Data Center News

Silicon Ranch to build 107 MW solar plant to power Facebook data center in Georgia

Hyperscale Data Center

 Silicon Ranch has agreed to build a 107-megawatt solar project to power the Facebook data center in Newton County, Ga. Silicon Ranch, the U.S. solar platform for Shell and one of the largest independent solar power producers in the country, contracted with Walton Electric Membership Corporati...

AirTrunk announces a Second Sydney Data Centre

AirTrunk Sydney SYD2

AirTrunk has announced its plans to build a second hyperscale data center in Sydney, with the new installation of more than 110 megawatts to complement its two existing ones. The new data center, which will open in 2020, will be located in northern Sydney and will be known as SYD2. The facilit...

Cyxtera Promotes Nelson Fonseca to CEO

Cyxtera Technologies

Cyxtera Technologies has announced that founder and CEO Manuel D. Medina has been elevated to the position of Executive Chairman for both Cyxtera and its recently announced AppGate spin-out. Current Cyxtera President and Chief Operating Officer Nelson Fonseca has been promoted to the role of C...

FBI Cuts Ribbon for New Data Center in Idaho

FBI Grey Wolf Pocatello

The FBI and its partners at the Department of Justice (DOJ) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new data center in Pocatello on November 18th 2019. The facility broke ground in October 2017. The new data center will optimize infrastructure, information and services, according to a press rel...

QTS is planning to expand Richmond site in Henrico County

QTS Richmond I DC1

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...

Zayo Considers Sale of zColo Division

Zayo

Bloomberg reports that Zayo is considering the sale of zColo, which could fetch approximately $1 Billion. In May, Digital Colony Partners and EQT Partners agreed to acquire Zayo in May 2019. Link to the Bloomberg article 

Evocative Acquires VPLS, Inc. and VPLS Solutions and will Consolidate under VPLS Brand (PR)

Evocative

Evocative Data Centers (“Evocative”), a leading provider of Internet infrastructure, colocation, hosting and managed services, announced today that it has acquired VPLS, Inc. and VPLS Solutions, LLC to form one of the fastest growing cloud, managed services, colocation and value added reseller...

Digital Colony Acquires Beanfield Technologies (PR)

Beanfield Metroconnect

BOCA RATON, Fla, / PRNewswire/ -- Digital Colony, the global digital infrastructure investment platform of Colony Capital, Inc. (NYSE: CLNY) and a leading investor, owner and operator of companies enabling the next generation of mobile and internet connectivity, today announced Digital Colony ...

Advania Data Centers Expands to Sweden in a deal with Stockholm Exergi (PR)

atNorth Stockholm SWE01

The excess heat from new data center will be used for local house-heating in Stockholm. Located in the largest Information and Communications Technology (ICT) cluster in Europe, Advania’s new data center is a first-rate option for high tech companies in the region. A new data center investmen...

Amazon Planning another data-center in New Albany

Amazon Web Services plans to invest $400 million to build a 170,000 sqft data center on 100 acres in the eastern portion of the New Albany International Business Park. The site will be on the east side of Harrison Road and north of Innovation Campus Way. The project would create 35 jobs, with ...

eStruxture wins new customer, VEERUM, at Its Calgary Data Center

eStruxture Calgary CAL-1

eStruxture Data Centers has announced that it has won a new customer in its Calgary facility. The Calgary-based SaaS provider VEERUM is moving into eStruxture's facility in Calgary, Alberta. eStructure acquired the facility from Shaw in August. VEERUM specializes in asset visualization and man...

QTS will expand Atlanta-Metro Campus

QTS: Atlanta-1 DC1

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...

Aligned Breaks Ground on Second Salt Lake Metro Data Center (PR)

Aligned: SLC-01

WEST JORDAN, UT (October 30, 2019) – 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 the expansion of its Salt Lake Metro data center campus, breaking...

Telxius Opens Purpose-Built Infrastructure in EMEA: Derio Communications Hub (PR)

Telxius Derio Communications Hub

Leverages the Full Potential of Subsea Cable MAREA Unlocking Opportunities for Global Organizations Madrid, 29 October 2019. Telxius, the communications infrastructure company of the Telefonica Group, has announced today the launch of its purpose-built, interconnection-rich, Derio communicat...

AirTrunk appoint Mark Adams as Advisory Board Member

AirTrunk

AirTrunk today announced the appointment of Mark Adams as an independent advisory board member. Along with advising the AirTrunk board, Mark will provide strategic input into AirTrunk’s Asia-Pacific expansion plan.  Mark is a seasoned strategy and M&A executive and brings to AirTrunk his e...

AMP Capital acquires Expedient Data Centers

Expedient Data Centers

AMP Capital, An Australian investment firm, has acquired Expedient from Landmark Media Enterprises, the company's current investor. Expedient is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service business focused on colocation, cloud, managed services and networks with a base of over 1,200 customers. Terms were n...

Aligned Energy Secures $495 Million Facility to Support Expansion Plans (PR)

Aligned

DALLAS – Aligned Energy, a leading data center provider offering innovative, sustainable and adaptable colocation and build-to-scale solutions for cloud, enterprise, and managed service providers, announced today it has completed a $495 million secured credit facility with investors including...

Ascenty opens its 14th data center in Brazil and largest in Latin America

Ascenty Vinhedo 1

Ascenty, the leading data center company focused on the Latin American market, opened the largest data center in Latin America in the town of Vinhedo, Brazil. The audacious project cost BRL 500 million for its first phase of construction, and features 40,000 sqm in total area and 40 MVA power ...

STACK Acquires Nationwide Insurance Facility and Expands to Ohio

Stack: NAL01A

STACK Infrastructure continues to expand its footprint. Stack acquired Nationwide Insurance's facility in New Albany, Ohio.  The transaction is the third expansion for the company since raising $850 million in February 2019.  STACK Press Release: DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--STACK INFRASTRUCTURE ...

Cologix Adds 3rd Data Center Suite in the Dallas Infomart

Cologix: DAL1

Cologix, has added a third data center suite in the Dallas Infomart carrier hotel. The new, state-of-the-art DAL3 data center will come online Q1 2020. The latest 13,000 SQF expansion will support the demands of enterprise customers and cloud service providers. "Our new interconnection hub wil...