United States Data Center News

NYI expands to Chicago

New York Internet (NYI) is expanding to Chicago through a data center acquisition. NYI has acquired the data center business at 800 Jorie Boulevard in Oak Brook Illinois. The facility was previously operated by Navisite. More info in the press release below. NYI Press ReleaseNew York, NY – Sep...

September 12, 2019

Eric Advinci

NYI Chicago (Oak Brook)

Aligned Energy Announces a 8 MW expansion in Dallas

Aligned Energy announced an 8 MW expansion of its Plano data center, located in Northwest Dallas. The expansion at the 19-acre campus, which at full build-out will support a 375,000 sq ft, 60 MW facility is in response to rising demand. Rendering of the Aligned Energy Dallas...

September 11, 2019

Eric Advinci

Aligned Plano

365 acquires Bridgewater New Jersey Data Center from NYI

365 Data Centers announced it has acquired NYI's facility in Bridgewater New Jersey, which is 365's eleventh data center in the US. 365 Data Centers is privately held and the transaction was funded by adding a new equity investor, Turning Rock Partners.Subsequently, NYI used the proceeds to fu...

September 11, 2019

Eric Advinci

365 Bridgewater NJ

Chirisa acquires Piscataway facility from Equinix

Chirisa Investments announced it has closed on Piscataway New Jersey facility owned by Equinix. The facility formerly known as Equinix NY12 was previously acquired in May 2017 in a large 28 data center deal with Verizon. The facility is located at 201B Centennial Avenue in Piscataway NJ and is...

August 16, 2019

Eric Bell

Digital Fortress Piscataway

Google considers building a Kansas City data center in Northland

Google has tentative plans for a $600 million data center in the Northland. The initiative's code name is "Project Shale." The project was announced at a Port Authority's (Port KC) board meeting on July 22nd, where the board approved a resolution authorizing Port KC to issue bonds for the...

July 23, 2019

Eric Bell

Google: Kansas City

Compass Datacenters Begins Construction Of First Two Data Centers On Phoenix Campus (PR)

Compass Datacenters has begun construction of the first two data centers on its campus in the Phoenix suburb of Goodyear, Arizona. The two buildings will deliver a combined 72 MW of IT load, and construction is projected to be completed in Q4 2019. The master plan for the first series of build...

July 09, 2019

Eric Bell

Compass Phoenix

Google Breaks Ground on $600M Las Vegas Data Center

Google held a groundbreaking ceremony on July 1st for its new campus in Henderson Nevada, roughly 10 miles south of downtown Las Vegas. The initial building is a 750,000-square-foot and the search engine giant will invest $600 million in the project. According to Google’s application for t...

July 02, 2019

Eric Bell

Google Henderson NV

Switch Expanding Las Vegas CORE Campus

Switch held a groundbreaking ceremony that included Governor Steve Sisolak and CEO Rob Roy. The company is expanding near it's existing CORE campus in Las Vegas. The expansion will add up to 1.1 million square feet and 115 megawatts of power capacity to the existing campus. Read More: ReviewJ...

June 25, 2019

Eric Bell

Switch Las Vegas CORE Campus

STACK Infrastructure Will Expand Chicago Facility

STACK Infrastructure, a Denver based data center provider, announced that it is expanding its Elk Grove facility. The expansion will offer 20 megawatts of additional critical capacity, bringing the total capacity to 33 megawatts. “Chicago is one of a number of important and growing markets for...

June 21, 2019

Eric Bell

STACK Chicago CHI01

GIGA Data Centers Launches New Facility in Charlotte

GIGA Data Centers, LLC (GIGA) today announced the company officially opened its 165,800 square foot CLT-1 Data Center in Mooresville, NC.The facility, located in the former Dale Earnhardt racing building cost $20 million to construct. It's located at 1035 Mecklenburg Highway in Mooresville is ...

June 20, 2019

Eric Bell

GIGA Charlotte (Mooresville)

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

IX-Denver Extends to the H5 Denver Facility

IX-Denver has extended their peering fabric to H5 in Denver. The non-profit Internet Exchange (IXP) is now natively available at three locations in the Denver metro. * H5 Denver at 5350 S Valentia Way, Greenwood Village * 910 Telecom at 910 15th Street, Denver * Flexential Aurora at ...

June 12, 2019

Eric Bell

H5 Denver

Landmark Dividend Acquires Flexential Data Center (PR)

EL SEGUNDO, CA (June 12, 2019) – Landmark Dividend LLC (“Landmark”) today announced that it acquired the Flexential data center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in February 2019. The 64,000 square foot data center is fully occupied by Flexential, a leading data center services provider with 41 data...

June 12, 2019

Eric Bell

Flexential Fort Lauderdale

NewCloud Establishes New Node at H5 in Atlanta

H5 has announced a customer expansion at its Atlanta data center. NewCloud Networks, a Denver based cloud services provider, has chosen the H5 facility as a new market deployment. The announcement comes on the heals of NewCloud's expansion with H5 Cleveland back in March.Data Center sales of...

June 06, 2019

Eric Bell

H5 Atlanta

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

Microsoft buys Redmond Ridge data center property for $6.2 Million

The Puget Sound Business Journal Reports that Microsoft has acquired the property that holds its Redmond Ridge data center and offices. The report is below. Microsoft paid nearly $6.2 million to acquire the site of the company's data center in Redmond, King County property records show.The Red...

June 04, 2019

Eric Bell

Microsoft Redmond Ridge

H5 Data Centers Announces Phase Two Expansion at its Phoenix Data Center

Chandler, AZ-H5 Data Centers, a national colocation and wholesale data center provider, today announced a 25,000 SF expansion of its Phoenix colocation facility located at 2600 W. Germann Road in Chandler, AZ. The second phase development at the 180,000 square-foot data center adds needed inf...

May 30, 2019

Eric Bell

H5 Phoenix

Indiana Signs New Tax Exemption Law to Spur Data Center Construction

On June 27nd 2019 Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb signed into law the Indiana Data Center Sales Tax Exemption as an incentive to lure more data center construction to the state. The new legislation pushed by Digital Crossroads and other data centers in Indiana. The Data Center Gross Retail and U...

May 30, 2019

Eric Bell

Indiana

First Solar, Rocky Mountain Power to Build 122 MW Solar Facility to Support Facebook's Utah Data Center

The 122-MW Cove Mountain 2 solar plant will support the Facebook data center through a PPA with Rocky Mountain Power, a division of PacifiCorp and part of Berkshire Hathaway Energy. The facility will be built near the town of Enterprise in Iron County, Utah, and is scheduled to begin operation...

May 30, 2019

Eric Bell

Facebook Eagle Mountain Utah

Digital Realty Acquires 13-acre property in Ashburn

Washington Business Journal Reports that Digital Realty acquired a 13-acre property for $28 million. That puts the cost per acre at $2.14 million, which is a record in the region. The property was a former Airbus facility and is adjacent to the Equinix Ashburn Campus. Satel...

May 23, 2019

Eric Bell

21780 Filigree: Digital Realty

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