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Read Three Men Arrested For Stealing Copper Wire From Virginia Data Center Construction Site
Three men have been arrested after allegedly stealing copper wire from a data center construction site in Loudoun County, Virginia. Police responded to reports of a burglary at a construction site ...

Three Men Arrested For Stealing Copper Wire From Virginia Data Center Construction Site

August 04, 2026 Virginia

Three men have been arrested after allegedly stealing copper wire from a data center construction site in Loudoun County, Virginia. Police responded to reports of a burglary at a construction site near 45000 Maries Road in Sterling shortly before 12:30 a.m. on July 31. On August 1, authorities...

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Read Dominion Energy Secures Over 5GW of New Contracted Data Center Capacity
Dominion Energy, Virginia's primary electric utility, has added more than 5GW of contracted data center load to its pipeline since the end of last year. During its Q2 earnings call, the company sai...

Dominion Energy Secures Over 5GW of New Contracted Data Center Capacity

August 03, 2026 Virginia

Dominion Energy, Virginia's primary electric utility, has added more than 5GW of contracted data center load to its pipeline since the end of last year. During its Q2 earnings call, the company said the increase represents an 11% rise. Previously, in its Q4 earnings report released in February,...

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Read Former Ethanol Plant Near Richmond, Virginia, Targeted For 20MW Data Center Development
A former ethanol plant in Hopewell, Virginia, near Richmond, is being evaluated for redevelopment into a data center. Data center consulting firm Volterra Advisors is studying the site at 701 S 6th...

Former Ethanol Plant Near Richmond, Virginia, Targeted For 20MW Data Center Development

July 14, 2026 Virginia

A former ethanol plant in Hopewell, Virginia, near Richmond, is being evaluated for redevelopment into a data center. Data center consulting firm Volterra Advisors is studying the site at 701 S 6th Ave, with plans potentially calling for a 20MW facility spanning 50,000–70,000 sq ft (4,645–6,505...

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Read First Building at Stack’s 1GW Data Center Campus in Virginia Tops out in Stafford County
First Building at Stack’s 1GW Data Center Campus in Virginia Tops out in Stafford County

First Building at Stack’s 1GW Data Center Campus in Virginia Tops out in Stafford County

May 25, 2026 Virginia

Stack Infrastructure has completed external construction work on the first building at its new campus in Stafford County. The company announced the topping out of the first building at the Stafford Technology Campus (STC). In just over a year, project teams have recorded more than 425,000 hours...

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Read Developer Abandons 160-Acre Prince William County Data Center Project
Developer Abandons 160-Acre Prince William County Data Center Project

Developer Abandons 160-Acre Prince William County Data Center Project

May 13, 2026 Virginia

Developer Highland Properties Manassas LLC has withdrawn its proposal to develop Quantico Ridge, a roughly 160-acre data center project in Prince William County, Virginia. The company also pulled its application to rezone land parcels at 14854 and 14900 Dumfries Road for industrial use. The...

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Read Plans Emerge for Two-Building Data Center Near Leesburg, Virginia
Plans Emerge for Two-Building Data Center Near Leesburg, Virginia

Plans Emerge for Two-Building Data Center Near Leesburg, Virginia

April 15, 2026 Virginia

A new data center campus has been proposed outside Leesburg in Virginia’s Loudoun County. First reported by BizJournal, the Farkas family has filed a pre-meeting application with the county to develop a campus on undeveloped land along the west side of Gulick Mill Road, south of Leesburg, west of...

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Read 432MW Data Center Campus Planned in Virginia’s Data Center Alley
432MW Data Center Campus Planned in Virginia’s Data Center Alley

432MW Data Center Campus Planned in Virginia’s Data Center Alley

March 21, 2026 Virginia

A new data center project may be planned in the heart of Virginia’s Data Center Alley. DCD understands that the Regency neighborhood in Ashburn, Loudoun County, is in talks to sell the site to a data center developer once planning approval is secured.Regency is a residential community of around...

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Read HighBrook Closes First Data Center Fund Targeting 300MW in Virginia
HighBrook Closes First Data Center Fund Targeting 300MW in Virginia

HighBrook Closes First Data Center Fund Targeting 300MW in Virginia

March 05, 2026 Virginia

Private equity firm HighBrook Investors has closed its first US data center fund, securing $266 million in total commitments. The launch of the fund was first reported last year. HighBrook said the fund saw contributions from existing investors alongside new institutions, including leading...

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Read Virginia Lawmakers Split over Future of Data Center Sales Tax Exemption
Virginia Lawmakers Split over Future of Data Center Sales Tax Exemption

Virginia Lawmakers Split over Future of Data Center Sales Tax Exemption

February 28, 2026 Virginia

The two houses of Virginia’s legislature, the Senate and the House, have passed two competing budgets that call, respectively, for the removal and approval of an existing data center sales tax exemption. The Senate’s budget proposal calls for ending the exemption effective January 1, 2027,...

