Data Center News

RTB House Expands European IT Infrastructure, Selects Amsterdam Data Center from maincubes for Its New OCP infrastructure

maincubes AMS01

RTB House, a global company that provides state-of-the-art marketing technologies for top brands worldwide, has selected the maincubes Amsterdam AMS01 data center to co-locate its OCP (Open Compute Project) hardware. OCP-ready equipment requires very specific data center power and cooling tech...

Bulk Infrastructure opens DK01 campus in Esbjerg, Denmark

Bulk Infrastructure: Esbjerg Denmark DK01

Bulk Infrastructure has opened a new data center campus in Esbjerg, on the west coast of Denmark. The 50 sqm campus can initially support to 20 megawatts and there is room for expansion.  It took Bulk six months to build the first facility on the campus and anchor customers have already in...

Iomart Reports Revenues Of £55.1m and announces Manchester Data Centre

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Iomart is in the final planning phases for the investment in the Manchester datacentre acquired with the LDeX acquisition.  The company plans to obtain an official Tier 3 certification for the Manchester facility. The facility is 10,000 sqft.The cloud computing company reported its consolid...

Colt appoints Niclas Sanfridsson as new CEO, replacing Detlef Spang

Colt Data Centre Services

Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) today announced the appointment of its new Chief Executive Officer, Niclas Sanfridsson effective December 2nd. Sanfridsson will replace the Detlef Spang as CEO. Detlef Spang plans to retire at the end of this year after leading Colt DCS since the company's ince...

Bouygues to build second data center on Virtus' London campus

VIRTUS Stockley Park Campus

The French contractor, Bouygues Energies & Services Contracting, has been selected by VIRTUS Data Centres for the delivery of its LONDON6 data centre, located in Stockley Park and the second data centre in its hyper scale campus. Bouygues Energies & Services Contracting will be res...

NTT Com’s Osaka 7 to Launch as One of the Largest Data Centers in Japan’s Kansai Region

NTT Osaka 7

NTT Com’s Osaka 7 to Launch as One of the Largest Data Centers in Japan’s Kansai RegionTOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international communications business within the NTT Group (TOKYO:9432), announced today that it will launch the Osaka...

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE Expands Securitization by $225 million to Fund Growth

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Long-Term, Low-Cost, Investment-Grade Facility Provides  Additional Capital to Drive Market and Client Expansion  DENVER, CO – NOVEMBER 22, 2019 – STACK INFRASTRUCTURE (“STACK” or the “Company”), the data center company built from the ground up to address the technology infrastructure needs of...

Silicon Ranch to build 107 MW solar plant to power Facebook data center in Georgia

Hyperscale Data Center

 Silicon Ranch has agreed to build a 107-megawatt solar project to power the Facebook data center in Newton County, Ga. Silicon Ranch, the U.S. solar platform for Shell and one of the largest independent solar power producers in the country, contracted with Walton Electric Membership Corporati...

AirTrunk announces a Second Sydney Data Centre

AirTrunk Sydney SYD2

AirTrunk has announced its plans to build a second hyperscale data center in Sydney, with the new installation of more than 110 megawatts to complement its two existing ones. The new data center, which will open in 2020, will be located in northern Sydney and will be known as SYD2. The facilit...

Zayo Considers Sale of zColo Division

Zayo

Bloomberg reports that Zayo is considering the sale of zColo, which could fetch approximately $1 Billion. In May, Digital Colony Partners and EQT Partners agreed to acquire Zayo in May 2019. Link to the Bloomberg article 

FBI Cuts Ribbon for New Data Center in Idaho

FBI Grey Wolf Pocatello

The FBI and its partners at the Department of Justice (DOJ) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new data center in Pocatello on November 18th 2019. The facility broke ground in October 2017. The new data center will optimize infrastructure, information and services, according to a press rel...

Cyxtera Promotes Nelson Fonseca to CEO

Cyxtera Technologies

Cyxtera Technologies has announced that founder and CEO Manuel D. Medina has been elevated to the position of Executive Chairman for both Cyxtera and its recently announced AppGate spin-out. Current Cyxtera President and Chief Operating Officer Nelson Fonseca has been promoted to the role of C...

QTS is planning to expand Richmond site in Henrico County

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QTS Data Centers is planning an expansion on 210 acres it owns in the White Oak Technology Park at 6020 Technology Blvd. in the county’s Sandston area. The proposed project, which was submitted to the county’s planning division earlier in November, would involve construction of about 1.2 milli...

Evocative Acquires VPLS, Inc. and VPLS Solutions and will Consolidate under VPLS Brand (PR)

Evocative

Evocative Data Centers (“Evocative”), a leading provider of Internet infrastructure, colocation, hosting and managed services, announced today that it has acquired VPLS, Inc. and VPLS Solutions, LLC to form one of the fastest growing cloud, managed services, colocation and value added reseller...

Digital Colony Acquires Beanfield Technologies (PR)

Beanfield Metroconnect

BOCA RATON, Fla, / PRNewswire/ -- Digital Colony, the global digital infrastructure investment platform of Colony Capital, Inc. (NYSE: CLNY) and a leading investor, owner and operator of companies enabling the next generation of mobile and internet connectivity, today announced Digital Colony ...

Advania Data Centers Expands to Sweden in a deal with Stockholm Exergi (PR)

atNorth Stockholm SWE01

The excess heat from new data center will be used for local house-heating in Stockholm. Located in the largest Information and Communications Technology (ICT) cluster in Europe, Advania’s new data center is a first-rate option for high tech companies in the region. A new data center investmen...

Amazon Planning another data-center in New Albany

Amazon Web Services plans to invest $400 million to build a 170,000 sqft data center on 100 acres in the eastern portion of the New Albany International Business Park. The site will be on the east side of Harrison Road and north of Innovation Campus Way. The project would create 35 jobs, with ...

eStruxture wins new customer, VEERUM, at Its Calgary Data Center

eStruxture Calgary CAL-1

eStruxture Data Centers has announced that it has won a new customer in its Calgary facility. The Calgary-based SaaS provider VEERUM is moving into eStruxture's facility in Calgary, Alberta. eStructure acquired the facility from Shaw in August. VEERUM specializes in asset visualization and man...

QTS will expand Atlanta-Metro Campus

QTS: Atlanta 1 Campus

QTS is expanding its Atlanta-Metro data center campus. The expansion will include the development of a new data center totaling more than 250,000 square feet of leasable capacity and 72 critical megawatts of incremental power capacity, adjacent to QTS’ existing mega data center. The Company ex...

Aligned Breaks Ground on Second Salt Lake Metro Data Center (PR)

Aligned Salt Lake City

WEST JORDAN, UT (October 30, 2019) – 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 the expansion of its Salt Lake Metro data center campus, breaking...