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Read Ares Acquires Land and Data Centers in Virginia
Ares Acquires Land and Data Centers in Virginia

Ares Acquires Land and Data Centers in Virginia

December 20, 2025 Virginia

Alternative investment manager Ares Management Corporation has expanded its data center platform Ada Infrastructure into the US, acquiring land in Virginia for a new campus.The Ares Digital Infrastructure business, through an Ares fund, has acquired a 314-acre site along the I-95 South data...

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Read 150MW Data Center Proposed for Baltimore County, Maryland
150MW Data Center Proposed for Baltimore County, Maryland

150MW Data Center Proposed for Baltimore County, Maryland

December 09, 2025 Maryland

A report by Fox45 News revealed that applicant Security Land and Development LP is seeking to develop the data center campus on a 42-acre site in the Woodlawn area of the county. In addition to the campus, the applicant will donate five acres to BGE to develop an electrical substation and will...

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Read Penzance Breaks Ground on Data Center in Chantilly, Virginia
Penzance Breaks Ground on Data Center in Chantilly, Virginia

Penzance Breaks Ground on Data Center in Chantilly, Virginia

October 14, 2025 Virginia

Real estate firm Penzance announced it has secured construction financing and broken ground on Chantilly Premier, a 100 percent leased powered shell located in Fairfax County, Northern Virginia."Penzance is excited to break ground on this project, which will deliver critical digital...

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Read CleanArc Receives Permission for 600MW Data Center Campus in Virginia
CleanArc Receives Permission for 600MW Data Center Campus in Virginia

CleanArc Receives Permission for 600MW Data Center Campus in Virginia

September 18, 2025 Virginia

CleanArc Data Centers has been granted planning permission for a 650-acre data center campus in Caroline County, Virginia. The Caroline County board of supervisors has approved the development, on a plot of land near Exit 110 of the Interstate 95 between Ashburn and Richmond.County officials said...

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Read Dominion Proposes New Rate Class for Data Centers
Dominion Proposes New Rate Class for Data Centers

Dominion Proposes New Rate Class for Data Centers

September 04, 2025 Virginia

Virginia’s primary electrical utility, Dominion Energy, has proposed the creation of a new rate class for data centers.The new class would apply to utility customers who consume more than 25MW of energy and have a monthly load factor of more than 75 percent. This will result in many, if not most,...

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Read Tract Plans 400-acre Data Center Park outside Charlotte
Tract Plans 400-acre Data Center Park outside Charlotte

Tract Plans 400-acre Data Center Park outside Charlotte

August 02, 2025 North Carolina

A US data center park developer is seeking to build a new campus in North Carolina. In planning since last year, the site is currently zoned RA – Residential Agricultural. Tract’s site plans suggest up to five buildings could be developed on the site. The 400-acre site, between Patterson Farm...

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Read Globalinx to Develop Data Center in Portsmouth, Virginia
 Globalinx to Develop Data Center in Portsmouth, Virginia

Globalinx to Develop Data Center in Portsmouth, Virginia

July 15, 2025 Virginia

Virginia data center firm Globalinx this week revealed plans to develop a backup data center in Portsmouth, a city some 20 miles west of its existing Virginia Beach site.Chris Mitchell, director of sales at Globalinx Datacenters, told the authority the company was building a data center within...

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Read Starwood Files for 1.2GW, 11-building Data Center Campus in Delaware
Starwood Files for 1.2GW, 11-building Data Center Campus in Delaware

Starwood Files for 1.2GW, 11-building Data Center Campus in Delaware

July 12, 2025 Delaware

Plans have been filed for a large gigawatt-scale data center campus in Delaware, filing two applications with New Castle County to develop a new campus that would total 1.2GW across 6 million sq ft (557,418 sqm). Project Washington would see 11 buildings developed on approximately 580 acres of...

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Read Digital Core REIT seeks new tenant for Virginia data center
Digital Core REIT seeks new tenant for  Virginia data center

Digital Core REIT seeks new tenant for Virginia data center

January 02, 2025 Virginia

Digital Core REIT is looking for a new tenant for one of its data centers in Northern Virginia, as the current occupant of the data center, located at 8217 Linton Hall Road in Bristow, Prince William County, has decided to not exercise its option to extend its lease on the property, the property...

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Read TPG Real Estate takes full control of Quantum Frederick Project
TPG Real Estate takes full control of Quantum Frederick Project

TPG Real Estate takes full control of Quantum Frederick Project

December 27, 2024 Maryland

Quantum Loophole will no longer have any "active involvement" in the Quantum Frederick Project, a 2,100-acre data center campus and fiber optic loop (QLoop) in Frederick County, Maryland. This September, TPG sought a court order to remove Quantum Loophole from its role as manager of the $5...

