Data Center News

Colony Capital Rebrands as DigitalBridge, Sells non-digital Assets

DigitalBridge

Colony Capital announced that it has sold most of its non-digital assets to Fortress Investment group. It has also rebranded to DigitalBridge. This will see Colony Capital start using the Digital Bridge name after acquiring Digital Holdings in 2019. Asides from that, the Company will now focu...

Valterra Partners & 1547 CSR acquire Miami-based ColoHouse

1547 Critical Systems Realty (fifteenfortyseven)

Valterra Partners LLC and Fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty LLC have acquired ColoHouse, a managed service provider with headquarters in Miami, Florida. Valterra Partners is an equity firm, while Fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty is a data center Company. The deal also includes...

Facebook's Huntsville data center campus exceeds $1 billion

Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook's Huntsville data center campus will reportedly top $1 billion following ongoing expansion. This announcement comes after the social media giant's initial investment of $750 million back in 2018.Once completed, the facility will employ over 200 people, two times its expectation three ...

Real estate firm Hickory enters the data center arena, with plans for a 36MW facility in Melbo

Melbourne

Hickory, an Australian real estate development firm, has announced that it is entering the data center arena with plans to construct a 36MW facility in Truganina, west Melbourne, following development approval from Wyndham City Council.The data center will be built on a 3.5-hectare site and ha...

UK DWP signs £27 million contract extension with Ark Data Centers

Ark Data Centres (UK)

The UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has extended its contract with Ark Data Centers for £27 million ($38.1 million). The contract starts in June 2021 and would run till May 2026. Also, this deal will see DWP continue to occupy four 760kW dedicated data halls in Ark Data Center’s faci...

DigiPlex and CTS awarded the Data Center Construction Award 2021

DigiPlex Norway AS

DigiPlex, and one of its construction partners CTS have received the Data Center Construction Award at the Datacloud Global Awards 2021. The award recognizes excellence in data center construction and obstacles overcome during this.The two teamed up for a joint entry for the second and third ...

Maxihost expands footprint to Mexico City

Maxihost

Maxihost is partnering with KIO Networks, the leading provider of mission-critical IT infrastructures in Mexico and Central America, to launch a new Point of Presence for its platform in Mexico. The partnership will see Maxihost add a third location to its Latin America trail. Maxihost said t...

The FBI is looking for a vendor to manage its five data centers

Federal Bureau of Investigation

The FBI is looking for a vendor to help manage its major data centers across the United States. The data centers are located in Huntsville- Alabama, Pocatello- Idaho, Vienna- Virginia, Washington- DC, and Clarksburg- West Virginia. Also, the winning vendor will provide engineering and technica...

Blackstone to acquire QTS Realty Trust for $10 billion

QTS Data Centers

Blackstone Group Inc has reportedly entered into an agreement to purchase QTS Realty Trust Inc for a total of $6.7 billion.According to the WSJ, the group's infrastructure unit, Blackstone Infrastructure Partners, with BREIT, its non-traded real-estate investment trust, has agreed to pay $78 a...

Thrive expands data center footprint with acquisition of UK firm Oni

Thrive Luton

Thrive has jumpstarted its expansion with the acquisition of data center services provider Oni. Backed by private equity firm Court Square Capital Partners, the deal gives the fast-growing MSP a European data center footprint.Although the deal's financial terms have not yet been disclosed, thi...

MeluXina supercomputer inaugurated in Luxembourg

Luxembourg

Atos’s MeluXina supercomputer, first announced in September was inaugurated on June 7th, and will be hosted by LuxConnect’s data centers in Bissen. The MeluXina supercomputer The supercomputer is co-financed by the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking and ...

Beeline and Russian Railways sign digital services agreement

Beeline, a Russian mobile operator, has signed a deal to develop digital services with Russian Railways. The agreement will see Beeline and Russian Railways explore IT infrastructure development using Russian Railways’ data center infrastructure. In addition, the Companies look to improve the...

Evoque Data Center Solutions partners with four additional network service providers

Csquare

Evoque Data Center Solutions has announced partnerships with four Network Service Providers (NSPs). It looks to use the partnership to expand its vendor-neutral approach to offering state-of-the-art connectivity to its customers. The new NSPs include Bandwith IG, Everstream, United Private Ne...

QScale breaks ground on AI-focused data center in Levis, Quebec

QScale

Qscale, a new Canadian company, has announced plans to build at least three renewable energy-powered data centers in Quebec. The facilities will specialize in AI, and construction has already begun on the first campus in Levis, with an expected delivery of November 2022.The project, forecast t...

Tencent Launches Four New Data Centers in Asia and Europe

Tencent Cloud

Tencent Cloud has announced its expansion with the launch of four new data centers in Bangkok, Frankfurt, Hong Kong and Tokyo, with a view to launch an additional facility in Bahrain by the end of 2021. This follows the opening of new facilities in South Korea, Indonesia, Singapore. This expan...

Togo inaugurates its first data center

Togo

The Ministry of the Digital of Economy and Digital Transformation recently announced the inauguration of Togo’s first data center. A Tier III+ facility built by CFAOP Technologies will provide sensitive data hosting as a neutral colocation facility.The facility took two and a half years to bui...

Scala Data Centers acquires Algar Tech data center

Scala: Campinas SVCPCP01

Scala has announced its acquisition of Algar Tech’s data center and colocation operations in Capinas near São Paulo for $183 million. The company plans to modernize and expand the Tier III building and use it as a base for a new data center campus.Once the facility, which utilizes photovoltaic...

DCI to build data center in Auckland, New Zealand

DCI Auckland AKL01

DCI Data Centers has announced that it is expanding to New Zealand. The Company was recently granted New Zealand Overseas Investment Office consent to buy land for building a data center in Auckland, New Zealand. DCI didn’t reveal the timeline for building the facility, but it is said that co...

Google to migrate parts of YouTube to Google Cloud

Google

Google has decided to migrate some of its YouTube infrastructure to its own Google Cloud Service. Initially, many of Google’s key services like YouTube and its search engine are being hosted on internal infrastructure that isn’t Google Cloud Computing Service (GCP).Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google...

Plans for Harvard's old Motorola factory to become solar-powered data center

Illinois

The former Motorola manufacturing and distribution facility in Harvard, Illinois, may be given new life, with prospective planners looking into transforming the building into a solar-powered data center.Green Data Center Real Estate in Vancouver is reportedly working with Solar Alliance of Kno...