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Read Prince William County’s environmental officials reject rural crescent data center plan
Prince William County’s environmental officials reject rural crescent data center plan

Prince William County’s environmental officials reject rural crescent data center plan

December 24, 2021 Northern Virginia

Recently, Prince William County’s environmental officials announced that they were recommending that the request to replan 2,133-acres in the rural crescent for data centers should be rejected. The watershed management division has argued that the replan would be significantly detrimental to the...

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Read Prologis looking to develop data center in Northern Virginia
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Prologis looking to develop data center in Northern Virginia

December 19, 2021 Northern Virginia

Reports have it that Prologis has filed for permission to convert an industrial site in Sterling, Northern Virginia, into a data center. The company aims to develop a 500,000 square feet data center on its existing 19.5-acre industrial site. The development project is referred to as Prologis NOVA...

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Read Johannesburg 1 to open in South Africa in April 2022
Johannesburg 1 to open in South Africa in April 2022

Johannesburg 1 to open in South Africa in April 2022

December 14, 2021 NTT

NTT has announced that it is “on track” to complete the turnkey data center development of its Johannesburg 1 Data Centre, located at Centralpoint Innovation District in Samrand, by early next year. The facility, developed by Growthpoint, includes 6,000sqm of IT space and features “high-end...

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Read Data center plans threaten Manassas National Battlefield Park say critics
Data center plans threaten Manassas National Battlefield Park say critics

Data center plans threaten Manassas National Battlefield Park say critics

December 09, 2021 Northern Virginia

Plans to build data centers opposite the Manassas National Battlefield Park are being opposed. Critics are warning that the proposal, known as "PW Digital Gateway", is the "Single greatest threat to Manassas National Battlefield Park in nearly three decades," compromising the environmental...

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Read ESR proposes plans to convert cold storage facility into a data center in Hong Kong
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ESR proposes plans to convert cold storage facility into a data center in Hong Kong

November 25, 2021 Hong Kong

ESR Cayman Limited has reportedly submitted a proposal to convert Brilliant Cold Storage Tower 2 at 11-19 Wing Yip Street, in Kwai Chung, New Territories, into a data center. The proposed data center would have a capacity of 40MW, spanning 15-stories, adding a total of 450 sqm of space which...

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Read Prince William County agrees to pause development of Gainesville data center
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Prince William County agrees to pause development of Gainesville data center

November 12, 2021 Northern Virginia

Prince William County’s planning commission has voted 6-1 to pause the development of a Gainesville data center until late January. CTP-II LLC proposed the data center project in question. CTP-II LLC wanted 22.72 acres of land to be rezoned from business and light industrial to data center...

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Read NTT is expanding its Vienna data center
NTT is expanding its Vienna data center

NTT is expanding its Vienna data center

October 29, 2021 NTT

NTT has announced that it has broken ground on expanding its data center in Vienna, Austria. The company will add 32,300 square feet (3,000 square meters) to the Vienna 1 facility. By so doing, Vienna will have 92,500 square feet (8,600 square meters) upon expansion. NTT says the expansion is...

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

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

October 13, 2021 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 property...

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

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

October 12, 2021 Northern Virginia

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 than...

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Read Irideos is expanding its Avalon campus in Milan
Irideos is expanding its Avalon campus in Milan

Irideos is expanding its Avalon campus in Milan

October 01, 2021 Milan

Italian data center company Irideos has begun work on a new data center at its Avalon campus in the city of Milan. The new facility named Avalon 3 will have space for 500 racks across 37,700 square feet (3,500 square meters). It will also have 3.2MW of capacity. Irideos is building the new data...

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Read Energy strategy talks in Loudoun as data centers continue to dominate
Energy strategy talks in Loudoun as data centers continue to dominate

Energy strategy talks in Loudoun as data centers continue to dominate

September 30, 2021 Northern Virginia

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, totalling...

