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Verne Global Secures $27M in Funding to Expand Icelandic Data Center Campus

London, UK, – Verne Global, a provider of advanced data center solutions for high performance computing (HPC), today announced a new round of funding of $27M to expand its Icelandic data center campus. All current investors – the Wellcome Trust, Novator Partners, Stefnir and General Catalyst ...

June 03, 2020

Eric Bell

Verne: Reykjanesbr Campus

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

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, Virg...

June 02, 2020

Eric Bell

Aligned Ashburn

CoreSite finishes the first phase of 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 purpo...

June 02, 2020

Eric Bell

CoreSite Chicago CH2

Bouygues selected to build VIRTUS's LONDON7 facility

Bouygues, the French contractor announced it has been selected by VIRTUS Data Centres to build its LONDON7 data centre, located in Stockley Park. Bouygues Energies & Services Contracting will be responsible for the design, build, electrical and mechanical services and commissioning of the...

May 27, 2020

Eric Bell

VIRTUS Stockley Park Campus

Facebook gets approval for a Tennessee 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 agre...

May 25, 2020

Eric Bell

Facebook Gallatin TN

QTS Ashburn-Shellhorn Construction on Fast-Track Program

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 Deve...

May 25, 2020

Eric Bell

QTS Ashburn-Shellhorn

Sabey adds Azure ExpressRoute to Quincy Campus

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

May 21, 2020

Eric Bell

Sabey Intergate.Quincy

STACK Acquires Land in Atlanta and plans to Expand Campus Capacity to 20 MW

Stack Infrastructure announced plans to expand its Alpharetta facility and more than double its digital infrastructure capacity to nearly 20 megawatts.STACK currently operates a 105,000 sqft, 7 MW data center on 12 acres at 3200 Webb Bridge Road. The company now plans to build a 2-story facili...

May 15, 2020

Eric Bell

STACK Atlanta ATL02

Teraco announces new 30 MW facility in Cape Town

South African data center operator Teraco is building a new data center, Cape Town 2 (CT2). Construction on the site commenced in early March 2020 and will continue in line with local COVID-19 restrictions with a targeted completion date of Q3 2021. The completed facility will comprise of eigh...

May 10, 2020

Eric Bell

Teraco Cape Town CT2

Flexential Announces it's third Facility in Portland

Flexential has announced it will build its largest data center yet in Portland metro. The facility will be 358,000 square feet, offering 36 megawatts of power on a 20-acre lot. Groundbreaking is scheduled for the summer of 2020. This new data center will connect to Flexential’s Portland-Hills...

May 07, 2020

Eric Bell

Flexential Portland - Hillsboro 3

Aptum sells fiber and transport business to Beanfield Metroconnect

Beanfield Metroconnect, a Canadian independent telecommunications infrastructure provider, has added to its bank account and its fiber network footprint. According to owners Digital Colony, the global digital infrastructure investment platform of Colony Capital, Inc. (NYSE: CLNY), Beanfield ha...

May 07, 2020

Eric Bell

eStruxture TOR-1

Compass enters new market in Canada with Etobicoke Data Center

Compass Datacenters acquired an existing building and land in Etobicoke, Ontario to build a campus. Etobicoke is just West of Toronto. Costing $100 million USD, the first phase, the initial data hall will support 10MW of critical IT load when construction is completed in Q3 of 2020. The data c...

May 05, 2020

Eric Bell

Compass Toronto Etobicoke

Amazon adds 112-acre lot adjacent to its New Albany campus

Amazon acquired a 112-acre lot adjacent to its New Albany campus. The lot is on the Northeastern corner of Beech Road Northwest and Jug Street. It's just to the north of its 68-acre New Albany campus.Amazon Data Services bought the new lot for $21.8 million on April 20. The $195,000-an-acre p...

May 04, 2020

Eric Bell

Amazon: 3180 Beech DC1

InterXion and Digital announce a Large Campus in Paris with a Futuristic Design

Interxion has announced a new Paris data center campus. The new campus is located in La Corneuve, a suburb 9km (5.6 miles) North of the center of Paris. The exterior design has a sharp futuristic design that has some elements of the new Apple campus in California. The Interxion Paris Digital P...

April 22, 2020

Eric Bell

Digital Realty: Paris Digital Park

Northern Data AG announces new 100 MW US customer

First US-based customer for new Texas HPC-site Customer will invest 30 million USD for CAPEX in the first phase Frankfurt am Main – April 20, 2020 – Northern Data AG (XETRA: NB2, ISIN: DE000A0SMU87), one of the world’s largest providers of high-performance computing (HPC) solutions, today an...

April 20, 2020

Eric Bell

Riot: Rockdale, TX

Landmark Dividend acquires eBay Paypal data center in Phoenix

Landmark Dividend, an owner and developer of real property interests and digital infrastructures, has purchased the Paypal data center campus in Phoenix. PayPal sold the asset for $122 million.Acquisition of the 184,000-square-foot, 16-megawatt (MW) enterprise data center campus adds to Landm...

April 15, 2020

Eric Bell

eBay Arizona

The Nexus Group, Inc. Purchases Digital Crossing Networks in 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 ...

April 15, 2020

Eric Bell

Nexus Group Knoxville

Digital Realty launches SIN12, a new 50 MW data centre in Singapore

Digital Realty has launched a new 50 MW data centre in Singapore. The new facility, Digital Loyang II (SIN12), is partially pre-leased to a major Singaporean multinational banking and financial services corporation, a global digital banking, fintech and sustainability company, and a leading gl...

April 10, 2020

Eric Bell

Digital Realty Singapore Loyang 2

Big Data Exchange (BDx) Acquires Telstra Data Center in Singapore

Big Data Exchange just got bigger. The carrier neutral, content-exchange company announced the completion of sale on a data center located in Paya Lebar, Singapore formerly owned by Telstra."Expanding into Singapore was our first choice outside of the greater China area and a strategic one on ...

April 09, 2020

Eric Bell

BDx Singapore SIN1

Vantage Acquires NGD, one of Largest Data Centres in Europe

Vantage has announced it is set to acquire Next Generation Data (NGD), one of the largest data centres in Europe. The NGD campus is in the Cardiff Capital Region in South Wales.The acquisition provides Vantage with one of Europe’s largest data center campus totaling 180MW, including an existin...

April 07, 2020

Eric Bell

Vantage Data Centers

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