Pacific US Data Center News

AI Edge chip company Kneron raises additional $49m funds

Kneron, a startup developing chips for AI inferencing, has raised $49 million from investors to scale up its hardware-developing efforts. Investors, including Foxconn HH-CTBC Partnership (Foxconn Co-GP Fund) and Alltek, made this additional investment, bringing the total Series B financing to ...

September 30, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

San Diego

DoD procures a security advancement for Hawaii data center

The US Department of Defense (DoD) is soliciting proposals for a data center security upgrade in Hawaii. On August 14, the contract offer was released, giving businesses three weeks to present their ideas for the DoD's facility. The solution must upgrade the Defense Information Systems Agency ...

August 15, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Hawaii

Developers in San Jose, California, switch hotel plans for data center development

Plans for an entertainment district development in San Jose, California, have been scrapped and replaced with data center plans, it has been announced. Back in 2018, developer Terra Ventures had initially pitched for development known as 'Shops @ Terra'; this would have been an entertainment d...

August 08, 2023

San Francisco Bay Area

The Hawaii data center initiative survives the governor's $1 billion in state budget cuts

Despite budget cutbacks, Hawaii's government will proceed with a proposed data center relocation. Gov. Josh Green of Hawaii had to make use of his line-item override to cut the General Appropriations Bill of 2023 and balance Hawaii's fiscal strategy with $500 million in budget cuts, but he ret...

June 20, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Hawaii

Tesla leases Sacramento Twitter data center Musk once blasted

Twitter formerly used the Sacramento site of NTT Global Data Centers, but now it is home to Musk's electric car company. Twitter departed the data center in late 2022, with the CEO disparaging the area. Tesla will now occupy the space as well as extra square footage.The data center will likely...

June 13, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Sacramento

Digital Realty El Segundo's Facility Damaged by a Fire

On Sunday, May 21st, a fire broke out at the LAX12 data center of Digital Realty in El Segundo, California. The fire led the facility to shut down two suites, and it incinerated an undisclosed number of servers, as well as cut power and locked out some users from the server space. A few days a...

May 26, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

2260 E El Segundo - Digital Realty

CoreSite Expands Denver Facility and Opens Santa Clara Data Center

CoreSite, a US-based data center company, has broadened in California with a new Silicon Valley data center and increasing the capacity of an existing facility in Denver, Colorado. California's Santa Clara will become the site of CoreSite's ninth data center. The new 240,000-square-foot SV9 fa...

May 24, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

CoreSite SV9

DRFortress Completes Fourth Major Data Center Development

This week, DRFortress, the foremost carrier-neutral data center and cloud platform in Hawaii, announced that it has wrapped up the fourth expansion of its data center facility in Honolulu, which will be available for service on June 1, 2023. With this most recent expansion, the facility's 65,0...

May 18, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

DRFortress Honolulu

North San Jose Slated to Receive New Data Centers

This week, the San Jose City Council unanimously authorized plans for a sophisticated manufacturing complex and data centers in North San Jose. Denver-based STACK Infrastructure plans to destroy two industrial buildings on a nearly 10-acre parcel, including a former Olympus service center, and...

May 12, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

San Francisco Bay Area

StratCap Expands Data Center Portfolio with Acquisition of Two US Facilities

StratCap, a privately held investment firm, has acquired two data centers in the United States. The data centers, located in California and Missouri, were purchased for an undisclosed amount. StratCap acquired in Santa Clara, California, a purpose-built data center that is 100 percent leased t...

April 18, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

California

Silicon Valley Sees Surge in Data Center Construction as Tech Giants Expand Operations

Silicon Valley is experiencing a surge in the construction of data centers, according to a report by real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield. At the end of last year, 17 new data centers were either under construction or in development, with a total planned area of 4.7 million square...

April 18, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

San Francisco Bay Area

Third Completely Diverse Dark Fiber Route Added to Bandwidth IG's San Francisco Bay Area network

With the construction of its dark fiber network, Bandwidth Infrastructure Group (Bandwidth IG) is enhancing connection options for the San Francisco Bay Area's densely populated area of data centers. Critical fiber infrastructure is now available from Santa Clara in the San Francisco Bay Area ...

April 06, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

San Francisco Bay Area

Hawaii Pacific Teleport to be Bought by Calian

Hawaii Pacific Teleport, a US teleport company, will sell its assets to Calian Group (HPT). HPT was established in 1998 and is based on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. The site is home to more than 15 antennas, with the largest measuring 15.5 meters and functioning in the C, Ku, Ka, and X band...

March 13, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

1547 AlohaNAP

Honda’s hydrogen fuel cells to be used in data centers

Honda has announced that its old retired Clarity fuel cells will now be used for backup power at one of its data centers as part of a trial project. The company said that this aligns with its carbon neutrality goals, which it aims to reach by 2050, and promotes circular economy principles. The...

March 10, 2023

California

Old Fremont Materials Factory Planned For Massive Data Center

The developer Valley Oak Partners, located in San Jose, California, has proposed constructing a data center with a floor space of 490,000 square feet at the former location of the construction materials firm USG in Fremont, California. According to Valley Oak, the facility would serve as a ven...

March 02, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

California

Valley Oak proposes 90MW data center in California

Valley Oak is pursuing a new data center in Fremont, California, it has been announced, to 'serve as a place for clients to either relocate their data servers or expand their data capacity.' The company submitted an application for a 490,000 square-foot (45,520 sqm) data center on approximatel...

February 24, 2023

California

ECL to offer hydrogen-powered off-grid modular data centers

ECL has announced $7 million in seed funding, with plans to build the first 3D-printed modular data center to be powered by green hydrogen in California. The first facility will be built at its headquarters in Mountain View, using a construction 3D printer and a local building services company...

January 26, 2023

California

MDC develops data center in San Diego, California

MDC Data Centers (formerly McAllen Data Centers) has announced that it is developing a new data center in San Diego, California, at 7014 Manya Cir. The new location is in partnership with Mexican telco Vívaro Telecom and will be ready to begin operations in the second quarter of 2023.The facil...

January 23, 2023

California

Twitter closes its Sacramento data center

Microblogging social media platform Twitter has undergone extensive changes as of late since the takeover by Elon Musk. From the introduction of Musk's paid verification plan, slashing nearly half of the platform's workforce in November, and his massive cost-cutting exercise, Musk's tenure as ...

January 05, 2023

Sacramento

Prime DC commences work on Santa Clara site

Prime Data Centers has begun work on its Santa Clara data center in California. Located at 2175 Martin Ave, the three-story facility is on a 1.6-acre plot and is designed as a turnkey build-to-suit facility offering 80,000 square feet (7,430 sqm) of purpose-built data center space and 9MW with...

November 02, 2022

Prime Santa Clara (Martin)

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