Data Center News

EdgeConneX Significantly Expands Denver Data Center

EdgeConneX Denver

Herndon, VA – June 21, 2018 –EdgeConneX®, specializing in global data center solutions at the edge of the network, today announces the formation of an Edge Data Center® (EDC) campus in Denver by adding an additional building supporting 21MW of available capacity.  In addition, Megaport, the l...

ROOT Data Center Announces Expansion of Its MTL-R2 Facility

Compass Montreal II

MONTRÉAL(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ROOT Data Center announces today the expansion of its Montréal-based MTL-R2 facility, adding an additional 6MW of power capacity to Canada’s largest wholesale / hyperscale data center.  The build of two new data halls is in response to the growing demand of major cl...

Immedion acquires Indiana-based Data Cave

DartPoints: Columbus, IN

Greenville, SC - Immedion LLC, a provider of IT infrastructure solutions including Cloud, colocation and managed IT services, today announced its further expansion in the Midwest region through the acquisition of a data center in Columbus, Indiana. Formerly operated by Data Cave, this 86,400-...

PAIX and NSIA Technologies make a West African Joint Venture

PAIX Abidjan

PAIX Data Centres and NSIA Technologies have formed a joint venture to run carrier neutral data centers in two African countries. The pair will develop and operate two data centers in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire and Dakar, Senegal under the PAIX brand.The joint venture will acquire NSIA Technologie...

Facebook and Luxcara sign 294MW Norwegian wind deal

Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook and European asset manager Luxcara have entered into long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) for 100 percent of the output and environmental (green) attributes of three contiguous wind projects (Gravdal, Skinansfjellet and Eikeland-Steinsland) in southwest Norway. In addition, Face...

CoreSite Realty buys colocation provider US Colo

US Colo

CoreSite Realty Corp. completed its acquisition of Los Angeles-based colocation provider U.S. Colo LLC for roughly $8.6 million, ending ongoing litigation between the parties. In its first-quarter earnings release, the data center real estate investment trust said the deal provides CoreSite wi...

Rackspace and Switch Partner to host Rackspace Private Cloud in Switch Facilities (PR)

Switch

Switch and Rackspace announced a new agreement to deliver Rackspace private cloud solutions and connectivity to managed public cloud solutions on AWS, Azure and Google in Switch’s highly secure and reliable Tier 5® Platinum data center PRIME locations. The agreement builds on Rackspace’s Fanat...

e-shelter Announces It Will Open Another Data Center Campus in Frankfurt in Early 2019 (PR)

NTT Frankfurt 4

FRANKFURT, Germany & TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--e-shelter, a leading data center provider in Europe and an NTT Communications Group Company, has today announced the acquisition of new development site in Frankfurt, which will be its 4th location in the city. The expansion comes on the back of...

GI Partners Becomes Data Center Landlord for BT’s Trading Hub in New Jersey

BT Radianz: 492 River Road

GI Partners has bought a large New Jersey data center that houses tech platforms that facilitate capital markets trading by customers of BT Radianz, the financial tech services business of BT Americas, a division of British Telecom. BT has been the sole tenant in the 130,000-square foot buildi...

Evocative Announces Acquisition of Cyberverse, Inc. and Expansion into the Los Angeles, Phoenix and Dallas Data Center Markets (PR)

Evocative

SAN JOSE, CALIF. (PRWEB) -- Evocative, LLC, a leading provider of secure compliant Internet infrastructure services, today announced that it has acquired Cyberverse, Inc., one of the pioneering companies in Internet services. Cyberverse was founded in 1994 by Greg Domeno and Jay Smith and over...

Apple will build 2nd Chinese Data Center

Hyperscale Data Center

Apple is expanding in China again. The company first announce a facility in Guizhou Province. Now, Apple has announced a second data center in mainland China.  Apple decided to build facilities to store data behind the Great Firewall of China after the Chinese government passed strict data res...

State of Washington Department of Commerce Uses Baxtel Data to Analyze Data Center Power Consumption

Washington State Department of Commerce's State of the Data Center Industry leverages Baxtel's data to analyze the effects of Data Centers on the power capacity in the state. Read the full Report here

INAP to Acquire SingleHop

HorizonIQ

Timing of this announcement coincides with top line turnaround progress for INAP standalone: 4Q 2017 revenue outlook up to $70M Strategic combination increases product differentiation through advanced automation  Expansion facilitates business and enterprise sales across INAP’s major markets ...

CIM Group Acquires Datacenter in Toronto Area

1547 Ontario TOON1

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CIM Group, in partnership with fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (“1547”), today announced the acquisition of a 42,000-square-foot operating datacenter situated on 3.5 acres in Markham, ON which is part of the Greater Toronto Area. I.C.E Datacenters (Interconn...

Globalinx Data Centers establishes carrier-neutral data center campus in Virginia Beach (PR)

Globalinx: Virginia Beach Phase 1

Honolulu, HI and Virginia Beach, VA – Globalinx Data Centers, Virginia Beach’s first and only carrier-neutral cable landing and terrestrial meet-me-point for international connectivity to Europe, Africa and South America, announced today at PTC’18 a new, three-phased data center campus in clo...

Iron Mountain completes it $1.3 billion acquisition of IO Data Centers

Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain Inc. completed its acquisition of the U.S. operations of Phoenix-based IO Data Centers LLC on Wednesday. Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM), the Boston-based storage and information management services company, bought IO for $1.34 billion. Iron Mountain announced the acquisition Dec. 11. ...

Google buys plot near Apple's planned Danish data center

Hyperscale Data Center

Google has acquired a 131 hectares of land in the Aabenraa Municipality of Denmark. “I am pleased and proud that Google has chosen Aabenraa Municipality. It confirms that we have the potential to become a data centre cluster for the world’s largest IT companies,” said Mayor Thomas Andresen. “W...

Involta opens 40,000 sq ft Armstrong County, Pennsylvania data center

Ark: Pittsburgh Northpointe

US colocation company Involta has opened a 40,000 square foot (3,716 sq m) data center in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. Involta held an opening ceremony at the Northpointe data center that drew more than 200 business and community leaders, including local Republican member of the Pennsylvani...

NEXTDC launches Australia's first Uptime Institute Tier IV-Certified Constructed Facility (PR)

NEXTDC: B2 Brisbane

NEXTDC announced that its B2 Brisbane data centre is the first Australian data centre – and the first Asia Pacific colocation data centre – to receive Tier IV Certification of Constructed Facility (TCCF) from Uptime Institute, the world’s leading independent data centre advisory and certifica...

Iron Mountain Buys Credit Suisse Data Centers in London and Singapore (PR)

Iron Mountain London LON-1

Iron Mountain to acquire two Credit Suisse data centers in London and Singapore for approximately $100 million, which would add 273,000 square feet to its growing data center portfolio Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the global leader in storage and information management services, t...