United States Data Center News

HPE accelerates climate goals

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced that it has accelerated climate goals, bringing them down from 2050 to 2040, following its most recent Living Progress Report for Fiscal Year 2021, which it released this week. The tech giant said that it will facilitate this change by establishin...

June 30, 2022

California

Warrenton, Virginia To See Data Center Development Skyrocket

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...

June 29, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Virginia

A $1.5 Billion Data Center in Niagara Falls is Being Planned

Urbacon and Niagara Falls Redevelopment (NFR) have announced plans for a $1.5 billion data center park on land in Niagara Falls, New York City. Urbacon is an Ontario-based construction company with an excellent track record of developing massive data center campuses in Richmond Hill, Montre...

June 29, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

New York

Aspen Creek Digital commences operations despite challenging market

Aspen Creek Digital Corp, a new company in the bitcoin space, has announced that it has opened a six-megawatt solar-powered facility in the western part of Colorado. This announcement comes despite the current crypto meltdown. The company has outlined that its mission is to "catalyze the deca...

June 29, 2022

Colorado (CO)

Prologis Takes Over NTT's 2300 W. Plano Parkway Site

According to Dallas Morning News, Prologis is looking to develop an industrial warehouse park on a site at 2300 W. Plano Parkway occupied by NTT for an office complex and data center. The company plans to develop a 64-acre, eight-building warehouse which will span 92,900 square meters (1 mi...

June 27, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

NTT 2300 W Plano

Groton Town Places Moratorium on Large Data Centers

Groton Town in Connecticut has placed a one-year moratorium on the development of large data centers pending when it enacts its data center industry regulation. According to CT Examiner, the Groton Planning and Zoning Commission voted to place a moratorium on large data centers. The new rule w...

June 26, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Connecticut

H5 Acquires 505 Marquette

H5 Data Centers has acquired 505 Marquette in downtown Albuquerque. The building is a carrier hotel from which H5 DC currently operates a data center. The 225,000-square-feet building is a critical interconnection point for New Mexico. This is because it has 20 on-site communications carrie...

June 24, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

H5 Albuquerque

PubMatic announces its global data centers are now fully powered by renewable energy

PubMatic has reportedly achieved 100% renewable energy across all of its data centers globally, including in California, New Jersey, London, Amsterdam, and Singapore. Sourced from wind and solar power, this achievement is a significant one for the company, whose energy usage is 90% composed of...

June 23, 2022

California

Netrality Expands Its St. Louis Data Center

Netrality Data Centers has completed the expansion of its St Louis data center in Missouri. The facility is located at 210 North Tucker. Netrality added two new data halls with 1.2MW capacity across 1,077 square meters (11,600 square feet) of space. Netrality DC’s Chief Revenue Officer, A...

June 23, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

210 N Tucker (Netrality) St Louis Carrier Hotel

Boston Properties Sells Virginia-95 Business Park To Finmarc For $127.5m

Finmarc Management Inc. has completed the acquisition of the Virginia-95 Business Park from Boston Properties Inc. The property consists of data center buildings and industrial buildings. The purchase price is $127.5 million. The 740,000 square feet properties feature 11 buildings that compris...

June 22, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Virginia

Virginia’s Warren County considers adding data centers to zoning laws

Virginia's Warren County officials have announced that they are considering a proposal to amend zoning laws which could lead to a new wave of data center development in the County, in the northwest of the state and west of Loudoun and Fauquier Counties. As per the proposal, an amendment would ...

June 17, 2022

Northern Virginia

DOE launches $8bn H2Hubs program

The US Department of Energy recently launched an $8 billion program through which it will develop a network of regional clean hydrogen hubs across America, to fast-track the use of hydrogen as a clean energy source.Although the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law has outlined plans for at least four...

June 17, 2022

United States

Compass Data Centers announces plans for over 10 million sq ft of data centers

It has been confirmed that Compass Data Centers is one of the companies that is involved in the Prince William Digital Gateway Project in Virginia, a plan that is steeped in controversy and would see over 2,000 acres of land in the County used for data center construction. If the plan is given...

June 17, 2022

Northern Virginia

Bit Origin Enter Agreement To Develop a 75MW Cryptominine Data Center in Cheyenne, Wyoming

Bit Origin Limited has announced that it will be developing a cryptomine data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The company revealed that it had entered some agreements to invest up to $3m in a private crypto mining fund. The fund will then be used to develop a cryptomine with up to 75MW capacity i...

June 16, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Cheyenne

San Jose: Microsoft to use a biofuel-powered microgrid for backup

Microsoft has announced that it will be using renewable natural gas to fuel its backup energy at its San Jose data center, which is currently under construction. This move aligns with the company’s target of being carbon negative by 2030, and the project will also provide power locally with em...

June 16, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Virginia's Culpeper County Could See Development of 765,000 Sq ft Data Center Campus

The president of AttoTek, a software development firm, David Martin, has filed for rezoning in Culpeper County, Virginia. The filing details involve rezoning 88 acres of his property around Stevensburg Road and Brandy Road. Once approved, it can lead to over 700,000 square feet (65,000 square ...

June 15, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Virginia

Material and labor shortages in the data center

As the need for data grows and grows, demand for data center construction is as strong as ever, however, the boom is being hampered by a number of factors, including supply and labor shortages, and price hikes. In a recent report named 'Data center market conditions update - Q1, 2022,' constru...

June 14, 2022

San Francisco Bay Area

Bill passed to ban cryptomining data centers that use fossil fuel power plants

The New York Legislature has passed a landmark bill to ban cryptocurrency data centers that use fossil fuels to power their operations, in an effort to reduce statewide emissions by 85% by 2050. Specifically, the bill will impose a two-year moratorium on these activities, however, Governor Kat...

June 13, 2022

New York

Mapletree Industrial Trust Announces Sale of Michigan Data Center

Mapletree Industrial Trust (MIT) has announced the sale of its data center located at 19675 West Ten Mile Road, Southfield, Michigan, to its tenant. The data center sits on 121,100 square feet (11,250 square meters) of land. In addition, the four-story facility has up to 52,940 square feet ...

June 13, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Mapletree: 19675 W Ten Mile

Meta Adding Two More Buildings To Its Huntsville Facility in Alabama

Meta has announced that it is expanding its Huntsville facility in Alabama. The company revealed that it is adding two new buildings to the data center to allow the data center buildings to span 3.5 million square feet of space. According to Meta, its investment in the facility will exceed ...

June 10, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

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