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Virginia Beach's new data center park expects to draw the likes of Snapchat, IBM and Uber

A Dutch company wants to create a new data center park to draw the likes of Snapchat, IBM and Uber.NxtVn will spend $1.5 billion to $2 billion to build a hub off General Booth Boulevard to attract companies that seek high-capacity connections from the U.S. to Europe.The company also plans...

August 25, 2018

Eric Bell

Virginia Beach

Sabey Data Centers to add 14MW in Washington

Intergate.Columbia is adding another data center building.Seattle-based wholesale colocation provider Sabey Data Centers has started work on a new facility at its Intergate.Columbia campus in East Wenatchee, Washington.Building D will span 140,000 square feet (13,000 sq m) across four ...

August 22, 2018

Eric Bell

Sabey Intergate.Columbia

EdgeConneX Announces Second Atlanta Data Center (PR)

Herndon, VA – EdgeConneX®, specializing in global data center solutions at the edge of the network, today announces the creation of an Edge Data Center® (EDC) campus in Atlanta, Georgia. The new EDC, ATL02, brings 15MW of additional critical power capacity to market. The Edge Campus will be ...

August 21, 2018

Eric Bell

EdgeConneX Atlanta Campus

Google plans $600M data center expansion in South Carolina

MONCKS CORNER, S.C. (AP) — Google plans a $600 million expansion of its data center in South Carolina. The Post and Courier of Charleston reports records regarding the expansion were filed with Berkeley County, which will consider a property tax break for the unit of California-based Alphabet ...

August 13, 2018

Eric Bell

Google Berkeley County South Carolina

Cologix Announces 3rd Vancouver Data Center to be Ready in Q2 2019

Cologix, a network-neutral interconnection, data center and cloud exchange company, announced today the development of its new VAN3 data center located at 2828 Natal Street, just a 20-minute drive from the heart of downtown Vancouver. VAN3 is expected to be completed in Q2 2019 and will deliver a...

July 25, 2018

Eric Bell

Cologix Vancouver VAN3

Colony Bank Chooses Colo Atl Data Center

Colo Atl, the leading provider of carrier-neutral colocation, data center and interconnection services at 55 Marietta Street in Atlanta, is proud to welcome Colony Bankcorp, Inc., a bank holding company headquartered in Fitzgerald, GA with twenty-seven offices located in central, southern and coa...

July 24, 2018

Eric Bell

American Tower: 55 Marietta

Facebook Migrates to Solar Energy for Oregon Data Centers

Facebook and Pacific Power said they are joining up to construct solar projects that will generate energy to offset what Facebook uses at its data centers in Prineville, Oregon.The solar projects, two near Prineville and four in Utah, expect to produce 437 megawatts of power when finished by...

July 19, 2018

Eric Bell

Facebook Prineville

H5 Data Centers Announces Acquisition of Intuit Inc. Data Center

H5 Data Centers, a national colocation and wholesale data center provider, today announced it has acquired from Intuit Inc. a 240,000 square-foot, purpose-built data center in Quincy, Washington. The acquisition expands H5 Data Centers’ national portfolio to 12 data centers and compliments its 30...

July 18, 2018

Eric Bell

H5 Quincy

Cirrus Data Services plans 160MW campus in Salt Lake City

SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Cirrus Data Services believes the Salt Lake City region can support hyperscale and wholesale data center colocation offerings and this week publicly announced the View 78 data center campus in Midvale; a suburb of Salt Lake City. The first phase includes a 32MW wholesal...

July 16, 2018

Eric Bell

Cirrus DS View 78

Hut 8 Completes Construction at Medicine Hat Facility Ahead of Schedule, 40 BlockBoxes Now Operational

Operational capacity increases by 150% in the City of Medicine Hat to a total of 40 BlockBoxesTORONTO, July 16, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hut 8 Mining Corp. (“Hut 8” or the “Company”) (TSXV:HUT) (OTCQX:HUTMF), one of the world’s largest public cryptocurrency mining companies by operating capaci...

