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Asian investor consortium acquires 24.99% stake in Global Switch in preparation for listing on a leading international stock exchange

Jul 11, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | Global Switch

A consortium of six Asian institutional and private investors has acquired a 24.99% stake in the Company in a transaction valued at £2.1 billion The investment by Strategic IDC Limited further diversifies Global Switch’s sources of equity capital, supports a continuation of the Company’s strat...

NTT adds it's First PoP in Dublin at Equinix DB1

Jul 11, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | Equinix Dublin DB1

NTT Communications has launched a new point of presence in Ireland, located at Equinix’s DB1 data centre in Dublin, marking its first PoP in the city. The global carrier said its new PoP will allow it to offer high-quality global IP transit services to a number of companies which have set up E...

DC BLOX Building ‘Flagship’ Data Center on 27-acre former Trinity Steel site in Birmingham

Jul 11, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | DC BLOX Birmingham

Atlanta-based DC BLOX said today it is building a data center on the former Trinity Steel site in downtown Birmingham, creating 20 jobs initially with the potential to grow up to $785 million in capital investment and add jobs over the next decade. “The significant investment being made by DC ...

Digital Realty considering $1bn Acquisition of Ascenty

Jul 10, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty is in talks about buying Ascenty, which operates eight data centres in Brazil and is planning six more. A still unconfirmed report says that Digital Realty is talking to Great Hill Partners, the private-equity owner of Ascenty. None of the partners are commenting on the report f...

Compass Datacenters To Build Second Data Center Facility For American Electric Power (PR)

Jul 10, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | Compass New Albany

DALLAS /PRNewswire/ -- Compass Datacenters has completed an agreement with American Electric Power (AEP) to build a second data center facility in southwestern Ohio that expands the company's IT infrastructure and supports its resiliency strategy for IT operations. Compass built AEP's primary ...

Equinix Partners with Omantel to Open a Data Center in Oman

Jul 09, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | Equinix Oman

Colocation giant Equinix has partnered with Oman Telecommunications Company (Omantel) to build its first data center in Oman. At full capacity, the facility near capital Muscat will offer 18,600 square feet of white space – enough for approximately 750 IT cabinets. The first phase of the project ...

Iron Mountain Begins Expansion at Phoenix Data Center Campus

Jul 09, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | Iron Mountain Phoenix

Iron Mountian announced on July 9th 2018 that it has started construction to expand its data center campus in Phoenix, one of the fastest growing markets in the U.S. The new 550,000 square-foot, 48-megawatt (MW) multi-tenant and cloud facility is designed to meet the security and performance expe...

Iron Mountain Acquires Evoswitch's Amsterdam Data Centers

Jul 09, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | Iron Mountain Amsterdam AMS-1

Iron Mountain, the storage and information management services company, acquired EvoSwitch's Amsterdam Data Centers for €205 ($235) million. The transaction provides 11 megawatts (MW) of existing data center capacity in the Netherlands, which is 100% leased, with expansion capability of an addit...

Equinix Says Its New Wholesale Data Center Business is Much Bigger Than Previously Thought

Jul 09, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | Equinix

Equinix is in the sweet spot to capture a bigger share of the wholesale data center market, which are generally deployments larger than 1 megawatt. Equinix's Interconnection ecosystems are a strong magnet, even for larger compute deployments. The mid-point of guidance for Equinix’s new whole...

QTS is Building a 100MW Data Center on 92 Acres in Hillsboro

Jul 05, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | QTS Hillsboro 1

QTS Data Centers, a Kansas data hosting company, is the most recent in a line of large data companies to build in Hillsboro, enticed by tax breaks worth $7.6 million USD total over the past three years. These tax breaks have become arguably less valuable due to Hillsboro moving in 2016 to match t...

Infomart hires Phil Koen as Interim CEO

Jul 05, 2018 | Posted by Eric Advinci | STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Infomart Data Centers, a national wholesale carrier-neutral data center provider, announced today that its board of directors has appointed Phil Koen as a new member. Mr. Koen will also serve as the company’s Interim Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Infomart’s founder and former President, Joh...

Tata Communications Deploys IP Transit Service at EdgeConnex in Portland

Jul 05, 2018 | Posted by Eric Advinci | EdgeConneX Portland

EdgeConneX, specializing in global data center solutions at the edge of the network, today announces that Tata Communications, a leading global provider of digital infrastructure, has established a Point of Presence (PoP) at the EdgeConneX Portland Edge Data Center (EDC). The presence provides i...

T5 Data Centers Signs Hospital Tenant for T5@LA Facility

Jul 05, 2018 | Posted by Eric Advinci | Serverfarm LAX1

T5 Data Centers, innovators in providing secure, customizable, hyperscale computing environments for enterprise companies, today announced that a large regional hospital has signed as the newest tenant for its T5@LA data center. The hospital plans to migrate all data operations into T5@LA to take...

Facebook to Build a $750 million Data Center in Huntsville

Jul 04, 2018 | Posted by Eric Advinci | Facebook Huntsville

Facebook announced it will invest $750 million to build a data center on 340 acres in North Huntsville Industrial Park. Once construction is finished, the data center will employ approximately 100 people. The company considered numerous locations across the country for the new data center and ...

Colt deploys to EdgeConneX's Amsterdam Datacenter

Jul 02, 2018 | Posted by Eric Advinci | EdgeConnex Amsterdam

Colt will be deploying to EdgeConneX's datacenter in Amsterdam. Colt Technology Services and EdgeConneX have partnered to link up Colt’s IQ Network to several EdgeConneX facilities, offering connectivity closer to the edge. Andrew Edison 100x150The partnership will see Colt’s high-bandw...

Seaborn Networks Selects EdgeConneX Buenos Aires as a POP for it's ARBR Submarine Cable

Jul 02, 2018 | Posted by Eric Advinci | EdgeConnex Buenos Aires

This is a big win for EdgeConneX! EdgeConneX, specializing in global data center solutions at the edge of the network, today announces that Seaborn Networks (“Seaborn”), a leading developer-owner-operator of submarine fiber optic cable systems, has selected its Buenos Aires Edge Data Center ...

Facebook plans two more data centers in Dublin

Jun 30, 2018 | Posted by Eric Advinci | Facebook Clonee Ireland

Two years after breaking ground on its first Irish data center, Facebook is planning another two facilities on the same campus in Clonee, Meath County, 10 miles (17km) north of Dublin, according to the Irish Times. The data centers, representing an investment nearing €300 million ($349m), will...

vXchnge and Microsoft Partner to Offer Azure ExpressRoute Connectivity in 5 Data Centers

Jun 26, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | vXchnge

vXchnge recently announced the availability of Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute in its Austin, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Santa Clara and St. Louis data centers. Utilizing vXchnge as the platform for high availability data centers, vXchnge customers can now leverage the interconnection solutions b...

Digital Colony Completes Acquisition of Digita Oy (PR)

Jun 25, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | Digita Oy

BOCA RATON, Fla. and HELSINKI /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Colony, a global investment firm focused on enabling the next generation of mobile and internet infrastructure, today announced that an affiliate of Digital Colony has completed its previously announced acquisition of Digita Oy ("Digita") f...

EdgeConneX Significantly Expands Denver Data Center

Jun 21, 2018 | Posted by Eric Bell | EdgeConneX Denver

Herndon, VA – June 21, 2018 –EdgeConneX®, specializing in global data center solutions at the edge of the network, today announces the formation of an Edge Data Center® (EDC) campus in Denver by adding an additional building supporting 21MW of available capacity. In addition, Megaport, the l...

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