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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

Colt announces a new data centre "Frankfurt West" to be completed by Q4 2020

First phase of delivery expected to complete in H4 2020 Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) today announced the expansion of its presence in Germany with its new Frankfurt West data centre. The strategic decision to expand comes alongside demand in the region from cloud service providers, but also...

June 12, 2019

Eric Bell

Colt Frankfurt West

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

Northern Bitcoin scales the Lefdal deployment

Starting signal for the scaling of sustainable mining activities 6 additional mobile mining containers commissioned in June More green sites worldwide to be started up shortly Frankfurt am Main, Germany / Lefdal, Norway – Northern Bitcoin AG (XETRA: NB2, ISIN: DE000A0SMU87) has begun the sca...

June 12, 2019

Eric Bell

Northern Data Lefdal

Apple Stops Construction at Kassø Facility in Aabenraa Denmark

Apple has canceled plans to construct a data center in Kassø, Denmark citing 'business decision.' Apple also plans to sell the land, with no intention to construct anything else on the property, a statement from the municipality reads. It's unknown how this will impact the planned Google data ...

June 11, 2019

Eric Bell

Apple Aabenraa Kassø (Construction Halted)

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

Ascenty Announced the Launch of a New Data Center in Paulínia

Ascenty has announced it has launched it's new 16 MVA data center in Paulínia outside of São Paulo.Ascenty will have 16 data centres in operation in Brazil by the end of the year, and now has 17 data centres in operation and construction, interconnected by 4,500 km of proprietary fibre optic ...

June 06, 2019

Eric Bell

Ascenty Paulinia

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

Kao Data deploys 100% renewable energy at London One campus

June 5th, 2019, London, United Kingdom, Kao Data, the home of innovation and UK’s leading entrant to the wholesale colocation data centre market, has announced it will operate using 100 percent renewable energy and be cost neutral to its customers. When the campus is operating at full load (4...

June 05, 2019

Eric Bell

Kao Data: Harlow

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

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 Campus

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

CyrusOne Helps Launch ODATA’s First Data Center in Colombia (PR)

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CyrusOne (NASDAQ: CONE), a premier global data center REIT, today announced that it has helped ODATA construct and launch the company’s first data center in Bogotá, Colombia. ODATA’s new data center, DC BG01, is the second ODATA data center, the first outside Brazil af...

May 28, 2019

Eric Bell

ODATA BG01

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

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

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

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