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Silicon Ranch to build 107 MW solar plant to power Facebook data center in Georgia

Silicon Ranch has agreed to build a 107-megawatt solar project to power the Facebook data center in Newton County, Ga. Silicon Ranch, the U.S. solar platform for Shell and one of the largest independent solar power producers in the country, contracted with Walton Electric Membership Corporati...

November 21, 2019

Meta Newton Campus (Atlanta)

FBI Cuts Ribbon for New Data Center in Idaho

The FBI and its partners at the Department of Justice (DOJ) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new data center in Pocatello on November 18th 2019. The facility broke ground in October 2017. The new data center will optimize infrastructure, information and services, according to a press rel...

November 19, 2019

FBI Grey Wolf Pocatello

QTS is planning to expand Richmond site in Henrico County

QTS Data Centers is planning an expansion on 210 acres it owns in the White Oak Technology Park at 6020 Technology Blvd. in the county’s Sandston area. The proposed project, which was submitted to the county’s planning division earlier in November, would involve construction of about 1.2 milli...

November 19, 2019

QTS Richmond I

QTS will expand Atlanta-Metro Campus

QTS is expanding its Atlanta-Metro data center campus. The expansion will include the development of a new data center totaling more than 250,000 square feet of leasable capacity and 72 critical megawatts of incremental power capacity, adjacent to QTS’ existing mega data center. The Company ex...

November 04, 2019

QTS Atlanta Metro

Aligned Breaks Ground on Second Salt Lake Metro Data Center (PR)

WEST JORDAN, UT (October 30, 2019) – 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 Salt Lake Metro data center campus, breaking...

October 30, 2019

Aligned Salt Lake City

STACK Acquires Nationwide Insurance Facility and Expands to Ohio

STACK Infrastructure continues to expand its footprint. Stack acquired Nationwide Insurance's facility in New Albany, Ohio. The transaction is the third expansion for the company since raising $850 million in February 2019. STACK Press Release: DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--STACK INFRASTRUCTURE ...

October 16, 2019

STACK New Albany NAL01

Cologix Adds 3rd Data Center Suite in the Dallas Infomart

Cologix, has added a third data center suite in the Dallas Infomart carrier hotel. The new, state-of-the-art DAL3 data center will come online Q1 2020. The latest 13,000 SQF expansion will support the demands of enterprise customers and cloud service providers. "Our new interconnection hub wil...

October 14, 2019

Cologix: Dallas DAL1

KCP&L and Westar Energy are now Evergy

KANSAS CITY, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Local energy providers, Westar Energy and KCP&L are now serving customers as Evergy, the name of the holding company established when the companies merged last year. “This is an exciting time for our company,” Terry Bassham, president and chief executive ...

October 07, 2019

Kansas City

Databank acquired Lightbound and enters Indianapolis

DataBank has closed its acquisition of Indianapolis-based colocation, Internet, voice, network and cloud services provider, LightBound. The transaction adds of two facilities with over 56,000 gross square feet of colocation space and 9.5MW of installed UPS. LightBound’s data centers are locat...

October 01, 2019

Databank Indianapolis IND1

Data Foundry is expanding Houston 2 site

Data Foundry has announced that new data hall is under construction. The new space will offer 27,000 square feet of white floor space and 4MW of capacity. The Houston 2 campus sits above the 500-year floodplain and is rated for 185mph winds, making relativity safer if/when a another hurrica...

September 26, 2019

Switch: Houston 2

CyrusOne Data Centers in Northern Virginia Qualify for Tax Incentives

CyrusOne has qualified for tax incentives in Loudoun County, exempting customers from sales tax payments on all equipment deployed in CyrusOne facilities in that county. The sales tax exemptions are retroactive to 2014. “We have been working to secure this tax incentive for our customers for t...

September 26, 2019

CyrusOne Sterling IX

Facebook will expand Henrico VA campus

Facebook expects to break ground early next year on the second phase of its eastern Henrico County data center development, which will total more than 2 million square feet when completed late in 2020, the company said Wednesday.The company will construct three (3) new 450,000 square foot buil...

September 26, 2019

Meta Henrico Campus

Aligned Energy Completes Phase One of Ashburn Data Center Campus (PR)

ASHBURN, VA – Aligned Energy, 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 completion of phase one of its hyperscale data center campus in Ashburn, Vir...

September 16, 2019

Aligned Ashburn

NYI expands to Chicago

New York Internet (NYI) is expanding to Chicago through a data center acquisition. NYI has acquired the data center business at 800 Jorie Boulevard in Oak Brook Illinois. The facility was previously operated by Navisite. More info in the press release below. NYI Press ReleaseNew York, NY – Sep...

September 12, 2019

NYI Chicago (Oak Brook)

365 acquires Bridgewater New Jersey Data Center from NYI

365 Data Centers announced it has acquired NYI's facility in Bridgewater New Jersey, which is 365's eleventh data center in the US. 365 Data Centers is privately held and the transaction was funded by adding a new equity investor, Turning Rock Partners.Subsequently, NYI used the proceeds to fu...

September 11, 2019

New York Internet (NYI)

Aligned Energy Announces a 8 MW expansion in Dallas

Aligned Energy announced an 8 MW expansion of its Plano data center, located in Northwest Dallas. The expansion at the 19-acre campus, which at full build-out will support a 375,000 sq ft, 60 MW facility is in response to rising demand. Rendering of the Aligned Energy Dallas...

September 11, 2019

Aligned Plano

Chirisa acquires Piscataway facility from Equinix

Chirisa Investments announced it has closed on Piscataway New Jersey facility owned by Equinix. The facility formerly known as Equinix NY12 was previously acquired in May 2017 in a large 28 data center deal with Verizon. The facility is located at 201B Centennial Avenue in Piscataway NJ and is...

August 16, 2019

Digital Fortress Piscataway

Google considers building a Kansas City data center in Northland

Google has tentative plans for a $600 million data center in the Northland. The initiative's code name is "Project Shale." The project was announced at a Port Authority's (Port KC) board meeting on July 22nd, where the board approved a resolution authorizing Port KC to issue bonds for the...

July 23, 2019

Google: Kansas City

Compass Datacenters Begins Construction Of First Two Data Centers On Phoenix Campus (PR)

Compass Datacenters has begun construction of the first two data centers on its campus in the Phoenix suburb of Goodyear, Arizona. The two buildings will deliver a combined 72 MW of IT load, and construction is projected to be completed in Q4 2019. The master plan for the first series of build...

July 09, 2019

Compass Phoenix

Google Breaks Ground on $600M Las Vegas Data Center

Google held a groundbreaking ceremony on July 1st for its new campus in Henderson Nevada, roughly 10 miles south of downtown Las Vegas. The initial building is a 750,000-square-foot and the search engine giant will invest $600 million in the project. According to Google’s application for t...

July 02, 2019

Google Henderson NV

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