Global Data Center News

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...

Equinix Expands NAP of the Americas on the 5th Floor

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

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

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

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

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

DigiPlex data center will help keep Oslo warm

Aug 22, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | STACK OSL01 Ulven

Nordic data center operator DigiPlex has announced plans to recover waste thermal energy from its campus in Ulven, Oslo, and use it to heat residential properties. The company has agreed on a partnership with a subsidiary of utility provider Fortum, which has similar arrangements with data cen...

Sabey Data Centers to add 14MW in Washington

Aug 22, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | Sabey Intergate.Columbia

Intergate.Columbia is adding another data center building. Seattle-based wholesale colocation provider Sabey Data Centers has started work on a new facility at its Intergate.Columbia campus in East Wenatchee, Washington. Building D will span 140,000 square feet (13,000 sq m) across four ...

AirTrunk raises $621m for expansion

Aug 22, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | AirTrunk

Singapore-based AirTrunk announced that it has successfully completed an AU$850 million (US$621m) financing round to fund a major expansion of its Australian data centers in Sydney and Melbourne, as well as across key Asia-Pacific markets. Deutsche Bank is the underwriter for the new financing...

EdgeConneX Announces Second Atlanta Data Center (PR)

Aug 21, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | EdgeConneX Atlanta Campus

Herndon, VA – EdgeConneX®, specializing in global data center solutions at the edge of the network, today announces the creation of an Edge Data Center® (EDC) campus in Atlanta, Georgia. The new EDC, ATL02, brings 15MW of additional critical power capacity to market. The Edge Campus will be ...

Keppel DC REIT expands to Australia through new data centre

Aug 14, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell

It will spend $26.3m to $36.41m on the construction. Keppel DC REIT will be expanding in Australia through a new shell and core data centre which will be built on the vacant land within the Macquarie Business Park precinct in Sydney, it said in an announcement. Macquarie Telecom, the master...

Google plans $600M data center expansion in South Carolina

Aug 13, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | Google Berkeley County South Carolina

MONCKS CORNER, S.C. (AP) — Google plans a $600 million expansion of its data center in South Carolina. The Post and Courier of Charleston reports records regarding the expansion were filed with Berkeley County, which will consider a property tax break for the unit of California-based Alphabet ...

DATA4 is now Fully Owned by Axa Investment Managers – Real Assets, Acting on Behalf of Axa France

Jul 28, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | DATA4 Group

Involved in the governance of DATA4 since 2012, AXA IM – Real Assets has supported the company in taking on the challenges of the digital transformation of companies and recognised the strong potential of the Internet infrastructure sector, two areas that are key to the digital economy. Establ...