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Read Facebook Announces Gallatin Data Center in Tennesse
Facebook Announces Gallatin Data Center in Tennesse

Facebook Announces Gallatin Data Center in Tennesse

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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Read Servpac opens MTP Facility in Hawaii (PR)
Servpac opens MTP Facility in Hawaii (PR)

Servpac opens MTP Facility in Hawaii (PR)

August 03, 2020 Servpac MTP Mililani Tech Park

MILILANI, Hawaii -- This week, Servpac Inc. announced the official opening of their MTP Data Center and has begun scheduling tours for interested parties. The state-of-the-art facility opens to meet growing demand for a reliable local data solution in a time plagued by uncertainty and enhanced...

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Read DataBank opens SLC5
DataBank opens SLC5

DataBank opens SLC5

July 22, 2020 DataBank SLC5

DataBank announced it has opened SLC5 in Salt Lake City. The facility is on the Granite Point campus in Bluffdale, UT. The large campus has room for one additional building, SLC6 which is currently in the design phase. DataBank's Press Release on July 22nd 2020: DataBank Announces Opening of...

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Read Facebook will build a new Data Center Campus in Illinois
Facebook will build a new Data Center Campus in Illinois

Facebook will build a new Data Center Campus in Illinois

July 02, 2020 Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook has announced that it will build a new data center campus in DeKalb Illinois The DeKalb Data Center facts: The campus is on 505 acres located on Route 23 and Gurler Road. The Facebook-owned land can accommodate five buildings, and two will be completed by 2022. The five buildings will be...

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Read DataBank Commissioned its Second Data Center in Pittsburgh
DataBank Commissioned its Second Data Center in Pittsburgh

DataBank Commissioned its Second Data Center in Pittsburgh

June 26, 2020 DataBank Pittsburgh PIT2

DataBank has opened its second Pittsburgh data center in North Fayette Township, which it acquired from PNC Bank in January 2019. The PIT2 facility, DataBank’s second in the Pittsburgh area, brings the company’s total data center count to 20 facilities in nine markets.

Read Equinix Launches DA11 Adjacent to the Infomart and a 5G Proof of Concept Center
Equinix Launches DA11 Adjacent to the Infomart and a 5G Proof of Concept Center

Equinix Launches DA11 Adjacent to the Infomart and a 5G Proof of Concept Center

June 24, 2020 Equinix Dallas DA11

Equinix has commissioned DA11, a $142m data center expansion nextdoor to the Infomart in Dallas. Equinix acquired the iconic carrier hotel in 2018 for $800m. Equinix also announced the launch of a 5G and Edge Proof of Concept Center (POCC) to provide a sandbox environment for Mobile Network...

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Read Sabey is adding 3.6 MW to Manhattan data center
Sabey is adding 3.6 MW to Manhattan data center

Sabey is adding 3.6 MW to Manhattan data center

June 18, 2020 Sabey Intergate.Manhattan

Sabey announced it was adding 3.6 megawatts to its Integrate.Manhattan facility. The construction will be completed by the end of the year.Intergate.Manhattan is Sabey Data Centers’ 1.1 million square foot building located in Lower Manhattan. It is a mixed used building with data...

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Read New Dark Fiber Provider, DF&I, Announced Investment from IPI (PR)
New Dark Fiber Provider, DF&I, Announced Investment from IPI (PR)

New Dark Fiber Provider, DF&I, Announced Investment from IPI (PR)

June 16, 2020 Northern Virginia

ASHBURN, Va., /PRNewswire/ -- Dark Fiber & Infrastructure, LLC ("DF&I" or the "Company") today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to receive a majority investment from IPI Partners, LLC ("IPI"). IPI's investment will be used to accelerate the growth of DF&I's footprint and...

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Read DRFortress will expand its Hawaiian data center
DRFortress will expand its Hawaiian data center

DRFortress will expand its Hawaiian data center

June 16, 2020 DRFortress Honolulu

DRFortress is expanding its Honolulu facility. The Hawaiian colocation firm will add 130 cabinets to its existing facility, creating a total of more than 600 cabinets for lease and a space of 55,000 square feet. Upon completion, DRFortress will expand on its role as the largest data center in...

