September 30, 2022 Equinix
Equinix is the latest company in the industry to trial hydrogen fuel cells as a power source for data centers. The company will be working in partnership with the Centre for Energy Research & Technology (CERT) under the National University of Singapore's (NUS) College of Design and...
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September 28, 2022 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has reportedly filed to construct a new data center in Chicago, Illinois. The application for construction on the facility outlines that it would span 565,000-square-foot (52,500 sqm) as a 13-story building at 321-337 E. 21st Street, which is opposite 350 E Cermak carrier hotel....
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September 26, 2022 Cogent Communications
Cogent Communications Holdings has acquired T-Mobile’s wireline business for $1 billion. In addition, T-Mobile expects to have a pre-tax charge of $1 billion from selling the unit to Cogent. T-Mobile will also pay Cogent $350m in the first 1 year of closing the deal and another $350m over the...
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September 16, 2022 Equinix
Equinix has announced the expansion of one of its data centers in Zurich, Switzerland. Its ZH4 IBX facility, located at Josefstrasse 225, will see the addition of 850 square meters (9,150 sq ft) of whitespace and more than 200 cabinets. The facility first opened in 2010, and since then, it has...
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September 14, 2022 Digital Realty Trust
In Virginia, a former Digital Realty data center is gearing up for a dramatic transformation. Located in Herndon, the company’s old data center will become an agricultural facility, specifically a vertical farm. Vertical farms have similar power, water, and air conditioning requirements to data...
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September 09, 2022 Digital Realty Trust
Environmentalists are appealing against two data centers Interxion is planning to build in Dublin. The appeal, lodged with An Bord Pleanála (ABP) by John Conway and Louth Environmental Group, argues that there are a "disproportionate" number of data centers in the area and that the facilities'...
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September 05, 2022 Equinix
According to Bloomberg, Equinix and DigitalBridge are the final two companies looking to buy Time Dotcom’s data center business. The companies are looking to sign an agreement to take over the business called Aims Data Centre within the next few weeks. Per sources, Time Dotcom might also retain a...
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September 05, 2022 1547 Critical Systems Realty (fifteenfortyseven)
Fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547) has plans for a large data center campus in Pennsylvania. The company partnered with Green Fig Land Company (GFLC), a real estate company, to acquire over 100 acres of land to develop a data center campus. The data center will span 2 million square...
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August 23, 2022 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has plans to develop a new facility in Dallas, Texas. The data center firm filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation to develop the data center in the Lewisville area of Dallas. The company coined the development ‘Project Gold’ and is looking to invest up to $59m...
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August 15, 2022 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has announced the sale of a “mature” data center. The move is to ensure that more capital is available for new projects. Notably, the company did not reveal which building it sold or who acquired the facility. According to a release from the company, it has disposed of the...
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August 05, 2022 TierPoint
TierPoint has announced that its St. Louis data center in Missouri, which was announced back in September 2021, is complete. The facility, spanning 23,000 sqft (2,100 sqm), is a Tier III-quality facility that offers 14,500 sq ft (1,350 sqm) of production or raised floor space. The facility saw an...
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August 04, 2022 365 Data Centers
365 Data Centers is looking to acquire the major stake in Sungard's US networking and colocation business. Earlier in the year, Sungard US, Canadian, and UK operations filed for bankruptcy. The company also sold most of its UK operations to MSP Redcentric and UK telecommunication company Daisy...
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July 26, 2022 QTS Data Centers
QTS recently published its annual ESG report, in which it highlighted its sustainability achievements and the different projects and initiatives it's pursuing in order to expand its commitment to social and environmental responsibility. This follows the company being named as one of America's...
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July 26, 2022 Equinix
Equinix has announced that it has signed a second PPA with Neoen in Finland in a 10-year deal. The deal will see Neoen (which owns an 80% stake in the project) and project developer Prokon (owning 20%) provide at least 42MW of wind capacity from the 53MW Lumivaara wind park which is currently...
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July 25, 2022 Equinix
Equinix is being faced with a lawsuit from Cloud Conductor LLC, a multi-cloud management firm, over accusations that the colocation giant stole its technology that was placed in one of its data centers. According to the filing, Equinix began offering a cloud connectivity service identical to a...
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July 18, 2022 QTS Data Centers
QTS Realty Trust has acquired up to 400 acres of land in Phoenix, Arizona, for $255 million. The data center REIT also acquired land in the Netherlands for $9 million. QTS acquired the Phoenix property from First Industrial Realty Trust Inc. and Merit Partners Inc. QTS currently operates a...
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July 15, 2022 CoreSite
Stonepeak has revealed that it is acquiring a 29 percent stake in American Tower’s Coresite data center business. The investment firm will pay $2.5 billion for the stake in the business. The deal is expected to close in Q3 2022, subject to customary closing conditions. According to an...
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July 06, 2022 Equinix
Equinix has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Tamil Nadu, India. The MoU will help foster Equinix's planned project in Siruseri, Chennai. The data center company bought 4.5 acres of land for $9 million in the State Industries Promotion Corporation...
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June 21, 2022 ServerFarm Realty
Serverfarm has announced that it has expanded its power capacity at its LON1 data center, by adding an additional 8MW of capacity, almost doubling its power capacity. According to Arun Shenoy, CMO at Serverfarm, 3MW of new power capacity will be available in the next four months, “with more to...
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June 16, 2022 Equinix
Equinix and PGIM Real Estate have announced the opening of SY9x, the first xScale data center in Sydney, following the closing of the two parties' US$575 million joint venture. Located in Rosehill, and adjacent to the Western Sydney CBD of Parramatta, this facility, will be accompanied by a...
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