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Prime Data Centers expands in Silicon Valley

Prime Data Centers has announced plans to develop a new 119,000 square-foot data center in Silicon Valley, in Santa Clara, California. When complete, the facility will deliver a capacity of 9MW, and construction on the facility will commence in the second half of 2023. The facility will b...

January 19, 2022

Prime Santa Clara (Martin)

Spencer Building Carrier Hotel to build data center in Harbour Centre

Spencer Building Carrier Hotel is to build a new facility in Vancouver's Harbour Centre. When fully built out, the company says the facility will span 43,000 sqft, with a capacity of 10MW, supporting 20kW+ per cabinet, and over 20,000 connected fibers. According to Director of Data Center ...

January 19, 2022

Vancouver

BBT Has Selected MCFI's Genius Data Center Solution

Mission Critical Facilities International (MCFI) has announced that it has deployed its GENIUS Modular Data Center in Midland, Texas. Midland is in the epicenter of the most productive oil and gas production locality in the whole of North America. BBT selected MCFI’s GENIUS Modular Data Center...

January 18, 2022

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AREP to invest in six data centers

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 t...

January 17, 2022

Ashburn: Data Center Alley

Stack makes progress at its Hillsboro campus

Stack Infrastructure has announced that it has made progress at its new Hillsboro campus in Oregon with the completion of its first building. Spanning 180,000 sqft, with a capacity of 24MW, that said, only half of that capacity (12MW) is available due to pre-leasing activity.The facility, POR0...

January 17, 2022

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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

Virginia's $124.5 million offering on tax breaks to data centers

In Virginia's recently released Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, it was revealed that it offered $124.5 million in tax breaks to data centers last year. Comparatively, this is $14 million higher than the amount offered in 2020, which totaled $110.5 million, a figure that has gradually ri...

January 10, 2022

Virginia

Five 9s Digital sells Kannapolis data center for $11.4 million

Five 9s Digital has sold a facility in Kannapolis, North Carolina, for $11.4 million. LD DI Assetco LLC is the buying company. BizJournal first reported the sale late last year. Five 9s acquired the property in question for $8.4 million in May 2020 from Castle & Cooke. The data center h...

January 10, 2022

Segra: Charlotte

$800 million data center for Temple (Bell County)

Polmer LLC has reportedly signed an economic development agreement with Temple (Bell County) to build one or more new data centers in the area, accompanied by associated facilities. In addition, the company which was recently incorporated has entered into a tax abatement and water and wastewat...

December 31, 2021

Meta: Temple TX

Corscale is developing a 300MW data center campus in Prince William County

Corscale has been revealed to be behind the development of a new data center campus in Prince William County. The Nascent hyperscale data center developer revealed on its website that it would be developing the data center campus in the county. It will be developing a 130-acre 300MW Gainesvill...

December 28, 2021

Corscale: Gainesville Crossing

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

Hines Group acquires Digital Group's San Jose data center for $60m

According to reports from BizJournal, The Hines Group has acquired Digital Realty’s data center in San Jose, California. The data center in question is a 179,800 square foot, two-story building at 150 S. First Street. The purchase price is said to be $59.6 million. The building sits on a 2.4-a...

December 23, 2021

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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

H5 Data Centers to expand its Atlanta data center

H5 Data Centers has announced that it is expanding its facility in Atlanta. The firm revealed that its data center at 345 Court will be have an expansion of over 1,900 square meters (20,000 square feet). The facility will also be increased by over 3MW. The CEO and founder of H5 Data Centers, J...

December 17, 2021

H5 Atlanta

DataBank to expand Plano data center

DataBank has announced that it is expanding its presence in Dallas, Texas, with the addition of two data halls to its Plano facility. This adds 22,000 sqft of space and a capacity of 3MW. According to the company, the two data halls (Data Halls 5 and 6) are expected to be completed by the sec...

December 16, 2021

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Meta/Facebook's Altoona campus to be its largest after latest expansion

Meta/Facebook has revealed that it is expanding its Altoona, Iowa data center facility again. The company announced that it is developing two new buildings at the campus that will bring the facility to five million square feet. Meta noted that the expansion will be its seventh, and by so do...

December 16, 2021

Facebook Altoona Iowa

DataBank Expands Atlanta Facility

DataBank will be expanding its data center in Atlanta, Georgia. This will be the company’s second expansion announcement this week, as it announced the expansion of its Plano facility earlier. DataBank will be adding over 22,000 square feet of data center space to its ATL3 facility. The com...

December 16, 2021

DataBank Atlanta ATL3

Ascenty opens two data centers in Rio & Hortolândia, Brazil

Ascenty has announced the opening of two new data centers in Hortolândia and Janeiro, Brazil. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and Digital Realty jointly own the data center firm. Ascenty opened its second data center at its RIO campus with 3MW of power and 3,000 square meters (32,300 square...

December 15, 2021

Ascenty Rio de Janeiro

Netrality reveals new data center in Shawnee, Kansas

Netrality has revealed plans for a new facility in Shawnee, Kansas. The company announced that it acquired a property at 7801 Nieman Road. The facility will be Netrality’s second data center in Kansas as it currently operates one at 1102 Grand Blvd, Kansas. The new facility has up to 2MW of ca...

December 09, 2021

Netrality: Kansas City 7801 Nieman

Deep Edge Realty expands in Reno

Deep Edge Realty is expanding in Reno following the signing of a long-term lease at Basin Street Properties 200 South Virginia building. The company’s data center will be located on the sixth floor and offer interconnections to over ten regional service providers as well as the Tahoe Internet ...

December 09, 2021

CENTRA: 200 S Virginia (RNO01)

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