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PAIX and NSIA Technologies make a West African Joint Venture

PAIX Data Centres and NSIA Technologies have formed a joint venture to run carrier neutral data centers in two African countries. The pair will develop and operate two data centers in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire and Dakar, Senegal under the PAIX brand.The joint venture will acquire NSIA Technologie...

May 30, 2018

Eric Bell

PAIX Abidjan

Facebook and Luxcara sign 294MW Norwegian wind deal

Facebook and European asset manager Luxcara have entered into long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) for 100 percent of the output and environmental (green) attributes of three contiguous wind projects (Gravdal, Skinansfjellet and Eikeland-Steinsland) in southwest Norway. In addition, Face...

May 23, 2018

Eric Bell

Facebook Luleå

e-shelter Announces It Will Open Another Data Center Campus in Frankfurt in Early 2019 (PR)

FRANKFURT, Germany & TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--e-shelter, a leading data center provider in Europe and an NTT Communications Group Company, has today announced the acquisition of new development site in Frankfurt, which will be its 4th location in the city. The expansion comes on the back of...

March 21, 2018

Eric Bell

NTT Frankfurt 4

GI Partners Becomes Data Center Landlord for BT’s Trading Hub in New Jersey

GI Partners has bought a large New Jersey data center that houses tech platforms that facilitate capital markets trading by customers of BT Radianz, the financial tech services business of BT Americas, a division of British Telecom. BT has been the sole tenant in the 130,000-square foot buildi...

February 22, 2018

Eric Bell

BT Radianz: 492 River Road

Apple will build 2nd Chinese Data Center

Apple is expanding in China again. The company first announce a facility in Guizhou Province. Now, Apple has announced a second data center in mainland China. Apple decided to build facilities to store data behind the Great Firewall of China after the Chinese government passed strict data res...

February 06, 2018

Eric Bell

Apple Ulanqab City

CIM Group Acquires Datacenter in Toronto Area

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CIM Group, in partnership with fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (“1547”), today announced the acquisition of a 42,000-square-foot operating datacenter situated on 3.5 acres in Markham, ON which is part of the Greater Toronto Area. I.C.E Datacenters (Interconn...

January 23, 2018

Eric Bell

1547 Ontario TOON1

Globalinx Data Centers establishes carrier-neutral data center campus in Virginia Beach (PR)

Honolulu, HI and Virginia Beach, VA – Globalinx Data Centers, Virginia Beach’s first and only carrier-neutral cable landing and terrestrial meet-me-point for international connectivity to Europe, Africa and South America, announced today at PTC’18 a new, three-phased data center campus in clo...

January 22, 2018

Eric Bell

Globalinx Virginia Beach

Google buys plot near Apple's planned Danish data center

Google has acquired a 131 hectares of land in the Aabenraa Municipality of Denmark. “I am pleased and proud that Google has chosen Aabenraa Municipality. It confirms that we have the potential to become a data centre cluster for the world’s largest IT companies,” said Mayor Thomas Andresen. “W...

November 30, 2017

Eric Bell

Google Aabenraa (Prospective)

Involta opens 40,000 sq ft Armstrong County, Pennsylvania data center

US colocation company Involta has opened a 40,000 square foot (3,716 sq m) data center in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. Involta held an opening ceremony at the Northpointe data center that drew more than 200 business and community leaders, including local Republican member of the Pennsylvani...

October 13, 2017

Eric Bell

Ark: Pittsburgh Northpointe

NEXTDC launches Australia's first Uptime Institute Tier IV-Certified Constructed Facility (PR)

NEXTDC announced that its B2 Brisbane data centre is the first Australian data centre – and the first Asia Pacific colocation data centre – to receive Tier IV Certification of Constructed Facility (TCCF) from Uptime Institute, the world’s leading independent data centre advisory and certifica...

October 05, 2017

Eric Bell

NEXTDC Brisbane B2

Iron Mountain Buys Credit Suisse Data Centers in London and Singapore (PR)

Iron Mountain to acquire two Credit Suisse data centers in London and Singapore for approximately $100 million, which would add 273,000 square feet to its growing data center portfolio Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the global leader in storage and information management services, t...

October 05, 2017

Eric Bell

Iron Mountain London LON-1

Iron Mountain to FORETRUST Data Center in Denver (PR)

BOSTON - Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the storage and information management services company, has agreed to purchase MAG DATACENTERS, LLC, which operates FORTRUST, a private data center businesses for total consideration of approximately $128 million. The transaction would deliver ...

July 28, 2017

Eric Bell

Iron Mountain DEN-1

Switch Core Campus Opens LAS VEGAS 10 Data Center (PR)

LAS VEGAS – Switch, the global technology solutions corporation that is powering the future of the connected world™, today announced the opening of its LAS VEGAS 10 data center, a Switch MOD 250 (Modularly Optimized Design), at Switch’s Core Campus. The Switch MOD 250 is designed, constructe...

June 15, 2017

Eric Bell

Switch Las Vegas 10

Infomart Data Centers Purchases 100% Renewable Energy at Its Silicon Valley Facility

San Jose, CA – April 20, 2017 – Infomart Data Centers, a national wholesale data center provider, announces today that its Infomart Silicon Valley facility is purchasing 100% renewable power for all electricity consumption as of January 2017.Many leading companies have made public commitments...

April 21, 2017

Eric Bell

STACK Silicon Valley SVY01

Zenium Announces London Two (PR)

Stockley Park data center acquiredLondon, UK – 22 March 2017: Zenium has announced that it has completed the purchase of Infinity’s Stockley Park data center. The assets, employees and customers of the data centre have also transferred to Zenium as part of the agreed transaction. This will b...

March 17, 2017

Eric Bell

Infinity Data Centers

Interxion Buys Amsterdam Data Center from Dutch Service Provider Vancis

AMSTERDAM 27 February 2017 – Interxion Holding NV (NYSE: INXN), (“Interxion”), a leading European provider of carrier and cloud-neutral colocation data centre services, announced today that it has acquired a data centre business from Vancis Holding BV, a leading independent Dutch provider of colo...

February 28, 2017

Eric Bell

Digital Realty: AMS9

Equinix to Acquire ICT-Center Zurich's Data Center Business

ICT-Center's Zurich data center is located in the same building as Equinix's ZH2 & ZH4 datacenters.Source: Press Release Febuary 28, 2017.REDW...

February 28, 2017

Eric Bell

Equinix Zurich ZH2 ZH4

TierPoint Announces $20M Data Center Investment in Nashville

Nashville–TierPoint LLC announced that it is significantly increasing its capacity to serve the Nashville community through a new $20 million data center facility. TierPoint is partnering with Compass Data Centers on the project, which will more than double the data center space to approximat...

February 27, 2017

Eric Bell

Tierpoint Nashville NSH

H5 Data Centers Acquires Cleveland Data Center

Denver, CO - H5 Data Centers, a national colocation and wholesale data center provider, today announced it has acquired the Cleveland Technology Center in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. Located at 1625 Rockwell Avenue, the acquisition adds to H5's growing data center portfolio of nearly 1.5 millio...

January 26, 2017

Eric Bell

H5 Cleveland Technology Center (CTC)

GI Partners Acquires KOMO Plaza in Seattle, Washington

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 5, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- GI Partners ("GI"), a leading alternative asset manager, announced today it has acquired KOMO Plaza, a state-of-the-art carrier hotel and data center facility located at 100 and 140 Fourth Avenue North in Seattle, Washington for $276 million. The high...

January 06, 2017

Eric Bell

KOMO Plaza (was Fisher Plaza)

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