Global Data Center News

January 25, 2021

Equinix to expand two data centers in Helsinki, Finland

Equinix Helsinki HE5

The company announced that it will add approximately 800 cabinets to its HE5 and HE7 International Business Exchange (IBX) sites in Helsinki at a cost of $38.8M (€32M). Equinix currently operates six data centers in Helsinki, all of which run on 100% renewable energy.Equinix Press Release on J...

January 21, 2021

EdgeConneX Announces Second Data Center in Santiago Chile

Edgeconnex Santiago SCL01

EdgeConneX has added its 33rd data center market. The company has announced its new Santiago (SCL01) facility with 7MWs of data center capacity. As part of the launch, Oracle was identified as their anchor customer in the facility. The company is planning to build SCL02 on its Santiago campus,...

January 19, 2021

Digital Fortress Acquires Three Atmosera Facilities in Portland

Digital Fortress

Digital Fortress has announced that it has acquired three facilities in Portland from Atmosera. Atmosera will now focus on building its Microsoft Azure services. With the acquisition, Digital Fortress now has 10 facilities across the United States. Digital Fortress was formed in 2012 from the ...

January 18, 2021

Green Datacenter Invests in large Zurich Campus

Green Datacenter Dielsdorf Campus

Green Datacenter announced they will begin construction on a new data center campus North of Zurich in the town of Dielsdorf. The campus, named "Zurich Metro Campus", will have three data center buildings and will contain over 46,000 sqm (495,000 sq ft). There will also be three office buildin...

January 15, 2021

Digital Realty Relocates Headquarters to Austin

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty (DLR) has announced it will relocate its corporate headquarters to Austin, Texas from San Francisco, California. DLR will maintain a presence in the San Francisco Bay Area as one of the world's leading technology hubs.Digital Realty already operates a significant data center foo...

January 07, 2021

Northern Data acquires data center site in Northern Sweden fully powered by green energy

Northern Data AG

Frankfurt am Main – Northern Data AG (XETRA: NB2, ISIN: DE000A0SMU87) acquires a data center facility in Northern Sweden to meet massive customer demand. The site currently consists of six data center halls on an area of 2.5 hectares and will now be further expanded by Northern Data following...

January 05, 2021

1547 acquires the Pittock Block in Portland

Pittock Internet Exchange

1547 Critical Systems Realty has acquired the Pittock Block, a Portland carrier hotel from the Alco Investment Company. Don't call it a trend, but 1547 has targeted a couple of acquisitions that focus on carrier dense data centers. Last September 1547 acquired a Milwaukee carrier hotel, the We...

January 05, 2021

Bluebird Network Acquires ColoHub Data Center in Quad Cities, Iowa

Bluebird Quad Cities

Bluebird Press Release on January 5, 2021 COLUMBIA, MO – Bluebird Network – a communications infrastructure provider and data center operator – is excited to announce that effective December 31, 2020, it acquired the ColoHub Data Center—previously owned by Geneseo Communications—located in Bet...

December 18, 2020

Vantage Data Centers Completes First Phase of Zurich Facility

Vantage Zurich ZRH1

Vantage announced the completion of an 8-megawatt concrete shell in Winterthur, Switzerland which is Northeast of Zurich. The facility is Vantage's first greenfield EU hyperscale building that will be delivered as part of an aggressive $2 billion EU expansion announced in February 2020. At fu...

December 16, 2020

Cologix Starts Construction on Large Ashburn Data Center

Cologix Ashburn ASH1

Cologix has announced it broke ground on a large data center near the Equinix Ashburn campus. The Cologix campus will eventually be 1 million sqft and 120-megawatts. The two-story first phase will be 350,000 sqft spread across 16 data halls. Later phases call for the removal of the church and ...

December 15, 2020

DataBank closes Acquisition of Zayo's data centers

DataBank

DataBank has closed deal to acquire 45 of Zayo's data centers across 20 markets in the US and UK. A second closing for zColo’s data centers in France is expected to be completed in Q1 2021. The deal instantly transforms Databank into a large player in the colocation market. With zColo's facili...

