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DigitalBridge is in Building Mode as DataBank, Vantage Add Capacity

By Rich Miller - December 15, 2021

An illustration of the Vantage Data Centers FRA2 data center camous in Frankfurt. (Image: Vantage Data Centers)

DigitalBridge is notable for its ability to deploy capital and capacity. That was on display this week in expansion announcements for DigitalBridge’s flagship data center platforms, DataBank and Vantage Data Centers.

Tagged With: Atlanta, Berlin, Dallas, DataBank, Digital Bridge, Frankfurt, Vantage Data Centers

Investors Funding Data Center Projects in Smaller Cities

By Rich Miller - March 29, 2021

The DC BLOX data center campus in Birmingham, Alabama. (Photo: DC BLOX)

Investors are increasingly funding data center growth in smaller cities like Chattanooga and Greenville as well as the huge cloud clusters in Northern Virginia. Regional developer DC BLOX has lined up $187 million from Bain Capital Credit and Post Road Group.

Tagged With: Atlanta, DC BLOX, Modular, Modular Data Centers

Microsoft Plans Cloud Data Center Campus Near Atlanta

By Rich Miller - November 20, 2020

Microsoft is finalizing plans for a data center campus near Atlanta, according to local economic development officials, who this week authorized tax incentives and a $420 million bond resolution to support the project.

Tagged With: Atlanta, Atlanta Data Center Market, Microsoft, Switch Data Centers

Data Center Leasing Accelerates in Atlanta Market

By Rich Miller - November 9, 2020

Data center activity is accelerating in the Greater Atlanta market, with strong leasing in the third quarter by QTS Data Centers and Switch, and a substantial expansion by Facebook.

Tagged With: Atlanta, QTS Realty, switch

Facebook Adds 1.5 Million SF of Data Centers in $1 Billion Georgia Expansion

By Rich Miller - September 17, 2020

An illustration of Facebook's expansion of its Newton County, Georgia data center campus, which will add three massive data center buildings. (Image: Facebook)

Facebook will invest $1 billion to add three huge data center buildings to its campus in Georgia. The construction project will add 1.5 million square feet of capacity.

Tagged With: Atlanta, Atlanta Data Center Market, Facebook

Digital Realty, Vapor IO Team on Integrated ‘Core-to-Edge’ Offering

By Rich Miller - June 24, 2020

A Vapor IO edge computing module is installed at a tower site in the Dallas market. (Photo: Vapor IO)

Data center developer Digital Realty and edge computing specialist Vapor IO are rolling out an “edge-to-core” offering in Chicago, Dallas and Atlanta. It’s an early examples of integration between edge computing and data centers.

Tagged With: Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Digital Realty, Edge Computing, Vapor IO

QTS Expands Atlanta Campus to Support 12 MW Hyperscale Deal

By Rich Miller - November 5, 2019

QTS Realty has signed a 12-megawatt lease with a hyperscale customer, which will become the anchor tenant in a new data center building on the company’s Metro Atlanta campus.

Tagged With: Atlanta, Atlanta Data Center Market, QTS Realty

DataBank Atlanta: A Taste of Smart City Projects to Come?

By Rich Miller - June 26, 2019

An illustration of the DataBank ATL-1 data center, part of the Coda mixed-use development in Atlanta's Technology Square. (Image: DataBank)

How will data centers fit into the smart cities of the future? DataBank provides a preview with its new Atlanta data center, which features a liquid cooled HPC center and will reuse server waste heat and include a microgrid.

Tagged With: Atlanta, DataBank, smart cities

Flexential Expands With New Data Center in Atlanta’s ‘Transaction Alley’

By Rich Miller - May 15, 2019

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Financial services is a target market for Flexential as it adds capacity in Atlanta’s “Transaction Alley” in the latest phase of a broader expansion of its national footprint.

Tagged With: Atlanta, Flexential, Wholesale

Cloud Data Centers Are Coming to the Suburbs

By Rich Miller - August 15, 2018

More huge data centers are coming to the suburbs of major American cities, shifting servers closer to consumers in places like Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta and Phoenix.

Tagged With: Atlanta, Dallas, Phoenix

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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.

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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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