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Microsoft buys 21 acres in San Jose for $78m

Microsoft has acquired 21.25 acres of underdeveloped land in San Jose for $78.7 million. The expanse of land is situated near the corner of Orchard Parkway and Component Drive. Microsoft purchased the land from LBA Realty which initially wanted to use the land to build villages of offices, hot...

May 05, 2021

Microsoft: Alviso Way Campus

Core Scientific Announces Expansion Into North Dakota

BELLEVUE, Wash., May 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Core Scientific (the "Company"), the leader in customizable infrastructure and software solutions for Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain, today announced that it has expanded its footprint with its agreement to develop its sixth mining and coloc...

May 05, 2021

Core Scientific: Grand Forks

AES to provide Google with 500 MW of Green Power in Northern Virginia

An agreement has been reached between AES and Google for AES to supply Google’s Northern Virginia data centers with renewable energy. The deal will see AES construct 500 MW of renewable energy and storage projects with a mix of wind, solar, hydro, and battery storage for Google’s data centers ...

May 04, 2021

Google Dulles Arcola Center

TA Realty planning $1.8 billion, 300MW data center campus in Loudoun County, Virginia

TA Realty has announced that it will be developing a new $1.8 billion secure data center in Loudoun County, VA. The initial buildings of the data center are expected to be ready by late 2021. Upon completion, the fully built-out campus will be over 1.5 million square feet. It will also have 30...

May 04, 2021

Northern Virginia

DataBank is Expanding its IND1 data center

DataBank has announced an expansion of its IND1 data center in Indiana. The company is a leading provider of enterprise-class colocation, connectivity, and managed services. Part of the expansion includes 6,500 square feet of raised floor space and an additional megawatt of power to meet the g...

April 30, 2021

Databank Indianapolis IND1

NTT launches "Earthquake Resistant" data center

NTT has announced the launch of its "Earthquake Resistant" data center in Silicon Valley, the first of its kind in the US market. The facility has a capacity of 16MW and uses a base isolation system, enabling seismic stability and ensuring 60% less motion than a non-isolated, fixed building. ...

April 29, 2021

NTT Silicon Valley SV1

Microsoft pays $3m to add 1.4 acres to its Atlanta campus

Tech giants Microsoft has bought 1.4 acres of land for $3 million to expand its planned Westside campus. The land is situated on Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway, in the Grove Park area close to Atlanta. This purchase is after Microsoft acquired 90 acres of land in February for its proposed Westsi...

April 29, 2021

Microsoft East Point

Vantage Data Centers Opens Second Data Center on its Northern Virginia Campus

Vantage Data Centers just announced that it has completed the first phase of VA12. VA12 is the second of the five planned facilities situated at its Northern Virginia campus. The completed first phase of VA12 will provide 16MW of critical IT capacity to enterprises, hyperscalers, and cloud pro...

April 28, 2021

Vantage Ashburn Campus

Aligned starts work on Chicago Hyperscale Data Center Campus

Aligned has announced that it has begun work on its latest hyperscale data center campus in Chicago, Illinois. The 48MW data center is the first to be constructed on the 18.5 acre campus and stands at 220,000 sqft. Once completed, the campus will offer 100+MW of capacity. The data center, ...

April 28, 2021

Aligned Chicago ORD-01

Apple officially opens data center in Guizhou China

According to reports, Apple has opened a new data center in Guizhou, China. The data center was jointly built by both Apple and Guizhou-Cloud Big Data Industry Co Ltd. The data center will offer iCloud services to its customers on the mainland of China. Asides from that, it is also expected th...

April 28, 2021

Apple Guizhou

Quintillion connects Polar Orbiting Satellites to Equinix SE2

Quintillion has announced plans to connect its new Arctic ground station to Equinix’s Seattle data center. It will extend its network via a subsea fiber network, where, in Seattle, it will connect to Equinix Fabric, a software-defined interconnection service. Located 72 degrees north, at Utqi...

April 26, 2021

Equinix Seattle SE2

Microsoft partners with defense company Leonardo to offer cloud services to Italian public sector

Microsoft is partnering with Leonardo, an Italian defense group, to provide Italy’s public sector and critical infrastructure providers with cloud services. The deal will see Leonardo offer cybersecurity services and act as a System integrator while Microsoft will provide a cloud platform and ...

April 26, 2021

Italy

Green Mountain Secures More Land for Data Center Expansion In Norway

Green Mountain has announced that it has secured 50,000 sqm (538,000 sq ft) of land in Norway in an option agreement with Haugaland Business Park. Located in Gismarvik in Tysvær municipality, the land will enable Green Mountain to begin constructing a fourth data center site as early as 2022.T...

April 23, 2021

Green Mountain Gismarvik

Serverfarm acquires El Segundo facility from T5

Serverfarm, supported by its partner NantWorks, has entered the Los Angeles data center market with the acquisition of a 12-megawatt, 117,500-square-foot data center in El Segundo, CA. T5 Data Centers was the selling party. T5 originally bought and developed the facility in 2011 for $30 millio...

April 20, 2021

Serverfarm LAX1

Cologix Acquires vXchnge's Santa Clara Facility

Cologix has announced it has acquired a silicon valley data center from vXchnge. The Santa Clara facility sits on 5 acres with a 84,000 sqft building. The building currently supports 9MW of critical load with the ability to expand to a total 19 MWs. The acquisition provides an instant entry in...

April 15, 2021

Cologix Santa Clara

NTT Opens SV1

NTT Ltd., has announced that its Global Data Centers Americas division has opened a new 16MW Silicon Valley Data Center called SV1. NTT Ltd. is a world-leading global technology services provider and this center marks the sixth U.S. data center campus and third data center opening in 2021. The...

April 13, 2021

NTT Silicon Valley SV1

Element Critical’s Chicago Data Centers secure $72M loan

Element Critical and parent company Safanad Inc. recently secured a $71.5 million loan to refinance their Chicago data center portfolio. The loan provided by Annaly Capital Management Inc. will go towards renovations for two data center facilities based in the Elk Grove Village area of Chicago...

April 12, 2021

Element Critical CH1

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres to Expand Its Flagship Defu Campus

Singapore, 8 April 2021 – ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) today announced the construction of STT Defu 3, its newest data centre facility in Singapore to date, the group’s eighth local facility and the latest addition to their flagship Defu data centre campus. STT Defu 3 will boast...

April 08, 2021

STT Singapore 3

DC BLOX Breaks Ground in Greenville SC

DC BLOX recently announced the construction of its new Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina data center. The data center is being built on 8.5 acres of land in the Global Business Park Interstate 85 and will be the first-of-its-kind multi-tenant data center in South Carolina. It will have an...

April 01, 2021

DC BLOX Greenville

Microsoft begins $140M data center in San Antonio

Plans are in place for Microsoft to build another data facility in San Antonio. According to a filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, the data facility will be 79,385 square feet in size. It will be constructed at the 15000 block of Lambda Drive at Texas Research Park to...

March 31, 2021

Microsoft Texas Research Park

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