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Eirgrid report makes decision on data centers in Ireland

EirGrid has made a decision on data center building in Ireland. The state-owned electric power transmission operator has outlined that it will not accept any further applications to build facilities in Dublin for "the foreseeable future" and perhaps not until 2028. That said, the data center a...

January 14, 2022

Republic of Ireland

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

Further danger ahead for Ireland's power grid as data centers continue to sap energy

There is an ongoing power issue in Ireland as the data center industry in the country continues to boom. Being the host of 70 data centers it is now the fastest-growing data center market in Europe. However, with data centers accounting for 11% of Ireland’s total energy supply, there are conce...

January 05, 2022

Republic of Ireland

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

Launch of TikTok's €420m Irish data center Postponed to Late 2022

TikTok has revealed that its planned data center opening in Ireland will be delayed due to issues caused by the pandemic. The company revealed to Business Post Ireland €420 million ($473m) that the facility will be launched in late 2022 instead of the planned early 2022 launch. CSO of TikTok, ...

December 21, 2021

Republic of Ireland

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

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

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

Climate protestors gather outside Data Centres Ireland event in Dublin

People Before Profit, is calling for an end to new data centers being buillt in Ireland, and picketed outside Data Centres Ireland event in Dublin on 16 November in protest of the dangerous and continual expansion of data center building in Ireland.The protest held outside the annual data ce...

November 17, 2021

Republic of Ireland

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

Hydrogen powered data centers: Research begins in County Offaly

Ireland's County Offaly is investigating hydrogen as a green energy that could power data centers. The study, 'Exploring Data Centre Integration with Renewable Energy and Green Hydrogen in the Midlands', will look into the feasibility of integrating data centres with renewable energy and will ...

October 26, 2021

Republic of Ireland

Landmark Dividend buys 1.2 million square feet of data center space in Northern Virginia

Landmark Dividend, which DigitalBridge acquired earlier in the year, has acquired what it refers to as a “portfolio of assets” in Northern Virginia. It acquired 1.2 million square feet of data center space within the Quantum Park in Northern Virginia. According to Landmark Dividend, the proper...

October 13, 2021

Northern Virginia

The Northern Virginia data center boom: Reactions from the local community are mixed

Northern Virginia is in the midst of a data center boom. This has partly developed due to a demand for new data centers resulting from the pandemic, which means that it currently has the highest density of data centers in the world. Loudoun County alone has over 100 data centers, with more tha...

October 12, 2021

Northern Virginia

Energy strategy talks in Loudoun as data centers continue to dominate

On Wednesday, Loudoun county supervisors came together to discuss the county's energy strategy. This discussion has come following a surge of data centers in the area over the past 15 years. The county's "Data Center Alley" is pinned as the world's largest concentration of data centers, totall...

September 30, 2021

Northern Virginia

Data center moratorium on the horizon for Ireland?

The Irish Social Democrat Party has announced that it is calling for a moratorium on new data centres in Ireland in response to grid constraints and sustainability concerns. This proposed moratorium would be an "interim measure" that would allow the government to fully grasp how many data cent...

September 28, 2021

Republic of Ireland

Irish committee hear about the significant grid impact of data centers

Irish data centers are back under the microscope at the Oireachtas Committee on the Environment and Climate Change. According to the Irish Times, Dr Patrick Bresnihan of National University of Ireland, Maynooth, will be bringing forward some concerning figures. Bresnihan will put to the commit...

September 28, 2021

Republic of Ireland

The Prince William Board of County Supervisors approves zoning of 196-acre of land for data center use in Gainesville, Northern Virginia

196-acres of land has been rezoned for data center purposes in Gainesville, Northern Virginia. This is after the Prince William Board of County Supervisors voted that a 196-acre land off Linton Hall Road should be zoned for data center use. A 1 million square feet data center campus will also ...

September 15, 2021

Northern Virginia

Prince William County officials to decide on data center in Northern Virginia

Prince William’s Board of County Supervisors is going to hold a public hearing on a proposed data center facility in Northern Virginia later this week. The purpose of the meeting is to decide whether to rezone the 196.28 acres of land across three properties from agricultural to industrial use...

September 06, 2021

Northern Virginia

Logistics park and data center to go ahead in Winchester, Virginia, despite backlash

In Winchester, Virginia, local officials have voted to rezone more than 277 acres for a new data center and logistics park despite significant public backlash. The development project is known as One Logistics Park and has received. The land rezoned for the park The Winche...

July 21, 2021

Northern Virginia

Officials voted to rezone lands in Naas, Ireland for data centers

The local officials in Naas, Kildare, Ireland, have rezoned two plots of land to host data centers. Earlier this week, the Kildare County council voted to rezone these lands for data center use as an update to the Naas 2021-2027 local area plan. The two sites are said to be 91 and 106 acres, w...

July 06, 2021

Republic of Ireland

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