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CyrusOne
CyrusOne aims to be “the sky for the cloud” and is building massive data halls to reach that goal. They focus on quickly building hyperscale data centers to meet the growing data needs of enterprise cloud services and IoT.
Headquarters: Dallas, TX
Web: https://cyrusone.com/
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DataBank Buying 4 Houston Data Centers From CyrusOne for $670 Million
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KKR, GIP to Acquire CyrusOne in Blockbuster $15 Billion Deal
Investment giants KKR and Global Infrastructure Partners will acquire data center developer CyrusOne for $15 billion, taking the company private in the largest M&A deal in the history of the data center sector.
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