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Insights: Data Center Site Selection

The latest trends in data center site selection and geography: where cloud computing facilities are being built and why, including the cost of power and tax incentives.

DCF Show: Sabey’s Tim Mirick on the Austin Data Center Market

By Rich Miller - May 19, 2022 Leave a Comment

On the Data Center Frontier Show, Sabey Chief Revenue Officer Tim Mirick joins us to talk about Sabey’s history in data center development, and its big expansion announcements for 2022 in Austin and Central Washington.

Tagged With: Austin, Sabey Data Centers

Hillsboro Data Center Market Boosted by Significant Pre-Leasing

By Rich Miller - May 17, 2022 Leave a Comment

hillsboro data center market

The Hillsboro data center market is poised for substantial growth over the next several years, and data center developers clearly see Hillsboro and the larger Portland, Ore., market as a hot spot for hyperscale and enterprise facilities.

Tagged With: Colocation, Data Center Site Selection, Hillsboro, Hillsboro Data Center Market, NTT

Quantum Loophole’s ‘Data Center City’ Secures Aligned as First Tenant

By Rich Miller - May 10, 2022 Leave a Comment

The Aligned Ashburn data center in Northern Virginia. (Photo: Aligned)

Aligned Data Centers has signed an agreement to acquire land, power, and water at Quantum Loophole’s massive new data center campus in Maryland, a big step toward extending the Northern Virginia cloud cluster across the Potomac into Frederick County.

Tagged With: Aligned, Maryland, Quantum Loophole

Land and Expand: NTT Global Data Centers Builds Out its New Campuses

By Rich Miller - May 5, 2022 Leave a Comment

An aerial view of the NTT Global Data Center Americas PH1 facility in Mesa, Arizona. (Photo: NTT Global Data Centers Americas)

NTT Global Data Centers Americas has spent the past two years entering new markets in Hillsboro, Chicago, Santa Clara and Phoenix. The company’s expansion is now shifting to adding capacity by building more data centers on its campuses.

Tagged With: NTT Global Data Centers Americas, Phoenix

EdgeConneX Continues Global Expansion, Buying Indonesia’s GTN

By Rich Miller - April 28, 2022 Leave a Comment

The GTN data center near Jakarta, Indonesia, which has been acquired by EdgeConneX. (Image: EdgeConneX)

EdgeConneX said today that it will further expand its presence in Asia with the acquisition of GTN Data Center in Jakarta. Indonesia is a fast-growing market for hyperscale operators.

Tagged With: Asia-Pacific, EdgeConneX, Indonesia

New Data Center Players Enter the Greater Chicago Market

By Rich Miller - April 25, 2022 Leave a Comment

A data hall inside the newly-opened Aligned ORD-01 data center in Northlake, Ill. in the Greater Chicago market. (Image: Aligned)

Interest in the Greater Chicago data center market is on the rebound, sparked by economic incentives and new projects in both the Downtown and Suburban Chicago markets. That includes new projects from Aligned and Skybox Datacenters.

Tagged With: Chicago, Chicago Data Center Market, Chicago Data Center Market Special Report, Cloud, Colocation, Data Center Site Selection, NTT, Raging Wire

Sabey Data Centers Enters Austin Market With 72 Megawatt Campus

By Rich Miller - April 18, 2022 Leave a Comment

A Sabey Data Centers facility in Ashburn, VIrginia. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Sabey Data Centers will build a new data center in Round Rock, Texas, providing the developer with a presence in the central United States. The project will bring 72 MWs of capacity into the growing Austin market..

Tagged With: Austin, Sabey Data Centers

Digital Realty Preps New Project Near Key Internet Intersection

By Rich Miller - April 12, 2022 Leave a Comment

Digital Realty is ready to begin building a data center at a prime location in Data Center Alley in Ashburn, Virginia. The company plans to create its 40-megawatt Digital Filigree development on a site adjacent to a key Internet intersection.

Tagged With: Ashburn, Digital Realty, Northern Virginia

A New Framework for Future-Proofing Your IT Ecosystem

By Kathy Hitchens - April 11, 2022 Leave a Comment

IT ecosystem

Amid a cascade of virus variants, natural disasters, and technological changes, it’s beginning to seem like a “new normal” may not even exist. A new white paper from Venyu provides IT leaders with a framework for future-proofing their IT ecosystem in uncertain times.

Tagged With: Cloud, data center partnerships, IT management, technology ecosystems, Venyu

Disruptive Innovation: Innovating Beyond Technology

By Kathy Hitchens - April 11, 2022 Leave a Comment

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Truly game changing data centers recognize that innovation must be a holistic process and look beyond technology to every other aspect of the business. DCF’s Rich Miller and Aligned’s Andrew Schapp and Eric Jacobs will discuss disruptive data center innovation during an April 19 webinar.

Tagged With: Aligned, Cooling, Data Center Design, data center innovations, Financing

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Voices of the Industry

Overcoming Supply Chain Roadblocks: How to Avoid Disruptions in Your Data Center

Overcoming Supply Chain Roadblocks: How to Avoid Disruptions in Your Data Center The data center industry continues to experience significant global supply chain problems. Brett Williams of Service Express, explores the importance of leveraging the secondary hardware market to overcome supply chain roadblocks.

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Ecosystems & the Edge

As edge computing architectures have evolved, businesses have been able to take advantage of new applications that require low latency. But there’s also an opportunity for businesses to create new ecosystems that will generate new revenue. This special report, in partnership with Iron Mountain, looks at how edge computing can turn data centers into transactional market places.

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DCF Spotlight

Data center modules on display at the recent Edge Congress conference in Austin, Texas. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Edge Computing is Poised to Remake the Data Center Landscape

Data center leaders are investing in edge computing and edge solutions and actively looking at new ways to deploy edge capacity to support evolving business and user requirements.

An aerial view of major facilities in Data Center Alley in Ashburn, Virginia. (Image: Loudoun County)

Northern Virginia Data Center Market: The Focal Point for Cloud Growth

The Northern Virginia data center market is seeing a surge in supply and an even bigger surge in demand. Data Center Frontier explores trends, stats and future expectations for the No. 1 data center market in the country.

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Data Center 101

Data Center 101: Mastering the Basics of the Data Center Industry

Data Center 101: Mastering the Basics of the Data Center Industry

Data Center Frontier, in partnership with Open Spectrum, brings our readers a series that provides an introductory guidebook to the ins and outs of the data center and colocation industry. Think power systems, cooling, solutions, data center contracts and more. The Data Center 101 Special Report series is directed to those new to the industry, or those of our readers who need to brush up on the basics.

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