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Facebook Adding a Fifth Facility in Altoona

Facebook is building a fifth data center on their campus in Altoona Iowa. The company expect to invest $400 million to build a 1 million sqft H-shapped data center. Altoona City Council approved a deal that would make Facebook exempt from paying property taxes on the new building for 20 yea...

May 07, 2019

Facebook Altoona Iowa

Amazon deploys Direct Connect Service at Equinix's HK1 Facility

Amazon has deployed its Direct Connect service to Equinix's HK1 facility. HK1 is the second best connected building in Hong Kong, after iAdvantage's MEGA-i building. Resources: Amazon's Announcement Equinix Press Release (below) HONG KONG – May 6, 2019 – Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the g...

May 06, 2019

Equinix Hong Kong HK1

Databank is Expanding their Granit Point Campus in Salt Lake City with SLC5

Databank is expanding their Granit Point Campus with SLC 5. Adding 10 MWs, 90,000 gross sqft, and 50,000 sqft of raised floor. Databank Press Release: Dallas, TX – April 30, 2019 – DataBank, a leading provider of enterprise-class data center, connectivity, managed services and cloud solution...

May 01, 2019

DataBank Bluffdale Granite Point Campus

Equinix Acquires Switch Datacenter's AMS1 Facility in Amsterdam

Equinix has acquired Switch Datacenter's AMS1 facility in Amsterdam for $34 million. Here are the quick facts: The facility, located at Lemelerbergweg 28, will be renamed to AM11 and will be Equinix's 9th data center in Amsterdam. The AM11 site is close to Equinix's existing southeast Am...

April 24, 2019

Equinix AM11

Taboola has Expanded with Internap in Los Angeles

Internap (INAP) has announced that Taboola has expanded in their flagship data center in Redondo Beach (South of Los Angeles.) Taboola is known for its "Recommended For You" articles that appear at the bottom of news articles. The articles are actually advertisements that are made to appear as...

April 16, 2019

Evocative Redondo LAX14

e-shelter Acquired Land for 2nd Berlin Data Center

e-shelter announced today that it acquired land for its 2nd Berlin facility. This one will be big. When fully complete it will be 60,000 sqM (645,000 SqFt) and 90 MVA (72 Megawatts.) The site will sit on the South side of Berlin in an area called Marienpark, which is approximately 14 km fr...

April 16, 2019

NTT Berlin 2 (Marienpark)

AngoNAP Fortaleza Data Center Opened (PR)

Angola Cables announced the opening of its carrier neutral AngoNAP data center in Fortaleza, Brasil earlier today. The Tier III designed data center will cater for the growing demand in content data transmission in the Southern hemisphere. The facility is a primary interconnection point for ...

April 16, 2019

AngoNAP Fortaleza

Hawaiki Cable Extends Network from Hillsboro to Westin Building in Seattle

Hawaiki Submarine Cable LP has extended its US presence from Hillsboro, OR to the Westin Building Exchange (WBX) carrier hotel and data center in Seattle, WA to support its clients’ capacity requirements between New Zealand, Australia, and the United States. Launched in July 2018, the Hawa...

April 15, 2019

Westin Building Seattle

e-shelter Opens Their First Data Center in Amsterdam

e-shelter, a subsidiary of NTT, opened a data center in Amsterdam. This is the company's first foray into The Netherlands. The campus which is just South of the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport will eventually support 2 buildings and approximately 16,000 square meters and 40 MWs of critical IT load....

April 12, 2019

NTT Amsterdam 1

AirTrunk Closes $332 million in funding to build Singapore data centre

AirTrunk has announces that it has received US$332 million (S$450 million) debt financing from three global financial institutions; Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, and Natixis. Additional equity capital was also raised from its founder and CEO, Robin Khuda, and shareholders, Goldman Sachs and TP...

April 10, 2019

AirTrunk Singapore SGP1

Amazon will Power Mulhuddart campus with 91.2 megawatt Wind farm in Donegal

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it will invest in a the Donegal wind farm, a renewable energy project in Ireland. The 91.2 megawatt wind farm will be developed by Invis Energy and is expected to begin providing energy to AWS Data Centers in Ireland by the end of 2021.The Donegal wind farm ...

April 09, 2019

Amazon Dublin Mulhuddart Campus

DE-CIX and Datacenter One Partner to Offer DE-CIX in DC1's Sites

DE-CIX and Datacenter One have formed a partnership to offer DE-CIX’s services in Datacenter One (DC1) sites in Germany. DC1's LEV1 facility in Leverkusen will be the first DC1 data center connected as part of the new partnership. DE-CIX is one of the largest Internet Exchange operators in...

April 01, 2019

AtlasEdge: Leverkusen

Verizon is Expanding the Legacy Yahoo! Campus in Lockport NY

Verizon Media announced that it will build a $28 million data center expansion to the legacy Yahoo facility in Lockport NY. If you include the server equipment Verizon Media is investing approximately $241 million. In January, Verizon announced it was jettisoning the Oath name and will rebran...

March 31, 2019

H5: Buffalo I

NewCloud Networks Expands at H5 in Cleveland

H5 has announced a customer expansion at its Cleveland Data Center. NewCloud Networks, a Denver based cloud services provider, has chosen the H5 facility to expand its Cleveland presence. The building, previously known as the Cleveland Technology Center, has changed hands a few times ov...

March 29, 2019

H5 Cleveland Technology Center (CTC)

Carrier-1 Upgrades Capacity by 5 Megawatts

Carrier-1 has announced that it has upgraded the critical power to their Dallas site from 3.5 to 8.5 Megawatts. The facility is over 100,000 square feet and can ultimately support 10 MWs in the current phase.The Dallas facility can grow further. Phase II is 70% sold. Phase II and Phase IV ...

March 27, 2019

Evocative DA4

ISI Communications has moved its Core Network into New Continuum's Chicago Facility

New Continuum has persuaded ISI Communications to move its core network node into its facility. This is no easy feat. Certainly the fact that United IX is in the building helped to make the decision easier. The New Continuum Press Release: ISI Communications is leveraging New Continuum’s e...

March 26, 2019

SBA Edge: 603 Discovery

AMS-IX Caribbean deploys Point-of-Presence in Blue NAP Americas data centre

AMS-IX announced today that it has expanded its Caribbean Internet Exchange to a second data center in Curacao. Customers of the Blue NAP Americas can now connect directly to the IXP. Curaçao is a small island in the Southern Caribbean and without a doubt a niche Interconnection market, but no...

March 26, 2019

Blue NAP Americas Curaçao

NEXTDC appointed Enterprise data centre provider for Queensland Government

NextDC will provide the Queensland government with data center-as-a-Service (DCaaS) solutions from its Brisbane facilities. The Australian colo company is the second provider to join the Queensland government’s ICT supplier panel in addition to Pulse Data Centre. NEXTDC's Announcement:We have ...

March 26, 2019

NEXTDC Brisbane B1

$25M HostDime's Eatonville Data Center & HQ Building Set to Begin Construction in June

Orlando Sentinel reports that HostDime's long delayed data center construction project is back on track. Construction will begin this summer and plans to open next year. Orlando Sentinel: After nearly three years of delays, HostDime said Monday it is set to begin construction this summer...

March 25, 2019

HostDime Eatonville

Microsoft Plans 2 New Data Centers in Sweden

Microsoft is reportedly building two new datacenters in Sweden, according to Swedish Newspaper Gefle Dagblad (via MSN). It was previously reported in December that the company had acquired 130 hectares of land in the municipalities of of Gävle and Sandviken, near the Swedish capital Stockho...

March 25, 2019

Microsoft Azure

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