March 04, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
Tennessee Valley Authority has clinched a deal to partner with Origis Energy to build a 150 MW solar farm and a 50 MW battery energy storage system for Facebook. TVA and Origis Energy will build this project in Lowndes County, Mississippi which will support Facebook’s two data centers in the...
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August 13, 2020 Hyperscale Data Center
Facebook has formally announced its data center project in Gallatin Tennesse via a column Sheryl Sandberg wrote in the Tennessean. The social media company will build a 982,000 square foot facility with a total investment of $800 million. The 809-acre campus will be powered with 220MW of...
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June 15, 2020 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 its...
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May 25, 2020 Hyperscale Data Center
Facebook will purchase a $15 Million USD parcel of land for a 970,000 square foot data center campus in Gallatin, Tennessee. Facebook is using the shell company Woolhawk LLC as the acquiring entity. What we know: On May 19th the Gallatin City Council approved tax breaks and a development...
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May 05, 2020 DC BLOX
DC BLOX has announced that it has hired David Armistead as their new Vice President of Sales.Armistead has spent 25 years in the industry at other companies in the industry including C Spire and SunGard. Links: Press Release David Armistead Linkedin
April 15, 2020 Google
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...
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April 15, 2020 Nexus Group 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...
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June 19, 2019 EdgeConneX 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: MEMPHIS,...
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June 05, 2019 DC BLOX 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 (MARTA) Chooses DC...
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February 15, 2019 Hyperscale Data Center
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....
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February 07, 2019 Google
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 Chile in...
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February 27, 2017 Tierpoint Nashville NSH
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 approximately...
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