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Read Dominion Energy announces update about resuming connection in Loudoun County
Dominion Energy announces update about resuming connection in Loudoun County

Dominion Energy announces update about resuming connection in Loudoun County

October 03, 2022 Northern Virginia

Dominion Energy has announced that some new data centers in Loudoun County, home to the world's largest concentration of data centers, will be reconnected, following concerns that transmission infrastructure restraints would halt new additions. Back in July, the energy utility had said that new...

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Read PW Digital Gateway project: Approval looks likely
PW Digital Gateway project: Approval looks likely

PW Digital Gateway project: Approval looks likely

September 12, 2022 Northern Virginia

Prince William County planners have recommended the approval of the PW Digital Gateway project, it has been announced. Subsequently, the controversial project is likely to go ahead. If approved, the project would see the rezoning of over 2,000 acres of land for up to 27.6 million square feet of...

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Read iM Data Centers Joins Sustainability Consortium
iM Data Centers Joins Sustainability Consortium

iM Data Centers Joins Sustainability Consortium

September 05, 2022 Miami

iM Data Centers, a manufacturer of modular data centers, has announced that it is joining the Infrastructure Masons (iMasons) Climate Accord (ICA), a collaboration between digital infrastructure companies that have come together to push forward carbon neutrality initiatives. According to Dean...

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Read CIM Group Lists a 24MW Purpose-built Data Center For Lease in San Francisco
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CIM Group Lists a 24MW Purpose-built Data Center For Lease in San Francisco

September 05, 2022 San Francisco Bay Area

JLL and CIM Group have listed a new purpose-built data center for lease. The data center is located at 400 Paul Avenue in San Francisco, California. The data center offers 24MW of power across 182,250 square feet of two-story powered shell building on 7.3 acres. Per additional information in the...

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Read Data Center in Florida Occupied By Sprint Up For Sale
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Data Center in Florida Occupied By Sprint Up For Sale

August 23, 2022 Miami

A Sprint Telecom-occupied data center in Florida has been put up for sale. The data center is located at 360 S. Lake Destiny Drive, Orlando. According to a property listing, the data center spans 2,430 square meters (26,245 square feet). It also sits on a 3.11-acre of land. The facility currently...

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Read Dominion to reconnect new data center connections in eastern Loudoun
Dominion to reconnect new data center connections in eastern Loudoun

Dominion to reconnect new data center connections in eastern Loudoun

August 19, 2022 Northern Virginia

Dominion, the primary power provider in Loudoun county, has announced that although Loudoun County's data center industry outpaces its capacity to deliver electricity, there is a way forward. In a conversation with Biz Journals, Bob Blue, Dominion's president and CEO, said that the company had...

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Read Prince William County officials grant rezoning request for four million sqft data center campus in Bristow
Prince William County officials grant rezoning request for four million sqft data center campus in Bristow

Prince William County officials grant rezoning request for four million sqft data center campus in Bristow

August 04, 2022 Northern Virginia

The ever-expanding data center hub in Prince William County is to see another addition, after Prince William County Officials voted 6-1 to grant a rezoning request for a planned four million sqft data center campus in Bristow. The data center developer is Stanley Martin, which, according to...

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Read Dominion Energy and data center capacity issues
Dominion Energy and data center capacity issues

Dominion Energy and data center capacity issues

August 01, 2022 Northern Virginia

Dominion Energy, a Northern American utility company, has warned that it may be unable to serve new data center projects in Ashburn, Northern Virginia. According to reports, this could mean that projects, which have seen tens of millions of dollars worth of investment, are stalled and potentially...

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Read Prince William County Planning Commission delves into PW Digital Gateway data center proposal
Prince William County Planning Commission delves into PW Digital Gateway data center proposal

Prince William County Planning Commission delves into PW Digital Gateway data center proposal

July 29, 2022 Northern Virginia

Prince William County officials have begun to delve into the PW Digital Gateway data center proposal in its first public review. Since it was first proposed, the project has been controversial. Proponents argue that the project will bring significant financial gains for the area, while opponents...

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Read American Real Estate Partners (AREP) launches a new data center division called PowerHouse Data Centers
American Real Estate Partners (AREP) launches a new data center division called PowerHouse Data Centers

American Real Estate Partners (AREP) launches a new data center division called PowerHouse Data Centers

July 28, 2022 Northern Virginia

American Real Estate Partners (AREP) has announced that it has launched a new data center division named PowerHouse Data Centers, with Luke Kipfer as Vice President of Data Center Development and Construction and Jarrett Appleby as Data Center Strategy Consultant and Senior Advisor. According to...

