July 21, 2021 Amazon AWS
In 2021, data centers are responsible for 2% of the world’s CO2 emissions, equivalent to the entire airline industry worldwide. It has also been forecast that by 2025, data centers could consume up to one-fifth of Earth’s power. Increasingly, data center companies are waking up to the fact that...
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July 20, 2021 Amazon AWS
Amazon has announced that it is in negotiations with officials in Ceará, Brazil, to build a data center and a logistics warehouse in Maracanaú, in the region of Fortaleza. According to Diario do Nordeste, it is expected that an agreement with the state government will be closed in the second half...
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July 13, 2021 Amazon AWS
Planning documents recently revealed that Amazon is developing three data centers in Texas. The documents disclosed the project’s name as “Rockfish” and unveiled a plan to build a $56 million, 109,600 sqft (10,100 sq m) data center located on 11625 Old Corpus Christi Highway. This is not the only...
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July 08, 2021 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services just launched its new Local Zones in Philadelphia and Texas. Customers can now deliver applications that need single-digit millisecond latency to both on-premises installations and end-users in Philadelphia and Dallas with these local zones. AWS Local Zones are infrastructures...
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June 23, 2021 Amazon AWS
Amazon has overtaken Google as the largest corporate buyer of green energy in the United States. It also holds the title of being the largest renewable energy buyer in Europe. This comes after the Company announced its fourteen new green energy projects in the Us, Spain, Finland, and Canada. With...
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June 17, 2021 DataBank Pittsburgh PIT2
DataBank has expanded its PIT2 data center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by adding 25,000 square feet of raised floor space to the facility. The company also added an extra 2.5MW capacity to the facility to bring its total floor space and capacity to 40,000 square feet and 4.5MW respectively. The...
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June 17, 2021 Amazon AWS
The Fauquier Times reports that Amazon Web Services is planning to buy 41.7 acres of land in Warrenton, North Virginia if the town finally changes its rules to allow the construction of data centers. At a Warrenton Planning Commission, it was proposed that the rule be changed and data centers...
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May 28, 2021 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services has announced plans to build a new data center region in UAE. The new zone will have three Availability Zones, and it will be open before the mid of 2022. Upon completion, the region will be AWS’s second region in the Middle East after opening a Bahrain region two years ago....
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March 30, 2021 American Tower: Pittsburgh
American Tower has announced it has opened a new Edge colocation facility in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It's a small edge facility located to the south of the city and below Mount Oliver, the 360 square foot Edge facility offers eight customer cabinets, 20 quarter-cabinet lockers, and three full...
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June 26, 2020 DataBank Pittsburgh PIT2
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.
March 01, 2020 DataBank Pittsburgh PIT1
Dallas, Texas – DataBank, a leading provider of enterprise-class data center, connectivity and managed services, announces the Pittsburgh Internet Exchange (PIT-IX) is now available at its Pittsburgh data center (PIT1). Located in NOVA Place, in the newly updated Allegheny Technology Center Mall,...
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January 30, 2019 DataBank Pittsburgh PIT2
Dallas, Texas – DataBank, a leading provider of enterprise-class data center, connectivity and managed services, announced today the acquisition of PNC Bank’s data center located in North Fayette Township near Pittsburgh, PA. This marks DataBank’s second data center in the Pittsburgh market and...
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October 13, 2017 Ark: Pittsburgh Northpointe
US colocation company Involta has opened a 40,000 square foot (3,716 sq m) data center in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. Involta held an opening ceremony at the Northpointe data center that drew more than 200 business and community leaders, including local Republican member of the Pennsylvania...
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May 01, 2017 Verizon Enterprise
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 1, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced the completion of its acquisition of 29 data centers and their operations from Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ). The U.S. $3.6 billion...
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September 16, 2016 Expedient Pittsburgh (North Side)
Expedient announced an expansion of their Pittsburgh datacenter. Details below. ...expansion project at one of its Pittsburgh, PA data centers, located at Nova Place, formerly known as Allegheny Center Mall. The facility is one of two enterprise data centers the company operates in the region....
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June 19, 2014 TierPoint Philadelphia
ST. LOUIS--TierPoint, LLC, today announced it has expanded its national data center footprint with the acquisition of Philadelphia-based Philadelphia Technology Park, LLC (PTP). The 25,700 sq. ft. data center is located within the Philadelphia Navy Yard and is an SSAE 16 Type II audited facility...
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