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Read Protacon sells is data center business to Ficolo
Protacon sells is data center business to Ficolo

Protacon sells is data center business to Ficolo

August 15, 2019 Verne: Pori (The Rock)

Ficolo and Protacon agreed on the sale and leaseback of Protacon’s data center business to Ficolo. The partnership allows Protacon to free up resources and take advantage of Ficolo’s value-adding services in their own service portfolio. The responsibilities of the partnership are clearly divided:...

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Read eStruxture Acquires Calgary Data Center from Shaw Communications (PR)
eStruxture Acquires Calgary Data Center from Shaw Communications (PR)

eStruxture Acquires Calgary Data Center from Shaw Communications (PR)

August 01, 2019 eStruxture Calgary CAL-1

eStruxture is expanding again and continues the trend of carrier colo sold to carrier-neutral operators. eStruxture claims this is the largest data center in calgary, but the jury is out. Rogers has a building in Airdrie just North of Calgary that is 85,000 sqft. eStuxture will also share the...

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Read Digital Realty To Enter South Korea (PR)
Digital Realty To Enter South Korea (PR)

Digital Realty To Enter South Korea (PR)

July 30, 2019 Digital Seoul 1 (ICN10)

SAN FRANCISCO /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, announced today it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire land in Seoul, South Korea for the development of a new, carrier-neutral data center...

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Read Google considers building a Kansas City data center in Northland
Google considers building a Kansas City data center in Northland

Google considers building a Kansas City data center in Northland

July 23, 2019 Hyperscale Data Center

Google has tentative plans for a $600 million data center in the Northland. The initiative's code name is "Project Shale." The project was announced at a Port Authority's (Port KC) board meeting on July 22nd, where the board approved a resolution authorizing Port KC to issue bonds for the...

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Read Echelon gets final approval for massive Arkow data center project
Echelon gets final approval for massive Arkow data center project

Echelon gets final approval for massive Arkow data center project

July 19, 2019 Echelon: Arklow DUB20 Campus

The Irish Times reports that Echelon Data Centres has been granted planning permission for a 45,000sq m (484,000sq ft) data centre in the Avoca River Business Park in Arklow, Co Wicklow. Planning permission for the 100MW centre was originally granted by Wicklow Co Council in February, but was the...

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Read Sparkle Selects the Djibouti Data Center as its IP Hub in Africa
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Sparkle Selects the Djibouti Data Center as its IP Hub in Africa

July 12, 2019 Djibouti Data Center (DDC)

TI Sparkle, the Telecom service provider based in Italy, has announced that it has moved its African IP hub into the Djibouti Data Center (DDC). Sparkle will use the facility as an IP hub for its expansion to East and South Africa.The Djibouti Data Center is a Tier 3, carrier-neutral data center...

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Read Compass Datacenters Begins Construction Of First Two Data Centers On Phoenix Campus (PR)
Compass Datacenters Begins Construction Of First Two Data Centers On Phoenix Campus (PR)

Compass Datacenters Begins Construction Of First Two Data Centers On Phoenix Campus (PR)

July 09, 2019 Compass: Phoenix I DC1

Compass Datacenters has begun construction of the first two data centers on its campus in the Phoenix suburb of Goodyear, Arizona. The two buildings will deliver a combined 72 MW of IT load, and construction is projected to be completed in Q4 2019. The master plan for the first series of...

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Read Google Breaks Ground on $600M Las Vegas Data Center
Google Breaks Ground on $600M Las Vegas Data Center

Google Breaks Ground on $600M Las Vegas Data Center

July 02, 2019 Hyperscale Data Center

Google held a groundbreaking ceremony on July 1st for its new campus in Henderson Nevada, roughly 10 miles south of downtown Las Vegas. The initial building is a 750,000-square-foot and the search engine giant will invest $600 million in the project. According to Google’s application for the data...

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Read NTT Starts Construction on one of the Largest Data Centers in Indonesia (PR)
NTT Starts Construction on one of the Largest Data Centers in Indonesia (PR)

NTT Starts Construction on one of the Largest Data Centers in Indonesia (PR)

June 27, 2019 NTT Jakarta 3 (JK3)

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international communications business within the NTT Group (TOKYO: 9432), announced today it would develop a new data center campus at Bekasi, Indonesia. The new campus will be known as “Indonesia Jakarta 3...

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Read Switch Expanding Las Vegas CORE Campus
Switch Expanding Las Vegas CORE Campus

Switch Expanding Las Vegas CORE Campus

June 25, 2019 Switch Las Vegas CORE Campus

Switch held a groundbreaking ceremony that included Governor Steve Sisolak and CEO Rob Roy. The company is expanding near it's existing CORE campus in Las Vegas. The expansion will add up to 1.1 million square feet and 115 megawatts of power capacity to the existing campus. Read More:...

