Data Center News

Equinix to Acquire ICT-Center Zurich's Data Center Business

Equinix Zurich ZH2 ZH4

ICT-Center's Zurich data center is located in the same building as Equinix's ZH2 & ZH4 datacenters. Source: Press Release Febuary 28, 2017. REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and ZURICH, Feb. 28, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today a...

TierPoint Announces $20M Data Center Investment in Nashville

Tierpoint Nashville NSH

Nashville–TierPoint LLC announced that it is significantly increasing its capacity to serve the Nashville community through a new $20 million data center facility. TierPoint is partnering with Compass Data Centers on the project, which will more than double the data center space to approximat...

H5 Data Centers Acquires Cleveland Data Center

H5 Cleveland Technology Center (CTC)

Denver, CO - H5 Data Centers, a national colocation and wholesale data center provider, today announced it has acquired the Cleveland Technology Center in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. Located at 1625 Rockwell Avenue, the acquisition adds to H5's growing data center portfolio of nearly 1.5 millio...

GI Partners Acquires KOMO Plaza in Seattle, Washington

KOMO Plaza (was Fisher Plaza)

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 5, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- GI Partners ("GI"), a leading alternative asset manager, announced today it has acquired KOMO Plaza, a state-of-the-art carrier hotel and data center facility located at 100 and 140 Fourth Avenue North in Seattle, Washington for $276 million. The highl...

Blue NAP Americas from Dataplanet N.V. Launches at CES 2017

Blue NAP Americas Curaçao

LAS VEGAS /PRNewswire/ -- Today at the 2017 International CES, Dataplanet N.V., a company that designs, builds and operates state-of-the-art data centers, announced the launch of Blue NAP Americas, the most advanced multi-tenant Tier-IV certified data center in the Americas. Blue NAP Americas ...

EQT Infrastructure acquires GlobalConnect A/S (PR)

GlobalConnect A / S

EQT Infrastructure acquires GlobalConnect A/S, the leading alternative provider of B2B data communication services in Denmark  GlobalConnect operates in the highly attractive fiber infrastructure sector, a core market for EQT where it holds significant industry expertise  EQT Infrastructure i...

SUPERNAP launches in Italy

STACK Milan Campus

MILANO, Italy, Dec. 16, 2016­ /PRNewswire/ -- SUPERNAP International today announced the opening of the largest, most advanced data center in Southern Europe. With 500 cabinets and more than 3.3 megawatts of power already sold, SUPERNAP International is delivering on the promise of bringing st...

One Wilshire is Expanding Power Capaicty to 28MW

One Wilshire Building

One Wilshire badly needed a power upgrade. The upgrade will allow for current colo operators such as CoreSite or a new tenant to start providing service in the best connected building on the West Coast. Excerpts from the DCF article. Source: Data Center Frontier Nov 21 2016 One of the world’s m...

CSE deploys Matching Engine to Equinix's TR2 in Toronto

Equinix Toronto TR2

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and TORONTO, Ontario—September 29, 2016 — The Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE) and Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that the CSE has selected Equinix as its primary data center provider. The CSE will be of...

Electric Lightwave will connect Landing Stations to Edgeconnex San Diego

EdgeConneX San Diego

EdgeConnex has branded an Edge Landing Station. Not a bad move considering their success and branding their Edge data centers. The first-of-its-kind Edge Landing Station™ (ELS) will utilize Electric Lightwave’s fiber network to provide customers with direct access to transpacific subsea cables f...

400 N Tampa sells for almost $80M

WOW! Tampa

Park Tower, at 400 N. Tampa St., has been sold to City Office REIT for $79.75 million.  The seller was New York-based Sterling American Property Inc., which paid $50 million for the tower in 2006. The 36-story Park Tower was built in 1973, according to property records. Sterling has recently c...

Infomart Has Lower Cost Of Power In Silicon Valley

STACK Silicon Valley SVY01

Data Center Frontier reports Informart's cost of power is lower in Santa Clara: In San Jose, Infomart uses the PG&E Direct Access program to offer power to customers at rates of 8.5 cents to 9 cents per kilowatt hour, much lower than the 11 to 12 cents per kWh rate seen by most PG&E cust...

Digital Realty Expanding Adjacent to 350 E Cermak

Digital Realty: ORD10

This is a low risk development. Anchor or not, demand for access to Cermak is high. Digital Reality will own the conduit fiber between the buildings and should make access to tenants in 350 pretty easy. Digital Realty Trust made a big, highly anticipated announcement this morning. They plan t...

Cook County property records show EdgeConnex is expanding to Chicago

Cook County property records show EdgeConnex is expanding to Chicago. A young data-center company is cooking up its first deal in the Chicago area, paying nearly $23 million for an Elk Grove Village warehouse that it plans to retrofit for the internet era. EdgeConnex acquired the 132,000-squar...

Data Foundry to expand Austin Campus by 325,000sqft

Switch: Texas 1

Data Foundry is expanding their massive Austin campus. Ready in Q3 2017. Data Foundry, a leading provider of premium colocation, network and managed services, today announced the construction of its third Austin data center, Texas 2. The first phase of construction will begin this quarter, and ...

UPS Outage at Global Switch's London GS2 site

Global Switch: London East

The Global Switch data center outage in the London Docklands earlier this month has been traced to a cable end box on a UPS system. The power interruption lasted less than a second, but it took at least one customer two days to fully recover. The 222 millisecond outage was caused by a fault in...

EdgeConnex landed Comcast as an Anchor tenant

EdgeConneX Jacksonville

It is always good to have the incumbent MSO (in this case, Comcast) anchoring your Interconnection datacenter. With Comcast, the area’s largest cable and broadband provider, as their anchor tenant, they have plans to triple the size of the center as they bring more customers into their facility....

Expedient expanding Pittsburgh datacenter

Expedient Pittsburgh (North Side)

Expedient announced an expansion of their Pittsburgh datacenter. Details below. ...expansion project at one of its Pittsburgh, PA data centers, located at Nova Place, formerly known as Allegheny Center Mall. The facility is one of two enterprise data centers the company operates in the region. ...

Phoenix-IX extends to EdgeConneX Phoenix

EdgeConneX Phoenix

EdgeConneX has announced it has partnered with Phoenix Internet Exchange (Phoenix-IX), having built the newly available remote Phoenix-IX node into its Phoenix Edge Data Center (EDC). Located at 3011 S 52nd Street, Suite 107 in Tempe, Arizona, the expansion is instrumental to the advancement of t...

Monet subsea Cable to land in MI3

Equinix Miami MI3

Equinix has been selected by Monet Submarine Cable investors to provide US facilities and services for the cable landing station architecture to support the Monet subsea cable system between Miami and São Paulo. Monet, which is a planned subsea cable presently designed to deliver over 60Tbps o...