December 10, 2020

AirTrunk launches Singapore and Hong Kong Facilities

AirTrunk Singapore SGP1

On the same day, AirTrunk launched into two new markets, Singapore and Hong Kong. The Macquarie-owned AirTrunk is known for building large data centres in Australia and the new sites are no exception. Singapore SGP1 is a 6o megawatt and 20,000 square metres of floor space. The facility is in...

December 09, 2020

Stream Expands in Elk Grove

Stream Chicago II

Stream has announced that is expanding in the Chicago metro. The new building will be near the company's first data center in Elk Grove and will have 130,000 sqft of raised floor and 32-megawatts at full build-out. The first phase will begin in February 2021 and will finish in Q3 with 4 MW ini...

December 08, 2020

Advania Data Centers Rebrands to atNorth

atNorth

Advania Data Centers, a high-density computing technology company headquartered in Reykjavik, Iceland, announced today that it had changed its name and will now be known as atNorth. Among the other changes will be its logo, tagline, and domain name to atnorth.com. "Rebranding is a logical step...

December 02, 2020

CoreSite launches LA3

CoreSite LA3

CoreSite has officially launched LA3, which was built in the parking lot of LA2 at 900 N Alameda. LA2 has an interesting history as it was that was built in 1940 as a Postal Annex and it was the central mail processing facility for the Los Angeles metro until 1989. The LA2/LA3 campus is conne...

November 25, 2020

Interxion expands in Zurich

Digital Realty: Zurich

ZURICH, Nov. 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Interxion: A Digital Realty Company (NYSE: DLR) and a leading European provider of carrier- and cloud-neutral colocation data centre solutions, announced today it has begun construction on a major expansion project in Zurich. The new facility will be develo...

November 23, 2020

Vantage Acquires Hypertec's Data Centers becomming a large provider in Montreal

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has acquired the data center business of services company Hypertec. With Hypertec's facilities, Vantage will become a large player with additional capacity in the Montreal market. Hypertec’s 49MW campus includes 25MW across two existing facilities and 24MW of expansion cap...

November 19, 2020

Vantage Raises an additional 1.25 Billion in Equity Capital from Digital Colony

Vantage Data Centers

DENVER (November 19, 2020) – Vantage Data Centers, a leading global provider of hyperscale data center campuses, today announced that it has raised US$1.25 billion in incremental equity capital from its existing investors, led by Digital Colony. This funding will be used to fuel ongoing expan...

November 16, 2020

365 Data Centers Acquires Atlantic Metro

365 Data Centers

365 Data Centers, a leading provider of network-centric colocation and other Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions, announces its acquisition of Atlantic Metro Communications, which provides tailored colocation, network and cloud services to large and mid-size enterprises. While contin...

November 10, 2020

Colt DCS launches Inzai 3 near Tokyo

Colt Tokyo Inzai

Colt Data Centre Services has completed the construction of Inzai 3, a 27 MW, carrier-neutral facility in Japan. The facility expands Colt's Inzai campus where the company has two hyperscale data centers. Demand has been strong and the new facility is already 90 percent pre-leased.Colt Press R...

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Equinix to expand two data centers in Helsinki, Finland

EdgeConneX Announces Second Data Center in Santiago Chile

Digital Fortress Acquires Three Atmosera Facilities in Portland

Green Datacenter Invests in large Zurich Campus

Digital Realty Relocates Headquarters to Austin

Northern Data acquires data center site in Northern Sweden fully powered by green energy

1547 acquires the Pittock Block in Portland

Bluebird Network Acquires ColoHub Data Center in Quad Cities, Iowa

Vantage Data Centers Completes First Phase of Zurich Facility

Cologix Starts Construction on Large Ashburn Data Center

DataBank closes Acquisition of Zayo's data centers