Global Data Center News

June 08, 2020

Equinix Prices Offering Of $2.6 Billion Senior Notes (PR)

Equinix

REDWOOD CITY, Calif /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. ("Equinix") (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, announced the pricing of its underwritten public offering of $2.6 billion aggregate principal amount of senior notes, consisting of $500,000,000 of 1.250% Senior No...

June 04, 2020

ServerFarm Adds 14MW to Toronto Data Center

ServerFarm Toronto TOR1

ServerFarm has upgraded its Toronto facility. The project to add 14MW of new critical capacity to ServerFarm’s existing Toronto data center included a major construction phase, which was completed during the COVID-19 lockdown. The facility’s utility power availability is now over 21MW.ServerFa...

June 03, 2020

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE Launches Construction on New Campus in Arizona

STACK: Phoenix 01 Campus

Stack Infrastructure, a company that develops data centers and digital infrastructure, acquired 79 acres just outside Phoenix, where it plans to develop up to 1 million square feet of data centers in the up-and-coming Southwest tech market. The Denver-based company bought land in Avondale, Ari...

June 03, 2020

Netrality Acquired INAP's Houston Data Center

1301 Fannin - Netrality Houston

Netrality has announced that the company has acquired the Internap Holding (“INAP”) data center in Houston. The facility is located in 1301 Fannin, Houston's carrier hotel. The deal seems to work for both sides. Netrality gets more colocation space to sell in their marquee building and INAP ge...

June 03, 2020

Verne Global Secures $27M in Funding to Expand Icelandic Data Center Campus

Verne: Keflavik Campus

London, UK, – Verne Global, a provider of advanced data center solutions for high performance computing (HPC), today announced a new round of funding of $27M to expand its Icelandic data center campus. All current investors – the Wellcome Trust, Novator Partners, Stefnir and General Catalyst ...

June 02, 2020

Aligned Begins Construction on Second Hyperscale Data Center in Ashburn, VA (PR)

Aligned Ashburn

ASHBURN, VIRGINIA – JUNE 2, 2020 – Aligned, a leading data center provider offering innovative, sustainable and adaptable colocation and build-to-scale solutions for cloud, enterprise, and managed service providers, announces the expansion of its hyperscale data center campus in Ashburn, Virg...

June 02, 2020

CoreSite finishes the first phase of CH2

CoreSite Chicago CH2

CoreSite has announced it has completed the first phase of its second data center in Chicago. CoreSite has designed and built a 169,000 square foot facility with a total of 18 megawatts of capacity, known as “CH2,” in the heart of downtown Chicago. The CH2 data center is one of the first purpo...

May 27, 2020

Bouygues selected to build VIRTUS's LONDON7 facility

VIRTUS Stockley Park Campus

Bouygues, the French contractor announced it has been selected by VIRTUS Data Centres to build its LONDON7 data centre, located in Stockley Park. Bouygues Energies & Services Contracting will be responsible for the design, build, electrical and mechanical services and commissioning of the...

May 25, 2020

Facebook gets approval for a Tennessee data center

Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook will purchase a $15 Million USD parcel of land for a 970,000 square foot data center campus in Gallatin, Tennessee. Facebook is using the shell company Woolhawk LLC as the acquiring entity. What we know: On May 19th the Gallatin City Council approved tax breaks and a development agre...

May 25, 2020

QTS Ashburn-Shellhorn Construction on Fast-Track Program

QTS Ashburn-Shellhorn

QTS has announced that it is fast tracking 42MW in Ashburn. Their construction blog post is below: QTS Ashburn-Shellhorn, our newest greenfield data center campus in the Ashburn, VA market has gotten underway in a hurry - with construction five weeks in and well ahead of schedule. The QTS Deve...

May 21, 2020

Sabey adds Azure ExpressRoute to Quincy Campus

Sabey Intergate.Quincy

Sabey announced that it has added a Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute node to its Intergate.Quincy data center campus in central Washington, enabling Sabey’s customers to create private connections between their IT environment and Microsoft Azure and Office 365.Sabey Press Release on May 21st 2020

May 19, 2020

Segra Acquires NorthState

Segra

Charlotte, NC – Segra, one of the largest fiber infrastructure bandwidth companies in the Eastern U.S., today announced it has acquired NorthState, a provider of high-speed bandwidth services in the fast-growing Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina. The acquisition expands Segra’s fiber ne...

May 15, 2020

STACK Acquires Land in Atlanta and plans to Expand Campus Capacity to 20 MW

STACK Atlanta ATL02

Stack Infrastructure announced plans to expand its Alpharetta facility and more than double its digital infrastructure capacity to nearly 20 megawatts.STACK currently operates a 105,000 sqft, 7 MW data center on 12 acres at 3200 Webb Bridge Road. The company now plans to build a 2-story facili...

May 12, 2020

EdgeMicro raises $5 million from DH Capital (PR)

EdgeMicro

Denver, Colo. – EdgeMicro, a leading edge colocation company, lands $5 million to accelerate its expansion. DH Capital, LLC, an investment banking firm serving companies in the internet infrastructure, communications, and software sectors, served as EdgeMicro’s financial advisor. “We are plea...

May 11, 2020

Internap Emerges from Bankruptcy

HorizonIQ

Internap (INAP) has completed a financial restructuring and emerged from bankruptcy. On March 16, Internap filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to strengthen its capital structure. INAP negotiated a “prepackaged” bankruptcy with its lenders: Completed the reorganization in just seven weeks It emerg...

May 11, 2020

PFA buys 20% of DATA4 from AXA IM for €200m

DATA4 Group

Denmark’s largest commercial pension fund PFA has bought a 20% stake in data centre platform DATA4 from AXA in its continued drive to pile on foreign real estate. The DKK688bn (€92.2bn) pension fund said it bought the shares from AXA Investment Managers - Real Assets, which was also serving as...

May 11, 2020

Aligned Increases Facility to $575 Million (PR)

Aligned

DALLAS – Aligned, a leading data center provider offering innovative, sustainable and adaptable colocation and build-to-scale solutions for cloud, enterprise, and managed service providers, announces it has increased its secured credit facility to $575 million as the company experiences conti...

May 10, 2020

Teraco announces new 30 MW facility in Cape Town

Teraco Cape Town CT2

South African data center operator Teraco is building a new data center, Cape Town 2 (CT2). Construction on the site commenced in early March 2020 and will continue in line with local COVID-19 restrictions with a targeted completion date of Q3 2021. The completed facility will comprise of eigh...

May 07, 2020

Flexential Announces it's third Facility in Portland

Flexential Portland - Hillsboro 3

Flexential has announced it will build its largest data center yet in Portland metro. The facility will be 358,000 square feet, offering 36 megawatts of power on a 20-acre lot. Groundbreaking is scheduled for the summer of 2020. This new data center will connect to Flexential’s Portland-Hills...

May 07, 2020

Aptum sells fiber and transport business to Beanfield Metroconnect

eStruxture TOR-1

Beanfield Metroconnect, a Canadian independent telecommunications infrastructure provider, has added to its bank account and its fiber network footprint. According to owners Digital Colony, the global digital infrastructure investment platform of Colony Capital, Inc. (NYSE: CLNY), Beanfield ha...

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Equinix Prices Offering Of $2.6 Billion Senior Notes (PR)

ServerFarm Adds 14MW to Toronto Data Center

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE Launches Construction on New Campus in Arizona

Netrality Acquired INAP's Houston Data Center

Verne Global Secures $27M in Funding to Expand Icelandic Data Center Campus