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Digital Realty plans to build 430,000 sqft four story Santa Clara facility

Digital Realty will add to its dominant position in the Silicon Valley data center market with a new 48 MW, 430,000 sqft, four-story data center. The first phase 8-megawatts of customer capacity is targeted for the third quarter of 2022.The facility's address is 641 Walsh Ave and is adjacent t...

February 05, 2021

Digital Realty: SJC37

Bluebird Network Acquires ColoHub Data Center in Quad Cities, Iowa

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...

January 05, 2021

Bluebird Quad Cities

1547 acquires the Pittock Block in Portland

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

Pittock Internet Exchange

Cologix Starts Construction on Large Ashburn Data Center

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 16, 2020

Cologix Ashburn ASH1

Stream Expands in Elk Grove

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 09, 2020

Stream Chicago II

CoreSite launches 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...

December 02, 2020

CoreSite LA3

Prime Data Centers Develops New 9MW Santa Clara Data Center

SANTA CLARA, CA — Prime Data Centers, a wholesale data center real estate developer, today announces the development of a four-story, 121,000-square-foot data center in the heart of Silicon Valley. Located at 1111 Comstock Street in Santa Clara, CA, Prime will begin construction within the ne...

October 20, 2020

Prime Santa Clara

Stream Commissions New Phoenix Data Center Campus

Stream has officially launched its data center campus in Goodyear Arizona, which is West of Phoenix. The building will start with 4.5 MWs of critical power and can expand to 40 MW. The building is the first of five 40 megawatt buildings on the campus. Stream Press Release on October 15, 2020: ...

October 15, 2020

Stream Goodyear AZ

DC BLOX reportedly has the Remainder of Trinity Steel Campus Under Contract

The Birmingham Business Journal is reporting that DC BLOX has contracted to buy the remaining lot of the former Trinity Steel campus. The site will be built in phases. The first phase which was built in 2019 has 31,000 sqft and 5 megawatts (MW) of customer capacity.As customers are added, the ...

October 15, 2020

DC BLOX Birmingham

T5 Acquires an Apple data center in Silicon Valley

T5 has announced that it has acquired an enterprise data center in Newark, CA. The description matches an Apple data center near Fremont. It's a legacy site and Apple is continuing to build monster data center campuses, so it makes sense that the iPhone make would divest the property. The nea...

October 07, 2020

T5@Silicon Valley (Newark)

DC BLOX is Building a Data Center in Greenville

DC BLOX has announced it is building a data center in Greenville, South Carolina. DC BLOX has focused on underserved tier 3 markets in the Southeast. Providing a high level of service in underserved markets has been a winning strategy. Greenville is no exception to this strategy.This will be D...

September 10, 2020

DC BLOX Greenville

1547 Acquires a Milwaukee Carrier Hotel (324 E Wisconsin)

1547 Critical Systems Realty has acquired the Wells Building from Ascendant Holdings LLC. The Wells building is located at 324 East Wisconsin in downtown Milwaukee. The building is the defacto carrier hotel in Wisconsin. 1547 Press Release Below: MILWAUKEE, WI (September 3, 2020) – 1547 Data C...

September 04, 2020

1547: Wells Building

Cologix Acquires vXchnge's Minneapolis facility in 511 Building

Cologix has announced it has acquired vXchnge's 16,000 square foot data center in the 511 Building in Minneapolis. The move further strengths Cologix's dominant position in the building. The company's press release is below. Previously in 2015, vXchnge acquired the site from SunGard.Cologix Pr...

August 20, 2020

Cologix: Minnesota Technology Center

EdgeConneX Acquires Expansion Facilities in Santa Clara

EdgeConneX has bought 3 buildings in Santa Clara totaling 229,000 square feet. The Mercury News reports that "An EdgeConneX affiliate, EdgeConneX Silicon Valley Holdings II, paid $83.3 million for the buildings, Santa Clara County documents filed on Aug. 14 show." 1700 Richard Ave: Current Ed...

August 19, 2020

EdgeConneX Santa Clara

Colovore Adds 3.5MW High-Density Colocation Capacity to Silicon Valley

SANTA CLARA, Calif., /PRNewswire/ -- Colovore, the Bay Area's leading provider of high-performance colocation for high-performance computing infrastructure, today announced that it has expanded again and now has 3.5 MW of high-density capacity currently available in supply-constrained Silicon ...

August 18, 2020

Colovore: Santa Clara SJC01

Facebook Announces Gallatin Data Center in Tennesse

Facebook has formally announced its data center project in Gallatin Tennesse via a column Sheryl Sandberg wrote in the Tennessean. The social media company will build a 982,000 square foot facility with a total investment of $800 million. The 809-acre campus will be powered with 220MW of renew...

August 13, 2020

Facebook Gallatin TN

Servpac opens MTP Facility in Hawaii (PR)

MILILANI, Hawaii -- This week, Servpac Inc. announced the official opening of their MTP Data Center and has begun scheduling tours for interested parties. The state-of-the-art facility opens to meet growing demand for a reliable local data solution in a time plagued by uncertainty and enhanc...

August 03, 2020

Servpac MTP Mililani Tech Park

DataBank opens SLC5

DataBank announced it has opened SLC5 in Salt Lake City. The facility is on the Granite Point campus in Bluffdale, UT. The large campus has room for one additional building, SLC6 which is currently in the design phase. DataBank's Press Release on July 22nd 2020: DataBank Announces Opening of ...

July 22, 2020

DataBank SLC5

Facebook will build a new Data Center Campus in Illinois

Facebook has announced that it will build a new data center campus in DeKalb Illinois The DeKalb Data Center facts: The campus is on 505 acres located on Route 23 and Gurler Road. The Facebook-owned land can accommodate five buildings, and two will be completed by 2022. The five buildings wil...

July 02, 2020

Meta: DeKalb IL

DataBank Commissioned its Second Data Center in Pittsburgh

DataBank has opened its second Pittsburgh data center in North Fayette Township, which it acquired from PNC Bank in January 2019. The PIT2 facility, DataBank’s second in the Pittsburgh area, brings the company’s total data center count to 20 facilities in nine markets.

June 26, 2020

DataBank Pittsburgh PIT2

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