Data Center News

Telxius Opens Purpose-Built Infrastructure in EMEA: Derio Communications Hub (PR)

Telxius Derio Communications Hub

Leverages the Full Potential of Subsea Cable MAREA Unlocking Opportunities for Global Organizations Madrid, 29 October 2019. Telxius, the communications infrastructure company of the Telefonica Group, has announced today the launch of its purpose-built, interconnection-rich, Derio communicat...

AirTrunk appoint Mark Adams as Advisory Board Member

AirTrunk

AirTrunk today announced the appointment of Mark Adams as an independent advisory board member. Along with advising the AirTrunk board, Mark will provide strategic input into AirTrunk’s Asia-Pacific expansion plan.  Mark is a seasoned strategy and M&A executive and brings to AirTrunk his e...

AMP Capital acquires Expedient Data Centers

Expedient Data Centers

AMP Capital, An Australian investment firm, has acquired Expedient from Landmark Media Enterprises, the company's current investor. Expedient is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service business focused on colocation, cloud, managed services and networks with a base of over 1,200 customers. Terms were n...

Aligned Energy Secures $495 Million Facility to Support Expansion Plans (PR)

Aligned

DALLAS – Aligned Energy, a leading data center provider offering innovative, sustainable and adaptable colocation and build-to-scale solutions for cloud, enterprise, and managed service providers, announced today it has completed a $495 million secured credit facility with investors including...

Ascenty opens its 14th data center in Brazil and largest in Latin America

Ascenty Vinhedo 1

Ascenty, the leading data center company focused on the Latin American market, opened the largest data center in Latin America in the town of Vinhedo, Brazil. The audacious project cost BRL 500 million for its first phase of construction, and features 40,000 sqm in total area and 40 MVA power ...

STACK Acquires Nationwide Insurance Facility and Expands to Ohio

STACK New Albany NAL01

STACK Infrastructure continues to expand its footprint. Stack acquired Nationwide Insurance's facility in New Albany, Ohio.  The transaction is the third expansion for the company since raising $850 million in February 2019.  STACK Press Release: DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--STACK INFRASTRUCTURE ...

Cologix Adds 3rd Data Center Suite in the Dallas Infomart

Cologix: Dallas DAL1

Cologix, has added a third data center suite in the Dallas Infomart carrier hotel. The new, state-of-the-art DAL3 data center will come online Q1 2020. The latest 13,000 SQF expansion will support the demands of enterprise customers and cloud service providers. "Our new interconnection hub wil...

Cyxtera Announces Amsterdam as a New Market

Cyxtera Technologies is expanding into Amsterdam, a new metro for the company. The new market brings the total markets served in Europe to three; the other markets are London and Frankfurt.The new data center will be 29,000 square feet and 3MW power. The new location in Polanen Park is leased ...

KCP&L and Westar Energy are now Evergy

Kansas City

KANSAS CITY, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Local energy providers, Westar Energy and KCP&L are now serving customers as Evergy, the name of the holding company established when the companies merged last year. “This is an exciting time for our company,” Terry Bassham, president and chief executive ...

Equinix to Expand into Mexico With US$175 Million Acquisition of Three Axtel Data Centers (PR)

Equinix

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced it has entered into an agreement with Axtel S.A.B. de C.V. (BMV: AXTELCPO) to acquire three data centers that serve the Mexico City and Monterrey metro areas o...

Cologix expands Montreal MTL10-H facility by additional 15 MW

Cologix MTL10-S

Cologix announced today that it has expanded its Longueuil Campus, located Northeast of Montreal in Quebec. The expansion was initiated by Colo-D in October 2018. Colo-D was acquired by Cologix two months later in December.  Previously known as Colo-D2, the facility is now known as MTL10-H.  T...

Search Results Web results Ficolo Issues EUR 20 Million Green Bond as First Privately-Owned Company in Finland (PR)

Ficolo Oy

An independent green bond assessor confirmed that the intended use of the funds helps to prevent climate change The data center services provider Ficolo Oy successfully issued an EUR 20 million bond to support strong growth. The proceeds from the bond will be used mainly for the modernization...

Databank acquired Lightbound and enters Indianapolis

Databank Indianapolis IND1

DataBank has closed its acquisition of Indianapolis-based colocation, Internet, voice, network and cloud services provider, LightBound. The transaction adds of two facilities with over 56,000 gross square feet of colocation space and 9.5MW of installed UPS. LightBound’s data centers are locat...

MC Digital Realty acquires more land in Tokyo to build a 120 MW Campus

MC Digital: Tokyo Connected Campus @ Inzai

MC Digital Realty, a joint venture between Mitsubishi Corporation and Digital Realty Trust, has signed an agreement to acquire an additional plot of land in Tokyo. MC Digital Realty expects to close on the acquisition in the first quarter of 2020. The location is near to the five-acre parcel M...

Hetzner received the ISO 27001 certification for Helsinki data center

Hetzner Finland

Hetzner‘s Data Center Park Helsinki has reached a new milestone by receiving the ISO 27001 certificate for information security. Only 18 months after going live, the park today already has 6,000 m² of web hosting infrastructure in operation. In addition to information security, several other s...

Data Foundry is expanding Houston 2 site

Switch: Houston 2

Data Foundry has announced that new data hall is under construction. The new space will offer 27,000 square feet of white floor space and 4MW of capacity. The Houston 2 campus sits above the 500-year floodplain and is rated for 185mph winds, making relativity safer if/when a another hurrica...

Facebook will expand Henrico VA campus

Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook expects to break ground early next year on the second phase of its eastern Henrico County data center development, which will total more than 2 million square feet when completed late in 2020, the company said Wednesday.The company will construct three (3) new 450,000 square foot buil...

CyrusOne Data Centers in Northern Virginia Qualify for Tax Incentives

CyrusOne Sterling IX

CyrusOne has qualified for tax incentives in Loudoun County, exempting customers from sales tax payments on all equipment deployed in CyrusOne facilities in that county. The sales tax exemptions are retroactive to 2014. “We have been working to secure this tax incentive for our customers for t...

Iron Mountain formerly launches Singapore facility

Iron Mountain Singapore SIN-1

Iron Mountain held a launch event this week for SIN-1 in Singapore, the facility it acquired from Credit Suisse in 2017.  The data center is the company's first facility in Asia.Iron Mountain Press Release

Keppel becomes landlord, but 1-Net still will operate the colocation business at 1-Net North

1-Net Singapore Pte Ltd

Keppel announced the acquisition of 1-Net North for $200 million. 1-Net will still run its colocation operations from in the site. In other words, Keppel will be the landlord and 1Net will still operate the data center. 1-Net has issued a Press Release the clarifies the issue: NOTICE OF CLARIF...