United States Data Center News

Compass Datacenters Begins Construction on 75 MW Data Center Campus in Northern Virginia (PR)

Dallas – Compass Datacenters is beginning construction of its first data center in Loudoun County, Virginia. The 6MW building is on Compass’ Loudoun campus, which is planned for 500,000 square feet and 75MW of critical IT capacity. “Northern Virginia is one of the most dynamic data center...

May 16, 2019

Eric Bell

Compass Loudoun County

Flexential Announced the Completion of the Alpharetta 70,000 SqFt Expansion

In a press release, Flexential announced the completion of the Alpharetta expansion. The expansion added 70,000 square feet of additional space.The company stated it is targeting FinTech with the data center and pointed to their current customer Delta Community Credit Union as an example finan...

May 15, 2019

Eric Bell

Flexential Atlanta-Alpharetta

Beeks Expands to Equinix NY5 facility

Beeks announced on its website that it is growing its portfolio of datacentre locations by deploying in the Equinix NY5 New York datacentre. In addition to this, Beeks has extended its current rackspace in Equinix LD4 by taking a third cage in the London datacentre. With presence in 11 to...

May 14, 2019

Eric Bell

Equinix New York Secaucus NY5

DXC Acquires New Jersey Data Centre Signing Colocation Deal With Credit Suisse (PR)

TYSONS, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC), the world’s leading independent, end-to-end IT services company, has expanded its presence in data center co-location services by signing a long-term 13-plus year managed co-location services agreement with Credit Suisse (USA), Inc. Con...

May 13, 2019

Eric Bell

Credit Suisse: Clifton

CoreSite Lands a Hyperscale Pre-lease at SV8

In April, CoreSite pre-leased approximately 108,000 net rentable square feet, or about two-thirds of its SV8 data center that is under construction, including phases 1 and 2. CoreSite expects to complete construction on phases I and 2 late in the third and fourth quarters of 2019, respectively...

May 13, 2019

Eric Bell

CoreSite Santa Clara Campus

Facebook Adding a Fifth Facility in Altoona

Facebook is building a fifth data center on their campus in Altoona Iowa. The company expect to invest $400 million to build a 1 million sqft H-shapped data center. Altoona City Council approved a deal that would make Facebook exempt from paying property taxes on the new building for 20 yea...

May 07, 2019

Eric Bell

Facebook Altoona Iowa

Databank is Expanding their Granit Point Campus in Salt Lake City with SLC5

Databank is expanding their Granit Point Campus with SLC 5. Adding 10 MWs, 90,000 gross sqft, and 50,000 sqft of raised floor. Databank Press Release: Dallas, TX – April 30, 2019 – DataBank, a leading provider of enterprise-class data center, connectivity, managed services and cloud solution...

May 01, 2019

Eric Bell

DataBank Bluffdale Granite Point Campus

Taboola has Expanded with Internap in Los Angeles

Internap (INAP) has announced that Taboola has expanded in their flagship data center in Redondo Beach (South of Los Angeles.) Taboola is known for its "Recommended For You" articles that appear at the bottom of news articles. The articles are actually advertisements that are made to appear as...

April 16, 2019

Eric Bell

Evocative Redondo LAX14

Hawaiki Cable Extends Network from Hillsboro to Westin Building in Seattle

Hawaiki Submarine Cable LP has extended its US presence from Hillsboro, OR to the Westin Building Exchange (WBX) carrier hotel and data center in Seattle, WA to support its clients’ capacity requirements between New Zealand, Australia, and the United States. Launched in July 2018, the Hawa...

April 15, 2019

Eric Bell

Westin Building Seattle

Verizon is Expanding the Legacy Yahoo! Campus in Lockport NY

Verizon Media announced that it will build a $28 million data center expansion to the legacy Yahoo facility in Lockport NY. If you include the server equipment Verizon Media is investing approximately $241 million. In January, Verizon announced it was jettisoning the Oath name and will rebran...

