Data Center News

Read DRFortress will expand its Hawaiian data center
DRFortress will expand its Hawaiian data center

DRFortress will expand its Hawaiian data center

June 16, 2020 DRFortress Honolulu

DRFortress is expanding its Honolulu facility. The Hawaiian colocation firm will add 130 cabinets to its existing facility, creating a total of more than 600 cabinets for lease and a space of 55,000 square feet. Upon completion, DRFortress will expand on its role as the largest data center in...

Read more
Read GIGA Data Centers Building New Colocation Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (PR)
GIGA Data Centers Building New Colocation Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (PR)

GIGA Data Centers Building New Colocation Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (PR)

June 15, 2020 GIGA Oak Ridge, TN

Atlanta, GA — GIGA Data Centers, LLC (GIGA), a new breed of data center provider creating affordable, multi-tenant colocation facilities with unprecedented energy efficiency, today announced the company is building its newest Data Center in Oak Ridge, TN. GIGA secured unanimous approval of its...

Read more
Read QTS Creates the New Jersey Network Access Point (NJ NAP)
QTS Creates the New Jersey Network Access Point (NJ NAP)

QTS Creates the New Jersey Network Access Point (NJ NAP)

June 12, 2020 QTS Piscataway

QTS has announced that it is creating a new Internet Exchange Point (IXP) called the NJ NAP in their Piscataway facility. Baxtel is skeptical that the IXP will thrive unless it is extended into other carrier-neutral data centers in the greater New York region.

Read Facebook announces ninth data center in Prineville
Facebook announces ninth data center in Prineville

Facebook announces ninth data center in Prineville

June 11, 2020 Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook has announced their ninth data center on the Prineville, Oregon campus. The building will be 450,000 sqft and be completed in 2023. Rendering of the 9th data center accompanied the announcement

Read Northern Data AG provides an update on Texas data center (PR)
Northern Data AG provides an update on Texas data center (PR)

Northern Data AG provides an update on Texas data center (PR)

June 10, 2020 Crypto Mining Data Center

Initial commissioning successfully completed / Innovative cooling and proprietary AI systems are online and running well Area of 40 hectares / utilization of one gigawatt is now expected by the end of 2020 Expansion to 3.6 gigawatts planned by 2023 Frankfurt am Main – June 10, 2020 – Northern...

Read more
Read Duocast add POP at QTS Eemshaven
Duocast add POP at QTS Eemshaven

Duocast add POP at QTS Eemshaven

June 10, 2020 QTS Eemshaven

QTS announced that Duocast, a Dutch internet service provider, has established a point of presence in QTS' Eemshaven data center. Duocast offers a portfolio of Internet and Ethernet services, IP Transit, IoT backbone and dedicated hosting servicesThe QTS Press Release - June 10th, 2020: New point...

Read more
Read ServerFarm Adds 14MW to Toronto Data Center
ServerFarm Adds 14MW to Toronto Data Center

ServerFarm Adds 14MW to Toronto Data Center

June 04, 2020 ServerFarm Toronto TOR1

ServerFarm has upgraded its Toronto facility. The project to add 14MW of new critical capacity to ServerFarm’s existing Toronto data center included a major construction phase, which was completed during the COVID-19 lockdown. The facility’s utility power availability is now over 21MW.ServerFarm...

Read more
Read STACK INFRASTRUCTURE Launches Construction on New Campus in Arizona
STACK INFRASTRUCTURE Launches Construction on New Campus in Arizona

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE Launches Construction on New Campus in Arizona

June 03, 2020 STACK: Phoenix 01 Campus

Stack Infrastructure, a company that develops data centers and digital infrastructure, acquired 79 acres just outside Phoenix, where it plans to develop up to 1 million square feet of data centers in the up-and-coming Southwest tech market. The Denver-based company bought land in Avondale,...

Read more
Read Netrality Acquired INAP's Houston Data Center
Netrality Acquired INAP's Houston Data Center

Netrality Acquired INAP's Houston Data Center

June 03, 2020 1301 Fannin - Netrality Houston

Netrality has announced that the company has acquired the Internap Holding (“INAP”) data center in Houston. The facility is located in 1301 Fannin, Houston's carrier hotel. The deal seems to work for both sides. Netrality gets more colocation space to sell in their marquee building and INAP gets...

Read more
Read Verne Global Secures $27M in Funding to Expand Icelandic Data Center Campus
Verne Global Secures $27M in Funding to Expand Icelandic Data Center Campus

Verne Global Secures $27M in Funding to Expand Icelandic Data Center Campus

June 03, 2020 Verne: Keflavik Campus

London, UK, – Verne Global, a provider of advanced data center solutions for high performance computing (HPC), today announced a new round of funding of $27M to expand its Icelandic data center campus. All current investors – the Wellcome Trust, Novator Partners, Stefnir and General Catalyst –...

