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

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

May 11, 2022 Northern Virginia

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...

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Read Standard Power To Develop 900MW Data Center at Pennsylvania Nuclear Power Station
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Standard Power To Develop 900MW Data Center at Pennsylvania Nuclear Power Station

May 09, 2022 Pennsylvania

Standard Power has announced that it is developing a massive data center in Pennsylvania. The blockchain company signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Energy Harbor Corp to develop a massive carbon-free facility at Energy Harbor’s Beaver Valley nuclear power plant. Per the agreement, the...

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Read Aligned Finishes Work at ORD-01 Data Center, Breaks Ground on ORD-2
Aligned Finishes Work at ORD-01 Data Center, Breaks Ground on ORD-2

Aligned Finishes Work at ORD-01 Data Center, Breaks Ground on ORD-2

April 20, 2022 Aligned: ORD-01

Aligned has announced the completion of work on the first data center at its campus in Chicagoland. In addition, the company has also broken ground on a new data center at the campus. Aligned completed the first phase of its ORD-01 data center, which is located in Northlake, Illinois. The data...

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Read Aligned Data Centers announces adoption of material tracing system
Aligned Data Centers  announces adoption of material tracing system

Aligned Data Centers announces adoption of material tracing system

April 14, 2022 Aligned

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, similar...

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

April 14, 2022 Northern Virginia

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 feet)...

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Read PRP Buys Land in Manassas To Develop Three Data Centers
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PRP Buys Land in Manassas To Develop Three Data Centers

April 11, 2022 Northern Virginia

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...

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Read BET Investment To Acquire Prudential's Office and Data Center Building in Pennsylvania
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BET Investment To Acquire Prudential's Office and Data Center Building in Pennsylvania

April 06, 2022 Pennsylvania

According to Biz Journal, BET Investments Inc. is buying Prudential Insurance Co.’s property located at 2101 Welsh Road. The 90-acre campus in Pennsylvania has three interconnected office buildings totaling 80,000 square meters (861,000 square feet). The office buildings house a Tier III...

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Read Aligned Expanding its Phoenix Data Center Campus
Aligned Expanding its Phoenix Data Center Campus

Aligned Expanding its Phoenix Data Center Campus

March 30, 2022 Aligned Phoenix

Aligned Data Centers has announced that it is expanding its presence in the Phoenix data center market. The company will be developing a new data center called PHX-05 at its flagship hyperscale campus in Arizona. Aligned revealed that the data center would be developed under an aggressive and...

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Read AWS Project Withdrawal Prompts Frederick County To Consider Amending Zoning Laws
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AWS Project Withdrawal Prompts Frederick County To Consider Amending Zoning Laws

March 04, 2022 Maryland

Frederick County officials met this week to address a data center zoning law. They are looking to change a Maryland County’s zoning law to allow the development of data centers. This move happened after Amazon Web Services rescinded a project plan because of restrictive timelines. The officials...

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Read Aligned completes first phase of Salt Lake metro data center
Aligned completes first phase of Salt Lake metro data center

Aligned completes first phase of Salt Lake metro data center

February 25, 2022 Aligned

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 conservation...

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Read Loudoun Board: Data center development could be curtailed
Loudoun Board: Data center development could be curtailed

Loudoun Board: Data center development could be curtailed

February 22, 2022 Northern Virginia

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 boom...

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

February 09, 2022 Northern Virginia

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...

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Read Amazon Acquires Three Office Properties in Loudoun County
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Amazon Acquires Three Office Properties in Loudoun County

February 03, 2022 Northern Virginia

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 to...

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Read Prince William data center proposal moves ahead
Prince William data center proposal moves ahead

Prince William data center proposal moves ahead

February 02, 2022 Northern Virginia

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 of...

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Read AREP to invest in six data centers
AREP to invest in six data centers

AREP to invest in six data centers

January 17, 2022 Ashburn: Data Center Alley

American Real Estate Partners (AREP) has announced that, with Harrison Street, it is investing $1bn (€864m) in six data centres in the US. According to reports, this development plan will total 2.1m sqft of data centre space in Data Center Alley in Ashburn and Arcola, Virginia. Speaking about the...

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Read More people speak out against data centers near Manassas battlefield
More people speak out against data centers near Manassas battlefield

More people speak out against data centers near Manassas battlefield

January 12, 2022 Northern Virginia

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 "fear"...

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

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

December 24, 2021 Northern Virginia

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 the...

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Read Prologis looking to develop data center in Northern Virginia
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Prologis looking to develop data center in Northern Virginia

December 19, 2021 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 NOVA...

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Read Data center companies use Ledger8760 to track carbon emissions
Data center companies use Ledger8760 to track carbon emissions

Data center companies use Ledger8760 to track carbon emissions

December 13, 2021 Aligned

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,...

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Read Data center plans threaten Manassas National Battlefield Park say critics
Data center plans threaten Manassas National Battlefield Park say critics

Data center plans threaten Manassas National Battlefield Park say critics

December 09, 2021 Northern Virginia

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...

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