Virginia Beach City data center redevelopment faces delays
September 09, 2021
Virginia Beach
The Telxius campus is in Corporate Landing Business Park in Virginia Beach on a 11.5 acre plot. The first phase of the Globalinx Virginia Beach data center campus consists of an existing 10,750 square-foot facility for meet-me-room and interconnection facility. There are plans to add 25,000 square-foot site. The site can expand further with a an additional 115,000 square-feet of data center space.
If demand warrants, the building could be expanded at the North and South ends. there is another 10-acre site adjoining the existing plot for data center development to ensure scalable and planned growth. Telxius,
The Telxius data center in Virginia Beach is the landing station for the MAREA cable.
Microsoft and Facebook are building MAREA, a transatlantic submarine cable. The cable, which is 6,000 km long and can transport 160 terabytes per second, joins Europe (Sopelana, Spain) and United States (Virginia Beach) and is operated by Telxius.
| Distance | Site | About |
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| 0.23 miles | PointOne: NAP of Virginia Beach | |
| 0.62 miles | Globalinx Virginia Beach |
Globalinx in Virginia Beach will offer direct access to MAREA and BRUSA subsea cables. The cables land in the Telxius cable landing station, which is approximately 600 meters away. Globalinx is constructing diverse parallel conduits the length of the site into both point of entries which will be owned and managed by Globalinx.
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| 11.99 miles | Etheridge Lakes Data Center |
The proposed data center in Chesapeake, Virginia, which was planned for a 22.6-acre parcel, was ultimately rejected by the Chesapeake City Council in a unanimous 7-0 vote.
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| 14.01 miles | EdgeConneX Norfolk |
Customer work spaces are available
Rights to adjacent space to accommodate expansion.
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| 16.57 miles | Globalinx: Portsmouth, VA |
Virginia data center firm Globalinx is planning to develop a second data center site near Norfolk, Virginia. The company didn’t provide further details on capacity or timelines yet.
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Telxius is the telecommunication infrastructure company of the Telefónica Group managing a unique combination of towers and an international network of high capacity fiber optic submarine cables. As specialists in telecommunication infrastructure, we aim at enabling the best communication for our customers.
With over 16,550 telecommunications towers in six countries, Telxius features one of the most extensive tower catalogues in the world, effectively serving customers as the leading tower company in Spain, Germany and Argentina and as a main provider in Brazil, Chile and Peru.
In addition, Telxius offers advanced services on its 87,000 km international network which consists of ten high capacity submarine fibre optic cables, including the two highest capacity systems in the world, MAREA and BRUSA, both already open for business. MAREA, a joint project with Microsoft and Facebook, is the highest-capacity submarine cable to ever cross the Atlantic. With its 11,000 km and cutting-edge technology, BRUSA links the United States and Brazil. SAM-1, PCCS, and UNISUR represent additional high capacity routes linking the United States and Latin America.
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