Read more
Read Aligned Begins Construction on Second Hyperscale Data Center in Ashburn, VA (PR)
Aligned Begins Construction on Second Hyperscale Data Center in Ashburn, VA (PR)

Aligned Begins Construction on Second Hyperscale Data Center in Ashburn, VA (PR)

June 02, 2020 Aligned: IAD-01

ASHBURN, VIRGINIA – JUNE 2, 2020 – Aligned, 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 expansion of its hyperscale data center campus in Ashburn,...

Read more
Read CoreSite finishes the first phase of CH2
CoreSite finishes the first phase of CH2

CoreSite finishes the first phase of CH2

June 02, 2020 CoreSite Chicago CH2

CoreSite has announced it has completed the first phase of its second data center in Chicago. CoreSite has designed and built a 169,000 square foot facility with a total of 18 megawatts of capacity, known as “CH2,” in the heart of downtown Chicago. The CH2 data center is one of the first...

Read more
Read Bouygues selected to build VIRTUS's LONDON7 facility
Bouygues selected to build VIRTUS's LONDON7 facility

Bouygues selected to build VIRTUS's LONDON7 facility

May 27, 2020 VIRTUS Stockley Park Campus

Bouygues, the French contractor announced it has been selected by VIRTUS Data Centres to build its LONDON7 data centre, located in Stockley Park. Bouygues Energies & Services Contracting will be responsible for the design, build, electrical and mechanical services and commissioning of the...

Read more
Read Facebook gets approval for a Tennessee data center
Facebook gets approval for a Tennessee data center

Facebook gets approval for a Tennessee data center

May 25, 2020 Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook will purchase a $15 Million USD parcel of land for a 970,000 square foot data center campus in Gallatin, Tennessee. Facebook is using the shell company Woolhawk LLC as the acquiring entity. What we know: On May 19th the Gallatin City Council approved tax breaks and a development...

Read more
Read QTS Ashburn-Shellhorn Construction on Fast-Track Program
QTS Ashburn-Shellhorn Construction on Fast-Track Program

QTS Ashburn-Shellhorn Construction on Fast-Track Program

May 25, 2020 QTS Ashburn-Shellhorn

QTS has announced that it is fast tracking 42MW in Ashburn. Their construction blog post is below: QTS Ashburn-Shellhorn, our newest greenfield data center campus in the Ashburn, VA market has gotten underway in a hurry - with construction five weeks in and well ahead of schedule. The QTS...

Read more
Read Sabey adds Azure ExpressRoute to Quincy Campus
Sabey adds Azure ExpressRoute to Quincy Campus

Sabey adds Azure ExpressRoute to Quincy Campus

May 21, 2020 Sabey Intergate.Quincy

Sabey announced that it has added a Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute node to its Intergate.Quincy data center campus in central Washington, enabling Sabey’s customers to create private connections between their IT environment and Microsoft Azure and Office 365.Sabey Press Release on May 21st 2020

Read STACK Acquires Land in Atlanta and plans to Expand Campus Capacity to 20 MW
STACK Acquires Land in Atlanta and plans to Expand Campus Capacity to 20 MW

STACK Acquires Land in Atlanta and plans to Expand Campus Capacity to 20 MW

May 15, 2020 STACK Atlanta ATL02

Stack Infrastructure announced plans to expand its Alpharetta facility and more than double its digital infrastructure capacity to nearly 20 megawatts.STACK currently operates a 105,000 sqft, 7 MW data center on 12 acres at 3200 Webb Bridge Road. The company now plans to build a 2-story facility...

Read more
Read Teraco announces new 30 MW facility in Cape Town
Teraco announces new 30 MW facility in Cape Town

Teraco announces new 30 MW facility in Cape Town

May 10, 2020 Teraco Cape Town CT2

South African data center operator Teraco is building a new data center, Cape Town 2 (CT2). Construction on the site commenced in early March 2020 and will continue in line with local COVID-19 restrictions with a targeted completion date of Q3 2021. The completed facility will comprise of eight...

Read more
Read Flexential Announces it's third Facility in Portland
Flexential Announces it's third Facility in Portland

Flexential Announces it's third Facility in Portland

May 07, 2020 Flexential Portland - Hillsboro 3

Flexential has announced it will build its largest data center yet in Portland metro. The facility will be 358,000 square feet, offering 36 megawatts of power on a 20-acre lot. Groundbreaking is scheduled for the summer of 2020. This new data center will connect to Flexential’s Portland-Hillsboro...

Read more
Read Aptum sells fiber and transport business to Beanfield Metroconnect
Aptum sells fiber and transport business to Beanfield Metroconnect

Aptum sells fiber and transport business to Beanfield Metroconnect

May 07, 2020 eStruxture TOR-1

Beanfield Metroconnect, a Canadian independent telecommunications infrastructure provider, has added to its bank account and its fiber network footprint. According to owners Digital Colony, the global digital infrastructure investment platform of Colony Capital, Inc. (NYSE: CLNY), Beanfield has...

Read more

Ready to Level up Your
Data Center Strategy?