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Read STACK Infrastructure Will Expand Chicago Facility
STACK Infrastructure Will Expand Chicago Facility

STACK Infrastructure Will Expand Chicago Facility

June 21, 2019 STACK Chicago CHI01

STACK Infrastructure, a Denver based data center provider, announced that it is expanding its Elk Grove facility. The expansion will offer 20 megawatts of additional critical capacity, bringing the total capacity to 33 megawatts. “Chicago is one of a number of important and growing markets for...

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Read GIGA Data Centers Launches New Facility in Charlotte
GIGA Data Centers Launches New Facility in Charlotte

GIGA Data Centers Launches New Facility in Charlotte

June 20, 2019 GIGA Charlotte (Mooresville)

GIGA Data Centers, LLC (GIGA) today announced the company officially opened its 165,800 square foot CLT-1 Data Center in Mooresville, NC.The facility, located in the former Dale Earnhardt racing building cost $20 million to construct. It's located at 1035 Mecklenburg Highway in Mooresville is...

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Read EdgeConneX Launches Multi-Cloud Access in Memphis
EdgeConneX Launches Multi-Cloud Access in Memphis

EdgeConneX Launches Multi-Cloud Access in Memphis

June 19, 2019 EdgeConneX Memphis

EdgeConneX continues to add cloud on-ramps in their facilities. Today they announced that Megaport and Comcast will be providing access to all the major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google, IBM, Oracle, Alibaba) from the Edgeconnex data center in Memphis. The Edgeconnex press release: MEMPHIS,...

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Read IX-Denver Extends to the H5 Denver Facility
IX-Denver Extends to the H5 Denver Facility

IX-Denver Extends to the H5 Denver Facility

June 12, 2019 H5 Denver

IX-Denver has extended their peering fabric to H5 in Denver. The non-profit Internet Exchange (IXP) is now natively available at three locations in the Denver metro. * H5 Denver at 5350 S Valentia Way, Greenwood Village * 910 Telecom at 910 15th Street, Denver * Flexential Aurora at 11900 E...

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Read Colt announces a new data centre "Frankfurt West" to be completed by Q4 2020
Colt announces a new data centre "Frankfurt West" to be completed by Q4 2020

Colt announces a new data centre "Frankfurt West" to be completed by Q4 2020

June 12, 2019 Colt Frankfurt West

First phase of delivery expected to complete in H4 2020 Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) today announced the expansion of its presence in Germany with its new Frankfurt West data centre. The strategic decision to expand comes alongside demand in the region from cloud service providers, but also...

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Read Landmark Dividend Acquires Flexential Data Center (PR)
Landmark Dividend Acquires Flexential Data Center (PR)

Landmark Dividend Acquires Flexential Data Center (PR)

June 12, 2019 Flexential Fort Lauderdale

EL SEGUNDO, CA (June 12, 2019) – Landmark Dividend LLC (“Landmark”) today announced that it acquired the Flexential data center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in February 2019. The 64,000 square foot data center is fully occupied by Flexential, a leading data center services provider with 41 data...

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Read Northern Bitcoin scales the Lefdal deployment
Northern Bitcoin scales the Lefdal deployment

Northern Bitcoin scales the Lefdal deployment

June 12, 2019 Northern Data Lefdal

Starting signal for the scaling of sustainable mining activities 6 additional mobile mining containers commissioned in June More green sites worldwide to be started up shortly Frankfurt am Main, Germany / Lefdal, Norway – Northern Bitcoin AG (XETRA: NB2, ISIN: DE000A0SMU87) has begun the scaling...

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Read Apple Stops Construction at Kassø Facility in Aabenraa Denmark
Apple Stops Construction at Kassø Facility in Aabenraa Denmark

Apple Stops Construction at Kassø Facility in Aabenraa Denmark

June 11, 2019 Hyperscale Data Center

Apple has canceled plans to construct a data center in Kassø, Denmark citing 'business decision.' Apple also plans to sell the land, with no intention to construct anything else on the property, a statement from the municipality reads. It's unknown how this will impact the planned Google data...

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Read NewCloud Establishes New Node at H5 in Atlanta
NewCloud Establishes New Node at H5 in Atlanta

NewCloud Establishes New Node at H5 in Atlanta

June 06, 2019 H5 Atlanta

H5 has announced a customer expansion at its Atlanta data center. NewCloud Networks, a Denver based cloud services provider, has chosen the H5 facility as a new market deployment. The announcement comes on the heals of NewCloud's expansion with H5 Cleveland back in March.Data Center sales often...

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Read Ascenty Announced the Launch of a New Data Center in Paulínia
Ascenty Announced the Launch of a New Data Center in Paulínia

Ascenty Announced the Launch of a New Data Center in Paulínia

June 06, 2019 Ascenty Paulinia

Ascenty has announced it has launched it's new 16 MVA data center in Paulínia outside of São Paulo.Ascenty will have 16 data centres in operation in Brazil by the end of the year, and now has 17 data centres in operation and construction, interconnected by 4,500 km of proprietary fibre optic...

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