June 17, 2021 Equinix
Equinix has promised that it would reduce its emissions by 50% before 2030. It would also be reducing emissions created by its electricity supply by 50% before 2030. This promise comes few days after Greenpeace criticized the Company for not having trustworthy timelines on the use of renewable...
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June 17, 2021 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has announced in its third ESG report that half of its global data center portfolio is now powered by green energy. It did this by increasing the portfolio of its data centers being powered by renewable energy by 20% in 2020. Impressively, it also increased its energy consumption...
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June 15, 2021 Equinix
Equinix has announced that it has signed agreements for additional joint ventures with GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, which will add $3.9 billion to expand its data center program. The agreements come in the form of limited liability partnerships with GIC. The close, which is expected...
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June 10, 2021 Digital Realty Trust
According to a report from Bloomberg, Digital Realty is considering an Initial Public Offer (IPO) of a Singaporean trust that could raise between $300 million to $400 million. The report says Digital Realty is working with its advisers on the listing, and they are looking to conclude the IPO...
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June 07, 2021 QTS Data Centers
Blackstone Group Inc has reportedly entered into an agreement to purchase QTS Realty Trust Inc for a total of $6.7 billion. According to the WSJ, the group's infrastructure unit, Blackstone Infrastructure Partners, with BREIT, its non-traded real-estate investment trust, has agreed to pay $78 a...
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June 07, 2021 Csquare
Evoque Data Center Solutions has announced partnerships with four Network Service Providers (NSPs). It looks to use the partnership to expand its vendor-neutral approach to offering state-of-the-art connectivity to its customers. The new NSPs include Bandwith IG, Everstream, United Private...
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June 02, 2021 CyrusOne
CyrusOne just announced that all of its data centers in Europe are now running on 100% renewable energy. The Company has facilities in Dublin, London, Frankfurt, and Amsterdam, currently operating on renewable tariffs. Besides, the Company recently promised to be carbon neutral by 2040, and this...
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June 01, 2021 QTS Data Centers
QTS Realty Trust has announced its new Smart Family of data center remote management solutions. The Smart Family solution is built on advanced tech, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and preemptive understanding into customers’ colocation environment.QTS Smart family solutions...
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May 26, 2021 365 Data Centers
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...
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May 20, 2021 Digital Realty Trust
SAN FRANCISCO, May. 20, 2021 -- Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, announced today its Brazilian subsidiary, Stellar Participações Ltda., has completed the previously announced acquisition of Ascenty, the leading data...
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May 20, 2021 Mapletree Redwood Data Centre Trust
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. CEO and...
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May 13, 2021 QTS Piscataway
Telia Carrier has announced that it has deployed its full suite of connectivity services in QTS' Piscataway, New Jersey and Irving, Texas data centers. Telia is also deployed to QTS Richmond, Chicago, Miami, Hillsboro, and Atlanta. The 'full suite' of network services includes DWDM, DDoS, IP...
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May 10, 2021 Equinix
Equinix has announced that it would not be renewing the leases for eight of its data centers in the US. The data centers are situated in New York, Georgia, and some in California and Atlanta. Equinix commented that the reason for the development is that some of the facilities don’t meet the...
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May 04, 2021 Equinix
Equinix has announced that it priced $2.6 billion principal amount of notes, including $1.0 billion of green bonds in its third green bond offering. The green bonds will be used to help advance the company's longstanding commitment to sustainability leadership and reducing its environmental...
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April 21, 2021 Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain is expected to invest $150 million over the next two years in a joint venture with Web Werks. Web Works is one of India’s top colocation data center providers. Iron Mountain, which is a storage and information management services company first announced its plan to invest on...
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March 23, 2021 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty recently said that it has expanded secure, private access to Google Cloud’s global network in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Vienna in Austria, and Dusseldorf in Germany. Digital Realty also announced that it had added its second direct interconnect to Google Cloud in Frankfurt. The direct...
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March 12, 2021 DataBank
Colocation provider DataBank will issue $658 million of secured notes. The new securitization notes will refinance DataBank's existing credit facility. This securitization and refinancing of previous loans adds more than $200M in liquidity to DataBank's balance sheet, providing funding for...
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January 19, 2021 Digital Fortress
Digital Fortress has announced that it has acquired three facilities in Portland from Atmosera. Atmosera will now focus on building its Microsoft Azure services. With the acquisition, Digital Fortress now has 10 facilities across the United States. Digital Fortress was formed in 2012 from the...
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January 15, 2021 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty (DLR) has announced it will relocate its corporate headquarters to Austin, Texas from San Francisco, California. DLR will maintain a presence in the San Francisco Bay Area as one of the world's leading technology hubs.Digital Realty already operates a significant data center...
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December 15, 2020 DataBank
DataBank has closed deal to acquire 45 of Zayo's data centers across 20 markets in the US and UK. A second closing for zColo’s data centers in France is expected to be completed in Q1 2021. The deal instantly transforms Databank into a large player in the colocation market. With zColo's...
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