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London Docklands proposal rejected

According to reports, a proposal for a new data center at the London Docklands has been rejected on the grounds that the proposals were "bulky" and could have a negative impact on the nearby Naval Row Conservation Area. Although council planning officers had recommended the proposal, which wou...

October 31, 2022

London

New data center proposed in east London, UK

According to reports, a new data center is being proposed in east London, UK, on a 1.39-hectare site. Located on the western edge of the former East India Import Dock, the proposed facility could have a potential IT power of 30MW, with six halls each of 1,200 sqm (12,900 sq ft). It's also note...

October 20, 2022

London

CloudHQ To Develop a 180MW Facility in Minnesota

According to BizJournal, CloudHQ has plans to develop a data center in Chaska, Minnesota. The data center campus will sit on 72 acres of land in Carver County, Chaska. Per the filing, CloudHQ wants to either develop a large 1.8 million square feet (167,225 square meters) building or four build...

September 01, 2022

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Thames Water launches probe into data center water use in London

It has been revealed that Thames Water has launched a probe into the water use of data centers in the UK's capital, following the utility company’s discovery that UK data centers have been using drinking water to cool down their servers. The news of review comes as the UK’s hosepipe ban comes...

August 30, 2022

London

CloudHQ Begins Construction of 80MW 1.5 Million Square Feet Data Center Campus in Illinois

CloudHQ has announced that it has begun constructing a new facility in Mount Prospect, Illinois. Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd), an energy provider, said the (140,000 square meters) 1.5 million square feet data center campus would cost $2.5 billion. The first phase of the development i...

August 29, 2022

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The Greater London Authority to halt housing developments due to lack of electricity capacity

In the wake of a housing crisis, the Greater London Authority (GLA) has informed developers must halt new housing projects, with talk of a potential ban that could last until 2035, in response to energy constraints caused by data centers. Ealing, Hounslow and Hillingdon, which contributed to 1...

August 02, 2022

London

CloudHQ Acquires Land in Culpeper County For 60MW Data Center Campus

CloudHQ has completed the acquisition of 100 acres in Culpeper County, Virginia. The data center developer is looking to develop a build-to-suit data center campus with up to 60MW capacity spanning 2.1 million square feet. According to Daily Progress, CloudHQ acquired the property for $12 mill...

July 06, 2022

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'Trash-powered' data center campus on its way to East London

Stratus Data Centres has announced its intention to construct two 18MW Tier III data centers on a brownfield site at Belvedere, South East London, part of Riverside Energy Park. The Riverside Energy Park is a development of waste management firm Cory, which, it says, intends to meet "London's ...

April 12, 2022

London

CloudHQ's Cloud Capital Buys COPT's Manassas Data Center For $222m

Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT) has announced that it sold a data center in Manassas, Virginia, for $222.5 million. The buying firm is CloudHQ’s investment arm. COPT revealed that it sold the DC-6 facility to Cloud Capital, CloudHQ’s affiliate company. The data center is a two-stor...

January 27, 2022

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CloudHQ plans 4 million sq ft of data center buildings

According to DgtlInfra, a firm with links to CloudHQ wants to develop a 4 million square feet data center on a 97-acre site in Virginia. The Loudoun County Planning & Zoning commission is looking to increase the approved data center use on the Dulles Berry project site in Ashburn to 4,050,...

January 13, 2022

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CloudHQ to buy United Airlines' Mount Prospect campus for mega data center development

According to Journal & Topics, CloudHQ has acquired United Airlines’ office campus in Mount Prospect, Illinois. Report has it that CloudHQ bought the property to make way for the development of a new 1.5 million square feet, $2.5 billion data center. Bill Cooney, the Development Directo...

December 15, 2021

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CloudHQ planning 240MW data center campus in France

According to multiple reports, CloudHQ plans to build a 240MW data center campus in Lisses, France. The US data center firm wants to develop two data center buildings with 710,000 square feet (66,000 square meters) which will consist of 24 data halls each. The facility will be located in the L...

November 02, 2021

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UK Brent Council plans to upgrade data center with £3.8 million ($5.3 million)

Brent Council, a governing body of a borough of London, just revealed its plan to spend £3.8 million ($5.3 million) to upgrade data centers over the next four years. The council says it is part of its plan to create a modern and robust IT system. The upgrades involve upgrading physical storage...

June 15, 2021

London

Alibaba Cloud to launch London region

China’s favorite e-commerce giant Alibaba is planning the launch of a cloud region in London, two years after entering the European market with a data center in Frankfurt. The move was not highly publicized; the company merely updated its website to advertise the future availability zones in t...

October 02, 2018

London

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