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Data Centre Developer Sues New Jersey Town for $300m

Data centre developer Hexa Builders is seeking $300 million in damages from Monroe Township, New Jersey, after officials rejected its proposed 1 million sq ft data centre in May. The lawsuit, filed...

Data centre developer Hexa Builders is seeking $300 million in damages from Monroe Township, New Jersey, after officials rejected its proposed 1 million sq ft data centre in May. The lawsuit, filed in New Jersey Superior Court, alleges the township council and planning board violated multiple constitutional rights, including zoning authority, fundamental fairness, and First and Fourteenth Amendment protections. Hexa argues the application was rejected because of the township’s opposition to d...

August 01, 2026

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Read Databank is Expanding their Granit Point Campus in Salt Lake City with SLC5
Databank is Expanding their Granit Point Campus in Salt Lake City with SLC5
May 01, 2019

Databank is Expanding their Granit Point Campus in Salt Lake City with SLC5

DataBank Bluffdale Granite Point Campus

Databank is expanding their Granit Point Campus with SLC 5. Adding 10 MWs, 90,000 gross sqft, and 50,000 sqft of raised floor.  Databank Press Release: Dallas, TX – April 30, 2019  – DataBank, a leading provider of enterprise-class data center, connectivity, managed services and cloud solution...

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Read DigiPlex Issues Largest-Ever Data Centre Bond in the Nordic High Yield Market of NOK 1.80 Billion (USD c.210 Million) to Gear up for Rapid Growth (PR)
DigiPlex Issues Largest-Ever Data Centre Bond in the Nordic High Yield Market of NOK 1.80 Billion (USD c.210 Million) to Gear up for Rapid Growth (PR)
April 30, 2019

DigiPlex Issues Largest-Ever Data Centre Bond in the Nordic High Yield Market of NOK 1.80 Billion (USD c.210 Million) to Gear up for Rapid Growth (PR)

DigiPlex Norway AS

OSLO, Norway, April 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- DigiPlex, the Nordic leader for innovative, sustainable and secure data centres, has successfully issued a NOK 1.80 billion senior secured bond to gear up for continued rapid growth. This bond will be one of the largest single issues in NOK to ever ...

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Read Apple is Reducing Spend on AWS
Apple is Reducing Spend on AWS
April 25, 2019

Apple is Reducing Spend on AWS

Apple

AppleInsider reports that Apple's spending on Amazon Web Services is declining. This makes sense, as Apple continues to build their own data centers, their reliance on 3rd party cloud services will decline. That said, Apple needs to work out a better "edge" CDN solution to deliver their conte...

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Read Rackspace Appoints Third CEO in Two Years
Rackspace Appoints Third CEO in Two Years
April 25, 2019

Rackspace Appoints Third CEO in Two Years

Rackspace

Managed Cloud Service Provider Rackspace has appointed Kevin M Jones as their new Chief Executive Officer. It's the company's third CEO in two years. Jones was CEO at MV Transportation, the largest private paratransit service in the United States. Before MV Transportation, he held positions...

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Read Digital Realty And Ascenty Are Building New Facility in Chile to Support a Multi-Megawatt Cloud Deployment (Press Release)
Digital Realty And Ascenty Are Building New Facility in Chile to Support a Multi-Megawatt Cloud Deployment (Press Release)
April 25, 2019

Digital Realty And Ascenty Are Building New Facility in Chile to Support a Multi-Megawatt Cloud Deployment (Press Release)

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, and Ascenty, a market leader in data center services in Latin America, announced today a long-term, multi-megawatt agreement with a leading global cloud provider to build a new facil...

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Read Equinix Acquires Switch Datacenter's AMS1 Facility in Amsterdam
Equinix Acquires Switch Datacenter's AMS1 Facility in Amsterdam
April 24, 2019

Equinix Acquires Switch Datacenter's AMS1 Facility in Amsterdam

Equinix AM11

Equinix has acquired Switch Datacenter's AMS1 facility in Amsterdam for $34 million. Here are the quick facts: The facility, located at Lemelerbergweg 28, will be renamed to AM11 and will be Equinix's 9th data center in Amsterdam.   The AM11 site is close to Equinix's existing southeast Am...