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Read AEW close to selling 1 million sq ft office park in Slough to unnamed data center developer
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AEW close to selling 1 million sq ft office park in Slough to unnamed data center developer

September 17, 2021 London: Slough

According to multiple reports, Real estate firm AEW is close to selling a 1 million square feet (92,000 square meters) office park to an unidentified data center firm. AEW will be selling the Bath Road Central office campus for a fee of around £420 million ($579.5m). The real estate firm first...

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Read Great Grey Investments buys unfinished Westpoort data center in Amsterdam
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Great Grey Investments buys unfinished Westpoort data center in Amsterdam

September 17, 2021 Amsterdam

Great Grey Investment has acquired the uncompleted Westpoort Data Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The data center was bought from Caransa Group. Although the terms of the deal were not revealed, Tikehu Capital provided financing to Great Grey Investments and Westpoort Datacenter through its...

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Read The Prince William Board of County Supervisors approves zoning of 196-acre of land for data center use in Gainesville, Northern Virginia
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The Prince William Board of County Supervisors approves zoning of 196-acre of land for data center use in Gainesville, Northern Virginia

September 15, 2021 Northern Virginia

196-acres of land has been rezoned for data center purposes in Gainesville, Northern Virginia. This is after the Prince William Board of County Supervisors voted that a 196-acre land off Linton Hall Road should be zoned for data center use. A 1 million square feet data center campus will also be...

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Read Prince William County officials to decide on data center in Northern Virginia
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Prince William County officials to decide on data center in Northern Virginia

September 06, 2021 Northern Virginia

Prince William’s Board of County Supervisors is going to hold a public hearing on a proposed data center facility in Northern Virginia later this week. The purpose of the meeting is to decide whether to rezone the 196.28 acres of land across three properties from agricultural to industrial use....

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Read NTT plans to grow its data center footprint by 20% in the next 18 months
NTT plans to grow its data center footprint by 20% in the next 18 months

NTT plans to grow its data center footprint by 20% in the next 18 months

September 02, 2021 NTT

NTT ltd has announced it plans to increase its data center footprint in the next 18 months by 20%. The Company would be expanding some of its existing data centers and adding 300MW of capacity and 600,000 sqm (6.5 million square feet) of space within 18months. This expansion will be in 20...

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Read NTT to build data center campus in Mesa
NTT to build data center campus in Mesa

NTT to build data center campus in Mesa

August 23, 2021 NTT

NTT has announced that following the opening of data centers in Chicago, Ill., Hillsboro, Ore., and Santa Clara, Calif.; it is building its seventh data center campus in Mesa. Estimated to open in early 2022, the 102-acre campus will contain seven data centers, with a total of 240 megawatts (MW)...

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Read NTT to expand its Zurich 1 data center
NTT to expand its Zurich 1 data center

NTT to expand its Zurich 1 data center

August 18, 2021 NTT Zurich 1

According to Zuercher Unterlaender, NTT has broken ground for expanding its Zurich 1 data center in Rümlang, Switzerland. The facility currently has 70,000 square feet (6,500 sqm) of space, and the expansion will see the Company add a new building B to the site. This new building will give the...

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Read Logistics park and data center to go ahead in Winchester, Virginia, despite backlash
Logistics park and data center to go ahead in Winchester, Virginia, despite backlash

Logistics park and data center to go ahead in Winchester, Virginia, despite backlash

July 21, 2021 Northern Virginia

In Winchester, Virginia, local officials have voted to rezone more than 277 acres for a new data center and logistics park despite significant public backlash. The development project is known as One Logistics Park and has received. The land rezoned for the park The Winchester Star reported that...

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Read NTT reveals details of its 240 MW Phoenix data center campus
NTT reveals details of its 240 MW Phoenix data center campus

NTT reveals details of its 240 MW Phoenix data center campus

July 15, 2021 NTT Phoenix Campus

NTT has revealed plans for its new 240MW data center campus in Mesa, Arizona. It has also broken ground on the site. The facility is on a 102-acre site, and it is located on Elliot Road Technology Corridor, Mesa, Arizona. It will have a 240MW capacity and 1.5 million square feet of floor space...

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