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H5 Data Centers Announces San Antonio Carrier Hotel Acquisition

Denver, CO - H5 Data Centers, a national colocation and wholesale data center provider, today announced it has acquired 100 Taylor Street, an 85,000 square-foot data center and carrier hotel in downtown San Antonio. The acquisition expands H5 Data Centers' national portfolio to Texas and now ...

November 28, 2018

H5 San Antonio - 100 Taylor

Utilities plan two 50MW solar plants for Facebook’s Los Lunas data center

As Facebook’s $1bn data center expansion in Los Lunas steams ahead, a joint venture established by several New Mexico utilities is planning to build two 50MW solar farms to power the facility. NM Renewable Development (NMRD), made up of subsidiaries of American Electric Power and local provide...

November 27, 2018

Meta Los Lunas Campus

Flexential Completes $32M Portland Data Center Expansion, Adds 115,000 Sq. Ft.

Flexential, formerly known as Peak 10 + ViaWest, has completed a $32 million expansion of its data center at 5737 NE Huffman Street outside of Portland, Oregon. This Portland data center houses the U.S. cable landing station for the Hawaiki submarine cable, which delivers “low-latency” connection...

November 11, 2018

Flexential Hillsboro 2

Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT II Completes a $23.2 Million Acquisition of Canton Data Center

On October 3, 2018, the Company acquired the Canton Data Center for approximately $9.4 million excluding acquisition fees and costs. The facility is a colocation data center delivering 1.5 Megawatts of existing capacity expandable to 3.0 Megawatts. Located in Canton, Ohio, the data center is situ...

November 02, 2018

Ark: Canton

AT&T Data Center Fire in Richardson Texas Causes Internet Outage for North Texas Customers

Electrical fire at an AT&T data center in Richardson, Texas, caused the company’s customers in North Texas to lose internet connectivity and U-Verse TV services for several hours Monday, city officials said in a statement. The fire started in the facility’s power switch and “burned primary and...

October 26, 2018

AT&T Switching Station (Richardson)

Huge Expansions in Montreal Makes COLO-D one of the Largest Data Center Providers in Canada

MONTREAL - COLO-D is proud to announce that it will develop a new 150 MW data center in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, 15 km from downtown Montreal. This move makes COLO-D Canada's largest data center provider for enterprise customers. Simultaneously, COLO-D will add 15 MW to its D2 facility in Lon...

October 26, 2018

Cologix Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville (Colo-D3 Proposed)

Facebook and First Solar plan a 58 MW solar project for Prineville Oregon data center

Story originally appeared on Solar Power WorldA solar power plant developed and to be built by First Solar will help support Facebook’s Prineville, Oregon, data center with 100% renewable energy. Through a power purchase agreement (PPA) with PacifiCorp, the 58-MWac Cove Mountain Solar Project ...

October 23, 2018

Facebook Prineville

Netrality Properties Extends Amazon Web Services Direct Connect in Kansas City

Netrality Properties, owner and operator of network neutral interconnection and data center properties, announced today the immediate availability of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect service in its Kansas City facility — 1102 Grand. Netrality can now offer customers secure and private con...

October 22, 2018

1102 Grand St (Netrality) Kansas City Carrier Hotel

Opus Interactive Launches New Federal Cloud Services Offering from Iron Mountain’s Northern Virginia Data Center

Opus Interactive is expanding to the East Coast. The new Opus data center is located in Iron Mountian's Northern Virginia data center in Manassas. Source: Bu...

October 17, 2018

Iron Mountain Northern Virginia (Manassas)

Vantage expands first Santa Clara campus to 75MW

American colocation provider Vantage Data Centers has completed the final expansion of its first campus in Santa Clara, California. The four-story building, codenamed V5, adds 15MW of power capacity, bringing the campus total to 75MW and securing the company’s position as the owner of the larg...

October 02, 2018

Vantage: Santa Clara CA1

DC Blox is opening 10MW data center in Huntsville, Alabama

Atlanta-based cloud and colocation provider DC Blox is about to open a data center in Huntsville, Alabama. The first phase of the project offers 9,000 square feet of white space and 3,600 square feet of office space, including conference rooms, staging areas and workstations. The building i...

October 02, 2018

DC BLOX Huntsville

Facebook expand Prineville, Oregon data center for $750m

Social network and advertising giant Facebook plans to add another two buildings to its data center campus in Crook County, Oregon, by mid-2020. The $750 million investment will bring the company's total footprint at the site to more than 3.2 million square feet (300,000 sq m), making it Faceb...

October 02, 2018

Facebook Prineville

Charlotte-IX is Launched, Flexential is an Early Supporter

Charlotte-IX was launched with the support of Flexential. The new peering exchange point is available at Flexential's Charlotte and Raleigh data centers. Learn more at: Charlotte IX Peeringdb.com entry <a href="https://www.p...

September 12, 2018

Charlotte

Google plans $600 million expansion at Pryor Oklahoma data center

Google will spend $600 million to expand its data center near Pryor, the company announced Friday. The expansion will include a new four-story data center at the site that already employs more than 400 people and is the company's second-largest data center. “Oklahoma has proven to be an imp...

September 04, 2018

Google Mayes County Oklahoma

IPI Partners buys Elk Grove Village suburban data center for $119M

IPI Partners bought an Elk Grove Village data center for $118.9 million, signaling continued investor interest in the growing industrial sector. T5 Data Centers sold the 208,000-square-foot, 10-megawatt facility at 1441 Touhy Avenue. It was built by Forsythe Technology, opened in 2015 and sold...

September 04, 2018

STACK Chicago CHI01

Chesterfield County Data Center That Hosts the Virginia Information Technologies Agency Was Sold For $44 Million

With work on one of the region’s largest data centers underway in Henrico County, a smaller facility on the southern end of metro Richmond has changed hands in an eight-figure deal. The two-story, 193,000-square-foot data center at 11751 Meadowville Road in Chesterfield County’s Meadowville Te...

August 25, 2018

Virginia Information Technologies Agency

Equinix Expands NAP of the Americas on the 5th Floor

Equinix has completed the first of two construction phases on the fifth floor of NAP of the Americas, Miami’s big data center and interconnection hub that serves as the biggest gateway the world’s data traffic travels through to reach markets in Latin America and the Caribbean. The phase, whic...

August 25, 2018

NAP of the Americas - Equinix Miami MI1

Close to Chicago-Indiana NAP’s ‘Digital Crossroads’ development will first comprise a 105,000 square foot data center

Workers have broken ground on a $40 million data center in the city of Hammond, Indiana, on the 77-acre site of a former coal plant on Lake Michigan. Led by developers Tom Dakich and Peter Feldman from Indiana NAP, the Digital Crossroads project will comprise a 105,000 square foot (9,755 sq m)...

August 25, 2018

Digital Crossroad (Indiana NAP)

Virginia Beach's new data center park expects to draw the likes of Snapchat, IBM and Uber

A Dutch company wants to create a new data center park to draw the likes of Snapchat, IBM and Uber. NxtVn will spend $1.5 billion to $2 billion to build a hub off General Booth Boulevard to attract companies that seek high-capacity connections from the U.S. to Europe. The company also plans...

August 25, 2018

Virginia Beach

Sabey Data Centers to add 14MW in Washington

Intergate.Columbia is adding another data center building. Seattle-based wholesale colocation provider Sabey Data Centers has started work on a new facility at its Intergate.Columbia campus in East Wenatchee, Washington. Building D will span 140,000 square feet (13,000 sq m) across four ...

August 22, 2018

Sabey Intergate.Columbia

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