United States Data Center News

iM Critical Opens Data Center in Miami

iM Critical has announced the opening of its new data center in Miami, Florida. The 9,290 square meter (100,000 square foot) data center building offers 5MW capacity and more than 5,575 square meters (60,000 square feet) of colocation space. The CEO of iM Critical, Michael Roark, said the Miam...

June 10, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Miami

President Biden cuts tax barriers on solar panel imports

On Monday, President Biden launched a clean energy push with the announcement that there will be a two-year break from tariffs on solar panels coming from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, in an effort to bolster clean energy projects in the U.S. Alongside issuing this executive order...

June 08, 2022

United States

Bitzero & investor Kevin O’Leary make big company announcements

Bitcoin mining company Bitzero, reportedly a "100% green company," recently made a number of announcements related to its expansion and headquarters location. Plans to build 200 megawatts of data centers in North Dakota over the next two to three years were announced, and the state was also ch...

June 06, 2022

North Dakota

Bristow Officials To Allow Data Center Development on Stanley Martin’s Devlin Technology Park

Bristow’s officials have voted in favor of a Comprehensive Plan Amendment. This amendment could see the development of a 4.25 million square feet data center campus in the area. Stanley Martin, a Virginia-based developer, is looking to have over 250 acres in Prince William County rezoned. T...

May 30, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Northern Virginia

Increased risk of grid blackouts ahead warns North American Electric Reliability Corp (NERC)

The North American Electric Reliability Corp (NERC) has sounded the alarm that this summer, a number of states in the central and upper midwest, Texas, and Southern California, might be hit with blackouts due to the increased risk of power outages. This risk was outlined in the nonprofit's ann...

May 24, 2022

United States

Update on Lonestar's Moon-based backup data center plans

Lonestar, the startup that emerged from stealth with big space plans, has announced that its intentions to use lava tubes to shield from the extreme conditions of the lunar surface, which will assist it in its plans to back up the world's data on the Moon. The company cited the Earth's instabi...

May 24, 2022

United States

Vision Net Completes The Acquisition of iConnect Montana

Vision Net has announced the acquisition of iConnect Montana. The telecommunications solution provider revealed earlier in the week that it closed the transaction for an undisclosed fee. Both companies will now operate under the Vision Net brand and name. iConnect was founded in 1999 by Nor...

May 22, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Atmos Energy and its natural gas-powered fuel cell

Atmos Energy has announced that it has installed a 460-kilowatt natural gas powered-fuel cell at its corporate data center, located in Dallas, Texas. According to the company, the fuel cell will be powered by methane-derived natural gas, which will be captured at landfills and livestock farms,...

May 20, 2022

Texas

The bitcoin crackdown and the need for the industry to go green

According to reports, the State of New York is seeking to implement a ban on new bitcoin mining operations in order to decrease its carbon footprint. The proposed bill would, if passed, place a two-year moratorium on cryptocurrency mining operations that use proof-of-work authentication method...

May 19, 2022

United States

Lincoln Property Company & Harrison Street Form JV To Develop 144MW Campus

Investment and real estate firms Harrison Street and Lincoln Property Company plan to develop an industrial campus and data center in New Albany, Ohio. Both companies have formed a joint venture for this purpose. The JV has purchased a 190-acre site to develop a multipurpose technology and dis...

May 19, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Lincoln Rackhouse

iM Critical Starts Work on its Pittsburgh Modular Edge Campus

iM Critical has begun constructing a modular Edge data center campus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The data center campus will have three buildings when fully built out. It will also include EV charging stations and on-site solar power. iM Critical says the data center will support more than...

May 18, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Pittsburgh

New York Internet To Take Over Space at 60 Hudson After Equinix's Lease Ends

According to a newsletter from Christian Koch’s Foundations, New York Internet (NYI) will be taking over a space in 60 Hudson Street carrier hotel currently occupied by Equinix. Equinix announced in May 2021 that it would be exiting some of its leased data centers in the US. One of those fa...

May 16, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Equinix

AboutBit: Another cryptomine to be built at a fossil fuel plant

AboutBit, a blockchain firm founded in 2020, which has been called an 'earth-friendly' crypto-mining company, has announced that it's planning to build a 115MW cryptomine data center in Merom, Indiana, adjacent to the Merom Generating Station in Sullivan County. The firm has purchased 115MW of...

May 13, 2022

United States

Element Critical Expands Its Houston One Facility

Element Critical has announced that it has expanded its Houston One data center. The expansion comes one year after it acquired the facility. The expansion sees the company add two new data halls to the data center building located at 22000 Franz Rd in Katy. The expansion also saw Element C...

May 12, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Element Critical Houston One

1547 CRS Expands Its Orangeburg Facility in New York

Fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547) has announced the expansion of its data center located in Orangeburg, New York. The expansion sees 1547 add a new data hall to the facility, making available 2MW of capacity and an extra 16,800 square feet of white space. Before the expansion...

May 12, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

1547 1 Ramland

Application for 277-acres of data center development filed in Nokesville

According to a report by Inside NoVa, an application has been filed in Nokesville, in Virginia’s Prince William County, for 277-acres of data center development. The application, submitted by the House family, seeks to change their property designation from an agricultural estate to a newly-pr...

May 11, 2022

Northern Virginia

Angola Cables' Monet Subsee Cable Expands To Flexential's Fort Lauderdale data center

Angola Cables has announced that its Monet subsea cable will be landing in Flexential’s Fort Lauderdale facility in Florida. The 6-fibre-pair/64Tbps+ Monet Cable runs 10556km from Boca Raton, Florida, to Santos and Fortaleza, Brazil. Google, Angola Cables (Angola), Algar Telecom (Brazil), a...

May 11, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Flexential Fort Lauderdale

DC BLOX to Build New Cable Landing Station in Myrtle Beach, SC

ATLANTA – May 10, 2022 –DC BLOX, a leading provider of secure, reliable, connected data centers across the Southeast, announces it is planning to build a new Cable Landing Station (CLS) in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The new CLS will anchor subsea cable systems connecting North America’s So...

May 10, 2022

Eric Bell

DC BLOX Myrtle Beach

Nasdaq Breaks Ground on Expansion at Equinix NY11 Data Center

Nasdaq Inc. has started expanding its data center presence at Equinix’s NY11 data center in Carteret, New Jersey. Nasdaq first announced last December that it was expanding its presence at the site to support its cloud infrastructure build-out. Equinix announced in a LinkedIn post that it w...

May 09, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Equinix Carteret NY11

Standard Power To Develop 900MW Data Center at Pennsylvania Nuclear Power Station

Standard Power has announced that it is developing a massive data center in Pennsylvania. The blockchain company signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Energy Harbor Corp to develop a massive carbon-free facility at Energy Harbor’s Beaver Valley nuclear power plant. Per the agreement, th...

May 09, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Pennsylvania

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