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Read Expedient unveils new facility in Columbus, Ohio
Expedient unveils new facility in Columbus, Ohio

Expedient unveils new facility in Columbus, Ohio

February 15, 2024 Ohio

Expedient this week announced that it has launched services from a data center in Columbus, Ohio, previously operated by an insurance firm and has added a former Nationwide data center near Columbus to its portfolio. This facility located at 281 E. Powell Road in Lewis Center township, the...

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Read Data Center sold in West Des Moines, Iowa
Data Center sold in West Des Moines, Iowa

Data Center sold in West Des Moines, Iowa

January 04, 2024 Iowa

Wells Fargo recently sold 7001 Westown Parkway and 1725 68th Street, which had been listed on its site for a combined $16.5 million, to commercial and residential brokerage WB Realty Co. A JLL sales brochure described the property as offering 36,230 square meters of office space, along with an...

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Read Meta to proceed with 750,000 square feet facility in Rosemount city Council
Meta to proceed with 750,000 square feet facility in Rosemount city Council

Meta to proceed with 750,000 square feet facility in Rosemount city Council

December 28, 2023 Minnesota

The Rosemount City Council has voted unanimously in favor of the Meta data center development in Minnesota. Following this vote, the facility will be developed on part of the University of Minnesota's UMore Park. The approved plan d will see a 750,000 sq ft (69,670 sqm) data center campus be...

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Read Meta unveils new Illinois data center
Meta unveils new Illinois data center

Meta unveils new Illinois data center

November 30, 2023 Illinois

Meta has finally launched its 2.3 million square feet DeKalb, Illinois, data center three years after construction began. According to the company, this construction took over $1 billion to complete and required 1,200 skilled workers. This site is expected to provide over 200 operational jobs in...

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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 Fortune 100 company proposes 12-building DC campus in Fort Wayne, Indiana
Fortune 100 company proposes 12-building DC campus in Fort Wayne, Indiana

Fortune 100 company proposes 12-building DC campus in Fort Wayne, Indiana

October 12, 2023 Indiana

An unnamed Fortune 100 company is planning a new 772-acre data center campus between Fort Wayne and New Haven to the east in Allen County. The application for this project, dubbed ‘Project Zodiac,” is for a new facility bound by East Tillman Road, Adams Center Road, and railroad tracks. Wane.com...

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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 Amazon to Invest in 5 Facility Campus in Ohio
Amazon to Invest in 5 Facility Campus in Ohio

Amazon to Invest in 5 Facility Campus in Ohio

September 29, 2023 AWS US East (Ohio)

Amazon Web Services plans to invest $3.5 billion in New Albany by 2020 to expand its footprint around Columbus, Ohio. The New Albany City Council announced it had approved a resolution enabling AWS to proceed with its expansion investment plan. This is only part of Amazon's $7.5 billion...

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Read St. Louis Park school district receives conditional land use permit for DC center construction
St. Louis Park school district receives conditional land use permit for DC center construction

St. Louis Park school district receives conditional land use permit for DC center construction

September 27, 2023 Minnesota

The Minnesota St. Louis Park City Council has approved a conditional use permit (CUP) for constructing a data center at 6400 Walker Street. Information from the district’s website reveals that the new center will be built southeast of the football field and next to an existing maintenance...

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Read Compass Datacenters Acquires Former Sears HQ for $194M to Build Data Center Campus
Compass Datacenters Acquires Former Sears HQ for $194M to Build Data Center Campus

Compass Datacenters Acquires Former Sears HQ for $194M to Build Data Center Campus

September 18, 2023 Compass Hoffman Estates

Compass Datacenters has acquired the former Sears headquarters, spanning 197 acres in the Chicago area, for $194 million. As Sears continues to downsize its operations, Compass plans to replace the existing 2.4 million square-foot campus with data centers, reflecting the growing demand for cloud...

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Read A data facility near Detroit in Michigan up for sale
A data facility near Detroit in Michigan up for sale

A data facility near Detroit in Michigan up for sale

September 14, 2023 Detroit

A data center outside of Detroit, Michigan, is available for purchase. Lee & Associates, a real estate agency, has listed 21420 Melrose in Southfield, Oakland County, as available. The 1986-built, 15,956-square-foot property is available for $1.34m. “This building is extremely well maintained...

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Read Michigan's Kmart headquarters and data center will be demolished
Michigan's Kmart headquarters and data center will be demolished

Michigan's Kmart headquarters and data center will be demolished

September 14, 2023 Michigan

The Troy, Michigan, Kmart corporate office and data center will be destroyed soon. The 906,000-square-foot facility is located at 3100 W. Big Beaver Road on a 40-acre lot. No post-demolition arrangements for the site have been revealed publicly at this time. The head offices have been vacant...

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Read Michigan site of the former ADP data center is up for auction
Michigan site of the former ADP data center is up for auction

Michigan site of the former ADP data center is up for auction

September 04, 2023 Michigan

The former location of an ADP office and data center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is up for auction. Outside of Ann Arbor, Colliers and Ten-X are selling the A2 West Technical Center in Scio Township. The auction is scheduled to begin at the midpoint of October with an opening bid of $1.6 million. On...

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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 Netsolus, a Kansas City data center provider, is acquired by IP Pathways
Netsolus, a Kansas City data center provider, is acquired by IP Pathways

Netsolus, a Kansas City data center provider, is acquired by IP Pathways

August 24, 2023 Kansas

IP Pathways bought Netsolus, a Missouri-based MSP. This week, IP Pathways of Des Moines, Iowa, announced that it will merge with Netsolus of Kansas City, broadening its footprint and services in the Kansas City region. The deal's terms were not disclosed. IP Pathways was founded in 2007 and...

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Read Sentinum introduces hosting and colocation services
Sentinum introduces hosting and colocation services

Sentinum introduces hosting and colocation services

August 07, 2023 Michigan

Sentinum's data center in Michigan has started offering colocation and hosting services. Sentinum, a subsidiary of the holding company Ault Alliance, will provide these offerings for artificial intelligence ecosystems and other industries. The corporation intends to expand its operations into...

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Read Data center for sale in Topeka, Kansas
Data center for sale in Topeka, Kansas

Data center for sale in Topeka, Kansas

August 03, 2023 Kansas

There is a data center building available for purchase in Topeka, Kansas. Topeka's 400 SE Jefferson Street is up for sale through Colliers for a price that has not been disclosed. The 16,350-square-foot building in Shawnee County contains a 10,500-square-foot data center and a 5,850-square-foot...

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Read Edged Energy intends to construct an 18MW data facility in Kansas City, Missouri
Edged Energy intends to construct an 18MW data facility in Kansas City, Missouri

Edged Energy intends to construct an 18MW data facility in Kansas City, Missouri

July 20, 2023 Kansas

A data center is being built by Edged Energy in Kansas City, Missouri. According to BizJournal, the Northland of Kansas City will soon see the start of construction on a data center by engineering and construction company Burns & McDonnell. The company is constructing an 18MW waterless-cooled...

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