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Read Microsoft's next US data center region in Georgia’s Fulton and Douglas counties
Microsoft's next US data center region in Georgia’s Fulton and Douglas counties

Microsoft's next US data center region in Georgia’s Fulton and Douglas counties

February 11, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center

Responding to what it called “growing customer demand,” Microsoft recently announced its next US data center region. Named “East US 3,” it will have a presence in Georgia's Fulton and Douglas counties. The data center region will be accompanied by new office space stretching out to 90 acres....

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Read DC BLOX reportedly has the Remainder of Trinity Steel Campus Under Contract
DC BLOX reportedly has the Remainder of Trinity Steel Campus Under Contract

DC BLOX reportedly has the Remainder of Trinity Steel Campus Under Contract

October 15, 2020 DC BLOX Birmingham

The Birmingham Business Journal is reporting that DC BLOX has contracted to buy the remaining lot of the former Trinity Steel campus. The site will be built in phases. The first phase which was built in 2019 has 31,000 sqft and 5 megawatts (MW) of customer capacity.As customers are added, the...

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Read DC BLOX is Building a Data Center in Greenville
DC BLOX is Building a Data Center in Greenville

DC BLOX is Building a Data Center in Greenville

September 10, 2020 DC BLOX Greenville

DC BLOX has announced it is building a data center in Greenville, South Carolina. DC BLOX has focused on underserved tier 3 markets in the Southeast. Providing a high level of service in underserved markets has been a winning strategy. Greenville is no exception to this strategy.This will be DC...

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Read Facebook Announces Gallatin Data Center in Tennesse
Facebook Announces Gallatin Data Center in Tennesse

Facebook Announces Gallatin Data Center in Tennesse

August 13, 2020 Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook has formally announced its data center project in Gallatin Tennesse via a column Sheryl Sandberg wrote in the Tennessean. The social media company will build a 982,000 square foot facility with a total investment of $800 million. The 809-acre campus will be powered with 220MW of...

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Read GIGA Data Centers Building New Colocation Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (PR)
GIGA Data Centers Building New Colocation Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (PR)

GIGA Data Centers Building New Colocation Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (PR)

June 15, 2020 GIGA Oak Ridge, TN

Atlanta, GA — GIGA Data Centers, LLC (GIGA), a new breed of data center provider creating affordable, multi-tenant colocation facilities with unprecedented energy efficiency, today announced the company is building its newest Data Center in Oak Ridge, TN. GIGA secured unanimous approval of its...

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Read Facebook gets approval for a Tennessee data center
Facebook gets approval for a Tennessee data center

Facebook gets approval for a Tennessee data center

May 25, 2020 Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook will purchase a $15 Million USD parcel of land for a 970,000 square foot data center campus in Gallatin, Tennessee. Facebook is using the shell company Woolhawk LLC as the acquiring entity. What we know: On May 19th the Gallatin City Council approved tax breaks and a development...

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Read STACK Acquires Land in Atlanta and plans to Expand Campus Capacity to 20 MW
STACK Acquires Land in Atlanta and plans to Expand Campus Capacity to 20 MW

STACK Acquires Land in Atlanta and plans to Expand Campus Capacity to 20 MW

May 15, 2020 STACK Atlanta ATL02

Stack Infrastructure announced plans to expand its Alpharetta facility and more than double its digital infrastructure capacity to nearly 20 megawatts.STACK currently operates a 105,000 sqft, 7 MW data center on 12 acres at 3200 Webb Bridge Road. The company now plans to build a 2-story facility...

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Read The Nexus Group, Inc. Purchases Digital Crossing Networks in Knoxville
The Nexus Group, Inc. Purchases Digital Crossing Networks in Knoxville

The Nexus Group, Inc. Purchases Digital Crossing Networks in Knoxville

April 15, 2020 Nexus Group Knoxville

Knoxville, Tennessee, – The Nexus Group, Inc. (“Nexus”) announced today that it has purchased the operating assets of Digital Crossing Networks (“DCN”), East Tennessee’s most-established and reliable data center from its owners, Mr. Nadeem Siddiqi and Mr. Paul Sponcia. Nexus will continue to...

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Read Silicon Ranch to build 107 MW solar plant to power Facebook data center in Georgia
Silicon Ranch to build 107 MW solar plant to power Facebook data center in Georgia

Silicon Ranch to build 107 MW solar plant to power Facebook data center in Georgia

November 21, 2019 Hyperscale Data Center

Silicon Ranch has agreed to build a 107-megawatt solar project to power the Facebook data center in Newton County, Ga. Silicon Ranch, the U.S. solar platform for Shell and one of the largest independent solar power producers in the country, contracted with Walton Electric Membership Corporation...

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Read QTS will expand Atlanta-Metro Campus
QTS will expand Atlanta-Metro Campus

QTS will expand Atlanta-Metro Campus

November 04, 2019 QTS: Atlanta 1 Campus

QTS is expanding its Atlanta-Metro data center campus. The expansion will include the development of a new data center totaling more than 250,000 square feet of leasable capacity and 72 critical megawatts of incremental power capacity, adjacent to QTS’ existing mega data center. The Company...

