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Iron Mountain Announces 27 Megawatt Pre-Lease in Frankfurt with Fortune 100 Customer

-- New FRA-1 Data Center 100% Pre-Leased --BOSTON, June 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the storage and information management services company, today announced that it has signed a 27 megawatt data center lease with a U.S.-based Fortune 100 customer in Frankfur...

July 13, 2020

Iron Mountain Frankfurt FRA-1

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

Interxion announces the opening of MRS3 in Marseille (PR)

PARIS – Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier- and cloud-neutral colocation data centre solutions and a Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR) company, announced today the opening of the first phase of MRS3, its third data centre in Marseille. The Marseille campus sits at the heart of the gl...

July 01, 2020

Digital Realty: Marseille MRS3

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

Equinix Launches DA11 Adjacent to the Infomart and a 5G Proof of Concept Center

Equinix has commissioned DA11, a $142m data center expansion nextdoor to the Infomart in Dallas. Equinix acquired the iconic carrier hotel in 2018 for $800m. Equinix also announced the launch of a 5G and Edge Proof of Concept Center (POCC) to provide a sandbox environment for Mobile Network Op...

June 24, 2020

Equinix Dallas DA11

Global Switch expands its European footprint as construction begins at its Amsterdam data centre campus

AMSTERDAM- Global Switch, a leading owner, operator and developer of large scale network dense, carrier and cloud neutral multi-tenanted data centres in Europe and Asia-Pacific has announced that in response to growing demand construction has started on the first stage of a new data centre in ...

June 24, 2020

Global Switch: Amsterdam West

DCI Indonesia has opened JK3 in Jakarta

DCI Indonesia has announced that they have completed the company's third data center on the campus in Cibitung in West Java, Indonesia. The JK3 facility has seven floors with four data hall floors with the remaining floors for M&E equipment. Constructed in collaboration with Equinix, JK3 h...

June 22, 2020

DCI Indonesia: H1-JK3

Sabey is adding 3.6 MW to Manhattan data center

Sabey announced it was adding 3.6 megawatts to its Integrate.Manhattan facility. The construction will be completed by the end of the year.Intergate.Manhattan is Sabey Data Centers’ 1.1 million square foot building located in Lower Manhattan. It is a mixed used building with data center/infr...

June 18, 2020

Sabey Intergate.Manhattan

Digital Realty Breaks Ground on 1st Facility in South Korea

Digital Realty has begun construction on its first facility in Seoul, South Korea. Digital Seoul 1, also know as ICN10, will be built on a 22,000 square foot land parcel within the Sangam Digital Media City in northwest area of the city.The new facility will have 12 megawatts of critical (IT) ...

June 17, 2020

Digital Seoul 1 (ICN10)

New Dark Fiber Provider, DF&I, Announced Investment from IPI (PR)

ASHBURN, Va., /PRNewswire/ -- Dark Fiber & Infrastructure, LLC ("DF&I" or the "Company") today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to receive a majority investment from IPI Partners, LLC ("IPI"). IPI's investment will be used to accelerate the growth of DF&I's footprint ...

June 16, 2020

Northern Virginia

DRFortress will expand its Hawaiian data center

DRFortress is expanding its Honolulu facility. The Hawaiian colocation firm will add 130 cabinets to its existing facility, creating a total of more than 600 cabinets for lease and a space of 55,000 square feet. Upon completion, DRFortress will expand on its role as the largest data center in...

June 16, 2020

DRFortress Honolulu

GIGA Data Centers Building New Colocation Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (PR)

Atlanta, GA — GIGA Data Centers, LLC (GIGA), a new breed of data center provider creating affordable, multi-tenant colocation facilities with unprecedented energy efficiency, today announced the company is building its newest Data Center in Oak Ridge, TN. GIGA secured unanimous approval of i...

June 15, 2020

GIGA Oak Ridge, TN

QTS Creates the New Jersey Network Access Point (NJ NAP)

QTS has announced that it is creating a new Internet Exchange Point (IXP) called the NJ NAP in their Piscataway facility. Baxtel is skeptical that the IXP will thrive unless it is extended into other carrier-neutral data centers in the greater New York region.

June 12, 2020

QTS Piscataway

Facebook announces ninth data center in Prineville

Facebook has announced their ninth data center on the Prineville, Oregon campus. The building will be 450,000 sqft and be completed in 2023. Rendering of the 9th data center accompanied the announcement

June 11, 2020

Facebook Prineville

Northern Data AG provides an update on Texas data center (PR)

Initial commissioning successfully completed / Innovative cooling and proprietary AI systems are online and running well Area of 40 hectares / utilization of one gigawatt is now expected by the end of 2020 Expansion to 3.6 gigawatts planned by 2023 Frankfurt am Main – June 10, 2020 – Norther...

June 10, 2020

Riot: Rockdale, TX

Duocast add POP at QTS Eemshaven

QTS announced that Duocast, a Dutch internet service provider, has established a point of presence in QTS' Eemshaven data center. Duocast offers a portfolio of Internet and Ethernet services, IP Transit, IoT backbone and dedicated hosting servicesThe QTS Press Release - June 10th, 2020: New ...

June 10, 2020

QTS Eemshaven

ServerFarm Adds 14MW to Toronto Data Center

ServerFarm has upgraded its Toronto facility. The project to add 14MW of new critical capacity to ServerFarm’s existing Toronto data center included a major construction phase, which was completed during the COVID-19 lockdown. The facility’s utility power availability is now over 21MW.ServerFa...

June 04, 2020

ServerFarm Toronto TOR1

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE Launches Construction on New Campus in Arizona

Stack Infrastructure, a company that develops data centers and digital infrastructure, acquired 79 acres just outside Phoenix, where it plans to develop up to 1 million square feet of data centers in the up-and-coming Southwest tech market. The Denver-based company bought land in Avondale, Ari...

June 03, 2020

STACK Phoenix

Netrality Acquired INAP's Houston Data Center

Netrality has announced that the company has acquired the Internap Holding (“INAP”) data center in Houston. The facility is located in 1301 Fannin, Houston's carrier hotel. The deal seems to work for both sides. Netrality gets more colocation space to sell in their marquee building and INAP ge...

June 03, 2020

HorizonIQ

Verne Global Secures $27M in Funding to Expand Icelandic Data Center Campus

London, UK, – Verne Global, a provider of advanced data center solutions for high performance computing (HPC), today announced a new round of funding of $27M to expand its Icelandic data center campus. All current investors – the Wellcome Trust, Novator Partners, Stefnir and General Catalyst ...

June 03, 2020

Verne: Keflavik Campus

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