North America Data Center News

Honda's fuel-cell system to power US HQ data center

Honda has announced that it will be powering its US HQ data center in Torrance with a self-developed stationary fuel cell power station. The 1MW plant will be made from the same equipment utilized in its Clarity fuel cell-powered cars, providing the company with a zero-emission backup power so...

March 22, 2022

United States

DataBank is Expanding SAN1 Data Center To Meet Demands

DataBank has announced that it is expanding its SAN1 facility in San Diego, California. The data center is located at 12270 World Trade Drive. DataBank will be adding 3,700 square meters (40,000 square feet) of raised floor space to the facility. By so doing, SAN1 will have a total capacity of...

March 22, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

DataBank San Diego SAN1

Publix Wants To Develop a $40 Million Data Center in Florida

Publix has plans to develop a data center at a former FedEx building in Florida. According to reports, the Supermarket chain is looking to invest $40 million in the building located in Polk County, Florida. However, the details of the project aren’t concrete enough at this time, as Publix c...

March 21, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Miami

Georgia Wants To Extend its Data Center Tax Exemptions Further

Georgia is looking to extend its tax exemptions for data centers by another five years. Earlier in 2018, the US state introduced the current sales tax exemptions for data centers through HB 696. The bill provides tax exemptions if it meets certain job creation thresholds and investments over a...

March 18, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Georgia

Upstack announces partnership with Wyoming Hyperscale for sustainable data center

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 Thorno...

March 17, 2022

Wyoming

Washington State Wants To Make Tax Exemptions For Data Center Development

Washington is looking to increase data center development in the state by passing some data center tax exemption bills. The HB 1846 bill, which was introduced by Democrats Alex Ramel and April Berg, would introduce tax exemptions on data center facilities developed in rural counties. The bill ...

March 14, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Washington

Government building in Ontario, Canada to be transformed into a data center

The Norfolk County council building in Ontario, Canada, could be converted into a data center, it has been announced. The building recently sold for CA$725,000 (US$566,000) and spans 12,000 sq ft (1,100 sq ft) on under one acre. The announcement of the sale was originally made back in 2020, wi...

March 09, 2022

Canada

BitNile to expand the capacity of its Michigan data center

BitNile has announced plans to expand its data center in Michigan to reach a capacity of 300 MW. This decision to expand capacity comes as the company seeks to accommodate Bitcoin mining operations at the facility, enabling the operation of approximately 90,000 Bitcoin miners. This, according ...

March 09, 2022

Michigan

Eastlink announces opening of network facility in Halifax, Canada

Eastlink has announced the opening of its new network data center in Halifax, Nova Scotia, following an investment of C$20 million (US$15.7m) and three years of construction. The facility spans 13,000 sqft (1,200 sqm). Speaking about the reason the company decided to build the new facility, Je...

March 07, 2022

Canada

Flexential Expanding Its Englewood Data Center in Denver

Flexential has announced its plans to expand the capacity of its Englewood data center in Denver, Colorado. The facility is located at 8636 S Peoria Street. Flexential says it will be adding 4.5MW capacity to the data center, bringing it to 11.25MW. The increase in capacity will be availabl...

March 04, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Flexential Englewood

Plans are in the Works For a New Data Center in Beacon Falls, Connecticut

MyCitizenNews reports that O&G Industries is looking to develop a new data center in Beacon Falls, Connecticut. The Torrington-based construction firm already owns the 25 acres of land it plans to develop the facility on. Although the company didn’t reveal the plans for the data center, i...

March 04, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Connecticut

AWS Project Withdrawal Prompts Frederick County To Consider Amending Zoning Laws

Frederick County officials met this week to address a data center zoning law. They are looking to change a Maryland County’s zoning law to allow the development of data centers. This move happened after Amazon Web Services rescinded a project plan because of restrictive timelines. The official...

March 04, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Maryland

Data center on the way for vacant Beacon Falls land?

According to reports, a local construction company in Beacon Falls, Torrington-based O&G Industries, is proposing plans to build a data center on vacant land in the town. The company's subdivision company, Data Center, is set to take the lead on the project, which will involve building the...

March 01, 2022

Connecticut

KY lawmakers to introduce tax incentives for data center giants

Kentucky lawmakers are reportedly considering a proposal that would see millions of dollars in state sales tax breaks awarded to tech giants such as Amazon, Facebook, Google and others. This proposed huge tax break has, of course, garnered discussion and a wave of opposition from a number of v...

February 25, 2022

Kentucky

What the America Competes Act means for data centers

In early February, the America Competes Act passed through the House (222-210 along party lines). The much-debated and somewhat controversial Act contains provisions relating to data centers, supercomputers, and quantum computing. Several sub-sections have been added to Section 304 of the Depa...

February 24, 2022

North America

Bitfury Opens 28MW Crypto Mining Data Center in Sarnia, Canada

Bitfury Group has announced the launch of a new crypto mining data center in Sarnia, Canada. The 28MW data center will begin operations with 16MW of capacity before the end of February. It will also add 12MW of capacity by the end of May. The company noted that the facility could be expanded t...

February 24, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Bitfury Sarnia

Energy Field Security Announce Plans For Edge Data Centers in Colorado

Energy Field Security (EFS) has revealed plans to build an Edge data center in Delta, Colorado. The Edge data center will help serve local healthcare and medical providers. EFS announced that it would be building the data center on a seven-acre site which is located to the north of Delta Healt...

February 23, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Colorado (CO)

Loudoun Board: Data center development could be curtailed

Recently, a committee of the Board of Supervisors argued that data centers should be prevented from being built on the Route 7 corridor in northeastern Loudoun County. Already the area is home to 25 million square feet of data centers, with data center development booming in recent years, a bo...

February 22, 2022

Northern Virginia

International crypto bans lead to more data center builds in the US

According to experts, there is an emerging trend towards more crypto data centers being built in the US as a result of other markets introducing bans. China banned cryptocurrency last year, and Russia, in January, proposed a ban, too. That's not all - Sweden is also seeking to ban mining in th...

February 21, 2022

United States

Deep Edge Realty Acquires a Carrier Hotel in Portland, Maine

Deep Edge Realty has announced the acquisition of a carrier hotel in Portland, Maine. The property is at 340 Cumberland Avenue. The selling company is Northland Enterprises. None of the companies revealed the terms of the transaction. The CEO and founder of Deep Edge Realty, Martin Hannigan...

February 18, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

CENTRA: 340 Cumberland (PMW01)

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