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Read Noise pollution from Prince William data center riles locals
Noise pollution from Prince William data center riles locals

Noise pollution from Prince William data center riles locals

July 22, 2022 Northern Virginia

Prince William County, North Virginia, is often in the spotlight when it comes to locals' gripes and complaints regarding noise and environmental pollution. With the number of facilities in the area growing year on year, a recent report in June estimated that by 2035, the County could run out of...

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Read Loudoun County is updating its guidelines for future data center development
Loudoun County is updating its guidelines for future data center development

Loudoun County is updating its guidelines for future data center development

July 22, 2022 Northern Virginia

Loudoun County, which currently has more data centers than anywhere else in the world, is reportedly updating its guidelines around the development of future data centers in response to the incredible industry growth at work in the area and opposition from locals over noise pollution and data...

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Read Stonepeak Acquiring Stake in American Tower's CoreSite For $2.5bn
Stonepeak Acquiring Stake in American Tower's CoreSite For $2.5bn

Stonepeak Acquiring Stake in American Tower's CoreSite For $2.5bn

July 15, 2022 CoreSite

Stonepeak has revealed that it is acquiring a 29 percent stake in American Tower’s Coresite data center business. The investment firm will pay $2.5 billion for the stake in the business. The deal is expected to close in Q3 2022, subject to customary closing conditions. According to an...

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Read Niagara Falls data center debate
Niagara Falls data center debate

Niagara Falls data center debate

July 11, 2022 New York

As reported by Baxtel at the end of June, Niagara Falls is being targeted as the site of a $1.5 billion technology and data center by New York City developer Howard Milstein and his partners, while the city launches a legal effort to create a new public park. While developers claim that the data...

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Read Greenidge gas powered cryptomining data center denied air permit renewal
Greenidge gas powered cryptomining data center denied air permit renewal

Greenidge gas powered cryptomining data center denied air permit renewal

July 05, 2022 New York

It has been announced that New York's Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has denied an air permit renewal by Greenidge Generation, which could see its gas-powered Bitcoin mining data center close. This follows the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruling on West Virginia v...

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Read A $1.5 Billion Data Center in Niagara Falls is Being Planned
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A $1.5 Billion Data Center in Niagara Falls is Being Planned

June 29, 2022 New York

Urbacon and Niagara Falls Redevelopment (NFR) have announced plans for a $1.5 billion data center park on land in Niagara Falls, New York City. Urbacon is an Ontario-based construction company with an excellent track record of developing massive data center campuses in Richmond Hill, Montreal,...

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Read Virginia’s Warren County considers adding data centers to zoning laws
Virginia’s Warren County considers adding data centers to zoning laws

Virginia’s Warren County considers adding data centers to zoning laws

June 17, 2022 Northern Virginia

Virginia's Warren County officials have announced that they are considering a proposal to amend zoning laws which could lead to a new wave of data center development in the County, in the northwest of the state and west of Loudoun and Fauquier Counties. As per the proposal, an amendment would be...

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Read Compass Data Centers announces plans for over 10 million sq ft of data centers
Compass Data Centers announces plans for over 10 million sq ft of data centers

Compass Data Centers announces plans for over 10 million sq ft of data centers

June 17, 2022 Northern Virginia

It has been confirmed that Compass Data Centers is one of the companies that is involved in the Prince William Digital Gateway Project in Virginia, a plan that is steeped in controversy and would see over 2,000 acres of land in the County used for data center construction. If the plan is given...

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Read Material and labor shortages in the data center
Material and labor shortages in the data center

Material and labor shortages in the data center

June 14, 2022 San Francisco Bay Area

As the need for data grows and grows, demand for data center construction is as strong as ever, however, the boom is being hampered by a number of factors, including supply and labor shortages, and price hikes. In a recent report named 'Data center market conditions update - Q1, 2022,'...

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Read Bill passed to ban cryptomining data centers that use fossil fuel power plants
Bill passed to ban cryptomining data centers that use fossil fuel power plants

Bill passed to ban cryptomining data centers that use fossil fuel power plants

June 13, 2022 New York

The New York Legislature has passed a landmark bill to ban cryptocurrency data centers that use fossil fuels to power their operations, in an effort to reduce statewide emissions by 85% by 2050. Specifically, the bill will impose a two-year moratorium on these activities, however, Governor Kathy...

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