World Data Center News

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

Google Breaks ground in Fredericia, Denmark

Alphabet’s Google is to invest 600 million euros ($685.98 million) to build its first data center in Denmark.In a blog post, Google’s Vice President for Global Data Centers, Joe Kava, said the facility would be located just outside Fredericia, in the west of the country. Kava added that Google...

November 20, 2018

Google Fredericia Denmark

Flexential Completes $32M Portland Data Center Expansion, Adds 115,000 Sq. Ft.

Flexential, formerly known as Peak 10 + ViaWest, has completed a $32 million expansion of its data center at 5737 NE Huffman Street outside of Portland, Oregon. This Portland data center houses the U.S. cable landing station for the Hawaiki submarine cable, which delivers “low-latency” connection...

November 11, 2018

Flexential Hillsboro 2

CyrusOne Enters Into Strategic Partnership to Develop Hyperscale Data Centers in The Netherlands

CyrusOne Inc announced an agreement with Agriport A7 for the development of hyperscale data centers in Middenmeer, The Netherlands. Under the terms of the agreement, CyrusOne will have the option to purchase up to 33 hectares of land, in parcels as demand dictates, for a 270MW master planned mult...

November 11, 2018

CyrusOne Middenmeer, Netherlands

e-shelter to Develop Large UK Data Center Campus in London

NTT Communications subsidiary, e-shelter, a European data center colocation operator with presence in all key city-markets of the DACH-region leveraging 300MW of power capacity to deliver scalable data center solutions, has announced the development of a new, large data center campus in the UK. ...

November 05, 2018

NTT London 1 (Dagenham)

Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT II Completes a $23.2 Million Acquisition of Canton Data Center

On October 3, 2018, the Company acquired the Canton Data Center for approximately $9.4 million excluding acquisition fees and costs. The facility is a colocation data center delivering 1.5 Megawatts of existing capacity expandable to 3.0 Megawatts. Located in Canton, Ohio, the data center is situ...

November 02, 2018

Ark: Canton

AT&T Data Center Fire in Richardson Texas Causes Internet Outage for North Texas Customers

Electrical fire at an AT&T data center in Richardson, Texas, caused the company’s customers in North Texas to lose internet connectivity and U-Verse TV services for several hours Monday, city officials said in a statement. The fire started in the facility’s power switch and “burned primary and...

October 26, 2018

AT&T Switching Station (Richardson)

Huge Expansions in Montreal Makes COLO-D one of the Largest Data Center Providers in Canada

MONTREAL - COLO-D is proud to announce that it will develop a new 150 MW data center in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, 15 km from downtown Montreal. This move makes COLO-D Canada's largest data center provider for enterprise customers. Simultaneously, COLO-D will add 15 MW to its D2 facility in Lon...

October 26, 2018

Cologix Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville (Colo-D3 Proposed)

Facebook and First Solar plan a 58 MW solar project for Prineville Oregon data center

Story originally appeared on Solar Power WorldA solar power plant developed and to be built by First Solar will help support Facebook’s Prineville, Oregon, data center with 100% renewable energy. Through a power purchase agreement (PPA) with PacifiCorp, the 58-MWac Cove Mountain Solar Project ...

October 23, 2018

Facebook Prineville

Netrality Properties Extends Amazon Web Services Direct Connect in Kansas City

Netrality Properties, owner and operator of network neutral interconnection and data center properties, announced today the immediate availability of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect service in its Kansas City facility — 1102 Grand. Netrality can now offer customers secure and private con...

October 22, 2018

1102 Grand St (Netrality) Kansas City Carrier Hotel

Huawei To Build Cloud Services Data Centre In South Africa

Huawei says it is constructing a data centre in South Africa to offer cloud services in the region, according to news site MyBroadband. Although the exact location of the data centre has not been confirmed, the company says it plans to launch its cloud services portfolio in South Africa by the...

October 17, 2018

South Africa

Opus Interactive Launches New Federal Cloud Services Offering from Iron Mountain’s Northern Virginia Data Center

Opus Interactive is expanding to the East Coast. The new Opus data center is located in Iron Mountian's Northern Virginia data center in Manassas. Source: Bu...

October 17, 2018

Iron Mountain Northern Virginia (Manassas)

Alibaba Cloud to launch London region

China’s favorite e-commerce giant Alibaba is planning the launch of a cloud region in London, two years after entering the European market with a data center in Frankfurt. The move was not highly publicized; the company merely updated its website to advertise the future availability zones in t...

October 02, 2018

London

T-Systems completes 'House of Clouds' data center expansion in Biere

Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems has completed the expansion of its data center in Biere, a village near Germany's Saxony-Anhalt state capital, Magdeburg. The facility, which serves enterprise and government customers, offers 11,000 square meters of technical space, enough to house 100,00...

October 02, 2018

T-Systems Biere

Vantage expands first Santa Clara campus to 75MW

American colocation provider Vantage Data Centers has completed the final expansion of its first campus in Santa Clara, California. The four-story building, codenamed V5, adds 15MW of power capacity, bringing the campus total to 75MW and securing the company’s position as the owner of the larg...

October 02, 2018

Vantage: Santa Clara CA1

Germany’s Hetzner opens major colocation campus in Helsinki

The site in Tuusula offers cloud and colocation services, with 2,000 square meters of space available immediately. It benefits from fast connectivity to central Europe, thanks to Hetzner’s investment into C-Lion 1 cable system (also known as the Northern Digital Highway) between Helsinki and Rost...

October 02, 2018

Hetzner Finland

Data Center News

Ready to Level up Your Data Center Strategy?

Ready to Level up Your
Data Center Strategy?