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Compass to develop new data center campus in Mississippi

Compass Datacenters is to develop a new $10 billion data center campus in Mississippi. The $10 billion figure was the total investment value of the campus, including IT equipment by customers, rather than the company's individual investment figure. “We are looking forward to building our next ...

January 10, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Compass Datacenters

Phoenix to clamp down on data centers

The city of Phoenix in Arizona is set to clamp down on data centers. The City Council has approved a series of changes to better regulate data center growth in the city, including regulating locations and external design specifications.The vote, which took place on December 10, targeted standa...

January 02, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Phoenix

County’s planning staff recommends denial of massive data center project again

The Prince William County staff have again recommended the denial of all three rezoning requests associated with the PW Digital Gateway data center project. This comes after two rejections of the rezoning requests by QTS and Compass in recent months. County staff said in a report, “At this po...

December 13, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

QTS Data Centers

Compass will soon buy Sears' 2.4 million-square-foot Chicago facility

Compass Datacenters, which was recently taken over, is planning to purchase a former Sears office complex in Chicago, Illinois, presumably for a new data center campus. The data center constructor and operator are "poised" to acquire the Sears site in the Hoffman Estates neighborhood, as first...

July 21, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Compass Datacenters

Phoenix Data center with 6 MW up for sale

A 6MW data facility is up for lease or purchase in Phoenix, Arizona. Located in the desirable Deer Valley neighborhood, CBRE has listed 20435 North 26th Avenue for sale or lease. There was no listed pricing. The 6MW facility was completed in 2003 and sits on 3.66 acres of land, with a raised f...

June 27, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Phoenix

Compass Datacenters bought by Ontario Teachers' Plan and Brookfield

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners will acquire Compass Datacenters with the company's current investor, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. This week, Brookfield Infrastructure, its financial partners, and longtime investor Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan revealed that they had officially agreed t...

June 20, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Compass Datacenters

Acquisition Of 375 Acres In Red Oak, Texas By Compass Datacenters

Compass Datacenters has purchased 375 acres of vacant land in Dallas, Texas, more than tripling its land holdings in the region. According to BizJournal's 'Best Real Estate Deals' awards, the company acquired land in Red Oak, Ellis County, south of Dallas. "This new campus will likely be one o...

May 01, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Compass Datacenters

Compass Submits Revised PW Digital Gateway Data Center Campus Proposal

Compass Data Centers has resubmitted its designs for a huge Prince William County data center project. The firm and QTS are developing more than 20 million sq ft of data centers for the PW Digital Gateway project. This month, Compass amended its June 2022 rezoning proposal with further deta...

February 18, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Compass Datacenters

Compass Datacenters files for data center renovation project in Red Oak, Texas

According to reports, Compass Datacenters is going to launch a $64 million data center renovation project in Red Oak, Texas. Filed with the state of Texas, the project is known as Vallies ELT-1 and is set to commence at the end of September. Located at 441 North Austin Boulevard, the project s...

September 12, 2022

Compass Datacenters

Compass Datacenters To Develop 48MW Data Center Campus in Milan, Italy

Compass Datacenters has announced the acquisition of and in Milan. The company partnered with real estate firm Hines to acquire the property for the development of a 48MW data center campus. The move sees Compass venture into Europe for the first time. The land acquired by the two companies...

August 17, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Compass Datacenters

Hydrogenated vegetable oil-based biodiesel: Compass Datacenters partners with Foster Fuels

Compass Datacenters has announced that it has entered into a partnership with Foster Fuels, which will now serve as the data center company's "preferred green diesel provider," making it the first provider in the industry to use Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil-based biodiesel (HVO) to fuel its on-...

June 06, 2022

Compass Datacenters

Sustainable development: Compass Datacenters builds its data centers on eco-friendly concrete

As Compass Datacenters expands across North America, it is prioritizing sustainability in the building of its data centers. Using technology created by Nova Scotia-based CarbonCure Technologies means that not only is less cement required in the mixing of concrete, but CO2 is also permanently r...

July 30, 2021

Compass Datacenters

$800M Data Center Coming To Mesa, Arizona Amidst Water Concerns

The Mesa City Council just approved the development for a Company that plans to build a data center on Elliot and Ellsworth roads in the northwest corner of Eastmark. Although the Company remains in mystery, the Mayor of Mesa City said the mystery Company would be investing $800 million to bri...

May 26, 2021

Eric Bell

Phoenix

Compass completes ROOT integration

Compass has announced on their blog that they have completed the integration of the ROOT data centers. ROOT was acquired in July 2019. The announcement states, "Over the past few months, we’ve been hard at work integrating the two companies’ construction, operations, marketing, and sales teams...

May 06, 2020

Eric Bell

Compass Datacenters

Compass Datacenters Begins Construction Of First Two Data Centers On Phoenix Campus (PR)

Compass Datacenters has begun construction of the first two data centers on its campus in the Phoenix suburb of Goodyear, Arizona. The two buildings will deliver a combined 72 MW of IT load, and construction is projected to be completed in Q4 2019. The master plan for the first series of build...

July 09, 2019

Eric Bell

Compass Phoenix

Compass is Building a Hyperscale Campus in Goodyear, Arizona

Dallas-based Compass Datacenters has acquired more than 200 acres of land in Goodyear, a suburb of Phoenix. The company is building a hyperscale campus that could offer up to 180MW of power capacity once complete. Compass hasn't made a public announcement; the new project was originally dis...

January 18, 2019

Eric Bell

Compass Phoenix

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