BUILD

Yahoo! chooses New York and sets out ambitious efficiency targets :
New data center site is about more than tax as search giant pushes green message

U.S. National Security Agency gets funding for planned mega data center :
$800 million approved in current budget for proposed two phase 65MW mega facility

China’s biggest data center opens in Tianjin :
Facility to provide services to domestic and international clients

$37 million upgrade at RAF Menwith Hill points to major data center project :
Power and cooling upgrade needed to cope with new racks at US National Security Agency UK base

Apple will build in North Carolina :
Tax breaks lure $1 billion data center to IT corridor

Oracle halts $300 million Utah data center construction :
Local media reports suspension of data center project Sequoia- possible fallout from Sun Microsystems acquisition

Equinix increases Chicago-area footprint :
Expanded facility opens; new space secured for further development

PAETEC opens New York data center :
Facility features “bi-fuel” back-up generators

Google to run Belgian data center with no chillers :
Free cooling all year round

Equinix continues aggressive expansion :
Colo giant reports strong Q2 earnings, buys new data center, expands existing one

Emerson opens new corporate data center in St. Louis :
Solar-array equipped facility is one of four the company plans to have after consolidation

Equinix brings online second Singapore facility :
Asian nation provides largest customer base for colo provider in Asia-Pacific

Savvis finalizes lease on large N.J. property :
New space expected to yield 105,000 sq. ft. of data center floor

TECHNOLOGY

IBM’s cross industry energy management alliance :
Key players in software, networking, building controls and power commit to integrate products

NYSE Euronext exchange platform to migrate :
Equity trading engine will move from France to UK

DOWNTIME

Tenants in Seattle’s Fisher Plaza powered by generators after weekend outage :
Landlord investigation still underway, but one tenant says bus-duct fire caused downtime

Fire causes outage at PEER 1 Toronto data center :
Power temporarily switched off on two floors

More downtime at Rackspace data center :
Bus duct fails at Dallas facility

CORPORATE

EMC wins bid to buy Data Domain :
NetApp declines to up its offer and collects break-up fee

Equinix files 8-K in response to “rumor” :
Filing comes after some investors voiced concern about an accounting matter

Stonemont Investment Fund to bring up to $1 billion in capital funding to green data center construction :
Exclusive: DatacenterDynamics San Francisco hears how clients can reach 50% savings on operations

NETWORK

New fiber to connect Africa to Europe and Asia :
Seacom rolls out new inter-continent cable, ending years of Telkom monopoly