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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

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

$800M Data Center Coming To Mesa, Arizona Amidst Water Concerns

The Mesa City Council just approved the development for a Company that plans to build a data center on Elliot and Ellsworth roads in the northwest corner of Eastmark. Although the Company remains in mystery, the Mayor of Mesa City said the mystery Company would be investing $800 million to bri...

May 26, 2021

Eric Bell

Phoenix

Hanley Energy expands in Virginia, will base US headquarters in Loudoun County

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. Besi...

May 26, 2021

Eric Bell

Northern Virginia

Data Center Review conducted in Prince William County

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 ...

May 19, 2021

Eric Bell

Northern Virginia

Questions raised over Loudoun County data center proposal

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 ...

May 14, 2021

Eric Bell

Northern Virginia

QTS expands its connectivity ecosystem with Telia Carrier

Telia Carrier has announced that it has deployed its full suite of connectivity services in QTS' Piscataway, New Jersey and Irving, Texas data centers. Telia is also deployed to QTS Richmond, Chicago, Miami, Hillsboro, and Atlanta.The 'full suite' of network services includes DWDM, DDoS, IP Tr...

May 13, 2021

Eric Bell

QTS Piscataway

TA Realty planning $1.8 billion, 300MW data center campus in Loudoun County, 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 30...

May 04, 2021

Eric Advinci

Northern Virginia

New Dark Fiber Provider, DF&I, Announced Investment from IPI (PR)

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 ...

June 16, 2020

Eric Bell

Northern Virginia

QTS Creates the New Jersey Network Access Point (NJ NAP)

QTS has announced that it is creating a new Internet Exchange Point (IXP) called the NJ NAP in their Piscataway facility. Baxtel is skeptical that the IXP will thrive unless it is extended into other carrier-neutral data centers in the greater New York region.

June 12, 2020

Eric Bell

QTS Piscataway

Duocast add POP at QTS Eemshaven

QTS announced that Duocast, a Dutch internet service provider, has established a point of presence in QTS' Eemshaven data center. Duocast offers a portfolio of Internet and Ethernet services, IP Transit, IoT backbone and dedicated hosting servicesThe QTS Press Release - June 10th, 2020: New ...

June 10, 2020

Eric Bell

QTS Eemshaven

QTS Ashburn-Shellhorn Construction on Fast-Track Program

QTS has announced that it is fast tracking 42MW in Ashburn. Their construction blog post is below: QTS Ashburn-Shellhorn, our newest greenfield data center campus in the Ashburn, VA market has gotten underway in a hurry - with construction five weeks in and well ahead of schedule. The QTS Deve...

May 25, 2020

Eric Bell

QTS Ashburn-Shellhorn

QTS acquires 100% Renewable Energy for its Groningen Data Center in the Netherlands

QTS Realty Trust (NYSE: QTS) has announced that it has signed agreements to purchase renewable energy via European Guarantees of Origin equal to the expected electricity needs of the company’s newly acquired data centre in Groningen, Netherlands. Under the agreement, QTS has purchased environm...

March 12, 2020

Eric Bell

QTS Groningen

QTS Pre-leases 100% of Its Initial Development in Hillsboro OR

QTS has signed an anchor tenant for it's new Hillsboro campus. QTS has pre-leased the entire first phase (4.5 MW) to a global software-as-a-service provider. The Company expects to complete the first phase of development in Hillsboro by mid-2020 with additional power capacity available for cus...

February 18, 2020

Eric Bell

QTS Hillsboro 1

QTS is planning to expand Richmond site in Henrico County

QTS Data Centers is planning an expansion on 210 acres it owns in the White Oak Technology Park at 6020 Technology Blvd. in the county’s Sandston area. The proposed project, which was submitted to the county’s planning division earlier in November, would involve construction of about 1.2 milli...

November 19, 2019

Eric Bell

QTS Richmond I

QTS will expand Atlanta-Metro Campus

QTS is expanding its Atlanta-Metro data center campus. The expansion will include the development of a new data center totaling more than 250,000 square feet of leasable capacity and 72 critical megawatts of incremental power capacity, adjacent to QTS’ existing mega data center. The Company ex...

November 04, 2019

Eric Advinci

QTS Atlanta Metro

QTS files plans to expand Richmond campus in White Oak Technology Park

A development plan was filed in March by an entity tied to QTS Data Centers for new two single-story data center buildings totaling 710,500 square feet on county-owned land in Sandston’s White Oak Technology Park, near Interstates 64 and 295. Dubbed in planning documents as “Project Isaac,” th...

March 13, 2019

Eric Bell

QTS Richmond I

QTS is Building a 100MW Data Center on 92 Acres in Hillsboro

QTS Data Centers, a Kansas data hosting company, is the most recent in a line of large data companies to build in Hillsboro, enticed by tax breaks worth $7.6 million USD total over the past three years. These tax breaks have become arguably less valuable due to Hillsboro moving in 2016 to match t...

July 05, 2018

Eric Bell

QTS Hillsboro 1

QTS Acquires DuPont Fabros’ 38-Acre New Jersey Data Center Campus

Overland Park, Kan. (June 6, 2016) – QTS Realty Trust (NYSE: QTS), an international provider of data center, managed hosting and cloud services, has purchased a 360,000 square foot data center from DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc. in Piscataway, New Jersey. The facility becomes QTS’ third New J...

June 06, 2016

Eric Bell

QTS Piscataway

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