21Vianet Group, Inc.
Beijing, China | | 21Vianet operates in more than 20 cities throughout China, with 6000+ enterprise customers. First established 2009. | 2009 |
365 Data Centers
Norwalk, Connecticut
www.365datacenters.com | 12 | October 2020 - Private equity investor Stonecourt Capital has acquired a majority stake a leading provider of hybrid data center solutions in 12 strategic, primarily edge, markets. | 2002 |
AirTrunk
North Sydney, Australia | | December 2020 - the Australian firm opened hyperscale cloud facilities in Singapore and Hong Kong. AirTrunk was formerly owned by investors including Goldman Sachs Group’s special situations arm and TPG Sixth Street Partners. In January 2020, the infrastructure arm of Macquarie Group agreed to acquire a majority stake of AirTrunk. | 2014 |
| Amazon AWS Data Centers | 104 | Amazon Web Services begins offering IT infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services, now commonly known as cloud computing. | 2006 |
| Amazon Web Services | - | Amazon Web Services begins development of a suite of cloud-based services, which included storage, computation and some human intelligence through “Amazon Mechanical Turk.” | 2002 |
| Apple Data Centers | 11 | Apple’s 183-acre Maiden (North Carolina) data center remains the company’s largest, at 505,000 SF. Apple initially started in 2012 with 160 acres in Prineville (Oregon) to build a 338,000 SF data center. | 2012 |
AT Tokyo Corp.
www.attokyo.com | | Acquired by Secom Group. Initially created (2000) and sold by Tokyo Electric Power Company ("Tepco"). | 2000 |
| AT&T | 300+ | | |
BDx Data Centers
Hong Kong | | | |
| BT Global Services | 48 | First established as BT Ignite in July 2000. | 2000 |
Chayora Limited
Hong Kong SAR, China
www.chayora.com | | | 2012 |
China Telecom
Beijing, China
www.chinatelecom-h.com | 456 | China Telecom operates 456 on-net data centers in Mainland China and has a footprint in 187 data centers across 71 key metro hubs globally. Full name is China Telecom Group Beijing Telecommunication Limited Company. | 2002 |
China Unicom (Hong Kong) Limited
Hong Kong, China
www.chinaunicom.com.hk | 550 | China United Network Communications Group Co., Ltd. | 2009 |
ChinData Group
Beijing, PRC
www.chindatagroup.com | | Bain Capital-backed. Based on Bain's merging of two acquisitions: Bridge Data Centres (Singapore) and the data center division of Wangsu Science and Technology Company (Shenzhen). | 2017 |
CoreSite Realty Corporation REIT
Denver, Colorado
| 22 | Provides client services across eight key North American markets. Initially established as CRG West | 2001 |
CyrusOne
Dallas, Texas | 49 | In August 2017, the company acquired Zenium Data Centers. In July 2015, the company acquired Cervalis for approximately $400 million. First established in 2001. | 2001 |
Cyxtera Technologies
www.cyxtera.com | 62 | Cyxtera was created after investors including Medina Capital and Longview Asset Management, bought 57 data centers from CenturyLink. | 2017 |
Data Foundry
Austin, Texas
www.datafoundry.com | 6 | Data Foundry was established in 1994 as one of the first 50 ISP's in the U.S. and opened its first Internet Data Center ("IDC") in 1995. | 1994 |
DataBank Holdings, Ltd.
