June 17, 2021 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has announced in its third ESG report that half of its global data center portfolio is now powered by green energy. It did this by increasing the portfolio of its data centers being powered by renewable energy by 20% in 2020. Impressively, it also increased its energy consumption...
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June 16, 2021 OVH Group
OVHcloud has officially confirmed that it would be going public on the Euronext stock exchange. Although OVHcloud hasn’t confirmed the date, but it will happen before the year runs out. Also, it did not say how much it expects to raise through the IPO, but it said the founder’s family, Octave...
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June 15, 2021 Equinix
Equinix has announced that it has signed agreements for additional joint ventures with GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, which will add $3.9 billion to expand its data center program. The agreements come in the form of limited liability partnerships with GIC. The close, which is expected...
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June 10, 2021 Digital Realty Trust
According to a report from Bloomberg, Digital Realty is considering an Initial Public Offer (IPO) of a Singaporean trust that could raise between $300 million to $400 million. The report says Digital Realty is working with its advisers on the listing, and they are looking to conclude the IPO...
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June 07, 2021 Csquare
Evoque Data Center Solutions has announced partnerships with four Network Service Providers (NSPs). It looks to use the partnership to expand its vendor-neutral approach to offering state-of-the-art connectivity to its customers. The new NSPs include Bandwith IG, Everstream, United Private...
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June 04, 2021 QScale
Qscale, a new Canadian company, has announced plans to build at least three renewable energy-powered data centers in Quebec. The facilities will specialize in AI, and construction has already begun on the first campus in Levis, with an expected delivery of November 2022. The project, forecast to...
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June 02, 2021 Yondr Group
Yondr is planning to build two data centers in Slough, England. The Company recently applied to build the data centers at former Uxbridge Road Gas Works and the former Akzo Nobel paint factory. Plans for the data centers have been in the works since January 2021. If the applications were...
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May 27, 2021 Digital Realty 151 Front
Digital Realty has announced that it has opened its new YYZ12 data center in Toronto, Canada, while breaking ground on its Marseille facility. The new facility, located at 151 Front St (Toronto's carrier hotel), is DRT's third data center in the metro and will be fully interconnected with...
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May 20, 2021 Yondr Group
Yondr Group has announced a major $2 billion expansion plan to deliver data infrastructures spanning across the US, Canada, Central, and South America as part of its global scaling strategy. By 2024, the group plans to deliver data centers across five continents. Yondr Group has appointed Éanna...
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May 20, 2021 Digital Realty Trust
SAN FRANCISCO, May. 20, 2021 -- Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, announced today its Brazilian subsidiary, Stellar Participações Ltda., has completed the previously announced acquisition of Ascenty, the leading data...
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May 19, 2021 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE
Stack Infrastructure has announced that it would be running 100% on renewable energy by the end of 2021. The Company made the promise of running all its current and future data centers with 100% green energy while launching its new social responsibility program. The Chief strategy officer at...
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May 10, 2021 Equinix
Equinix has announced that it would not be renewing the leases for eight of its data centers in the US. The data centers are situated in New York, Georgia, and some in California and Atlanta. Equinix commented that the reason for the development is that some of the facilities don’t meet the...
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May 07, 2021 Stack: TOR01A
Stack has announced a partnership with First Gulf to develop a 56 MW campus in Toronto, Ontario. This campus will be Stack’s first international expansion, and it is at a strategic location- Toronto, the fourth largest city in North America. The CEO of Stack, Brian Cox, also described Toronto as...
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May 05, 2021 eStruxture
eStruxture just announced that it had secured over $600 million CDN in incremental equity from major financial institutions. eStruxture will use part of the sum secured to fund the acquisition of all Aptum’s Canadian data center business which was recently finalized. The funds will also help...
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May 04, 2021 Equinix
Equinix has announced that it priced $2.6 billion principal amount of notes, including $1.0 billion of green bonds in its third green bond offering. The green bonds will be used to help advance the company's longstanding commitment to sustainability leadership and reducing its environmental...
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April 28, 2021 EdgeConneX
EdgeConneX has announced that it will add almost 20MW of new capacity across six of its data centers in North America. The facilities that will benefit from this expansion are Seattle, Portland, Phoenix, Miami, Detroit, and Chicago. According to Phillip Marangella, Chief Marketing Officer at...
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March 30, 2021 eStruxture
eStruxture has announced that it will acquire Aptum's Canadian colocation business. With the addition of the new facilities (five in Toronto, two in Montreal and one in Vancouver), eStruxture will operate a total of 14 facilities across Canada, increasing its total footprint to over 600,000...
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March 23, 2021 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty recently said that it has expanded secure, private access to Google Cloud’s global network in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Vienna in Austria, and Dusseldorf in Germany. Digital Realty also announced that it had added its second direct interconnect to Google Cloud in Frankfurt. The direct...
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March 19, 2021 STACK INFRASTRUCTURE
STACK INFRASTRUCTURE has lined up another large round of financing. The Data Center operator has borrowed $400 million through the sale of securitized notes, the latest in four transactions that have raised $1.8 billion to build more data centers.Last September STACK raised $325 million in...
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March 16, 2021 eStruxture
MONTREAL – eStruxture, the largest Canadian-owned provider of network and cloud-neutral data center solutions, announces today the addition of Al Shulman as Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing. With more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunication and energy industries, Shulman...
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