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IPI Partners buys Elk Grove Village suburban data center for $119M

IPI Partners bought an Elk Grove Village data center for $118.9 million, signaling continued investor interest in the growing industrial sector. T5 Data Centers sold the 208,000-square-foot, 10-megawatt facility at 1441 Touhy Avenue. It was built by Forsythe Technology, opened in 2015 and sold...

September 04, 2018

Eric Bell

STACK Chicago CHI01

Ficolo acquires Cybercom data center in Tampere

Ficolo has acquired Cybercom’s data center business in Tampere. Cybercom’s data centers will be transferred to Ficolo and additionally Cybercom outsources data center operations services to Ficolo. The transfer takes place on August 31st, 2018 and does not impact Cybercom’s data center custome...

August 29, 2018

Eric Bell

Verne: Tampere (The Deck)

Digital Realty opens new Sydney Data Center at Erskine Park

Digital Realty’s SYD11 data center at Erskine Park in Sydney is scheduled to open in the fourth quarter of 2018. To look at how the new facility reflects both the evolution of Digital Realty’s global design standards and Australia’s capacity for early adoption of data center innovation, DCD spoke...

August 26, 2018

Eric Bell

Digital Realty Erskine Park (Sydney)

Chesterfield County Data Center That Hosts the Virginia Information Technologies Agency Was Sold For $44 Million

With work on one of the region’s largest data centers underway in Henrico County, a smaller facility on the southern end of metro Richmond has changed hands in an eight-figure deal.The two-story, 193,000-square-foot data center at 11751 Meadowville Road in Chesterfield County’s Meadowville Te...

August 25, 2018

Eric Bell

Virginia Information Technologies Agency

Equinix Expands NAP of the Americas on the 5th Floor

Equinix has completed the first of two construction phases on the fifth floor of NAP of the Americas, Miami’s big data center and interconnection hub that serves as the biggest gateway the world’s data traffic travels through to reach markets in Latin America and the Caribbean.The phase, whic...

August 25, 2018

Eric Bell

NAP of the Americas - Equinix Miami MI1

Close to Chicago-Indiana NAP’s ‘Digital Crossroads’ development will first comprise a 105,000 square foot data center

Workers have broken ground on a $40 million data center in the city of Hammond, Indiana, on the 77-acre site of a former coal plant on Lake Michigan.Led by developers Tom Dakich and Peter Feldman from Indiana NAP, the Digital Crossroads project will comprise a 105,000 square foot (9,755 sq m)...

August 25, 2018

Eric Bell

Digital Crossroad (Indiana NAP)

Virginia Beach's new data center park expects to draw the likes of Snapchat, IBM and Uber

A Dutch company wants to create a new data center park to draw the likes of Snapchat, IBM and Uber.NxtVn will spend $1.5 billion to $2 billion to build a hub off General Booth Boulevard to attract companies that seek high-capacity connections from the U.S. to Europe.The company also plans...

August 25, 2018

Eric Bell

Virginia Beach

DigiPlex data center will help keep Oslo warm

Nordic data center operator DigiPlex has announced plans to recover waste thermal energy from its campus in Ulven, Oslo, and use it to heat residential properties.The company has agreed on a partnership with a subsidiary of utility provider Fortum, which has similar arrangements with data cen...

August 22, 2018

Eric Bell

STACK OSL01 Ulven

Sabey Data Centers to add 14MW in Washington

Intergate.Columbia is adding another data center building.Seattle-based wholesale colocation provider Sabey Data Centers has started work on a new facility at its Intergate.Columbia campus in East Wenatchee, Washington.Building D will span 140,000 square feet (13,000 sq m) across four ...

August 22, 2018

Eric Bell

Sabey Intergate.Columbia

EdgeConneX Announces Second Atlanta Data Center (PR)

Herndon, VA – EdgeConneX®, specializing in global data center solutions at the edge of the network, today announces the creation of an Edge Data Center® (EDC) campus in Atlanta, Georgia. The new EDC, ATL02, brings 15MW of additional critical power capacity to market. The Edge Campus will be ...