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Read Aligned Energy Announces New Strategic Investment by Macquarie Infrastructure Partners
Aligned Energy Announces New Strategic Investment by Macquarie Infrastructure Partners
April 23, 2019

Aligned Energy Announces New Strategic Investment by Macquarie Infrastructure Partners

Aligned

DALLAS, April 23, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Aligned Energy (the "Company"), a leading data center provider, today announced it has received a strategic investment from Macquarie Infrastructure Partners ("MIP"), which will support the Company's growth with significant additional capital. Aligned Ene...

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Read Taboola has Expanded with Internap in Los Angeles
Taboola has Expanded with Internap in Los Angeles
April 16, 2019

Taboola has Expanded with Internap in Los Angeles

Evocative Redondo LAX14

Internap (INAP) has announced that Taboola has expanded in their flagship data center in Redondo Beach (South of Los Angeles.) Taboola is known for its "Recommended For You" articles that appear at the bottom of news articles. The articles are actually advertisements that are made to appear as...

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Read e-shelter Acquired Land for 2nd Berlin Data Center
e-shelter Acquired Land for 2nd Berlin Data Center
April 16, 2019

e-shelter Acquired Land for 2nd Berlin Data Center

NTT Berlin 2 (Marienpark)

e-shelter announced today that it acquired land for its 2nd Berlin facility. This one will be big. When fully complete it will be 60,000 sqM (645,000 SqFt) and 90 MVA (72 Megawatts.) The site will sit on the South side of Berlin in an area called Marienpark, which is approximately 14 km fr...

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Read AngoNAP Fortaleza Data Center Opened (PR)
AngoNAP Fortaleza Data Center Opened (PR)
April 16, 2019

AngoNAP Fortaleza Data Center Opened (PR)

AngoNAP Fortaleza

Angola Cables announced the opening of its carrier neutral AngoNAP data center in Fortaleza, Brasil earlier today. The Tier III designed data center will cater for the growing demand in content data transmission in the Southern hemisphere.  The facility  is a primary interconnection point for ...

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Read Eugene Henegouwen is Appointed as President of EMEA for Equimix
Eugene Henegouwen is Appointed as President of EMEA for Equimix
April 15, 2019

Eugene Henegouwen is Appointed as President of EMEA for Equimix

Equinix

Equinix has appointed Eugene Bergen Henegouwen as the new President of EMEA. Eugene has been at Equinix since 2013. Since that that time, he has held the role of SVP of Sales in the EMEA region, overseeing the tripling of revenue in the region over the last 6 years.  Before joining Equinix, He...

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Read Hawaiki Cable Extends Network from Hillsboro to Westin Building in Seattle
Hawaiki Cable Extends Network from Hillsboro to Westin Building in Seattle
April 15, 2019

Hawaiki Cable Extends Network from Hillsboro to Westin Building in Seattle

Westin Building Seattle

Hawaiki Submarine Cable LP has extended its US presence from Hillsboro, OR to the Westin Building Exchange (WBX) carrier hotel and data center in Seattle, WA to support its clients’ capacity requirements between New Zealand, Australia, and the United States. Launched in July 2018, the Hawa...

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Read e-shelter Opens Their First Data Center in Amsterdam
e-shelter Opens Their First Data Center in Amsterdam
April 12, 2019

e-shelter Opens Their First Data Center in Amsterdam

NTT Amsterdam 1

e-shelter, a subsidiary of NTT, opened a data center in Amsterdam. This is the company's first foray into The Netherlands. The campus which is just South of the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport will eventually support 2 buildings and approximately 16,000 square meters and 40 MWs of critical IT load....

