North America Data Center News

Sabey is adding 3.6 MW to Manhattan data center

Sabey announced it was adding 3.6 megawatts to its Integrate.Manhattan facility. The construction will be completed by the end of the year.Intergate.Manhattan is Sabey Data Centers’ 1.1 million square foot building located in Lower Manhattan. It is a mixed used building with data center/infr...

June 18, 2020

Eric Bell

Sabey Intergate.Manhattan

New Dark Fiber Provider, DF&I, Announced Investment from IPI (PR)

ASHBURN, Va., /PRNewswire/ -- Dark Fiber & Infrastructure, LLC ("DF&I" or the "Company") today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to receive a majority investment from IPI Partners, LLC ("IPI"). IPI's investment will be used to accelerate the growth of DF&I's footprint ...

June 16, 2020

Eric Bell

Northern Virginia

DRFortress will expand its Hawaiian data center

DRFortress is expanding its Honolulu facility. The Hawaiian colocation firm will add 130 cabinets to its existing facility, creating a total of more than 600 cabinets for lease and a space of 55,000 square feet. Upon completion, DRFortress will expand on its role as the largest data center in...

June 16, 2020

Eric Bell

DRFortress Honolulu

GIGA Data Centers Building New Colocation Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (PR)

Atlanta, GA — GIGA Data Centers, LLC (GIGA), a new breed of data center provider creating affordable, multi-tenant colocation facilities with unprecedented energy efficiency, today announced the company is building its newest Data Center in Oak Ridge, TN. GIGA secured unanimous approval of i...

June 15, 2020

Eric Bell

GIGA Oak Ridge, TN

QTS Creates the New Jersey Network Access Point (NJ NAP)

QTS has announced that it is creating a new Internet Exchange Point (IXP) called the NJ NAP in their Piscataway facility. Baxtel is skeptical that the IXP will thrive unless it is extended into other carrier-neutral data centers in the greater New York region.

June 12, 2020

Eric Bell

QTS Piscataway

Facebook announces ninth data center in Prineville

Facebook has announced their ninth data center on the Prineville, Oregon campus. The building will be 450,000 sqft and be completed in 2023. Rendering of the 9th data center accompanied the announcement

June 11, 2020

Eric Bell

Facebook Prineville

Northern Data AG provides an update on Texas data center (PR)

Initial commissioning successfully completed / Innovative cooling and proprietary AI systems are online and running well Area of 40 hectares / utilization of one gigawatt is now expected by the end of 2020 Expansion to 3.6 gigawatts planned by 2023 Frankfurt am Main – June 10, 2020 – Norther...

June 10, 2020

Eric Bell

Riot: Rockdale, TX

ServerFarm Adds 14MW to Toronto Data Center

ServerFarm has upgraded its Toronto facility. The project to add 14MW of new critical capacity to ServerFarm’s existing Toronto data center included a major construction phase, which was completed during the COVID-19 lockdown. The facility’s utility power availability is now over 21MW.ServerFa...

June 04, 2020

Eric Bell

ServerFarm Toronto TOR1

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE Launches Construction on New Campus in Arizona

Stack Infrastructure, a company that develops data centers and digital infrastructure, acquired 79 acres just outside Phoenix, where it plans to develop up to 1 million square feet of data centers in the up-and-coming Southwest tech market. The Denver-based company bought land in Avondale, Ari...

June 03, 2020

Eric Bell

STACK Phoenix

Netrality Acquired INAP's Houston Data Center

Netrality has announced that the company has acquired the Internap Holding (“INAP”) data center in Houston. The facility is located in 1301 Fannin, Houston's carrier hotel. The deal seems to work for both sides. Netrality gets more colocation space to sell in their marquee building and INAP ge...

June 03, 2020

Eric Bell

1301 Fannin - Netrality Houston

Aligned Begins Construction on Second Hyperscale Data Center in Ashburn, VA (PR)

ASHBURN, VIRGINIA – JUNE 2, 2020 – Aligned, a leading data center provider offering innovative, sustainable and adaptable colocation and build-to-scale solutions for cloud, enterprise, and managed service providers, announces the expansion of its hyperscale data center campus in Ashburn, Virg...

June 02, 2020

Eric Bell

Aligned Ashburn

CoreSite finishes the first phase of CH2

CoreSite has announced it has completed the first phase of its second data center in Chicago. CoreSite has designed and built a 169,000 square foot facility with a total of 18 megawatts of capacity, known as “CH2,” in the heart of downtown Chicago. The CH2 data center is one of the first purpo...

June 02, 2020

Eric Bell

CoreSite Chicago CH2

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

Eric Bell

Facebook Gallatin TN

QTS Ashburn-Shellhorn Construction on Fast-Track Program

QTS has announced that it is fast tracking 42MW in Ashburn. Their construction blog post is below: QTS Ashburn-Shellhorn, our newest greenfield data center campus in the Ashburn, VA market has gotten underway in a hurry - with construction five weeks in and well ahead of schedule. The QTS Deve...

May 25, 2020

Eric Bell

QTS Ashburn-Shellhorn

Sabey adds Azure ExpressRoute to Quincy Campus

Sabey announced that it has added a Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute node to its Intergate.Quincy data center campus in central Washington, enabling Sabey’s customers to create private connections between their IT environment and Microsoft Azure and Office 365.Sabey Press Release on May 21st 2020

May 21, 2020

Eric Bell

Sabey Intergate.Quincy

STACK Acquires Land in Atlanta and plans to Expand Campus Capacity to 20 MW

Stack Infrastructure announced plans to expand its Alpharetta facility and more than double its digital infrastructure capacity to nearly 20 megawatts.STACK currently operates a 105,000 sqft, 7 MW data center on 12 acres at 3200 Webb Bridge Road. The company now plans to build a 2-story facili...

May 15, 2020

Eric Bell

STACK Atlanta ATL02

Flexential Announces it's third Facility in Portland

Flexential has announced it will build its largest data center yet in Portland metro. The facility will be 358,000 square feet, offering 36 megawatts of power on a 20-acre lot. Groundbreaking is scheduled for the summer of 2020. This new data center will connect to Flexential’s Portland-Hills...

May 07, 2020

Eric Bell

Flexential Portland - Hillsboro 3

Aptum sells fiber and transport business to Beanfield Metroconnect

Beanfield Metroconnect, a Canadian independent telecommunications infrastructure provider, has added to its bank account and its fiber network footprint. According to owners Digital Colony, the global digital infrastructure investment platform of Colony Capital, Inc. (NYSE: CLNY), Beanfield ha...

May 07, 2020

Eric Bell

eStruxture TOR-1

Compass enters new market in Canada with Etobicoke Data Center

Compass Datacenters acquired an existing building and land in Etobicoke, Ontario to build a campus. Etobicoke is just West of Toronto. Costing $100 million USD, the first phase, the initial data hall will support 10MW of critical IT load when construction is completed in Q3 of 2020. The data c...

May 05, 2020

Eric Bell

Compass Toronto Etobicoke

Amazon adds 112-acre lot adjacent to its New Albany campus

Amazon acquired a 112-acre lot adjacent to its New Albany campus. The lot is on the Northeastern corner of Beech Road Northwest and Jug Street. It's just to the north of its 68-acre New Albany campus.Amazon Data Services bought the new lot for $21.8 million on April 20. The $195,000-an-acre p...

May 04, 2020

Eric Bell

Amazon: 3180 Beech DC1

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