Global Data Center News

March 21, 2019

L.A. Moving City Operations to State Data Center in $10.5M Deal

Dept of Technology Rancho Cordova

The city of Los Angeles is giving up on its 30-year-old legacy mainframe system and is contracting with the California Department of Technology to move its operations to the State Data Center in Sacramento. The city will pay the state $10.5 million for three years of service, with an option to...

March 19, 2019

Orange Belgium Opens a New Data Center in Antwerp

Orange Belgium Hoboken

Orange Belgium has opened a $15.8 million data center in Antwerp, Belgium. Michaël Trabbia, CEO of Orange, and president of the board Johan Deschuyffeleer officially opened the 1,000 square meter (10,800 sq ft) data center at a event yesterday. Orange Datacenter in Belgium ...

March 19, 2019

ScaleMatrix Acquires Instant Data Centers for High-Density Edge

ScaleMatrix

There are many layers and facets to edge computing, which is the focus of a growing list of companies, including everyone from startups to the largest cloud platforms. As a result, edge strategies will drive an active season for mergers and acquisitions. That’s true for the data center sec...

March 13, 2019

QTS files plans to expand Richmond campus in White Oak Technology Park

QTS Richmond I

A development plan was filed in March by an entity tied to QTS Data Centers for new two single-story data center buildings totaling 710,500 square feet on county-owned land in Sandston’s White Oak Technology Park, near Interstates 64 and 295. Dubbed in planning documents as “Project Isaac,” th...

March 12, 2019

Equinix is Building ME2 in Melbourne

Equinix Melbourne ME2

ARNnet.com.au reports that Interconnection and data centre provider Equinix is investing $117 million (US$84 million) in a new International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in Melbourne. The site, named ME2, is expected to open by September this year and will be the company’s fourth in the...

March 12, 2019

Google Launches New GCP Region in Zurich

Hyperscale Data Center

Google announced on their Blog that they have launched the Zurich region. Our Google Cloud Platform (GCP) region in Zurich is now live and ready for business. Our sixth European region and nineteenth overall, this new region gives companies doing business in Switzerland more opportunities wit...

March 08, 2019

ScaleMatrix Open Its First Data Center in Seattle

ScaleMatrix Seattle

ScaleMatrix has opened its newest data center, operated by Centeris, in the southern part of metro Seattle. The new facility is ScaleMatrix’s first expansion in the Pacific Northwest and will provide a plethora of services for potential enterprise clients. The New ScaleMatrix Sit...

March 07, 2019

Cavern Expanding KC Data Center by 40,000 SqFt

Lightedge: Lenexa (Cavern)

Cavern Technologies announced via Twitter that the company is building a 40,000 SqFt expansion at their Underground Kansas Facility. The data center, which is used by the Kansas City Chiefs, is one of the largest facilities in Kansas City. Cavern said the space will be available by June and it...

March 07, 2019

Global Switch Launches Woodlands Site in Singapore

Global Switch Singapore Woodlands

Global Switch formerly launched their Woodlands site. A couple quick facts: The site was built in partnership with China Telecom Global and Daily-Tech. The facility cost $280 million ($205 million USD) The facility has seven floors. (only 5 data center floors) 25,000 square meters (270,000 sq...

March 07, 2019

Microsoft and EDP Renewables Execute a Wind Energy Agreement in Ohio

Ohio

HOUSTON, and REDMOND, Wash. — March 7, 2019 — EDP Renewables SA (EDPR), through its fully owned subsidiary EDP Renewables North America LLC, and Microsoft Corp. have executed two 15-year power purchase agreements (PPA) totaling 125 megawatts (MW) that will bring the Timber Road IV Wind Farm t...

March 06, 2019

Facebook Plans to Wholesale Its Fiber

March 04, 2019

MC Digital Realty Announce Hyperscale Data Center in Inzai Near Tokyo

MC Digital Realty-Inazi (NRT10)

SAN FRANCISCO, March 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, announced today that MC Digital Realty, a 50/50 joint venture between Mitsubishi Corporation and Digital Realty, has reached an agreemen...

March 01, 2019

Global Switch Picks Banks for $1 Billion IPO in Hong Kong

Global Switch

HONG KONG (Reuters) - UK-based data center operator Global Switch has chosen CLSA, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan as sponsors for its Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO) of up to $1 billion, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday. Founded in 1998 and owned by Britain’s ...

February 28, 2019

DataBank Opens their new ATL1 Facility with Georgia Institute of Technology as an Anchor Tenant

DataBank Atlanta ATL1

Atlanta, GA – February 25, 2019 – DataBank, a leading provider of enterprise-class data center, connectivity and managed services, announces the opening of its ATL1 data center in Atlanta. Located at 760 West Peachtree Street NW, ATL1 is part of the CODA development, a 645,000 square foot ...

February 27, 2019

Cogeco Communications Sells Cogeco Peer 1 subsidiary to Digital Colony (PR)

Aptum Technologies

MONTREAL, (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cogeco Communications Inc. (TSX: CCA) (“Cogeco Communications” or the “Corporation”) today announced that it has reached an agreement to sell Cogeco Peer 1 Inc., its business information and communications technology services subsidiary, to affiliates of Digital C...

February 26, 2019

Cologix Acquires Metro Optic: Adds Carriers & Hyperscale Edge Capacity

Cologix MTL11

Metro Optic’s Montreal Interconnection hub is key termination point for subsea cables and adds a further 30+ carriers to the Cologix ecosystem.DENVER – February 26, 2019 — Cologix, a network-neutral, interconnection and Hyperscale edge data center company, today announced it has acquired Mont...

February 19, 2019

CyrusOne Expands Santa Clara Campus While Still Under Construction

Tishman Speyer: Santa Clara

CyrusOne is expanding it's Santa Clara data center campus just months after announcing their first data center in Silicon Valley. Demand must be strong. It was only in Q3 2018 when the company began building it's first data center in Santa Clara. CyrusOne Press Release: SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(B...

February 15, 2019

Stream Data Centers to Develop Hyperscale Data Center Campus in Phoenix Market

Stream: Goodyear PHXA1

DALLAS, Feb. 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Stream Data Centers, an industry leader in providing premium data center solutions, announces today that it has acquired a 418,000-square-foot facility on 157 acres of land in Goodyear, Arizona, where it will establish a data center campus for hyperscale a...

February 15, 2019

Google data center in Clarksville to get power from Yum Yum solar farm

Hyperscale Data Center

The Yum Yum solar farm will be about 175 miles southeast of the Clarksville site. The solar farm is expected to produce about 150 megawatts of clean energy. A large solar farm in West Tennessee will provide carbon-free renewable power for tech giant Google’s data center in Clarksville. Chica...

February 14, 2019

Vantage Raises an Additional $675 Million in Debt and Equity Financing

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage has raised $675 million for expansion projects in the United States. The company also raised $225 million in December. That's a lot of capital, however the company has many projects in the works, including: Acquired 4Degrees and entered the Montreal market in December Building a secon...

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Orange Belgium Opens a New Data Center in Antwerp

ScaleMatrix Acquires Instant Data Centers for High-Density Edge