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Iron Mountain inks deal for 24/7 carbon-free energy (CFE) electricity procurement

Iron Mountain has announced that, through a partnership with RPD Energy, it has made a "landmark series of transactions" meaning that the company will obtain 24/7 carbon-free energy (CFE) electricity procurement. The US renewable provider RPD Energy will be the lead architect of renewable ene...

February 13, 2023

Iron Mountain

Bristow Data Center Park Approval Delayed by Prince William County Officials

Officials from Prince William County have postponed the vote on a data center construction plan. Following a lengthy discussion that ended at 3 am this Thursday, the Prince William Board of County Supervisors unanimously decided to postpone the Devlin Technology Park proposal until March 7....

February 09, 2023

Northern Virginia

Citigroup Is Equipping Two Of Its Data Centers in Texas With Battery Rooms

CitiGroup is initiating two data center expansion projects in the Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth regions of Texas. Two applications for 'Battery Room Buildouts' have been submitted to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR). Its Georgetown Data Center is located at 201 Blue Ridge...

February 06, 2023

Texas

Luck Stone, Plans a 2 million Sq Ft Data Center Facility Near Leesburg

In Ashburn, Loudoun County, the Virginia quarry business Luck Stone Corp. is building a new data center facility. According to BizJournal, the company has requested to rezone a portion of its Ashburn property to accommodate up to 2 million square feet of additional data centers. This mont...

February 02, 2023

Northern Virginia

Web Werks launches in Navi Mumbai, India

Web Werks has announced that it is launching a new data center in Mumbai, India. Named the Mumbai-2 data center, the facility will provide 10 MW of capacity and span 120,000 sq ft (11,150 sqm). According to the company, the facility, first announced back in March 2021, will launch on January 3...

January 26, 2023

Mumbai

Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative lowers data center emissions in Viriginia

Northern Virginia is now one of the largest data center hubs in the world. Over the years, tax incentives have brought in tech companies from far and wide. However, with this influx of companies data centers, has come a surge in energy use, which is now projected to increase electricity use by...

January 26, 2023

Northern Virginia

Prince William County supervisors board sued over PW Digital Gateway decision

Following the Prince William County Board of Supervisors' decision to give the green light to the controversial PW Digital Gateway, it is now being faced with two lawsuits. The decision, which will permit changing the area's comprehensive plan, opening up the area to 25 million sq ft (2.3 mill...

December 14, 2022

Northern Virginia

Cryptomining begins at Odessa Data Center

Cipher Mining, Inc., a U.S.-based bitcoin mining company, has begun bitcoin mining operations at its Odessa data center in Texas."We are delighted to announce that our Odessa data center has begun bitcoin mining operations just 10 months after we broke ground at the site," said Tyler Page, CEO...

December 02, 2022

Texas

Texas-Based Data Center Developer Signs Agreements with Landowners in Northern Virginia's Vint Hill and Catlett

According to Fauquier Times, a data center developer based in Texas has acquired two plots of land in Fauquier County, Virginia. The data center developer signed agreements with landowners in the Catlett and Vint Hill towns of Northern Virginia. The Vint Hill site spans 48 acres, and it was ac...

December 01, 2022

Northern Virginia

More data centers ahead for Loudoun County?

In recent years, Chuck Kuhn, the founder, and CEO of JK Moving, has become a big player in the data center real estate market scene in Northern Virginia. Now, it appears that he’s looking to develop a new facility in Loudoun County, following the application for a large data center and warehou...

November 28, 2022

Northern Virginia

Former Large Turkey Farm in Loudoun County Seeks Rezoning for Potential Data Center

The owners of a former turkey farm in Leesburg, Northern Virginia, have plans to rezone part of the land for data center development. According to BizJournal, Orme Farm LLC, owners of up to 376 acres of land in Leesburg, Loudoun County, is working with an affiliate of real estate company Van M...

November 23, 2022

Northern Virginia

Iron Mountain Acquires Madrid's XData Properties

Iron Mountain has announced the acquisition of XData Properties, one of Madrid’s largest data center parks. The acquisition sees Iron Mountain expand its footprint considerably. The property reportedly has enough power to develop 79MW over the next years. The property currently hosts a 3MW dat...

November 18, 2022

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Prince William board votes to approve PW Digital Gateway

After months of protests and deliberation, the Prince William County Board of Supervisors voted to approve a change to the county's comprehensive plan to allow a controversial data center development on the Digital Gateway lands. This vote of 5-2 permits 27 million square feet of data center s...

November 07, 2022

Northern Virginia

Iron Mountain Completes Acquisition of XData in Spain, Gets One Data Center in Madrid

Iron Mountain has announced the acquisition of XData Properties of Spain. The acquisition sees the company take over a data center in Madrid, Spain. Iron Mountain also acquired land in Phoenix, Arizona, and Mumbai, India in a separate acquisition . XData was developing the large data center be...

November 04, 2022

Iron Mountain

Slough Council To Sell For Paint Factory To Data Center Developer

Slough Council has agreed to turn a former paint factory zoned for residential development into a data center. The Council decided to sell the site to an unnamed data center developer. Per council documents, the Slough Council acquired the site in February 2021 from Panattoni for £38.5 million...

November 04, 2022

London: Slough

Thor Acquires Coca-Cola Bottling Plant in Madrid For 100MW Data Center Development

Thor Equities has announced the acquisition of a former Coca-Cola bottling plant in Madrid, Spain. The site is planned for a data center campus development. Swiss real estate investment company Stoneweg completed the sale on behalf of the Icona Capital Group to Thor. None of the companies reve...

November 02, 2022

Madrid

Prince William Board of County Supervisors to vote on controversial data center development

Today the Prince William County Board of County Supervisors is set to vote on a much-anticipated and controversial data center development, "the PW Digital Gateway", which would introduce 26.7 million square feet of data center space to 2,100 acres next to rural land of historical and cult...

November 01, 2022

Northern Virginia

Mainova Ventures into Data Centers With 30MW Facility in Frankfurt

German energy company Mainova is moving into the data center business. The company broke ground on the new facility in Frankfurt, Germany. Mainova WebHouse, a subsidiary of the energy company, announced that a groundbreaking ceremony for the facility took place earlier in the month. The new...

October 27, 2022

Frankfurt

Genesis Digital Assets commences work on new 40MW mining data center

Genesis Digital Assets, has broken ground on a new data center in Glasscock county Texas. Comprising four buildings when complete, the new facility is expected to be finished and fully operational by December this year. According to the company, the facility will utilize its proprietary techno...

October 21, 2022

Texas

Penzance looks to develop data center in Chantilly in Northern Virginia

Penzance, a real estate investment firm, has announced that it is considering a site that was previously earmarked for an auto sales facility for a data center development instead. The company has reportedly applied to rezone a plot of land, located in Chantilly in Northern Virginia, just off ...

October 13, 2022

Northern Virginia

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