United States Data Center News

Twitter experiences continual outages: Issues attributed to data center issues and staff cuts

Twitter continues to experience outages, which are impacting a number of users. The most recent outage occurred yesterday. Reports are that users were experiencing issues with their timeline, instead greeted with messaging saying, "Welcome to Twitter! This is the best place to see what's happe...

March 02, 2023

United States

Old Fremont Materials Factory Planned For Massive Data Center

The developer Valley Oak Partners, located in San Jose, California, has proposed constructing a data center with a floor space of 490,000 square feet at the former location of the construction materials firm USG in Fremont, California. According to Valley Oak, the facility would serve as a ven...

March 02, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

California

PowerHouse Data Centers & DPR Construction Mark 50% Completion for ABX-1 Data Center

PowerHouse Data Centers, a partnership between American Real Estate Partners (AREP) and Harrison Street that provides turnkey facility location, powered shell, and build-to-suit data center implementations, and DPR Construction, one of the nation's leading five data center contractors, have in...

March 02, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Northern Virginia

Valley Oak proposes 90MW data center in California

Valley Oak is pursuing a new data center in Fremont, California, it has been announced, to 'serve as a place for clients to either relocate their data servers or expand their data capacity.' The company submitted an application for a 490,000 square-foot (45,520 sqm) data center on approximatel...

February 24, 2023

California

Prince William County’s planning director and deputy resign amid data center controversy

Reports reveal that in recent months, a wave of Prince William County planning officials have resigned from their positions just as the data center development controversy heats up. County Planning Director Mark Buenavista, had only been in the job a month, but left his position last week. Sim...

February 24, 2023

Northern Virginia

What Republican Bob Weir's election win means for the PW Gateway

As covered extensively by Baxtel, the PW Digital Gateway data center campus, planned outside Manassas, is the most controversial data center development in recent times. It has been opposed from many angles, with environmentalists arguing that it jeopardizes net-zero goals, and others arguing ...

February 24, 2023

Northern Virginia

Powerhouse data center developments and sustainability

PowerHouse is one of the latest companies to enter Northern Virginia and join the data center boom. A division of American Real Estate Partners, and backed by investment firm Harrison Street, the company also recently joined the Infrastructure Masons (iMasons) Climate Accord, becoming one of 1...

February 23, 2023

Northern Virginia

Ne Edge: Developments announced at Millstone data center project

NE Edge Manager George McLaughlin III has announced plans for a data center in Connecticut at the Millstone nuclear power station. The two-building project contains one building with two 568,000 sqft stories, and a second with two 214,000 square foot stories. In total, the development would sp...

February 23, 2023

Connecticut

Aphorio Carter Buys Fibertown Data Facility in Texas

Aphorio Carter, an infrastructure fund, has purchased a Bryan, Texas, data center that was leased to the colocation company Fibertown. The Fibertown Data Center at 110 N Main Street in Brazos County was purchased by the Aphorio Carter Fund Management Corporation, a critical infrastructure and ...

February 23, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Fibertown Bryan

Northwestern Mutual Abandons Franklin, Wisconsin Facility And On-site Data Center

Northwestern Mutual is abandoning its campus in Franklin, Wisconsin, on the outskirts of Milwaukee, as part of a $500 million effort to relocate to an office complex in downtown Milwaukee. Per the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, this is partially due to the fact that the corporation no longer need...

February 22, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Wisconsin

Allied Energy Corp signs with Enerhash USA for flare gas crypto mines

Allied Energy has announced it has signed a definitive agreement with Enerhash USA and River Energy Group through which it will develop flare gas-powered crypto mines. According to the company, the first part of the project will be carried out at Allied's Thiel Well in Texas, which will be a b...

February 20, 2023

United States

Kentucky GE Data Facility For Sale or Lease

GE Appliances is offering its data center in Louisville, Kentucky, for purchase or lease. General Electric has hired JLL, according to a report this week, to market the data center at 4000 Buechel Bank Road in the 1,000-acre GE Appliance Park in Jefferson District for sale or lease. The GE Dat...

February 20, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Kentucky

Data center impact study legislation defeated in Virginia

A piece of legislation that would have compelled the Virginia Department of Energy to study the impacts of data center development on the state’s environment, economy, energy resources and carbon-reduction goals has been defeated. A number of bills have been proposed by Del. Danica Roem, D-Pri...

February 20, 2023

Northern Virginia

Oracle NetSuite Went Down Due to a Fire at a Cyxtera Facility

A fire at a Cyxtera data facility in Boston was the cause of a multi-day Oracle NetSuite outage. The issues, which started on February 14 and are now primarily addressed, affected NetSuite users in the US. When firefighters came, they immediately turned off the power, resulting in an outage. A...

February 20, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Centersquare: Waltham BO2

ImpactData expands on $130m plan

ImpactData has announced it is expanding on its $130 million plan for a 115,000 sq ft mixed-use facility, named the "Dream Center." First announced in 2022 and to be located at Gateway Research Park South Campus, the space will provide commercial colocation, supercomputing, and, now, education...

February 17, 2023

North Carolina

Data center approval sought by Finmarc for Telos HQ campus

Finmarc Management Inc. has reportedly applied six years in advance for a data center development. Some have suggested that this is to avoid being halted by future restrictions imposed by legislation; others have argued it's due to energy capacity limitations in the Ashburn area.Although Loudo...

February 17, 2023

Northern Virginia

Spotsylvania in the spotlight: Officials discuss data centers

As the spotlight circles around Spotsylvania County for data center development, the Board of Supervisors is discussing how the county could be affected and how to plan accordingly. So far, one proposal in the region, filed by SpotsyTechnoCampus LLC, could bring forth a new facility in Spotsyl...

February 16, 2023

Northern Virginia

Roblox Constructs Ashburn Data Center and Edge Facilities for $400m

Roblox, a maker of video games, invested hundreds of millions of dollars on data center and edge infrastructure in 2022 to serve its own gaming platform. Roblox reported earnings that were higher than forecasted and a rising user base, which caused the company's shares to increase by 25%. Robl...

February 16, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Northern Virginia

Compugen Buys New Albany, Ohio data Facilities

A data center in New Albany, Ohio, has been purchased by Canadian IT company Compugen. According to local property documents cited by BizJournal, Compugen Real Estate Holdings recently purchased a property in Franklin County, northeast of Columbus, at 7000 Souder Road. The former data cente...

February 14, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

AWS US East (Ohio)

Tackling misleading "100 percent carbon-free energy" claims and the rising costs of PPAs

It seems like every day, there is another announcement of a tech company signing a new PPA and in 2023, projections are that there are more to come. Research shows that in 2022 alone, the number of PPAs purchased in the first three quarters, surpassed the total volume recorded across the whole...

February 14, 2023

United States

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