Data Center News

Data center expansion targetted in Elk Grove, Chicago

Stream Data Centers

The Elk Grove area of Chicago is being targeted as a site of data center expansion by numerous operators. Aligned, Stream and Nexstar are all seeking to develop data centers in the area.  Aligned, for example, is planning to demolish three office buildings it acquired for $29 million, along No...

Supply chain drawbacks exacerbate data center outages

According to AFCOM's annual State of the Data Center 2023 report, data center disruptions are related to supply chain shortages. AFCOM conducts market analysis in the IT and data center industries by polling its members. According to the report, 44% of data center administrators who were surve...

Brazil's V.tal purchases land for the construction data center in Fortaleza

Brazil / Brasil

V.tal, a Brazilian data center company, has acquired land in Fortaleza, Brazil, to construct a data center. The facility, which will have 20MW of IT capacity, has been named Mega Lobster. It will also be the first hyperscale-oriented initiative for the company. The size, cost, and construction...

98MW data center facility planned outside Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire

London

Greystoke Land Ltd has applied to the Three Rivers District Council to demolish extant structures on a 33-hectare site north of Mansion House Farm through Bedmond Road in Abbots Langley to construct a data center campus. The company intends to construct two data center structures totaling up t...

Etix Everywhere acquires five French data centers from DataBank

Etix Everywhere

US data center operator DataBank is transferring its data center portfolio in France to Etix Everywhere and leaving the country. This week, the company owned by DigitalBridge announced that it had reached an agreement with Etix Everywhere to sell all five of its facilities in France (which run...

Edged Energy begins work on Atlanta data center

Atlanta

Construction on Edge Energy's Atlanta, Georgia data center is underway, with the company commencing work on July 1st. Located at Tilford Yard, the company bought the 158 acre-site back in July 2021; 70 acres will be dedicated to data center development. In January 2023, it filed a building per...

Iron Mountain signs 24/7 PPA for hydropower in US

Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain has signed a 24/7 PPA agreement with Rye Development, a US hydropower developer, for 150 ME of power over the next ten years from a number of the developer's low-impact hydroelectric projects. Rye Development seeks to integrate power generation capabilities into existing dams wi...

Microsoft partners with Constellation for hourly carbon-free energy matching agreement

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has teamed up with Constellation to reduce the carbon footprint of one of its data centers in Boydton, Virginia. By signing an hourly carbon-free energy matching agreement with the energy producer, Microsoft's Boydton facility will receive up to 35 percent in environmental attribute...

H5 Data Centers to expand its Phoenix data center

H5 Data Centers

H5 Data Centers has announced a 30,000 sqft expansion of its Phoenix colocation facility. Located at 2600 W. Germann Road in Chandler, AZ, this expansion is part of the company's third phase of development at the 180,000-square-foot data center.Further to this square-footage expansion, phase ...

American Tower submits plans to construct Edge data center in San Antonio, Texas

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 ...

Hyperscale data center from Equinix opens in Japan's capital

Equinix

This week, the company revealed the opening of TY13x. Situated in the Inzai region and opposite TY12x, TY13x provides 8MW in the first phase and 36MW when fully constructed. In October 2019, Equinix partnered with Singapore's GIC sovereign wealth fund to develop hyperscale centers under the xS...

NTT devotes $50 million toward the Garland campus' tenant fit-out.

NTT

NTT will spend $50 million to construct two of its data centers for a new tenant in the Garland area of Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. The company submitted applications to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation for two fit-out projects at its existing campus under construction structure...

French court reverses injunction against CyrusOne's Paris data center construction

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 Vill...

Servpac's Hawaii data center to be expanded

Servpac

Servpac Inc. is expanding its Hawaii data center in Mililani Technology Park (MTP). Servpac announced on June 27 that it had begun work at the MTP data center with the goal of doubling the facility's colocation capacity.The construction work is expected to be finished by October this year and...

Sale of the Alliance Gateway data facility in Fort Worth, Texas

The Fort Worth, Texas Alliance Gateway Data Center has been put up for sale. Listed by Cushman & Wakefield on LoopNet, the 13.2-acre data center is located at 13701 Independence Parkway. The two-story, 209,200-square-foot building is available for only one tenancy. A potential IT capacity ...

Cyxtera decids not to lease data center owned by Stack in Elk Grove, Illinois

Cyxtera Technologies

Due to ongoing losses and impending debt maturities, struggling Cyxtera issued a Chapter 11 bankruptcy claim last month. The company is seeking a buyer or potential investor. As part of the procedure, the company turned down the lease at the Stack-owned facility on Touhy Avenue in the Elk Grov...

The colocation and hosting business of Ntirety acquired by Data Canopy

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. I...

Telia maintains Finnish data center with Caverion.

Caverion remains Telia's associate in Finland for data center maintenance. Telia Finland and Caverion continue their data center maintenance cooperation. Caverion is tasked with maintaining the Telia Helsinki Data Center and other large and medium-sized data facilities in Finland for the exten...

Edge data center launched by SBA Communications at Arlington tower site

SBA Edge

SBA Communications, a tower company, has launched a new Edge data center in the Dallas-Fort Worth region of Texas. The precise location and configuration of the data center were not disclosed. SBA CEO Jeff Stoops has previously stated that the majority of the company's Edge rollout will consi...

AirTrunk officially starts the TOK1 facility expansion in Tokyo, Japan

AirTrunk Tokyo TOK1

AirTrunk has begun work on an expansion of its Tokyo, Japan, TOK1 campus. Senior AirTrunker personnel and construction partners attended a traditional "jichinsai" Shinto launching ceremony to spiritually sanctify the land in preparation for safe and efficient construction. No timelines for com...