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Read Mapletree Industrial Trustto Acquire Remaining 60% Interest in 14 Data Centres in the United States
Mapletree Industrial Trustto Acquire Remaining 60% Interest in 14 Data Centres in the United States

Mapletree Industrial Trustto Acquire Remaining 60% Interest in 14 Data Centres in the United States

June 23, 2020 Mapletree Redwood Data Centre Trust

SINGAPORE: DBS Trustee Limited, a trustee of Mapletree Industrial Trust (MIT), has entered into agreements for the proposed acquisition of the remaining 60% interest in the 14 data centres in the United States of America currently held by Mapletree Redwood Data Centre Trust (MRDCT) at a purchase...

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Read DC BLOX hires David Armistead as VP of Sales
DC BLOX hires David Armistead as VP of Sales

DC BLOX hires David Armistead as VP of Sales

May 05, 2020 DC BLOX

DC BLOX has announced that it has hired David Armistead as their new Vice President of Sales.Armistead has spent 25 years in the industry at other companies in the industry including C Spire and SunGard. Links: Press Release David Armistead Linkedin

Read Google Slows Hiring for Remainder of 2020
Google Slows Hiring for Remainder of 2020

Google Slows Hiring for Remainder of 2020

April 15, 2020 Google

Google has announced a significant slow down in new staff hires. Bloomberg published an email from CEO Sundar Pichai which details its plan to recalibrate hiring because of the economic slowdown. In 2019, Google hired 20,000 people and had planned to hire an additional 20,000 employees. The...

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Read QTS is planning to expand Richmond site in Henrico County
QTS is planning to expand Richmond site in Henrico County

QTS is planning to expand Richmond site in Henrico County

November 19, 2019 QTS Richmond I

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 million...

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Read Facebook will expand Henrico VA campus
Facebook will expand Henrico VA campus

Facebook will expand Henrico VA campus

September 26, 2019 Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook expects to break ground early next year on the second phase of its eastern Henrico County data center development, which will total more than 2 million square feet when completed late in 2020, the company said Wednesday.The company will construct three (3) new 450,000 square foot...

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Read Chirisa acquires Piscataway facility from Equinix
Chirisa acquires Piscataway facility from Equinix

Chirisa acquires Piscataway facility from Equinix

August 16, 2019 Chirisa Investments

Chirisa Investments announced it has closed on Piscataway New Jersey facility owned by Equinix. The facility formerly known as Equinix NY12 was previously acquired in May 2017 in a large 28 data center deal with Verizon. The facility is located at 201B Centennial Avenue in Piscataway NJ and is a...

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

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

March 13, 2019 QTS Richmond I

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,” the...

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Read Facebook Plans to Wholesale Its Fiber
Facebook Plans to Wholesale Its Fiber

Facebook Plans to Wholesale Its Fiber

March 06, 2019 Meta

Facebook plans to sell excess fiber on its owned long haul routes that interconnect Facebook data centers. As part of the plan, Facebook will allow local and regional network providers to acquire capacity. Fast Facts: Initially, Facebook is focused on the network connecting their data centers in...

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Read Google's Curie Cable System to Land at Equinix LA4 (PR)
Google's Curie Cable System to Land at Equinix LA4 (PR)

Google's Curie Cable System to Land at Equinix LA4 (PR)

February 07, 2019 Google

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that Google has selected Equinix for its Los Angeles area cable landing station (CLS) supporting the Curie subsea cable system, the first subsea cable to Chile in...

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Read Chesterfield County Data Center That Hosts the Virginia Information Technologies Agency Was Sold For $44 Million
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Chesterfield County Data Center That Hosts the Virginia Information Technologies Agency Was Sold For $44 Million

August 25, 2018 Virginia Information Technologies Agency

With work on one of the region’s largest data centers underway in Henrico County, a smaller facility on the southern end of metro Richmond has changed hands in an eight-figure deal. The two-story, 193,000-square-foot data center at 11751 Meadowville Road in Chesterfield County’s Meadowville...

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Read Iron Mountain completes it $1.3 billion acquisition of IO Data Centers
Iron Mountain completes it $1.3 billion acquisition of IO Data Centers

Iron Mountain completes it $1.3 billion acquisition of IO Data Centers

January 10, 2018 Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain Inc. completed its acquisition of the U.S. operations of Phoenix-based IO Data Centers LLC on Wednesday. Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM), the Boston-based storage and information management services company, bought IO for $1.34 billion. Iron Mountain announced the acquisition Dec. 11. The...

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