February 21, 2024 Verizon Enterprise
Verizon has started construction of a new cell tower at Fort Bliss Army Post in El Paso, Texas. This tower will be constructed by Boldyn Networks and will provide connectivity to service military personnel in Texas and New Mexico. “Verizon supports our military partners through a number of...
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January 16, 2024 Aligned
Data center firm Aligned recently unveiled a new liquid cooling system designed to support high-density compute requirements and supercomputers and can cool densities up to 300kW per rack. This cooling system, called DataFlow is said to be a turnkey solution which supports current and future...
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January 09, 2024 EdgeConneX
Investment firm EQT’s Infrastructure VI fund has invested in EdgeConneX to build and operate purpose-built data centers for hyperscale customers around the world, expanding the company into new markets. Terms of this investment were not shared. However, EQT noted that this investment by EQT...
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December 15, 2023 Oracle
Oracle this week announced the launch of a new region in the city of Valparaíso, to the west of the capital, Santiago. This new region marks the company’s second cloud region in Chile. Joaquin Ma-Shichoy, managing director at Oracle Chile, said, "The arrival of the second Oracle Cloud Region in...
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December 15, 2023 Oracle
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has deployed its database services in the Microsoft Azure East US region's data centers, making it accessible to Microsoft customers. This new Oracle Database@Azure service covers all the abilities of the Oracle Database, alongside Azure services, such as the OpenAI...
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December 13, 2023 QTS Data Centers
The Prince William County staff have again recommended the denial of all three rezoning requests associated with the PW Digital Gateway data center project. This comes after two rejections of the rezoning requests by QTS and Compass in recent months. County staff said in a report, “At this point,...
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December 12, 2023 Oracle
Oracle founder and CTO Larry Ellison revealed this week that the company is planning to expand its data center footprint significantly in the near future. He mentioned that Oracle is in the process of expanding 66 of its existing cloud data centers and building 100 new cloud data centers. Ellison...
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December 11, 2023 Oracle
Oracle has announced the opening of an Oracle Cloud Region in Bogotá, Colombia, using a data center belonging to its partner, telecoms company Claro. The company mentioned that it is the first major cloud provider to establish a public cloud region in the country. Germán Borromei, managing...
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November 29, 2023 DataBank
DataBank has raised $533 million of capital to build new data centers through debt and equity. This brings the total funds raised by the company this year to $1.6 billion, with $715 million of secured notes issued in February and a $350 million credit facility announced later in March. DataBank...
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November 16, 2023 DataBank
DataBank announced it has acquired 85 acres of land in Culpeper, Virginia, to construct a new data center campus, which will host up to three two-story data centers offering 1.4 million square feet of space. The new facility will use DataBank’s recently announced Universal Data Hall Design...
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November 10, 2023 Lumen Technologies
The US Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Lumen Technologies a $110 million contract to provide mission-critical network services to the US Department of Defense (DoD). This contract has a timeline of five years, from November 30, 2023, through September 30, 2028. This contract is an...
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November 08, 2023 QTS Data Centers
US data center firm QTS recently purchased Dutch data center management and operations company Zentrys. QTS intends to bring Zentrys employees on board over the next year and integrate the newly purchased company with its technology and processes. Chad Williams, CEO of QTS, said, "We welcome...
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November 07, 2023 Flexential
Content Delivery Network (CDN), security, and Edge computing company Cloudflare has blamed its November 2 service disruption on a power failure at a Flexential data center in Hillsboro, Oregon. "On November 2 at 08:50 UTC, Portland General Electric (PGE), the utility company that services PDX-04,...
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November 01, 2023 DataBank
US colocation provider DataBank recently purchased 95 acres of land near Lithia Springs within a mile of the 18 acres where it is already building its ATL4 facility in Atlanta, Georgia. The newly acquired parcel can accommodate two multi-story data centers totaling 1 million gross square feet. It...
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October 25, 2023 QTS Data Centers
QTS has revealed plans to expand into New Albany, Ohio by developing new data center campuses covering over a million square feet and 200MW. These new campuses will be on Beech Road; two on one site, a 57-acre piece of property, and another two on a nearby 37-acre site and construction should...
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October 16, 2023 Lumen Technologies
Lumen announced that it’s Content Delivery Network (CDN) business will be shut down and it has sold its customer contracts to Akamai. Both companies will undergo a transition services agreement for 90 days before Lumen completes its shut down. "We are deep into our transformation of Lumen and...
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September 29, 2023 Unisys
Technology company Unisys Corp. revealed its plans to sell its 32-acre data center campus just outside Minneapolis, Minnesota, and relocate to an undetermined area in the Twin Cities. Shea Kolanowski, Unisys’ deputy chief administrative officer, told BizJournal, “We intend to relocate our...
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September 28, 2023 Aligned
On September 25, 2023, Aligned Data Centers announced the acquisition of a new brownfield land in Perkins Township., Northeast Ohio. The firm purchased the 129-acre parcel to construct a new four-building hyperscale data center campus. Aligned said its NEO-01 data center, the first of the four...
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September 22, 2023 DataBank
DigitalBridge Group recently revealed the completion of DataBank's recapitalization. The Group announced that DigitalBridge received an additional funding of $219 million, bringing the total costs of the recapitalization to $2.2 billion. This completed recapitalization will bring about a...
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September 22, 2023 QTS Data Centers
The South Carolina Office of the Governor confirmed that DC firm QTS will establish operations in York Country, marking the company’s entry into the state. This comes after news of a major data center project in York County dubbed ‘Project Cobra’ surfaced in June 2023. Gov. Henry McMaster...
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