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Digital Realty opens new Docklands facility

The new 120,000 square foot facility is located in the London Docklands, a highly connected area of London. The new facility will be interconnected with Digtial Realty's Sovereign House with a redundant 3,400 metre 432-count fiber ring. DRT Press Release LONDON, Sept. 11, 2...

September 12, 2019

Eric Advinci

Digital Docklands: Cloud House

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

New York Internet (NYI)

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

Construction is started on the AWS Facility in Mulhaddart, Ireland

The Business Post reports that work has begun on the Amazon Mulhuddart data center campus. The project was known as "Project G" was originally approved in 2017, but was held up by environmental groups. The initial phase will be over 220,000 and is expected to be completed by mid-2021 at the ...

September 09, 2019

Eric Advinci

Amazon Dublin Mulhuddart Campus

Cologix opens 3rd Vancouver Data Center

Cologix launched its third data center in Vancouver. The company is the dominant provider in Vancouver, which is an underserved metro for colocation services. The Canadians city would benefit from more competition from colocation providers.The Cologix Press Release DENVER – Cologix, a netwo...

September 06, 2019

Eric Advinci

Cologix Vancouver VAN3

Leaseweb expands with maincubes at AMS01

maincubes landed a large deal with Leaseweb in Amsterdam. Leaseweb which has 20 locations across the world has a large presence in the legacy EvoSwitch facilities. (EvoSwitch was acquired by Iron Mountain in 2018.) The deal allows Leaseweb to further diversify their providers. maincubes Press ...

September 04, 2019

Eric Advinci

maincubes AMS01

Equinix Opens New Data Center in Seoul

Equinix opened a new data center in Seoul on August 30th 2019. The data center, SL1, is Equinix's first facility in Korea. South Korea has a high tech economy but has been neglected by the large international data center providers such as Digital Realty, Equinix, Cyxtera, and STT. Equinix's e...

August 30, 2019

Eric Advinci

Equinix Seoul SL1

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

Protacon sells is data center business to Ficolo

Ficolo and Protacon agreed on the sale and leaseback of Protacon’s data center business to Ficolo. The partnership allows Protacon to free up resources and take advantage of Ficolo’s value-adding services in their own service portfolio. The responsibilities of the partnership are clearly divi...

August 15, 2019

Eric Bell

Verne: Pori (The Rock)

eStruxture Acquires Calgary Data Center from Shaw Communications (PR)

eStruxture is expanding again and continues the trend of carrier colo sold to carrier-neutral operators. eStruxture claims this is the largest data center in calgary, but the jury is out. Rogers has a building in Airdrie just North of Calgary that is 85,000 sqft. eStuxture will also share the ...

August 01, 2019

Eric Bell

eStruxture Calgary CAL-1

Digital Realty To Enter South Korea (PR)

SAN FRANCISCO /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, announced today it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire land in Seoul, South Korea for the development of a new, carrier-neutral data cent...

July 30, 2019

Eric Bell

Digital Seoul 1 (ICN10)

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

Echelon gets final approval for massive Arkow data center project

The Irish Times reports that Echelon Data Centres has been granted planning permission for a 45,000sq m (484,000sq ft) data centre in the Avoca River Business Park in Arklow, Co Wicklow. Planning permission for the 100MW centre was originally granted by Wicklow Co Council in February, but wa...

July 19, 2019

Eric Bell

Echelon Arklow

Sparkle Selects the Djibouti Data Center as its IP Hub in Africa

TI Sparkle, the Telecom service provider based in Italy, has announced that it has moved its African IP hub into the Djibouti Data Center (DDC). Sparkle will use the facility as an IP hub for its expansion to East and South Africa.The Djibouti Data Center is a Tier 3, carrier-neutral data cent...

July 12, 2019

Eric Bell

Djibouti Data Center (DDC)

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

NTT Starts Construction on one of the Largest Data Centers in Indonesia (PR)

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international communications business within the NTT Group (TOKYO: 9432), announced today it would develop a new data center campus at Bekasi, Indonesia. The new campus will be known as “Indonesia Jakarta 3...

June 27, 2019

Eric Bell

NTT Jakarta 3 (JK3)

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)

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