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Read NCR Resume Additional Services After a Ransomware Breach
NCR Resume Additional Services After a Ransomware Breach

NCR Resume Additional Services After a Ransomware Breach

April 28, 2023 Atlanta

After a ransomware assault caused a data center outage that disrupted its Aloha cloud-based services and Counterpoint apps, NCR is making progress toward restoring services. For the subset of CMC customers who were impacted by the incident, online ordering has resumed and NCR's Command Center...

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Read QTS Data Centers Suspends its Request For $45 million in Tax Benefits at its Atlanta Location
QTS Data Centers Suspends its Request For $45 million in Tax Benefits at its Atlanta Location

QTS Data Centers Suspends its Request For $45 million in Tax Benefits at its Atlanta Location

April 27, 2023 QTS Data Centers

QTS Data Centers has refrained from requesting $45 million in tax incentives for its massive data center project near the Westside Trail of the Atlanta BeltLine. According to the Atlanta Business Chronicle, QTS halted its request for incentives for a $1.3 billion proposal involving two data...

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Read New Data Center Built For the Florida Fire Dept
New Data Center Built For the Florida Fire Dept

New Data Center Built For the Florida Fire Dept

April 26, 2023 Miami

A new fire station and data center are being built for a Florida fire department. The grand inauguration of Fire Rescue Station 50, a brand-new firehouse and emergency operations data center for the City of Marco Island, is scheduled for April 28. The fire station and data center are located on...

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Read Demonstration Scheduled at Prince William's Digital Gateway Event
Demonstration Scheduled at Prince William's Digital Gateway Event

Demonstration Scheduled at Prince William's Digital Gateway Event

April 25, 2023 Northern Virginia

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 controversy...

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Read Silicon Valley Sees Surge in Data Center Construction as Tech Giants Expand Operations
Silicon Valley Sees Surge in Data Center Construction as Tech Giants Expand Operations

Silicon Valley Sees Surge in Data Center Construction as Tech Giants Expand Operations

April 18, 2023 San Francisco Bay Area

Silicon Valley is experiencing a surge in the construction of data centers, according to a report by real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield. At the end of last year, 17 new data centers were either under construction or in development, with a total planned area of 4.7 million square...

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

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

April 13, 2023 Northern 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 of...

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

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

April 11, 2023 Northern 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 Election...

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Read Community And Business Groups Challenge Loudoun Data Center Emissions Permit
Community And Business Groups Challenge Loudoun Data Center Emissions Permit

Community And Business Groups Challenge Loudoun Data Center Emissions Permit

April 07, 2023 Northern Virginia

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 transports...

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Read Direct Line Global triples presence at Ashburn Crossing, Virginia
Direct Line Global triples presence at Ashburn Crossing, Virginia

Direct Line Global triples presence at Ashburn Crossing, Virginia

April 06, 2023 Ashburn: Data Center Alley

Direct Line Global has announced that it has signed the lease for a 17,040-square-foot research and development space within Ashburn Crossing, an 80-acre business park in Ashburn, Virginia. Through this move, the company has tripled its presence in the area. Speaking about this expansion, Vern...

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Read Third Completely Diverse Dark Fiber Route Added to Bandwidth IG's San Francisco Bay Area network
Third Completely Diverse Dark Fiber Route Added to Bandwidth IG's San Francisco Bay Area network

Third Completely Diverse Dark Fiber Route Added to Bandwidth IG's San Francisco Bay Area network

April 06, 2023 San Francisco Bay Area

With the construction of its dark fiber network, Bandwidth Infrastructure Group (Bandwidth IG) is enhancing connection options for the San Francisco Bay Area's densely populated area of data centers. Critical fiber infrastructure is now available from Santa Clara in the San Francisco Bay Area to...

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Read Dominion Energy and PowerHouse Discover Solution to The Data Center Power Difficulties in Loudoun.
Dominion Energy and PowerHouse Discover Solution to The Data Center Power Difficulties in Loudoun.

Dominion Energy and PowerHouse Discover Solution to The Data Center Power Difficulties in Loudoun.

March 30, 2023 Northern Virginia

PowerHouse anticipates that the 265,000-square-foot building will be occupied by tenants in July, with complete construction scheduled for completion in October. Nonetheless, there is a pervasive power issue. Buddy Rizer, head of Loudoun County Economic Development, stated that each project has a...

