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Aligned To Develop a 100MW Facility in Salt Lake City, Utah

Aligned has announced that it is developing a new data center in Salt Lake, Utah. The data center will be called SLC-03, and it will be developed on its campus in West Jordan, Utah. The development will see Aligned add over 100MW capacity to the West Jordan campus. When this happens, it wil...

June 23, 2022

Aligned

Virginia’s Warren County considers adding data centers to zoning laws

Virginia's Warren County officials have announced that they are considering a proposal to amend zoning laws which could lead to a new wave of data center development in the County, in the northwest of the state and west of Loudoun and Fauquier Counties. As per the proposal, an amendment would ...

June 17, 2022

Northern Virginia

Compass Data Centers announces plans for over 10 million sq ft of data centers

It has been confirmed that Compass Data Centers is one of the companies that is involved in the Prince William Digital Gateway Project in Virginia, a plan that is steeped in controversy and would see over 2,000 acres of land in the County used for data center construction. If the plan is given...

June 17, 2022

Northern Virginia

Bristow Officials To Allow Data Center Development on Stanley Martin’s Devlin Technology Park

Bristow’s officials have voted in favor of a Comprehensive Plan Amendment. This amendment could see the development of a 4.25 million square feet data center campus in the area. Stanley Martin, a Virginia-based developer, is looking to have over 250 acres in Prince William County rezoned. T...

May 30, 2022

Northern Virginia

Sustainably-linked loan for Aligned

Aligned Data Centers has announced that it has increased its existing sustainability-linked (SLL) from $375 million to $1.75 billion in an effort to “accelerate its next phase of strategic growth and expansion.” This loan is linked to ESG goals, and if the company manages to reach the pre-agr...

May 20, 2022

Aligned

Application for 277-acres of data center development filed in Nokesville

According to a report by Inside NoVa, an application has been filed in Nokesville, in Virginia’s Prince William County, for 277-acres of data center development. The application, submitted by the House family, seeks to change their property designation from an agricultural estate to a newly-pr...

May 11, 2022

Northern Virginia

Aligned Data Centers announces adoption of material tracing system

Aligned Data Centers has announced the launch of a material tracing system called the OriginMark system. According to the company, this tracing system has been introduced to enhance and accelerate supply chain decarbonization. This will be achieved through the use of a unique identifier, simi...

April 14, 2022

Aligned

685,404 sq ft Data Center in Sterling, Virginia, Coming after Rezoning Approval

Another data center is coming to Sterling, Northern Virginia, as county officials have approved a rezoning request in the area. Long Drive Land Company LLC sought to rezone up to 39.82 acres of land in Loudoun County to develop a data center with up to 63,675 square meters (685,404 square f...

April 14, 2022

Northern Virginia

PRP Buys Land in Manassas To Develop Three Data Centers

According to BizJournal, PRP has completed the acquisition of 22 acres of land in Prince William County, Virginia. The property is located at 7816 Bethlehem Road in Manassas. The Real estate firm paid $22 million to Allan Myers for the property. It is also negotiating for another 13 acres with...

April 11, 2022

Northern Virginia

Aligned completes first phase of Salt Lake metro data center

Aligned Data Centers has announced that it has completed the first phase of the latest ‘Build-to-Scale’ waterless data center in the Salt Lake Metro Area. The company said that its decision to pursue a waterless build is in response to increased awareness of the importance of water conservati...

February 25, 2022

Aligned

Loudoun Board: Data center development could be curtailed

Recently, a committee of the Board of Supervisors argued that data centers should be prevented from being built on the Route 7 corridor in northeastern Loudoun County. Already the area is home to 25 million square feet of data centers, with data center development booming in recent years, a bo...

February 22, 2022

Northern Virginia

Plaza Realty Files For Rezoning of Land For a 1 million sq ft Data Center in Prince William County

The development of a large-scale data center in Prince William County, Virginia, is being proposed by developers. Developers submitted plans to have a site at 14854 Dumfries Road to the west of Dale City and the east of the Northern Virginia county be rezoned. They want to develop a 1 million ...

February 09, 2022

Northern Virginia

Amazon Acquires Three Office Properties in Loudoun County

According to Biz Journal, Amazon Data Services Inc. has acquired three office properties in Sterling, Virginia. The buildings acquired are located at 46020. 46010, and 46000 Manekin Plaza. The Loudoun County deed records show that Amazon paid over $21 million for the properties. According t...

February 03, 2022

Northern Virginia

Prince William data center proposal moves ahead

The much-debated data center proposal located near Haymarket, Virginia, has made progress despite the Prince William County Planning Commission being unable to agree on a recommendation for the facility. The motion to recommend approval ended in a tie of 4:4, sending the proposal to the Board ...

February 02, 2022

Northern Virginia

More people speak out against data centers near Manassas battlefield

More people are speaking out against proposed data centers along Pageland Lane, near Manassas National Battlefield. The latest to outline his opposition to the construction plans is documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. In a letter to Prince William County Board of Supervisors, Burns expressed "fea...

January 12, 2022

Northern Virginia

Prince William County’s environmental officials reject rural crescent data center plan

Recently, Prince William County’s environmental officials announced that they were recommending that the request to replan 2,133-acres in the rural crescent for data centers should be rejected. The watershed management division has argued that the replan would be significantly detrimental to t...

December 24, 2021

Northern Virginia

Prologis looking to develop data center in Northern Virginia

Reports have it that Prologis has filed for permission to convert an industrial site in Sterling, Northern Virginia, into a data center. The company aims to develop a 500,000 square feet data center on its existing 19.5-acre industrial site. The development project is referred to as Prologis N...

December 19, 2021

Northern Virginia

Data center companies use Ledger8760 to track carbon emissions

Aligned, Ascent, Corscale, and T5 have all announced that they will be using Ledger8760's 24x7 tracking platform to record their carbon emissions' hour-by-hour. This tracking system will reportedly enable companies to be more transparent about their energy and utility data, and crucially, emi...

December 13, 2021

Aligned

Data center plans threaten Manassas National Battlefield Park say critics

Plans to build data centers opposite the Manassas National Battlefield Park are being opposed. Critics are warning that the proposal, known as "PW Digital Gateway", is the "Single greatest threat to Manassas National Battlefield Park in nearly three decades," compromising the environmental in...

December 09, 2021

Northern Virginia

Prince William County agrees to pause development of Gainesville data center

Prince William County’s planning commission has voted 6-1 to pause the development of a Gainesville data center until late January. CTP-II LLC proposed the data center project in question. CTP-II LLC wanted 22.72 acres of land to be rezoned from business and light industrial to data center con...

November 12, 2021

Northern Virginia

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