United States Data Center News

DataBank opens two more data halls at its SLC5 Facility in Salt Lake City

DataBank has announced that it has opened data halls four and five in its SLC5 data center. The facility is located at its Granite Point North campus in Utah. This is after it announced the opening of data hall three in May 2021 at the same facility. The fourth and fifth data center halls ...

September 22, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

DataBank SLC5

Virginia’s Prince Edward County to lure data center firms with new data center tax

Prince Edward County in Virginia has established a new tax for data centers. The reasoning behind this is to make the tax more competitive with the surrounding counties in Virginia. Earlier this week, the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to create a different tax category for computer...

September 21, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Virginia

Novva announces its 1.5 Million sq. ft. flagship Campus in Salt Lake City, Utah

Novva Data Centers has announced the opening of its flagship data center campus in Salt Lake City, Utah. The facility is a 100-acre campus with a current data center space of 330,000 square feet. Upon completion, the facility will be expanded to 1.5 million square feet. This will make the f...

September 20, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Novva: West Jordan Campus

Facebook's Huntsville data center goes online

Facebook's Huntsville data center is finally online, following delays caused by Covid-19. First announced back in 2018, the facility, which saw an investment of $1 billion, spans 2.5 million sqft and is also powered by renewable energy, with 227 megawatts of solar energy added to the Alabama e...

September 17, 2021

Facebook Huntsville

The Prince William Board of County Supervisors approves zoning of 196-acre of land for data center use in Gainesville, Northern Virginia

196-acres of land has been rezoned for data center purposes in Gainesville, Northern Virginia. This is after the Prince William Board of County Supervisors voted that a 196-acre land off Linton Hall Road should be zoned for data center use. A 1 million square feet data center campus will also ...

September 15, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Northern Virginia

Iron Mountain files to expand its data center campus in Virginia campus

Iron Mountain is reportedly expanding its Virginia data center campus. According to Inside Nova, a firm with the name KH Data Capital Development is applying to revise the condition of the industrial zoning on its 37-acre property off Wellington Road, which is between Manassas and Gainesvil...

September 15, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Iron Mountain Northern Virginia (Manassas)

Element Critical acquires data center in Austin, Texas

Element Critical has announced it is expanding into the Austin market after acquiring a 62,000 square feet data center in Austin, Texas. It named the new facility Austin One. It is also the Company’s second data center facility in Texas. Austin One is designed to support up to 7MW of critical ...

September 14, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Element Critical Austin

Virginia Beach City data center redevelopment faces delays

A Virginia Beach City data center construction project is facing delays after design enhancements have postponed plans by several months. These plans include relocating the Virginia Beach Municipal Center's data center to the building’s third floor will now be delayed by seven months. First re...

September 09, 2021

Virginia Beach

Prince William County officials to decide on data center in Northern Virginia

Prince William’s Board of County Supervisors is going to hold a public hearing on a proposed data center facility in Northern Virginia later this week. The purpose of the meeting is to decide whether to rezone the 196.28 acres of land across three properties from agricultural to industrial use...

September 06, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Northern Virginia

EdgeConneX Portland Data Center Campus Now Enabled with 100Gbps AWS Direct Connect Offering

EdgeConnex has announced that it has deployed Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect 100Gbps capability at its Portland data center. The Company has been an AWS Partner Network since 2016. It has now expanded its connection options from 1Gbps and 10Gbps to 100Gbps. The expansion will enab...

September 01, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

EdgeConneX Portland

Novva Data Centers acquires Colorado Springs Campus

Novva Data Centers has announced that it has acquired a 37-acre campus and 190k sqft of data center and supporting facilities, which features a Tier 3+ data center and industrial building in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The data center has a 6 MW designed capacity, but Novva will inject $200 mi...

August 31, 2021

NOVVA Colorado Springs

2.7 million square feet data center campus proposed in Westfield, Massachusetts

According to Westfield News, a data center campus with 2.7 million square feet of floor space is being proposed in Westfield, Massachusetts. The campus will be at 199 Servistar Industrial Way. This campus will have ten three-story data center buildings. It would also be built over 13-18 years....

August 27, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Massachusetts

VPLS acquires 18.8-acre land and data center in Texas

VPLS has acquired land and data center in Texas. The land it acquired is an 18.8-acre plot, and it has a 75,000 square foot, 10MW facility. However, the facility is currently leased to an anonymous data and technology Company. The facility also supports 2.5MW of critical IT load, and it can b...

August 27, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Evocative: DAL1

vXchnge sells its Austin data center to Element Critical

According to multiple reports, vXchange has sold its Austin, Texas data center to Element Critical. The data center has a 104,000 square feet space, and it is located in the middle of an 18-acre campus. Besides, the facility also has the capacity to expand to up to 26MW of power. The sale o...

August 23, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Element Critical Austin

Mapletree acquires Lumen’s Minnesota data center for $26 million

As part of its acquisition of Sila Realty Trust’s data center portfolio, Mapletree Investment Trust has also acquired a Lumen data center in Minnesota. The facility is at 5400-5500 Feltl Road inside the Opus Business Park, Minnetonka. It is reported that Sila paid $26 million for the facility....

August 18, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Mapletree Redwood Data Centre Trust

AWS buys 17 acres in Loudoun County, North Virginia for $32.5m

According to BizJournal, Amazon Web Services is looking to expand its data center footprint in Loudoun County, North Virginia, by acquiring more land in the county. The report states that AWS bought 17.15 acres of land in the county for $32.5 million. The plot of land is currently empty, an...

August 17, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

AWS US East (N. Virginia)

Facebook revealed as the company behind $800m Mesa project

Last week, Facebook announced that it is the tech company behind the data center in Mesa. The 960,000 sqft facility will see a projected $800 million investment, and an estimated 100 operational jobs and 1,500 construction jobs. That said, the tech giant's plans haven't been without opposition...

August 16, 2021

Eric Bell

Apple Mesa

Aligned invests in green future with $1.25B for waterless data center

Aligned has announced plans to develop its $1.25 billion SLC-04, a waterless data center, based in Salt Lake City. Instead of cooling its data centers with water, SLC-04 will use the cold desert climate to eliminate heat. The company's Delta3 cooling technology will accompany this. Accordi...

August 11, 2021

Aligned SLC-04

AUBix LLC to build 40,000 sq ft data center in Auburn, Alabama

AUBix LLC, a new Company, has broken ground on its new data center in Auburn, Alabama. The firm says it will build a $120 million, 40,000 square foot facility on Samford Avenue, close to Auburn University’s campus. The first phase of the project is scheduled to be completed in Q1 of 2022.The f...

August 10, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

AUBix Auburn

Unnamed firm signs 2.4MW lease for Iron Mountain Boyers data center

An unnamed hyperscale enterprise software provider has entered into a 2.4MW data center lease agreement with Iron Mountain. The unknown firm will deploy at Iron Mountain’s WPA-1 data center facility in Boyers, Pennsylvania. Besides, the firm also has existing deployments at other Iron Mount...

August 10, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Iron Mountain The Underground

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