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Read 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 servic...

Netrality Properties Extends Amazon Web Services Direct Connect in Kansas City

October 22, 2018 1102 Grand St (Netrality) Kansas City Carrier Hotel

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...

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Read Huawei To Build Cloud Services Data Centre In South Africa
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Huawei To Build Cloud Services Data Centre In South Africa

October 17, 2018 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...

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Read 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: <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/...

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

October 17, 2018 Iron Mountain Northern Virginia (Manassas)

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: Businesswire.com

Read 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 highl...

Alibaba Cloud to launch London region

October 02, 2018 London

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 the...

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Read 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 enterpr...

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

October 02, 2018 T-Systems 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 100,000...

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Read 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 capa...

Vantage expands first Santa Clara campus to 75MW

October 02, 2018 Vantage: Santa Clara CA1

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 largest...

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Read 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 investme...

Germany’s Hetzner opens major colocation campus in Helsinki

October 02, 2018 Hetzner Finland

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...

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Read DC Blox is opening 10MW data center in Huntsville, Alabama
Atlanta-based cloud and colocation provider DC Blox is about to open a data center in Huntsville, Alabama.

The first phase of the project offers 9,000 square feet of white space and 3,600 square...

DC Blox is opening 10MW data center in Huntsville, Alabama

October 02, 2018 DC BLOX Huntsville

Atlanta-based cloud and colocation provider DC Blox is about to open a data center in Huntsville, Alabama. The first phase of the project offers 9,000 square feet of white space and 3,600 square feet of office space, including conference rooms, staging areas and workstations. The building is...

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Read Facebook expand Prineville, Oregon data center for $750m
Social network and advertising giant Facebook plans to add another two buildings to its data center campus in Crook County, Oregon, by mid-2020.

The $750 million investment will bring the compan...

Facebook expand Prineville, Oregon data center for $750m

October 02, 2018 Hyperscale Data Center

Social network and advertising giant Facebook plans to add another two buildings to its data center campus in Crook County, Oregon, by mid-2020. The $750 million investment will bring the company's total footprint at the site to more than 3.2 million square feet (300,000 sq m), making it...

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Read Amazon plans to invest $951m in Indonesia over 10 years
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Amazon plans to invest $951m in Indonesia over 10 years

September 25, 2018 Indonesia

American tech giant Amazon is planning a 14 trillion-rupiah (SS1.3 billion) foray into Indonesia, in another major investment in the South-east Asian digital economy. The plan was conveyed to Indonesian President Joko Widodo by Amazon Vice-President Werner Vogels during their meeting in Jakarta...

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Read Charlotte-IX is Launched, Flexential is an Early Supporter
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Charlotte-IX is Launched, Flexential is an Early Supporter

September 12, 2018 Charlotte

Charlotte-IX was launched with the support of Flexential. The new peering exchange point is available at Flexential's Charlotte and Raleigh data centers. Learn more at: Charlotte IX Peeringdb.com entry Flexential Press Release

Read Google Acquired 80 MW of Solar Power for Santiago Data Center
Google purchased 80MW of electrical power from Acciona Energy. The power will come from a 1.5 million sqm solar campus built in a piece of land measuring 280 hectares in the Atacama Desert, west of...

Google Acquired 80 MW of Solar Power for Santiago Data Center

September 09, 2018 Hyperscale Data Center

Google purchased 80MW of electrical power from Acciona Energy. The power will come from a 1.5 million sqm solar campus built in a piece of land measuring 280 hectares in the Atacama Desert, west of the Andes mountains and 645Km north of capital Santiago. Solar energy will be used to power both...

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Read Google plans $600 million expansion at Pryor Oklahoma data center
Google will spend $600 million to expand its data center near Pryor, the company announced Friday.

The expansion will include a new four-story data center at the site that already employs more t...

Google plans $600 million expansion at Pryor Oklahoma data center

September 04, 2018 Hyperscale Data Center

Google will spend $600 million to expand its data center near Pryor, the company announced Friday. The expansion will include a new four-story data center at the site that already employs more than 400 people and is the company's second-largest data center. “Oklahoma has proven to be an important...

