Data Center News

T5 Data Centers Signs Hospital Tenant for T5@LA Facility

Serverfarm LAX1

T5 Data Centers, innovators in providing secure, customizable, hyperscale computing environments for enterprise companies, today announced that a large regional hospital has signed as the newest tenant for its T5@LA data center. The hospital plans to migrate all data operations into T5@LA to take...

Facebook to Build a $750 million Data Center in Huntsville

Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook announced it will invest $750 million to build a data center on 340 acres in North Huntsville Industrial Park. Once construction is finished, the data center will employ approximately 100 people. The company considered numerous locations across the country for the new data center and say...

Colt deploys to EdgeConneX's Amsterdam Datacenter

EdgeConnex Amsterdam

Colt will be deploying to EdgeConneX's datacenter in Amsterdam. Colt Technology Services and EdgeConneX have partnered to link up Colt’s IQ Network to several EdgeConneX facilities, offering connectivity closer to the edge. Andrew Edison 100x150The partnership will see Colt’s high-bandwidth IQ...

Seaborn Networks Selects EdgeConneX Buenos Aires as a POP for it's ARBR Submarine Cable

EdgeConnex Buenos Aires

This is a big win for EdgeConneX! EdgeConneX, specializing in global data center solutions at the edge of the network, today announces that Seaborn Networks (“Seaborn”), a leading developer-owner-operator of submarine fiber optic cable systems, has selected its Buenos Aires Edge Data Center (EDC...

Facebook plans two more data centers in Dublin

Hyperscale Data Center

Two years after breaking ground on its first Irish data center, Facebook is planning another two facilities on the same campus in Clonee, Meath County, 10 miles (17km) north of Dublin, according to the Irish Times. The data centers, representing an investment nearing €300 million ($349m), will be...

vXchnge and Microsoft Partner to Offer Azure ExpressRoute Connectivity in 5 Data Centers

vXchnge

vXchnge recently announced the availability of Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute in its Austin, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Santa Clara and St. Louis data centers. Utilizing vXchnge as the platform for high availability data centers, vXchnge customers can now leverage the interconnection solutions b...

Digital Colony Completes Acquisition of Digita Oy (PR)

Digita Oy

BOCA RATON, Fla. and HELSINKI /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Colony, a global investment firm focused on enabling the next generation of mobile and internet infrastructure, today announced that an affiliate of Digital Colony has completed its previously announced acquisition of Digita Oy ("Digita") f...

EdgeConneX Significantly Expands Denver Data Center

EdgeConneX Denver

Herndon, VA – June 21, 2018 –EdgeConneX®, specializing in global data center solutions at the edge of the network, today announces the formation of an Edge Data Center® (EDC) campus in Denver by adding an additional building supporting 21MW of available capacity.  In addition, Megaport, the l...

ROOT Data Center Announces Expansion of Its MTL-R2 Facility

Compass Montreal II

MONTRÉAL(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ROOT Data Center announces today the expansion of its Montréal-based MTL-R2 facility, adding an additional 6MW of power capacity to Canada’s largest wholesale / hyperscale data center.  The build of two new data halls is in response to the growing demand of major cl...

Immedion acquires Indiana-based Data Cave

DartPoints: Columbus, IN

Greenville, SC - Immedion LLC, a provider of IT infrastructure solutions including Cloud, colocation and managed IT services, today announced its further expansion in the Midwest region through the acquisition of a data center in Columbus, Indiana. Formerly operated by Data Cave, this 86,400-...

PAIX and NSIA Technologies make a West African Joint Venture

PAIX Abidjan

PAIX Data Centres and NSIA Technologies have formed a joint venture to run carrier neutral data centers in two African countries. The pair will develop and operate two data centers in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire and Dakar, Senegal under the PAIX brand.The joint venture will acquire NSIA Technologie...

Facebook and Luxcara sign 294MW Norwegian wind deal

Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook and European asset manager Luxcara have entered into long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) for 100 percent of the output and environmental (green) attributes of three contiguous wind projects (Gravdal, Skinansfjellet and Eikeland-Steinsland) in southwest Norway. In addition, Face...

CoreSite Realty buys colocation provider US Colo

US Colo

CoreSite Realty Corp. completed its acquisition of Los Angeles-based colocation provider U.S. Colo LLC for roughly $8.6 million, ending ongoing litigation between the parties. In its first-quarter earnings release, the data center real estate investment trust said the deal provides CoreSite wi...

Rackspace and Switch Partner to host Rackspace Private Cloud in Switch Facilities (PR)

Switch

Switch and Rackspace announced a new agreement to deliver Rackspace private cloud solutions and connectivity to managed public cloud solutions on AWS, Azure and Google in Switch’s highly secure and reliable Tier 5® Platinum data center PRIME locations. The agreement builds on Rackspace’s Fanat...

e-shelter Announces It Will Open Another Data Center Campus in Frankfurt in Early 2019 (PR)

NTT Frankfurt 4

FRANKFURT, Germany & TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--e-shelter, a leading data center provider in Europe and an NTT Communications Group Company, has today announced the acquisition of new development site in Frankfurt, which will be its 4th location in the city. The expansion comes on the back of...

GI Partners Becomes Data Center Landlord for BT’s Trading Hub in New Jersey

BT Radianz: 492 River Road

GI Partners has bought a large New Jersey data center that houses tech platforms that facilitate capital markets trading by customers of BT Radianz, the financial tech services business of BT Americas, a division of British Telecom. BT has been the sole tenant in the 130,000-square foot buildi...

Evocative Announces Acquisition of Cyberverse, Inc. and Expansion into the Los Angeles, Phoenix and Dallas Data Center Markets (PR)

Evocative

SAN JOSE, CALIF. (PRWEB) -- Evocative, LLC, a leading provider of secure compliant Internet infrastructure services, today announced that it has acquired Cyberverse, Inc., one of the pioneering companies in Internet services. Cyberverse was founded in 1994 by Greg Domeno and Jay Smith and over...

Apple will build 2nd Chinese Data Center

Hyperscale Data Center

Apple is expanding in China again. The company first announce a facility in Guizhou Province. Now, Apple has announced a second data center in mainland China.  Apple decided to build facilities to store data behind the Great Firewall of China after the Chinese government passed strict data res...

State of Washington Department of Commerce Uses Baxtel Data to Analyze Data Center Power Consumption

Washington State Department of Commerce's State of the Data Center Industry leverages Baxtel's data to analyze the effects of Data Centers on the power capacity in the state. Read the full Report here

INAP to Acquire SingleHop

HorizonIQ

Timing of this announcement coincides with top line turnaround progress for INAP standalone: 4Q 2017 revenue outlook up to $70M Strategic combination increases product differentiation through advanced automation  Expansion facilitates business and enterprise sales across INAP’s major markets ...