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Singapore Internet Exchange deploys to STT Tai Seng 1

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) today announced a partnership with Singapore Internet Exchange Ltd (SGIX) to augment Singapore’s Internet interconnectivity with the launch of a SGIX point of presence (PoP) in STT Tai Seng 1, a colocation facility hosting network service providers, digi...

July 17, 2018

STT Singapore 5

Cirrus Data Services plans 160MW campus in Salt Lake City

SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Cirrus Data Services believes the Salt Lake City region can support hyperscale and wholesale data center colocation offerings and this week publicly announced the View 78 data center campus in Midvale; a suburb of Salt Lake City. The first phase includes a 32MW wholesal...

July 16, 2018

Cirrus DS View 78

Hut 8 Completes Construction at Medicine Hat Facility Ahead of Schedule, 40 BlockBoxes Now Operational

Operational capacity increases by 150% in the City of Medicine Hat to a total of 40 BlockBoxesTORONTO, July 16, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hut 8 Mining Corp. (“Hut 8” or the “Company”) (TSXV:HUT) (OTCQX:HUTMF), one of the world’s largest public cryptocurrency mining companies by operating capaci...

July 16, 2018

Hut 8: Medicine Hat, Alberta

Flexential Adds 70,000 SqFt of Capacity at Alpharetta Data Center

Flexential is expanding at their Alpharetta data center site. The new two-story data center will add 75,000 sqft to the existing 15,000 sqft site. The new site will host both retail and wholesale customers. Press Release: <a href="https://www.flexential.com/knowledge-center/newsroom/flexentia...

July 15, 2018

Flexential Atlanta-Alpharetta

Global Switch Expands European Footprint With Frankfurt Construction

Global Switch’s move further adds to the data centre ‘hotspot’ reputation of Frankfurt, and with the arrival of a new Chinese customer to Europe as part of the development currently going up, Global Switch says it’s keen to add to its sites to support further demand. Construction has started o...

July 13, 2018

Global Switch: Frankfurt South

Fairfax County Approves CoreSite's 22-Acre Data Center Campus Expansion In Reston

CoreSite is closer to approval at Sunrise Technology Park, a 21-acre office park in Reston with four existing buildings slated for data center redevelopment. The Fairfax County Planning Commission approved the project by CoreSite Realty Corp. on June 28. The proposal is part of a move by CoreS...

July 13, 2018

CoreSite Reston VA3

MAREA and BRUSA Subsea Cables Managed by Telxius will Extend to Equinix DC2 Data Center

Equinix has won two subsea deployments (MAREA and BRUSA) that will extend from their landing in Virginia Beach to Equinix DC2 in Ashburn. From the Press Release: The two subsea cables will terminate in the U.S. directly into the MAREA and BRUSA cable landing station located in Virginia Be...

July 12, 2018

Equinix Ashburn DC2

NTT adds it's First PoP in Dublin at Equinix DB1

NTT Communications has launched a new point of presence in Ireland, located at Equinix’s DB1 data centre in Dublin, marking its first PoP in the city. The global carrier said its new PoP will allow it to offer high-quality global IP transit services to a number of companies which have set up E...

July 11, 2018

Equinix Dublin DB1

DC BLOX Building ‘Flagship’ Data Center on 27-acre former Trinity Steel site in Birmingham

Atlanta-based DC BLOX said today it is building a data center on the former Trinity Steel site in downtown Birmingham, creating 20 jobs initially with the potential to grow up to $785 million in capital investment and add jobs over the next decade. “The significant investment being made by DC ...

July 11, 2018

DC BLOX Birmingham

Compass Datacenters To Build Second Data Center Facility For American Electric Power (PR)

DALLAS /PRNewswire/ -- Compass Datacenters has completed an agreement with American Electric Power (AEP) to build a second data center facility in southwestern Ohio that expands the company's IT infrastructure and supports its resiliency strategy for IT operations. Compass built AEP's primary ...

July 10, 2018

Compass New Albany

Equinix Partners with Omantel to Open a Data Center in Oman

Colocation giant Equinix has partnered with Oman Telecommunications Company (Omantel) to build its first data center in Oman. At full capacity, the facility near capital Muscat will offer 18,600 square feet of white space – enough for approximately 750 IT cabinets. The first phase of the project ...

July 09, 2018

Equinix Oman

Iron Mountain Begins Expansion at Phoenix Data Center Campus

Iron Mountian announced on July 9th 2018 that it has started construction to expand its data center campus in Phoenix, one of the fastest growing markets in the U.S. The new 550,000 square-foot, 48-megawatt (MW) multi-tenant and cloud facility is designed to meet the security and performance e...

July 09, 2018

Iron Mountain Phoenix

Iron Mountain Acquires Evoswitch's Amsterdam Data Centers

Iron Mountain, the storage and information management services company, acquired EvoSwitch's Amsterdam Data Centers for €205 ($235) million. The transaction provides 11 megawatts (MW) of existing data center capacity in the Netherlands, which is 100% leased, with expansion capability of an add...

July 09, 2018

Iron Mountain Amsterdam AMS-1

QTS is Building a 100MW Data Center on 92 Acres in Hillsboro

QTS Data Centers, a Kansas data hosting company, is the most recent in a line of large data companies to build in Hillsboro, enticed by tax breaks worth $7.6 million USD total over the past three years. These tax breaks have become arguably less valuable due to Hillsboro moving in 2016 to match t...

July 05, 2018

QTS Hillsboro 1

Tata Communications Deploys IP Transit Service at EdgeConnex in Portland

EdgeConneX, specializing in global data center solutions at the edge of the network, today announces that Tata Communications, a leading global provider of digital infrastructure, has established a Point of Presence (PoP) at the EdgeConneX Portland Edge Data Center (EDC). The presence provides i...

July 05, 2018

EdgeConneX Portland

T5 Data Centers Signs Hospital Tenant for T5@LA Facility

T5 Data Centers, innovators in providing secure, customizable, hyperscale computing environments for enterprise companies, today announced that a large regional hospital has signed as the newest tenant for its T5@LA data center. The hospital plans to migrate all data operations into T5@LA to take...

July 05, 2018

Serverfarm LAX1

Facebook to Build a $750 million Data Center in Huntsville

Facebook announced it will invest $750 million to build a data center on 340 acres in North Huntsville Industrial Park. Once construction is finished, the data center will employ approximately 100 people. The company considered numerous locations across the country for the new data center and ...

July 04, 2018

Meta Huntsville Campus

Colt deploys to EdgeConneX's Amsterdam Datacenter

Colt will be deploying to EdgeConneX's datacenter in Amsterdam. Colt Technology Services and EdgeConneX have partnered to link up Colt’s IQ Network to several EdgeConneX facilities, offering connectivity closer to the edge. Andrew Edison 100x150The partnership will see Colt’s high-bandw...

July 02, 2018

EdgeConnex Amsterdam

Seaborn Networks Selects EdgeConneX Buenos Aires as a POP for it's ARBR Submarine Cable

This is a big win for EdgeConneX! EdgeConneX, specializing in global data center solutions at the edge of the network, today announces that Seaborn Networks (“Seaborn”), a leading developer-owner-operator of submarine fiber optic cable systems, has selected its Buenos Aires Edge Data Center ...

July 02, 2018

EdgeConnex Buenos Aires

Facebook plans two more data centers in Dublin

Two years after breaking ground on its first Irish data center, Facebook is planning another two facilities on the same campus in Clonee, Meath County, 10 miles (17km) north of Dublin, according to the Irish Times. The data centers, representing an investment nearing €300 million ($349m), will...

June 30, 2018

Facebook Clonee Ireland

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