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Read Element Critical’s Chicago Data Centers secure $72M loan
Element Critical’s Chicago Data Centers secure $72M loan

Element Critical’s Chicago Data Centers secure $72M loan

April 12, 2021 Element Critical CH1

Element Critical and parent company Safanad Inc. recently secured a $71.5 million loan to refinance their Chicago data center portfolio. The loan provided by Annaly Capital Management Inc. will go towards renovations for two data center facilities based in the Elk Grove Village area of Chicago,...

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Read DC BLOX Breaks Ground in Greenville SC
DC BLOX Breaks Ground in Greenville SC

DC BLOX Breaks Ground in Greenville SC

April 01, 2021 DC BLOX Greenville

DC BLOX recently announced the construction of its new Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina data center. The data center is being built on 8.5 acres of land in the Global Business Park Interstate 85 and will be the first-of-its-kind multi-tenant data center in South Carolina. It will have an...

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Read Microsoft begins $140M data center in San Antonio
Microsoft begins $140M data center in San Antonio

Microsoft begins $140M data center in San Antonio

March 31, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center

Plans are in place for Microsoft to build another data facility in San Antonio. According to a filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, the data facility will be 79,385 square feet in size. It will be constructed at the 15000 block of Lambda Drive at Texas Research Park to...

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Read American Tower open Pittsburgh Edge Facility
American Tower open Pittsburgh Edge Facility

American Tower open Pittsburgh Edge Facility

March 30, 2021 American Tower: Pittsburgh

American Tower has announced it has opened a new Edge colocation facility in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It's a small edge facility located to the south of the city and below Mount Oliver, the 360 square foot Edge facility offers eight customer cabinets, 20 quarter-cabinet lockers, and three full...

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Read Microsoft buys land for data center campus in Central Washington
Microsoft buys land for data center campus in Central Washington

Microsoft buys land for data center campus in Central Washington

March 29, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center

Microsoft has purchased 170 acres of underdeveloped land north of Pangborn Memorial Airport for $19.3 million. The investment could well rise to over $1 billion in the next five years to build a multi-phase data center. Microsoft has also started leveling the construction site in preparation for...

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Read Mapletree acquires Bank of America campus in Richmond VA
Mapletree acquires Bank of America campus in Richmond VA

Mapletree acquires Bank of America campus in Richmond VA

March 26, 2021 Mapletree: 8011 Villa Park

Mapletree Industrial Trust (MIT), a Singapore based REIT, acquired Bank of America’s campus at 8011 Villa Park Drive on March 12 for $208 million. The 46-acre campus in Richmond Virginia has five office buildings with a mix of office and data center space. The campus is 100 percent leased by...

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Read Facebook expanding Papillion Campus
Facebook expanding Papillion Campus

Facebook expanding Papillion Campus

March 24, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook just announced that it would be expanding its data center campus in Papillion for the second time. Facebook said it would be expanding the data center facility at the intersection of Capehart Road and Nebraska 50 by about 1 million square feet. It also noted that the project would cost...

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Read DRFortress Completes Hawaii Data Center Expansion
DRFortress Completes Hawaii Data Center Expansion

DRFortress Completes Hawaii Data Center Expansion

March 17, 2021 DRFortress Honolulu

HONOLULU, Hawaii – DRFortress, the largest carrier-neutral data center and cloud marketplace operating in Hawaii, announces a major expansion to its data center campus in Honolulu is complete and ready for service. DRFortress added 125 cabinets, creating a total of 600 cabinets for lease and a...

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Read Skybox sells Houston Facility to Element Critical
Skybox sells Houston Facility to Element Critical

Skybox sells Houston Facility to Element Critical

March 16, 2021 Element Critical Houston One

Element Critical has acquired Skybox's Houston One facility. Element Critical is the new owner, but Skybox will continue to operate the facility and handle wholesale leasing. Skybox and Element Critical jointly issued the press release below on March 16th 2021: Vienna, VA, — Element Critical, a...

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Read Aligned Launches 2nd Salt Lake Facility
Aligned Launches 2nd Salt Lake Facility

Aligned Launches 2nd Salt Lake Facility

March 10, 2021 Aligned Salt Lake City

Aligned recently announced the completion of its second data center in the Salt Lake Metro Area, West Jordan, UT. The 48 MW (expandable to 60MW), 240,000 square-foot facility will feature Aligned’s patented cooling technology, which consumes 80% less energy and 85% less water than traditional...

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Read VPLS Acquires New York Data Center
VPLS Acquires New York Data Center

VPLS Acquires New York Data Center

March 09, 2021 Evocative Chappaqua JFK2

VPLS, a cloud-to-edge computing and solutions provider, announces today its successful partnership with Summit Development to oversee data center operations at the data center facility located at 480 N. Bedford Plaza in Chappaqua, New York. The Chappaqua data center will be known as NY2 within...

