July 23, 2021 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft is reportedly in talks with the Telangana government to construct one of its largest data centers with an investment of around USD$2- 2.25 billion (Rs 15,000 crore). If this goes ahead, it will make it one of the tech giant’s biggest investments outside of the US. According to Business...
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July 21, 2021 Microsoft Azure
In 2021, data centers are responsible for 2% of the world’s CO2 emissions, equivalent to the entire airline industry worldwide. It has also been forecast that by 2025, data centers could consume up to one-fifth of Earth’s power. Increasingly, data center companies are waking up to the fact that...
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July 21, 2021 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft is the latest company to pledge carbon-neutrality by 2030. Within the next 19 years, the tech giant promises to run all its global data centers and offices with zero-carbon energy. In a recent blog, written by Lucas Joppa, chief environmental officer and Noelle Walsh, CVP, cloud...
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June 30, 2021 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft will acquire AT&T’s Network Cloud technology and intellectual property. It will also be making job offers to hundreds of AT&T engineers. As part of the deal, AT&T will move its 5G mobile network to Microsoft Azure. AT&T’s 5G core would be the starting point. This deal...
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June 22, 2021 Cologix TOR4
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 add a...
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June 21, 2021 Toronto
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 consists...
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June 18, 2021 Microsoft Azure
According to reports from Bloomberg, Microsoft is looking to add four new data centers in China by Q1 of 2022. The report states that Microsoft wants to expand its service across Asia and opening data centers in China is a step towards achieving that. Asides from that, the Company also intends to...
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May 27, 2021 Digital Realty 151 Front
Digital Realty has announced that it has opened its new YYZ12 data center in Toronto, Canada, while breaking ground on its Marseille facility. The new facility, located at 151 Front St (Toronto's carrier hotel), is DRT's third data center in the metro and will be fully interconnected with...
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May 07, 2021 STACK Toronto TOR01
Stack has announced a partnership with First Gulf to develop a 56 MW campus in Toronto, Ontario. This campus will be Stack’s first international expansion, and it is at a strategic location- Toronto, the fourth largest city in North America. The CEO of Stack, Brian Cox, also described Toronto as...
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May 05, 2021 eStruxture
eStruxture just announced that it had secured over $600 million CDN in incremental equity from major financial institutions. eStruxture will use part of the sum secured to fund the acquisition of all Aptum’s Canadian data center business which was recently finalized. The funds will also help...
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March 30, 2021 eStruxture
eStruxture has announced that it will acquire Aptum's Canadian colocation business. With the addition of the new facilities (five in Toronto, two in Montreal and one in Vancouver), eStruxture will operate a total of 14 facilities across Canada, increasing its total footprint to over 600,000...
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March 16, 2021 eStruxture
MONTREAL – eStruxture, the largest Canadian-owned provider of network and cloud-neutral data center solutions, announces today the addition of Al Shulman as Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing. With more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunication and energy industries, Shulman...
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June 04, 2020 ServerFarm Toronto TOR1
ServerFarm has upgraded its Toronto facility. The project to add 14MW of new critical capacity to ServerFarm’s existing Toronto data center included a major construction phase, which was completed during the COVID-19 lockdown. The facility’s utility power availability is now over 21MW.ServerFarm...
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May 07, 2020 eStruxture TOR-1
Beanfield Metroconnect, a Canadian independent telecommunications infrastructure provider, has added to its bank account and its fiber network footprint. According to owners Digital Colony, the global digital infrastructure investment platform of Colony Capital, Inc. (NYSE: CLNY), Beanfield has...
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May 05, 2020 Compass Toronto Etobicoke
Compass Datacenters acquired an existing building and land in Etobicoke, Ontario to build a campus. Etobicoke is just West of Toronto. Costing $100 million USD, the first phase, the initial data hall will support 10MW of critical IT load when construction is completed in Q3 of 2020. The data...
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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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August 05, 2019 eStruxture
eStruxture now has fresh funding to continue its expansion. The company has already announced the acquisition of the Shaw data center in Calgary. Let's see what's next. Links: CDPQ Press Release Yahoo Finance Article Infrastructure Investor article
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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November 05, 2018 eStruxture
IX Reach has partnered with pan-Canadian data centre solutions firm eStruxture to offer connectivity solutions across the North America market. The two firms are strengthening an existing partnership by offering customers access to major IXPS through a single port, including access to optimised...
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January 23, 2018 1547 Ontario TOON1
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...
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