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Read Google Slows Hiring for Remainder of 2020
Google Slows Hiring for Remainder of 2020

Google Slows Hiring for Remainder of 2020

April 15, 2020 Google

Google has announced a significant slow down in new staff hires. Bloomberg published an email from CEO Sundar Pichai which details its plan to recalibrate hiring because of the economic slowdown. In 2019, Google hired 20,000 people and had planned to hire an additional 20,000 employees. The...

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Read SUNeVision lands Microsoft ExpressRoute on MEGA Campus
SUNeVision lands Microsoft ExpressRoute on MEGA Campus

SUNeVision lands Microsoft ExpressRoute on MEGA Campus

April 01, 2020 Microsoft Azure

SUNeVision Holdings Ltd, a Data centre provider in Hong Kong, has announced a new Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute on-ramp. Enterprises will have the ability to directly connect to Azure in MEGA-i, either through an onsite point of presence (PoP) or via telco partners, managed service providers or...

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Read Long Ridge Energy Terminal to Develop 300+ Megawatt Data Center Campus
Long Ridge Energy Terminal to Develop 300+ Megawatt Data Center Campus

Long Ridge Energy Terminal to Develop 300+ Megawatt Data Center Campus

January 29, 2020 DP Facilities: Hannibal

HANNIBAL, OH (PRWEB) -- Long Ridge Energy Terminal, located on 1,600 acres in Hannibal, Ohio announced today its plans to develop a 125-acre data center campus in conjunction with its on-site 485 MW combined cycle power plant currently under construction. Situated between Columbus, Ohio and...

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Read New Albany Council Approves Incentives for 3rd Amazon facility
New Albany Council Approves Incentives for 3rd Amazon facility

New Albany Council Approves Incentives for 3rd Amazon facility

December 18, 2019 Hyperscale Data Center

Amazon Web Services appears once again to be expanding its footprint in New Albany. The company now has three sites for data-center complexes in the city, with a total investment of $1.7 billion in the New Albany International Business Park, according to a fact sheet provided at the New Albany...

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Read Aligned Energy Secures $495 Million Facility to Support Expansion Plans (PR)
Aligned Energy Secures $495 Million Facility to Support Expansion Plans (PR)

Aligned Energy Secures $495 Million Facility to Support Expansion Plans (PR)

October 22, 2019 Aligned

DALLAS – Aligned Energy, a leading data center provider offering innovative, sustainable and adaptable colocation and build-to-scale solutions for cloud, enterprise, and managed service providers, announced today it has completed a $495 million secured credit facility with investors including...

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Read STACK Acquires Nationwide Insurance Facility and Expands to Ohio
STACK Acquires Nationwide Insurance Facility and Expands to Ohio

STACK Acquires Nationwide Insurance Facility and Expands to Ohio

October 16, 2019 STACK New Albany NAL01

STACK Infrastructure continues to expand its footprint. Stack acquired Nationwide Insurance's facility in New Albany, Ohio. The transaction is the third expansion for the company since raising $850 million in February 2019. STACK Press Release: DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--STACK INFRASTRUCTURE...

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Read Aligned Energy Announces New Strategic Investment by Macquarie Infrastructure Partners
Aligned Energy Announces New Strategic Investment by Macquarie Infrastructure Partners

Aligned Energy Announces New Strategic Investment by Macquarie Infrastructure Partners

April 23, 2019 Aligned

DALLAS, April 23, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Aligned Energy (the "Company"), a leading data center provider, today announced it has received a strategic investment from Macquarie Infrastructure Partners ("MIP"), which will support the Company's growth with significant additional capital. Aligned Energy...

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Read NewCloud Networks Expands at H5 in Cleveland
NewCloud Networks Expands at H5 in Cleveland

NewCloud Networks Expands at H5 in Cleveland

March 29, 2019 H5 Cleveland Technology Center (CTC)

H5 has announced a customer expansion at its Cleveland Data Center. NewCloud Networks, a Denver based cloud services provider, has chosen the H5 facility to expand its Cleveland presence. The building, previously known as the Cleveland Technology Center, has changed hands a few times over the...

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Read Microsoft Plans 2 New Data Centers in Sweden
Microsoft Plans 2 New Data Centers in Sweden

Microsoft Plans 2 New Data Centers in Sweden

March 25, 2019 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is reportedly building two new datacenters in Sweden, according to Swedish Newspaper Gefle Dagblad (via MSN). It was previously reported in December that the company had acquired 130 hectares of land in the municipalities of of Gävle and Sandviken, near the Swedish capital Stockholm....

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Read Microsoft and EDP Renewables Execute a Wind Energy Agreement in Ohio
Microsoft and EDP Renewables Execute a Wind Energy Agreement in Ohio

Microsoft and EDP Renewables Execute a Wind Energy Agreement in Ohio

March 07, 2019 Ohio

HOUSTON, and REDMOND, Wash. — March 7, 2019 — EDP Renewables SA (EDPR), through its fully owned subsidiary EDP Renewables North America LLC, and Microsoft Corp. have executed two 15-year power purchase agreements (PPA) totaling 125 megawatts (MW) that will bring the Timber Road IV Wind Farm to...

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Read Facebook Plans to Wholesale Its Fiber
Facebook Plans to Wholesale Its Fiber

Facebook Plans to Wholesale Its Fiber

March 06, 2019 Meta

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 centers in...

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

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

February 07, 2019 Google

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 Chile in...

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Read 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 Megawatt...

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

November 02, 2018 Ark: Canton

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...

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

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

July 10, 2018 Compass New Albany

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...

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Read H5 Data Centers Acquires Cleveland Data Center
H5 Data Centers Acquires Cleveland Data Center

H5 Data Centers Acquires Cleveland Data Center

January 26, 2017 H5 Cleveland Technology Center (CTC)

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 million...

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Read 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 fac...

Cologix Building New Datacenter in Columbus

September 07, 2016 Cologix Columbus COL1, COL2

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 first...

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

June 14, 2015 Ohio

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...

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Read Involta acquires Youngstown-based Data Recovery Services
Involta acquires Youngstown-based Data Recovery Services

Involta acquires Youngstown-based Data Recovery Services

June 04, 2015 Ark: Youngstown

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 also...

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Read Officials in Ohio Approve Amazon Data Center Development Plans
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Officials in Ohio Approve Amazon Data Center Development Plans

February 27, 2015 Ohio

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 with...

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Read Amazon secures land in Dublin and Hilliard for new data centers
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Amazon secures land in Dublin and Hilliard for new data centers

February 27, 2015 AWS US East (Ohio)

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 million....

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