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Read Hourigan proposes 320-acre facility outside Richmond, Virginia
Hourigan proposes 320-acre facility outside Richmond, Virginia

Hourigan proposes 320-acre facility outside Richmond, Virginia

December 27, 2023 Virginia

Hourigan, a local developer has proposed a 320-acre data center campus outside Richmond, Virginia. The company has requested to rezone the land from agricultural to light industrial, noting that it expects to see around $1 billion invested in the project. The company said in a filing with...

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Read Virginia’s Fauquier County adopts policies curbing data centers
Virginia’s Fauquier County adopts policies curbing data centers

Virginia’s Fauquier County adopts policies curbing data centers

December 20, 2023 Virginia

Virginia's Fauquier County Board of Supervisors has approved a set of policies designed to curb data center developments in the area. These guidelines have been put in place to protect the county's rural character, the health and welfare of its citizens, as well as the value of the residential...

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Read Cielo to develop massive data center in Virginia’s Culpeper County
Cielo to develop massive data center in Virginia’s Culpeper County

Cielo to develop massive data center in Virginia’s Culpeper County

December 14, 2023 Virginia

Cielo Digital Infrastructure is now on track to develop a 1.4 million square feet data center facility upon approval from Virginia’s Culpeper Country board. This project will be built on a 121-acre parcel along Nalles Mill Road following the County Board of Supervisors' vote to approve the...

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Read Climate groups to launch new Virginia data center pressure group on Friday
Climate groups to launch new Virginia data center pressure group on Friday

Climate groups to launch new Virginia data center pressure group on Friday

November 29, 2023 Virginia

A group of 20 environmental and climate groups will launch a coalition this week to rein in the data center industry across the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Virginia Data Center Reform Coalition will call for limits to data center development at a press conference on Friday, December 1. The...

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Read DOL provides $5m funds to Virginia colleges for DC construction careers
DOL provides $5m funds to Virginia colleges for DC construction careers

DOL provides $5m funds to Virginia colleges for DC construction careers

October 26, 2023 Virginia

The US Department of Labor (DOL) has awarded community colleges in Virginia $5 million in funding in an attempt to bridge the data center skills gap as a part of its Building Pathways to Infrastructure Jobs grant program. Seven of Virginia's community colleges will be using this grant which will...

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Read JK Land Holdings expands proposed Virginia’s Gainesville DC with land buy
JK Land Holdings expands proposed Virginia’s Gainesville DC with land buy

JK Land Holdings expands proposed Virginia’s Gainesville DC with land buy

September 28, 2023 Virginia

Chuck Kuhn's real estate firm, JK Land Holdings, has expanded the proposed Gainesville data center via land acquisition in Virginia's Prince William County through its Wellington Road LLC affiliate. The company has also filed an application, which is currently under review, for up to 3.8 million...

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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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