United States Data Center News

Frederick County establishes work group to look at data centers

In Frederick County, a place which has become a highly attractive data center zone and is the location site of Quantum Loophole’s massive and recently paused data center campus, Frederick County Executive Jessica Fitzwater has formed a workgroup for data centers. Fitzwater formed the group in ...

June 28, 2023

Maryland

Prince William County locals want a data center developer to buy property outside Gainesville

Residents of Prince William County, Virginia, are attempting to sell their land to an unidentified data center developer. According to InsideNoVa, residents of Sanders Lane near Gainesville are attempting to sell their land to a data center developer. The residents appear to be attempting to r...

June 28, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Northern Virginia

DataBank expands its data center in Kansas

DataBank's development of the MC13 data center in Lenexa, Kansas, is complete. The company has added 17,000 square feet and 1.8 MW of IT capacity to its MC13 data center, bringing the total build-out to 42,000 square feet and 4.6 MW. In October 2021, DataBank first announced intentions to expa...

June 28, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

DataBank Kansas City MCI3

Groton's proposed data center regulations set to go to public hearing following year-long moratorium

In Groton, a data center moratorium has been in place for a year. This was introduced to give the town the time to formulate regulations for data centers, amidst concerns regarding environmental and noise impacts. Now the proposed regulations are set to go to a public hearing. As per the propo...

June 27, 2023

Connecticut

Phoenix Data center with 6 MW up for sale

A 6MW data facility is up for lease or purchase in Phoenix, Arizona. Located in the desirable Deer Valley neighborhood, CBRE has listed 20435 North 26th Avenue for sale or lease. There was no listed pricing. The 6MW facility was completed in 2003 and sits on 3.66 acres of land, with a raised f...

June 27, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Phoenix

The Hawaii data center initiative survives the governor's $1 billion in state budget cuts

Despite budget cutbacks, Hawaii's government will proceed with a proposed data center relocation. Gov. Josh Green of Hawaii had to make use of his line-item override to cut the General Appropriations Bill of 2023 and balance Hawaii's fiscal strategy with $500 million in budget cuts, but he ret...

June 20, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Hawaii

Edgewater receives a $138 million contract for FBI data center

The FBI has awarded Edgewater Federal Solutions, Inc. a contract to manage its data centers. Edgewater recently disclosed that it had been granted a five-year, $138 million license to support the Information Technology Infrastructure Division (ITID) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...

June 19, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Tesla leases Sacramento Twitter data center Musk once blasted

Twitter formerly used the Sacramento site of NTT Global Data Centers, but now it is home to Musk's electric car company. Twitter departed the data center in late 2022, with the CEO disparaging the area. Tesla will now occupy the space as well as extra square footage.The data center will likely...

June 13, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Sacramento

Work begins on a data facility in Lincoln, Nebraska

Lincoln, Nebraska, looks to have seen the start of construction on a data center campus that was first proposed in 2019. According to the Lincoln Journal Star, the project appears to be progressing, with some excavation occurring in recent months.In July 2019, Agate LLC filed for a 600 million...

June 08, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Nebraska

The University of Minnesota moves ahead with $70 million-plus data center on the East Bank campus

The University of Minnesota has announced that it's moving forward with a new $70 million-plus data center on the East Bank campus. The university is reportedly accepting design proposals for a two-story, 33,000-square-foot "Advanced Operations Center." The facility will be located west of the...

June 07, 2023

Minnesota

York County's $1bn data center proposal

South Carolina is planning a $1 billion data center development. This week, the York County Council will discuss and vote on tax incentives for a data center proposal in the county. York County is located in northeast South Carolina, toward the east of Greenville and Spartanburg, and adjacent ...

June 06, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

South Carolina

The Segra Facility in Charlotte, North Carolina up for Sale or Lease.

A Charlotte, North Carolina, data center is available for purchase or lease. Currently, fiber provider Segra operates the data center, but the company will soon withdraw as its contract nears completion. Five 9s Digital is advertising the property for sale or lease. No sale or lease price was ...

June 02, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

North Carolina

Bidding in Illinois for an unoccupied HSBC/CapitalOne facility

Illinois's former HSBC data center will be auctioned off later this month. On June 6-8, Cushman & Wakefield will auction off a data center in Volo via LoopNet. According to the listing, the Volo Data Center is a 160,000-square-foot data facility on a 42-acre lot at 300 S Fish Lake Road. Vo...

June 02, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Illinois

Missouri Globe Building Data Center Property For Lease

Data center space is available for lease at the Globe Building carrier hotel in St. Louis, Missouri. The fourth floor of the structure at 710 North Tucker Blvd. has 28,700 square feet of floor space available, of which 16,000 square feet is built-out data center space, according to a listing b...

June 01, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Missouri

Pittsburgh Data Center up for Sale or Lease

A data center for sale or lease is available in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Colliers and Five 9s Digital are offering the McKees Rock facility located at 615 McMichael Road. The site is listed for lease in Colliers' materials, but Five 9s claims it can be purchased or leased. The circa 1980-cons...

June 01, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Pittsburgh

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

May 31, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Virginia

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Pennsylvania

Digital Realty El Segundo's Facility Damaged by a Fire

On Sunday, May 21st, a fire broke out at the LAX12 data center of Digital Realty in El Segundo, California. The fire led the facility to shut down two suites, and it incinerated an undisclosed number of servers, as well as cut power and locked out some users from the server space. A few days a...

May 26, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

2260 E El Segundo - Digital Realty

Edged Energy begins work on Chicago facility

Edged Energy has announced that work has commenced on its new facility in the Aurora area of west Chicago, Illinois.Together, with Seefried Industrial Properties, Inc., the company broke ground on the new 65-acre, multi-building data center campus, its first in Illinois, and nearby CyrusOne fa...

May 25, 2023

Chicago

Virginia's Culpeper County Receive Permit Requests For Zoning of Two 4.46M Sq Ft Data Center Campuses

The Virginian county of Culpeper may soon see the construction of more than four million square feet of data centers. The Culpeper Town and County Councils have received rezoning requests that would enable the construction of approximately 17 buildings on two campuses on the town's border alon...

May 25, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Northern Virginia

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