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Gaw Capital and Centrin Plan Joint-Facilities in China

STARTING WITH HUAQIAO DATA CENTER EXPANSION Gaw Capital Partners has just announced the establishment of a joint-venture partnership with Centrin Data for hyperscale data center projects in China. Hong Kong-based Gaw Capital Partners is a real estate private equity firm…

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Advania Partners with Exergi on $70M Sweden Facility

ADC STEPS OUTSIDE OF ICELAND Nordic Advania Data Centers (ADC) and Stockholm Exergi have signed a partnership deal to develop a new data center facility in Stockholm, Sweden. According to the agreement, ADC will lease land in Stockholm Data Parks…

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QTS Expands Its Atlanta Data Center Campus

ALREADY SIGNED A 12MW PRE-LEASE Colocation provider QTS Realty Trust has commenced an expansion of its Atlanta-Metro data center campus with the development of a new data center. The new data center is to be sited in the company’s 76-acre…

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Stream Opens New Hyperscale Facility in Texas

OFFICIALLY COMMISSIONED 15MW FACILITY Stream Data Centers has officially commissioned its newly constructed hyperscale data center DFW (Dallas-Fort Worth) VII in Garland, Texas. As announced, this 138,000 square foot facility has positioned the company to meet ongoing demand for colocation…

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Digital Realty to Acquire Interxion in $8.4B Deal

DIGITAL REALTY BECOMES EUROPE’S SECOND LARGEST Digital Realty has just entered into a definitive agreement to acquire European data center giant Interxion in an $8.4 billion deal. The transaction which includes debts, values Interxion at $93.48 per share, a 5.4%…

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Microsoft beats Amazon to Win DoD’s $10B Contract

AZURE MAKES IT TO THE MILITARY ZONE At long last, DoD’s (US Department of Defense) controversial $10 billion JEDI cloud contract has just been awarded to Microsoft over Amazon. The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud deal is expected to…

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AWS Gets 15yrs Tax Break on 7th Oregon Campus

A $200 MILLION DATA CENTER FACILITY Amazon’s cloud arm AWS, has gotten a 15-year total property tax exemption for its planned data center campus, which is to be sited in Hermiston, Oregon. Hermiston is a small city in Umatilla County,…

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AMP Capital Acquires Data Center Firm Expedient

AMP GAINS 11 DATA CENTERS U.S. data center provider Expedient, has announced that AMP Capital is set to acquire the company from its current parent, Landmark Media Enterprises, LLC. Expedient is primarily focused on providing data center services in the…

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Interxion Turns German WW2 U-Boat Base to Data Center

€140M FOR BUNKER CONVERSION Dutch colocation provider Interxion, plans to turn a long-abandoned World War II German submarine base in Marseille, into a data center. The company has set out €140 million to convert the uncompleted Southern France “Martha Base”…

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Mark Hurd, Oracle Co-CEO Dies at Age 62

ONE OF THE ULTIMATE SALESMEN IN SILICON VALLEY Larry Ellison, Chairman of Oracle Corporation confirmed and immediately announced the passing of Mark Hurd, which occurred in the morning of Friday, 18 October. Until his death at 62, Mark served as…

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