March 25, 2022 South Dakota
SDN Communications has announced that it is expanding its data center located at Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The US broadband provider will add a 25,000 square foot (2,320 square meter) pod to the existing structure. This will increase the total space to 50,000 square feet. According to SDN, the...
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March 22, 2022 United States
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...
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March 22, 2022 DataBank San Diego SAN1
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...
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March 21, 2022 Miami
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 claims...
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March 18, 2022 Georgia
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...
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March 17, 2022 Wyoming
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 Thornocks...
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March 14, 2022 Washington
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...
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March 09, 2022 Canada
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, with...
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March 09, 2022 Michigan
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 to...
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March 07, 2022 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, Jeff...
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March 04, 2022 Flexential Englewood
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 available for...
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March 04, 2022 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, it...
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March 04, 2022 Maryland
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 officials...
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March 01, 2022 Connecticut
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...
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February 25, 2022 Kentucky
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...
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February 24, 2022 North America
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...
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February 24, 2022 Crypto Mining Data Center
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 to...
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February 23, 2022 Colorado (CO)
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 Health...
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February 22, 2022 Northern Virginia
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 boom...
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February 21, 2022 United States
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 the...
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