July 16, 2018

Eric Bell

Hut 8: Medicine Hat, Alberta

Flexential Adds 70,000 SqFt of Capacity at Alpharetta Data Center

Flexential is expanding at their Alpharetta data center site. The new two-story data center will add 75,000 sqft to the existing 15,000 sqft site. The new site will host both retail and wholesale customers.Press Release: <a href="https://www.flexential.com/knowledge-center/newsroom/flexentia...

July 15, 2018

Eric Bell

Flexential Atlanta-Alpharetta

Fairfax County Approves CoreSite's 22-Acre Data Center Campus Expansion In Reston

CoreSite is closer to approval at Sunrise Technology Park, a 21-acre office park in Reston with four existing buildings slated for data center redevelopment. The Fairfax County Planning Commission approved the project by CoreSite Realty Corp. on June 28.The proposal is part of a move by CoreS...

July 13, 2018

Eric Bell

CoreSite Reston VA3

MAREA and BRUSA Subsea Cables Managed by Telxius will Extend to Equinix DC2 Data Center

Equinix has won two subsea deployments (MAREA and BRUSA) that will extend from their landing in Virginia Beach to Equinix DC2 in Ashburn.From the Press Release:The two subsea cables will terminate in the U.S. directly into the MAREA and BRUSA cable landing station located in Virginia Be...

July 12, 2018

Eric Bell

Equinix Ashburn DC2

DC BLOX Building ‘Flagship’ Data Center on 27-acre former Trinity Steel site in Birmingham

Atlanta-based DC BLOX said today it is building a data center on the former Trinity Steel site in downtown Birmingham, creating 20 jobs initially with the potential to grow up to $785 million in capital investment and add jobs over the next decade.“The significant investment being made by DC ...

July 11, 2018

Eric Bell

DC BLOX Birmingham

Compass Datacenters To Build Second Data Center Facility For American Electric Power (PR)

DALLAS /PRNewswire/ -- Compass Datacenters has completed an agreement with American Electric Power (AEP) to build a second data center facility in southwestern Ohio that expands the company's IT infrastructure and supports its resiliency strategy for IT operations. Compass built AEP's primary ...

July 10, 2018

Eric Bell

Compass New Albany

Iron Mountain Begins Expansion at Phoenix Data Center Campus

Iron Mountian announced on July 9th 2018 that it has started construction to expand its data center campus in Phoenix, one of the fastest growing markets in the U.S. The new 550,000 square-foot, 48-megawatt (MW) multi-tenant and cloud facility is designed to meet the security and performance expe...

July 09, 2018

Eric Bell

Iron Mountain Phoenix

QTS is Building a 100MW Data Center on 92 Acres in Hillsboro

QTS Data Centers, a Kansas data hosting company, is the most recent in a line of large data companies to build in Hillsboro, enticed by tax breaks worth $7.6 million USD total over the past three years. These tax breaks have become arguably less valuable due to Hillsboro moving in 2016 to match t...

July 05, 2018

Eric Bell

QTS Hillsboro 1

Tata Communications Deploys IP Transit Service at EdgeConnex in Portland

EdgeConneX, specializing in global data center solutions at the edge of the network, today announces that Tata Communications, a leading global provider of digital infrastructure, has established a Point of Presence (PoP) at the EdgeConneX Portland Edge Data Center (EDC). The presence provides i...

July 05, 2018

Eric Advinci

EdgeConneX Portland

T5 Data Centers Signs Hospital Tenant for T5@LA Facility

T5 Data Centers, innovators in providing secure, customizable, hyperscale computing environments for enterprise companies, today announced that a large regional hospital has signed as the newest tenant for its T5@LA data center. The hospital plans to migrate all data operations into T5@LA to take...

July 05, 2018

Eric Advinci

Serverfarm LAX1

Facebook to Build a $750 million Data Center in Huntsville

Facebook announced it will invest $750 million to build a data center on 340 acres in North Huntsville Industrial Park. Once construction is finished, the data center will employ approximately 100 people.The company considered numerous locations across the country for the new data center and ...

July 04, 2018

Eric Advinci

Meta Huntsville Campus

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