Switch’s Las Vegas Data Center Stronghold Reaches North of 2 Million Square Feet
Switch has officially launched the latest massive facility on its homebase Las Vegas data center campus, bringing its total capacity in Sin City to more than 2 million square feet and about 315MW....
View ArticleTierPoint Now Has a Huge Rival in Secondary Markets
If there was one easy critique to make about Peak 10 before it announced the agreement to acquire ViaWest earlier this month it would be that it didn’t have any data centers west of Kentucky. “They...
View ArticleNevada Governor Vetoes Renewable Bill in Setback for Advocates
Mark Chediak (Bloomberg) — Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval vetoed a bill late Friday that would have boosted the state’s renewable energy target, dealing a setback for clean-energy advocates looking for...
View ArticleAnthem Agrees to $115 Million Settlement Over Data Breach
(Bloomberg) — Anthem Inc. agreed to pay $115 million to resolve consumer claims over a 2015 cyber-attack that compromised data on 78.8 million people, marking what attorneys in the case called the...
View ArticleExclusive: San Francisco to See Its First Data Center Build in More Than a...
No colocation data center has been built in San Francisco since the early 2000s, when hosting company AboveNet (now defunct) built the city’s now famous data center at 365 Main Street. That building is...
View ArticleZuckerberg Shares Eclipse Photos Shot from Facebook Data Center Roof
If you live in the US and you’ve been checking your Facebook feed since Monday morning, chances are it’s been flooded with shots of the solar eclipse that graced the American skies roughly after 10...
View ArticleApple Said to Be Mulling Iowa Data Center
The city council of Waukee, Iowa, a town with about 20,000 residents, is holding a special meeting Thursday to hear the public’s opinion about a mysterious “Project Morgan.” But city and state...
View ArticleApple Gets $208M in Tax Breaks to Build Iowa Data Centers
Apple will get $208 million in state and local tax breaks in exchange for agreeing to build a data center campus in Waukee, Iowa, just outside of Des Moines, the state’s capital. Local news outlets...
View ArticleDigital Realty to Build Mega-Data Center in RagingWire’s Texas Backyard
*Updated with details of tax incentives offered to Digital Digital Realty Trust is planning a gigantic data center campus in Garland, Texas. This will be the second data center build in town, which is...
View ArticleHurricane Harvey: Delivering Managed IT Services During a Catastrophe
Brought to you by MSPmentor It’s being called a 500-year storm and Houston, Texas-based Elevated Technologies finds itself smack in the middle of it. As early as the middle of last week, the managed...
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