus, Ohio and Pi...

Amazon purchases 100 acres in Chantilly for $73 million

Amazon Data Services has acquired 100 acres in Chantilly as part of a $73 million deal.The Washington Business Journal first reported earlier this month that H&M Gudelsky Asset Management LLC sold the land shortly before Christmas for well over the assessed value of nearly $3.5 million.  T...

T5 adds a second facility in suburban Chicago

T5 Chicago II

T5 Data Centers has acquired a data center in Elk Grove, on the West side of Chicago. The 164,000 sqft facility is located in the Elk Grove Technology Park and is the company's second facility in Elk Grove. T5's first Chicago area data center is 1.5 miles away at 1441 Touhy Ave The facility ...

STACK is adding a second facility next to its existing San Jose data center

STACK Silicon Valley SVY01

STACK has announced that it will build a second building on its Silicon Valley Campus. The planned 32 megawatt and 240,000 square foot data center will be served through PG&E’s Direct Access program. Data Center Frontier has a more in depth article detailing STACK's new build. 

Servpac Announces New Data Center and Disaster Recovery Office in Hawaii (PR)

Servpac MTP Mililani Tech Park

HONOLULU, HI — Servpac Inc., Hawaii’s Largest Independent Telecom Provider, announces a new data center in Mililani Tech Park. Known as MTP, the new data center facility offers state-of-the-art colocation, disaster recovery, and other interconnection services available to new and existing cust...

GI Partners Invests in DR Fortress (PR)

DRFortress

/PRNewswire/ -- GI Partners, a leading private investment firm, announced the acquisition of a majority interest in DR Fortress, LLC, in partnership with the company's management team, including President Fred Rodi and CFO Rosa White, both co-founders. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Hono...

Prime Data Centers Launches 8MW Data Center at McClellan Park, Sacramento

Prime Sacramento

SACRAMENTO, Calif./PRNewswire/ -- Prime Data Centers Corporation is announcing the immediate availability of an 8MW data center facility located within McClellan Business Park in Sacramento California, a Federal Qualified Opportunity Zone.  This brand-new facility with ~70,000 SF of N+1 concur...

Macquarie to acquire AirTrunk

AirTrunk

Bloomberg reports that AirTrunk has agreed to be acquired by Macquaire Infrastructure & Real Assets for $2.1 billion USD ($3 billion AUD). AirTrunk, an Australian based provider, operates data centers in Sydney, Melbourne, and Singapore and has announced plans to open a facility in Hong K...

Equinix Completes US$175 Million Acquisition of Three Axtel Data Centers in Mexico

Equinix

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced the completion of its acquisition of three data centers from Axtel S.A.B. de C.V. (BMV: AXTELCPO) that serve the Mexico City and Monterrey metro areas of Mexic...

Google is Planning the Biggest Solar + Storage Array

Hyperscale Data Center

Google and NV Energy have agreed to power a new $600 million data center in Henderson, NV, through what they say is the world’s biggest battery-backed solar deal for a corporate customer. The agreement involves roughly 350 MW of solar photovoltaics and between 250 and 280 MW of battery storage...

Ascenty opens second data center in Vinhedo

Ascenty Vinhedo 2

Ascenty, the leading data center company focused on the Latin American market, added yet another data center to its network. Located at the company’s mega campus in the town of Vinhedo, the facility is expected to start operations in the second half of 2020. The company invested BRL 200 millio...

DataBank Announces $185 Million Equity Investment from Colony Capital (PR

DataBank

DALLAS, Jan. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- DataBank, a leading provider of enterprise-class data center, connectivity and managed services, today announced that Colony Capital (NYSE: CLNY) has made a $185 million investment into DataBank through the purchase of secondary equity interests from existi...

Interxion to acquire controlling interest in Icolo

InterXion

Interxion has entered into an agreement to acquire a controlling interest in Icolo, a Kenyan data centre operator, and that it has also entered into a strategic partnership with the Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Fund (PRIF). PRIF will invest in Icolo and will continue to co-invest with Interx...

New Albany Council Approves Incentives for 3rd Amazon facility

Hyperscale Data Center

Amazon Web Services appears once again to be expanding its footprint in New Albany. The company now has three sites for data-center complexes in the city, with a total investment of $1.7 billion in the New Albany International Business Park, according to a fact sheet provided at the New Albany...

Chris Bair joins Stream Data Centers as SVP of Sales

Stream Data Centers

Chris Bair has joined Stream Data Centers as the SVP of Sales and Leasing. Bair, who has arguably the quickest wit in the industry, has over 20 years of experience in the sector. Bair started his career as a Pilot and Captin in the US Air Force. Had a stint at Time Warner Telecom before joi...

eStruxture Partners with Vertiv to Build Montreal Data Center

eStruxture Montréal MTL2

MONTREAL, QC – eStruxture, a leading Canadian provider of network and cloud-neutral data center solutions, recently joined forces with the Architects of Continuity™ from Vertiv to transform the building formerly housing the Montreal Gazette printing press into its MTL-2 facility that official...

Facebook will expand Eagle Mountain campus by 500k SqFt

Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook has announced it will expand the size of a data center under construction in Eagle Mountain from 1 million square feet to 1.5 million square feet, according to a Wednesday news release from the data center.Facebook first broke ground on the campus in May 2018. To date, Facebook has...

Core Scientific opens world-class blockchain hosting facility in Calvert City, KY

Core Scientific: Calvert City

BELLEVUE, Wash., Nov. 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Core Scientific www.corescientific.com today announced that it has opened a new large-scale Blockchain facility in Calvert City, Kentucky. Creating many construction and high-tech jobs, Core Scientific is breathing new life into a steel mill facil...

CyrusOne Breaks Ground on New Data Center Campus in Council Bluffs, Iowa

CyrusOne Council Bluffs

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 10, 2019-- CyrusOne a premier global data center REIT, has celebrated breaking ground for its data center site in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Located at 4700 Gifford Rd, the first phase of the facility will be ready for occupation in the Fall of 2020. Upon...

CyrusOne building a new facility in Council Bluffs, near Google's data centers

CyrusOne Council Bluffs

CyrusOne is building a new data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Located just across the river from Omaha the facility will be near two large Google facilities. CyrusOne choose the location because the company believes more companies will want to store their large data sets near cloud compute c...