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Read Ohio firefighters killed in a tower maintenance accident
Ohio firefighters killed in a tower maintenance accident

Ohio firefighters killed in a tower maintenance accident

November 29, 2023 Ohio

Concord-Green fire chief Ralph Stegbauer and fire captain Jeffery Skaggs have both passed away while carrying out tower maintenance outside their firehouse in Ohio. Both firefighters were working on the Fayette County, Ohio tower when the mechanical lift they were in overturned. This accident led...

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Read Mira Aerospace successfully completes 5G trial from the stratosphere
Mira Aerospace successfully completes 5G trial from the stratosphere

Mira Aerospace successfully completes 5G trial from the stratosphere

October 31, 2023 Abu Dhabi

High altitude pseudo satellite (HAPS) firm Mira Aerospace has successfully conducted a 5G connectivity trial from the stratosphere - which ranges from 4-12 miles (6-20 km) above the Earth's surface to around 31 miles (50km). Mira said in an announcement last week, “Our team is excited to announce...

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Read ‘Fortune 200 tech company’ looks to build $750m campus in northern Ohio
‘Fortune 200 tech company’ looks to build $750m campus in northern Ohio

‘Fortune 200 tech company’ looks to build $750m campus in northern Ohio

October 04, 2023 Ohio

An unnamed Fortune 200 tech company plans to build a $750 million data center campus on about 750 acres between Perrysburg and Bowling Green in northern Ohio. This company is also undergoing deals and negotiations through a shell company, Liames LLC. Middleton Township trustees discussed plans...

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Read Vacant data center in Blair, Nebraska up for sale
Vacant data center in Blair, Nebraska up for sale

Vacant data center in Blair, Nebraska up for sale

October 03, 2023 Nebraska

Cushman & Wakefield has listed a data center for sale at 256 E. Grant Street in Blair. The asking price for this facility outside Omaha, Nebraska, is listed as $1.76 million on the site and $1.5 million in the sales brochure. The 7,564 sq ft (700 sqm) facility was built on six acres in...

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Read Southeast Nebraska 911 services went down after Lincoln data center fire
Southeast Nebraska 911 services went down after Lincoln data center fire

Southeast Nebraska 911 services went down after Lincoln data center fire

September 04, 2023 Nebraska

On Saturday, September 2, a fire at a data center in Lincoln, Nebraska, shut down 911 services in the state's southeast. According to reports, the data center in issue was a Windstream facility in Lincoln. A transformer shorted and exploded due to a fire in the data center, cutting power to the...

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Read Northern Ohio will see the construction of a 600-acre data center
Northern Ohio will see the construction of a 600-acre data center

Northern Ohio will see the construction of a 600-acre data center

September 01, 2023 Ohio

A data center construction is proposed for the northern Ohio region outside Toledo. The Blade reports that preparations are underway to locate a data center on hundreds of acres in Middleton Township, west of Interstate 75 and near the intersection of State Routes 582 and 25. Details regarding...

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Read Mubadala of Abu Dhabi, together with KKR, invested in CoolIT
Mubadala of Abu Dhabi, together with KKR, invested in CoolIT

Mubadala of Abu Dhabi, together with KKR, invested in CoolIT

July 06, 2023 Abu Dhabi

The Mubadala Investment Company of Abu Dhabi disclosed earlier this year that it had invested in liquid cooling company CoolIT. In May 2023, the company invested alongside KKR in the Canadian company, with the latter acquiring the majority of the cooling business. The terms of the acquisition...

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Read Work begins on a data facility in Lincoln, Nebraska
Work  begins on a data facility in Lincoln, Nebraska

Work begins on a data facility in Lincoln, Nebraska

June 08, 2023 Nebraska

Lincoln, Nebraska, looks to have seen the start of construction on a data center campus that was first proposed in 2019. According to the Lincoln Journal Star, the project appears to be progressing, with some excavation occurring in recent months. In July 2019, Agate LLC filed for a 600...

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Read Fort Worth Data Center For Sale Following Bankruptcy
Fort Worth Data Center For Sale Following Bankruptcy

Fort Worth Data Center For Sale Following Bankruptcy

February 02, 2023 Dallas

Following a bankruptcy filing, a recently converted data center is for auction. This week, Hilco Real Estate declared March 23, 2023, as the deadline for qualifying bids for the Chapter 11 bankruptcy sale of a newly converted flex industrial facility into a data center. Built in 2018 on a...

