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Read Verizon expands in Colorado Springs
Verizon expands in Colorado Springs

Verizon expands in Colorado Springs

January 18, 2022 Verizon Enterprise

Verizon has announced that it is expanding its digital footprint with the addition of a second data center in Colorado Springs. The company has submitted a proposal for a 49,000 square-foot (4,500 sqm) data center on Arrowswest Drive in El Paso County, with plans for a potential second phase for...

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Read Skybox Datacenters finishes construction on Illinois data center
Skybox Datacenters finishes construction on Illinois data center

Skybox Datacenters finishes construction on Illinois data center

January 17, 2022 Skybox Datacenters

Construction on Skybox Datacenters's 189,000 sq ft (17,600 sq m) facility Elk Grove Village facility is complete, the company has announced. The project, first announced in March 2021, is the company's first outside of Texas and has a capacity of 30MW. Rob Morris, CEO of Skybox Datacenters, said...

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Read Stack Infrastructure is expanding into Japan with a 36MW campus
Stack Infrastructure is expanding into Japan with a 36MW campus

Stack Infrastructure is expanding into Japan with a 36MW campus

January 17, 2022 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure has revealed that it would be developing a 36MW data center campus in Japan. The facility will be located in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, just outside Tokyo. Stack Infrastructure will be partnering with funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management LP on the project. The company...

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Read AWS continues to expand its local zones
AWS continues to expand its local zones

AWS continues to expand its local zones

January 14, 2022 Amazon AWS

Ever-growing and expanding its reach, AWS has announced that local zones are now available in Atlanta, Phoenix, and Seattle. This expansion means that the giant now has 17 Edge locations in 16 US metros. Its zones now include Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Kansas City, Las...

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Read CloudHQ plans 4 million sq ft of data center buildings
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CloudHQ plans 4 million sq ft of data center buildings

January 13, 2022 CloudHQ

According to DgtlInfra, a firm with links to CloudHQ wants to develop a 4 million square feet data center on a 97-acre site in Virginia. The Loudoun County Planning & Zoning commission is looking to increase the approved data center use on the Dulles Berry project site in Ashburn to 4,050,000...

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Read Equinix pushes ahead with green energy deal
Equinix pushes ahead with green energy deal

Equinix pushes ahead with green energy deal

January 12, 2022 Equinix

Equinix has signed a green energy deal it has announced. By penning a 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Neoen and Prokon, Equinix will be provided with 85% of the energy produced by the 35MW Björkliden wind farm in the municipality of Närpes, in the western region of Ostrobothnia. This...

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Read Amazon data center in store for Desoto?
Amazon data center in store for Desoto?

Amazon data center in store for Desoto?

January 11, 2022 Amazon AWS

Reports are circulating about Amazon's recent purchase of a 9-acre development site on Hampton Road south of Interstate 20 in DeSoto, southern Dallas County. This latest land acquisition has got people talking about whether the giant is planning another data center, considering its recent and...

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Read Stack Infrastructure to develop a 216MW campus in Ashburn, Virginia
Stack Infrastructure to develop a 216MW campus in Ashburn, Virginia

Stack Infrastructure to develop a 216MW campus in Ashburn, Virginia

January 10, 2022 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure has revealed the development of a new 216MW data center campus in Ashburn, Virginia. The facility would be developed on an 80-acre site with three buildings with a combined space of 1 million square feet. The company revealed that the facility's first phase is scheduled to...

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Read Leeward repowers wind farm supplying Amazon with renewable energy
Leeward repowers wind farm supplying Amazon with renewable energy

Leeward repowers wind farm supplying Amazon with renewable energy

January 07, 2022 Amazon AWS

Leeward Renewable Energy LLC has announced that it has completed the repowering of its 54.4-MW Crescent Ridge wind farm in Illinois, which will provide Amazon with renewable energy. This process involved decommissioning nine turbines, installing Vestas turbines, and replacing 24 legacy turbines....

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Read Cologix recapitalizes with Stonepeak
Cologix recapitalizes with Stonepeak

Cologix recapitalizes with Stonepeak

January 07, 2022 Cologix

Investment firm Stonepeak has revealed that it has recapitalized Cologix. Stonepeak is an Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund, and it has decided to pull out its investment in Cologix. The agreement sees Stonepeak Infrastructure Fund II LP and its co-investors sell Cologix to vehicles managed by...

