Colony Capital intends to be an active investor in the data center sector in 2020 and beyond. Its recent $185 million investment in DataBank provides insights to Colony’s strategy to expand aggressively into digital infrastructure.
Vantage Data Centers
Founded in 2010, Vantage Data Centers specializes in custom-built data centers with a “near-maniacal focus on efficiency, operational excellence, reliability, testing, and maintenance.” Their data halls with “variable resiliency”, involving less elaborate backup power infrastructure, provides a cost-effective solution for non-mission critical compute loads. With the backing of Digital Bridge, Vantage has continued to grow in the cloud provider market.
Headquarters: Santa Clara, CA
Web: http://www.vantagedatacenters.com/
Sustainable by Design: Vantage Adds Green Features in Northern Virginia
Are customer office space and sustainable design differentiators in a data center? Vantage Data Centers thinks so, offering spacious, sunlit break rooms, and sustainability features that combine solar and wind power, and EV charging stations.
Fiber Connectivity Benefits Silicon Valley Data Center Market
Within the Silicon Valley market, Santa Clara has emerged as the prime location due to power pricing from the municipal utility, Silicon Valley Power. This post, part of a new Data Center Frontier Special Report, takes a look at the current business environment in Silicon Valley for data centers, including disaster risk, power cost, incentives and more.
New Projects Help Address Growing Silicon Valley Data Center Demand
Silicon Valley is a market of markets, with strong activity in both retail colocation and wholesale data center space. This entry in a new Data Center Frontier special report dissects trends in Silicon Valley data center market demand and supply.
Companies see Silicon Valley Data Center Space as ‘Strategic Imperative’
Silicon Valley has seen consistent activity from large data center users and colocation/cloud operators over the last five years. This post from a new Special Report explores the history and market position of Silicon Valley in the data center market, and why Silicon Valley data center space is top of mind for today’s enterprises.
Silicon Valley Data Center Market Sees Robust Leasing Activity
The Silicon Valley data center market is entering a dynamic new phase of growth and competition, featuring new providers and a robust cycle of new construction. A new special report outlines what sets the second largest data center market in the U.S. apart.
Vantage Data Centers Powers Up New Campus in Ashburn
Vantage Data Centers is in growth mode in 2019. The company has just completed its new data center campus in Ashburn, Virginia, and raised $675 million to fund its expansion.
Vantage Plans 1 Million SF Data Center Campus in Phoenix Market
Vantage Data Centers has acquired land in the Greater Phoenix area to build a hyperscale data center campus, the latest step in an ambitious expansion which has kicked into high gear in recent weeks.
Vantage Enters the Power-Rich Quebec Data Center Market
Vantage Data Centers will enter the Quebec market by acquiring 4Degrees Colocation and its two data centers for $200 million. The deal gives Vantage a presence in the hot Montreal market, which is seeing a surge in hyperscale data center leasing.
Ashburn: A Landscape Transformed by Cloud Computing
An unprecedented data center building boom in Northern Virginia offers early lessons on how the Internet knits itself into the fabric of modern life, and how data centers impact the life of a community.
Data Center Frontier is edited by Rich Miller, the data center industry’s most experienced journalist. For more than 15 years, Rich has profiled the key role played by data centers in the Internet revolution.