December 13, 2023 Arizona
Social network company Meta announced this week that it has signed a new renewable energy deal in Arizona with Ørsted to support its Mesa data center with new solar energy from the Salt River Project. Following this contract, the social network company will receive most of the output of Ørsted's...
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December 07, 2023 Arizona
Dutch chip equipment manufacturer ASM International has announced it plans to invest €300 million over a five-year period to expand its R&D efforts in Arizona. The company mentioned that this new 20-acre facility, set to be located in Scottsdale, will create an additional 500 jobs in software...
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November 09, 2023 Idaho
The power utility Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS), and the reactor company NuScale, have announced intentions to cancel the Carbon Free Power Project, a small modular reactor (SMR) project they planned to build at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). David Schlissel, director of...
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August 25, 2023 Montana
Sentinum, Inc., previously known as BitNile, Inc., has broken ground in Montana on a new cryptomine data center. This week, Ault Alliance, the holding company and parent company of Sentinum, announced that construction had begun on a 20MW facility, which should be operational by the end of the...
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August 09, 2023 Arizona
Phoenix, Arizona's racehorse track, might be converted into an industrial park and data center. Initially reported by BizJournal, developers filed a conceptual site plan to the Phoenix planning commission for a 2.6 million-square-foot industrial and data center park. CT Realty, based in...
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July 17, 2023 Arizona
Edged Energy intends to construct a new data center in the Phoenix, Arizona, neighborhood of Mesa. Edged Energy has submitted applications to Mesa's design review board and development and zoning board to construct a 126,000-square-foot data center on a 14-acre site near the Loop 202 interstate...
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June 27, 2023 Phoenix
A 6MW data facility is up for lease or purchase in Phoenix, Arizona. Located in the desirable Deer Valley neighborhood, CBRE has listed 20435 North 26th Avenue for sale or lease. There was no listed pricing. The 6MW facility was completed in 2003 and sits on 3.66 acres of land, with a raised...
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April 18, 2023 Colorado (CO)
Data centers are already known for guzzling enormous amounts of water, so as AI enters its "gold rush" era, how will it affect water consumption? Well, a new study by researchers from the Universities of Colorado Riverside and Texas Arlington found that training large AI models like OpenAI's...
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March 23, 2023 Idaho
Idaho lawmakers are attempting to restrict the number of tax breaks new data center expansions can receive in the state. Last Monday, Bill 328 was introduced, and the House voted 59-9 to pass it. The Senate has now received the measure. The measure modifies the language in the state's urban...
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March 10, 2023 Idaho
In the city of Kuna, Idaho, a bill that would have kept data centers out of urban renewal districts that failed, has been brought back. The bill would have required data center projects to choose between either receiving sales tax exemption, or being in an urban renewal district. This was passed...
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March 03, 2023 Idaho
The Idaho legislature has rejected a proposed bill that would have limited tax breaks for data centers. The proposed plan, introduced last month, would require either a sales tax exemption or urban renewal regions for data centers, but not both. The measure failed in the House Revenue and Taxes...
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December 12, 2022 Arizona
Chandler City Council has given the green light to adopt a zoning code amendment for the location and operation of data centers in the city. This unanimous vote follows the tabling of an ordinance by Cameron Carter, an attorney with Rose Law Group and representative of Aligned Data Centers, who...
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December 08, 2022 Wyoming
Wind River Internet (WRI) has announced plans for a potential data center in Fremont County, Wyoming. The company revealed that it is hosting a public meeting on the 14th of December, 2022. The company plans to seek citizen input regarding developing a data center in Fremont County. The Executive...
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October 17, 2022 DataBank SLC6
DataBank has announced the opening of a new data center in Salt Lake City, Utah. The company named the new facility SLC6. DataBank first announced SLC6 in August 2021. The 171,000 square feet (15,885 square meters) data center offers 100,000 square feet of raised flooring, with 50,000 square feet...
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July 08, 2022 TIAA: Broomfield
Landmark Dividend, a subsidiary of DigitalBridge, has acquired an office and data center from GI Partners in Broomfield, Colorado. According to BizWest, An affiliate of Landmark Dividend, LD DI Assetco acquired the property from GI TC Broomfield LLC, an affiliate of GI Partners. The property is...
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June 29, 2022 Colorado (CO)
Aspen Creek Digital Corp, a new company in the bitcoin space, has announced that it has opened a six-megawatt solar-powered facility in the western part of Colorado. This announcement comes despite the current crypto meltdown. The company has outlined that its mission is to "catalyze the...
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June 24, 2022 H5 Albuquerque
H5 Data Centers has acquired 505 Marquette in downtown Albuquerque. The building is a carrier hotel from which H5 DC currently operates a data center. The 225,000-square-feet building is a critical interconnection point for New Mexico. This is because it has 20 on-site communications carriers. It...
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June 16, 2022 Cheyenne
Bit Origin Limited has announced that it will be developing a cryptomine data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The company revealed that it had entered some agreements to invest up to $3m in a private crypto mining fund. The fund will then be used to develop a cryptomine with up to 75MW capacity in...
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March 30, 2022 Aligned Phoenix
Aligned Data Centers has announced that it is expanding its presence in the Phoenix data center market. The company will be developing a new data center called PHX-05 at its flagship hyperscale campus in Arizona. Aligned revealed that the data center would be developed under an aggressive and...
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March 17, 2022 Wyoming
Upstack has formed a strategic partnership with Wyoming Hyperscale White Box (WHWB). The partnership will see the company gain access to the Wyoming Hyperscale White Box facility due to open by the end of 2022. Located in a remote mountainous site southeast of Evanston, according to the Thornocks...
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