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In a blog post, LinkedIn’s engineering team announced that it working to deploy its Open19 technology in its data centers. The Open19 project, which LinkedIn launched in July 2016, aims to establish a new open standard for servers based on a common form factor. The Open19 platform is based on the standard 19-inch, four post […]
Facebook has chosen Huntsville, Alabama for its next hyperscale data center location. Facebook estimates it will invest $750 million in the 970,000 square foot facility. As with its other data centers, Facebook committed to 100% renewable energy and is looking at new solar projects in the area. The company says it is working with the […]
Telia Carrier is now providing its 100G-enabled IP backbone and transmission network to Sabey Data Center Properties in Seattle. Intergate.Seattle is Sabey Data Center’s flagship property and is the largest privately owned multi-tenant campus on the west coast. It is composed of two campuses, eight buildings and more than 1,373,000 square feet of data-center space. […]
Chayora Limited has begun construction of a 300MW, 32-hectare (80 acre) data center campus in Beichen, Tianjin, China. The facility, which is designed for up to full 2N resilience and redundancy with dedicated substations for a 25MW IT load, will use prefabricated modular data centre design and construction techniques. The first building on the campus […]
Telia Carrier activated a connectivity node in QTS’ mega data center in Richmond, Virginia. The data center is a 1.3 million square foot facility with more than 550,000 square feet of raised floor capacity. The 220-acre QTS campus features 12 megawatts currently available with the ability to expand to more than 400 megawatts. Telia Carrier’s […]
Apple will build a 400,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art data center in Waukee, Iowa, a town with a population of about 14,000 located in the center of the state, near Des Moines. The investment is valued at $1.3 billion. Construction is expected to start early next year and be completed in 2020. The new facility will run entirely […]
Facebook has selected Odense, Denmark as the location for its next data center, joining Prineville (Oregon), Forest City (North Carolina), Luleå (Sweden), Altoona (Iowa), Fort Worth (Texas), Clonee (Ireland), and Los Lunas (New Mexico) facilities as one of the cornerstones of its global infrastructure. The new data center will be built with Open Compute Project […]
Equinix reached a definitive agreement to acquire a portfolio of 24 data center sites and their operations from Verizon Communications for $3.6 billion in cash. The acquired portfolio includes approximately 900 customers, with a significant number of enterprise customers new to Equinix’s platform, and it adds approximately 2.4 million gross square feet. It will bring […]
RagingWire Data Centers, a subsidiary of NTT Communications (NTT Com), will invest $160 million to build the new Ashburn VA3 Data Center in the heart of the famed ‘Data Center Alley’ in Ashburn, Virginia. The VA3 Data Center with 245,000 square feet of space and 16 megawatts of power, is scheduled to be available by […]
LinkedIn opened a massively scalable, next-generation data center in Oregon. The facility, which is hosted by Infomart, is now fully live and ramped. The location benefits from a direct access contract for 100% renewable energy, network diversity, expansion capabilities, and talent opportunities. LinkedIn expects to achieve a PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) of 1.06 during full […]
Facebook unveiled Backpack, its second-generation modular switch platform developed in house at Facebook for 100G data center infrastructure. It leverages Facebook’s recently announced Wedge switch. Backpack is designed with a clear separation of the data, control, and management planes. It uses simple building blocks called switch elements. The Backpack chassis is equivalent to a set […]
Wave2Wave introduced a QSFP28 copper-based, direct attached cable (DAC) for data centers. The new product, which expands the company’s EDGE cable fabric family, simplifies the cabling for spine-and-leaf, data center infrastructure, and server rack-and-stack environments. The QSFP28 DAC offering supports higher data rates – now up to 100Gbp/s – with near-zero wire speed latency and […]
A new release of the Vapor Open Data Center Runtime Environment (OpenDCRE) adds supports for AppliedMicro X-Gene server family and BASELAYER Anywhere modular data center (MDC) products. Vapor’s OpenDCRE is an infrastructure automation and DevOps platform for connecting IT and physical infrastructure. These partnerships highlight Vapor IO’s goal of furthering development of hyper converged data […]
Facebook has selected Ireland as the location for its 2nd data center in Europe. Ireland has been Facebook’s international headquarters since 2009. The new facility, which will be located in Clonee, County Meath, will run entirely on the renewal energy resources (wind) already available in Ireland and cooled by outside air. The data center will […]
Vapor IO, a start-up based in Austin, Texas, announced a Series A funding round for its intelligent, hyper modular data center solution. The funding was led by Goldman Sachs, with participation from AVX Partners, but the amount was not disclosed. Vapor IO is focused on new design for maximizing density and energy efficiency in data […]
Facebook confirmed that work is already underway on Wedge 100, a 32x100G switch for its hyperscale data centers. Facebook is also adapting Wedge to a much bigger aggregation switch called 6-pack, which uses Wedge as its foundation and stacks 12 of these Wedges in a modular and nonblocking aggregation switch. FBOSS will be used as […]
Equinix signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for 105 megawatts (MWAC) of new solar power with SunEdison — enough energy to offset the consumption of its 11 data centers and headquarters in California. SunEdison will build a new solar farm near Calexico, California, just north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The project is expected to come […]
QTS (Quality Technology Services), which operates 11 data centers across the U.S., announced a $135 million increase in its credit facility. This brings the company’s credit facility to $575 million. QTS said the new credit enables it to continue expanding its data centers in Atlanta, Richmond, Santa Clara and Sacramento, as well as begin development […]
