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Telxius Opens Purpose-Built Infrastructure in EMEA: Derio Communications Hub (PR)

Leverages the Full Potential of Subsea Cable MAREA Unlocking Opportunities for Global Organizations Madrid, 29 October 2019. Telxius, the communications infrastructure company of the Telefonica Group, has announced today the launch of its purpose-built, interconnection-rich, Derio communicat...

October 29, 2019

Telxius Derio Communications Hub

Ascenty opens its 14th data center in Brazil and largest in Latin America

Ascenty, the leading data center company focused on the Latin American market, opened the largest data center in Latin America in the town of Vinhedo, Brazil. The audacious project cost BRL 500 million for its first phase of construction, and features 40,000 sqm in total area and 40 MVA power ...

October 21, 2019

Ascenty Vinhedo 1

STACK Acquires Nationwide Insurance Facility and Expands to Ohio

STACK Infrastructure continues to expand its footprint. Stack acquired Nationwide Insurance's facility in New Albany, Ohio. The transaction is the third expansion for the company since raising $850 million in February 2019. STACK Press Release: DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--STACK INFRASTRUCTURE ...

October 16, 2019

STACK New Albany NAL01

Cologix Adds 3rd Data Center Suite in the Dallas Infomart

Cologix, has added a third data center suite in the Dallas Infomart carrier hotel. The new, state-of-the-art DAL3 data center will come online Q1 2020. The latest 13,000 SQF expansion will support the demands of enterprise customers and cloud service providers. "Our new interconnection hub wil...

October 14, 2019

Cologix: Dallas DAL1

KCP&L and Westar Energy are now Evergy

KANSAS CITY, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Local energy providers, Westar Energy and KCP&L are now serving customers as Evergy, the name of the holding company established when the companies merged last year. “This is an exciting time for our company,” Terry Bassham, president and chief executive ...

October 07, 2019

Kansas City

Cologix expands Montreal MTL10-H facility by additional 15 MW

Cologix announced today that it has expanded its Longueuil Campus, located Northeast of Montreal in Quebec. The expansion was initiated by Colo-D in October 2018. Colo-D was acquired by Cologix two months later in December. Previously known as Colo-D2, the facility is now known as MTL10-H. T...

October 03, 2019

Cologix MTL10-S

Databank acquired Lightbound and enters Indianapolis

DataBank has closed its acquisition of Indianapolis-based colocation, Internet, voice, network and cloud services provider, LightBound. The transaction adds of two facilities with over 56,000 gross square feet of colocation space and 9.5MW of installed UPS. LightBound’s data centers are locat...

October 01, 2019

Databank Indianapolis IND1

MC Digital Realty acquires more land in Tokyo to build a 120 MW Campus

MC Digital Realty, a joint venture between Mitsubishi Corporation and Digital Realty Trust, has signed an agreement to acquire an additional plot of land in Tokyo. MC Digital Realty expects to close on the acquisition in the first quarter of 2020. The location is near to the five-acre parcel M...

September 30, 2019

MC Digital: Tokyo Connected Campus @ Inzai

Hetzner received the ISO 27001 certification for Helsinki data center

Hetzner‘s Data Center Park Helsinki has reached a new milestone by receiving the ISO 27001 certificate for information security. Only 18 months after going live, the park today already has 6,000 m² of web hosting infrastructure in operation. In addition to information security, several other s...

September 30, 2019

Hetzner Finland

Data Foundry is expanding Houston 2 site

Data Foundry has announced that new data hall is under construction. The new space will offer 27,000 square feet of white floor space and 4MW of capacity. The Houston 2 campus sits above the 500-year floodplain and is rated for 185mph winds, making relativity safer if/when a another hurrica...

September 26, 2019

Switch: Houston 2

CyrusOne Data Centers in Northern Virginia Qualify for Tax Incentives

CyrusOne has qualified for tax incentives in Loudoun County, exempting customers from sales tax payments on all equipment deployed in CyrusOne facilities in that county. The sales tax exemptions are retroactive to 2014. “We have been working to secure this tax incentive for our customers for t...

September 26, 2019

CyrusOne Sterling IX

Facebook will expand Henrico VA campus

Facebook expects to break ground early next year on the second phase of its eastern Henrico County data center development, which will total more than 2 million square feet when completed late in 2020, the company said Wednesday.The company will construct three (3) new 450,000 square foot buil...

September 26, 2019

Meta Henrico Campus

Iron Mountain formerly launches Singapore facility

Iron Mountain held a launch event this week for SIN-1 in Singapore, the facility it acquired from Credit Suisse in 2017. The data center is the company's first facility in Asia.Iron Mountain Press Release

September 25, 2019

Iron Mountain Singapore SIN-1

AirTrunk Announces expansion to Hong Kong with new 20 MW Data Centre (PR)

AirTrunk, a specialist in hyperscale data centres, today confirmed its latest Asia-Pacific data centre development, announcing a new 20+ megawatt (MW) facility in Hong Kong that is set to open in Q4, 2020. The data centre will be located near Tsuen Wan, close to key data centres and Hong Kong’...

September 17, 2019

AirTrunk Hong Kong HKG1

Keppel DC REIT acquires two data centers and raises equiity (PR)

Keppel DC REIT announces two data centre acquisitions in Singapore and launches equity fund raising DPU-accretive acquisitions will strengthen Keppel DC REIT's portfolio and increase assets under management significantly by 30.7% to $2.58 billion Proposed acquisitions will be funded by a comb...

September 16, 2019

1-Net North Data Centre

Aligned Energy Completes Phase One of Ashburn Data Center Campus (PR)

ASHBURN, VA – Aligned Energy, a leading data center provider offering innovative, sustainable and adaptable colocation and build-to-scale solutions for cloud, enterprise, and managed service providers, announces the completion of phase one of its hyperscale data center campus in Ashburn, Vir...

September 16, 2019

Aligned Ashburn

DigiPlex invests with two new green data centres in Oslo (PR)

DigiPlex has broken ground on the construction of two new data centres near Oslo, Norway. The two centres will have a combined facility size of 8,500 m² and represent an investment of NOK 600 million. The centers are set to be operational in just 12 months, before the end of 2020.Internationa...

September 16, 2019

STACK OSL01 Ulven

NYI expands to Chicago

New York Internet (NYI) is expanding to Chicago through a data center acquisition. NYI has acquired the data center business at 800 Jorie Boulevard in Oak Brook Illinois. The facility was previously operated by Navisite. More info in the press release below. NYI Press ReleaseNew York, NY – Sep...

September 12, 2019

NYI Chicago (Oak Brook)

Digital Realty opens new Docklands facility

The new 120,000 square foot facility is located in the London Docklands, a highly connected area of London. The new facility will be interconnected with Digtial Realty's Sovereign House with a redundant 3,400 metre 432-count fiber ring. DRT Press Release LONDON, Sept. 11, 2...

September 12, 2019

Digital Docklands: Cloud House

365 acquires Bridgewater New Jersey Data Center from NYI

365 Data Centers announced it has acquired NYI's facility in Bridgewater New Jersey, which is 365's eleventh data center in the US. 365 Data Centers is privately held and the transaction was funded by adding a new equity investor, Turning Rock Partners.Subsequently, NYI used the proceeds to fu...

September 11, 2019

New York Internet (NYI)

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