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Raleigh County suspends data center proposal indefinitely

West Virginia's Raleigh County Commission has indefinitely suspended a data center proposal for a new facility, which was to be developed between Flat Top Road and Joe Cooper Farm Road in Shady Spring. This development is now no longer under consideration with the County for lack of informatio...

January 05, 2024

West Virginia

Virginia residents file lawsuit over data center development

A group of residents in Prince William County, Virginia recently sued the Board of County Supervisors through their formed non-profit "Devlin Defend Corporation” over a data center development. The residents submitted this lawsuit on December 28, hoping to stop the development of a nine-buildi...

January 03, 2024

Virginia

Hourigan proposes 320-acre facility outside Richmond, Virginia

Hourigan, a local developer has proposed a 320-acre data center campus outside Richmond, Virginia. The company has requested to rezone the land from agricultural to light industrial, noting that it expects to see around $1 billion invested in the project. The company said in a filing with regu...

December 27, 2023

Virginia

Virginia’s Fauquier County adopts policies curbing data centers

Virginia's Fauquier County Board of Supervisors has approved a set of policies designed to curb data center developments in the area. These guidelines have been put in place to protect the county's rural character, the health and welfare of its citizens, as well as the value of the residential...

December 20, 2023

Virginia

Cielo to develop massive data center in Virginia’s Culpeper County

Cielo Digital Infrastructure is now on track to develop a 1.4 million square feet data center facility upon approval from Virginia’s Culpeper Country board. This project will be built on a 121-acre parcel along Nalles Mill Road following the County Board of Supervisors' vote to approve the pro...

December 14, 2023

Virginia

Climate groups to launch new Virginia data center pressure group on Friday

A group of 20 environmental and climate groups will launch a coalition this week to rein in the data center industry across the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Virginia Data Center Reform Coalition will call for limits to data center development at a press conference on Friday, December 1. The C...

November 29, 2023

Virginia

DOL provides $5m funds to Virginia colleges for DC construction careers

The US Department of Labor (DOL) has awarded community colleges in Virginia $5 million in funding in an attempt to bridge the data center skills gap as a part of its Building Pathways to Infrastructure Jobs grant program. Seven of Virginia's community colleges will be using this grant which w...

October 26, 2023

Virginia

IonQ unveils two rack-mounted quantum solutions

A leading quantum computing firm, IonQ has announced plans for two rack-mounted solutions that introduce quantum capabilities to existing infrastructures: IonQ Forte Enterprise and IonQ Tempo. These solutions are mainly to help businesses leverage the power of quantum directly from their own d...

October 04, 2023

Maryland

North Carolina government funds new Washington-Warren Airport DC

After receiving additional government funding, North Carolina's Washington-Warren Airport is on track to get a new data center campus. This airport in Washington City will get $13.5 million in funding from the state budget.The government funds will be utilized to develop "key infrastructure," ...

October 02, 2023

North Carolina

JK Land Holdings expands proposed Virginia’s Gainesville DC with land buy

Chuck Kuhn's real estate firm, JK Land Holdings, has expanded the proposed Gainesville data center via land acquisition in Virginia's Prince William County through its Wellington Road LLC affiliate. The company has also filed an application, which is currently under review, for up to 3.8 milli...

September 28, 2023

Virginia

Chirisa obtains a $200 million loan to outfit a CoreWeave data facility in Virginia

Chirisa Investments has secured financing for constructing a data center in Chester, Virginia. According to Commercial Observer, Chirisa received $200 million in construction funding to build CoreWeave's 242,000-square-foot turnkey data center. CO's sources revealed that an undisclosed Brookfi...

September 25, 2023

Virginia

Chirisa obtains a $200 million loan to outfit a CoreWeave data facility in Virginia

Chirisa Investments has secured financing for constructing a data center in Chester, Virginia. Chirisa received $200 million in construction funding to build CoreWeave's 242,000-square-foot turnkey data center, according to Commercial Observer. According to CO sources, an undisclosed Brookfiel...

September 20, 2023

Virginia

Virginia data center property rezoning divides Culpeper town council

Culpeper Town Council is debating whether to rezon a land on East Chandler Street to create a six-building, 4.3 million-square-foot data center facility and substation in Culpeper County, Virginia. The 116-acre lot is zoned Residential-2 following 15 years of planning for a 490-home project. S...

September 11, 2023

Virginia

Construction starts on the county government data center in Maryland

The Frederick County Government office building in Maryland, which includes a data center, is still under construction. The Prospect Center on Himes Avenue in Frederick will be converted as part of this undertaking. The county paid $20 million for the building in 2021, and it will house multip...

September 07, 2023

Maryland

Old coal mine designated for data centers in Wise County, Virginia

A former coal mine in Wise County will be converted into an industrial park with data centers thanks to a $1.7 million grant from Virginia Energy. The discarded mine at the Elam Farm site in Southern Virginia's Wise County will receive funding from the Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalizati...

August 25, 2023

Virginia

PowerHouse plans Charlotte data center facility

PowerHouse, a company that builds data centers, plans to build a new campus in Charlotte, North Carolina. According to WSCOC-TV, PowerHouse intends to construct on more than 130 acres between Interstate 485 and University City Boulevard. The site, located near a Duke Energy substation, could a...

August 24, 2023

North Carolina

Brunswick County, North Carolina, authorizes two containerized data facilities for schools

The Brunswick County Board of Commissioners in North Carolina has approved Schneider Electric's proposal for two containerized data centers. The agreement, first proposed in March 2023, stipulates that Schneider Electric will provide two prefabricated data centers to the institutions of Brunsw...

August 23, 2023

North Carolina

Vantage completes the first structure of the 96MW Ashburn data center campus

Vantage Data Centers' VA21 data center in Ashburn, Virginia, has reached completion. VA21 is the first data center currently under development on the 96MW VA2 campus of Vantage. The 18-acre VA2 campus will house three data centers with 800,000 square feet of space. Dominion Energy will provide...

August 18, 2023

Vantage Ashburn Campus

Data centers could be built on Maryland's old mall site for FBI HQ

Lerner Enterprises is evaluating a former Maryland mall as a possible campus for a data center if the FBI does not relocate there. Brightseat Associates LLC, a Lerner affiliate, filed a preliminary application for a "qualified data center" with Prince George's County's land use regulatory body...

August 16, 2023

Maryland

Data center design standards approved by Leesburg Town Council in Loudoun

Leesburg's Loudoun County Council unanimously approved data center design criteria. Unlike Ashburn, Virginia's Leesburg has no data centers; however, this may change. Three rezoning petitions may allow data center development in town. One is in the Oaklawn neighborhood, one close to the former...

August 16, 2023

Northern Virginia

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