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Read PJM Greenlights $11.8bn Transmission Expansion as Data Center Growth Surges
PJM Greenlights $11.8bn Transmission Expansion as Data Center Growth Surges

PJM Greenlights $11.8bn Transmission Expansion as Data Center Growth Surges

February 21, 2026 Virginia

US’ largest grid operator, PJM Interconnection, has approved an $11.8 billion transmission expansion plan to keep up with surging data center connection requests across its footprint. The Regional Transmission Operator (RTO) serves all or parts of 15 states across the East Coast and South of the...

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Read TA Realty Sells Two Data Center Buildings in Leesburg, Virginia
TA Realty Sells Two Data Center Buildings in Leesburg, Virginia

TA Realty Sells Two Data Center Buildings in Leesburg, Virginia

February 07, 2026 Virginia

Real estate firm TA Realty and its data center development arm, TA Digital Group (TADG), this week announced the sale of two hyperscale data center buildings totaling 745,000 sq ft (69,210 sqm) and 165MW of IT load capacity in Leesburg, Loudoun County.The facilities are the first two completed...

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Read Ares Acquires Land and Data Centers in Virginia
Ares Acquires Land and Data Centers in Virginia

Ares Acquires Land and Data Centers in Virginia

January 02, 2026 Virginia

Alternative investment manager Ares Management Corporation has expanded its data center platform Ada Infrastructure into the US, acquiring land in Virginia for a new campus.The Ares Digital Infrastructure business, through an Ares fund, has acquired a 314-acre site along the I-95 South data...

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Read Red Post Energy to Develop Natural Gas Power Solution for Planned Data Center
Red Post Energy to Develop Natural Gas Power Solution for Planned Data Center

Red Post Energy to Develop Natural Gas Power Solution for Planned Data Center

December 24, 2025 Virginia

US independent power producer Red Post Energy Group has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with data center developer Wise Innovation Hub Venture (Oasis) to develop a natural gas power supply solution for a planned data center and technology hub in Wise County, Virginia."Reliable, dispatchable power...

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Read Ares Acquires Land and Data Centers in Virginia
Ares Acquires Land and Data Centers in Virginia

Ares Acquires Land and Data Centers in Virginia

December 20, 2025 Virginia

Alternative investment manager Ares Management Corporation has expanded its data center platform Ada Infrastructure into the US, acquiring land in Virginia for a new campus.The Ares Digital Infrastructure business, through an Ares fund, has acquired a 314-acre site along the I-95 South data...

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Read Penzance Breaks Ground on Data Center in Chantilly, Virginia
Penzance Breaks Ground on Data Center in Chantilly, Virginia

Penzance Breaks Ground on Data Center in Chantilly, Virginia

October 14, 2025 Virginia

Real estate firm Penzance announced it has secured construction financing and broken ground on Chantilly Premier, a 100 percent leased powered shell located in Fairfax County, Northern Virginia."Penzance is excited to break ground on this project, which will deliver critical digital...

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Read CleanArc Receives Permission for 600MW Data Center Campus in Virginia
CleanArc Receives Permission for 600MW Data Center Campus in Virginia

CleanArc Receives Permission for 600MW Data Center Campus in Virginia

September 18, 2025 Virginia

CleanArc Data Centers has been granted planning permission for a 650-acre data center campus in Caroline County, Virginia. The Caroline County board of supervisors has approved the development, on a plot of land near Exit 110 of the Interstate 95 between Ashburn and Richmond.County officials said...

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Read Dominion Proposes New Rate Class for Data Centers
Dominion Proposes New Rate Class for Data Centers

Dominion Proposes New Rate Class for Data Centers

September 04, 2025 Virginia

Virginia’s primary electrical utility, Dominion Energy, has proposed the creation of a new rate class for data centers.The new class would apply to utility customers who consume more than 25MW of energy and have a monthly load factor of more than 75 percent. This will result in many, if not most,...

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Read Globalinx to Develop Data Center in Portsmouth, Virginia
 Globalinx to Develop Data Center in Portsmouth, Virginia

Globalinx to Develop Data Center in Portsmouth, Virginia

July 15, 2025 Virginia

Virginia data center firm Globalinx this week revealed plans to develop a backup data center in Portsmouth, a city some 20 miles west of its existing Virginia Beach site.Chris Mitchell, director of sales at Globalinx Datacenters, told the authority the company was building a data center within...

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Read Digital Core REIT seeks new tenant for Virginia data center
Digital Core REIT seeks new tenant for  Virginia data center

Digital Core REIT seeks new tenant for Virginia data center

January 02, 2025 Virginia

Digital Core REIT is looking for a new tenant for one of its data centers in Northern Virginia, as the current occupant of the data center, located at 8217 Linton Hall Road in Bristow, Prince William County, has decided to not exercise its option to extend its lease on the property, the property...

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Read TECfusions secures $300m loan for Virginia data center expansion
TECfusions secures $300m loan for Virginia data center expansion

TECfusions secures $300m loan for Virginia data center expansion

November 20, 2024 Virginia

TECfusions has secured over $300 million to be used for the development and expansion of its Virginia site. In response to “urgent capacity needs” from a key tenant, gradual funding began in January 2024 and has now been solidified in a formal loan agreement, which includes the cumulative monies...

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