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

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

February 02, 2023 Northern Virginia

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 month, Luck...

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Read Microsoft expands in Des Moines, Iowa
Microsoft expands in Des Moines, Iowa

Microsoft expands in Des Moines, Iowa

January 31, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced that it is expanding in Iowa, following the issuing of a permit, valued at $255 million for a data center at 5855 SW Kerry St. As per the permit, the facility will span 250,000 sq ft. Described as the DSM 12 Buildout and located in West Des Moines, the SW Kerry Street site...

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Read Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative lowers data center emissions in Viriginia
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative lowers data center emissions in Viriginia

Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative lowers data center emissions in Viriginia

January 26, 2023 Northern Virginia

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...

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Read A new data center is planned for Tilford Yard
A new data center is planned for Tilford Yard

A new data center is planned for Tilford Yard

January 23, 2023 Atlanta

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...

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Read Microsoft forms cloud agreement with Suncorp
Microsoft forms cloud agreement with Suncorp

Microsoft forms cloud agreement with Suncorp

January 19, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Suncorp Group and Microsoft have announced a three-year agreement, which will witness Suncorp increase its cloud footprint in Microsoft Azure while it winds down on-premise data centers. Suncorp has outlined its intentions to migrate 90% of workloads to the cloud by the end of this year. Its...

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Read Zeittec announces data center for Santos Port Authority
Zeittec announces data center for Santos Port Authority

Zeittec announces data center for Santos Port Authority

January 10, 2023 São Paulo

Zeittec is building a new facility for the Santos Port Authority (SPA), in São Paulo, following the signing of a construction contract. Work is due to commence in January, with projections that works will be completed in mid-2023.The facility is part of a wider digitalization project of Porto de...

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Read Historic black cemetery erased for Microsoft data center development
Historic black cemetery erased for Microsoft data center development

Historic black cemetery erased for Microsoft data center development

January 10, 2023 Microsoft Azure

Following an extensive investigation by ProPublica, it has been found that Microsoft and local officials in rural Virginia helped erase a historic black cemetery by downplaying its cultural significance in order to pursue data center development. Back in 2014, when the giant was looking to expand...

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Read More applications for data centers in the greater Dublin area as grid capacity concerns continue
More applications for data centers in the greater Dublin area as grid capacity concerns continue

More applications for data centers in the greater Dublin area as grid capacity concerns continue

January 01, 2023 Dublin

According to reports, in the wake of the Dublin data center moratorium over grid issues, 21 new data centers are planned outside of the greater Dublin area. Sixteen of these facilities are large-scale data centers, while a further five smaller-scale data center projects are being discussed with...

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Read Hyperco To Develop two 50MW Facilities in Helsinki, Finland
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Hyperco To Develop two 50MW Facilities in Helsinki, Finland

December 14, 2022 Helsinki

Hyperco has announced its plan to expand its data center presence in New Zealand with two new data center campus developments. The Nordic data center company said it would develop the facilities in Helsinki, Finland, with each having an initial capacity of 50MW. The company did not reveal the...

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Read Prince William County supervisors board sued over PW Digital Gateway decision
Prince William County supervisors board sued over PW Digital Gateway decision

Prince William County supervisors board sued over PW Digital Gateway decision

December 14, 2022 Northern Virginia

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 million...

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Read Microsoft plans gas plant at Dublin Campus over energy constraint concerns
Microsoft plans gas plant at Dublin Campus over energy constraint concerns

Microsoft plans gas plant at Dublin Campus over energy constraint concerns

December 12, 2022 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced plans to build an 'unprecedentedly large-scale gas power plant' at its Grange Castle site, an upcoming data center development, due to its concerns about Ireland's energy grid constraints. According to the giant, plans are to build a 170 MW on-site power plant alongside 21...

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Read Microsoft Looking To Expand its Leesburg Data Center Campus With Two Data Centers
Microsoft Looking To Expand its Leesburg Data Center Campus With Two Data Centers

Microsoft Looking To Expand its Leesburg Data Center Campus With Two Data Centers

December 09, 2022 Microsoft: IAD01-1

According to BizJournal, Microsoft is planning to expand its Leesburg data center campus in Loudoun County, Virginia, by developing two data centers. The two data centers will be called IAD02 and IAD03. The planned data centers will span 44,200 square meters (475,700 square feet). The data...

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Read Microsoft To Develop a $400m Data Center in Stone Ridge, Virginia
Microsoft To Develop a $400m Data Center in Stone Ridge, Virginia

Microsoft To Develop a $400m Data Center in Stone Ridge, Virginia

December 06, 2022 Microsoft Azure

According to BizJournal, Microsoft has plans to develop a new data center in Loudoun County, Virginia. The publication cited the Loudoun County records for its information. Microsoft’s plan is to develop a $400 million facility on a 67-acre land it owns in the Arcola Business Park. The IAD11 data...

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

December 01, 2022 Northern Virginia

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...

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Read More data centers ahead for Loudoun County?
More data centers ahead for Loudoun County?

More data centers ahead for Loudoun County?

November 28, 2022 Northern Virginia

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 warehouse...

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Read Irish government confirms terms and conditions for ORESS 1
Irish government confirms terms and conditions for ORESS 1

Irish government confirms terms and conditions for ORESS 1

November 25, 2022 Dublin

Following the Irish government's approval of the terms and conditions of ORESS 1, a huge auction for offshore wind, 2.5GW of renewable energy could be added to the grid, enough to power 2.5 million Irish homes with green electricity. According to reports, at least three offshore energy auctions...

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Read Microsoft files to build two data centers in San Jose, California
Microsoft files to build two data centers in San Jose, California

Microsoft files to build two data centers in San Jose, California

November 24, 2022 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has filed to build two new data centers at a site in San Jose, California, it has been reported. The proposal details plans for two-building on a 632,000-square-foot campus on 22 vacant acres near the intersection of Orchard Parkway and Component Drive. These two new additions have been...

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Read Microsoft signs further PPAs in Ireland
Microsoft signs further PPAs in Ireland

Microsoft signs further PPAs in Ireland

November 24, 2022 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has signed CPPAs with Statkraft, Energia Group, and Power Capital Renewable Energy, for 900MW to cover its data center operations in Ireland and 28% of Ireland's renewable energy target for 2030. By 2025, the giant expects to power 100% of its Irish facilities with renewable energy....

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

November 23, 2022 Northern Virginia

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...

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