United States Data Center News

Google is Planning the Biggest Solar + Storage Array

Google and NV Energy have agreed to power a new $600 million data center in Henderson, NV, through what they say is the world’s biggest battery-backed solar deal for a corporate customer. The agreement involves roughly 350 MW of solar photovoltaics and between 250 and 280 MW of battery storage...

January 09, 2020

Eric Bell

Google Henderson NV

New Albany Council Approves Incentives for 3rd Amazon facility

Amazon Web Services appears once again to be expanding its footprint in New Albany. The company now has three sites for data-center complexes in the city, with a total investment of $1.7 billion in the New Albany International Business Park, according to a fact sheet provided at the New Albany...

December 18, 2019

Eric Advinci

Amazon: 3180 Beech DC1

Facebook will expand Eagle Mountain campus by 500k SqFt

Facebook has announced it will expand the size of a data center under construction in Eagle Mountain from 1 million square feet to 1.5 million square feet, according to a Wednesday news release from the data center.Facebook first broke ground on the campus in May 2018. To date, Facebook has...

December 12, 2019

Eric Advinci

Facebook Eagle Mountain Utah

Core Scientific opens world-class blockchain hosting facility in Calvert City, KY

BELLEVUE, Wash., Nov. 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Core Scientific www.corescientific.com today announced that it has opened a new large-scale Blockchain facility in Calvert City, Kentucky. Creating many construction and high-tech jobs, Core Scientific is breathing new life into a steel mill facil...

December 11, 2019

Eric Bell

Core Scientific: Calvert City

CyrusOne Breaks Ground on New Data Center Campus in Council Bluffs, Iowa

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 10, 2019-- CyrusOne a premier global data center REIT, has celebrated breaking ground for its data center site in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Located at 4700 Gifford Rd, the first phase of the facility will be ready for occupation in the Fall of 2020. Upon...

December 10, 2019

Eric Bell

CyrusOne Council Bluffs

CyrusOne building a new facility in Council Bluffs, near Google's data centers

CyrusOne is building a new data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Located just across the river from Omaha the facility will be near two large Google facilities. CyrusOne choose the location because the company believes more companies will want to store their large data sets near cloud compute c...

December 10, 2019

Eric Advinci

CyrusOne Council Bluffs

Silicon Ranch to build 107 MW solar plant to power Facebook data center in Georgia

Silicon Ranch has agreed to build a 107-megawatt solar project to power the Facebook data center in Newton County, Ga. Silicon Ranch, the U.S. solar platform for Shell and one of the largest independent solar power producers in the country, contracted with Walton Electric Membership Corporati...

November 21, 2019

Eric Advinci

Facebook Newton (Atlanta)

FBI Cuts Ribbon for New Data Center in Idaho

The FBI and its partners at the Department of Justice (DOJ) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new data center in Pocatello on November 18th 2019. The facility broke ground in October 2017. The new data center will optimize infrastructure, information and services, according to a press rel...

November 19, 2019

Eric Advinci

FBI Grey Wolf Pocatello

QTS is planning to expand Richmond site in Henrico County

QTS Data Centers is planning an expansion on 210 acres it owns in the White Oak Technology Park at 6020 Technology Blvd. in the county’s Sandston area. The proposed project, which was submitted to the county’s planning division earlier in November, would involve construction of about 1.2 milli...

November 19, 2019

Eric Bell

QTS Richmond I

Amazon Planning another data-center in New Albany

Amazon Web Services plans to invest $400 million to build a 170,000 sqft data center on 100 acres in the eastern portion of the New Albany International Business Park. The site will be on the east side of Harrison Road and north of Innovation Campus Way. The project would create 35 jobs, with ...

November 06, 2019

Eric Advinci

Amazon New Albany: Innovation Campus Way

QTS will expand Atlanta-Metro Campus

QTS is expanding its Atlanta-Metro data center campus. The expansion will include the development of a new data center totaling more than 250,000 square feet of leasable capacity and 72 critical megawatts of incremental power capacity, adjacent to QTS’ existing mega data center. The Company ex...

November 04, 2019

Eric Advinci

QTS Atlanta Metro

Aligned Breaks Ground on Second Salt Lake Metro Data Center (PR)

WEST JORDAN, UT (October 30, 2019) – Aligned, a leading data center provider offering innovative, sustainable and adaptable colocation and build-to-scale solutions for cloud, enterprise, and managed service providers, announces the expansion of its Salt Lake Metro data center campus, breaking...

October 30, 2019

Eric Bell

Aligned Salt Lake City

STACK Acquires Nationwide Insurance Facility and Expands to Ohio

STACK Infrastructure continues to expand its footprint. Stack acquired Nationwide Insurance's facility in New Albany, Ohio. The transaction is the third expansion for the company since raising $850 million in February 2019. STACK Press Release: DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--STACK INFRASTRUCTURE ...

October 16, 2019

Eric Advinci

STACK New Albany NAL01

Cologix Adds 3rd Data Center Suite in the Dallas Infomart

Cologix, has added a third data center suite in the Dallas Infomart carrier hotel. The new, state-of-the-art DAL3 data center will come online Q1 2020. The latest 13,000 SQF expansion will support the demands of enterprise customers and cloud service providers. "Our new interconnection hub wil...

October 14, 2019

Eric Advinci

Cologix: Dallas DAL1

KCP&L and Westar Energy are now Evergy

KANSAS CITY, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Local energy providers, Westar Energy and KCP&L are now serving customers as Evergy, the name of the holding company established when the companies merged last year. “This is an exciting time for our company,” Terry Bassham, president and chief executive ...

October 07, 2019

Eric Bell

Kansas City

Databank acquired Lightbound and enters Indianapolis

DataBank has closed its acquisition of Indianapolis-based colocation, Internet, voice, network and cloud services provider, LightBound. The transaction adds of two facilities with over 56,000 gross square feet of colocation space and 9.5MW of installed UPS. LightBound’s data centers are locat...

October 01, 2019

Eric Bell

Databank Indianapolis IND1

Data Foundry is expanding Houston 2 site

Data Foundry has announced that new data hall is under construction. The new space will offer 27,000 square feet of white floor space and 4MW of capacity. The Houston 2 campus sits above the 500-year floodplain and is rated for 185mph winds, making relativity safer if/when a another hurrica...

September 26, 2019

Eric Advinci

Switch: Houston 2

CyrusOne Data Centers in Northern Virginia Qualify for Tax Incentives

CyrusOne has qualified for tax incentives in Loudoun County, exempting customers from sales tax payments on all equipment deployed in CyrusOne facilities in that county. The sales tax exemptions are retroactive to 2014. “We have been working to secure this tax incentive for our customers for t...

September 26, 2019

Eric Advinci

CyrusOne Sterling IX

Facebook will expand Henrico VA campus

Facebook expects to break ground early next year on the second phase of its eastern Henrico County data center development, which will total more than 2 million square feet when completed late in 2020, the company said Wednesday.The company will construct three (3) new 450,000 square foot buil...

September 26, 2019

Eric Advinci

Facebook Henrico

Aligned Energy Completes Phase One of Ashburn Data Center Campus (PR)

ASHBURN, VA – Aligned Energy, a leading data center provider offering innovative, sustainable and adaptable colocation and build-to-scale solutions for cloud, enterprise, and managed service providers, announces the completion of phase one of its hyperscale data center campus in Ashburn, Vir...

September 16, 2019

Eric Advinci

Aligned Ashburn

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