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DC Blox Secures $240 Million in Holdco Financing

US data center operator DC Blox has secured $240 million in holdco financing from BlackRock subsidiary Global Infrastructure Partners. Holdco financing is a financial instrument that allows an investing parent company like GIP to raise debt on behalf of a subsidiary like DC Blox. “We are excit...

January 16, 2026

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DC Blox Secures $1.15bn Green Loan for Atlanta Data Center

US data center firm DC Blox this week announced it has closed $1.15 billion in green loan financing for the construction of a data center campus in Douglas County, Georgia. The funds will support the development of a 120MW data center and include campus expansion to support an additional 80MW,...

August 13, 2025

DC BLOX

Kairos gets construction permits for Hermes Two Demonstration Plant

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued construction permits to Kairos Power for its Hermes Two Demonstration Plant at the Heritage Center Industrial Park in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The plant will also host a proposed single 35MW Hermes One Test Reactor, a non-nuclear engineering test...

November 26, 2024

Tennessee

DC Blox secures new equity investment and green loan

US data center operator DC Blox this week announced it has raised incremental equity capital from its existing and new investors, led by Post Road Group and Bain Capital Credit. The funding will enable the deployment of more than $1 billion of total capital to finance future construction and t...

October 10, 2024

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DC Blox expands Birmingham, Alabama data center

DC Blox has expanded its data center in Birmingham, Alabama, to cater for high-performance computing (HPC) workloads, adding additional IT capacity of 2.4MW. The company said it has completed a redesign of its data hall at the facility so that it can house up to 240 standard retail cabinets a...

March 09, 2024

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DC Blox plans new campus outside Atlanta

US operator DC Blox announced this week that it had acquired 72 acres of land in Conyers, southeast of Atlanta in Rockdale County, Georgia, for a new data center campus. Once completed, this facility will feature 750,000 square feet (69,675 sqm) of space with 216MW of total power committed by ...

December 15, 2023

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Carter Funds acquires data center in Collierville, Tennessee

This week, Aphorio Carter Fund Management Company, the critical infrastructure and data center division of Carter Funds, announced that it had acquired a fully leased enterprise data center property in Collierville for about $13 million. John Regan, chief investment officer of Aphorio Carter, ...

November 11, 2023

Tennessee

DC Blox breaks ground on new dc campus in Atlanta, Georgia

US colocation firm DC Blox has broken ground on a new data center campus on 55 acres of land in the Douglasville area of Atlanta, Georgia. This new facility will feature twelve data halls, totaling 750,000 square feet (69,680 sqm) of gross space, and will offer a 180 MW capacity to customers. ...

October 31, 2023

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DC Blox completes purchase of 27.5 acres in South Carolina for 45MW DC campus

Atlanta-based colocation provider DC Blox has completed the purchase of 27.5 acres in Berkeley County, SC, from Santee Cooper, South Carolina’s state-owned electric and water utility, for a new data center campus. This new facility, to be constructed in the Camp Hall commerce park, will be the...

October 03, 2023

DC BLOX

Oppidan Submits Paperwork For a 99,000 sq ft Data Center in Memphis, Tennessee

The US real estate development company Oppidan has filed plans to construct a data center in Memphis, Tennessee. The company has filed with the Memphis and Shelby County Division of Planning and Development for permission to build a data center at 3900 S. Mendenhall Road. The permit encompasse...

May 05, 2023

Tennessee

Franklin County Officials Reject Zoning Request For a Crypto Mining Data Center

The Franklin County Commission has denied a zoning request that would have allowed the development of a crypto data center. The Tullahoma Utilities Authority requested 9.12 acres of land at 6945 Spring Creek Road to be rezoned to a C-1 commercial restricted district from an R-2 general resi...

April 21, 2022

Tennessee

DC Blox Going on An Expansion Spree

DC Blox is going on an expansion spree as it outlines an expansion plan for its Greenville, Birmingham, South Carolina, and Alabama data centers. According to DC Blox, the data center in Greenville will see another data hall added to it. The company’s Birmingham facility will also deploy it...

April 20, 2022

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DC Blox announces its Greenville data center in South Carolina is 'open for business'

After breaking ground on its Greenville, South Carolina data center in April 2021, DC Blox has announced its Tier III facility is now open and operational.The facility has an initial 25,000 square foot (2,300 sqm), and when fully built, will span 54,000 sq ft (5,000 sqm). Moreover, it can acco...

January 05, 2022

DC BLOX

DC BLOX secures $187 million in Financing

DC BLOX has announced that they have secured $187 million for long-term financing of their operations. The funding was led by Post Road Group and Bain Capital Credit. Kevin O’Donnell, the Chief Financial Officer of DC BLOX, commented that the capital raised would support the growth of the Comp...

March 30, 2021

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DC BLOX hires David Armistead as VP of Sales

DC BLOX has announced that it has hired David Armistead as their new Vice President of Sales.Armistead has spent 25 years in the industry at other companies in the industry including C Spire and SunGard. Links: Press Release David Armistead Linkedin

May 05, 2020

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DC Blox wins MARTA as a customer in Chattanooga

DC Blox has announced that MARTA, the Atlanta regional public transport organization, will deploy to the DC Blox Chattanooga data center for disaster recovery purposes. The contracted deployment is for 100 kW of critical IT load. The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority ...

June 05, 2019

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