Global Data Center News

Cologix Acquires Metro Optic: Adds Carriers & Hyperscale Edge Capacity

Feb 26, 2019 | Posted by Eric Bell | Cologix MTL11

Metro Optic’s Montreal Interconnection hub is key termination point for subsea cables and adds a further 30+ carriers to the Cologix ecosystem.DENVER – February 26, 2019 — Cologix, a network-neutral, interconnection and Hyperscale edge data center company, today announced it has acquired Mont...

CyrusOne Expands Santa Clara Campus While Still Under Construction

Feb 19, 2019 | Posted by Eric Bell | Cyrusone Santa Clara

CyrusOne is expanding it's Santa Clara data center campus just months after announcing their first data center in Silicon Valley. Demand must be strong. It was only in Q3 2018 when the company began building it's first data center in Santa Clara. CyrusOne Press Release: SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(B...

Stream Data Centers to Develop Hyperscale Data Center Campus in Phoenix Market

Feb 15, 2019 | Posted by Eric Bell | Stream Goodyear AZ

DALLAS, Feb. 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Stream Data Centers, an industry leader in providing premium data center solutions, announces today that it has acquired a 418,000-square-foot facility on 157 acres of land in Goodyear, Arizona, where it will establish a data center campus for hyperscale a...

Google data center in Clarksville to get power from Yum Yum solar farm

Feb 15, 2019 | Posted by Eric Advinci | Google Clarksville TN

The Yum Yum solar farm will be about 175 miles southeast of the Clarksville site. The solar farm is expected to produce about 150 megawatts of clean energy. A large solar farm in West Tennessee will provide carbon-free renewable power for tech giant Google’s data center in Clarksville. Chica...

Vantage Raises an Additional $675 Million in Debt and Equity Financing

Feb 14, 2019 | Posted by Eric Bell | Vantage Data Centers

Vantage has raised $675 million for expansion projects in the United States. The company also raised $225 million in December. That's a lot of capital, however the company has many projects in the works, including: Acquired 4Degrees and entered the Montreal market in December Building a secon...

CentriLogic Names Chris Dorment as Chief Revenue Officer, Expanding its Leadership Team

Feb 11, 2019 | Posted by Eric Advinci | CentriLogic

TORONTO, ON – CentriLogic, a global provider of managed IT solutions, today announced the hiring of Chris Dorment as the company’s Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). This addition to CentriLogic’s leadership team, following a strategic equity investment, further demonstrates the company’s commit...

Google's Curie Cable System to Land at Equinix LA4 (PR)

Feb 07, 2019 | Posted by Eric Bell | Equinix El Segundo LA4

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that Google has selected Equinix for its Los Angeles area cable landing station (CLS) supporting the Curie subsea cable system, the first subsea cable to Ch...

Company with Russian investment no longer owns firm that hosts Maryland election data

Feb 04, 2019 | Posted by Eric Bell | Intelishift Annapolis (Sidus Group)

The Baltimore Sun reports that a new firm has taken ownership of hosting Maryland’s elections data after a federal investigation into the Russian ties of the previous vendor. Maryland elections administrator Linda Lamone said Monday the state will use Intelishift, a Virginia-based data center...

DataBank Announces Acquisition of PNC Bank’s Pittsburgh Data Center Through Strategic Sale-Leaseback Transaction (PR)

Jan 30, 2019 | Posted by Eric Bell | DataBank Pittsburgh PIT2

Dallas, Texas – DataBank, a leading provider of enterprise-class data center, connectivity and managed services, announced today the acquisition of PNC Bank’s data center located in North Fayette Township near Pittsburgh, PA. This marks DataBank’s second data center in the Pittsburgh market a...

GI Partners Announces Data Center Acquisitions From NTT DATA

Jan 29, 2019 | Posted by Eric Bell | NTT 2300 W Plano

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – GI Partners, a leading private investment firm, continues its strategy of investing in the infrastructure of technology with the recent acquisition of two technology intensive properties from NTT DATA located in Plano, Texas and Quincy, Washington. The Plano property is an ...

EdgeConneX Enters the Munich Market with the Acquisition of a Vodafone Facility

Jan 26, 2019 | Posted by Eric Bell | EdgeConnex Munich

EdgeConneX is entering Munich market through the acquisition of a Vodafone data center. The facility will be ready by Q2 2019. The Press Release is below. Munich facility becomes EdgeConneX’s 9th Data Center in Europe Herndon, VA, – January 21, 2019 — EdgeConneX®, pioneers in edge data...

EdgeMicro Begins Testing on Flexential Englewood with 10 Companies

Jan 25, 2019 | Posted by Eric Bell | Flexential Englewood

The hype of the Edge data center will be put to the test with EdgeMicro's test lab in Denver. Edgemicro has lined up 10 companies to participate. Looking forward to seeing the results. Denver, Colorado – January 18, 2019– EdgeMicro and many of the most influential companies in the technolo...

Vantage Data Centers Acquires Canada-Based 4Degrees Colocation (PR)

Jan 25, 2019 | Posted by Eric Bell | 4Degrees Colocation

Santa Clara, CA – Vantage Data Centers, a leading provider of data centers in support of business and mission-critical applications, today announced it has finalized its acquisition of Canada-based 4Degrees Colocation from Videotron Ltd., a Quebecor Media Inc. (QMI) subsidiary, for approximat...

Microsoft Announces Sixth Expansion in Mecklenburg County, Virginia

Jan 24, 2019 | Posted by Eric Bell | Microsoft Boydton VA

Microsoft Corporation will invest significant capital to expand its Boydton enterprise data center in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. The project is Microsoft’s sixth expansion at the facility since 2010 and will allow the company to further enhance its ability to serve customers in the U.S. and...

Virtus to spend £500m on five data centers across London

Jan 23, 2019 | Posted by Eric Bell | VIRTUS Data Centres Ltd

British colocation provider Virtus is planning to spend £500 million ($645m) on a network of five data centers in London. All of the new facilities - including some that have been previously announced - will be constructed simultaneously over the next two years, marking this as one of the larg...

Contegix Names Brad Hokamp as Chief Executive Officer (PR)

Jan 23, 2019 | Posted by Eric Advinci | Contegix

Reston, Virginia – Contegix, a leading cloud application service provider, today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Brad Hokamp as Chief Executive Officer. Hokamp takes over from David Turner who partnered with Strattam Capital to complete an investment in Contegix in 2016. Th...