May 30, 2023 Caribbean
At the Executive Sessions on Digital Leadership in the Caribbean on May 16, nine Caribbean ministers and two senior advisors signed the 'Port of Spain Commitment on Digital Integration,' an agreement to pursue collaborative, sustainable digital transformation in the Caribbean.The commitment was...
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May 29, 2023 Pennsylvania
The Career and Technical Center (CTC) at State College Area High School in Pennsylvania is undergoing a $2.6 million upgrade to bring the district's data center to the campus. The school administration approved the renovation on May 15. The CTC will be utilized for online education, Reclaiming...
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May 27, 2023 Ecuador
Cirion Technologies' data center in Carcelén, Quito, Ecuador, has obtained Tier III Certification from the Uptime Institute, it has announced. This certification means that the company's data center meets a number of requirements, including having in place rigorous preventive maintenance...
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May 27, 2023 Chile
ClaroVTR has announced that it is expanding in Chile, with a US$320mn, 3,000m2 expansion of its 2,000m2 Liray data center in Colina municipality. This will bring the total footprint to 5,000 sqm (53,820 sq ft).According to reports, the building features three 1,000m2 clean rooms, anti-seismic...
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May 26, 2023 2260 E El Segundo - Digital Realty
On Sunday, May 21st, a fire broke out at the LAX12 data center of Digital Realty in El Segundo, California. The fire led the facility to shut down two suites, and it incinerated an undisclosed number of servers, as well as cut power and locked out some users from the server space. A few days...
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May 25, 2023 Chicago
Edged Energy has announced that work has commenced on its new facility in the Aurora area of west Chicago, Illinois.Together, with Seefried Industrial Properties, Inc., the company broke ground on the new 65-acre, multi-building data center campus, its first in Illinois, and nearby CyrusOne...
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May 25, 2023 Mexico City / Ciudad de México
Within the next two years, the Indian software company Zoho Corporation intends to install its first data facility covering Latin America in Mexico. The company has two data centers in the United States that operate in tandem to ensure continuous service. The Mexico unit will also use this model....
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May 25, 2023 Northern Virginia
The Virginian county of Culpeper may soon see the construction of more than four million square feet of data centers. The Culpeper Town and County Councils have received rezoning requests that would enable the construction of approximately 17 buildings on two campuses on the town's border...
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May 25, 2023 MDC Laredo
MDC Data Centers has invested $3.4 million to modernize its MCA2 data center in McAllen, Texas. Over the course of 2022, the company purchased equipment from Bud Griffin & Associates, which also provided MDC with its expertise and resources. MCA2 is a Tier III colocation facility with 1MW of...
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May 24, 2023 CoreSite SV9
CoreSite, a US-based data center company, has broadened in California with a new Silicon Valley data center and increasing the capacity of an existing facility in Denver, Colorado. California's Santa Clara will become the site of CoreSite's ninth data center. The new 240,000-square-foot SV9...
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May 18, 2023 DRFortress Honolulu
This week, DRFortress, the foremost carrier-neutral data center and cloud platform in Hawaii, announced that it has wrapped up the fourth expansion of its data center facility in Honolulu, which will be available for service on June 1, 2023. With this most recent expansion, the facility's 65,000+...
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May 18, 2023 Maine
A Maine data center has been set up by an AI and quantum computing startup to house quantum computers. This week, Eternal Mind, Inc. conducted a grand opening ceremony at the former Loring Air Force Base in Limestone. WagmTV reports that the company occupies the former Air Force data center at...
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May 17, 2023 New York
AT&T has announced its plans to procure solar energy from five projects in Upstate New York from DSD Renewables (DSD). The deal will see AT&T serve as an anchor tenant subscriber for a five-project community solar portfolio; the company will offtake 15.5MW of the larger 24.1MW portfolio....
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May 17, 2023 Massachusetts
Newburyport, Massachusetts's mayor, Sean Reardon, seeks to reconstruct the city data center for $925,000. The proposal is part of Reardon's $134 million five-year capital improvement plan beginning in 2024, which includes the construction of a reservoir pipeline, the enhancement of downtown...
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May 15, 2023 Northern Virginia
A poll of Northern Virginia residents by the National Parks Conservation Association has found that the majority oppose the development of data centers near public land, including national parks. The survey polled 300 voters from several Northern Virginia jurisdictions. Of those polled, 77%...
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May 15, 2023 Houston
Netrality Data Centers has announced that it is expanding capacity at its Houston data center at 1301 Fannin Street. The company has shared that it will add two new data center halls spanning 17,000 square feet and offering over 2.5 megawatts of critical capacity.Due to come online at the end of...
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May 15, 2023 Caribbean
Proteus’s underwater lab and accompanying data center have been given the green light. This follows the signing of a deal with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which saw the two agree a 2026 deployment and to conduct research together.The lab would span 2,000 sq ft (185...
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May 15, 2023 Virginia
Prospective purchasers and lessees can access a data center in Chesterfield County, Virginia. JLL is offering for lease or sale at 11751 Meadowville Lane in Chester, south of Richmond. The Virginia IT agency had been based there until it left last year. The 192,600 sq ft facility, which was...
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May 14, 2023 Northern Virginia
Spotsylvania County officials are planning to capitalize on data center building expansion. They are modifying the county's Comprehensive Plan as part of their efforts. The county Planning Commission scheduled data center-specific Comprehensive Plan amendment public hearings Wednesday night after...
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May 12, 2023 Northern Virginia
According to a report by FFXNow, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors is set to look into the environmental impact of data centers in the midst of its ongoing data center boom. This week, following a unanimously approved motion introduced by Board Chairman Jeff McKay, county staff were...
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