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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

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

Prime Data Center to expand into Spain

US data center firm Prime has acquired a 7.6-acre site at Calle de la Pedriza 1 in Alcobendas, close to Equinix, CyrusOne, and Data4 facilities as it plans expansion into Spain. “With 44MW of take-up in 2023, power challenges limiting FLAPD markets, and information governance mandating in-cou...

May 21, 2024

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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

Prime plans first Phoenix data center campus

Prime has announced that it is expanding into the Phoenix market with a new five-building, 66.5-acre campus located in Avondale. Prime's new location will feature 210 MW of critical power and span 1.3 million square feet of space.According to the company, it plans to embed sustainability feat...

May 08, 2023

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Wesco ventures into the data center business

Wesco has announced the launch of a data center group, namely Wesco Data Center Solutions. The company is set to be led by Rahi Systems founding member Tarun Raisoni, who will be senior vice president and general manager, following the recent acquisition of Rahi Systems Holdings.Speaking about...

March 07, 2023

Pennsylvania

Prime Planning a Large 124MW Campus in Denmark

Prime, a developer of data centers, will construct a new campus in Denmark. This Monday, the company unveiled plans for a three-building, 124MW facility to be built on Energivej in Saeby, Denmark. The 27.52-acre site will have three three-story buildings, each with 45 MW and 348,750 square fee...

February 02, 2023

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Cumulus Data completes work on first data center at Pennsylvania nuclear station

Cumulus Data, a Talen Energy subsidiary, has announced that it has finished construction of its first data center building at its nuclear-powered Susquehanna 475MW data center campus in Pennsylvania. According to the company, six facilities are planned on the campus, which have the option to s...

January 19, 2023

Pennsylvania

Prime DC Breaks Ground on its 175MW Facility in Chicago

Prime Data Centers has announced that it has started work on a large campus in Chicago, Illinois. The data center company held a groundbreaking ceremony for its $1 billion facility at 1600 East Higgins Road in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. This will be the company's first data center in Illi...

November 21, 2022

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Prime Data Centers to expand in LA

Prime Data Centers is to open a new hyperscale datacenter in Los Angeles after acquiring a 4.5-acre parcel, which is presently occupied by an industrial building, it has been announced. The facility will have a capacity of 33MW and be located in Vernon, Southern California. The data center pl...

June 08, 2022

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Standard Power To Develop 900MW Data Center at Pennsylvania Nuclear Power Station

Standard Power has announced that it is developing a massive data center in Pennsylvania. The blockchain company signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Energy Harbor Corp to develop a massive carbon-free facility at Energy Harbor’s Beaver Valley nuclear power plant. Per the agreement, th...

May 09, 2022

Pennsylvania

BET Investment To Acquire Prudential's Office and Data Center Building in Pennsylvania

According to Biz Journal, BET Investments Inc. is buying Prudential Insurance Co.’s property located at 2101 Welsh Road. The 90-acre campus in Pennsylvania has three interconnected office buildings totaling 80,000 square meters (861,000 square feet). The office buildings house a Tier III ce...

April 06, 2022

Pennsylvania

Prime Data Centers to invest $1 billion in 150MW campus in Elk Grove, Chicago

Prime Data Centers has revealed that it wants to build a new data center campus in Elk Grove, Illinois. The data center company says it has plans to invest up to $1 billion in developing a 150MW, 750,000 square feet campus that features three three-story facilities. The facility will be sit...

September 17, 2021

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Prime Data Centers to lease 9MW data center in Santa Clara to Cyxtera

Prime Data Centers announces pre-lease of its new 9MW facility under construction in Santa Clara, California, to Cyxtera. Cyxtera will be leasing the entire four-story building facility with a total space of 121,000 square feet. Prime Data Centers first announced the facility's construction in...

June 29, 2021

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Macquarie Capital Partners with Prime Data Centers for potential $5 billion capital investment

Macquarie Capital has entered into a partnership with Prime Data Centers. It also made an undisclosed equity investment in Prime data center. However, both Companies claim that the partnership will give way for capital investments of over $5 billion over the next ten years. Furthermore, the Co...

June 25, 2021

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