November 23, 2016 One Wilshire Building
One Wilshire badly needed a power upgrade. The upgrade will allow for current colo operators such as CoreSite or a new tenant to start providing service in the best connected building on the West Coast. Excerpts from the DCF article. Source: Data Center Frontier Nov 21 2016 One of the world’s...
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November 21, 2016 Equinix Toronto TR2
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and TORONTO, Ontario—September 29, 2016 — The Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE) and Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that the CSE has selected Equinix as its primary data center provider. The CSE will be...
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November 11, 2016 EdgeConneX San Diego
EdgeConnex has branded an Edge Landing Station. Not a bad move considering their success and branding their Edge data centers. The first-of-its-kind Edge Landing Station™ (ELS) will utilize Electric Lightwave’s fiber network to provide customers with direct access to transpacific subsea cables...
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November 04, 2016 WOW! Tampa
Park Tower, at 400 N. Tampa St., has been sold to City Office REIT for $79.75 million. The seller was New York-based Sterling American Property Inc., which paid $50 million for the tower in 2006. The 36-story Park Tower was built in 1973, according to property records. Sterling has recently...
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October 20, 2016 STACK Silicon Valley SVY01
Data Center Frontier reports Informart's cost of power is lower in Santa Clara: In San Jose, Infomart uses the PG&E Direct Access program to offer power to customers at rates of 8.5 cents to 9 cents per kilowatt hour, much lower than the 11 to 12 cents per kWh rate seen by most PG&E...
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October 20, 2016 Digital Realty: ORD10
This is a low risk development. Anchor or not, demand for access to Cermak is high. Digital Reality will own the conduit fiber between the buildings and should make access to tenants in 350 pretty easy. Digital Realty Trust made a big, highly anticipated announcement this morning. They plan to...
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September 27, 2016 Switch: Texas 1
Data Foundry is expanding their massive Austin campus. Ready in Q3 2017. Data Foundry, a leading provider of premium colocation, network and managed services, today announced the construction of its third Austin data center, Texas 2. The first phase of construction will begin this quarter, and...
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September 21, 2016 Global Switch: London East
The Global Switch data center outage in the London Docklands earlier this month has been traced to a cable end box on a UPS system. The power interruption lasted less than a second, but it took at least one customer two days to fully recover. The 222 millisecond outage was caused by a fault in a...
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September 20, 2016 EdgeConneX Jacksonville
It is always good to have the incumbent MSO (in this case, Comcast) anchoring your Interconnection datacenter. With Comcast, the area’s largest cable and broadband provider, as their anchor tenant, they have plans to triple the size of the center as they bring more customers into their facility....
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September 16, 2016 Expedient Pittsburgh (North Side)
Expedient announced an expansion of their Pittsburgh datacenter. Details below. ...expansion project at one of its Pittsburgh, PA data centers, located at Nova Place, formerly known as Allegheny Center Mall. The facility is one of two enterprise data centers the company operates in the region....
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September 15, 2016 EdgeConneX Phoenix
EdgeConneX has announced it has partnered with Phoenix Internet Exchange (Phoenix-IX), having built the newly available remote Phoenix-IX node into its Phoenix Edge Data Center (EDC). Located at 3011 S 52nd Street, Suite 107 in Tempe, Arizona, the expansion is instrumental to the advancement of...
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September 15, 2016 Equinix Miami MI3
Equinix has been selected by Monet Submarine Cable investors to provide US facilities and services for the cable landing station architecture to support the Monet subsea cable system between Miami and São Paulo. Monet, which is a planned subsea cable presently designed to deliver over 60Tbps of...
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September 07, 2016 Cologix Columbus COL1, COL2
Cologix Building $130M Data Center in Growing Columbus Metro Data center provider Cologix has kicked off construction of a $130 million data center in Columbus, Ohio, which will be the third facility on the company’s campus in the Midwestern business hub. The company expects to launch the first...
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September 07, 2016 DataVerge 111 Town Square Place
Sept 7, 2016 ColoGuard Enterprise Solutions, LLC, (ColocationGuard) has announced the acquisition of 10,000 sq ft of data center space in Jersey City at 111 Town Square Place (111 TSP). This latest step in the company’s expansion increases its total data center footprint to more than 60,000 sq...
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June 06, 2016 QTS Piscataway
Overland Park, Kan. (June 6, 2016) – QTS Realty Trust (NYSE: QTS), an international provider of data center, managed hosting and cloud services, has purchased a 360,000 square foot data center from DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc. in Piscataway, New Jersey. The facility becomes QTS’ third New...
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January 14, 2016 H5 Phoenix
Denver, CO - H5 Data Centers, a national colocation and wholesale data center provider, announced it has acquired the NextFort data center in Chandler, Arizona. Located at 2600 W. Germann Road, NextFort adds to H5's growing data center portfolio of more than one million square feet in eight US...
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December 01, 2015 Rogers Halifax HAL DC1
HALIFAX, Dec. 1, 2015 /CNW/ – Rogers Communications announced today that it has acquired Internetworking Atlantic Inc. (IAI) to provide enhanced technology solutions and services for businesses and public sector clients in Atlantic Canada. The acquisition of IAI enables Rogers to offer greater...
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June 14, 2015 Ohio
There has been heated competition in Ohio to land a $1.1 billion Amazon Web Services Data Center project. That project was recently reported to be split across three townships: Hilliard, Dublin and Orange Township. Columbus Business first reports that Amazon subsidiary Vadata has withdrawn an...
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June 10, 2015 H5 Ashburn
Denver, CO - H5 Data Centers, a national colocation and wholesale data center provider, today announced it has acquired a wholesale data center at 21800 Beaumeade Drive in Ashburn, Virginia. The Ashburn data center totals 70,000 SF, is expandable to more than 100,000 SF, and features at least 8.5...
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June 04, 2015 Ark: Youngstown
Involta has agreed to acquire a Youngstown-based data center company called Data Recovery Services LLC. The deal will roughly double the size of Involta’s employee base. The combined company will have nearly 200 employees, according to a news release from Involta, an Iowa-based company that also...
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