July 18, 2023 Digital Realty Trust
GI Partners has acquired a majority stake in two data centers in Chicago, Illinois, from Digital Realty. This week, the business announced that it had formed a joint venture with GI Partners to sell a 65 percent stake in two stabilized hyper-scale data center facilities and their associated...
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July 12, 2023 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty's KIX13, its newest data center in Osaka, Japan, has been certified as NVIDIA DGX H100-ready as part of the NVIDIA DGX-Ready Data Center program. The facility reportedly received this accreditation, the first Japanese facility to do so, based on its ability to provide a dedicated,...
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July 10, 2023 Amazon AWS
Amazon has purchased a 25-acre parcel of land in Fairfax County, Virginia, close to several of the company's current and planned data centers. BisNow reports that Amazon Data Services Inc. recently paid $34.44 million to acquire a 24.6-acre property at 44150 Wade Drive in Chantilly from Firefox...
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July 07, 2023 CyrusOne
CyrusOne has announced its plans to build its next data center in Frankfurt, Germany. Named FRA6, the facility is located in Germany’s “Digital City” and will offer a total IT capacity of 72 MW delivered over four floors, with each level offering 18 MW. The company shared that the acquired...
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July 04, 2023 CyrusOne
To obtain planning approvals for a data center in Paris, France, CyrusOne had to fight a legal battle. The Versailles Administrative Court overturned the local mayor's orders to prevent the issuance of two building permits. The company intends to convert a former logistics facility in the...
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July 04, 2023 American Tower Corporation
American Tower has submitted proposals for a new San Antonio, Texas, Edge data center. The tower company applied to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation last month to establish the 'American Tower Data Center - Highway 90'. The company intends to invest $15 million in constructing a...
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July 03, 2023 DataCanopy
The just-bought colocation company Data Canopy took over the colocation data center hosting division of IT security provider Ntirety. The deal's terms were not disclosed. Data Canopy, founded in 2007, provides colocation, connectivity, and cloud services from numerous data centers worldwide. It...
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June 30, 2023 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has bought additional land for data centers in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This week, the company disclosed the acquisition of a 387,500-square-foot (8.9-acre) land parcel on its Amsterdam Schiphol campus. According to reports, the acquired land parcel can sustain a 40MW data center...
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June 27, 2023 Amazon AWS
AWS is planning a new data center in Sydney, Australia. Located in west Sydney, under the program name Project Echidna, the facility will see an investment of AU$300 million (US$200m). Built across two stories, the facility will offer 35.2MW of capacity on 9,225 sqm (99,300 sq ft), and is located...
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June 27, 2023 Amazon AWS
According to a news release from Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, Amazon intends to invest approximately $8 billion over six years in growing its data center business in central Ohio. Per a press release on Monday, the $7.8 billion initiative marks the second-largest private sector investment in Ohio's...
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June 22, 2023 Amazon AWS
Old Mutual Limited has announced that it has closed all of its on-premise data centers and moved its entire IT infrastructure to AWS. The company shared that through this move, it has been able to reduce downtime by 50 per cent. According to Old Mutual, which has been a customer of AWS since...
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June 19, 2023 Skybox Datacenters
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 annex...
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June 16, 2023 Sabey Data Centers
Sabey Data Centers has completed the expansion of its Quincy data center, it has announced. The facility now features two buildings, offering over 85 MW; it also incorporated construction methods that reportedly reduce reliance on carbon-intensive concrete. Spanning 525,000 sqft across five...
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June 14, 2023 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty’s new data center, FRA33 facility in Hattersheim, Frankfurt, Germany, has now been completed, it has been announced. The new facility will reportedly offer 40MW of IT capacity spanning 16,000 square meters (172,222 sq ft) of white space. The construction firm that worked on the...
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June 13, 2023 Amazon AWS
More data centers are set to arrive in Spotsylvania County, as applications continue to pile up. Amazon is one of the key drivers here, planning four new data center campuses in Virginia's Spotsylvania and Caroline Counties, equating to more than 10 million square feet of development. Amazon has...
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June 12, 2023 Amazon AWS
SES released a satellite connectivity solution for Department of Defense (DoD) clients using the new modular data center product from Amazon Web Services (AWS). This week, SES Space & Defense, a wholly-owned division of SES, announced that satellite-powered network connectivity is now...
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June 12, 2023 Sabey Data Centers
Integrate Quincy of Sabey Data Centers is suing Grant County, Washington, over its real estate taxes. Over the past two years, the company claims to have paid $3.3 million in county tax payments under protest, reflecting nearly $2 million in excess charges for which it now requests a full...
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June 09, 2023 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty will construct a new data center on the site of an ancient sugar silo at the Port of Marseille-Fos, having won a bid to acquire and develop the land. The new MRS5 facility will reportedly encompass approximately 107,640 square feet and will be operational by the end of 2025....
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June 07, 2023 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty, a US data center company, has had an eventful week raising money and selling data centers. The company announced that it had raised over $1 billion through the sale of shares, with the money going to be used for expansion and debt reduction. Digital is selling the vast majority...
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June 02, 2023 Amazon AWS
Chris Vonderhaar, head of data center design, planning, construction, and operation, has made an abrupt departure from AWS. This announcement comes as AWS continues to invest in its data center footprint, pegged to invest $35 billion alone on new data centers in Virginia by 2040. AWS has also...
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