QTS Realty Trust has opened a new 495 thousand gross square foot mega data center on its Atlanta Metro campus. QTS Atlanta-Metro Data Center 2 (DC2) features 240 thousand square feet of data hall space and 72 megawatts of power capacity. "We are opening our new mega data center," said Chad Williams, CEO, QTS.
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CenturyLink has secured a five-year contract with the State of Arizona to provide network connectivity and managed IT services to support state government agencies services. The contract is made up of two one-year options.
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QTS Realty Trust has signed agreements to purchase renewable energy through European Guarantees of Origin to enhance the company’s energy services in its newly acquired data center in Groningen, Netherlands, QTS reported on Wednesday.
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QTS Realty Trust has begun the construction of a 158,000 square foot data center encompassing 85,000 square feet of leasable capacity and 27 megawatts of gross power capacity to provide renewable energy in Hillsboro, Oregon, the company announced on Wednesday.
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Mason McDaniel, chief technology officer at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said ATF plans to shut down its remaining data center and transition all applications and data to the cloud by the end of fiscal year 2020, FedScoop reported Monday.
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The Department of Justice has shut down 97 data centers and Joe Klimavicz, chief information officer at DOJ, said he will continue to pursue the effort to generate savings, FedScoop reported Wednesday.
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