North America Data Center News

Facebook is expanding its Los Lunas data center in New Mexico

Facebook announced this week that it is expanding its Los Lunas data center in New Mexico. Facebook plans to add another two buildings to the facility. Upon completion, the site will have almost 3.8 million square feet of space. The social media giant's investment in the facility will also ...

October 29, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Meta Los Lunas Campus

Stack Infrastructure is expanding its Northern Virginia campus

Stack Infrastructure has announced that it has broken ground on a new data center on its Northern Virginia Campus in Manassas, Prince William County. According to Stack Infrastructure, the development will bring an additional 36MW of critical capacity with a goal of reaching 72MW. The firm ...

October 29, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

STACK Northern Virginia

Under the microscope: Ameren's new data center

Ameren's new data center, fuelled by one of its coal-fired power plants in Missouri, has come under the microscope, garnering concerns from those in the local community and beyond.While the company says that the $1 million facility will help to stabilize demand for electricity, critics aren't ...

October 26, 2021

Missouri

Quebec: The power of green

Just two years ago, Quebec had just 39 data centers; now, this number has shot up to 50. So, what’s driving this growth? Well, the Canadian city offers vast amounts of low-cost and green energy, generated mainly from hydro dams, which gives it the big green tick.Of course, while it’s no Virgin...

October 25, 2021

Quebec Province

DataBank has expanded its KC3 facility in Kansas City

DataBank has announced that it has expanded its KC3 facility in Kansas City. The expansion sees DataBank expanding its digital footprint in Kansas. DataBank has built out two new Data Halls; Halls 2 and 3. Hall 2 adds 9,300 square feet of space, while Hall 3 adds 8,050 square feet of space....

October 22, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

DataBank Kansas City MCI3

US army to further reduce its data centers

The US army has announced that it will further its data center reduction to six over the next seven years. Army CIO Raj Lyer made the announcement on Thursday and said the move is an effort to transfer more data to cloud-based systems to enhance security. This includes moving complex enterpris...

October 22, 2021

United States

North Bay welcomes new power-to-data center

Today, the new owners of the former Atlantic Power Corp. power plant in North Bay, Ontario, Validus Power Corp and Hut 8 Mining, held a ground- breaking ceremony signalling the start of development on the site. The proposed 32,000-square-foot data center will see an injection of over $100 mill...

October 22, 2021

Validus Power: North Bay

Office complex and data center auctioned for $15m in Orlando, Florida

Regency Commercial Properties, Inc. has completed the sale of Central Corporate Center at 5915-6035 South Rio Grande Ave in Orlando, Florida, for $15.1 million. This is a five-building office park with 318,516 square feet of space spread across 21.7 acres of land. The property firm sold the bu...

October 20, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Orlando

Landmark Dividend buys 1.2 million square feet of data center space in Northern Virginia

Landmark Dividend, which DigitalBridge acquired earlier in the year, has acquired what it refers to as a “portfolio of assets” in Northern Virginia. It acquired 1.2 million square feet of data center space within the Quantum Park in Northern Virginia. According to Landmark Dividend, the proper...

October 13, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Northern Virginia

The Northern Virginia data center boom: Reactions from the local community are mixed

Northern Virginia is in the midst of a data center boom. This has partly developed due to a demand for new data centers resulting from the pandemic, which means that it currently has the highest density of data centers in the world. Loudoun County alone has over 100 data centers, with more tha...

October 12, 2021

Northern Virginia

What has the HoneyWell survey revealed about data centers?

Yesterday, Honeywell released its most recent report, "Rethinking Data Centers as Resilient, Sustainable Facilities." The report explored a number of different factors, including the challenges, and priorities of facility managers in the sector across the United States, China, Germany and Saud...

October 08, 2021

North America

Core Scientific's 300MW Blockchain data center in Texas to be 100% net carbon-neutral

Core Scientific has announced a significant expansion in Denton, Texas. This expansion will see the construction of a 300- megawatt (MW) blockchain data center, and is in association with Tenaska Energy.This announcement was made in a statement by the company on Thursday, which outlined that t...

October 07, 2021

Core Scientific: Denton, TX

TierPoint Milwaukee data center sells for $4.66 million

According to Biz Times, investors group KCMJ Investments LLC has sold TierPoint’s Milwaukee data center to Milwaukee-based WSP Burnham LLC for $4.66 million. The deal includes the sale of a 3.3-acre plot with the facility. TierPoint’s Milwaukee data center has 70,000 square feet of space wi...

October 06, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

TierPoint Milwaukee-Burnham

Westfield City Council developing cold feet over 40-year tax deal for proposed $2.7 billion data center

Westfield’s City Council has become skeptical about the 40-year tax break deal it wants to grant the developers of the $2.7 billion data center in the city. The council sat on the matter on Monday, October 4, 2021, but they were not expected to make a final decision then. The project will get ...

October 06, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Massachusetts

DataBank acquires land for new data center campus in New York

DataBank has announced that it has acquired 34 acres of land in Orangeburg, New York. The land it bought would be the home of its future data center in New York. Building the data center on the land will help the data center firm meet the increasing demand for mission-critical IT infrastruc...

October 05, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

DataBank Orangeburg LGA3

Fueled by renewables: Rowan Green Data to expand in Texas

Rowan Green Data has announced big plans. The developer and infrastructure builder is to build a 500-megawatt (MW) multi-tenant campus in Temple, Texas. $300 million of investment will go into the construction of 135,000 sqft of new buildings and data center space. The project will be complete...

October 05, 2021

Rowan: Temple, Moriah, TX

AWS to begin work on its second data center campus in Hilliard, Ohio

Amazon Web Services plans to start the construction of its second data center campus in Hilliard, Ohio. The Company revealed that work would begin in the next few months. Hilliard Economic Development Director David Meadows said to BizJournals that AWS would start construction on its second...

October 01, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

AWS US East (Ohio)

Five 9s Digital buys Blue Cross Blue Shield data center in Phoenix, Arizona

Five 9s Digital has completed the acquisition of a data center in Phoenix, Arizona, from Blue Cross Blue Shield. The facility is at 2525 W Townley Avenue. Also, the Phoenix facility has 50,000 square feet of space. None of the companies revealed the terms of the transaction. However, Five 9...

October 01, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Five 9s: Blue Shield Phoenix

Element Critical breaks ground on expansion project at Houston One facility

Element Critical has started its first expansion project on the Houston One data center it acquired earlier in the year. The US colo provider acquired the facility for an undisclosed fee from Skybox Datacenters in March. The first phase of the expansion will see Element Critical extend the ...

September 30, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Element Critical Houston One

Energy strategy talks in Loudoun as data centers continue to dominate

On Wednesday, Loudoun county supervisors came together to discuss the county's energy strategy. This discussion has come following a surge of data centers in the area over the past 15 years. The county's "Data Center Alley" is pinned as the world's largest concentration of data centers, totall...

September 30, 2021

Northern Virginia

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