New data from Synergy Research Group shows that the number of significant data center-oriented M&A deals continued to climb in 2018, though the total value of deals that closed in the year dropped off from its 2017 peak.

Morrison Hershfield Group, Inc. and CCG Facilities Integration Incorporated have announced an agreement to merge operations.

IT infrastructure service provider, New Continuum Holdings Corporation, which operates New Continuum Data Centers (New Continuum), has announced the acquisition of the company’s flagship mission critical data center located at 603 Discovery Drive in West Chicago, Illinois.

CIM Group and fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (“1547”) have announced the acquisition of an operating data center located at 725 S Wells in the heart of Chicago’s business district.

CV REIT Management Company, LLC (“CV REIT Management”) announced the acquisition of a data center property (the “Hartford Data Center”) for a contract purchase price of approximately $5.2 million, excluding transaction fees and costs.

H5 Data Centers has announced it has acquired 100 Taylor Street, an 85,000-sq-ft data center and carrier hotel in downtown San Antonio.

EdgeConneX® has announced the acquisition of the Linxdatacenter facility in Warsaw, Poland.

Tampa-based CV Data Center Growth & Income REIT (“CVDC REIT”) announced the acquisition of a data center property (“St. Louis Data Center”) for a contract purchase price of approximately $3.2 million, excluding acquisition fees and costs.

Atlantic Broadband has announced the closing of its acquisition of the South Florida fiber network previously owned by FiberLight, LLC an industry leader in providing high-performance metro and long-haul fiber transport services.

GTT Communications, Inc. has announced the acquisition of Access Point, a provider of communication services headquartered in Cary, North Carolina.