United States Data Center News

NCR Resume Additional Services After a Ransomware Breach

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...

April 28, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Atlanta

A $2.24m North Carolina Data Facility Becomes an Eatery And Grocery Store

Advanced Internet Technologies (AIT) sold its Fayetteville, North Carolina base and data center, with plans to convert the majority of the space.The 93,000 square foot data center was wholly controlled and run by hosting and service provider AIT since 2004, but was sold to AIT's subsidiary Ace...

April 27, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

North Carolina

New Data Center Built For the Florida Fire Dept

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 o...

April 26, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Miami

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

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 mo...

April 26, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Virginia

Soluna's Project Dorothy Data Center Receives Approval to Go Live from ERCOT

The manufacturer of green data centers for Bitcoin mining and other intensive computing, Soluna Computing, Inc., announced yesterday that it had received final authorization from ERCOT for powering Project Dorothy, its flagship data center in Texas, with immediate effect. The last legal requir...

April 25, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

Demonstration Scheduled at Prince William's Digital Gateway Event

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 controvers...

April 25, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Northern Virginia

Can AI training energy consumption be lowered?

These days, A.I. is seemingly never out of the headlines, with concerns about everything from lack of regulations around development, unchecked A.I. growth, and energy and water consumption. Considering the world is in the grips of a climate crisis, and A.I. training is using a growing amount ...

April 21, 2023

Michigan

Bitcoin mining rights: The Arkansas Data Centers Act passes

The Arkansas Data Centers Act was recently passed after being proposed not long ago on March 30 by Senator Joshua Bryant. The legislation seeks to regulate the Bitcoin mining industry in the state, and will allocate crypto miners the same rights as data centers. It outlines that the government...

April 20, 2023

Arkansas

New study highlights significant AI water consumption

Data centers are already known for guzzling enormous amounts of water, so as AI enters its "gold rush" era, how will it affect water consumption? Well, a new study by researchers from the Universities of Colorado Riverside and Texas Arlington found that training large AI models like OpenAI's C...

April 18, 2023

Colorado (CO)

StratCap Expands Data Center Portfolio with Acquisition of Two US Facilities

StratCap, a privately held investment firm, has acquired two data centers in the United States. The data centers, located in California and Missouri, were purchased for an undisclosed amount. StratCap acquired in Santa Clara, California, a purpose-built data center that is 100 percent leased t...

April 18, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

California

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

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...

April 18, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

San Francisco Bay Area

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

April 13, 2023

Northern Virginia

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

April 11, 2023

Northern Virginia

Community And Business Groups Challenge Loudoun Data Center Emissions Permit

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 transpo...

April 07, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Northern Virginia

Direct Line Global triples presence at Ashburn Crossing, Virginia

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...

April 06, 2023

Ashburn: Data Center Alley

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

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 ...

April 06, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

San Francisco Bay Area

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

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 ha...

March 30, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Northern Virginia

The Green Grid (TGG)'s new tool to tackle data center power consumption

The Green Grid (TGG) recently announced the launch of its updated tool, which it says will boost data center power consumption by 50%. Total Cost of Ownership Calculation Tool – dubbed tggTCO, reportedly enables the analysis of different liquid cooling methods' impact on a data center's financ...

March 28, 2023

United States

Senators Revive a Legislation To Strengthen Federal Data Center Security

As institutions continue to consolidate their information repositories, a bipartisan group of senators has proposed legislation to strengthen government data centers' physical and electronic security against various threats. The Office of Management and Budget would be required to work with go...

March 28, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

PG&E Power Failure Causes The Internet Archive Data Center to go Offline

After a power failure knocked down its data center, the Internet Archive's digital library was offline for many hours. Free public entry to backups of websites, software programs, games, music, movies, photos, and millions of books is offered by the California-based non-profit. The Bay Area ha...

March 26, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

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