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Read GIGA Data Centers Building New Colocation Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (PR)
GIGA Data Centers Building New Colocation Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (PR)

GIGA Data Centers Building New Colocation Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (PR)

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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Read QTS Creates the New Jersey Network Access Point (NJ NAP)
QTS Creates the New Jersey Network Access Point (NJ NAP)

QTS Creates the New Jersey Network Access Point (NJ NAP)

June 12, 2020 QTS Piscataway

QTS has announced that it is creating a new Internet Exchange Point (IXP) called the NJ NAP in their Piscataway facility. Baxtel is skeptical that the IXP will thrive unless it is extended into other carrier-neutral data centers in the greater New York region.

Read Facebook announces ninth data center in Prineville
Facebook announces ninth data center in Prineville

Facebook announces ninth data center in Prineville

June 11, 2020 Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook has announced their ninth data center on the Prineville, Oregon campus. The building will be 450,000 sqft and be completed in 2023. Rendering of the 9th data center accompanied the announcement

Read Northern Data AG provides an update on Texas data center (PR)
Northern Data AG provides an update on Texas data center (PR)

Northern Data AG provides an update on Texas data center (PR)

June 10, 2020 Crypto Mining Data Center

Initial commissioning successfully completed / Innovative cooling and proprietary AI systems are online and running well Area of 40 hectares / utilization of one gigawatt is now expected by the end of 2020 Expansion to 3.6 gigawatts planned by 2023 Frankfurt am Main – June 10, 2020 – Northern...

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Read STACK INFRASTRUCTURE Launches Construction on New Campus in Arizona
STACK INFRASTRUCTURE Launches Construction on New Campus in Arizona

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE Launches Construction on New Campus in Arizona

June 03, 2020 STACK: Phoenix 01 Campus

Stack Infrastructure, a company that develops data centers and digital infrastructure, acquired 79 acres just outside Phoenix, where it plans to develop up to 1 million square feet of data centers in the up-and-coming Southwest tech market. The Denver-based company bought land in Avondale,...

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Read Netrality Acquired INAP's Houston Data Center
Netrality Acquired INAP's Houston Data Center

Netrality Acquired INAP's Houston Data Center

June 03, 2020 1301 Fannin - Netrality Houston

Netrality has announced that the company has acquired the Internap Holding (“INAP”) data center in Houston. The facility is located in 1301 Fannin, Houston's carrier hotel. The deal seems to work for both sides. Netrality gets more colocation space to sell in their marquee building and INAP gets...

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Read Aligned Begins Construction on Second Hyperscale Data Center in Ashburn, VA (PR)
Aligned Begins Construction on Second Hyperscale Data Center in Ashburn, VA (PR)

Aligned Begins Construction on Second Hyperscale Data Center in Ashburn, VA (PR)

June 02, 2020 Aligned Ashburn

ASHBURN, VIRGINIA – JUNE 2, 2020 – Aligned, a leading data center provider offering innovative, sustainable and adaptable colocation and build-to-scale solutions for cloud, enterprise, and managed service providers, announces the expansion of its hyperscale data center campus in Ashburn,...

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Read CoreSite finishes the first phase of CH2
CoreSite finishes the first phase of CH2

CoreSite finishes the first phase of CH2

June 02, 2020 CoreSite Chicago CH2

CoreSite has announced it has completed the first phase of its second data center in Chicago. CoreSite has designed and built a 169,000 square foot facility with a total of 18 megawatts of capacity, known as “CH2,” in the heart of downtown Chicago. The CH2 data center is one of the first...

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Read Facebook gets approval for a Tennessee data center
Facebook gets approval for a Tennessee data center

Facebook gets approval for a Tennessee data center

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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Read QTS Ashburn-Shellhorn Construction on Fast-Track Program
QTS Ashburn-Shellhorn Construction on Fast-Track Program

QTS Ashburn-Shellhorn Construction on Fast-Track Program

May 25, 2020 QTS Ashburn-Shellhorn

QTS has announced that it is fast tracking 42MW in Ashburn. Their construction blog post is below: QTS Ashburn-Shellhorn, our newest greenfield data center campus in the Ashburn, VA market has gotten underway in a hurry - with construction five weeks in and well ahead of schedule. The QTS...

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Read Sabey adds Azure ExpressRoute to Quincy Campus
Sabey adds Azure ExpressRoute to Quincy Campus

Sabey adds Azure ExpressRoute to Quincy Campus

May 21, 2020 Sabey Intergate.Quincy

Sabey announced that it has added a Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute node to its Intergate.Quincy data center campus in central Washington, enabling Sabey’s customers to create private connections between their IT environment and Microsoft Azure and Office 365.Sabey Press Release on May 21st 2020

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