A number of announcements hit the news this week in the colocation space. Here is a roundup of the some of the more interesting items we came across.

US web hosting provider Pair Networks broke ground on a new data center in Las Vegas that it says has a predicted PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) of 0.96. The facility, set to open early next year, will be Nevada’s first LEED Platinum facility. It will generate its own electricity on site, use ultra-high efficiency plumbing fixtures and requires no artificial irrigation. It will house more than 20,000 web hosting servers on 2.5acres of desert.

Scottish IT business services company Brightsolid, which caters for the publishing and technology industries, has signed a deal with IBM which will carry out a 200 sq m expansion at its data center in Dundee. The expansion will allow it to double the amount of racks it keeps and treble its power capacity.

BATS Europe – the global operator of securities and derivatives markets – signed a long-term deal to relocate its trading platform to Equinix’s London LD4 International Business Exchange. The move will take place in October this year. LD4 has offered BATs a low-latency, high performance trading environment, with connections to more than 250 financial services customers residing in its Zurich, Frankfurt and London facilities.

The entire Xetra cash market infrastructure has been moved to the Deutsche Borse’ new data center hosted by Equinix. The migration required the replacement of Xetra’s host computer hardware and gateways for higher performance models.

SAP has chosen UK colocation provider Onyx Group to deliver its SAP Business One as Software-as-a-Service for businesses in the UK. Onyx spcializes in cloud comuting services and has five data centers in the UK.

Interxion said CONET Services AG, a provider of ICT systems and applications for finance companies, has moved into its Franfurt data center campus. Conet focuses on the Xetra and Eurex markets, among others.

SunGard Availability Services has been selected to host electronic signature technology company DocuSign’s It environment. DocuSign says it is planning to grow in coming years and needed a solution that could allow it to expand its global network without the expense of building its own data centers.

The Farmers Exchange Bank, based in Alabama, said it will outsource all if its core processing needs to the TriNovus eBank data center, also in Alabama. It will host all of its core processing requirements as well as its key banking products.