Dallas, Texas
www.databank.com | | October 2020 - DB announces its intention to acquire the colocation business of Zayo Communications. with Zayo, the company will be one of the largest privately-held US data center providers. | 2004 |
DigiPlex
Bjerke, Norway
www.digiplex.com | 7 | DigiPlex has opened its latest data center at the Holtskogen Business Park at Hobøl in the Indre Østfold municipality. The facility is the company’s fifth Norwegian data center and DigiPlex now operates seven data centers across Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. | 2000 |
Digital Crossroad
Hammond, Indiana | | November 2020 - the company's 20MW data center Lake Michigan Data Center is completed, | 2018 |
Digital Realty Trust, Inc. REIT
San Francisco, California | 214 | | 2004 |
DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc.
| 12 | Digital Realty's acquired the company in 2017 for $7.8 billion Established in February, 2007. | 2007 |
| ENIAC | 1 | The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer ("ENIAC") is built in 1946 for the U.S. Army to store artillery firing codes and is dubbed as the first general-purpose electronic digital computer. | 1946 |
Equinix, Inc. REIT
Redwood City, California
| 202 | The world’ largest data center provider by revenue. It operates more than 200 data centers across 55 markets around the world.
Includes Verizon Data Centers, as of April 2017. Founded in 1998 by Jay Adelson. | 1998 |
| European Date Centre Association | | | 2011 |
Evoque Data Center Solutions™
| | 2019 - Brookfield acquires data center colocation operations and assets of AT&T, which are contributed to new subsidiary, Evoque.
Wholly-owned subsidiary of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. (Toronto), first established 2008. | 2019 |
| Facebook Data Centers | 13 | As of November 2020 - Facebook has 13 data centers in the U.S., operating or in development. The tech firm also leases data center space from operators such as Digital Realty Trust and Cloud HQ in addition to building its own sites. First data center in Prineville, Oregon. | 2010 |
Facebook DeKalb Data Center
DeKalb (Chicago area), Illinois | | Announced in 2020. | TBD |
Facebook Gallatin Data Center
Gallatin (Nashville area), Tennessee | | Announced in 2020. 982,000 SF facility; 809-acre project site. Facebook's 13th data center in the U.S. | TBD |
Facebook Los Lunas Data Center
Los Lunas (Albuquerque area), New Mexico | | First announced in September, 2016. | 2019 |
Facebook New Albany Data Center
New Albany, Ohio | | Operational in early 2020. | 2020 |
| Global Compute Infrastructure | | Former Digital Realty Trust founder in JV with Goldman Sachs. First deal was acquisition of ATM (Warsaw, Poland). | 2020 |
Global Switch
London, U.K.
www.globalswitch.us | 13 | GS owns and operate thirteen data centers centrally located in Tier 1 cities across Europe and Asia-Pacific. | 1998 |
| Google | | Google invests $7.4 billion in its Internet infrastructure, The spending is focused upon a huge expansion of Google’s global data center network, reported to be the largest construction effort in the history of the data center industry. | 2013 |
| Google Data Centers | 16 | Google designed and built its first purpose-built data center (code-named Project 02) in The Dalles (Oregon) in 2006 – just 14 years ago. | 2006 |
Green Mountain
www.greenmountain.no | 3 | Founded by the Smedvig family. | 2013 |
Hotwon Group
Beijing, PRC | | Hotwon focuses on the co-location market. December 2020 - A Beijing private equity firm has teamed up with a fund management division of China’s CITIC Group in a bet on growing demand for server co-location and cloud computing on the mainland, | 2015 |
| IBM Cloud | 60 | During 2020, IBM closes numerous older data centers as it upgrades to new data center technology. | |
Intel 4004 Processor
Intel Corp. | - | Intel introduces the 4004 processor, the first general-purpose programmable processor on the market. It serves as a “building block” that can be customized with software to perform different functions in a wide variety of electronic devices. | 1971 |
Interxion
Schiphol-Rijk, Netherlands
www.interxion.com | 50+ | Operates more than 50 data centers in 13 cities worldwide. First established 1998. | 1998 |
