Global Data Center News

August 13, 2018

Google plans $600M data center expansion in South Carolina

Hyperscale Data Center

MONCKS CORNER, S.C. (AP) — Google plans a $600 million expansion of its data center in South Carolina. The Post and Courier of Charleston reports records regarding the expansion were filed with Berkeley County, which will consider a property tax break for the unit of California-based Alphabet ...

July 28, 2018

DATA4 is now Fully Owned by Axa Investment Managers – Real Assets, Acting on Behalf of Axa France

DATA4 Group

Involved in the governance of DATA4 since 2012, AXA IM – Real Assets has supported the company in taking on the challenges of the digital transformation of companies and recognised the strong potential of the Internet infrastructure sector, two areas that are key to the digital economy. Establ...

July 25, 2018

Cologix Announces 3rd Vancouver Data Center to be Ready in Q2 2019

Cologix Vancouver VAN3

Cologix, a network-neutral interconnection, data center and cloud exchange company, announced today the development of its new VAN3 data center located at 2828 Natal Street, just a 20-minute drive from the heart of downtown Vancouver. VAN3 is expected to be completed in Q2 2019 and will deliver a...

July 24, 2018

Colony Bank Chooses Colo Atl Data Center

American Tower: 55 Marietta

Colo Atl, the leading provider of carrier-neutral colocation, data center and interconnection services at 55 Marietta Street in Atlanta, is proud to welcome Colony Bankcorp, Inc., a bank holding company headquartered in Fitzgerald, GA with twenty-seven offices located in central, southern and coa...

July 24, 2018

Digital Realty, IBM Expand Cloud Connections

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty, a global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions and an IBM Business Partner, announced today it will expand dedicated, private access to the IBM Cloud in 15 major metropolitan areas around the world. These on-ramps help ensure efficient and secure access...

July 19, 2018

Facebook Migrates to Solar Energy for Oregon Data Centers

Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook and Pacific Power said they are joining up to construct solar projects that will generate energy to offset what Facebook uses at its data centers in Prineville, Oregon. The solar projects, two near Prineville and four in Utah, expect to produce 437 megawatts of power when finished by the...

July 19, 2018

MIX Peering PoP Established at Aruba’s Global Cloud Data Center

Aruba Global Cloud IT3

Aruba S.p.A. inked a deal with the Milan Internet eXchange (MIX) to see the addition of new interconnections with Aruba launching a point of presence (PoP) directly accessible from its Global Cloud Data Center – the largest data center campus in Italy – thanks to equipment linked to Milan via two...

July 19, 2018

Keysource Expands ITPS Data Centre In Response to Azure and NHS Cloud Demand

Partnership House

Keysource has been brought in by managed IT services firm ITPS to upgrade and expand its colocation facility in County Durham, north east England. The need was driven by increased demand for ITPS’ services, following its selection by Microsoft as one of the early adopters of the Azure Stack roll-...

July 18, 2018

Construction of data center prototype starts in Boden

Stockholm

After a few months of planning and preparatory works the European consortium broke ground and started the construction works of building the prototype of one of the worlds most efficient data center. The project funded by EU’s innovation and research programme Horizon 2020 kicked-off in October 2...

July 18, 2018

VIRTUS Opens London’s Largest Colocation Campus

VIRTUS Stockley Park Campus

VIRTUS Data Centres (VIRTUS), the UK’s fastest growing data centre provider, has announced that its Stockley Park campus is now online, with the first pre-let customer to be live imminently. VIRTUS LONDON5 and LONDON6 are the first two data centres to open on the campus, delivering 40 MW of IT ca...

July 18, 2018

H5 Data Centers Announces Acquisition of Intuit Inc. Data Center

H5 Quincy

H5 Data Centers, a national colocation and wholesale data center provider, today announced it has acquired from Intuit Inc. a 240,000 square-foot, purpose-built data center in Quincy, Washington. The acquisition expands H5 Data Centers’ national portfolio to 12 data centers and compliments its 30...

July 17, 2018

Singapore Internet Exchange deploys to STT Tai Seng 1

STT Singapore 5

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) today announced a partnership with Singapore Internet Exchange Ltd (SGIX) to augment Singapore’s Internet interconnectivity with the launch of a SGIX point of presence (PoP) in STT Tai Seng 1, a colocation facility hosting network service providers, digi...

July 17, 2018

Light Edge Acquires OnRamp (PR)

LightEdge Solutions

DES MOINES, IA – LightEdge expands its geographical reach and redundancy and invests further into the company’s world-class compliant cloud solutions as it acquires Austin, Texas-based OnRamp. “LightEdge is thrilled to announce the expansion of our secure and compliant hosting and colocation ...

July 16, 2018

Cirrus Data Services plans 160MW campus in Salt Lake City

Cirrus DS View 78

SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Cirrus Data Services believes the Salt Lake City region can support hyperscale and wholesale data center colocation offerings and this week publicly announced the View 78 data center campus in Midvale; a suburb of Salt Lake City. The first phase includes a 32MW wholesal...

July 16, 2018

Orange acquires nordic provider Basefarm

Basefarm Holding AS

Major European telecom operator Orange has acquired Basefarm Holding AS, a Norwegian-founded cloud infrastructure and critical application services company, for €350 million. The deal has been made by Orange Business Services, the telco's enterprise subsidiary.

July 16, 2018

Hut 8 Completes Construction at Medicine Hat Facility Ahead of Schedule, 40 BlockBoxes Now Operational

Hut 8: Medicine Hat, Alberta

Operational capacity increases by 150% in the City of Medicine Hat to a total of 40 BlockBoxesTORONTO, July 16, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hut 8 Mining Corp. (“Hut 8” or the “Company”) (TSXV:HUT) (OTCQX:HUTMF), one of the world’s largest public cryptocurrency mining companies by operating capaci...

July 15, 2018

Flexential Adds 70,000 SqFt of Capacity at Alpharetta Data Center

Flexential Atlanta-Alpharetta

Flexential is expanding at their Alpharetta data center site. The new two-story data center will add 75,000 sqft to the existing 15,000 sqft site. The new site will host both retail and wholesale customers. Press Release: Flexential.com

July 13, 2018

Global Switch Expands European Footprint With Frankfurt Construction

Global Switch: Frankfurt South

Global Switch’s move further adds to the data centre ‘hotspot’ reputation of Frankfurt, and with the arrival of a new Chinese customer to Europe as part of the development currently going up, Global Switch says it’s keen to add to its sites to support further demand. Construction has started on G...

July 13, 2018

Fairfax County Approves CoreSite's 22-Acre Data Center Campus Expansion In Reston

CoreSite Reston VA3

CoreSite is closer to approval at Sunrise Technology Park, a 21-acre office park in Reston with four existing buildings slated for data center redevelopment. The Fairfax County Planning Commission approved the project by CoreSite Realty Corp. on June 28. The proposal is part of a move by CoreSite...

July 13, 2018

Sentinel buys Washington Dulles Gateway for $82.5m

JLL

Sentinel Data Centers is buying a 280-acre plot in Dulles, Loudoun County, for $82.5m. One of the largest available properties for data center development in the region, the site was marketed by real estate management company Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) on behalf of its majority owner, H. Christophe...

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DATA4 is now Fully Owned by Axa Investment Managers – Real Assets, Acting on Behalf of Axa France