South Central US Data Center News

Switch buys land from Dell for Austin data center campus

Switch has revealed the primary location of its Fifth Prime data center campus in Texas, following a purchase land agreement with Dell Technologies. The campus will be called "The Rock" and powered by 100% renewable energy.The land, located next to Dell's global headquarters in Round Rock, wil...

June 03, 2021

Switch Austin "The Rock"

QTS expands its connectivity ecosystem with Telia Carrier

Telia Carrier has announced that it has deployed its full suite of connectivity services in QTS' Piscataway, New Jersey and Irving, Texas data centers. Telia is also deployed to QTS Richmond, Chicago, Miami, Hillsboro, and Atlanta.The 'full suite' of network services includes DWDM, DDoS, IP Tr...

May 13, 2021

QTS Irving

Microsoft begins $140M data center in San Antonio

Plans are in place for Microsoft to build another data facility in San Antonio. According to a filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, the data facility will be 79,385 square feet in size. It will be constructed at the 15000 block of Lambda Drive at Texas Research Park to...

March 31, 2021

Microsoft Texas Research Park

Skybox sells Houston Facility to Element Critical

Element Critical has acquired Skybox's Houston One facility. Element Critical is the new owner, but Skybox will continue to operate the facility and handle wholesale leasing. Skybox and Element Critical jointly issued the press release below on March 16th 2021: Vienna, VA, — Element Critical, ...

March 16, 2021

Element Critical Houston One

Equinix Launches DA11 Adjacent to the Infomart and a 5G Proof of Concept Center

Equinix has commissioned DA11, a $142m data center expansion nextdoor to the Infomart in Dallas. Equinix acquired the iconic carrier hotel in 2018 for $800m. Equinix also announced the launch of a 5G and Edge Proof of Concept Center (POCC) to provide a sandbox environment for Mobile Network Op...

June 24, 2020

Equinix Dallas DA11

Northern Data AG provides an update on Texas data center (PR)

Initial commissioning successfully completed / Innovative cooling and proprietary AI systems are online and running well Area of 40 hectares / utilization of one gigawatt is now expected by the end of 2020 Expansion to 3.6 gigawatts planned by 2023 Frankfurt am Main – June 10, 2020 – Norther...

June 10, 2020

Riot: Rockdale, TX

Netrality Acquired INAP's Houston Data Center

Netrality has announced that the company has acquired the Internap Holding (“INAP”) data center in Houston. The facility is located in 1301 Fannin, Houston's carrier hotel. The deal seems to work for both sides. Netrality gets more colocation space to sell in their marquee building and INAP ge...

June 03, 2020

HorizonIQ

Northern Data AG announces new 100 MW US customer

First US-based customer for new Texas HPC-site Customer will invest 30 million USD for CAPEX in the first phase Frankfurt am Main – April 20, 2020 – Northern Data AG (XETRA: NB2, ISIN: DE000A0SMU87), one of the world’s largest providers of high-performance computing (HPC) solutions, today an...

April 20, 2020

Riot: Rockdale, TX

Northern Data to successfully merge with Whinstone US (PR)

The merger creates world’s leading blockchain infrastructure company High-Performance Computing Infrastructure in addition to blockchain for game streaming and AI Company to close strategic partnerships Frankfurt on the Main – February 10, 2020 – Northern Data AG (XETRA: NB2, ISIN: DE000A0SM...

February 10, 2020

Riot: Rockdale, TX

Compass Adds Second Campus in Dallas Metro

Compass Data Centers announced it acquired 225 acres in Red Oak, located Ellis County, South of Dallas TX metro. Construction has already begun with the first data center at the site, and it's slated for delivery in the second quarter later this year. The campus is located adjacent to Google's...

January 30, 2020

Compass Red Oak Campus

Cologix Adds 3rd Data Center Suite in the Dallas Infomart

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...

October 14, 2019

Cologix: Dallas DAL1

Data Foundry is expanding Houston 2 site

Data Foundry has announced that new data hall is under construction. The new space will offer 27,000 square feet of white floor space and 4MW of capacity. The Houston 2 campus sits above the 500-year floodplain and is rated for 185mph winds, making relativity safer if/when a another hurrica...

September 26, 2019

Switch: Houston 2

Aligned Energy Announces a 8 MW expansion in Dallas

Aligned Energy announced an 8 MW expansion of its Plano data center, located in Northwest Dallas. The expansion at the 19-acre campus, which at full build-out will support a 375,000 sq ft, 60 MW facility is in response to rising demand. Rendering of the Aligned Energy Dallas...

September 11, 2019

Aligned Plano

Carrier-1 Upgrades Capacity by 5 Megawatts

Carrier-1 has announced that it has upgraded the critical power to their Dallas site from 3.5 to 8.5 Megawatts. The facility is over 100,000 square feet and can ultimately support 10 MWs in the current phase.The Dallas facility can grow further. Phase II is 70% sold. Phase II and Phase IV ...

March 27, 2019

Evocative DA4

GI Partners Announces Data Center Acquisitions From NTT DATA

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – GI Partners, a leading private investment firm, continues its strategy of investing in the infrastructure of technology with the recent acquisition of two technology intensive properties from NTT DATA located in Plano, Texas and Quincy, Washington. The Plano property is an ...

January 29, 2019

NTT Data Quincy

STACK Plans New Data Center on the AllianceTexas Campus

A new data center company is teaming up with the developers of Fort Worth's huge AllianceTexas development to build a major data center campus in northern Tarrant County. Denver-based Stack Infrastructure and AllianceTexas developer Hillwood will build the 400-plus-acre tech project east of In...

January 18, 2019

STACK Fort Worth Alliance

H5 Data Centers Announces San Antonio Carrier Hotel Acquisition

Denver, CO - H5 Data Centers, a national colocation and wholesale data center provider, today announced it has acquired 100 Taylor Street, an 85,000 square-foot data center and carrier hotel in downtown San Antonio. The acquisition expands H5 Data Centers' national portfolio to Texas and now ...

November 28, 2018

H5 San Antonio - 100 Taylor

AT&T Data Center Fire in Richardson Texas Causes Internet Outage for North Texas Customers

Electrical fire at an AT&T data center in Richardson, Texas, caused the company’s customers in North Texas to lose internet connectivity and U-Verse TV services for several hours Monday, city officials said in a statement. The fire started in the facility’s power switch and “burned primary and...

October 26, 2018

AT&T Switching Station (Richardson)

Google plans $600 million expansion at Pryor Oklahoma data center

Google will spend $600 million to expand its data center near Pryor, the company announced Friday. The expansion will include a new four-story data center at the site that already employs more than 400 people and is the company's second-largest data center. “Oklahoma has proven to be an imp...

September 04, 2018

Google Mayes County Oklahoma

Data Foundry to expand Austin Campus by 325,000sqft

Data Foundry is expanding their massive Austin campus. Ready in Q3 2017. Data Foundry, a leading provider of premium colocation, network and managed services, today announced the construction of its third Austin data center, Texas 2. The first phase of construction will begin this quarter, ...

September 27, 2016

Switch: Texas 1

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