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Read Emerge to provide Khazna Data Centers with renewable energy from solar plant development
Emerge to provide Khazna Data Centers with renewable energy from solar plant development

Emerge to provide Khazna Data Centers with renewable energy from solar plant development

October 18, 2022 Abu Dhabi

Emerge, a joint venture (JV) between Masdar and EDF, has signed an agreement with Khazna Data Centers to provide it with renewable energy from a new solar plant development. The ground-mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) plant will provide power to Khazna's new data center in Masdar City, providing...

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Read TAAL & Lake Parime to deploy cryptomine at nuclear station
TAAL & Lake Parime to deploy cryptomine at nuclear station

TAAL & Lake Parime to deploy cryptomine at nuclear station

July 15, 2022 Ohio

TAAL and Lake Parime have announced their intention to deploy a new cryptomine facility by an unidentified nuclear power station in Ohio, following the signing of a hosting agreement between the two. Through the deal, 3,000 TAAL-owned S19J Pro bitcoin mining units, with a capacity of 10MW, will...

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Read Lincoln Property Company & Harrison Street Form JV To Develop 144MW Campus
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Lincoln Property Company & Harrison Street Form JV To Develop 144MW Campus

May 19, 2022 Ohio

Investment and real estate firms Harrison Street and Lincoln Property Company plan to develop an industrial campus and data center in New Albany, Ohio. Both companies have formed a joint venture for this purpose. The JV has purchased a 190-acre site to develop a multipurpose technology and...

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Read Khazna Data Centers breaks ground on second data center in Masdar
Khazna Data Centers breaks ground on second data center in Masdar

Khazna Data Centers breaks ground on second data center in Masdar

April 18, 2022 Abu Dhabi

Khazna Data Centers has announced it has broken ground on its second data center in Masdar, Abu Dhabi. The facility, named Khazna Abu Dhabi 6 (AUH 6), will have a capacity of 31.8 (MW) and is forecast to be completed by the third quarter of 2023. Speaking about the company's data center footprint...

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Read Ohio’s school retirement fund aims to invest in target data centers in future
Ohio’s school retirement fund aims to invest in target data centers in future

Ohio’s school retirement fund aims to invest in target data centers in future

July 05, 2021 Ohio

Ohio’s school retirement fund wants to invest in life science offices and data centers in 2022. The Ohio School Employees Retirement System plans to hire managers to look into real estate investment like data centers since it offers higher rent growth opportunities in its annual investment plans....

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Read Compute North Starts Major Expansion at Nebraska Data Center to Meet High Customer Demand
Compute North Starts Major Expansion at Nebraska Data Center to Meet High Customer Demand

Compute North Starts Major Expansion at Nebraska Data Center to Meet High Customer Demand

February 25, 2021 Marathon Digital: Kearney, Nebraska

As interest in the digital asset space increases, the 100MW facility now has the capacity to support new deals with current customers and emerging players in the cryptocurrency mining space. EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Feb. 25, 2021 — Compute North, an industry leader in economical, large-scale...

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Read Microsoft and EDP Renewables Execute a Wind Energy Agreement in Ohio
Microsoft and EDP Renewables Execute a Wind Energy Agreement in Ohio

Microsoft and EDP Renewables Execute a Wind Energy Agreement in Ohio

March 07, 2019 Ohio

HOUSTON, and REDMOND, Wash. — March 7, 2019 — EDP Renewables SA (EDPR), through its fully owned subsidiary EDP Renewables North America LLC, and Microsoft Corp. have executed two 15-year power purchase agreements (PPA) totaling 125 megawatts (MW) that will bring the Timber Road IV Wind Farm to...

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Read Amazon's Massive $1.1bn Ohio Data Center Project Swaps Townships
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Amazon's Massive $1.1bn Ohio Data Center Project Swaps Townships

June 14, 2015 Ohio

There has been heated competition in Ohio to land a $1.1 billion Amazon Web Services Data Center project. That project was recently reported to be split across three townships: Hilliard, Dublin and Orange Township. Columbus Business first reports that Amazon subsidiary Vadata has withdrawn an...

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Read Officials in Ohio Approve Amazon Data Center Development Plans
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Officials in Ohio Approve Amazon Data Center Development Plans

February 27, 2015 Ohio

Amazon’s planned data center project in Dublin, Ohio, is a step closer, with a panel of city officials approving development plans for a data-processing center on a 70-acre plot of land. The next step will be building permits. The project is expected to cost $1.1 billion and create 120 jobs with...

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