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Read Microsoft is planning 400,000 sqft Campus in Hoffman Estates
Microsoft is planning 400,000 sqft Campus in Hoffman Estates

Microsoft is planning 400,000 sqft Campus in Hoffman Estates

March 09, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center

According to plans submitted to the Hoffman Estates council, Microsoft aims to build two data centers on the 53-acre site on the north side of Lakewood Blvd in two phases. Phase one would see a 250,000 sq ft (23,200 sqm) building erected by the end of 2022. The second phase would be a 150,000 sq...

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Read Facebook signs for 150 MW of Solar Power from TVA
Facebook signs for 150 MW of Solar Power from TVA

Facebook signs for 150 MW of Solar Power from TVA

March 04, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center

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...

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Read Cologix Constructing COL4 as it Expands its Columbus Campus
Cologix Constructing COL4 as it Expands its Columbus Campus

Cologix Constructing COL4 as it Expands its Columbus Campus

March 03, 2021 Cologix Columbus COL4

Cologix has announced it is building a fourth data center on its campus in Columbus, Ohio. The campus already has 3 existing facilities. COL1 & COL2 are in the same building. The facilities were acquired via DataCenter.BZ in 2014 COL3 (160,000sqft) was built in 2018 COL4 is the newest...

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Read Cosentry’s Omaha-Midlands Data Center Becomes the First LEED Gold Certified Data Center in Iowa
Cosentry’s Omaha-Midlands Data Center Becomes the First LEED Gold Certified Data Center in Iowa

Cosentry’s Omaha-Midlands Data Center Becomes the First LEED Gold Certified Data Center in Iowa

February 27, 2021 TierPoint Omaha Midlands

OMAHA, NE (PRWEB) Cosentry, the Midwest leader in data center services, announced today that their Omaha-Midlands Data Center has achieved LEED Gold Certification from the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), making it the only LEED Gold Data center in Nebraska and one of just 21 data...

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Read Compute North Starts Major Expansion at Nebraska Data Center to Meet High Customer Demand
Compute North Starts Major Expansion at Nebraska Data Center to Meet High Customer Demand

Compute North Starts Major Expansion at Nebraska Data Center to Meet High Customer Demand

February 25, 2021 Marathon Digital: Kearney, Nebraska

As interest in the digital asset space increases, the 100MW facility now has the capacity to support new deals with current customers and emerging players in the cryptocurrency mining space. EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Feb. 25, 2021 — Compute North, an industry leader in economical, large-scale...

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Read DC BLOX is Expanding its Birmingham facility by 1 MW
DC BLOX is Expanding its Birmingham facility by 1 MW

DC BLOX is Expanding its Birmingham facility by 1 MW

February 18, 2021 DC BLOX Birmingham

DC BLOX is expanding it Birmingham facility again. This time adding 1 megawatt. The expansion is expected to be ready for service by May 2021. ATLANTA – DC BLOX, a provider of interconnected multi-tenant data centers that deliver the infrastructure and connectivity essential to power today’s...

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Read Microsoft's next US data center region in Georgia’s Fulton and Douglas counties
Microsoft's next US data center region in Georgia’s Fulton and Douglas counties

Microsoft's next US data center region in Georgia’s Fulton and Douglas counties

February 11, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center

Responding to what it called “growing customer demand,” Microsoft recently announced its next US data center region. Named “East US 3,” it will have a presence in Georgia's Fulton and Douglas counties. The data center region will be accompanied by new office space stretching out to 90 acres....

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Read Digital Realty plans to build 430,000 sqft four story Santa Clara facility
Digital Realty plans to build 430,000 sqft four story Santa Clara facility

Digital Realty plans to build 430,000 sqft four story Santa Clara facility

February 05, 2021 Digital Realty: SJC37

Digital Realty will add to its dominant position in the Silicon Valley data center market with a new 48 MW, 430,000 sqft, four-story data center. The first phase 8-megawatts of customer capacity is targeted for the third quarter of 2022.The facility's address is 641 Walsh Ave and is adjacent to...

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Read Bluebird Network Acquires ColoHub Data Center in Quad Cities, Iowa
Bluebird Network Acquires ColoHub Data Center in Quad Cities, Iowa

Bluebird Network Acquires ColoHub Data Center in Quad Cities, Iowa

January 05, 2021 Bluebird Quad Cities

Bluebird Press Release on January 5, 2021 COLUMBIA, MO – Bluebird Network – a communications infrastructure provider and data center operator – is excited to announce that effective December 31, 2020, it acquired the ColoHub Data Center—previously owned by Geneseo Communications—located in...

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