Data Center News

EdgeConneX Expands in 6 North American Markets

EdgeConneX

EdgeConneX has announced that it will add almost 20MW of new capacity across six of its data centers in North America. The facilities that will benefit from this expansion are Seattle, Portland, Phoenix, Miami, Detroit, and Chicago.According to Phillip Marangella, Chief Marketing Officer at Ed...

Vantage Data Centers Opens Second Data Center on its Northern Virginia Campus

Vantage Ashburn Campus

Vantage Data Centers just announced that it has completed the first phase of VA12. VA12 is the second of the five planned facilities situated at its Northern Virginia campus. The completed first phase of VA12 will provide 16MW of critical IT capacity to enterprises, hyperscalers, and cloud pro...

Aligned starts work on Chicago Hyperscale Data Center Campus

Aligned Chicago ORD-01

Aligned has announced that it has begun work on its latest hyperscale data center campus in Chicago, Illinois. The 48MW data center is the first to be constructed on the 18.5 acre campus and stands at 220,000 sqft. Once completed, the campus will offer 100+MW of capacity. The data center, ...

Microsoft partners with defense company Leonardo to offer cloud services to Italian public sector

Italy

Microsoft is partnering with Leonardo, an Italian defense group, to provide Italy’s public sector and critical infrastructure providers with cloud services. The deal will see Leonardo offer cybersecurity services and act as a System integrator while Microsoft will provide a cloud platform and ...

Quintillion connects Polar Orbiting Satellites to Equinix SE2

Equinix Seattle SE2

Quintillion has announced plans to connect its new Arctic ground station to Equinix’s Seattle data center. It will extend its network via a subsea fiber network, where, in Seattle, it will connect to Equinix Fabric, a software-defined interconnection service. Located 72 degrees north, at Utqi...

Green Mountain Secures More Land for Data Center Expansion In Norway

Green Mountain Gismarvik

Green Mountain has announced that it has secured 50,000 sqm (538,000 sq ft) of land in Norway in an option agreement with Haugaland Business Park. Located in Gismarvik in Tysvær municipality, the land will enable Green Mountain to begin constructing a fourth data center site as early as 2022.T...

Iron Mountain Completes Agreement to Expand footprint to India with JV with Web Werks

Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain is expected to invest $150 million over the next two years in a joint venture with Web Werks. Web Works is one of India’s top colocation data center providers. Iron Mountain, which is a storage and information management services company first announced its plan to invest on Febr...

Bit Digital Expands North American Footprint with New 40MW Agreement with Compute North

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., April 21, 2021 – Compute North and Bit Digital, Inc. (Nasdaq: BTBT), are pleased to announce an additional 40MW hosting agreement for the expansion of Bit Digital’s bitcoin mining operations in North America, with an important sustainability feature. As part of the agreem...

Serverfarm acquires El Segundo facility from T5

Serverfarm LAX1

Serverfarm, supported by its partner NantWorks, has entered the Los Angeles data center market with the acquisition of a 12-megawatt, 117,500-square-foot data center in El Segundo, CA. T5 Data Centers was the selling party. T5 originally bought and developed the facility in 2011 for $30 millio...

Cologix Acquires vXchnge's Santa Clara Facility

Cologix Santa Clara

Cologix has announced it has acquired a silicon valley data center from vXchnge. The Santa Clara facility sits on 5 acres with a 84,000 sqft building. The building currently supports 9MW of critical load with the ability to expand to a total 19 MWs. The acquisition provides an instant entry in...

IPI Partners Closes Second Data Center Fund at $3.8 Billion

IPI Partners

IPI Partners have announced the final closing of IPI Partners II at $3.8 billion. The funds raised, which is IPI’s second, attracted more than the target, which shows the company has robust support from investors. Matt A’Hearn, Partner at IPI, said the fundraising for IPI II was a tremendous s...

PRINCETON DIGITAL GROUP Secures $230 Million Financing, Charts Out $1 Billion Expansion in China (PR)

Princeton Digital Group

Continued progress against an aggressive 300MW expansion plan Confirms completion of fully contracted 42MW Shanghai data center campus Largest international partner to domestic and international hyperscaler customers in China SINGAPORE & SHANGHAI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Singapore-based Princet...

NTT Opens SV1

NTT Silicon Valley SV1

NTT Ltd., has announced that its Global Data Centers Americas division has opened a new 16MW Silicon Valley Data Center called SV1. NTT Ltd. is a world-leading global technology services provider and this center marks the sixth U.S. data center campus and third data center opening in 2021. The...

Element Critical’s Chicago Data Centers secure $72M loan

Element Critical CH1

Element Critical and parent company Safanad Inc. recently secured a $71.5 million loan to refinance their Chicago data center portfolio. The loan provided by Annaly Capital Management Inc. will go towards renovations for two data center facilities based in the Elk Grove Village area of Chicago...

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres to Expand Its Flagship Defu Campus

STT Singapore 3

Singapore, 8 April 2021 – ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) today announced the construction of STT Defu 3, its newest data centre facility in Singapore to date, the group’s eighth local facility and the latest addition to their flagship Defu data centre campus. STT Defu 3 will boast...

Riot to Acquire Whinstone, Creating a US-Based Industry Leader in Bitcoin Mining

Riot Platforms

Combination of leading US-based Bitcoin miner with owner and operator of America’s largest Bitcoin hosting facility will create leading US-based corporate pillar in support of the Bitcoin mining networkCastle Rock, CO, April 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Riot Blockchain, Inc. (NASDAQ: RIOT) ("...

DATA4 secures €620 million in debt financing

DATA4 Group

Data4 has announced that it has raised €620 million ($737.5 million) in debt financing, which will allow it to overcome new digital challenges and execute its 2024 growth plan. The financing, secured from three banks - Deutsche Bank, Société Générale and SMBC, means the company now has access ...

DC BLOX Breaks Ground in Greenville SC

DC BLOX Greenville

DC BLOX recently announced the construction of its new Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina data center. The data center is being built on 8.5 acres of land in the Global Business Park Interstate 85 and will be the first-of-its-kind multi-tenant data center in South Carolina. It will have an...

Digital Edge to Expand Platform Footprint in South Korea

Digital Edge DC

Acquires two data centers in South Korea and forms a long-term strategic alliance with Sejong TelecomSINGAPORE, April 1, 2021 – Digital Edge (Singapore) Holdings Pte. Ltd. (“Digital Edge” or the “Company”), a leading data center platform, established to transform the digital infrastructure in ...

EdgeConneX enters the Spanish Market

Edgeconnex Barcelona

EdgeConnex has announced its entry into the Spanish data center market with its new edge data center facility in the Sant Boi de Llobregat region of Spain. The new center is only 15 km from the Barcelona city center. The data center is a 7,600 square meter, 8 MW N+1 facility. This facility is ...