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

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 cen...

December 09, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Leesburg 1A

Allied Energy partners with Enerhash for flare gas crypto operations

Enerhash is the latest company to partner with an oil company to gain access to and explore the use of flared gas for mining operations. The crypto mining firm has signed an MoU with Allied Energy, through which the two work on the feasibility of developing solutions to utilize stranded and fl...

December 08, 2022

United States

Wind River Internet Looking To Develop a Data Center in 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 Execut...

December 08, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Wyoming

Cryptomining begins at Odessa Data Center

Cipher Mining, Inc., a U.S.-based bitcoin mining company, has begun bitcoin mining operations at its Odessa data center in Texas."We are delighted to announce that our Odessa data center has begun bitcoin mining operations just 10 months after we broke ground at the site," said Tyler Page, CEO...

December 02, 2022

Texas

QTS Announces That Fire at its New Jersey Campus Won't Affect Construction on the Site

Earlier on Wednesday, fire broke out at QTS’s data center campus in New Jersey. However, it was extinguished under two hours without any injuries. QTS has now come out to say the fire did not affect its data center operations. It also noted that the fire will not delay the construction of the ...

December 01, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

QTS Piscataway

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

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 ac...

December 01, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Northern Virginia

Meta To Expand its Data Center Campus in Richmond, Virginia

Meta is looking to expand its data center campus in Richmond, Virginia. According to Richmond BizSense, Meta acquired 475 acres of land close to its existing facility within White Oak Technology Park in Henrico County. The social media company plans to develop new data centers under the umbrel...

November 29, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Meta Henrico Campus

More data centers ahead for Loudoun County?

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 warehou...

November 28, 2022

Northern Virginia

Regional Group Acquires Data Center From Manulife Investment Management in Ottawa, Canada

Canadian real estate company Regional Group has acquired a data center and office complex in Ottawa, Canada. The property it acquired is Qualicum Centre, a three-building office campus located at 2932, 2934, and 2936 Baseline Road. The selling firm is Manulife Investment Management. The ter...

November 25, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Ottawa

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

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 M...

November 23, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Northern Virginia

Bedrock and Raeden Partner Up For Small Carrier Hotel in Detroit

Real estate company Bedrock has announced its plan for a new carrier hotel data center in Detroit, Michigan. The company said it is partnering with Raeden, a digital infrastructure platform provider, to launch the independent carrier hotel in the city. The new carrier hotel will be located on ...

November 18, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Detroit

Google's 15-Year Tax Break on Oregon Data Center Expires

Google has started paying property taxes at its Oregon data center- 15 years after it launched the facility. The company got a tax bill of $5.2m from Wasco County after its tax break expired. Google developed the data center in 2006. The tax bill might be small for Google, but it will signi...

November 11, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google The Dalles Oregon

Digital Realty Develops New Substation For its Chicago Campus

Digital Realty has partnered with local utility firm ComEd to open a new power substation at the former’s Franklin Park data center campus in Chicago. The substation was developed to support the future growth of the facility. The four-acre substation currently sits within Digital Realty’s d...

November 10, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Digital Chicago Franklin Park Campus on Grand Ave - Digital Realty

Prince William board votes to approve PW Digital Gateway

After months of protests and deliberation, the Prince William County Board of Supervisors voted to approve a change to the county's comprehensive plan to allow a controversial data center development on the Digital Gateway lands. This vote of 5-2 permits 27 million square feet of data center s...

November 07, 2022

Northern Virginia

Data Center Development Coming To Nanaimo, Canada After Officials Granted Rezoning Request

Officials of Nanaimo city in British Columbia, Canada, have granted permission to rezone 2.3 hectares to give way for data center development. The land in question is located at 2086 and 2090 East Wellington Road. The rural area, which is primarily undeveloped, features two residential houses ...

November 02, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Canada

Prime DC commences work on Santa Clara site

Prime Data Centers has begun work on its Santa Clara data center in California. Located at 2175 Martin Ave, the three-story facility is on a 1.6-acre plot and is designed as a turnkey build-to-suit facility offering 80,000 square feet (7,430 sqm) of purpose-built data center space and 9MW with...

November 02, 2022

Prime Santa Clara (Martin)

Prince William Board of County Supervisors to vote on controversial data center development

Today the Prince William County Board of County Supervisors is set to vote on a much-anticipated and controversial data center development, "the PW Digital Gateway", which would introduce 26.7 million square feet of data center space to 2,100 acres next to rural land of historical and cult...

November 01, 2022

Northern Virginia

Blackstone Data Services Plans 10-12MW Cryptomine Data Center in Tazewell County, Virginia

Blackstone Data Services has announced that it is developing a new crypto-mining data center. The new facility will be located in the Bluestone Business and Technology Park shell building in Virginia’s Tazewell County. Blackstone plans to invest up to $18 million in developing the facility. Ch...

October 31, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Virginia

Vertiv releases its 'Data Center Sustainability' guide

Vertiv recently released its sustainability guide for the data center industry with the hope that it will help to decarbonize operations, improve water efficiency and reduce the industry’s overall environmental impact. The company, in its guide, highlighted figures from the International Energ...

October 26, 2022

United States

DRFortress is Expanding its Honolulu Facility

DRFortress has announced its plans to expand its Honolulu data center. The Hawaiian colo company will add 130 cabinets to the data center located at 3375 Koapaka Street. The expansion will see the facility's total cabinet increase to 600. Its data center space will also increase to 5,000 sq...

October 25, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

DRFortress Honolulu

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