Global Data Center News

July 09, 2020

Element Critical promotes Wayne Dietrich to COO and hired Ed Grndhauser for head of Sales & Marketing

Element Critical

VIENNA, Va. /PRNewswire/ -- Element Critical, a leading provider of IT infrastructure with premium data centers in Silicon Valley, Chicago, and Northern Virginia today announces the promotion of Wayne Dietrich to Chief Operating Officer. With diverse management experience spanning over two dec...

July 08, 2020

Colony Capital and Vantage Data Centers to Form Strategic Partnership to Advance Data Center Growth

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage has announced that Colony Capital will invest $1.2 billion into Vantage. This is on top of the $800 million it raised in February 2020 and $692 million it raised in 2019. A massive war chest to fund Vantage's aggressive expansion into Europe. Earlier this year the company announced it ...

July 02, 2020

Facebook will build a new Data Center Campus in Illinois

Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook has announced that it will build a new data center campus in DeKalb Illinois The DeKalb Data Center facts: The campus is on 505 acres located on Route 23 and Gurler Road. The Facebook-owned land can accommodate five buildings, and two will be completed by 2022. The five buildings wil...

July 01, 2020

Interxion announces the opening of MRS3 in Marseille (PR)

Digital Realty: Marseille MRS3

PARIS – Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier- and cloud-neutral colocation data centre solutions and a Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR) company, announced today the opening of the first phase of MRS3, its third data centre in Marseille. The Marseille campus sits at the heart of the gl...

June 26, 2020

DataBank Commissioned its Second Data Center in Pittsburgh

DataBank Pittsburgh PIT2

DataBank has opened its second Pittsburgh data center in North Fayette Township, which it acquired from PNC Bank in January 2019. The PIT2 facility, DataBank’s second in the Pittsburgh area, brings the company’s total data center count to 20 facilities in nine markets.

June 24, 2020

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

Equinix Dallas DA11

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

Global Switch expands its European footprint as construction begins at its Amsterdam data centre campus

Global Switch: Amsterdam West

AMSTERDAM- Global Switch, a leading owner, operator and developer of large scale network dense, carrier and cloud neutral multi-tenanted data centres in Europe and Asia-Pacific has announced that in response to growing demand construction has started on the first stage of a new data centre in ...

June 23, 2020

Mapletree Industrial Trustto Acquire Remaining 60% Interest in 14 Data Centres in the United States

Mapletree Redwood Data Centre Trust

SINGAPORE: DBS Trustee Limited, a trustee of Mapletree Industrial Trust (MIT), has entered into agreements for the proposed acquisition of the remaining 60% interest in the 14 data centres in the United States of America currently held by Mapletree Redwood Data Centre Trust (MRDCT) at a purcha...

June 22, 2020

DCI Indonesia has opened JK3 in Jakarta

DCI Indonesia: H1-JK3

DCI Indonesia has announced that they have completed the company's third data center on the campus in Cibitung in West Java, Indonesia. The JK3 facility has seven floors with four data hall floors with the remaining floors for M&E equipment. Constructed in collaboration with Equinix, JK3 h...

June 21, 2020

MEEZA reveals its 4th Data Centre

Meeza

Doha, Qatar – June 21 2020 – MEEZA, Qatar’s pioneering Data Centre business, revealed the launch of its 4th state-of-the-art Data Centre in Doha, as the latest addition to its nationwide plans, to support Qatar’s digital transformation and smart future. The new data centre, M-VAULT 4, is part ...

June 18, 2020

Sabey is adding 3.6 MW to Manhattan data center

Sabey Intergate.Manhattan

Sabey announced it was adding 3.6 megawatts to its Integrate.Manhattan facility. The construction will be completed by the end of the year.Intergate.Manhattan is Sabey Data Centers’ 1.1 million square foot building located in Lower Manhattan. It is a mixed used building with data center/infr...

June 17, 2020

Digital Realty Breaks Ground on 1st Facility in South Korea

Digital Seoul 1 (ICN10)

Digital Realty has begun construction on its first facility in Seoul, South Korea. Digital Seoul 1, also know as ICN10, will be built on a 22,000 square foot land parcel within the Sangam Digital Media City in northwest area of the city.The new facility will have 12 megawatts of critical (IT) ...

June 16, 2020

Andy Stewart becomes Evoque's new CEO

Csquare

Evoque Data Center Solutions has appointed Andy Stewart as CEO, effective immediately. Stewart brings more than 15 years of senior management experience, including a decade of strategic development and execution, to Evoque. He previously served chief strategy officer at TierPoint, where he was...

June 16, 2020

DRFortress will expand its Hawaiian data center

DRFortress Honolulu

DRFortress is expanding its Honolulu facility. The Hawaiian colocation firm will add 130 cabinets to its existing facility, creating a total of more than 600 cabinets for lease and a space of 55,000 square feet. Upon completion, DRFortress will expand on its role as the largest data center in...

June 16, 2020

New Dark Fiber Provider, DF&I, Announced Investment from IPI (PR)

Northern Virginia

ASHBURN, Va., /PRNewswire/ -- Dark Fiber & Infrastructure, LLC ("DF&I" or the "Company") today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to receive a majority investment from IPI Partners, LLC ("IPI"). IPI's investment will be used to accelerate the growth of DF&I's footprint ...

June 15, 2020

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

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 i...

June 12, 2020

QTS Creates the New Jersey Network Access Point (NJ NAP)

QTS Piscataway

QTS has announced that it is creating a new Internet Exchange Point (IXP) called the NJ NAP in their Piscataway facility. Baxtel is skeptical that the IXP will thrive unless it is extended into other carrier-neutral data centers in the greater New York region.

June 11, 2020

Facebook announces ninth data center in Prineville

Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook has announced their ninth data center on the Prineville, Oregon campus. The building will be 450,000 sqft and be completed in 2023. Rendering of the 9th data center accompanied the announcement

June 10, 2020

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

Crypto Mining Data Center

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

Duocast add POP at QTS Eemshaven

QTS Eemshaven

QTS announced that Duocast, a Dutch internet service provider, has established a point of presence in QTS' Eemshaven data center. Duocast offers a portfolio of Internet and Ethernet services, IP Transit, IoT backbone and dedicated hosting servicesThe QTS Press Release - June 10th, 2020: New ...

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Data Centre Developer Sues New Jersey Town for $300m

Element Critical promotes Wayne Dietrich to COO and hired Ed Grndhauser for head of Sales & Marketing

Colony Capital and Vantage Data Centers to Form Strategic Partnership to Advance Data Center Growth

Facebook will build a new Data Center Campus in Illinois

Interxion announces the opening of MRS3 in Marseille (PR)

DataBank Commissioned its Second Data Center in Pittsburgh

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

Global Switch expands its European footprint as construction begins at its Amsterdam data centre campus