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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

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

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

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

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

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

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 e...

July 09, 2018

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

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

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

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

Meta Huntsville Campus

EdgeConneX Significantly Expands Denver Data Center

Herndon, VA – June 21, 2018 –EdgeConneX®, specializing in global data center solutions at the edge of the network, today announces the formation of an Edge Data Center® (EDC) campus in Denver by adding an additional building supporting 21MW of available capacity. In addition, Megaport, the l...

June 21, 2018

EdgeConneX Denver

ROOT Data Center Announces Expansion of Its MTL-R2 Facility

MONTRÉAL(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ROOT Data Center announces today the expansion of its Montréal-based MTL-R2 facility, adding an additional 6MW of power capacity to Canada’s largest wholesale / hyperscale data center. The build of two new data halls is in response to the growing demand of major cl...

June 05, 2018

Compass Montreal II

Immedion acquires Indiana-based Data Cave

Greenville, SC - Immedion LLC, a provider of IT infrastructure solutions including Cloud, colocation and managed IT services, today announced its further expansion in the Midwest region through the acquisition of a data center in Columbus, Indiana. Formerly operated by Data Cave, this 86,400-...

June 04, 2018

DartPoints: Columbus, IN

GI Partners Becomes Data Center Landlord for BT’s Trading Hub in New Jersey

GI Partners has bought a large New Jersey data center that houses tech platforms that facilitate capital markets trading by customers of BT Radianz, the financial tech services business of BT Americas, a division of British Telecom. BT has been the sole tenant in the 130,000-square foot buildi...

February 22, 2018

BT Radianz: 492 River Road

CIM Group Acquires Datacenter in Toronto Area

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CIM Group, in partnership with fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (“1547”), today announced the acquisition of a 42,000-square-foot operating datacenter situated on 3.5 acres in Markham, ON which is part of the Greater Toronto Area. I.C.E Datacenters (Interconn...

January 23, 2018

1547 Ontario TOON1

Globalinx Data Centers establishes carrier-neutral data center campus in Virginia Beach (PR)

Honolulu, HI and Virginia Beach, VA – Globalinx Data Centers, Virginia Beach’s first and only carrier-neutral cable landing and terrestrial meet-me-point for international connectivity to Europe, Africa and South America, announced today at PTC’18 a new, three-phased data center campus in clo...

January 22, 2018

Globalinx Virginia Beach

Involta opens 40,000 sq ft Armstrong County, Pennsylvania data center

US colocation company Involta has opened a 40,000 square foot (3,716 sq m) data center in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. Involta held an opening ceremony at the Northpointe data center that drew more than 200 business and community leaders, including local Republican member of the Pennsylvani...

October 13, 2017

Ark: Pittsburgh Northpointe

Iron Mountain to FORETRUST Data Center in Denver (PR)

BOSTON - Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the storage and information management services company, has agreed to purchase MAG DATACENTERS, LLC, which operates FORTRUST, a private data center businesses for total consideration of approximately $128 million. The transaction would deliver ...

July 28, 2017

Iron Mountain DEN-1

Switch Core Campus Opens LAS VEGAS 10 Data Center (PR)

LAS VEGAS – Switch, the global technology solutions corporation that is powering the future of the connected world™, today announced the opening of its LAS VEGAS 10 data center, a Switch MOD 250 (Modularly Optimized Design), at Switch’s Core Campus. The Switch MOD 250 is designed, constructe...

June 15, 2017

Switch Las Vegas 10

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