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Invesco has purchased a data center in San Jose, California, run by Equinix. Mercury News reports that the Sobrato Organization recently sold 1735 Lundy Avenue in San Jose to Invesco Real Estate for $86.3 million, citing documents from Santa Clara County.The single-story building encompasses 1...

Everest Infrastructure Partners has purchased TowerCo Blue Sites Telco in Portugal. It is the fourth global market in which Everest has invested, following the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. Blue Sites Telco, established in 2017, is Portugal's largest communications tower lease agg...

The French cloud and data center organization Scaleway separates its data center division into a separate businesses. President and former CEO of Scaleway, Arnaud de Bermingham, announced on Linkedin that he would oversee the new 46-person unit. In response to a commentator's inquiry about whe...

Edge Centres has acquired a data center facility in Reston, Virginia. According to the company, the newly-acquired carrier hotel establishment, renamed EC104, features 1MW of scalability and 20 individual carriers. The data center is at 11513 Sunset Hills Road in Fairfax County, although the c...

Globe Telecom announced on Tuesday that its joint venture with Ayala Corporation and Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centers would increase its capacity by 5.2MW by the end of the third quarter of this year. The expansion of ST Telemedia Global Data Centers Philippines (STT GDC Philip...

AFL Hyperscale, a prominent provider of connectivity solutions, is thrilled to introduce its two new innovative Data Center Interconnect (DCI) solutions – Connectorized and Splice – to transform how organizations connect and manage their data centers. These novel products enable customers to c...

Telenor and local energy company Hafslund have announced they're partnering to establish a joint venture to build data centers in Oslo, Norway. That said, ownership of the new company is split equally between Telenor, Hafslund, and HitechVision, each with 31.7 percent; Analysys Mason, a consu...

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres has announced the launch of its STT Jakarta 1. This facility is the first building to be completed at the company's data center campus, which is being developed with Triputra Group and global investment company Temasek via a JV. At full build-out, the campus w...

FullSave has announced the opening of a new data center in Auch. Offering 30-rack and spanning across two 70 sqm (753 sq ft) IT rooms, the facility also has a PUE of 1.4. Arnaud Turpin, IT manager at FullSave, said: "Our site has its own 144-fiber artery between Auch and Toulouse. Our data cen...

Secure I.T. Environments, a provider of modular data centers, has delivered a micro data center to a healthcare facility in London, United Kingdom. The intensive care unit (ICU) at Barnet Hospital got the 42U Micro Data Centre 3 this past week. The encapsulated facility has a maximum load capa...

365 Data Centers is constructing an additional data center space at its Tampa, Florida, site. The Tampa Internet Exchange and 25 carriers are housed in the Franklin Exchange building at 655 North Franklin Street, the campus location. The company's current market footprint will double due to t...

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners will acquire Compass Datacenters with the company's current investor, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. This week, Brookfield Infrastructure, its financial partners, and longtime investor Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan revealed that they had officially agreed t...

Despite budget cutbacks, Hawaii's government will proceed with a proposed data center relocation. Gov. Josh Green of Hawaii had to make use of his line-item override to cut the General Appropriations Bill of 2023 and balance Hawaii's fiscal strategy with $500 million in budget cuts, but he ret...

NextDC has announced that it has completed construction at its S3 data center in Sydney, Australia, following AU$1 billion (US$685m) of investment, two months ahead of schedule. Construction first began at the facility in March 2021, with the first phase completed last year, in August. The se...

NetActuate has announced the completion of a second round of infrastructure and connectivity upgrades at its Santiago data center in Chile to increase the availability of virtual servers and high bandwidth services. Its Santiago facility is now the third location to receive an anycast platfor...

México Telecom Partners (MTP), a Mexican telecommunications company, has opened a new data center in Mexico City. The entity owned by DigitalBridge reportedly put in $17.5 million in the endeavor. Location and infrastructure specifications were not disclosed. The facility is not intended for h...

Following a successful legal challenge, Link Park Heathrow’s plans for a new data center in Buckinghamshire are going ahead. First filed in December 2020, the company was seeking to demolish the existing buildings at its site on Thorney Mill Road in Iver to develop a 55,000 sqm (592,000 sq ft)...

City Council took action to move the development process along almost a year after it was revealed that Dallas-based Skybox Datacenters and its San Francisco-based partner Prologis Inc. bought more than 220 acres in Hutto. At a meeting on June 15, officials granted preliminary approval to anne...

Cisco has announced its plans to establish a new data center in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The facility, the company said, will help customers protect their users, infrastructure, and investments against threat actors. Dedicated to cloud-delivered security, the facility is pegged to p...

Following concern being raised over the dangers posed by continued data center expansion, Ireland’s Labour Party has joined the call to halt data center building and, instead, introduce a temporary surcharge.Speaking about this, Labour leader and climate spokesperson Ivana Bacik, said that the...