Ohio Data Center News

Facebook Plans to Wholesale Its Fiber

Facebook plans to sell excess fiber on its owned long haul routes that interconnect Facebook data centers. As part of the plan, Facebook will allow local and regional network providers to acquire capacity. Fast Facts: Initially, Facebook is focused on the network connecting their data ce...

March 06, 2019

Google's Curie Cable System to Land at Equinix LA4 (PR)

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that Google has selected Equinix for its Los Angeles area cable landing station (CLS) supporting the Curie subsea cable system, the first subsea cable to Ch...

February 07, 2019

Google

Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT II Completes a $23.2 Million Acquisition of Canton Data Center

On October 3, 2018, the Company acquired the Canton Data Center for approximately $9.4 million excluding acquisition fees and costs. The facility is a colocation data center delivering 1.5 Megawatts of existing capacity expandable to 3.0 Megawatts. Located in Canton, Ohio, the data center is situ...

November 02, 2018

Ark: Canton

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

H5 Data Centers Acquires Cleveland Data Center

Denver, CO - H5 Data Centers, a national colocation and wholesale data center provider, today announced it has acquired the Cleveland Technology Center in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. Located at 1625 Rockwell Avenue, the acquisition adds to H5's growing data center portfolio of nearly 1.5 millio...

January 26, 2017

H5 Cleveland Technology Center (CTC)

Cologix Building New Datacenter in Columbus

Cologix Building $130M Data Center in Growing Columbus Metro Data center provider Cologix has kicked off construction of a $130 million data center in Columbus, Ohio, which will be the third facility on the company’s campus in the Midwestern business hub. The company expects to launch the f...

September 07, 2016

Cologix Columbus COL1, COL2

Amazon's Massive $1.1bn Ohio Data Center Project Swaps Townships

There has been heated competition in Ohio to land a $1.1 billion Amazon Web Services Data Center project. That project was recently reported to be split across three townships: Hilliard, Dublin and Orange Township. Columbus Business first reports that Amazon subsidiary Vadata has withdrawn an ...

June 14, 2015

Ohio

Involta acquires Youngstown-based Data Recovery Services

Involta has agreed to acquire a Youngstown-based data center company called Data Recovery Services LLC. The deal will roughly double the size of Involta’s employee base. The combined company will have nearly 200 employees, according to a news release from Involta, an Iowa-based company that a...

June 04, 2015

Ark: Youngstown

Officials in Ohio Approve Amazon Data Center Development Plans

Amazon’s planned data center project in Dublin, Ohio, is a step closer, with a panel of city officials approving development plans for a data-processing center on a 70-acre plot of land. The next step will be building permits. The project is expected to cost $1.1 billion and create 120 jobs w...

February 27, 2015

Ohio

Amazon secures land in Dublin and Hilliard for new data centers

Amazon Web Services has tied up two of the three sites for its planned data center network in Central Ohio. Public records show Amazon Web Services' Vadata Inc. affiliate bought 58.2 acres at Hayden Run Road between Britton Parkway and Interstate 270 in Hilliard from Trueman LP for $8.3 millio...

February 27, 2015

AWS US East (Ohio)

IBM Opens Advanced Analytics Center in Columbus, Ohio (PR)

COLUMBUS, OHIO - IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it will establish a new analytics center in Columbus, Ohio, dedicated to advancing research, development, client services and skills training in the areas of analytics, big data and cognitive computing. The move aims to create 500 new analytics...

November 12, 2012

Kyndryl Columbus

Nationwide Data Center Planned for Ohio

Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. is making plans to build a $96 million data center in New Albany, Ohio, according to local media reports. The insurance company is planning a data center facility of at least 120,000 square feet on 45 acres recently designated as New Albany's Research and Inform...

October 20, 2008

STACK New Albany NAL01

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