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DataBank plans 192MW data center facility in Virginia

DataBank announced it has acquired 85 acres of land in Culpeper, Virginia, to construct a new data center campus, which will host up to three two-story data centers offering 1.4 million square feet of space. The new facility will use DataBank’s recently announced Universal Data Hall Design (UD...

November 16, 2023

DataBank

Digital Realty and Realty Income Corporation form a data center JV in Northern Virginia

Digital Realty and Realty Income Corporation established a joint data center venture in Northern Virginia. Following their agreement, the real estate investment firm invested $200 million and will get an 80 percent equity interest in two data centers currently under construction in Northern Vi...

November 16, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

US Defense Information Systems Agency awards $110 million contract to Lumen

The US Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Lumen Technologies a $110 million contract to provide mission-critical network services to the US Department of Defense (DoD). This contract has a timeline of five years, from November 30, 2023, through September 30, 2028. This contract is...

November 10, 2023

Lumen Technologies

QTS acquires Netherlands-based data center management firm Zentrys

US data center firm QTS recently purchased Dutch data center management and operations company Zentrys. QTS intends to bring Zentrys employees on board over the next year and integrate the newly purchased company with its technology and processes. Chad Williams, CEO of QTS, said, "We welcome ...

November 08, 2023

QTS Data Centers

Cloudflare blames Flexential DC outage for its service disruption

Content Delivery Network (CDN), security, and Edge computing company Cloudflare has blamed its November 2 service disruption on a power failure at a Flexential data center in Hillsboro, Oregon. "On November 2 at 08:50 UTC, Portland General Electric (PGE), the utility company that services PDX-...

November 07, 2023

Flexential

Iron Mountain to convert records management facility in Miami to a data center

Iron Mountain is to convert one of its former records management facilities in Miami, Florida, into a data center that will offer 16MW. Iron Mountain CEO William L. Meaney said during the company's Q3 2023 earnings call last week, “Miami is a key market where a number of our customers are loo...

November 06, 2023

Iron Mountain

DataBank purchases new parcel in Atlanta, Georgia, for DC campus

US colocation provider DataBank recently purchased 95 acres of land near Lithia Springs within a mile of the 18 acres where it is already building its ATL4 facility in Atlanta, Georgia. The newly acquired parcel can accommodate two multi-story data centers totaling 1 million gross square feet....

November 01, 2023

DataBank

QTS to expand into New Albany, Ohio

QTS has revealed plans to expand into New Albany, Ohio by developing new data center campuses covering over a million square feet and 200MW. These new campuses will be on Beech Road; two on one site, a 57-acre piece of property, and another two on a nearby 37-acre site and construction should ...

October 25, 2023

QTS Data Centers

BAM Digital Realty names CB Velayuthan as new CEO

Digital Realty joint venture Digital Connexion has named CB Velayuthan as its new CEO and he has taken over leadership of Brookfield/Digital/Reliance Jio joint venture previously known as BAM Digital Realty. Velayuthan said to the media, “India is one of the most dynamic markets in our industr...

October 23, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Technical issues at data center causes banking issues across Singapore

An outage at an Equinix data center on Saturday brought DBS and Citibank banking services in Singapore offline. This outage also affected other services in its Asian region including the Philippines, Hong Kong and India as people complained about having issues with Facebook, Instagram, WhatsAp...

October 18, 2023

Equinix

Web Werks & Iron Mountain acquire 4 acres in Chennai for DC construction

Web Werks and Iron Mountain recently purchased a four-acre parcel of land in the Ambattur area of Chennai, India for the construction of two data center campuses. These parcel will support two buildings called CHE-1 and CHE-2 which will be built to Tier III standards and will support a total ...

October 17, 2023

Iron Mountain

Lumen sells CND customers to Akamai as it shuts down the business

Lumen announced that it’s Content Delivery Network (CDN) business will be shut down and it has sold its customer contracts to Akamai. Both companies will undergo a transition services agreement for 90 days before Lumen completes its shut down. "We are deep into our transformation of Lumen and ...

October 16, 2023

Lumen Technologies

Digital Realty and Dutch college launches demonstration data center to teach students

Digital Realty has partnered with a Dutch vocational college in Amsterdam to launch a new demo data center to teach students data center skills. Students from the Cloud & Infrastructure Technician course opened the demo data center at MBO College Zuidoost this week. Melissa Scholten, senio...

October 13, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty expands footprint in Zagreb, Croatia

Global cloud provider Digital Realty announced its acquisition of a land parcel in Zagreb, Croatia for the construction of a new data center campus as it plans to expand its footprints in Southeast Europe. This plot of land, located close to its existing data center campus can support up to 30...

October 06, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

DigitalBridge completes DataBank recapitalization

DigitalBridge Group recently revealed the completion of DataBank's recapitalization. The Group announced that DigitalBridge received an additional funding of $219 million, bringing the total costs of the recapitalization to $2.2 billion. This completed recapitalization will bring about a separ...

September 22, 2023

DataBank

QTS to establish operations in York County, South Carolina

The South Carolina Office of the Governor confirmed that DC firm QTS will establish operations in York Country, marking the company’s entry into the state. This comes after news of a major data center project in York County dubbed ‘Project Cobra’ surfaced in June 2023.Gov. Henry McMaster celeb...

September 22, 2023

QTS Data Centers

EdgeConneX Gets $403.8Million to Develop its Jakarta Data Centers

EdgeConneX, a provider of Hyperscale Data Center Solutions, revealed a $ 403,8 million contract in Sustainability-Linked Senior Facilities to expedite its growth strategy and green initiatives for its Jakarta, Indonesia, data center footprint. This transaction, according to EdgeConneX, will in...

September 18, 2023

EdgeConneX

EdgeConneX secures $403.8m sustainability-linked financing for Indonesia data center

EdgeConneX has shared that it has secured $403.8 million in sustainability-linked financing (SLF). This loan is for its 120MW data center campus development in Jakarta, Indonesia.The deal leverages EdgeConneX's Sustainability Strategy and will reportedly use offshore US dollar borrowing. It re...

September 14, 2023

EdgeConneX

EdgeConneX to build 200MW Cyberjaya facility in Malaysia

EdgeConneX continues to grow its APAC operations by adding three facilities in Malaysia, located in and around Kuala Lumpur. Business Today and Edge Malaysia report that EdgeConneX signed a sales and purchase contract with Cyberview earlier this month to acquire a 12.14-hectare tract of land i...

September 11, 2023

EdgeConneX

Digital Realty to expand in Italy

Digital Realty has announced that it's expanding into the Italian market with a new Tier IV-quality data center, named ROM1. This announcement comes following the acquisition and pre-development planning of land in Rome. The facility will sit on a 22-hectare site, with construction set to comm...

September 07, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

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