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Facebook Suspends Construction at Clonee, Ireland Data Center

Facebook is suspending construction at it's Clonee data center in Ireland due to concerns over the Covid-19 virus. Facebook's contractor, Mace, agreed to temporarily halt work at the site. Facebook had planned to double the size of the facility with two new buildings announced last year.Read ...

March 25, 2020

Facebook Clonee Ireland

Equinix opens its 4th facility in Singapore

Equinix invested an initial $74M into SG4, the company’s fourth International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Singapore. The first phase of the SG4 IBX has more than 45,400 SF of colocation space, with plans for 132,180 SF of colocation space at full build-out. Equinix Press Release: ...

March 24, 2020

Equinix Singapore SG4

NTT completes shell of 14 MW data center on Munich, Germany, campus

NTT has announced that it completed the shell of a second building on it's Munich 2 campus. The NTT Munich 2 (MUC2) data center will have 66,700 SqFt of IT space and 14 MW of total IT load. The new building is scheduled to go online in Q4 2020.Read more on NTT.com

March 20, 2020

NTT Munich 2

QTS acquires 100% Renewable Energy for its Groningen Data Center in the Netherlands

QTS Realty Trust (NYSE: QTS) has announced that it has signed agreements to purchase renewable energy via European Guarantees of Origin equal to the expected electricity needs of the company’s newly acquired data centre in Groningen, Netherlands. Under the agreement, QTS has purchased environm...

March 12, 2020

QTS Groningen

Equinix opens WA3 data center in Warsaw, Poland

Equinix has opened WA3, the company's third data center in Warsaw. WA3 opened on March 5th 2020 and reportely cost $34 million to construct. The first phase has 475 cabinets and more than 1,400 sq m (15,000 sq ft) of colocation space. Once the data center is fully built out, the facility will ...

March 05, 2020

Equinix WA3

DataBank Announces Partnership with Pittsburgh Internet Exchange (PR)

Dallas, Texas – DataBank, a leading provider of enterprise-class data center, connectivity and managed services, announces the Pittsburgh Internet Exchange (PIT-IX) is now available at its Pittsburgh data center (PIT1). Located in NOVA Place, in the newly updated Allegheny Technology Center M...

March 01, 2020

DataBank Pittsburgh PIT1

QTS Pre-leases 100% of Its Initial Development in Hillsboro OR

QTS has signed an anchor tenant for it's new Hillsboro campus. QTS has pre-leased the entire first phase (4.5 MW) to a global software-as-a-service provider. The Company expects to complete the first phase of development in Hillsboro by mid-2020 with additional power capacity available for cus...

February 18, 2020

QTS Hillsboro 1

Microsoft Plans New Grange Castle Data Center

Independent.ie reports that Microsoft is in discussions with the South Dublin County Council to acquire 20 more acres in the Grange Castle Business Park. The acquisition would lead to the expansion of the company's already massive data centre campus. The facility will have enough room for 120 ...

February 17, 2020

Microsoft Dublin Grange Castle

Digital Realty gains control of Seattle's Carrier Hotel, the Westin Building

Digital Realty will gain control of Seattle's Carrier Hotel, the Westin Building. Digital announced it will acquire an additional 49% stake in the Westin Building Exchange from Clise Properties. Digital already had a 49% stake in the project which it acquired in 2006. For more info please ref...

February 12, 2020

Westin Building Seattle

Big Data Exchange (BDx) Announces Construction of Nanjing Data Center (PR)

HONG KONG -- BDx announced the construction of its newest data center in Nanjing, China this week, set to launch June 2020. Including facilities currently being acquired, BDx will have eight data centers in cities across two continents, including Nanjing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Singapore and Lo...

February 10, 2020

BDx Nanjing

Northern Data to successfully merge with Whinstone US (PR)

The merger creates world’s leading blockchain infrastructure company High-Performance Computing Infrastructure in addition to blockchain for game streaming and AI Company to close strategic partnerships Frankfurt on the Main – February 10, 2020 – Northern Data AG (XETRA: NB2, ISIN: DE000A0SM...

February 10, 2020

Riot: Rockdale, TX

NTT Ltd. to Expand U.S. Data Center Footprint to Hillsboro, Oregon

NTT (formerly RagingWire) is building a new data center campus in Hillsboro, outside of Portland. Quick Facts: The first 6 MW will be available in mid-2020 and the 47-acre campus can be expanded to support five buildings with 144 MW and about 1 million square feet. RagingWire acquired the bui...

February 05, 2020

NTT Hilsboro HI1

365 Data Centers Acquires Commack, Long Island Data Center From mindSHIFT Technologies (PR)

mindSHIFT remains a managed IT infrastructure provider, continuing its commitment to local and national customers, and signs long-term colocation services agreement with 365. Norwalk, CT — 365 Data Centers, a leading provider of cloud, connectivity, and data center services for enterprise, ca...

February 04, 2020

365 Long Island LI1

Compass Adds Second Campus in Dallas Metro

Compass Data Centers announced it acquired 225 acres in Red Oak, located Ellis County, South of Dallas TX metro. Construction has already begun with the first data center at the site, and it's slated for delivery in the second quarter later this year. The campus is located adjacent to Google's...

January 30, 2020

Compass Red Oak Campus

Long Ridge Energy Terminal to Develop 300+ Megawatt Data Center Campus

HANNIBAL, OH (PRWEB) -- Long Ridge Energy Terminal, located on 1,600 acres in Hannibal, Ohio announced today its plans to develop a 125-acre data center campus in conjunction with its on-site 485 MW combined cycle power plant currently under construction. Situated between Columbus, Ohio and Pi...

January 29, 2020

DP Facilities: Hannibal

T5 adds a second facility in suburban Chicago

T5 Data Centers has acquired a data center in Elk Grove, on the West side of Chicago. The 164,000 sqft facility is located in the Elk Grove Technology Park and is the company's second facility in Elk Grove. T5's first Chicago area data center is 1.5 miles away at 1441 Touhy Ave The facility ...

January 21, 2020

T5 Chicago II

STACK is adding a second facility next to its existing San Jose data center

STACK has announced that it will build a second building on its Silicon Valley Campus. The planned 32 megawatt and 240,000 square foot data center will be served through PG&E’s Direct Access program. Data Center Frontier has a more in depth article detailing STACK's new build.

January 17, 2020

STACK Silicon Valley SVY01

Servpac Announces New Data Center and Disaster Recovery Office in Hawaii (PR)

HONOLULU, HI — Servpac Inc., Hawaii’s Largest Independent Telecom Provider, announces a new data center in Mililani Tech Park. Known as MTP, the new data center facility offers state-of-the-art colocation, disaster recovery, and other interconnection services available to new and existing cust...

January 17, 2020

Servpac MTP Mililani Tech Park

Prime Data Centers Launches 8MW Data Center at McClellan Park, Sacramento

SACRAMENTO, Calif./PRNewswire/ -- Prime Data Centers Corporation is announcing the immediate availability of an 8MW data center facility located within McClellan Business Park in Sacramento California, a Federal Qualified Opportunity Zone. This brand-new facility with ~70,000 SF of N+1 concur...

January 14, 2020

Prime Sacramento

Google is Planning the Biggest Solar + Storage Array

Google and NV Energy have agreed to power a new $600 million data center in Henderson, NV, through what they say is the world’s biggest battery-backed solar deal for a corporate customer. The agreement involves roughly 350 MW of solar photovoltaics and between 250 and 280 MW of battery storage...

January 09, 2020

Google Henderson NV

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