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Read EdgeConneX Launches Multi-Cloud Access in Memphis
EdgeConneX Launches Multi-Cloud Access in Memphis

EdgeConneX Launches Multi-Cloud Access in Memphis

June 19, 2019 EdgeConneX Memphis

EdgeConneX continues to add cloud on-ramps in their facilities. Today they announced that Megaport and Comcast will be providing access to all the major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google, IBM, Oracle, Alibaba) from the Edgeconnex data center in Memphis. The Edgeconnex press release: MEMPHIS,...

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Read Landmark Dividend Acquires Flexential Data Center (PR)
Landmark Dividend Acquires Flexential Data Center (PR)

Landmark Dividend Acquires Flexential Data Center (PR)

June 12, 2019 Flexential Fort Lauderdale

EL SEGUNDO, CA (June 12, 2019) – Landmark Dividend LLC (“Landmark”) today announced that it acquired the Flexential data center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in February 2019. The 64,000 square foot data center is fully occupied by Flexential, a leading data center services provider with 41 data...

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Read NewCloud Establishes New Node at H5 in Atlanta
NewCloud Establishes New Node at H5 in Atlanta

NewCloud Establishes New Node at H5 in Atlanta

June 06, 2019 H5 Atlanta

H5 has announced a customer expansion at its Atlanta data center. NewCloud Networks, a Denver based cloud services provider, has chosen the H5 facility as a new market deployment. The announcement comes on the heals of NewCloud's expansion with H5 Cleveland back in March.Data Center sales often...

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Read DC Blox wins MARTA as a customer in Chattanooga
DC Blox wins MARTA as a customer in Chattanooga

DC Blox wins MARTA as a customer in Chattanooga

June 05, 2019 DC BLOX Chattanooga

DC Blox has announced that MARTA, the Atlanta regional public transport organization, will deploy to the DC Blox Chattanooga data center for disaster recovery purposes. The contracted deployment is for 100 kW of critical IT load. The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) Chooses DC...

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Read Flexential Announced the Completion of the Alpharetta 70,000 SqFt Expansion
Flexential Announced the Completion of the Alpharetta 70,000 SqFt Expansion

Flexential Announced the Completion of the Alpharetta 70,000 SqFt Expansion

May 15, 2019 Flexential Atlanta-Alpharetta

In a press release, Flexential announced the completion of the Alpharetta expansion. The expansion added 70,000 square feet of additional space.The company stated it is targeting FinTech with the data center and pointed to their current customer Delta Community Credit Union as an example...

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Read $25M HostDime's Eatonville Data Center & HQ Building Set to Begin Construction in June
$25M HostDime's Eatonville Data Center & HQ Building Set to Begin Construction in June

$25M HostDime's Eatonville Data Center & HQ Building Set to Begin Construction in June

March 25, 2019 HostDime Eatonville

Orlando Sentinel reports that HostDime's long delayed data center construction project is back on track. Construction will begin this summer and plans to open next year. Orlando Sentinel: After nearly three years of delays, HostDime said Monday it is set to begin construction this summer in...

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Read DataBank Opens their new ATL1 Facility with Georgia Institute of Technology as an Anchor Tenant
DataBank Opens their new ATL1 Facility with Georgia Institute of Technology as an Anchor Tenant

DataBank Opens their new ATL1 Facility with Georgia Institute of Technology as an Anchor Tenant

February 28, 2019 DataBank Atlanta ATL1

Atlanta, GA – February 25, 2019 – DataBank, a leading provider of enterprise-class data center, connectivity and managed services, announces the opening of its ATL1 data center in Atlanta. Located at 760 West Peachtree Street NW, ATL1 is part of the CODA development, a 645,000 square foot...

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Read Google data center in Clarksville to get power from Yum Yum solar farm
Google data center in Clarksville to get power from Yum Yum solar farm

Google data center in Clarksville to get power from Yum Yum solar farm

February 15, 2019 Hyperscale Data Center

The Yum Yum solar farm will be about 175 miles southeast of the Clarksville site. The solar farm is expected to produce about 150 megawatts of clean energy. A large solar farm in West Tennessee will provide carbon-free renewable power for tech giant Google’s data center in Clarksville....

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Read DC Blox is opening 10MW data center in Huntsville, Alabama
Atlanta-based cloud and colocation provider DC Blox is about to open a data center in Huntsville, Alabama.

The first phase of the project offers 9,000 square feet of white space and 3,600 square...

DC Blox is opening 10MW data center in Huntsville, Alabama

October 02, 2018 DC BLOX Huntsville

Atlanta-based cloud and colocation provider DC Blox is about to open a data center in Huntsville, Alabama. The first phase of the project offers 9,000 square feet of white space and 3,600 square feet of office space, including conference rooms, staging areas and workstations. The building is...

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Read Equinix Expands NAP of the Americas on the 5th Floor
Equinix has completed the first of two construction phases on the fifth floor of NAP of the Americas, Miami’s big data center and interconnection hub that serves as the biggest gateway the world’s ...

Equinix Expands NAP of the Americas on the 5th Floor

August 25, 2018 NAP of the Americas - Equinix Miami MI1

Equinix has completed the first of two construction phases on the fifth floor of NAP of the Americas, Miami’s big data center and interconnection hub that serves as the biggest gateway the world’s data traffic travels through to reach markets in Latin America and the Caribbean. The phase, which...

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