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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December 16, 2021 Sydney
Australian real estate company Trifalga is starting a data center unit with plans to have a largescale data center campus in Sydney. Trifalga and Trifalga DC’s first data center project will be an 800,000 square feet data center in Rouse Hill, Sydney. However, Trifalga did not reveal when the...
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December 15, 2021 OVH Group
OVHcloud has announced it has signed a 15-year renewable power purchase agreement (PPA) with EDF Renewables, whereby the energy company will supply electricity from its 50MW solar power plant, located in the south of France. The solar plant is expected to be operational by 2024 “We are proud to...
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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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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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October 18, 2021 OVH Group
OVHcloud has finally been listed on the stock exchange in France. It went public on the Euronext Paris stock exchange. The company’s opening market capitalization was €3.48 billion ($4bn). It also raised €400 million ($469m). OVHcloud opened at €18.50 per share, dipped slightly, but its share...
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October 13, 2021 OVH Group
French colocation and cloud provider OVHcloud has experienced a global outage. The company experienced an outage that lasted more than one hour when it started at around 7:00 UTC. OVH revealed that a maintenance reconfiguration error caused it. Besides, OVHcloud’s status page was brought down due...
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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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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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October 01, 2021 OVH Group
OVHcloud could be seeing up to €105 million ($122m) leave its coffers because of the fire that destroyed its Strasbourg data center in March. The document the firm filed with a French financial authority is responsible for revealing this. Although insurance has covered most of the cost of the...
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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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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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September 22, 2021 OVH Group
According to the Wall Street Journal, French data center and cloud services provider OVHcloud plans to raise €400 million ($469m) in an IPO in Paris, France. According to the reports from WSJ, the listing could see the Company’s value rise to over $4.7 billion. OVHcloud was founded in 1999 as OVH...
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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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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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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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June 17, 2021 Northern Virginia
The Fauquier Times reports that Amazon Web Services is planning to buy 41.7 acres of land in Warrenton, North Virginia if the town finally changes its rules to allow the construction of data centers. At a Warrenton Planning Commission, it was proposed that the rule be changed and data centers...
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June 17, 2021 Northern Virginia
A one million square foot data center has been given the go-ahead just outside the town of Haymarket, following the Prince William Board of County Supervisors approving a rezoning and special use permit. Locals, however, have voiced their concerns that minority communities may be negatively...
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June 16, 2021 OVH Group
OVHcloud has officially confirmed that it would be going public on the Euronext stock exchange. Although OVHcloud hasn’t confirmed the date, but it will happen before the year runs out. Also, it did not say how much it expects to raise through the IPO, but it said the founder’s family, Octave...
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June 16, 2021 Singapore
It has been announced that social media giant Facebook and the Singapore government are joining forces to fund a $17 million (S$23m) project to address the need to boost the number of sustainable data centers built in tropical climates. The programme is also being funded by Singapore's National...
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