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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

Elk Grove Data Center rezone to go forward

Data center plans are moving ahead in Elk Grove Village as officials have announced their expectation to close on the sale of four parcels totaling 17.5 acres later this month. The sale will be made to Prime Data Centers Corp for $21.3 million. This follows planning commissioners voting unanim...

December 09, 2021

Illinois

Iron Mountain signs 20MW lease with existing customer at Va-2

Iron Mountain has announced that it has signed a 20MW lease agreement with an existing Fortune 100 customer for its Va-2 data center in Manassas, Virginia. The new lease agreement now sees Iron Mountain sign leases of up to 44MW since the beginning of the year. The new lease will start in phas...

December 08, 2021

Iron Mountain Northern Virginia (Manassas)

Connecticut towns plan to stop data center development projects

Towns in Connecticut want to stop a new company from building data centers. Gotspace Data Partners LLC plans to build five data centers across Connecticut. The company plans to build data centers in Griswold, Groton, Wallingford, Bozrah, and Norwich. However, according to reports, the Wallingf...

December 08, 2021

Connecticut

OneX announces expansion in Brazil

OneX, a data center newcomer, has announced that by the end of 2023, it plans to construct five data centers, with an investment of 75mn reais (US$13.2mn). The first of the five, based in the Vale do Aço (steel valley) region of Minas Gerais, was inaugurated on Tuesday. This data center, accor...

December 08, 2021

Brazil / Brasil

Codisa to develop a 3.5MW data center in El Salvador

Costa Rican firm Codisa has begun construction on a new data center in El Salvador. The IT firm will partner with real estate firm Aristos Group to develop the data center. The facility will have a total capacity of 3.5MW, and it will house 322 racks. The facility is named DataTrust and it is ...

December 01, 2021

El Salvador

Virginia Commonwealth University announced plans to build new data center in Richmond

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) has announced proposals for a data center located in Richmond, Virginia, at 707 W. Broad St. The planned facility will span 30,000-square-foot (2,800 sqm).According to reports, the data center will cost around $42-44 million and will be divided between bo...

November 30, 2021

Richmond

Hermosa Ranch data center pushback

The proposed Hermosa Ranch data center in Avondale, Arizona, is being faced with pushback amid water concerns. TGV Investments Voting Trust and Rexco DC LLC are the companies proposing the construction of the Hermosa Ranch Tech Campus, which would involve changing city plans from installing a ...

November 29, 2021

Arizona

Chandler's new legislation proposal and what it means for data centers

Chandler may introduce new legislation that will introduce a more rigorous process when it comes to building more data centers in the area. This news comes with the region coming out third nationally for data center construction in the first half of 2021; concerns are mainly rooted in the unsu...

November 24, 2021

Arizona

Vantage Data Centers tops-out of first data center in Goodyear, Arizona

Vantage Data Centers has expanded its data center campus in Goodyear, Arizona, by completing the construction of a new data center. The company revealed that it topped out its first 32MW data center on the Phoenix campus. Vantage acquired land in 2019 and began construction on the site. The...

November 24, 2021

Vantage Phoenix

Microsoft announces opening of two new data centers in Wyoming

Microsoft has announced the launch of two new data center facilities in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The facilities are located in Bison Business Park and the Cheyenne Business Parkway. The facilities will support Microsoft’s West Central US Azure region. VP of core operations for data centers at Micros...

November 23, 2021

Microsoft Cheyenne Business Parkway

Grid vulnerability warnings in Texas

There are growing concerns around grid availability in Texas after the announcement that as much as 5,000MW of cryptocurrency load could be added to the grid by 2023. According to reports, operator Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) will oversee 3,000-5,000 MW added in addition to t...

November 22, 2021

Texas

Prime Data Centers expands at its Sacramento, California Campus

Prime Data Centers has announced the development of its second data center at its Sacramento, California campus, based at the McClellan Park business complex. Its second facility will be based adjacent to its existing facility and will have 16MW of critical capacity, spanning 150,000 sqft. Mo...

November 19, 2021

Prime Sacramento

SteelWave buys data center and office building from Metronest in Boulder, Colorado

A real estate firm called SteelWave has acquired a data center and office complex belonging to Metronest. The property is located at 1450 Infinite Drive in Louisville, Boulder County. The building is a multi-tenant one, and it occupies 154,000 square feet of space. It also sits on a 20.3-a...

November 18, 2021

Colorado (CO)

Former FBI data center in West Virginia available for sale/lease

A former data center occupied by the FBI in Clarksburg, West Virginia, has been put up for sale. The facility has been put up for sale for $1.5 million; however, real estate company RealCorp said the facility is available to lease. The building has 26,397 square feet of space, and it sits o...

November 15, 2021

FBI Clarksburg

Unoccupied NortonLifeLock data center in Arizona up for sale

NortonLifeLock Inc. is putting up an unoccupied data center in Tucson, Arizona, for sale. The facility sits upon 8.5 acres of land, and it is located at 3701 E. Columbia Street. It has 133,452 square feet of space with 40,793 square feet of raised floor within three data halls. In addition, th...

November 12, 2021

Arizona

Ascent's Plano, Texas data center available to lease

Ascent’s data center in Plano, Texas, has been put up for lease by Cushman & Wakefield. The data center is at 1500 East Plano Parkway, and it is listed as a single-tenant facility. The 43,000 square feet data center sits on 4.5 acres of land. It was built in 1992, and it was last renova...

November 12, 2021

Ascent Dallas DAL1

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

Netrality requests $36 million in bonds for new data center in Kansas City

According to BizJournal, Netrality has applied to the Shawnee City Council for $36 million in federally taxable private activity revenue bonds. Bizjournal says Netrality plans to use the bonds to finance construction materials, equipment, fixtures, and labor for the renovation of 7801 Nieman R...

November 11, 2021

Netrality: Kansas City 7801 Nieman

Augusta data center plans curbed

A data center proposed for the site of a former cotton mill in Augusta, Georgia, is no longer ahead. Back in 2016, Cape Augusta Real Estate Development announced redevelopment plans for the site and outlined the project would go ahead under the name ‘Augusta Cyberworks.’ Original plans for the...

November 09, 2021

Georgia

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