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Read TECfusions secures $300m loan for Virginia data center expansion
TECfusions secures $300m loan for Virginia data center expansion

TECfusions secures $300m loan for Virginia data center expansion

November 20, 2024 Virginia

TECfusions has secured over $300 million to be used for the development and expansion of its Virginia site. In response to “urgent capacity needs” from a key tenant, gradual funding began in January 2024 and has now been solidified in a formal loan agreement, which includes the cumulative monies...

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Read PJM proposes to hasten grid connection for shovel-ready projects
PJM proposes to hasten grid connection for shovel-ready projects

PJM proposes to hasten grid connection for shovel-ready projects

October 25, 2024 Virginia

Grid operator PJM has presented a proposal to permit “shovel-ready” energy projects an expedited route to interconnection to meet grid reliability needs. PJM, with a service area including Virginia and Ohio, has indicated it will provide stakeholders with a formal proposal early next month to...

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Read Perennial Power and CEP Solar partner on renewable energy development in Virginia
Perennial Power and CEP Solar partner on renewable energy development in Virginia

Perennial Power and CEP Solar partner on renewable energy development in Virginia

October 19, 2024 Virginia

Energy firm Perennial Power has partnered with CEP Solar in a collaboration that will prioritize solar and battery storage projects, with construction on the 1.5GW portfolio planned for late 2025.Perennial Power, part of the Sumitomo Group's renewable energy efforts, currently operates five...

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Read Stack receives approval for Gainesville data center
Stack receives approval for Gainesville data center

Stack receives approval for Gainesville data center

September 25, 2024 Virginia

The Prince William Board of County Supervisors has approved a rezoning requestto rezone the land from agricultural to planned business district to enable two data centers to be built. in Gainesville, Virginia. The data centers are expected to total nearly 815,000 sq ft (75,716 sqm) and are...

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Read New data center planned in Ashburn, Virginia
New data center planned in Ashburn, Virginia

New data center planned in Ashburn, Virginia

September 11, 2024 Virginia

Daniel Golding, CTO of Appleby Strategy Group, this week announced plans for a new data center at the Quantum Park in Loudoun County. The address is 22001 Loudoun County Parkway, located within the Quantum Park business park. The park is the former UUNet/MCI Worldcom site that was a key...

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Read Synergy Group names Northern Virginia, Beijing, and Dublin as top 3 hyperscale locations
Synergy Group names Northern Virginia, Beijing, and Dublin as top 3 hyperscale locations

Synergy Group names Northern Virginia, Beijing, and Dublin as top 3 hyperscale locations

August 23, 2024 Northern Virginia

A report from Synergy Research Group found that just twenty state or metro markets account for 62 percent of the world’s current hyperscale data center capacity. Northern Virginia tops this list while the Greater Beijing Area takes the second place, with both making up 22 percent of global...

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Read Natron Energy to invest $1.4 billion on a giant factory in Edgecombe County, North Carolina
Natron Energy to invest $1.4 billion on a giant factory in Edgecombe County, North Carolina

Natron Energy to invest $1.4 billion on a giant factory in Edgecombe County, North Carolina

August 18, 2024 North Carolina

Sodium-ion battery manufacturer Natron Energy plans to spend $1.4 billion on a 1.2 million square foot (111,500 sqm) facility, at the Kingsboro CSX Select Megasite which is expected to produce 24GW of batteries annually at full capacity and lead to 1,000 jobs. “Today is a momentous day for Natron...

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Read Data Journey acquires Bed Bath & Beyond data center in North Carolina
Data Journey acquires Bed Bath & Beyond data center in North Carolina

Data Journey acquires Bed Bath & Beyond data center in North Carolina

July 31, 2024 North Carolina

Data Journey this week announced it has acquired the former purpose-built enterprise data center from Bed Bath & Beyond data center in Claremont, Catawba County, and has converted the facility into a colocation facility. This marks the company’s second facility acquisition, after acquiring...

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Read Lightpath to acquire United Fiber and Data (UFD assets
Lightpath to acquire United Fiber and Data (UFD assets

Lightpath to acquire United Fiber and Data (UFD assets

June 12, 2024 Virginia

Infrastructure-based connectivity provider Lightpath has announced an agreement to acquire all of the assets of United Fiber and Data (UFD) in a transaction subject to regulatory approvals and is expected to close in the third quarter of 2024.UFD owns and operates a diverse 323-route mile,...

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Read Virginia county recommends approval of applications to enable homeowners sell their lands for data center
Virginia county recommends approval of applications to enable homeowners sell their lands for data center

Virginia county recommends approval of applications to enable homeowners sell their lands for data center

May 17, 2024 Virginia

The Loudoun County Planning Commission in Virginia has recommended approving the Hiddenwood Assemblage application to allow homeowners in Arcola to sell their land for a data center project. The Planning Commission described it as a "no-win situation," with some homeowners wanting the zoning...

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