GOOGLE TO INVEST $672M IN FINLAND Google Cloud has disclosed plans to invest about €600 million ($672 million) in a new Finnish data center. The new facility is to be sited in Hamina, Finland. The new facility will be Google’s…
STT GDC and FTP Builds First Datacenter ST Telemedia Global Data Centers (STT GDC) have joined forces with real estate firm Frasers Property Thailand to build their first hyperscale data center facility in Bangkok. The hyperscale data center project is…
Compass begins construction in Loudoun Campus Compass Datacenters has just commenced the construction of its first data center in Loudoun County, Virginia. The company will be applying its 1.2MW incremental design principle to the campus model, in order to achieve…
Telefonica Sells 11 DC to Asterion Spanish telecom firm Telefónica, has signed an agreement for the sale of 11 data center facilities to the Pan-European infrastructure fund manager; Asterion Industrial Partners, for a total amount of €550 million ($615.7m). It…
Facebook Fifth DC in Altoona The Social media giant Facebook, has gained the approval of Altoona City Council for the development its fifth data center facility in Altoona, Iowa. The new $400 million facility is designed to be H-shaped and…
QTS $44m Data Centers in Netherlands US-based QTS Realty Trust, has just acquired two operational data centers in the Netherlands from TCN SIG Telehousing BV for about $44 million. The acquired data centers are sited in Groningen and Eemshaven, both…
Equinix Opens London LD7 Equinix has opened its new International Business Exchange (IBX) data center LD7 at its London Slough campus. This new £90 million ($120m) facility is the company’s 12th data center in the UK. LD7 offers space for…
Cyxtera Expands in Frankfurt, London and Amsterdam Cyxtera Technologies announced at its annual user conference CyxteraCon, the launch of a new data center in Frankfurt and expansion of its London facility, all scheduled to be available in July this year.…
T5 and QuadReal $2.5B Partnership T5 Data Centers and QuadReal Property Group have just unveiled a platform to develop, acquire and operate data centres with a joint commitment of $2.5 billion in investment. This partnership is a response to the…
Equinix Acquires Switch AMS1 The Amsterdam based colocation provider Switch Datacenter, has announced the acquisition of it’s Amsterdam Datacenter AMS1 by Equinix for $34 million (€30 million) in cash.AMS1 currently offers 89,500 square feet of total floor space with 250…
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