Keppel Data Centres Pte Ltd
Singapore
www.keppeltt.com.sg | | | 1997 |
Level 3 Communications
Broomfield, Colorado
www.lumen.com | 350 | In 2017, CenturyLink acquired Level 3 in a $30 billion deal. In 2011, Level 3 had acquired Global Crossing, the former tech darling known for laying fiber-optic cable lines at the bottom of the ocean. First established in 1985. | 1985 |
Liquid Telecom
Ebene, Mauritius
www.liquidtelecom.com | 5 | October 2020 - Liquid Telecom has raised $307 million to fund a rapid expansion of its data center business across Africa. The company is Africa’s largest fiber-network operator. Majority owned by Econet Global Ltd. | 1997 |
Lumen Technologies
Monroe, Louisiana
www.lumen.com | | September 2020 - CenturyLink re-brands itself as Lumen Technologies. November 2017 - CenturyLink acquires Level 3 Communications. April 2011 - CenturyLink merges with Qwest. | 1968 |
Macquarie Data Centres
Australia | | | |
Microsoft Azure Data Centers
Lexington, Massachusetts | 27 | October 2020 - Microsoft announces its first Azure cloud data center region in Taiwan, intending it as a foothold for a “key Asia operating hub, The date first established shown at right, is for the first Microsoft data center, located at its Redmond, Washington campus. | 1989 |
| Modular Data Center | | Sun Microsystems introduces the modular data center, transforming the fundamental economics of corporate computing. | 2007 |
NTT Communications
Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan
| 48 | NTT established the NTT Global Data Centers Preparatory Corporation as the first step in creating a wholly owned subsidiary to comprehensively handle data center construction, asset management and wholesale services for NTT Group companies on a global basis. Subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation | 2018 |
Nxtra Data (Bharti Airtel)
New Delhi, Delhi NCT | | In 2020, Airtel sold a 25% stake in Nxtra to The Carlyle Group, for $235 million. Founded in 1995, by Sunil Bharti Mittal. | 1995 |
Princeton Digital Group
Singapore | 18 | Has data center projects in 12 cities across India, Indonesia, Singapore and China | 2017 |
QTS Realty Trust, Inc.
2851 Foster Street, Overland Park, Kansas
www.qtsdatacenters.com | 26 | Has 26 data center facilities located throughout the U.S. and includes two additional mega data centers located in the northern Netherlands. First established 2003. | 2003 |
Rack Centre
Lagos, Nigeria | | May 2020 - Investment firm Actis acquires a majority stake in Rack Centre, planning a $250 million chain of data centers in Africa. | 2012 |
Sungard Availability Services
Wayne, Pennsylvania | 80 | Privately held. | 1978 |
Switch
Las Vegas, Nevada
www.switch.com | | November 2020 - Dell Technologies and Switch have teamed up with FEDEX to place edge computing facilities at FEDEX logistics facilities. | 2000 |
| T5 Data Centers | 54 | | 2008 |
| Telehouse (KDDI) | 40 | | 1984 |
Teraco Data Environments (Pty) Ltd.
Johannesburg, South Africa
www.teraco.co.za | | November 2020 - Teraco starts construction of JB4 - the largest data center on the African continent (38MW). Founded by Tim Parsonson and Lex Van Wyk in 2008. | 2008 |
| TRADIC | 1 | The first transistorized computer ("TRADIC") is introduced and is the first machine to use all transistors and diodes and no vacuum tubes. | 1954 |
Vantage Data Centers
Santa Clara, California | 13 | November 2020 - Vantage acquires Hypertec’s data center campus in Montreal, which already has two facilities with 25MW of capacity total and enough expansion capacity to build a third one for an additional 24MW, which Vantage said it would start building immediately.
July 2020 - Vantage Data Centers is close to securing $1.3 billion in new capital to accelerate its already speedy expansion, the company announced Tuesday.
Colony Capital, the real estate investment trust that already owns a stake in Vantage, has put together a group of investors to participate in a private equity acquisition of a stake in VDS' 12 North American data centers/ | 2010 |
| Yondr Group | | A developer, owner operator and service provider of hyperscale data centers. The data center startup has bullish plans to rapidly build new data centers across five continents by 2024. Privately held. | 2019 |
