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A new data center is planned for Tilford Yard

According to reports, a new data center is planned for Tilford Yard, on Atlanta’s Westside, under the project name Edged. This announcement comes following the filing of a building permit for a nearly 210,000-square-foot, two-level data center.Further to this, records show that Endeavour, the ...

January 23, 2023

Atlanta

DC BLOX to Build New Cable Landing Station in Myrtle Beach, SC

ATLANTA – May 10, 2022 –DC BLOX, a leading provider of secure, reliable, connected data centers across the Southeast, announces it is planning to build a new Cable Landing Station (CLS) in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The new CLS will anchor subsea cable systems connecting North America’s So...

May 10, 2022

DC BLOX Myrtle Beach

North Myrtle Beach City To Invest $12m In Developing an Emergency Operations and Data Management Center

The City of North Myrtle Beach in South Carolina has announced that it is developing an emergency operations and data management center. The city’s council members initially planned to spend $2 million developing the data center. However, the budget has risen to $12 million. North Myrtle Be...

April 26, 2022

South Carolina

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

DC BLOX

ECU students protest potential data center facility in the Greenville area

Students and staff at East Carolina University have voiced significant concerns around the potential arrival of a crypto mining facility in the Greenville area. This week, those opposing the proposed data center, came together to protest, with the slogan "Say No To Crypto." A number of pro...

January 21, 2022

South Carolina

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

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

DC BLOX Acquires Land to Develop a Tier III Data Center in High Point, North Carolina

DC BLOX has announced the acquisition of land in High Point, North Carolina. The plan is to use the land to construct the first highly secure Tier III data center in the Carolina Core/ Piedmont Triad region. The facility will offer colocation for hosting primary IT infrastructure and secondary...

May 05, 2021

DC BLOX High Point

DC BLOX Breaks Ground in Greenville SC

DC BLOX recently announced the construction of its new Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina data center. The data center is being built on 8.5 acres of land in the Global Business Park Interstate 85 and will be the first-of-its-kind multi-tenant data center in South Carolina. It will have an...

April 01, 2021

DC BLOX Greenville

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

DC BLOX

DC BLOX is Expanding its Birmingham facility by 1 MW

DC BLOX is expanding it Birmingham facility again. This time adding 1 megawatt. The expansion is expected to be ready for service by May 2021. ATLANTA – DC BLOX, a provider of interconnected multi-tenant data centers that deliver the infrastructure and connectivity essential to power toda...

February 18, 2021

DC BLOX Birmingham

DC BLOX reportedly has the Remainder of Trinity Steel Campus Under Contract

The Birmingham Business Journal is reporting that DC BLOX has contracted to buy the remaining lot of the former Trinity Steel campus. The site will be built in phases. The first phase which was built in 2019 has 31,000 sqft and 5 megawatts (MW) of customer capacity.As customers are added, the ...

October 15, 2020

DC BLOX Birmingham

DC BLOX is Building a Data Center in Greenville

DC BLOX has announced it is building a data center in Greenville, South Carolina. DC BLOX has focused on underserved tier 3 markets in the Southeast. Providing a high level of service in underserved markets has been a winning strategy. Greenville is no exception to this strategy.This will be D...

September 10, 2020

DC BLOX Greenville

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

DC BLOX

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

DC BLOX Chattanooga

DC Blox is opening 10MW data center in Huntsville, Alabama

Atlanta-based cloud and colocation provider DC Blox is about to open a data center in Huntsville, Alabama. The first phase of the project offers 9,000 square feet of white space and 3,600 square feet of office space, including conference rooms, staging areas and workstations. The building i...

October 02, 2018

DC BLOX Huntsville

DC BLOX Building ‘Flagship’ Data Center on 27-acre former Trinity Steel site in Birmingham

Atlanta-based DC BLOX said today it is building a data center on the former Trinity Steel site in downtown Birmingham, creating 20 jobs initially with the potential to grow up to $785 million in capital investment and add jobs over the next decade. “The significant investment being made by DC ...

July 11, 2018

DC BLOX Birmingham

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