March 31, 2019

Eric Bell

H5: Buffalo I

NewCloud Networks Expands at H5 in Cleveland

H5 has announced a customer expansion at its Cleveland Data Center. NewCloud Networks, a Denver based cloud services provider, has chosen the H5 facility to expand its Cleveland presence. The building, previously known as the Cleveland Technology Center, has changed hands a few times ov...

March 29, 2019

Eric Bell

H5 Cleveland Technology Center (CTC)

Carrier-1 Upgrades Capacity by 5 Megawatts

Carrier-1 has announced that it has upgraded the critical power to their Dallas site from 3.5 to 8.5 Megawatts. The facility is over 100,000 square feet and can ultimately support 10 MWs in the current phase.The Dallas facility can grow further. Phase II is 70% sold. Phase II and Phase IV ...

March 27, 2019

Eric Bell

Evocative DA4

ISI Communications has moved its Core Network into New Continuum's Chicago Facility

New Continuum has persuaded ISI Communications to move its core network node into its facility. This is no easy feat. Certainly the fact that United IX is in the building helped to make the decision easier. The New Continuum Press Release: ISI Communications is leveraging New Continuum’s e...

March 26, 2019

Eric Bell

New Continuum: 603 Discovery

$25M HostDime's Eatonville Data Center & HQ Building Set to Begin Construction in June

Orlando Sentinel reports that HostDime's long delayed data center construction project is back on track. Construction will begin this summer and plans to open next year. Orlando Sentinel: After nearly three years of delays, HostDime said Monday it is set to begin construction this summer...

March 25, 2019

Eric Bell

HostDime Eatonville

L.A. Moving City Operations to State Data Center in $10.5M Deal

The city of Los Angeles is giving up on its 30-year-old legacy mainframe system and is contracting with the California Department of Technology to move its operations to the State Data Center in Sacramento. The city will pay the state $10.5 million for three years of service, with an option to...

March 21, 2019

Eric Bell

Dept of Technology Rancho Cordova

QTS files plans to expand Richmond campus in White Oak Technology Park

A development plan was filed in March by an entity tied to QTS Data Centers for new two single-story data center buildings totaling 710,500 square feet on county-owned land in Sandston’s White Oak Technology Park, near Interstates 64 and 295. Dubbed in planning documents as “Project Isaac,” th...

March 13, 2019

Eric Bell

QTS Richmond I

ScaleMatrix Open Its First Data Center in Seattle

ScaleMatrix has opened its newest data center, operated by Centeris, in the southern part of metro Seattle. The new facility is ScaleMatrix’s first expansion in the Pacific Northwest and will provide a plethora of services for potential enterprise clients. The New ScaleMatrix Sit...

March 08, 2019

Eric Bell

ScaleMatrix Seattle

Cavern Expanding KC Data Center by 40,000 SqFt

Cavern Technologies announced via Twitter that the company is building a 40,000 SqFt expansion at their Underground Kansas Facility. The data center, which is used by the Kansas City Chiefs, is one of the largest facilities in Kansas City. Cavern said the space will be available by June and it...

March 07, 2019

Eric Bell

Lightedge: Lenexa (Cavern)

Microsoft and EDP Renewables Execute a Wind Energy Agreement in Ohio

HOUSTON, and REDMOND, Wash. — March 7, 2019 — EDP Renewables SA (EDPR), through its fully owned subsidiary EDP Renewables North America LLC, and Microsoft Corp. have executed two 15-year power purchase agreements (PPA) totaling 125 megawatts (MW) that will bring the Timber Road IV Wind Farm t...

March 07, 2019

Eric Bell

Microsoft Chicago Northlake

DataBank Opens their new ATL1 Facility with Georgia Institute of Technology as an Anchor Tenant

Atlanta, GA – February 25, 2019 – DataBank, a leading provider of enterprise-class data center, connectivity and managed services, announces the opening of its ATL1 data center in Atlanta. Located at 760 West Peachtree Street NW, ATL1 is part of the CODA development, a 645,000 square foot ...

February 28, 2019

Eric Bell

DataBank Atlanta ATL1

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