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Google data center in Clarksville to get power from Yum Yum solar farm

Hyperscale Data Center

The Yum Yum solar farm will be about 175 miles southeast of the Clarksville site. The solar farm is expected to produce about 150 megawatts of clean energy. A large solar farm in West Tennessee will provide carbon-free renewable power for tech giant Google’s data center in Clarksville. Chica...

Vantage Raises an Additional $675 Million in Debt and Equity Financing

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage has raised $675 million for expansion projects in the United States. The company also raised $225 million in December.  That's a lot of capital, however the company has many projects in the works, including: Acquired 4Degrees and entered the Montreal market in December Building a secon...

CentriLogic Names Chris Dorment as Chief Revenue Officer, Expanding its Leadership Team

CentriLogic

TORONTO, ON – CentriLogic, a global provider of managed IT solutions, today announced the hiring of Chris Dorment as the company’s Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). This addition to CentriLogic’s leadership team, following a strategic equity investment, further demonstrates the company’s commit...

Google's Curie Cable System to Land at Equinix LA4 (PR)

Equinix El Segundo LA4

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that Google has selected Equinix for its Los Angeles area cable landing station (CLS) supporting the Curie subsea cable system, the first subsea cable to Ch...

Company with Russian investment no longer owns firm that hosts Maryland election data

The Baltimore Sun reports that a new firm has taken ownership of hosting Maryland’s elections data after a federal investigation into the Russian ties of the previous vendor. Maryland elections administrator Linda Lamone said Monday the state will use Intelishift, a Virginia-based data center...

DataBank Announces Acquisition of PNC Bank’s Pittsburgh Data Center Through Strategic Sale-Leaseback Transaction (PR)

DataBank Pittsburgh PIT2

Dallas, Texas – DataBank, a leading provider of enterprise-class data center, connectivity and managed services, announced today the acquisition of PNC Bank’s data center located in North Fayette Township near Pittsburgh, PA. This marks DataBank’s second data center in the Pittsburgh market a...

GI Partners Announces Data Center Acquisitions From NTT DATA

NTT 2300 W Plano

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – GI Partners, a leading private investment firm, continues its strategy of investing in the infrastructure of technology with the recent acquisition of two technology intensive properties from NTT DATA located in Plano, Texas and Quincy, Washington. The Plano property is an ...

EdgeConneX Enters the Munich Market with the Acquisition of a Vodafone Facility

EdgeConnex Munich

EdgeConneX is entering Munich market through the acquisition of a Vodafone data center. The facility will be ready by Q2 2019. The Press Release is below. Munich facility becomes EdgeConneX’s 9th Data Center in Europe Herndon, VA, – January 21, 2019 — EdgeConneX®, pioneers in edge data center de...

EdgeMicro Begins Testing on Flexential Englewood with 10 Companies

Flexential Englewood

The hype of the Edge data center will be put to the test with EdgeMicro's test lab in Denver. Edgemicro has lined up 10 companies to participate. Looking forward to seeing the results. Denver, Colorado – January 18, 2019– EdgeMicro and many of the most influential companies in the technology i...

Vantage Data Centers Acquires Canada-Based 4Degrees Colocation (PR)

4Degrees Colocation

Santa Clara, CA – Vantage Data Centers, a leading provider of data centers in support of business and mission-critical applications, today announced it has finalized its acquisition of Canada-based 4Degrees Colocation from Videotron Ltd., a Quebecor Media Inc. (QMI) subsidiary, for approximat...

Microsoft Announces Sixth Expansion in Mecklenburg County, Virginia

Hyperscale Data Center

Microsoft Corporation will invest significant capital to expand its Boydton enterprise data center in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. The project is Microsoft’s sixth expansion at the facility since 2010 and will allow the company to further enhance its ability to serve customers in the U.S. and ac...

Virtus to spend £500m on five data centers across London

VIRTUS Data Centres Ltd

British colocation provider Virtus is planning to spend £500 million ($645m) on a network of five data centers in London. All of the new facilities - including some that have been previously announced - will be constructed simultaneously over the next two years, marking this as one of the larg...

Contegix Names Brad Hokamp as Chief Executive Officer (PR)

Contegix

Reston, Virginia – Contegix, a leading cloud application service provider, today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Brad Hokamp as Chief Executive Officer. Hokamp takes over from David Turner who partnered with Strattam Capital to complete an investment in Contegix in 2016. Th...

STACK Plans New Data Center on the AllianceTexas Campus

STACK Fort Worth Alliance

A new data center company is teaming up with the developers of Fort Worth's huge AllianceTexas development to build a major data center campus in northern Tarrant County. Denver-based Stack Infrastructure and AllianceTexas developer Hillwood will build the 400-plus-acre tech project east of Inter...

CoreSite Adds New Amazon Web Services Direct Connect Endpoint at their SV2 Site

CoreSite Santa Clara Campus

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CoreSite Realty Corporation (NYSE:COR), a premier provider of secure, reliable, high-performance data center and interconnection solutions across the U.S., today announced availability of a second native point of connectivity to Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect at...

Compass is Building a Hyperscale Campus in Goodyear, Arizona

Compass Phoenix

Dallas-based Compass Datacenters has acquired more than 200 acres of land in Goodyear, a suburb of Phoenix. The company is building a hyperscale campus that could offer up to 180MW of power capacity once complete. Compass hasn't made a public announcement; the new project was originally discovere...

Equinix Plans to Open a Seoul Data Center in Q3 2019

Equinix Seoul SL1

Equinix has announced it will be building a new International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in Seoul. It will be the company's first facility in South Korea, with SL1 expected to provide more than 18,000 square feet of co-location space, offering an initial capacity of 550 cabinets in the f...

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE announces the Combination of Data Center Assets to create a new company

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

DENVER, CO – STACK INFRASTRUCTURE (“STACK” or the “Company”), the data center company built from the ground up to address the technology infrastructure needs of rapidly scaling enterprises and hyperscale companies, today announced the launch of its newly established platform and strategy. Lev...

eStruxture Expands Vancouver Data Center; Hires Andrew Fowler to Lead Western Region Sales

eStruxture Vancouver VAN1

MONTREAL – January 15, 2019 – eStruxture, a leading pan-Canadian provider of network and cloud-neutral data center solutions, announces the expansion of its Vancouver-based VAN-1 facility. The company also announces that Andrew Fowler, a colocation veteran with 30 years of sales experience, h...

Equinix to Extend Interconnection and Data Center Services to Hamburg (Press Release)

Equinix Hamburg HH1

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 10, 2019 / -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that it has closed a transaction for the purchase of a commercial building at Vierenkamp 1, Hamburg, Germany, from Aspen REG 1. Management GmbH for $11 mil...