Data Center News

Google Slows Hiring for Remainder of 2020

Google has announced a significant slow down in new staff hires. Bloomberg published an email from CEO Sundar Pichai which details its plan to recalibrate hiring because of the economic slowdown. In 2019, Google hired 20,000 people and had planned to hire an additional 20,000 employees. The co...

April 15, 2020

Eric Bell

Google

The Nexus Group, Inc. Purchases Digital Crossing Networks in Knoxville

Knoxville, Tennessee, – The Nexus Group, Inc. (“Nexus”) announced today that it has purchased the operating assets of Digital Crossing Networks (“DCN”), East Tennessee’s most-established and reliable data center from its owners, Mr. Nadeem Siddiqi and Mr. Paul Sponcia. Nexus will continue to ...

April 15, 2020

Eric Bell

Nexus Group Knoxville

EdgeConneX Launches Multi-Cloud Access in Memphis

EdgeConneX continues to add cloud on-ramps in their facilities. Today they announced that Megaport and Comcast will be providing access to all the major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google, IBM, Oracle, Alibaba) from the Edgeconnex data center in Memphis. The Edgeconnex press release: MEMPHI...

June 19, 2019

Eric Bell

EdgeConneX Memphis

DC Blox wins MARTA as a customer in Chattanooga

DC Blox has announced that MARTA, the Atlanta regional public transport organization, will deploy to the DC Blox Chattanooga data center for disaster recovery purposes. The contracted deployment is for 100 kW of critical IT load. The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority ...

June 05, 2019

Eric Bell

DC BLOX Chattanooga

Google data center in Clarksville to get power from Yum Yum solar farm

The Yum Yum solar farm will be about 175 miles southeast of the Clarksville site. The solar farm is expected to produce about 150 megawatts of clean energy. A large solar farm in West Tennessee will provide carbon-free renewable power for tech giant Google’s data center in Clarksville. Chica...

February 15, 2019

Eric Advinci

Google Clarksville TN

Google's Curie Cable System to Land at Equinix LA4 (PR)

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that Google has selected Equinix for its Los Angeles area cable landing station (CLS) supporting the Curie subsea cable system, the first subsea cable to Ch...

February 07, 2019

Eric Bell

Google

TierPoint Announces $20M Data Center Investment in Nashville

Nashville–TierPoint LLC announced that it is significantly increasing its capacity to serve the Nashville community through a new $20 million data center facility. TierPoint is partnering with Compass Data Centers on the project, which will more than double the data center space to approximat...

February 27, 2017

Eric Bell

Tierpoint Nashville NSH

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