September 14, 2023 EdgeConneX
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...
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September 11, 2023 EdgeConneX
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 in...
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September 07, 2023 Digital Realty Trust
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...
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September 07, 2023 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty plans to extend its operations into Italy and has already purchased land in Rome, the country's capital. Following the purchase of land in Rome and the subsequent pre-development planning for it, the company announced its entry into the Italian market last week. The ROM1 data...
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September 05, 2023 EdgeConneX
EdgeConneX plans to establish a new data center facility in Phoenix, Arizona, to expand its presence there. According to BizJournal, the company has applied for Mesa's administrative and design reviews to construct a multi-phased campus near Elliot Road and Loop 202. EdgeConneX wants to build a...
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August 29, 2023 Verizon Enterprise
Verizon's former Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania office and data center is available for purchase or lease. It has been put up for sale or lease by Colliers and Sampson Morris Group at 5400 Campbells Run Road. The 10-acre, 1959-built office and data facility features 130,000 rentable square feet and is...
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August 22, 2023 EdgeConneX
EdgeConneX Ireland has appealed to An Bord Pleanála against South Dublin County Council's decision to deny its proposed data center. The company intended to construct two adjacent data centers on its Dublin Campus in Ballmakaily, Lucan, Dublin, on Newcastle Road. Two single-story data centers...
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August 22, 2023 Cogent Communications
Cogent Communications intends to transform the former Sprint switching plant real estate footprint acquired from T-Mobile into a substantial colocation data center portfolio. T-Mobile announced in September 2022 that it had agreed to sell its Wireline business to Cogent for a symbolic $1, with...
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August 21, 2023 DataBank
DataBank has finished seven expansion initiatives throughout the United States. Over the weekend, the company announced the conclusion of seven data center projects in Dallas, Las Vegas, San Diego, Irvine, and Kansas City, in addition to two in Atlanta. In the past year, seven facilities have...
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August 10, 2023 Equinix
Equinix will invest $42 million in a new data center in Mumbai, India. The MB4 data center is anticipated to be operational by the end of the fourth quarter 2023. The MB4 data center is in the Kalwa Industrial Area, approximately 9 miles from the company's two other IBX data centers in Mumbai....
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August 08, 2023 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty, a global leader in the data center industry, has introduced a high-density colocation service in 28 markets across North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific. The new service supports up to 70 kilowatts per rack of computing power. Digital stated that the increased rack densities were...
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August 03, 2023 Lumen Technologies
In the second quarter, Lumen Technologies reported a loss of $8.74 billion, a significant decrease from the $344 million profit in the same quarter last year. The company, formerly CenturyLink Enterprise, has lost more than 66 percent of its value this year, reducing its market capitalization to...
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August 01, 2023 QTS Data Centers
The premier property fund of Blackstone, valued at $68 billion, is selling assets and preparing to invest billions in data centers. According to the Financial Times, Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, or Breit, intends to invest $8 billion in the construction of new data centers through its...
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July 28, 2023 Digital Realty Trust
TPG Real Estate now owns 80% of three Digital Realty data centers in the US state of Virginia's Northern Virginia. Digital will continue to oversee the daily operations of the joint venture's facilities. The data center business aims to utilize the $1.3 billion in proceeds from the transaction to...
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July 27, 2023 QTS Data Centers
A new campus for its data centers is being built by QTS on 400 acres of land in York County, South Carolina. Citing York County real estate documents, BizJournal reports that two entities linked with QTS Realty Trust LLC have acquired nearly 400 acres off S.C. Highway 274 for more than $11.2...
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July 26, 2023 Digital Realty Trust
Reliance Industries, the largest business group in India, revealed that it would join Mercury Holdings SG Pte, the current joint venture between Brookfield Infrastructure and Digital Realty, to construct data centers in India. By acquiring a 33,33 % stake in the existing JV, Reliance Industries...
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July 19, 2023 EdgeConneX
EdgeConneX has announced the deployment of AWS Direct Connect with both 10Gbps and 100Gbps capability at the Phoenix Edge Data Center (PHX01). The company shared that this will enable customers to establish direct edge cloud on-ramps. This, it shared, can reportedly reduce costs, improve...
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July 18, 2023 Digital Realty Trust
GI Partners has acquired a majority stake in two data centers in Chicago, Illinois, from Digital Realty. This week, the business announced that it had formed a joint venture with GI Partners to sell a 65 percent stake in two stabilized hyper-scale data center facilities and their associated...
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July 17, 2023 Equinix
Equinix has announced that, through a partnership with a number of different companies, it will connect to a new district heating scheme in Frankfurt, Germany. In collaboration with Vonovia, AS Enterprise, and EB-SIM, the group aims to build a heating network for the bizonal residential area in...
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July 14, 2023 Equinix
As Singapore looks to end a years-long prohibition on new developments, four data center operators have been given 80MW of capacity for new facilities. Since 2019, Singapore has imposed a ban on the construction of new data centers; however, previously authorized facilities were permitted to be...
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