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Valterra Partners & 1547 CSR acquire Miami-based ColoHouse

Valterra Partners LLC and Fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty LLC have acquired ColoHouse, a managed service provider with headquarters in Miami, Florida. Valterra Partners is an equity firm, while Fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty is a data center Company. The deal also includes...

June 09, 2021

Eric Bell

1547 Critical Systems Realty (fifteenfortyseven)

Blackstone to acquire QTS Realty Trust for $10 billion

Blackstone Group Inc has reportedly entered into an agreement to purchase QTS Realty Trust Inc for a total of $6.7 billion.According to the WSJ, the group's infrastructure unit, Blackstone Infrastructure Partners, with BREIT, its non-traded real-estate investment trust, has agreed to pay $78 a...

June 07, 2021

Eric Bell

QTS Data Centers

Google to migrate parts of YouTube to Google Cloud

Google has decided to migrate some of its YouTube infrastructure to its own Google Cloud Service. Initially, many of Google’s key services like YouTube and its search engine are being hosted on internal infrastructure that isn’t Google Cloud Computing Service (GCP).Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google...

June 04, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

QTS Realty Trust launches new Smart Family of data center remote management solutions

QTS Realty Trust has announced its new Smart Family of data center remote management solutions. The Smart Family solution is built on advanced tech, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and preemptive understanding into customers’ colocation environment.QTS Smart family solutio...

June 01, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

QTS Data Centers

Digital Realty Completes Acquisition Of Ascenty (Press Release)

SAN FRANCISCO, May. 20, 2021 -- Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, announced today its Brazilian subsidiary, Stellar Participações Ltda., has completed the previously announced acquisition of Ascenty, the leading data...

May 20, 2021

Eric Bell

Digital Realty Trust

NTT and SKY Perfect JSAT to launch data center in space

Is space the new edge? NTT is planning to develop a data center in space. NTT will be working with SKY Perfect Holdings, a Japanese satellite company, to develop the project. Plans are in place for trials to start in 2022, launch in 2025, and for operations to begin in 2026. The orbiting data ...

May 20, 2021

Eric Bell

NTT

STACK to run on 100 percent renewable energy by end of 2021

Stack Infrastructure has announced that it would be running 100% on renewable energy by the end of 2021. The Company made the promise of running all its current and future data centers with 100% green energy while launching its new social responsibility program. The Chief strategy officer at S...

May 19, 2021

Eric Bell

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Google opens quantum computer data center and R&D lab, plans commercial system by 2029

Google just opened its new Quantum campus, which houses its quantum computers and serves as a Research and Development lab for future developments. The latest data center campus is located in Santa Barbara County, California. Google is also planning to spend billions of dollars on building a c...

May 19, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Google plans to use greener energy by moving workloads between data centers

Google will be moving workloads to data centers where renewable energy is available to boost renewable energy usage. Ross Koningstein, Co-founder of Google’s Carbon Intelligence Computing program, said that shifting compute tasks across locations is the Company’s first step in carbon-aware ...

May 18, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Google Cloud and SpaceX's Starlink to Deliver Secure, Global Connectivity

Google Cloud and SpaceX have announced that they have entered a new partnership which will see SpaceX's Starlink begin to locate its satellite ground stations within Google data centers. Together, through the partnership, the two firms will deliver cloud services, data and applications to cus...

May 15, 2021

Eric Bell

Google

EdgeConneX Expands in 6 North American Markets

EdgeConneX has announced that it will add almost 20MW of new capacity across six of its data centers in North America. The facilities that will benefit from this expansion are Seattle, Portland, Phoenix, Miami, Detroit, and Chicago.According to Phillip Marangella, Chief Marketing Officer at Ed...

April 28, 2021

Eric Bell

EdgeConneX

Digital Realty Introduces New Connections to Google Cloud In 5 Major Metros

Digital Realty recently said that it has expanded secure, private access to Google Cloud’s global network in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Vienna in Austria, and Dusseldorf in Germany. Digital Realty also announced that it had added its second direct interconnect to Google Cloud in Frankfurt.The direc...

March 23, 2021

Eric Bell

Digital Realty Trust

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE Raises $400 million in Another Round of Structured Debt Financing

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE has lined up another large round of financing. The Data Center operator has borrowed $400 million through the sale of securitized notes, the latest in four transactions that have raised $1.8 billion to build more data centers.Last September STACK raised $325 million in sec...

March 19, 2021

Eric Bell

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Digital Fortress Acquires Three Atmosera Facilities in Portland

Digital Fortress has announced that it has acquired three facilities in Portland from Atmosera. Atmosera will now focus on building its Microsoft Azure services. With the acquisition, Digital Fortress now has 10 facilities across the United States. Digital Fortress was formed in 2012 from the ...

January 19, 2021

Eric Bell

Digital Fortress

Digital Realty Relocates Headquarters to Austin

Digital Realty (DLR) has announced it will relocate its corporate headquarters to Austin, Texas from San Francisco, California. DLR will maintain a presence in the San Francisco Bay Area as one of the world's leading technology hubs.Digital Realty already operates a significant data center foo...

January 15, 2021

Eric Bell

Digital Realty Trust

1547 acquires the Pittock Block in Portland

1547 Critical Systems Realty has acquired the Pittock Block, a Portland carrier hotel from the Alco Investment Company. Don't call it a trend, but 1547 has targeted a couple of acquisitions that focus on carrier dense data centers. Last September 1547 acquired a Milwaukee carrier hotel, the We...

January 05, 2021

Eric Bell

Pittock Internet Exchange

STACK closes an additional $325 Million in Debt Financing

Denver-based Stack Infrastructure, a data center company, has closed a $325 million debt offering. Stack also issued securitized notes in February and November of last year. Including the latest round, the company has so far raised a total of $1.4 billion to fuel its growth. Stack's Press Rel...

September 01, 2020

Eric Bell

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

EQT acquires EdgeConneX

The Swedish investment firm EQT AB has announced that it acquired the US-based colocation company EdgeConneX. EdgeConneX has a global footprint, operating over 40 facilities in 33 markets across North America, Europe and South America and continues to expand after being founded a decade ago. ...

August 19, 2020

Eric Bell

EdgeConneX

Aligned Increases Facility to $575 Million (PR)

DALLAS – Aligned, a leading data center provider offering innovative, sustainable and adaptable colocation and build-to-scale solutions for cloud, enterprise, and managed service providers, announces it has increased its secured credit facility to $575 million as the company experiences conti...

May 11, 2020

Eric Bell

Aligned

Flexential Announces it's third Facility in Portland

Flexential has announced it will build its largest data center yet in Portland metro. The facility will be 358,000 square feet, offering 36 megawatts of power on a 20-acre lot. Groundbreaking is scheduled for the summer of 2020. This new data center will connect to Flexential’s Portland-Hills...

May 07, 2020

Eric Bell

Flexential Portland - Hillsboro 3

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