North America Data Center News

Netrality Expands Its St. Louis Data Center

Netrality Data Centers has completed the expansion of its St Louis data center in Missouri. The facility is located at 210 North Tucker. Netrality added two new data halls with 1.2MW capacity across 1,077 square meters (11,600 square feet) of space. Netrality DC’s Chief Revenue Officer, A...

June 23, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

210 N Tucker (Netrality) St Louis Carrier Hotel

Boston Properties Sells Virginia-95 Business Park To Finmarc For $127.5m

Finmarc Management Inc. has completed the acquisition of the Virginia-95 Business Park from Boston Properties Inc. The property consists of data center buildings and industrial buildings. The purchase price is $127.5 million. The 740,000 square feet properties feature 11 buildings that compris...

June 22, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Virginia

Virginia’s Warren County considers adding data centers to zoning laws

Virginia's Warren County officials have announced that they are considering a proposal to amend zoning laws which could lead to a new wave of data center development in the County, in the northwest of the state and west of Loudoun and Fauquier Counties. As per the proposal, an amendment would ...

June 17, 2022

Northern Virginia

DOE launches $8bn H2Hubs program

The US Department of Energy recently launched an $8 billion program through which it will develop a network of regional clean hydrogen hubs across America, to fast-track the use of hydrogen as a clean energy source.Although the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law has outlined plans for at least four...

June 17, 2022

United States

Compass Data Centers announces plans for over 10 million sq ft of data centers

It has been confirmed that Compass Data Centers is one of the companies that is involved in the Prince William Digital Gateway Project in Virginia, a plan that is steeped in controversy and would see over 2,000 acres of land in the County used for data center construction. If the plan is given...

June 17, 2022

Northern Virginia

San Jose: Microsoft to use a biofuel-powered microgrid for backup

Microsoft has announced that it will be using renewable natural gas to fuel its backup energy at its San Jose data center, which is currently under construction. This move aligns with the company’s target of being carbon negative by 2030, and the project will also provide power locally with em...

June 16, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Bit Origin Enter Agreement To Develop a 75MW Cryptominine Data Center in Cheyenne, Wyoming

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 i...

June 16, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Cheyenne

Cloud at Work Opens New Data Center in Toronto

Cloud at Work has announced the launch of a new data center in Toronto, Canada. The move sees the company expand into the Canadian market as it already has two world-class data centers in the US. According to Cloud at Work, the new facility will ensure that its customers in Canada have access ...

June 15, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Toronto

Virginia's Culpeper County Could See Development of 765,000 Sq ft Data Center Campus

The president of AttoTek, a software development firm, David Martin, has filed for rezoning in Culpeper County, Virginia. The filing details involve rezoning 88 acres of his property around Stevensburg Road and Brandy Road. Once approved, it can lead to over 700,000 square feet (65,000 square ...

June 15, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Virginia

Material and labor shortages in the data center

As the need for data grows and grows, demand for data center construction is as strong as ever, however, the boom is being hampered by a number of factors, including supply and labor shortages, and price hikes. In a recent report named 'Data center market conditions update - Q1, 2022,' constru...

June 14, 2022

San Francisco Bay Area

Bill passed to ban cryptomining data centers that use fossil fuel power plants

The New York Legislature has passed a landmark bill to ban cryptocurrency data centers that use fossil fuels to power their operations, in an effort to reduce statewide emissions by 85% by 2050. Specifically, the bill will impose a two-year moratorium on these activities, however, Governor Kat...

June 13, 2022

New York

Mapletree Industrial Trust Announces Sale of Michigan Data Center

Mapletree Industrial Trust (MIT) has announced the sale of its data center located at 19675 West Ten Mile Road, Southfield, Michigan, to its tenant. The data center sits on 121,100 square feet (11,250 square meters) of land. In addition, the four-story facility has up to 52,940 square feet ...

June 13, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Mapletree: 19675 W Ten Mile

Meta Adding Two More Buildings To Its Huntsville Facility in Alabama

Meta has announced that it is expanding its Huntsville facility in Alabama. The company revealed that it is adding two new buildings to the data center to allow the data center buildings to span 3.5 million square feet of space. According to Meta, its investment in the facility will exceed ...

June 10, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Meta Huntsville Campus

iM Critical Opens Data Center in Miami

iM Critical has announced the opening of its new data center in Miami, Florida. The 9,290 square meter (100,000 square foot) data center building offers 5MW capacity and more than 5,575 square meters (60,000 square feet) of colocation space. The CEO of iM Critical, Michael Roark, said the Miam...

June 10, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Miami

President Biden cuts tax barriers on solar panel imports

On Monday, President Biden launched a clean energy push with the announcement that there will be a two-year break from tariffs on solar panels coming from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, in an effort to bolster clean energy projects in the U.S. Alongside issuing this executive order...

June 08, 2022

United States

Bitzero & investor Kevin O’Leary make big company announcements

Bitcoin mining company Bitzero, reportedly a "100% green company," recently made a number of announcements related to its expansion and headquarters location. Plans to build 200 megawatts of data centers in North Dakota over the next two to three years were announced, and the state was also ch...

June 06, 2022

North Dakota

Bristow Officials To Allow Data Center Development on Stanley Martin’s Devlin Technology Park

Bristow’s officials have voted in favor of a Comprehensive Plan Amendment. This amendment could see the development of a 4.25 million square feet data center campus in the area. Stanley Martin, a Virginia-based developer, is looking to have over 250 acres in Prince William County rezoned. T...

May 30, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Northern Virginia

Increased risk of grid blackouts ahead warns North American Electric Reliability Corp (NERC)

The North American Electric Reliability Corp (NERC) has sounded the alarm that this summer, a number of states in the central and upper midwest, Texas, and Southern California, might be hit with blackouts due to the increased risk of power outages. This risk was outlined in the nonprofit's ann...

May 24, 2022

United States

Update on Lonestar's Moon-based backup data center plans

Lonestar, the startup that emerged from stealth with big space plans, has announced that its intentions to use lava tubes to shield from the extreme conditions of the lunar surface, which will assist it in its plans to back up the world's data on the Moon. The company cited the Earth's instabi...

May 24, 2022

United States

Vision Net Completes The Acquisition of iConnect Montana

Vision Net has announced the acquisition of iConnect Montana. The telecommunications solution provider revealed earlier in the week that it closed the transaction for an undisclosed fee. Both companies will now operate under the Vision Net brand and name. iConnect was founded in 1999 by Nor...

May 22, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

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