Responding to growth in its proximity hosting services for financial companies trading derivatives and commodities, Savvis (SVVS) is expanding its data center at 350 East Cermak, a key connectivity hub in downtown Chicago.
CoreSite will expand its Boston data center located at 70 Innerbelt Road in Somerville, Mass., adding 12,000 square feet of space in the second quarter of 2010.
New Jersey's Russo Development has become a leading supplier of data centers for Wall Street. Over the past decade the Hackensack, N.J. company has built seven major data center projects spanning 1.7 million square feet.
A coalition of data center companies and economic development groups is seeking to reinstate tax breaks that attracted major data center projects to the state, and express optimism that the effort will have improved legislative support.
Phoenix NAP has created a data center virtual tour that allows visitors to "walk through" a full 3D visualization of the layout for the company's new facility.
Cox Communications Inc. is planning a $70 million data center near its Phoenix headquarters. The company will break ground on the 108,000 square foot facility this week, in hopes of completion in early 2011.
A look at government-backed data center projects: Michigan seeks feedback on plan for 100,000 square foot data center, while Massachusetts outlines details of $110 million state data center project in Chelsea.
Fidelity Investments is scouting sites for a major data center in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina, and is said to be in talks to finalize a deal to build in Garner for the $60 million project.
First Potomac Realty Trust (FPO) has acquired a three-building campus in Ashburn, Virginia that houses several data center facilities, the company said this week.
State officials in New York continue to battle over where to build a new $99 million state data center, more than three years after taking up the issue. Meanwhile, Texas works to restructure its huge consolidation project with IBM, and Missouri...