May 05, 2021 | Posted by Eric Bell | eStruxture
eStruxture just announced that it had secured over $600 million CDN in incremental equity from major financial institutions. eStruxture will use part of the sum secured to fund the acquisition of all Aptum’s Canadian data center business which was recently finalized. The funds will also help e...
May 05, 2021 | Posted by Eric Bell | DC BLOX High Point
DC BLOX has announced the acquisition of land in High Point, North Carolina. The plan is to use the land to construct the first highly secure Tier III data center in the Carolina Core/ Piedmont Triad region. The facility will offer colocation for hosting primary IT infrastructure and secondary...
May 05, 2021 | Posted by Eric Advinci | DartPoints
DartPoints has announced that it had chosen DE-CIX’s multi-service interconnection platform for deployment in Tier II and Tier III markets. Initial deployments have begun in DartPoints’ Eastern Iowa and Dublin, OH facilities. This deployment has improved the capabilities of the fully managed I...
May 05, 2021 | Posted by Eric Bell | Microsoft San Jose (Prospective)
Microsoft has acquired 21.25 acres of underdeveloped land in San Jose for $78.7 million. The expanse of land is situated near the corner of Orchard Parkway and Component Drive. Microsoft purchased the land from LBA Realty which initially wanted to use the land to build villages of offices, hot...
May 05, 2021 | Posted by Eric Bell | Core Scientific: Grand Forks
BELLEVUE, Wash., May 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Core Scientific (the "Company"), the leader in customizable infrastructure and software solutions for Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain, today announced that it has expanded its footprint with its agreement to develop its sixth mining and coloc...
May 05, 2021 | Posted by Eric Bell | Amazon Drogheda I
According to Planning documents filed with Meath Local Authorities, Amazon is proposing to build a new data center at the IDA Business & Technology Park in Drogheda, County Meath. The new data center will be a two-story building, and it will have a floor area of 28,566 square meters. Tunis...
May 05, 2021 | Posted by Eric Bell | atNorth ICE02: Reykjanesbær
atNorth has announced it is expanding its Mjölnir ICE02 data center in Keflavík, Iceland. The facility currently stands at 13,750 sqm (148,000 sqft), with 80MW of power. The company plans to expand the data center by 10%. This will mean an additional 1,250 sqm (13,400 sq ft) of space, and 4MW...
May 04, 2021 | Posted by Eric Bell | Google Dulles Arcola Center
An agreement has been reached between AES and Google for AES to supply Google’s Northern Virginia data centers with renewable energy. The deal will see AES construct 500 MW of renewable energy and storage projects with a mix of wind, solar, hydro, and battery storage for Google’s data centers ...
May 04, 2021 | Posted by Eric Bell | Equinix
Equinix has announced that it priced $2.6 billion principal amount of notes, including $1.0 billion of green bonds in its third green bond offering. The green bonds will be used to help advance the company's longstanding commitment to sustainability leadership and reducing its environmental im...
May 04, 2021 | Posted by Eric Advinci | Northern Virginia
TA Realty has announced that it will be developing a new $1.8 billion secure data center in Loudoun County, VA. The initial buildings of the data center are expected to be ready by late 2021. Upon completion, the fully built-out campus will be over 1.5 million square feet. It will also have 30...
May 03, 2021 | Posted by Eric Bell | Data Foundry
Switch will acquire Data Foundry for $420m in an all-cash transaction. The acquisition is expected to close by mid-2021 if it meets all customary closing conditions. Data Foundry has three highly connected data centers in Austin with an expansion capability of up to 44 MW. It also has one data...
May 03, 2021 | Posted by Eric Bell | Yahoo
Apollo will be acquiring Verizon Media, which includes Yahoo and AOL, for $5 billion. Also, the deal will see Verizon Media receive $4.25 billion in cash, $750 million preferred interests, and retain a 10% stake in Verizon Media which will be known as Yahoo. The two companies expect to finaliz...
Apr 30, 2021 | Posted by Eric Bell | Databank Indianapolis IND1
DataBank has announced an expansion of its IND1 data center in Indiana. The company is a leading provider of enterprise-class colocation, connectivity, and managed services. Part of the expansion includes 6,500 square feet of raised floor space and an additional megawatt of power to meet the g...
Apr 29, 2021 | Posted by Eric Bell | Microsoft East Point
Tech giants Microsoft has bought 1.4 acres of land for $3 million to expand its planned Westside campus. The land is situated on Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway, in the Grove Park area close to Atlanta. This purchase is after Microsoft acquired 90 acres of land in February for its proposed Westsi...
Apr 29, 2021 | Posted by Eric Bell | NTT Silicon Valley SV1
NTT has announced the launch of its "Earthquake Resistant" data center in Silicon Valley, the first of its kind in the US market. The facility has a capacity of 16MW and uses a base isolation system, enabling seismic stability and ensuring 60% less motion than a non-isolated, fixed building. ...
Apr 28, 2021 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Apple Guizhou
According to reports, Apple has opened a new data center in Guizhou, China. The data center was jointly built by both Apple and Guizhou-Cloud Big Data Industry Co Ltd. The data center will offer iCloud services to its customers on the mainland of China. Asides from that, it is also expected th...
Apr 28, 2021 | Posted by Eric Bell | EdgeConneX
EdgeConneX has announced that it will add almost 20MW of new capacity across six of its data centers in North America. The facilities that will benefit from this expansion are Seattle, Portland, Phoenix, Miami, Detroit, and Chicago.According to Phillip Marangella, Chief Marketing Officer at Ed...
Apr 28, 2021 | Posted by Eric Bell | Aligned Chicago ORD-01
Aligned has announced that it has begun work on its latest hyperscale data center campus in Chicago, Illinois. The 48MW data center is the first to be constructed on the 18.5 acre campus and stands at 220,000 sqft. Once completed, the campus will offer 100+MW of capacity. The data center, ...
Apr 28, 2021 | Posted by Eric Bell | Vantage Ashburn Campus
Vantage Data Centers just announced that it has completed the first phase of VA12. VA12 is the second of the five planned facilities situated at its Northern Virginia campus. The completed first phase of VA12 will provide 16MW of critical IT capacity to enterprises, hyperscalers, and cloud pro...
Apr 26, 2021 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Italy
Microsoft is partnering with Leonardo, an Italian defense group, to provide Italy’s public sector and critical infrastructure providers with cloud services. The deal will see Leonardo offer cybersecurity services and act as a System integrator while Microsoft will provide a cloud platform and ...