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As amber energy alert is issued in Ireland, government has no plan to pause data center growth

Startling new figures released by the Central Statistics Office have revealed that in just a year, data center power consumption in Ireland has increased by 31 percent; 18 percent of all electricity used in 2022. Yet, Ireland's government is not intending to reduce the number being built in th...

June 14, 2023

Republic of Ireland

Virginia's Culpeper County Receive Permit Requests For Zoning of Two 4.46M Sq Ft Data Center Campuses

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 alon...

May 25, 2023

Northern Virginia

Poll in Northern Virginia reveals local opposition to data center development near national parks

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% sup...

May 15, 2023

Northern Virginia

Data Center Expansion in Spotsylvania

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 af...

May 14, 2023

Northern Virginia

Fairfax County to look at new rules for data centers

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 inst...

May 12, 2023

Northern Virginia

Tech giants secure gas hook ups for 11 new data center generators in Ireland

According to a report, nearly a dozen data centers in Dublin have secured permission to get hooked up to the Gas Networks Ireland (GNI) pipeline in the wake of grid restrictions in Ireland and de facto moratorium put in place by EirGrid. In total, eleven data centers will be connected to the g...

April 27, 2023

Republic of Ireland

Demonstration Scheduled at Prince William's Digital Gateway Event

The debate surrounding the construction of a massive data center facility in Prince William County persists. Tuesday evening, residents planned to hold a protest against the Prince William Digital Gateway prior to a developer-hosted open house. Maureen Umeh of FOX 5 reports that the controvers...

April 25, 2023

Northern Virginia

StratCap Expands Data Center Portfolio with Acquisition of Two US Facilities

StratCap, a privately held investment firm, has acquired two data centers in the United States. The data centers, located in California and Missouri, were purchased for an undisclosed amount. StratCap acquired in Santa Clara, California, a purpose-built data center that is 100 percent leased t...

April 18, 2023

StratCap Data Centers

Big data center development & hydrogen fuel hub on the way to Surry County, North Virginia

A first-of-its-kind combination data center and hydrogen fuel hub is on its way to Surry County, North Virginia, it has been announced. Middleburg-based Green Energy Partners LLC is leading the project, which is called the Surry Green Energy Center (SGEC) and comes after GEP secured 641 acres ...

April 13, 2023

Northern Virginia

5.5 million sq ft data center park proposed in Stafford County, Virginia

In Stafford County, Stafford Technology LC, a company affiliated with US real estate firm Peterson, has outlined plans to develop a 5.5 million sq ft data center park. In order to accommodate the 25-building data center campus, the company is seeking to rezone 524 acres in the Falmouth Electio...

April 11, 2023

Northern Virginia

Community And Business Groups Challenge Loudoun Data Center Emissions Permit

This spring and summer, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality is mulling over a proposal enabling data facilities in Loudoun County to draw power more routinely from on-site disaster diesel generators. The proposal aims to alleviate pressure on the transmission system, which transpo...

April 07, 2023

Northern Virginia

Dominion Energy and PowerHouse Discover Solution to The Data Center Power Difficulties in Loudoun.

PowerHouse anticipates that the 265,000-square-foot building will be occupied by tenants in July, with complete construction scheduled for completion in October. Nonetheless, there is a pervasive power issue. Buddy Rizer, head of Loudoun County Economic Development, stated that each project ha...

March 30, 2023

Northern Virginia

Concerns over Northern Virginia diesel generators leads to DEQ revising its relaxation of generator restrictions

Residents in North Virginia had recently raised their concerns about the decision made by the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to permit diesel generators to power data centers in the region. The DEQ announced that it would be looking into the permittance to preserve data center relia...

March 22, 2023

Northern Virginia

Expansion of Data Center Utilities Approved by Leesburg Council

Leesburg may create a data center alley. Last Tuesday, the Town Council authorized water and sewer connections for two two-story data centers proposed for the Compass Creek retail development along the Dulles Greenway north of Microsoft's data center facility. A 400,000-square-foot data center...

March 20, 2023

Northern Virginia

Thor Equity launches Form8tion Data Centers

Thor Equities has announced it has launched its own data center development company, named Form8tion data centers, which is reportedly now marketing Thor’s maiden project in Madrid, Spain, named ‘Madrid One’ campus. This facility will offer up to 100MW of capacity spanning 60,000 sqm (645,850 ...

March 14, 2023

Madrid

Honda’s hydrogen fuel cells to be used in data centers

Honda has announced that its old retired Clarity fuel cells will now be used for backup power at one of its data centers as part of a trial project. The company said that this aligns with its carbon neutrality goals, which it aims to reach by 2050, and promotes circular economy principles. The...

March 10, 2023

California

Prince William County to pursue noise regulations for data centers

Virginia's Prince William County officials are looking into amending the county's noise regulations around data centers, having passed a resolution to initiate amendments to the Design Construction Standards Manual (DCSM) and zoning ordinance. These will reportedly assist officials in addressi...

March 07, 2023

Northern Virginia

PowerHouse Data Centers & DPR Construction Mark 50% Completion for ABX-1 Data Center

PowerHouse Data Centers, a partnership between American Real Estate Partners (AREP) and Harrison Street that provides turnkey facility location, powered shell, and build-to-suit data center implementations, and DPR Construction, one of the nation's leading five data center contractors, have in...

March 02, 2023

Northern Virginia

Old Fremont Materials Factory Planned For Massive Data Center

The developer Valley Oak Partners, located in San Jose, California, has proposed constructing a data center with a floor space of 490,000 square feet at the former location of the construction materials firm USG in Fremont, California. According to Valley Oak, the facility would serve as a ven...

March 02, 2023

California

Valley Oak proposes 90MW data center in California

Valley Oak is pursuing a new data center in Fremont, California, it has been announced, to 'serve as a place for clients to either relocate their data servers or expand their data capacity.' The company submitted an application for a 490,000 square-foot (45,520 sqm) data center on approximatel...

February 24, 2023

California

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