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Denver-based Stack Infrastructure, a data center company, has closed a $325 million debt offering.  Stack also issued securitized notes in February and November of last year. Including the latest round, the company has so far raised a total of $1.4 billion to fuel its growth. Stack's Press Rel...

Montreal Internet Exchange (QIX) has announced that it is expanding its fabric to Hypertec's Pointe-Claire two-facility campus (YUL01.) The announcement was made on twitter. See below.

SINGAPORE & NEW YORK-- August 25, 2020 --Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners (“Stonepeak”), an infrastructure-focused private equity firm, and a group of seasoned senior executives formerly with Equinix, Facebook, Tata Communications and Macquarie, have formed a diversified, independent data...

Cologix has announced it has acquired vXchnge's 16,000 square foot data center in the 511 Building in Minneapolis. The move further strengths Cologix's dominant position in the building. The company's press release is below. Previously in 2015, vXchnge acquired the site from SunGard.Cologix Pr...

EdgeConneX has bought 3 buildings in Santa Clara totaling 229,000 square feet. The Mercury News reports that "An EdgeConneX affiliate, EdgeConneX Silicon Valley Holdings II, paid $83.3 million for the buildings, Santa Clara County documents filed on Aug. 14 show." 1700 Richard Ave: Current Ed...

The Swedish investment firm EQT AB has announced that it acquired the US-based colocation company EdgeConneX. EdgeConneX has a global footprint, operating over 40 facilities in 33 markets across North America, Europe and South America and continues to expand after being founded a decade ago.  ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., /PRNewswire/ -- Colovore, the Bay Area's leading provider of high-performance colocation for high-performance computing infrastructure, today announced that it has expanded again and now has 3.5 MW of high-density capacity currently available in supply-constrained Silicon ...

Facebook has formally announced its data center project in Gallatin Tennesse via a column Sheryl Sandberg wrote in the Tennessean. The social media company will build a 982,000 square foot facility with a total investment of $800 million. The 809-acre campus will be powered with 220MW of renew...

SBA Communications, a wireless tower provider, has acquired JaxNAP. JaxNAP is the primary carrier hotel in Jacksonville. This is the second data center acquisition for SBA. In September 2019, the company acquired New Continuum, a Chicago based data center provider. Read More: LightReading Dat...

MILILANI, Hawaii  -- This week, Servpac Inc. announced the official opening of their MTP Data Center and has begun scheduling tours for interested parties.  The state-of-the-art facility opens to meet growing demand for a reliable local data solution in a time plagued by uncertainty and enhanc...

NEXTDC has officially launched its new P2 data center in Perth. The initial phase has 1 megawatt of capacity. When fully built out the building will support 20 MW. P2 is directly connected to NEXTDC’s P1 Perth data centre in Malaga via NEXTDC’s Data Centre Interconnect (DCI) services. ...

July 28, 2020 – PCCW Global today announced that its Console Connect Software-Defined Interconnection® (SDI®) platform is now available in many more data centres via an extended collaboration with Global Switch, a leading owner, operator and developer of large-scale carrier and cloud neutral ...

DataBank announced it has opened SLC5 in Salt Lake City. The facility is on the Granite Point campus in Bluffdale, UT. The large campus has room for one additional building, SLC6 which is currently in the design phase. DataBank's Press Release on July 22nd 2020: DataBank Announces Opening of ...

The global technology research and advisory Information Services Group, ISG, has named Ficolo a Leader in Colocation in the Nordics. The ISG Provider Lens™  study covered the outsourcing provider landscape in the Nordic data center market and examined capabilities and competitive strengths bet...

Equinix has announced that it will open ML5, its fourth data center in Milan. The first phase will cost $51 million and will provide 15,000 square feet (1,400 sqM).  When all phases are complete, ML5 is expected to provide a total of 45,000 square feet (4,200 sqM) of colocation space. The loca...

-- New FRA-1 Data Center 100% Pre-Leased --BOSTON, June 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the storage and information management services company, today announced that it has signed a 27 megawatt data center lease with a U.S.-based Fortune 100 customer in Frankfur...

VIENNA, Va. /PRNewswire/ -- Element Critical, a leading provider of IT infrastructure with premium data centers in Silicon Valley, Chicago, and Northern Virginia today announces the promotion of Wayne Dietrich to Chief Operating Officer. With diverse management experience spanning over two dec...

Vantage has announced that Colony Capital will invest $1.2 billion into Vantage. This is on top of the $800 million it raised in February 2020 and $692 million it raised in 2019. A massive war chest to fund Vantage's aggressive expansion into Europe. Earlier this year the company announced it ...

Facebook has announced that it will build a new data center campus in DeKalb Illinois The DeKalb Data Center facts: The campus is on 505 acres located on Route 23 and Gurler Road. The Facebook-owned land can accommodate five buildings, and two will be completed by 2022. The five buildings wil...

PARIS – Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier- and cloud-neutral colocation data centre solutions and a Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR) company, announced today the opening of the first phase of MRS3, its third data centre in Marseille.  The Marseille campus sits at the heart of the gl...