Data Center News

Verizon sells media group including Yahoo and AOL for $5 billion

Yahoo

Apollo will be acquiring Verizon Media, which includes Yahoo and AOL, for $5 billion. Also, the deal will see Verizon Media receive $4.25 billion in cash, $750 million preferred interests, and retain a 10% stake in Verizon Media which will be known as Yahoo. The two companies expect to finaliz...

Switch to acquire Data Foundry for $420m

Data Foundry

Switch will acquire Data Foundry for $420m in an all-cash transaction. The acquisition is expected to close by mid-2021 if it meets all customary closing conditions. Data Foundry has three highly connected data centers in Austin with an expansion capability of up to 44 MW. It also has one data...

DataBank is Expanding its IND1 data center

Databank Indianapolis IND1

DataBank has announced an expansion of its IND1 data center in Indiana. The company is a leading provider of enterprise-class colocation, connectivity, and managed services. Part of the expansion includes 6,500 square feet of raised floor space and an additional megawatt of power to meet the g...

Microsoft pays $3m to add 1.4 acres to its Atlanta campus

Hyperscale Data Center

Tech giants Microsoft has bought 1.4 acres of land for $3 million to expand its planned Westside campus. The land is situated on Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway, in the Grove Park area close to Atlanta. This purchase is after Microsoft acquired 90 acres of land in February for its proposed Westsi...

NTT launches "Earthquake Resistant" data center

NTT Silicon Valley SV1

NTT has announced the launch of its "Earthquake Resistant" data center in Silicon Valley, the first of its kind in the US market. The facility has a capacity of 16MW and uses a base isolation system, enabling seismic stability and ensuring 60% less motion than a non-isolated, fixed building. ...

Vantage Data Centers Opens Second Data Center on its Northern Virginia Campus

Vantage Ashburn Campus

Vantage Data Centers just announced that it has completed the first phase of VA12. VA12 is the second of the five planned facilities situated at its Northern Virginia campus. The completed first phase of VA12 will provide 16MW of critical IT capacity to enterprises, hyperscalers, and cloud pro...

Aligned starts work on Chicago Hyperscale Data Center Campus

Aligned: ORD-01

Aligned has announced that it has begun work on its latest hyperscale data center campus in Chicago, Illinois. The 48MW data center is the first to be constructed on the 18.5 acre campus and stands at 220,000 sqft. Once completed, the campus will offer 100+MW of capacity. The data center, ...

EdgeConneX Expands in 6 North American Markets

EdgeConneX

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...

Apple officially opens data center in Guizhou China

Hyperscale Data Center

According to reports, Apple has opened a new data center in Guizhou, China. The data center was jointly built by both Apple and Guizhou-Cloud Big Data Industry Co Ltd. The data center will offer iCloud services to its customers on the mainland of China. Asides from that, it is also expected th...

Microsoft partners with defense company Leonardo to offer cloud services to Italian public sector

Italy

Microsoft is partnering with Leonardo, an Italian defense group, to provide Italy’s public sector and critical infrastructure providers with cloud services. The deal will see Leonardo offer cybersecurity services and act as a System integrator while Microsoft will provide a cloud platform and ...

Quintillion connects Polar Orbiting Satellites to Equinix SE2

Equinix Seattle SE2

Quintillion has announced plans to connect its new Arctic ground station to Equinix’s Seattle data center. It will extend its network via a subsea fiber network, where, in Seattle, it will connect to Equinix Fabric, a software-defined interconnection service. Located 72 degrees north, at Utqi...

Green Mountain Secures More Land for Data Center Expansion In Norway

Green Mountain Gismarvik

Green Mountain has announced that it has secured 50,000 sqm (538,000 sq ft) of land in Norway in an option agreement with Haugaland Business Park. Located in Gismarvik in Tysvær municipality, the land will enable Green Mountain to begin constructing a fourth data center site as early as 2022.T...

Iron Mountain Completes Agreement to Expand footprint to India with JV with Web Werks

Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain is expected to invest $150 million over the next two years in a joint venture with Web Werks. Web Works is one of India’s top colocation data center providers. Iron Mountain, which is a storage and information management services company first announced its plan to invest on Febr...

Bit Digital Expands North American Footprint with New 40MW Agreement with Compute North

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., April 21, 2021 – Compute North and Bit Digital, Inc. (Nasdaq: BTBT), are pleased to announce an additional 40MW hosting agreement for the expansion of Bit Digital’s bitcoin mining operations in North America, with an important sustainability feature. As part of the agreem...

Serverfarm acquires El Segundo facility from T5

Serverfarm LAX1

Serverfarm, supported by its partner NantWorks, has entered the Los Angeles data center market with the acquisition of a 12-megawatt, 117,500-square-foot data center in El Segundo, CA. T5 Data Centers was the selling party. T5 originally bought and developed the facility in 2011 for $30 millio...

Cologix Acquires vXchnge's Santa Clara Facility

Cologix Santa Clara

Cologix has announced it has acquired a silicon valley data center from vXchnge. The Santa Clara facility sits on 5 acres with a 84,000 sqft building. The building currently supports 9MW of critical load with the ability to expand to a total 19 MWs. The acquisition provides an instant entry in...

IPI Partners Closes Second Data Center Fund at $3.8 Billion

IPI Partners

IPI Partners have announced the final closing of IPI Partners II at $3.8 billion. The funds raised, which is IPI’s second, attracted more than the target, which shows the company has robust support from investors. Matt A’Hearn, Partner at IPI, said the fundraising for IPI II was a tremendous s...

PRINCETON DIGITAL GROUP Secures $230 Million Financing, Charts Out $1 Billion Expansion in China (PR)

Princeton Digital Group

Continued progress against an aggressive 300MW expansion plan Confirms completion of fully contracted 42MW Shanghai data center campus Largest international partner to domestic and international hyperscaler customers in China SINGAPORE & SHANGHAI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Singapore-based Princet...

NTT Opens SV1

NTT Silicon Valley SV1

NTT Ltd., has announced that its Global Data Centers Americas division has opened a new 16MW Silicon Valley Data Center called SV1. NTT Ltd. is a world-leading global technology services provider and this center marks the sixth U.S. data center campus and third data center opening in 2021. The...

Element Critical’s Chicago Data Centers secure $72M loan

Element Critical CH1

Element Critical and parent company Safanad Inc. recently secured a $71.5 million loan to refinance their Chicago data center portfolio. The loan provided by Annaly Capital Management Inc. will go towards renovations for two data center facilities based in the Elk Grove Village area of Chicago...