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Read IPI Partners buys Elk Grove Village suburban data center for $119M
IPI Partners buys Elk Grove Village suburban data center for $119M

IPI Partners buys Elk Grove Village suburban data center for $119M

September 04, 2018 STACK Chicago CHI01

IPI Partners bought an Elk Grove Village data center for $118.9 million, signaling continued investor interest in the growing industrial sector. T5 Data Centers sold the 208,000-square-foot, 10-megawatt facility at 1441 Touhy Avenue. It was built by Forsythe Technology, opened in 2015 and sold to...

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Read Ficolo acquires Cybercom data center in Tampere
Ficolo acquires Cybercom data center in Tampere

Ficolo acquires Cybercom data center in Tampere

August 29, 2018 Verne: Tampere (The Deck)

Ficolo has acquired Cybercom’s data center business in Tampere. Cybercom’s data centers will be transferred to Ficolo and additionally Cybercom outsources data center operations services to Ficolo. The transfer takes place on August 31st, 2018 and does not impact Cybercom’s data center customers....

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Read Digital Realty opens new Sydney Data Center at Erskine Park
Digital Realty’s SYD11 data center at Erskine Park in Sydney is scheduled to open in the fourth quarter of 2018. To look at how the new facility reflects both the evolution of Digital Realty’s glob...

Digital Realty opens new Sydney Data Center at Erskine Park

August 26, 2018 Digital Realty Erskine Park (Sydney)

Digital Realty’s SYD11 data center at Erskine Park in Sydney is scheduled to open in the fourth quarter of 2018. To look at how the new facility reflects both the evolution of Digital Realty’s global design standards and Australia’s capacity for early adoption of data center innovation, DCD spoke...

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Read Chesterfield County Data Center That Hosts the Virginia Information Technologies Agency Was Sold For $44 Million
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Chesterfield County Data Center That Hosts the Virginia Information Technologies Agency Was Sold For $44 Million

August 25, 2018 Virginia Information Technologies Agency

With work on one of the region’s largest data centers underway in Henrico County, a smaller facility on the southern end of metro Richmond has changed hands in an eight-figure deal. The two-story, 193,000-square-foot data center at 11751 Meadowville Road in Chesterfield County’s Meadowville...

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Read Equinix Expands NAP of the Americas on the 5th Floor
Equinix has completed the first of two construction phases on the fifth floor of NAP of the Americas, Miami’s big data center and interconnection hub that serves as the biggest gateway the world’s ...

Equinix Expands NAP of the Americas on the 5th Floor

August 25, 2018 NAP of the Americas - Equinix Miami MI1

Equinix has completed the first of two construction phases on the fifth floor of NAP of the Americas, Miami’s big data center and interconnection hub that serves as the biggest gateway the world’s data traffic travels through to reach markets in Latin America and the Caribbean. The phase, which...

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Read Close to Chicago-Indiana NAP’s ‘Digital Crossroads’ development will first comprise a 105,000 square foot data center
Workers have broken ground on a $40 million data center in the city of Hammond, Indiana, on the 77-acre site of a former coal plant on Lake Michigan.

Led by developers Tom Dakich and Peter Feldm...

Close to Chicago-Indiana NAP’s ‘Digital Crossroads’ development will first comprise a 105,000 square foot data center

August 25, 2018 Digital Crossroad (Indiana NAP)

Workers have broken ground on a $40 million data center in the city of Hammond, Indiana, on the 77-acre site of a former coal plant on Lake Michigan. Led by developers Tom Dakich and Peter Feldman from Indiana NAP, the Digital Crossroads project will comprise a 105,000 square foot (9,755 sq m)...

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Read Virginia Beach's new data center park expects to draw the likes of Snapchat, IBM and Uber
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Virginia Beach's new data center park expects to draw the likes of Snapchat, IBM and Uber

August 25, 2018 Virginia Beach

A Dutch company wants to create a new data center park to draw the likes of Snapchat, IBM and Uber. NxtVn will spend $1.5 billion to $2 billion to build a hub off General Booth Boulevard to attract companies that seek high-capacity connections from the U.S. to Europe. The company also plans to...

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