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Read CyrusOne Sells GDS Shares to Raise Approximately $200 Million of Proceeds (Press Release)
CyrusOne Sells GDS Shares to Raise Approximately $200 Million of Proceeds (Press Release)
April 12, 2019

CyrusOne Sells GDS Shares to Raise Approximately $200 Million of Proceeds (Press Release)

CyrusOne

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 12, 2019-- CyrusOne Inc. (NASDAQ: CONE), a premier global data center REIT, today announced that it has sold approximately 5.7 million American depository shares (“ADSs”) of GDS Holdings Limited (“GDS”) (NASDAQ: GDS) for a total purchase price of approximately $20...

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Read AirTrunk Closes $332 million in funding to build Singapore data centre
AirTrunk Closes $332 million in funding to build Singapore data centre
April 10, 2019

AirTrunk Closes $332 million in funding to build Singapore data centre

AirTrunk Singapore SGP1

AirTrunk has announces that it has received US$332 million (S$450 million) debt financing from three global financial institutions; Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, and Natixis. Additional equity capital was also raised from its founder and CEO, Robin Khuda, and shareholders, Goldman Sachs and TP...

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Read Amazon will Power Mulhuddart campus with 91.2 megawatt Wind farm in Donegal
Amazon will Power Mulhuddart campus with 91.2 megawatt Wind farm in Donegal
April 09, 2019

Amazon will Power Mulhuddart campus with 91.2 megawatt Wind farm in Donegal

Hyperscale Data Center

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it will invest in a the Donegal wind farm, a renewable energy project in Ireland. The 91.2 megawatt wind farm will be developed by Invis Energy and is expected to begin providing energy to AWS Data Centers in Ireland by the end of 2021.The Donegal wind farm ...

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Read 5G Networks acquires Melbourne Data Centre for 5.7 million
5G Networks acquires Melbourne Data Centre for 5.7 million
April 03, 2019

5G Networks acquires Melbourne Data Centre for 5.7 million

5G Networks (5GN)

Australian telecommunications carrier 5G Networks (ASX: 5GN) will add $3 million of annualised revenue to its books through the $5.7 million acquisition of Melbourne Data Centre (MDC). The investment will enable a strategic expansion of 5GN’s infrastructure footprint and strengthen its cur...

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Read DE-CIX and Datacenter One Partner to Offer DE-CIX in DC1's Sites
DE-CIX and Datacenter One Partner to Offer DE-CIX in DC1's Sites
April 01, 2019

DE-CIX and Datacenter One Partner to Offer DE-CIX in DC1's Sites

AtlasEdge: Leverkusen

DE-CIX and Datacenter One have formed a partnership to offer DE-CIX’s services in Datacenter One (DC1) sites in Germany. DC1's LEV1 facility in Leverkusen will be the first DC1 data center connected as part of the new partnership.  DE-CIX is one of the largest Internet Exchange operators in...

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Read Verizon is Expanding the Legacy Yahoo! Campus in Lockport NY
Verizon is Expanding the Legacy Yahoo! Campus in Lockport NY
March 31, 2019

Verizon is Expanding the Legacy Yahoo! Campus in Lockport NY

H5: Buffalo I

Verizon Media announced that it will build a $28 million data center expansion to the legacy Yahoo facility in Lockport NY.  If you include the server equipment Verizon Media is investing approximately $241 million. In January, Verizon announced it was jettisoning the Oath name and will rebran...

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Read NewCloud Networks Expands at H5 in Cleveland
NewCloud Networks Expands at H5 in Cleveland
March 29, 2019

NewCloud Networks Expands at H5 in Cleveland

H5 Cleveland Technology Center (CTC)

H5 has announced a customer expansion at its Cleveland Data Center.  NewCloud Networks, a Denver based cloud services provider, has chosen the H5 facility to expand its Cleveland presence.  The building, previously known as the Cleveland Technology Center, has changed hands a few times ov...

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