June 15, 2021 London
Brent Council, a governing body of a borough of London, just revealed its plan to spend £3.8 million ($5.3 million) to upgrade data centers over the next four years. The council says it is part of its plan to create a modern and robust IT system. The upgrades involve upgrading physical storage...
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June 09, 2021 Sydney
Stockland has announced plans to build a five-story new data center in Sydney, which, according to the Australian Financial Review, might be for Amazon Web Services (AWS). The facility, worth AU$264 million (US$204.3 million), was reportedly fast-tracked by the New South Wales Government due to...
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May 26, 2021 Northern Virginia
Hanley Energy has decided to expand its operations in Loudoun County, Virginia. The Irish company will be leasing a 36,600 square foot building from Merritt Properties for this purpose. Merritt initially bought the 6.7-acre site with plans to build a light industrial building over it. Besides,...
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May 19, 2021 Northern Virginia
Prince William County, Virginia, may see more data centers being built in the region after County supervisors approved moves that could expand the Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District. This “overlay district” is the area where building data facilities is permitted. Established back in...
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May 14, 2021 Northern Virginia
BlackChamber Group’s application to build a 530,000 sq ft (49,000 sq m) data center in Loudoun County has split the county’s board of supervisors. According to a report published in Washington Business Journal, the group’s proposal to build two facilities on the 23-acre plot could be rejected in...
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May 04, 2021 Northern Virginia
TA Realty has announced that it will be developing a new $1.8 billion secure data center in Loudoun County, VA. The initial buildings of the data center are expected to be ready by late 2021. Upon completion, the fully built-out campus will be over 1.5 million square feet. It will also have 300...
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March 10, 2021 OVH Strasbourg Campus
A fire destroyed SBG2 and part of SBG1 data centers in Strasbourg, France. The facilities are part of a data center campus owned by OVH Cloud, a French cloud computing company. The fire destroyed completely destroyed SBG2 and 4 rooms out of 12 in the adjacent SBG1 data center. At this time, it is...
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February 02, 2021 OVH Sydney SYD-1
The company opened its second data center in Sydney, Australia, and doubled the capacity of its Singapore data center. The APAC region is now home to 3 of the 32 OVHcloud data centers across 4 continents.OVH Press Release on Feb 2nd, 2021: As part of its global growth strategy, OVHcloud Unveils...
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June 16, 2020 Northern Virginia
ASHBURN, Va., /PRNewswire/ -- Dark Fiber & Infrastructure, LLC ("DF&I" or the "Company") today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to receive a majority investment from IPI Partners, LLC ("IPI"). IPI's investment will be used to accelerate the growth of DF&I's footprint and...
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October 02, 2018 London
China’s favorite e-commerce giant Alibaba is planning the launch of a cloud region in London, two years after entering the European market with a data center in Frankfurt. The move was not highly publicized; the company merely updated its website to advertise the future availability zones in the...
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