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Read Chirisa obtains a $200 million loan to outfit a CoreWeave data facility in Virginia
Chirisa obtains a $200 million loan to outfit a CoreWeave data facility in Virginia

Chirisa obtains a $200 million loan to outfit a CoreWeave data facility in Virginia

September 25, 2023 Virginia

Chirisa Investments has secured financing for constructing a data center in Chester, Virginia. According to Commercial Observer, Chirisa received $200 million in construction funding to build CoreWeave's 242,000-square-foot turnkey data center. CO's sources revealed that an undisclosed Brookfield...

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Read Chirisa obtains a $200 million loan to outfit a CoreWeave data facility in Virginia
Chirisa obtains a $200 million loan to outfit a CoreWeave data facility in Virginia

Chirisa obtains a $200 million loan to outfit a CoreWeave data facility in Virginia

September 20, 2023 Virginia

Chirisa Investments has secured financing for constructing a data center in Chester, Virginia. Chirisa received $200 million in construction funding to build CoreWeave's 242,000-square-foot turnkey data center, according to Commercial Observer. According to CO sources, an undisclosed Brookfield...

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Read Virginia data center property rezoning divides Culpeper town council
Virginia data center property rezoning divides Culpeper town council

Virginia data center property rezoning divides Culpeper town council

September 11, 2023 Virginia

Culpeper Town Council is debating whether to rezon a land on East Chandler Street to create a six-building, 4.3 million-square-foot data center facility and substation in Culpeper County, Virginia. The 116-acre lot is zoned Residential-2 following 15 years of planning for a 490-home project. Such...

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Read Old coal mine designated for data centers in Wise County, Virginia
Old coal mine designated for data centers in Wise County, Virginia

Old coal mine designated for data centers in Wise County, Virginia

August 25, 2023 Virginia

A former coal mine in Wise County will be converted into an industrial park with data centers thanks to a $1.7 million grant from Virginia Energy. The discarded mine at the Elam Farm site in Southern Virginia's Wise County will receive funding from the Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalization...

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Read Culpeper County, Virginia is experiencing a surge in data center interest
Culpeper County, Virginia is experiencing a surge in data center interest

Culpeper County, Virginia is experiencing a surge in data center interest

July 10, 2023 Virginia

The Culpeper Town Planning Commission is contemplating rezoning additional land adjacent to the Peterson property for a possible data center campus. On the 116-acre Copper Ridge Data Center Campus, up to eight two-story data center buildings comprising 2.36 million square feet could be...

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Read Edged Energy begins work on Atlanta data center
Edged Energy begins work on Atlanta data center

Edged Energy begins work on Atlanta data center

July 04, 2023 Atlanta

Construction on Edge Energy's Atlanta, Georgia data center is underway, with the company commencing work on July 1st. Located at Tilford Yard, the company bought the 158 acre-site back in July 2021; 70 acres will be dedicated to data center development. In January 2023, it filed a building permit...

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Read 1.8 million-square-foot Data Center Campus Planned on RV site in Gainesville, Virginia
1.8 million-square-foot Data Center Campus Planned on RV site in Gainesville, Virginia

1.8 million-square-foot Data Center Campus Planned on RV site in Gainesville, Virginia

May 31, 2023 Virginia

Prince William County, Virginia, is considering the development of a new data center park. A developer has submitted designs for an 82-acre data center campus in Gainesville's Hillwood Camping Park. The 'Gardner Property' development could bring up to 1.8 million sq ft of data facilities and an...

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Read Old Virginia Government Data CenterUp For Sale
Old Virginia Government Data CenterUp For Sale

Old Virginia Government Data CenterUp For Sale

May 15, 2023 Virginia

Prospective purchasers and lessees can access a data center in Chesterfield County, Virginia. JLL is offering for lease or sale at 11751 Meadowville Lane in Chester, south of Richmond. The Virginia IT agency had been based there until it left last year. The 192,600 sq ft facility, which was...

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Read Culpeper County looks at a new business personal property tax category for data centers
Culpeper County looks at a new business personal property tax category for data centers

Culpeper County looks at a new business personal property tax category for data centers

May 10, 2023 Virginia

In Culpeper County, the Board of Supervisors is reportedly considering a lower rate for data center developments. The proposal would see a new business personal property tax category that would introduce a lower rate for computer equipment and peripherals in data centers. Economic Development...

