Global Data Center News

September 18, 2019

NTT to rebrand regional subsidiaries, impacts RagingWire, e-shelter, Gyron, NetMagic

NTT

Data Center Frontier reports that NTT plans to rebrand all its data center subsidiaries into one brand. The combined company will be launched at PTC in January 2020 and be headquartered in LondonThe rebrand includes all of NTT subsidiaries. RagingWire e-shelter NetMagic Gyron and NTT branded...

September 18, 2019

New Continuum Data Centers Acquired by SBA (PR)

SBA Edge

As it considers entering the data center industry, SBA Communications last month purchased New Continuum Data Centers, which has a flagship data center is located in west Chicago and a fiber loop. “It’s a great facility. It was built for an agency of the United States Government. Built like a ...

September 17, 2019

AirTrunk Announces expansion to Hong Kong with new 20 MW Data Centre (PR)

AirTrunk Hong Kong HKG1

AirTrunk, a specialist in hyperscale data centres, today confirmed its latest Asia-Pacific data centre development, announcing a new 20+ megawatt (MW) facility in Hong Kong that is set to open in Q4, 2020. The data centre will be located near Tsuen Wan, close to key data centres and Hong Kong’...

September 16, 2019

DigiPlex invests with two new green data centres in Oslo (PR)

STACK OSL01 Ulven

DigiPlex has broken ground on the construction of two new data centres near Oslo, Norway. The two centres will have a combined facility size of 8,500 m² and represent an investment of NOK 600 million. The centers are set to be operational in just 12 months, before the end of 2020.Internationa...

September 16, 2019

Aligned Energy Completes Phase One of Ashburn Data Center Campus (PR)

Aligned Ashburn

ASHBURN, VA – 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, announces the completion of phase one of its hyperscale data center campus in Ashburn, Vir...

September 16, 2019

Keppel DC REIT acquires two data centers and raises equiity (PR)

1-Net North Data Centre

Keppel DC REIT announces two data centre acquisitions in Singapore and launches equity fund raising DPU-accretive acquisitions will strengthen Keppel DC REIT's portfolio and increase assets under management significantly by 30.7% to $2.58 billion Proposed acquisitions will be funded by a comb...

September 12, 2019

NYI expands to Chicago

NYI Chicago (Oak Brook)

New York Internet (NYI) is expanding to Chicago through a data center acquisition. NYI has acquired the data center business at 800 Jorie Boulevard in Oak Brook Illinois. The facility was previously operated by Navisite. More info in the press release below. NYI Press ReleaseNew York, NY – Sep...

September 12, 2019

Digital Realty opens new Docklands facility

Digital Docklands: Cloud House

The new 120,000 square foot facility is located in the London Docklands, a highly connected area of London. The new facility will be interconnected with Digtial Realty's Sovereign House with a redundant 3,400 metre 432-count fiber ring. DRT Press Release LONDON, Sept. 11, 2...

September 11, 2019

365 acquires Bridgewater New Jersey Data Center from NYI

365 Bridgewater NJ

365 Data Centers announced it has acquired NYI's facility in Bridgewater New Jersey, which is 365's eleventh data center in the US. 365 Data Centers is privately held and the transaction was funded by adding a new equity investor, Turning Rock Partners.Subsequently, NYI used the proceeds to fu...

September 11, 2019

Aligned Energy Announces a 8 MW expansion in Dallas

Aligned Plano

Aligned Energy announced an 8 MW expansion of its Plano data center, located in Northwest Dallas. The expansion at the 19-acre campus, which at full build-out will support a 375,000 sq ft, 60 MW facility is in response to rising demand. Rendering of the Aligned Energy Dallas...

September 09, 2019

Construction is started on the AWS Facility in Mulhaddart, Ireland

Hyperscale Data Center

The Business Post reports that work has begun on the Amazon Mulhuddart data center campus. The project was known as "Project G" was originally approved in 2017, but was held up by environmental groups. The initial phase will be over 220,000 and is expected to be completed by mid-2021 at the ...

September 06, 2019

Cologix opens 3rd Vancouver Data Center

Cologix Vancouver VAN3

Cologix launched its third data center in Vancouver. The company is the dominant provider in Vancouver, which is an underserved metro for colocation services. The Canadians city would benefit from more competition from colocation providers.The Cologix Press Release DENVER – Cologix, a netwo...

September 04, 2019

Macquarie Infrastructure Partners Acquires Netrality

Netrality Properties

Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA) has acquired Netrality Data Centers in partnership with the US data centre owner’s management team. Macquarie Infrastructure Partners IV (MIP IV), a fund managed by MIRA said it has bought Netrality from funds managed by Abrams Capital Management...

September 04, 2019

Sungard Names as new CFO & COO (PR)

Sungard Availability Services

WAYNE, Pa – Sungard Availability Services (Sungard AS) named Terrence J. (TJ) Anderson as its new executive vice president and chief financial officer, and Brian Crotty as its new executive vice president and chief commercial officer. “TJ is a results-oriented senior executive with a wide ...

September 04, 2019

Leaseweb expands with maincubes at AMS01

maincubes AMS01

maincubes landed a large deal with Leaseweb in Amsterdam. Leaseweb which has 20 locations across the world has a large presence in the legacy EvoSwitch facilities. (EvoSwitch was acquired by Iron Mountain in 2018.) The deal allows Leaseweb to further diversify their providers. maincubes Press ...

September 03, 2019

MVP Closes Sale of Bluebird Network to Macquarie Infrastructure Partners (PR)

Bluebird Network

COLUMBIA, MISSOURI — Bluebird Network, LLC (“Bluebird”), a Midwest telecommunications company, is excited to announce the close of its acquisition by Macquarie Infrastructure Partners (MIP), one of the largest infrastructure funds in the world. Through this acquisition, Bluebird will increase...

September 02, 2019

Princeton Digital Group Announces Two Transactions in China and Singapore As Part of US$500 Million Growth Plan (PR)

Princeton Digital Group

Singapore and Shanghai, China – Singapore-based Princeton Digital Group (PDG), a Warburg Pincus-backed investor, developer and operator of internet infrastructure, today announced that it has acquired assets and land for data center development in China and Singapore, as part of a US$500 milli...

August 30, 2019

Equinix Opens New Data Center in Seoul

Equinix Seoul SL1

Equinix opened a new data center in Seoul on August 30th 2019. The data center, SL1, is Equinix's first facility in Korea. South Korea has a high tech economy but has been neglected by the large international data center providers such as Digital Realty, Equinix, Cyxtera, and STT. Equinix's e...

August 21, 2019

Contegix Appoints Joe Deney as Chief Operations Officer (PR)

Contegix

RESTON, Va.- Contegix, the leading Managed Service Provider for digital applications, has announced that it has named Joe Deney as its new chief operations officer. Deney is responsible for driving increased customer satisfaction and is charged with evolving the company’s support organization,...

August 20, 2019

Cogeco Peer 1 rebrands as Aptum Technologies

Aptum Technologies

Cogeco Peer 1 has been rebranded to Aptum Technologies. The rebranding comes after Cogeco Peer 1 was acquired in April 2019 by Digital Colony, a global investment firm dedicated to strategic opportunities in digital infrastructure. Rebranding is popular for colocation and telecom providers AT...

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NTT to rebrand regional subsidiaries, impacts RagingWire, e-shelter, Gyron, NetMagic

New Continuum Data Centers Acquired by SBA (PR)

AirTrunk Announces expansion to Hong Kong with new 20 MW Data Centre (PR)

DigiPlex invests with two new green data centres in Oslo (PR)

Aligned Energy Completes Phase One of Ashburn Data Center Campus (PR)