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[Photo courtesy of RecNation/Recreational Realty]
Toy Story: Why a Former CyrusOne CEO Is Creating Homes for Grownups’ Playthings with RecNation
by David Seeley | Aug 16, 2022
Gary Wojtaszek turned Dallas-based CyrusOne public and grew it into a leading global data center firm. It recently sold for $15 billion. Now—instead of storing computers and data—he aims to store America's RVs, boats, and other "toys" with his new startup, RecNation. With funding secured from Centerbridge Partners, he aims to grow his company by 75 locations a year—and build another multi-billion-dollar business.
by David Kirkpatrick |
Feb 15, 2022
TMGcore is innovating high-performance computing with its sustainable commercial immersion cooling solutions. "Servers two years from now will only be immersion compatible,” CEO John-David Enright says.
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by David Kirkpatrick |
Jan 20, 2022
With the acquisitions, DataBank’s reach now includes 27 metro markets—the largest geographic footprint of any data center operator in the U.S.
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by David Seeley |
Jan 13, 2022
Several large leases signed by social media and financial services users—whose identities were not disclosed—drove the swell of activity in Q4. That led to "incredibly strong" net leasing activity for the full year, CBRE says.
That's now driving lots of new data center construction here, and may increase asking rates in 2022 and beyond. With "no end in sight" to the market growth, CBRE's Brant Bernet believes we're only in the "early innings" of an extra-inning game.
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Equinix recently completed its new DA11 facility in Dallas [Rendering: Equinix]
Work-From-Home Demands Spur Growth at DFW Data Centers
by Sandra Engelland | Sep 17, 2020
Digital transformation plans compress from years to months amidst COVID-19.
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by Alex Edwards |
Aug 27, 2020
Dublin-based Linesight is bullish on Dallas-Fort Worth, which ranks as the second-busiest construction market and second highest data center leasing market in the U.S.
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by Sandra Engelland |
Mar 5, 2020
Dallas-based Compass Datacenters has a new industry-related podcast, which fits right in during a time when around 52 million people are tuning in to business podcasts.
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by Jeff Bounds |
Jan 28, 2020
From public-safety blimps to revolutionary data centers, North Texas’ giants invented technology in 2019 to make our world a little bit better.
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DataBank Receives $185M Investment from Colony Capital
by Lance Murray | Jan 6, 2020
Colony Capital is supporting the data center provider through additional capital to potentially fund add-on acquisitions and greenfield edge data center developments.
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by Lance Murray |
Nov 19, 2019
The wholesale colocation market in the region is as competitive as its ever been, ranking among the nation’s top three data center markets.
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 26, 2019
The companies will unveil conceptual designs for the new data centers—intended to be a tenth of the traditional sizing—in November to show off the "groundbreaking technology."
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by Lance Murray |
Dec 20, 2018
Also, you’ll find projekt202, Crow Holdings, Latticework Capital, Light LLC, Woodside Capital, DataBank, and National Teachers Associates Life Insurance Co. in this roundup of activity by companies and investors with ties to North Texas.
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Facebook's design sensibilities are on display throughout the high-tech center. [Photos: ©2018 by Chad Davis Photography/Fort Worth Data Center]
Innovative Spaces: A (Photo) Tour of Facebook’s Fort Worth Data Center
by David Kirkpatrick | Oct 19, 2018
Facebook’s Fort Worth data center features local artwork throughout its administrative areas. The 150 acre complex in Hillwood’s AllianceTexas development will eventually include five buildings and has a total value of more than $1 billion.
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by David Kirkpatrick |
Oct 19, 2018
From server hardware to administrative spaces, Facebook's North Texas data center runs on renewable energy and innovative ideas.
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by David Kirkpatrick |
Oct 11, 2018
The area 'hit the bullseye' in attributes RagingWire was looking for when planning its Dallas Data Center campus in Garland.
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by David Kirkpatrick |
Oct 10, 2018
Because of their unique value on the tax rolls, the stringent requirements to build them, and the technology needed to equip them, data centers have created a class of their own in real estate.
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