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Huawei To Build Cloud Services Data Centre In South Africa

Oct 17, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | 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...

Urbis Plans New Data Centre For Brisbane Market

Oct 17, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | Urbis

Planning and urban design company Urbis has applied to authorities to build a new Australian data centre in the Brisbane area. The company’s application shows intent to build on a plot at 7001 Hoepner Road, Bundamba, which is near the city of Ipswich, around 30km from Brisbane. The initial con...

Tenant becomes landlord with NextDC taking over buildings from APDC

Oct 17, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | NEXTDC

NextDC is set to take over the properties housing its data centres in Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth. As the sole tenant of the three buildings, NextDC was presented the opportunity – and the price tag of around AU$300 million – to purchase back Asia Pacific Data Centres (APDC) and consequently ...

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

Oct 17, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | 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: Bu...

TierPoint Launches Cloud Connect Express for connections to Azure and AWS from All TierPoint Locations

Oct 16, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | TierPoint

TierPoint, a leading provider of secure, connected data center and cloud solutions at the edge of the internet, today announced the launch of its new Cloud Connect Express (CCX) service. Leveraging TierPoint’s network assets and Zayo’s CloudLink solution, CCX provides TierPoint customers with ...

Alibaba Cloud to launch London region

Oct 02, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | 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 t...

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

Oct 02, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | 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 100,00...

Vantage expands first Santa Clara campus to 75MW

Oct 02, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | 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 larg...

Germany’s Hetzner opens major colocation campus in Helsinki

Oct 02, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | 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 Rost...

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

Oct 02, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | 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 i...

Facebook expand Prineville, Oregon data center for $750m

Oct 02, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | Facebook Prineville

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 Faceb...

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

Sep 25, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | 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 o...

Charlotte-IX is Launched, Flexential is an Early Supporter

Sep 12, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | 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 <a href="https://www.p...

Google Acquired 80 MW of Solar Power for Santiago Data Center

Sep 09, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | Google Quilicura (Santiago) Chile

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...

Google plans $600 million expansion at Pryor Oklahoma data center

Sep 04, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | Google Mayes County Oklahoma

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 imp...

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

Sep 04, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | 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...

Ficolo acquires Cybercom data center in Tampere

Aug 29, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | Ficolo: 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 custome...

CyrusOne Completes the Zenium Acquisition

Aug 27, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | CyrusOne

DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug. 27, 2018– CyrusOne Inc. (“CyrusOne”) (NASDAQ: CONE), a premier global data center REIT, today announced that it has closed its previously announced acquisition of Zenium Data Centers (“Zenium”), a leading hyperscale data center provider with properties in London...

Digital Realty opens new Sydney Data Center at Erskine Park

Aug 26, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | 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...

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

Aug 25, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | 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 Te...

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