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Read Harbor Peak Starts Building a Fiber Conduit System to Connect Ashburn, Virginia Data Centers
Harbor Peak Starts Building a Fiber Conduit System to Connect Ashburn, Virginia Data Centers

Harbor Peak Starts Building a Fiber Conduit System to Connect Ashburn, Virginia Data Centers

May 05, 2023 Virginia

Harbor Peak, a joint venture specializing in carrier-neutral dark fiber, interconnect, and network planning services, has begun construction in Ashburn, Virginia, on a new middle-mile network infrastructure that will facilitate connectivity between numerous private and public data centers. In...

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Read Fallen Trees And a Broken Backup Switch Triggered the University of Virginia Data Center Outage
Fallen Trees And a Broken Backup Switch Triggered the University of Virginia Data Center Outage

Fallen Trees And a Broken Backup Switch Triggered the University of Virginia Data Center Outage

May 01, 2023 Virginia

The University of Virginia experienced disruption due to the impact of fallen trees on the data center's grid line. The facility was supposed to transition to a backup generator immediately, but the backup switch failed. UVA employees manually shifted power to the data center at 11:30 a.m. on...

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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 Visitors and Unsecured Storage Devices Found in TikTok’s Virginia Data Centers
Visitors and Unsecured Storage Devices Found in TikTok’s Virginia Data Centers

Visitors and Unsecured Storage Devices Found in TikTok’s Virginia Data Centers

April 26, 2023 Virginia

According to a Forbes report, there have been numerous serious security lapses at TikTok's Virginia data center. The publication discovered numerous serious issues at the ByteDance facilities as well as blatant connections to the company's Chinese operations based on numerous interviews and more...

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Read Harrisonburg Data Facility Receives $44 Million Loan From Valley National Bank
Harrisonburg Data Facility Receives $44 Million Loan From Valley National Bank

Harrisonburg Data Facility Receives $44 Million Loan From Valley National Bank

February 13, 2023 Virginia

A Virginia facility has negotiated a $44 million loan for a data center owner. According to The Commercial Observer, AC DataCom Digital Infrastructure Investments has obtained permanent financing of $43.8 million to construct a data center in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The 100,000-square-foot data...

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Read Data Centers Represent 20% Of Sales at Dominion Virginia, Which Reached a Record in December
Data Centers Represent 20% Of Sales  at Dominion Virginia, Which Reached a Record in December

Data Centers Represent 20% Of Sales at Dominion Virginia, Which Reached a Record in December

February 10, 2023 Virginia

In its most recent earnings call, utility Dominion Energy highlighted the dependability of its service and discussed measures to increase capacity. However, the business, which reported a $42 million loss for the quarter, did not mention how its transmission problems hampered Virginia data center...

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Read The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality's (DEQ) decision on data center backup generators
The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality's (DEQ) decision on data center backup generators

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality's (DEQ) decision on data center backup generators

February 09, 2023 Virginia

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has announced that it is considering giving data centers more leeway with regard to using backup energy. This, it said, will reportedly preserve data center reliability and is a precautionary measure to protect the region's power grid. It is...

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Read Technology park proposed in Spotsylvania County, Virginia
Technology park proposed in Spotsylvania County, Virginia

Technology park proposed in Spotsylvania County, Virginia

January 27, 2023 Virginia

It looks like another data center could be headed for Virginia, but unusually, this time, it is located in Spotsylvania County, less known for its data centers, and better known for its scenic landscapes. The Spotsylvania County Board of Supervisors is currently reviewing an application for a 2.9...

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Read A new data center is planned for Tilford Yard
A new data center is planned for Tilford Yard

A new data center is planned for Tilford Yard

January 23, 2023 Atlanta

According to reports, a new data center is planned for Tilford Yard, on Atlanta’s Westside, under the project name Edged. This announcement comes following the filing of a building permit for a nearly 210,000-square-foot, two-level data center.Further to this, records show that Endeavour, the...

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Read Blackstone Data Services Plans 10-12MW Cryptomine Data Center in Tazewell County, Virginia
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Blackstone Data Services Plans 10-12MW Cryptomine Data Center in Tazewell County, Virginia

October 31, 2022 Virginia

Blackstone Data Services has announced that it is developing a new crypto-mining data center. The new facility will be located in the Bluestone Business and Technology Park shell building in Virginia’s Tazewell County. Blackstone plans to invest up to $18 million in developing the facility....

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Read Warrenton, Virginia To See Data Center Development Skyrocket
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Warrenton, Virginia To See Data Center Development Skyrocket

June 29, 2022 Virginia

Virginia’s Warrenton town could see the development of data centers skyrocket due to the change of zoning laws. Amazon Web Services has plans to develop a large data center in the town due to the zoning law change. The company filed to develop a 20,400 square meter (220,000 square feet) single...

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