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Stro acquires office and data center building belonging to Bank of New York Mellon in New Jersey

Stro Companies has acquired an office and data center building owned by Bank of New York Mellon in Florham Park, New Jersey. It is reported that the Company acquired the buildings for $7.3 million. The acquired building also has 141,000 square feet of space. Jack Shulman, director of acquisiti...

July 21, 2021

BNY: 19 Vreeland Rd

Sophos sets its sights on expansion

As part of Sophos ongoing expansion, it has moved into Montreal, Canada, meaning the company now has a presence in the U.S., Germany, and Ireland, as well as Sydney, Australia and Tokyo, Japan. In a statement speaking about the rollout of these new data centers, the company said: "We're deligh...

July 21, 2021

Canada

Facebook's Eagle Mountain data center moves online

Facebook has announced that its data center in Eagle Mountain, Utah is now up and running. Although officially serving traffic, the site is still under construction, with a view to span to 1.5 million square feet (140,000 sq m). At the peak of construction, the site employed a total of 1,250 ...

July 16, 2021

Meta: Eagle Mountain Utah Campus

NTT reveals details of its 240 MW Phoenix data center campus

NTT has revealed plans for its new 240MW data center campus in Mesa, Arizona. It has also broken ground on the site. The facility is on a 102-acre site, and it is located on Elliot Road Technology Corridor, Mesa, Arizona. It will have a 240MW capacity and 1.5 million square feet of floor space...

July 15, 2021

NTT Phoenix Campus

DataBank expands Its DFW3 Dallas Fort Worth data center

DataBank, a leading provider of enterprise-class colocation, connectivity, and managed services, just announced the expansion of its DFW3, Dallas Fort Worth Data Center. It is expanding to meet the increasing demand for mission-critical IT infrastructure in the Dallas Fort Worth market. Th...

July 14, 2021

DataBank Plano DFW3

Prime Data Centers announces new 9MW data center in Silicon Valley

Prime Data Centers has announced that it is building a new 9MW data center on Martin Avenue in Santa Clara, California. With this new data center, it is expanding its presence in Silicon Valley as this is its second facility in Silicon Valley. Prime says it is strategically building the dat...

July 14, 2021

Prime Santa Clara (Martin)

Microsoft wants to build five more data centers in San Antonio, Texas

According to recent documents filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, Microsoft has applied to build five more data centers in San Antonio, Texas. The data centers will have a total space of 350,000 square feet. It will also cost over $200 million. The construction of ...

July 13, 2021

San Antonio

Bailard sells Comcast-occupied data center in Maryland for $14.85 million

Bailard, an investment management firm, just sold a data center and office property in Maryland for $14.85 million. It is a two-story 66,000 square-foot property currently occupied by Comcast. The building is also located at 8031 Corporate Drive in White Marsh, Maryland.CEO of Bailard Real Est...

July 08, 2021

Comcast Nottingham

Regulators instruct Facebook to review power purchase agreements in New Mexico

Regulators have instructed Facebook to renegotiate the terms of its proposed power purchase agreements regarding solar energy and energy storage facilities in New Mexico.The agreement relates to 50MW of solar energy from Encino North Solar Energy Center, 190MW of solar from Sky Ranch Solar Fac...

July 05, 2021

Meta Los Lunas Campus

Ohio’s school retirement fund aims to invest in target data centers in future

Ohio’s school retirement fund wants to invest in life science offices and data centers in 2022. The Ohio School Employees Retirement System plans to hire managers to look into real estate investment like data centers since it offers higher rent growth opportunities in its annual investment pla...

July 05, 2021

Ohio

Amazon files an application to build four data centers in Manassas, Virginia

Amazon has filed an application to build four data centers on land in Manassas, Virginia. It filed to build the data centers on empty land that’s between Sudley Road and Ashton Avenue. The piece of land is presently owned by the estate of Lewis Percival Ashby Jr., and it is being used as a ...

July 02, 2021

AWS US East (N. Virginia)

Gerald R. Ford International Airport is building an operations center in Grand Rapids, Michigan

Gerald R. Ford International Airport is building a new operations and communications center, which includes, a data center in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The project will cost the Company $7.7 million. Gerald R. Ford International airport says the new facility will be on the east side of the airp...

June 30, 2021

Grand Rapids MI

Rocky Mountain Power to build 120MW solar farm in Utah for Facebook power

Rocky Mountain Power has announced that it would be building a new 120MW solar farm in Iron County, Utah, for Facebook. The solar farm will power Facebook’s Eagle Mountain data center. Head of renewable energy at Facebook, Urvi Parekh, commented on the development. He said the Company is happ...

June 30, 2021

Meta: Eagle Mountain Utah Campus

TPG teams up with Quantum Loophole to redevelop Old Alcoa Plant

TPG Real Estate Partners (TREP) and Quantum Loophole have joined forces to acquire a 2,100-acre industrial site near Frederick, Maryland, for its first major campus. The joint venture will see the two redevelop the site of the Old Alcoa Plant and transform it into a gigawatt scale data center ...

June 28, 2021

TPG Real Estate: Frederick Campus

Silicon Valley Power to build a substation for AWS's planned data center in Santa Clara

Silicon Valley Power will build a new substation for AWS’s upcoming data center in Santa Clara. Oppidan Investment Company will develop and pay for the data center facility on behalf of Amazon Web Services. Besides, Amazon acquired the site for $100 million in 2020, which will make it AWS’s f...

June 27, 2021

Amazon 2305 Mission College Blvd

Digital Crossroad data center in Hammond to expand following a $28 million investment

The Digital Crossroad data center based in Hammond has received a $28 million investment from Energy Solutions Group and United Leasing and Finance for further expansion. Currently, in its first phase, the Digital Crossroad site features 105,000 sq ft of space and 6MW of capacity and is repor...

June 25, 2021

Digital Crossroad (Indiana NAP)

Dakota State University wants $6m for data center remodeling

Dakota State University (DSU) has requested $6 million and $1.8 million to replace its existing data center and IT hardware, respectively. The request was made during a meeting between South Dakota’s public university system and its governing body. DSU asked for funds to replace its existing d...

June 25, 2021

South Dakota

Cologix acquires Zayo's Vancouver facility and announces Toronto expansion

Cologix is branching out in Canada. It has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Zayo's 65,000 sq ft (6,000 sqm) interconnection facility in Vancouver. Cologix will add 4.2MW of capacity to the site.In addition to this, the company has also announced plans to ad...

June 22, 2021

Cologix VAN4

Intermarket seeks approval for 100,000 square feet data center in Canada

Intermarket Properties wants to build a data center in Cambridge, Canada. According to Canada Construct Connect, the Company is seeking approval for a 100,000 square feet data center. The proposed data center site is a 40 acre Waterloo Corporate Campus with mixed-use redevelopment that consist...

June 21, 2021

Toronto

Data center plans discussed for NRG Power Plant in Dunkirk, New Yorksite

Discussions have begun around the transformation of the disused NRG Power Plant in Dunkirk, New York, into a new data center. The 76-acre site was operational from the 1950s to 2015 has been pinned as a potential location in a report by the City of Dunkirk and Chautauqua County. Dunkirk is nea...

June 20, 2021

Buffalo

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