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Northpoint proposes 15-building data center campus in Pennsylvania

Northpoint Development is set to present plans for Project Hazelnut to Luzerne County Council’s infrastructure committee this week. According to council documents, Northpoint is planning a 1,283-acre, 15-building campus in Hazle Township’s 3,000-acre Humboldt North Industrial Park.The first me...

January 23, 2025

Pennsylvania

FERC rejects proposed interconnection service agreement

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has rejected a proposed interconnection service agreement (ISA) for the Susquehanna nuclear power station in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. The agreement would have supported an expanded colocated load at an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center c...

November 05, 2024

Pennsylvania

Infinera approved for $93m in direct funding

The Department of Commerce has provisionally agreed to provide up to $93 million in direct funding to optical networking vendor Infinera which would support the construction of a new fab in San Jose, California, and a new advanced test and packaging facility in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.“We are ...

October 18, 2024

Pennsylvania

Talen acquires Nautilus Cryptomine facility

US independent power producer Talen Energy has acquired full ownership of Nautilus Cryptomine, a 200MW Bitcoin mining facility in Berwick, Pennsylvania, from TeraWulf. Talen acquired TeraWulf’s 25 percent interest in Nautilus and obtained full control of the legacy Power Purchase Agreement (...

October 08, 2024

Pennsylvania

PowerHouse acquires land in North Carolina for new data center

PowerHouse Data Centers's alongside real estate investment management firm Town Lane this week announced the completed purchase of 122 acres in Charlotte via a joint venture partnership between both companies. The site is intended for a five-building, 2.5 million square feet (232,255 sqm) dat...

September 07, 2024

PowerHouse Data Centers

Synergy Group names Northern Virginia, Beijing, and Dublin as top 3 hyperscale locations

A report from Synergy Research Group found that just twenty state or metro markets account for 62 percent of the world’s current hyperscale data center capacity. Northern Virginia tops this list while the Greater Beijing Area takes the second place, with both making up 22 percent of global hyp...

August 23, 2024

Northern Virginia

Talen Energy looks to sell nuclear powered facility in Pennsylvania

Independent power firm Talen Energy is looking to pivot away from crypto mining operations to supply power to data center developers instead and has confirmed its plans to sell its stake in the Bitcoin mining center located at its Pennsylvania nuclear power plant. The company first announced i...

August 18, 2024

Pennsylvania

Alerify acquires Pennsylvania data center

Recently formed colocation firm Alerify, Inc. announced this week that it will be acquiring the assets of the hosting and Internet services business of Elevated MSP which was built in 1981 and is owned by local real estate firm the Vartan Group. The two-story building totals 68,830 square feet...

August 01, 2024

Pennsylvania

Hydrogen demonstration facility launches in Austin, Texas

A hydrogen demonstration facility has launched in Austin, Texas and will help provide power to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) data center via a fuel cell. The project – located at the University of Texas (UT) J.J. Pickle Research Campus in Austin – is a collaboration between GTI En...

April 29, 2024

Austin

Data center design standards approved by Leesburg Town Council in Loudoun

Leesburg's Loudoun County Council unanimously approved data center design criteria. Unlike Ashburn, Virginia's Leesburg has no data centers; however, this may change. Three rezoning petitions may allow data center development in town. One is in the Oaklawn neighborhood, one close to the former...

August 16, 2023

Northern Virginia

Prince William County locals want a data center developer to buy property outside Gainesville

Residents of Prince William County, Virginia, are attempting to sell their land to an unidentified data center developer. According to InsideNoVa, residents of Sanders Lane near Gainesville are attempting to sell their land to a data center developer. The residents appear to be attempting to r...

June 28, 2023

Northern Virginia

Pennsylvania High School Tech Center Gets $2.6m Renovation, Including District Data Center

The Career and Technical Center (CTC) at State College Area High School in Pennsylvania is undergoing a $2.6 million upgrade to bring the district's data center to the campus. The school administration approved the renovation on May 15. The CTC will be utilized for online education, Reclaiming...

May 29, 2023

Pennsylvania

Virginia's Culpeper County Receive Permit Requests For Zoning of Two 4.46M Sq Ft Data Center Campuses

The Virginian county of Culpeper may soon see the construction of more than four million square feet of data centers. The Culpeper Town and County Councils have received rezoning requests that would enable the construction of approximately 17 buildings on two campuses on the town's border alon...

May 25, 2023

Northern Virginia

Poll in Northern Virginia reveals local opposition to data center development near national parks

A poll of Northern Virginia residents by the National Parks Conservation Association has found that the majority oppose the development of data centers near public land, including national parks. The survey polled 300 voters from several Northern Virginia jurisdictions.Of those polled, 77% sup...

May 15, 2023

Northern Virginia

Data Center Expansion in Spotsylvania

Spotsylvania County officials are planning to capitalize on data center building expansion. They are modifying the county's Comprehensive Plan as part of their efforts. The county Planning Commission scheduled data center-specific Comprehensive Plan amendment public hearings Wednesday night af...

May 14, 2023

Northern Virginia

Fairfax County to look at new rules for data centers

According to a report by FFXNow, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors is set to look into the environmental impact of data centers in the midst of its ongoing data center boom. This week, following a unanimously approved motion introduced by Board Chairman Jeff McKay, county staff were inst...

May 12, 2023

Northern Virginia

Demonstration Scheduled at Prince William's Digital Gateway Event

The debate surrounding the construction of a massive data center facility in Prince William County persists. Tuesday evening, residents planned to hold a protest against the Prince William Digital Gateway prior to a developer-hosted open house. Maureen Umeh of FOX 5 reports that the controvers...

April 25, 2023

Northern Virginia

Big data center development & hydrogen fuel hub on the way to Surry County, North Virginia

A first-of-its-kind combination data center and hydrogen fuel hub is on its way to Surry County, North Virginia, it has been announced. Middleburg-based Green Energy Partners LLC is leading the project, which is called the Surry Green Energy Center (SGEC) and comes after GEP secured 641 acres ...

April 13, 2023

Northern Virginia

5.5 million sq ft data center park proposed in Stafford County, Virginia

In Stafford County, Stafford Technology LC, a company affiliated with US real estate firm Peterson, has outlined plans to develop a 5.5 million sq ft data center park. In order to accommodate the 25-building data center campus, the company is seeking to rezone 524 acres in the Falmouth Electio...

April 11, 2023

Northern Virginia

Community And Business Groups Challenge Loudoun Data Center Emissions Permit

This spring and summer, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality is mulling over a proposal enabling data facilities in Loudoun County to draw power more routinely from on-site disaster diesel generators. The proposal aims to alleviate pressure on the transmission system, which transpo...

April 07, 2023

Northern Virginia

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