United States Data Center News

Flexential to spend $4.8m in expanding its data center in Franklin, Tennessee

BizJournal reports that Flexential is expanding its Franklin, Tennessee data center. The report states that Flexential has been granted building permits to expand its data center at 4600 Carothers Parkway. The Company is reportedly calling on Turner Construction for the project dubbed as ‘P...

July 30, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Flexential Franklin TN

Round Rock votes to rezone land for Switch data center campus

This week, Round Rock City Council unanimously voted to approve the rezoning of two plots of land for Switch’s 'The Rock' data center, which will span 1.5 million square feet (140,000 sq m).The two plots of land totaL 35.71 acres, and are either side of Dell Technologies' global headquarters, ...

July 26, 2021

Switch Austin "The Rock"

Logistics park and data center to go ahead in Winchester, Virginia, despite backlash

In Winchester, Virginia, local officials have voted to rezone more than 277 acres for a new data center and logistics park despite significant public backlash. The development project is known as One Logistics Park and has received. The land rezoned for the park The Winche...

July 21, 2021

Northern Virginia

Stro acquires office and data center building belonging to Bank of New York Mellon in New Jersey

Stro Companies has acquired an office and data center building owned by Bank of New York Mellon in Florham Park, New Jersey. It is reported that the Company acquired the buildings for $7.3 million. The acquired building also has 141,000 square feet of space. Jack Shulman, director of acquisiti...

July 21, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

BNY: 19 Vreeland Rd

Facebook's Eagle Mountain data center moves online

Facebook has announced that its data center in Eagle Mountain, Utah is now up and running. Although officially serving traffic, the site is still under construction, with a view to span to 1.5 million square feet (140,000 sq m). At the peak of construction, the site employed a total of 1,250 ...

July 16, 2021

Facebook Eagle Mountain Utah

DataBank expands Its DFW3 Dallas Fort Worth data center

DataBank, a leading provider of enterprise-class colocation, connectivity, and managed services, just announced the expansion of its DFW3, Dallas Fort Worth Data Center. It is expanding to meet the increasing demand for mission-critical IT infrastructure in the Dallas Fort Worth market. Th...

July 14, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

DataBank Plano DFW3

Prime Data Centers announces new 9MW data center in Silicon Valley

Prime Data Centers has announced that it is building a new 9MW data center on Martin Avenue in Santa Clara, California. With this new data center, it is expanding its presence in Silicon Valley as this is its second facility in Silicon Valley. Prime says it is strategically building the dat...

July 14, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Prime Santa Clara (Martin)

Microsoft wants to build five more data centers in San Antonio, Texas

According to recent documents filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, Microsoft has applied to build five more data centers in San Antonio, Texas. The data centers will have a total space of 350,000 square feet. It will also cost over $200 million. The construction of ...

July 13, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

San Antonio

Bailard sells Comcast-occupied data center in Maryland for $14.85 million

Bailard, an investment management firm, just sold a data center and office property in Maryland for $14.85 million. It is a two-story 66,000 square-foot property currently occupied by Comcast. The building is also located at 8031 Corporate Drive in White Marsh, Maryland.CEO of Bailard Real Est...

July 08, 2021

Eric Bell

Comcast Nottingham

Ohio’s school retirement fund aims to invest in target data centers in future

Ohio’s school retirement fund wants to invest in life science offices and data centers in 2022. The Ohio School Employees Retirement System plans to hire managers to look into real estate investment like data centers since it offers higher rent growth opportunities in its annual investment pla...

July 05, 2021

Eric Bell

Ohio

Regulators instruct Facebook to review power purchase agreements in New Mexico

Regulators have instructed Facebook to renegotiate the terms of its proposed power purchase agreements regarding solar energy and energy storage facilities in New Mexico.The agreement relates to 50MW of solar energy from Encino North Solar Energy Center, 190MW of solar from Sky Ranch Solar Fac...

July 05, 2021

Eric Advinci

Facebook Los Lunas

Amazon files an application to build four data centers in Manassas, Virginia

Amazon has filed an application to build four data centers on land in Manassas, Virginia. It filed to build the data centers on empty land that’s between Sudley Road and Ashton Avenue. The piece of land is presently owned by the estate of Lewis Percival Ashby Jr., and it is being used as a ...

July 02, 2021

Eric Advinci

AWS US East (N. Virginia)

Gerald R. Ford International Airport is building an operations center in Grand Rapids, Michigan

Gerald R. Ford International Airport is building a new operations and communications center, which includes, a data center in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The project will cost the Company $7.7 million. Gerald R. Ford International airport says the new facility will be on the east side of the airp...

June 30, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Grand Rapids MI

Rocky Mountain Power to build 120MW solar farm in Utah for Facebook power

Rocky Mountain Power has announced that it would be building a new 120MW solar farm in Iron County, Utah, for Facebook. The solar farm will power Facebook’s Eagle Mountain data center. Head of renewable energy at Facebook, Urvi Parekh, commented on the development. He said the Company is happ...

June 30, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Facebook Eagle Mountain Utah

TPG teams up with Quantum Loophole to redevelop Old Alcoa Plant

TPG Real Estate Partners (TREP) and Quantum Loophole have joined forces to acquire a 2,100-acre industrial site near Frederick, Maryland, for its first major campus. The joint venture will see the two redevelop the site of the Old Alcoa Plant and transform it into a gigawatt scale data center ...

June 28, 2021

Eric Bell

TPG Real Estate: Frederick Campus

Silicon Valley Power to build a substation for AWS's planned data center in Santa Clara

Silicon Valley Power will build a new substation for AWS’s upcoming data center in Santa Clara. Oppidan Investment Company will develop and pay for the data center facility on behalf of Amazon Web Services. Besides, Amazon acquired the site for $100 million in 2020, which will make it AWS’s f...

June 27, 2021

Eric Bell

Amazon 2305 Mission College Blvd

Dakota State University wants $6m for data center remodeling

Dakota State University (DSU) has requested $6 million and $1.8 million to replace its existing data center and IT hardware, respectively. The request was made during a meeting between South Dakota’s public university system and its governing body. DSU asked for funds to replace its existing d...

June 25, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

South Dakota

Digital Crossroad data center in Hammond to expand following a $28 million investment

The Digital Crossroad data center based in Hammond has received a $28 million investment from Energy Solutions Group and United Leasing and Finance for further expansion. Currently, in its first phase, the Digital Crossroad site features 105,000 sq ft of space and 6MW of capacity and is repor...

June 25, 2021

Eric Bell

Digital Crossroad (Indiana NAP)

Sabey secures $250 million refinancing deal for 375 Pearl Street

Sabey has secured a $250 million refinancing deal for its office and data center at 375 Pearl Street, New York City. According to Commercial Observer, J.P. Morgan and Wells Fargo will be providing a $220 million, 10-year, fixed-rate CMBS loan and a further $30 million mezzanine debt. Sabey ...

June 20, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Sabey Intergate.Manhattan

Data center plans discussed for NRG Power Plant in Dunkirk, New Yorksite

Discussions have begun around the transformation of the disused NRG Power Plant in Dunkirk, New York, into a new data center. The 76-acre site was operational from the 1950s to 2015 has been pinned as a potential location in a report by the City of Dunkirk and Chautauqua County. Dunkirk is nea...

June 20, 2021

Eric Bell

Buffalo

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