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Microsoft Announces Sixth Expansion in Mecklenburg County, Virginia

Microsoft Corporation will invest significant capital to expand its Boydton enterprise data center in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. The project is Microsoft’s sixth expansion at the facility since 2010 and will allow the company to further enhance its ability to serve customers in the U.S. and...

January 24, 2019

Microsoft Boydton VA

STACK Plans New Data Center on the AllianceTexas Campus

A new data center company is teaming up with the developers of Fort Worth's huge AllianceTexas development to build a major data center campus in northern Tarrant County. Denver-based Stack Infrastructure and AllianceTexas developer Hillwood will build the 400-plus-acre tech project east of In...

January 18, 2019

STACK Fort Worth Alliance

CoreSite Adds New Amazon Web Services Direct Connect Endpoint at their SV2 Site

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CoreSite Realty Corporation (NYSE:COR), a premier provider of secure, reliable, high-performance data center and interconnection solutions across the U.S., today announced availability of a second native point of connectivity to Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect at...

January 18, 2019

CoreSite Santa Clara Campus

Compass is Building a Hyperscale Campus in Goodyear, Arizona

Dallas-based Compass Datacenters has acquired more than 200 acres of land in Goodyear, a suburb of Phoenix. The company is building a hyperscale campus that could offer up to 180MW of power capacity once complete. Compass hasn't made a public announcement; the new project was originally dis...

January 18, 2019

Compass Phoenix

Equinix Plans to Open a Seoul Data Center in Q3 2019

Equinix has announced it will be building a new International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in Seoul. It will be the company's first facility in South Korea, with SL1 expected to provide more than 18,000 square feet of co-location space, offering an initial capacity of 550 cabinets in th...

January 18, 2019

Equinix Seoul SL1

eStruxture Expands Vancouver Data Center; Hires Andrew Fowler to Lead Western Region Sales

MONTREAL – January 15, 2019 – eStruxture, a leading pan-Canadian provider of network and cloud-neutral data center solutions, announces the expansion of its Vancouver-based VAN-1 facility. The company also announces that Andrew Fowler, a colocation veteran with 30 years of sales experience, h...

January 15, 2019

eStruxture Vancouver VAN1

Equinix to Extend Interconnection and Data Center Services to Hamburg (Press Release)

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 10, 2019 / -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that it has closed a transaction for the purchase of a commercial building at Vierenkamp 1, Hamburg, Germany, from Aspen REG 1. Management GmbH for $11 mil...

January 10, 2019

Equinix Hamburg HH1

Element Critical Enters Chicago Market Acquiring Two Data Centers in the Suburbs (PR)

Data Center and Colocation Provider Adds 195,000 Square Feet of Space with Plans to Invest $40 Million to Expand and Enhance Facilities Located in Wood Dale, IL CHICAGO – Element Critical, a leading provider of data center and IT infrastructure services driven by customer-centric, solutions ...

January 07, 2019

Element Critical CH2

South Loop data center sells for $27 million

A partnership between CIM Group, one of the more prominent real estate developers in Chicago, and a New Jersey-based data center operator bought a South Loop data center for $27 million. Anderson Pacific Group, a Chicago-based investor that specializes in telecom projects, started developing t...

January 02, 2019

725 S Wells - 1547 Critical Systems

Another data center in the works for Sarpy County

PAPILLION — Another company data center is in the works for Sarpy County in eastern Nebraska — a project that's raised questions about data center saturation. The identity of the company is being kept a secret until the land transaction on the west side of Papillion is ensured and utility agre...

December 31, 2018

Omaha

CyrusOne Expands in the Netherlands to Develop Next-Gen Data Center at PolanenPark in Partnership with SADC

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)- CyrusOne Inc. (NASDAQ: CONE), a premier global data center REIT, today announced the acquisition of 15.5 acres of land from Schiphol Area Development Company N.V. (“SADC”), a developer of high-quality business parks in the Amsterdam metropolitan area, for the developme...

December 06, 2018

CyrusOne Amsterdam I

Iron Mountain Building a $75 Million Facility in Des Plaines, IL

The Daily Herald reports that a $75 million data center will replace the former Des Plaines location of men's suit manufacturer Hart Schaffner Marx, which relocated within the city this year. The city council unanimously recommended a property tax break Monday to lure Iron Mountain Data Cente...

December 05, 2018

Iron Mountain Chicago

City of Reno's data servers will be moved to Switch campus next year

The City of Reno will move its data servers to the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center next year after getting approval for a contract with Switch on Wednesday. Reno City Council members unanimously approved a multi-year contract with Switch and Trace3 to move the city's primary IT center, a step tha...

December 05, 2018

Switch: Tahoe Reno (The Citadel Campus)

Green House Data to Complete Phase 3 Data Center Expansion in Cheyenne Facility

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Green House Data, a leader in platform-agnostic managed IT infrastructure solutions including cloud hosting, colocation, and disaster recovery, has announced it will complete the Phase 3 expansion of its Cheyenne, Wyoming data center and headquarters by addin...

December 04, 2018

Lunavi Cheyenne

Globalinx Data Centers has completed a diverse fiber cable network tie in into the MAREA and BRUSA CLS

Virginia Beach, VA: Globalinx Data Centers LLC, Virginia Beach’s first and only Tier III carrier neutral data center campus that resides less than 800 yards away from MAREA and BRUSA CLS in Virginia Beach has completed its diverse fiber cable tie in. Globalinx strategic campus location offers ...

December 01, 2018

Globalinx Virginia Beach

DCN completes Tier III Great Plains Data Center expansion

DCN (Dakota Carrier Network) today announced it has completed a 13,280 square-foot data center expansion at its Great Plains Data Center in Fargo. The addition more than doubles DCN’s Fargo footprint and increases its server floor space by six times. Business leaders and representatives from S...

November 30, 2018

DCN: Fargo Great Plains

Equinix Announces Build of New Data Center in Helsinki

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and HELSINKI, Nov. 29, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced it will build a new International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center in Helsinki, Finland. The data center – called HE7 – will p...

November 29, 2018

Equinix Helsinki HE7 Sinimäki

H5 Data Centers Announces San Antonio Carrier Hotel Acquisition

Denver, CO - H5 Data Centers, a national colocation and wholesale data center provider, today announced it has acquired 100 Taylor Street, an 85,000 square-foot data center and carrier hotel in downtown San Antonio. The acquisition expands H5 Data Centers' national portfolio to Texas and now ...

November 28, 2018

H5 San Antonio - 100 Taylor

Utilities plan two 50MW solar plants for Facebook’s Los Lunas data center

As Facebook’s $1bn data center expansion in Los Lunas steams ahead, a joint venture established by several New Mexico utilities is planning to build two 50MW solar farms to power the facility. NM Renewable Development (NMRD), made up of subsidiaries of American Electric Power and local provide...

November 27, 2018

Meta Los Lunas Campus

Colt Data Centre Services enters new market in Mumbai (PR)

Major investment in 100MW data centre will deliver hyper-scale [and cloud computing] data centre in India Colt Data Centre Services (DCS), a Fidelity owned company today announced their entry into a major new market in India. The organisation has successfully acquired land in Mumbai and plans ...

November 27, 2018

Colt Mumbai

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