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365 Data Centers Appoints Steve Oakie as Chief Revenue Officer

365 Data Centers has announced that it has appointed Steve Oakie as Chief Revenue Officer. With over 20 years of experience leading technology sales and marketing teams, Oakie will be responsible for revenue generation and retention and driving long-term customer and partner relationships. He...

May 26, 2021

365 Data Centers

New Tennessee solar farm to provide Facebook data center with 110MW of renewable energy

The Tennessee Valley Authority has just announced a deal with RWE Renewables and Facebook to build a 150MW solar facility near Millington TN. The solar facility will provide Facebook with 110MW of energy for its data centers in Gallatin, Tennessee, and across the Tennessee Valley. The solar f...

May 20, 2021

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Sila agrees to sell all its data centers to Mapletree for $1.3bn

Sila Realty Trust announced that it has agreed to sell all its 29 data centers in the US to Mapletree Investment Trust for $1.3 billion. The 29 data centers are all the data centers in Sila’s portfolio which means upon completion; it will be an exit from the data center industry for Sila. ...

May 20, 2021

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EdgeConneX Expands in 6 North American Markets

EdgeConneX has announced that it will add almost 20MW of new capacity across six of its data centers in North America. The facilities that will benefit from this expansion are Seattle, Portland, Phoenix, Miami, Detroit, and Chicago.According to Phillip Marangella, Chief Marketing Officer at Ed...

April 28, 2021

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Facebook signs for 150 MW of Solar Power from TVA

Tennessee Valley Authority has clinched a deal to partner with Origis Energy to build a 150 MW solar farm and a 50 MW battery energy storage system for Facebook. TVA and Origis Energy will build this project in Lowndes County, Mississippi which will support Facebook’s two data centers in the T...

March 04, 2021

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365 Data Centers Acquires Atlantic Metro

365 Data Centers, a leading provider of network-centric colocation and other Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions, announces its acquisition of Atlantic Metro Communications, which provides tailored colocation, network and cloud services to large and mid-size enterprises. While contin...

November 16, 2020

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Stonecourt Capital Acquires a Majority stake in 365 Data Centers

Private equity investor Stonecourt Capital has acquired a majority stake in 365 Data Centers. The original investors (Lumerity Capital and Longboard Advisors) have reinvested into 365. However, Chirisa Investments and Turning Rock Partners have exited as investors.365 Press Release is below: N...

October 06, 2020

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Tom Marx joins Evoque as Chief Revenue Officer

Tom Marx will join Evoque as Chief Revenue Officer. Marx, who is based in Denver, spent the majority of his career at tw telecom subsequently Level3/CenturyLink via acquisition. Evoque Press Release on Sept 28, 2020:DALLAS – Evoque Data Center Solutions™, one of the world’s 20 largest data...

September 28, 2020

Csquare

EQT acquires EdgeConneX

The Swedish investment firm EQT AB has announced that it acquired the US-based colocation company EdgeConneX. EdgeConneX has a global footprint, operating over 40 facilities in 33 markets across North America, Europe and South America and continues to expand after being founded a decade ago. ...

August 19, 2020

EdgeConneX

Facebook Announces Gallatin Data Center in Tennesse

Facebook has formally announced its data center project in Gallatin Tennesse via a column Sheryl Sandberg wrote in the Tennessean. The social media company will build a 982,000 square foot facility with a total investment of $800 million. The 809-acre campus will be powered with 220MW of renew...

August 13, 2020

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Mapletree Industrial Trustto Acquire Remaining 60% Interest in 14 Data Centres in the United States

SINGAPORE: DBS Trustee Limited, a trustee of Mapletree Industrial Trust (MIT), has entered into agreements for the proposed acquisition of the remaining 60% interest in the 14 data centres in the United States of America currently held by Mapletree Redwood Data Centre Trust (MRDCT) at a purcha...

June 23, 2020

Mapletree Redwood Data Centre Trust

Andy Stewart becomes Evoque's new CEO

Evoque Data Center Solutions has appointed Andy Stewart as CEO, effective immediately. Stewart brings more than 15 years of senior management experience, including a decade of strategic development and execution, to Evoque. He previously served chief strategy officer at TierPoint, where he was...

June 16, 2020

Csquare

Facebook gets approval for a Tennessee data center

Facebook will purchase a $15 Million USD parcel of land for a 970,000 square foot data center campus in Gallatin, Tennessee. Facebook is using the shell company Woolhawk LLC as the acquiring entity. What we know: On May 19th the Gallatin City Council approved tax breaks and a development agre...

May 25, 2020

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Compass completes ROOT integration

Compass has announced on their blog that they have completed the integration of the ROOT data centers. ROOT was acquired in July 2019. The announcement states, "Over the past few months, we’ve been hard at work integrating the two companies’ construction, operations, marketing, and sales teams...

May 06, 2020

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TierPoint Raises $320 Million from Consortium of Investors (PR)

ST. LOUIS – TierPoint, a leading provider of secure, connected data center and cloud solutions at the edge of the internet, announced it has reached an agreement that will result in new, preferred equity investments totaling $320 million, which the company expects to be closed and funded by m...

March 24, 2020

TierPoint

Facebook Plans to Wholesale Its Fiber

Facebook plans to sell excess fiber on its owned long haul routes that interconnect Facebook data centers. As part of the plan, Facebook will allow local and regional network providers to acquire capacity. Fast Facts: Initially, Facebook is focused on the network connecting their data ce...

March 06, 2019

Meta

TierPoint Launches Cloud Connect Express for connections to Azure and AWS from All TierPoint Locations

TierPoint, a leading provider of secure, connected data center and cloud solutions at the edge of the internet, today announced the launch of its new Cloud Connect Express (CCX) service. Leveraging TierPoint’s network assets and Zayo’s CloudLink solution, CCX provides TierPoint customers with ...

October 16, 2018

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Equinix Completes Acquisition of 29 Data Centers from Verizon [Press Release]

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 1, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced the completion of its acquisition of 29 data centers and their operations from Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ). The U.S. $3.6 billi...

May 01, 2017

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365 Data Centers Acquired Chirisa Investments (PR)

GREENWICH, Conn., /PRNewswire/ -- An investor group, led by Chirisa Investments in partnership with Lumerity Capital LLC and Longboat Advisors LLC, announced today that it has acquired 365 Data Centers, a leading provider of data center solutions for carrier, content and cloud customers in eig...

April 25, 2017

365 Data Centers

TierPoint Announces $20M Data Center Investment in Nashville

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...

February 27, 2017

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