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Read Digital Realty acquires 55% of Teraco and enters South Africa
Digital Realty acquires 55% of Teraco and enters South Africa

Digital Realty acquires 55% of Teraco and enters South Africa

January 07, 2022 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has bought the majority stake in Teraco. The data center giant announced the acquisition of the South African data center company from a consortium of investors, including Permira and Berkshire Partners. The deal sees Teraco valued at about $3.5 billion. The transaction sees...

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Read AWS expands data center footprint in Indonesia with significant investment
AWS expands data center footprint in Indonesia with significant investment

AWS expands data center footprint in Indonesia with significant investment

January 05, 2022 Amazon AWS

Further to AWS announcing that it is establishing its AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region, reports are now circulating that the giant will be investing an estimated $5 billion (IDR$71 trillion) in Indonesia across the 15 years through the region.According to reports, this investment will cover...

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Read EdgeConneX strategically invests in China's Chayora
EdgeConneX strategically invests in China's Chayora

EdgeConneX strategically invests in China's Chayora

December 28, 2021 EdgeConneX

EdgeConneX has announced that it has made a strategic investment in Chinese data center company Chayora. The investment will see both EdgeConneX and Chayora offer data center services out of Chayora’s data centers in China. The firm will also expand on the existing data centers across Mainland...

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Read Hines Group acquires Digital Group's San Jose data center for $60m
Hines Group acquires Digital Group's San Jose data center for $60m

Hines Group acquires Digital Group's San Jose data center for $60m

December 23, 2021 150 S 1st

According to reports from BizJournal, The Hines Group has acquired Digital Realty’s data center in San Jose, California. The data center in question is a 179,800 square foot, two-story building at 150 S. First Street. The purchase price is said to be $59.6 million. The building sits on a 2.4-acre...

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Read Microsoft signs wind PPA with NTR
 Microsoft signs wind PPA with NTR

Microsoft signs wind PPA with NTR

December 17, 2021 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is teaming up with NTR to gain access to wind energy for Sweden. The corporate power purchase agreement (PPA) will see the energy firm provide Microsoft's Sweden Central Azure cloud region with power from its 86MW Norra Vedbo wind project, which consists of 20 Vestas V150 4.3MW...

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Read San Jose data center site to be transformed by big developer
San Jose data center site to be transformed by big developer

San Jose data center site to be transformed by big developer

December 17, 2021 Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it has sold its San Jose data center to developer Hines. Documents filed on December 15 with the Santa Clara County Recorder's Office outline that Hines paid just under $60 million ($59.6 million) for the complex. The building spans 179,800 sqft; meanwhile, the...

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Read Equinix partners with Nasdaq
Equinix partners with Nasdaq

Equinix partners with Nasdaq

December 16, 2021 Equinix

Equinix has formed a multi-year partnership with Nasdaq, Inc, which will help the company scale its NY11 data center in Carteret, New Jersey. This will also support the build-out of Nasdaq's cloud infrastructure. Tal Cohen, Executive Vice President, Head of North American Markets at Nasdaq, said...

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Read Vantage Data Centers breaks ground on two additional campuses
Vantage Data Centers breaks ground on two additional campuses

Vantage Data Centers breaks ground on two additional campuses

December 15, 2021 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has announced that it has broken ground on additional campuses in two of its existing strategic EMEA markets in both Frankfurt and Berlin. The Berlin campus will have 32MW of critical IT capacity and is due to be operational in the summer of 2022. Meanwhile, the Frankfurt...

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Read H5 Data Centers expands in Ohio through a data center acquisition
H5 Data Centers expands in Ohio through a data center acquisition

H5 Data Centers expands in Ohio through a data center acquisition

December 15, 2021 H5 Data Centers

H5 Data Centers has completed the acquisition of a data center at 925 Dalton Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. The 107,000 square feet (9,940 square meters) purpose-built data center was built to Tier III standards. It currently has a 2MW capacity, but it can be expanded to 6MW upon full buildout. H5...

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Read AWS: New Indonesian cloud region for Jakarta
AWS: New Indonesian cloud region for Jakarta

AWS: New Indonesian cloud region for Jakarta

December 15, 2021 Amazon AWS

AWS has announced the launch of a new cloud region in Jakarta, Indonesia, and has been created to support the 'fast-growing startup ecosystem, large Indonesian enterprises, and government agencies.' The region is now the tenth active in the Asia Pacific and mainland China after Beijing, Hong...

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