August 21, 2018

Eric Bell

EdgeConneX Atlanta Campus

Google plans $600M data center expansion in South Carolina

MONCKS CORNER, S.C. (AP) — Google plans a $600 million expansion of its data center in South Carolina. The Post and Courier of Charleston reports records regarding the expansion were filed with Berkeley County, which will consider a property tax break for the unit of California-based Alphabet ...

August 13, 2018

Eric Bell

Google Berkeley County South Carolina

Cologix Announces 3rd Vancouver Data Center to be Ready in Q2 2019

Cologix, a network-neutral interconnection, data center and cloud exchange company, announced today the development of its new VAN3 data center located at 2828 Natal Street, just a 20-minute drive from the heart of downtown Vancouver. VAN3 is expected to be completed in Q2 2019 and will deliver a...

July 25, 2018

Eric Bell

Cologix Vancouver VAN3

Colony Bank Chooses Colo Atl Data Center

Colo Atl, the leading provider of carrier-neutral colocation, data center and interconnection services at 55 Marietta Street in Atlanta, is proud to welcome Colony Bankcorp, Inc., a bank holding company headquartered in Fitzgerald, GA with twenty-seven offices located in central, southern and coa...

July 24, 2018

Eric Bell

American Tower: 55 Marietta

Facebook Migrates to Solar Energy for Oregon Data Centers

Facebook and Pacific Power said they are joining up to construct solar projects that will generate energy to offset what Facebook uses at its data centers in Prineville, Oregon.The solar projects, two near Prineville and four in Utah, expect to produce 437 megawatts of power when finished by...

July 19, 2018

Eric Bell

Facebook Prineville

MIX Peering PoP Established at Aruba’s Global Cloud Data Center

Aruba S.p.A. inked a deal with the Milan Internet eXchange (MIX) to see the addition of new interconnections with Aruba launching a point of presence (PoP) directly accessible from its Global Cloud Data Center – the largest data center campus in Italy – thanks to equipment linked to Milan via two...

July 19, 2018

Eric Bell

Aruba Global Cloud IT3

Keysource Expands ITPS Data Centre In Response to Azure and NHS Cloud Demand

Keysource has been brought in by managed IT services firm ITPS to upgrade and expand its colocation facility in County Durham, north east England. The need was driven by increased demand for ITPS’ services, following its selection by Microsoft as one of the early adopters of the Azure Stack roll-...

July 19, 2018

Eric Bell

ITPS Newcastle

Construction of data center prototype starts in Boden

After a few months of planning and preparatory works the European consortium broke ground and started the construction works of building the prototype of one of the worlds most efficient data center. The project funded by EU’s innovation and research programme Horizon 2020 kicked-off in October 2...

July 18, 2018

Eric Bell

Stockholm

VIRTUS Opens London’s Largest Colocation Campus

VIRTUS Data Centres (VIRTUS), the UK’s fastest growing data centre provider, has announced that its Stockley Park campus is now online, with the first pre-let customer to be live imminently. VIRTUS LONDON5 and LONDON6 are the first two data centres to open on the campus, delivering 40 MW of IT ca...

July 18, 2018

Eric Bell

VIRTUS Stockley Park Campus

H5 Data Centers Announces Acquisition of Intuit Inc. Data Center

H5 Data Centers, a national colocation and wholesale data center provider, today announced it has acquired from Intuit Inc. a 240,000 square-foot, purpose-built data center in Quincy, Washington. The acquisition expands H5 Data Centers’ national portfolio to 12 data centers and compliments its 30...

July 18, 2018

Eric Bell

H5 Quincy

Singapore Internet Exchange deploys to STT Tai Seng 1

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) today announced a partnership with Singapore Internet Exchange Ltd (SGIX) to augment Singapore’s Internet interconnectivity with the launch of a SGIX point of presence (PoP) in STT Tai Seng 1, a colocation facility hosting network service providers, digi...

July 17, 2018

Eric Bell

STT Singapore 5

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