Sales and use tax abatements are available to data centers that have a minimum investment of $150 million, hire at least 50 new employees and pay at least 150 percent of the prevailing wage. Changes to the law made since its introduction made colocation data center tenants eligible for the tax abatements, as well, aggregating their equipment purchases, investments and new hires to meet the capital investment requirements of the law. If the unemployment rate of the locality where the data center is constructed is 150 percent of the state average the new hire requirement drops to 25 people.
| Sites | Sites | Gross SqFt | Gross SqFt | Power (MW) | Power (MW) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Digital Realty Trust | 15 | 2,865,260 | 307.30 | |||
| Equinix | 9 | 1,160,600 | 119.60 | |||
| QTS | 7 | 803,650 | 291.72 | |||
| Cyxtera Technologies | 6 | 556,457 | 56.40 | |||
| RagingWire | 2 | 535,000 | 44.40 | |||
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| Gross SqFt | Gross SqFt | Power (MW) | Power (MW) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Equinix Ashburn Campus | 573,032 | 37.00 | ||
| QTS Richmond | 550,000 | 110.00 | ||
| 21625 Gresham (ACC7) Digital Realty | 446,000 | 41.60 | ||
| 44480 Hastings (ACC5) Digital Realty | 360,000 | 36.40 | ||
| 21625 Gresham (ACC4) Digital Realty | 347,000 | 36.40 | ||
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Mar 07, 2019 | Microsoft Boydton VA
HOUSTON, and REDMOND, Wash. — March 7, 2019 — EDP Renewables SA (EDPR), through its fully owned subsidiary EDP Renewables North America LLC, and Microsoft Corp. have executed two 15-year power purchase agreements (PPA) totaling 125 megawatts (MW) that will bring the Timber Road IV Wind Farm t...
Jan 24, 2019 | Microsoft Boydton VA
Microsoft Corporation will invest significant capital to expand its Boydton enterprise data center in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. The project is Microsoft’s sixth expansion at the facility since 2010 and will allow the company to further enhance its ability to serve customers in the U.S. and...
Oct 17, 2018 | Iron Mountain Northern Virginia (Manassas)
Opus Interactive is expanding to the East Coast. The new Opus data center is located in Iron Mountian's Northern Virginia data center in Manassas. Source: Bu...
Aug 25, 2018 | Virginia Information Technologies Agency
With work on one of the region’s largest data centers underway in Henrico County, a smaller facility on the southern end of metro Richmond has changed hands in an eight-figure deal. The two-story, 193,000-square-foot data center at 11751 Meadowville Road in Chesterfield County’s Meadowville Te...
Aug 25, 2018 | Virginia Beach
A Dutch company wants to create a new data center park to draw the likes of Snapchat, IBM and Uber. NxtVn will spend $1.5 billion to $2 billion to build a hub off General Booth Boulevard to attract companies that seek high-capacity connections from the U.S. to Europe. The company also plans...
