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Michigan Lawmakers Propose Eliminating Data Center Tax Breaks

Legislators in Michigan are attempting to decrease the tax exemptions provided to data centers. In December of 2022, Yousef Rabhi, a Democrat from Michigan, presented two proposals to repeal sales and use tax breaks for data centers. Current Michigan legislation exempts data centers from sales...

December 22, 2022

Michigan

Basin Electric seeks state approval for power plant expansion to accommodate burgeoning data center industry

Basin Electric has reportedly reached out for state approval for a power plant expansion in McKenzie County to accommodate the growing power requirements of the data center industry. The state Public Service Commission (PCS) received the company's expansion request back in October, which would...

December 19, 2022

North Dakota

Shell and NuScale announce nuclear-hydrogen partnership

Shell has announced a partnership with US-based NuScale through which it aims to evaluate the production of hydrogen from small nuclear power stations inexpensively. This new deal is for the “Development and Demonstration of a Concept for an Economically Optimised IES” project, which will be c...

December 19, 2022

United States

Applied Digital Breaks Ground on New 5MW Facility in North Dakota

Applied Digital Corporation has announced that it is developing a 5MW data center in North Dakota. The facility will be designed to host Graphics Processing Units GPUs for non-cryptocurrency use cases. Applied Digital’s new data center will be located next to its existing 100MW hosting faci...

December 16, 2022

North Dakota

Cox Edge Launches Edge Locations in Florida and Arkansas

Cox Edge has announced the launch of new Edge locations in Arkansas and Florida. The company's LinkedIn post reads: "We're excited to announce a new location in Johnson, Arkansas, and in Pensacola, Florida, on our journey to bring compute resources closer to end users!" Cox Edge is Cox Communi...

December 15, 2022

Arkansas

JLL Seeking Buyers For Property in Chicago Billed as Potential 50MW Data Center Development

JLL is looking to sell a plot of land outside Chicago, Illinois. The land is being touted for data center development. JLL’s Regional Director, Sean Reynolds, posted on LinkedIn about the land. He said: “Looking for a Chicago area data center development site with quick access to 50 megawa...

December 15, 2022

Chicago

Prince William County supervisors board sued over PW Digital Gateway decision

Following the Prince William County Board of Supervisors' decision to give the green light to the controversial PW Digital Gateway, it is now being faced with two lawsuits. The decision, which will permit changing the area's comprehensive plan, opening up the area to 25 million sq ft (2.3 mill...

December 14, 2022

Northern Virginia

Offshore wind auction reaches $757 million in bids in California

The United States' first floating wind auction, part of the US government's pledge to deploy 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030, closed on its second day last week, with prices reaching $757m. This is for five leases across 373,286 acres in waters off California, where at least 4.6 G...

December 13, 2022

United States

Backblaze Unveils its US East Data Center: A Peek into 1.3 Exabytes of Raw Storage Capacity

Backblaze, a cloud storage and backup provider, recently offered a rare glimpse into its US East Data Center, highlighting its capacity to store and manage a staggering amount of data for its growing customer base. Located in CoreSite Reston, the data center is designed to ensure top-notc...

December 13, 2022

CoreSite Reston Campus VA1

Chandler adopts data center zoning amendment

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, wh...

December 12, 2022

Arizona

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

Microsoft: IAD01-1

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

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

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

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

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

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

Northern Virginia

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