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Read Concerns over Northern Virginia diesel generators leads to DEQ revising its relaxation of generator restrictions
Concerns over Northern Virginia diesel generators leads to DEQ revising its relaxation of generator restrictions

Concerns over Northern Virginia diesel generators leads to DEQ revising its relaxation of generator restrictions

March 22, 2023 Northern Virginia

Residents in North Virginia had recently raised their concerns about the decision made by the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to permit diesel generators to power data centers in the region. The DEQ announced that it would be looking into the permittance to preserve data center...

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Read Expansion of Data Center Utilities Approved by Leesburg Council
Expansion of Data Center Utilities Approved by Leesburg Council

Expansion of Data Center Utilities Approved by Leesburg Council

March 20, 2023 Northern Virginia

Leesburg may create a data center alley. Last Tuesday, the Town Council authorized water and sewer connections for two two-story data centers proposed for the Compass Creek retail development along the Dulles Greenway north of Microsoft's data center facility. A 400,000-square-foot data center...

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Read Bill signed for West Virginia renewable energy battery plant
Bill signed for West Virginia renewable energy battery plant

Bill signed for West Virginia renewable energy battery plant

March 09, 2023 West Virginia

West Virginia recently signed a bill for $105 million in state funding for a renewable energy battery plant in the former steel town, Weirton. In total the investment committed by the state is $290 million. This is a move that pushes the state to diversify its energy mix, in an area that has...

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Read Prince William County to pursue noise regulations for data centers
Prince William County to pursue noise regulations for data centers

Prince William County to pursue noise regulations for data centers

March 07, 2023 Northern Virginia

Virginia's Prince William County officials are looking into amending the county's noise regulations around data centers, having passed a resolution to initiate amendments to the Design Construction Standards Manual (DCSM) and zoning ordinance. These will reportedly assist officials in addressing...

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Read McLouth locals' concerns about crypto mining facility proposal results in application withdrawal & moratorium
McLouth locals' concerns about crypto mining facility proposal results in application withdrawal & moratorium

McLouth locals' concerns about crypto mining facility proposal results in application withdrawal & moratorium

March 06, 2023 Kansas

In McLouth, Kansas, residents recently raised their concerns about a proposed data center off of K-92 at a natural gas site. The proposal for this commercial data center went before the Jefferson County Regional Planning Commission last week, and was put forward by Crypto Colo Center Corp. (CCC)...

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Read PowerHouse Data Centers & DPR Construction Mark 50% Completion for ABX-1 Data Center
PowerHouse Data Centers & DPR Construction Mark 50% Completion for ABX-1 Data Center

PowerHouse Data Centers & DPR Construction Mark 50% Completion for ABX-1 Data Center

March 02, 2023 Northern Virginia

PowerHouse Data Centers, a partnership between American Real Estate Partners (AREP) and Harrison Street that provides turnkey facility location, powered shell, and build-to-suit data center implementations, and DPR Construction, one of the nation's leading five data center contractors, have...

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Read QTS plans for Northland data center in question
QTS plans for Northland data center in question

QTS plans for Northland data center in question

February 24, 2023 QTS Data Centers

Following speculation that QTS Realty Trust Inc. was the company seeking new development within Rocky Branch Creek Technology Park, and later confirmation, it looks like the company's Northland data center plans have now fallen through. The company was reportedly set to acquire the property...

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Read Prince William County’s planning director and deputy resign amid data center controversy
Prince William County’s planning director and deputy resign amid data center controversy

Prince William County’s planning director and deputy resign amid data center controversy

February 24, 2023 Northern Virginia

Reports reveal that in recent months, a wave of Prince William County planning officials have resigned from their positions just as the data center development controversy heats up. County Planning Director Mark Buenavista, had only been in the job a month, but left his position last week....

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Read What Republican Bob Weir's election win means for the PW Gateway
What Republican Bob Weir's election win means for the PW Gateway

What Republican Bob Weir's election win means for the PW Gateway

February 24, 2023 Northern Virginia

As covered extensively by Baxtel, the PW Digital Gateway data center campus, planned outside Manassas, is the most controversial data center development in recent times. It has been opposed from many angles, with environmentalists arguing that it jeopardizes net-zero goals, and others arguing it...

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