Data Center News

The FBI is looking for a vendor to manage its five data centers

Federal Bureau of Investigation

The FBI is looking for a vendor to help manage its major data centers across the United States. The data centers are located in Huntsville- Alabama, Pocatello- Idaho, Vienna- Virginia, Washington- DC, and Clarksburg- West Virginia. Also, the winning vendor will provide engineering and technica...

Blackstone to acquire QTS Realty Trust for $10 billion

QTS Data Centers

Blackstone Group Inc has reportedly entered into an agreement to purchase QTS Realty Trust Inc for a total of $6.7 billion.According to the WSJ, the group's infrastructure unit, Blackstone Infrastructure Partners, with BREIT, its non-traded real-estate investment trust, has agreed to pay $78 a...

Thrive expands data center footprint with acquisition of UK firm Oni

Thrive Luton

Thrive has jumpstarted its expansion with the acquisition of data center services provider Oni. Backed by private equity firm Court Square Capital Partners, the deal gives the fast-growing MSP a European data center footprint.Although the deal's financial terms have not yet been disclosed, thi...

MeluXina supercomputer inaugurated in Luxembourg

Luxembourg

Atos’s MeluXina supercomputer, first announced in September was inaugurated on June 7th, and will be hosted by LuxConnect’s data centers in Bissen. The MeluXina supercomputer The supercomputer is co-financed by the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking and ...

Beeline and Russian Railways sign digital services agreement

Beeline, a Russian mobile operator, has signed a deal to develop digital services with Russian Railways. The agreement will see Beeline and Russian Railways explore IT infrastructure development using Russian Railways’ data center infrastructure. In addition, the Companies look to improve the...

Evoque Data Center Solutions partners with four additional network service providers

Csquare

Evoque Data Center Solutions has announced partnerships with four Network Service Providers (NSPs). It looks to use the partnership to expand its vendor-neutral approach to offering state-of-the-art connectivity to its customers. The new NSPs include Bandwith IG, Everstream, United Private Ne...

QScale breaks ground on AI-focused data center in Levis, Quebec

QScale

Qscale, a new Canadian company, has announced plans to build at least three renewable energy-powered data centers in Quebec. The facilities will specialize in AI, and construction has already begun on the first campus in Levis, with an expected delivery of November 2022.The project, forecast t...

Tencent Launches Four New Data Centers in Asia and Europe

Tencent Cloud

Tencent Cloud has announced its expansion with the launch of four new data centers in Bangkok, Frankfurt, Hong Kong and Tokyo, with a view to launch an additional facility in Bahrain by the end of 2021. This follows the opening of new facilities in South Korea, Indonesia, Singapore. This expan...

Togo inaugurates its first data center

Togo

The Ministry of the Digital of Economy and Digital Transformation recently announced the inauguration of Togo’s first data center. A Tier III+ facility built by CFAOP Technologies will provide sensitive data hosting as a neutral colocation facility.The facility took two and a half years to bui...

Scala Data Centers acquires Algar Tech data center

Scala: Campinas SVCPCP01

Scala has announced its acquisition of Algar Tech’s data center and colocation operations in Capinas near São Paulo for $183 million. The company plans to modernize and expand the Tier III building and use it as a base for a new data center campus.Once the facility, which utilizes photovoltaic...

DCI to build data center in Auckland, New Zealand

DCI Auckland AKL01

DCI Data Centers has announced that it is expanding to New Zealand. The Company was recently granted New Zealand Overseas Investment Office consent to buy land for building a data center in Auckland, New Zealand. DCI didn’t reveal the timeline for building the facility, but it is said that co...

Google to migrate parts of YouTube to Google Cloud

Google

Google has decided to migrate some of its YouTube infrastructure to its own Google Cloud Service. Initially, many of Google’s key services like YouTube and its search engine are being hosted on internal infrastructure that isn’t Google Cloud Computing Service (GCP).Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google...

Plans for Harvard's old Motorola factory to become solar-powered data center

Illinois

The former Motorola manufacturing and distribution facility in Harvard, Illinois, may be given new life, with prospective planners looking into transforming the building into a solar-powered data center.Green Data Center Real Estate in Vancouver is reportedly working with Solar Alliance of Kno...

Yondr purchases 270 acres for Northern Virginia data center campus

Yondr Arcola, VA

After announcing a major $2 billion American expansion plan back in May, Yondr has acquired 270 acres of land in Northern Virginia. Although the specific location details are still under wraps, the company has disclosed that the sites are “in close proximity to Northern Virginia’s major fiber ...

Equinix plans to open $142m Silicon Valley data center this month

Equinix SV11

Equinix will be opening its new $142 million data center at its Silicon Valley on the 30th of June. The data center dubbed SV11 has a colocation space of 61,000 sqft with enough room for 1,450 cabinets. Also, Equinix plans to expand its existing Bloom Energy fuel cell deployment to use as a p...

Switch buys land from Dell for Austin data center campus

Switch Austin "The Rock"

Switch has revealed the primary location of its Fifth Prime data center campus in Texas, following a purchase land agreement with Dell Technologies. The campus will be called "The Rock" and powered by 100% renewable energy.The land, located next to Dell's global headquarters in Round Rock, wil...

TIM Brasil signs solar deal with Faro Energy

TIM Group

TIM Brasil and Faro Energy just announced that they had signed a renewable energy deal. The deal will see Faro Energy supply TIM Brasil with five solar power plants for its network infrastructure before 2021 runs out. Faro will be responsible for investing, constructing, operating, and mainta...

Bechtel and Nautilus form partnership to build sustainable, high-performance data centers

Americas

Bechtel and Nautilus have formed a partnership to deliver data centers with better environmental footprints. The centers will reportedly be energy-intensive, delivering high-performance while prioritizing sustainability. The centers will use Total Resource Usage Effectiveness (TRUE) technology...

COPT forms joint ventures with Blackstone, buys two data center shells

Maryland

Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT) has announced a new joint venture with funds affiliated with Blackstone Real Estate to purchase data center shells.The JV has acquired a 90% stake in two single-tenant data center shell properties totalling 432,000 square feet (40,100 sqm). The propert...

CyrusOne’s European data center portfolio now 100 percent powered by renewable energy

CyrusOne

CyrusOne just announced that all of its data centers in Europe are now running on 100% renewable energy. The Company has facilities in Dublin, London, Frankfurt, and Amsterdam, currently operating on renewable tariffs. Besides, the Company recently promised to be carbon neutral by 2040, and t...