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Read Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative lowers data center emissions in Viriginia
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative lowers data center emissions in Viriginia

Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative lowers data center emissions in Viriginia

January 26, 2023 Northern Virginia

Northern Virginia is now one of the largest data center hubs in the world. Over the years, tax incentives have brought in tech companies from far and wide. However, with this influx of companies data centers, has come a surge in energy use, which is now projected to increase electricity use by...

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Read New data center platform CleanArc Data Centers launches
New data center platform CleanArc Data Centers launches

New data center platform CleanArc Data Centers launches

January 16, 2023 Vantage Data Centers

CleanArc Data Centers, a new data center platform, has just launched, as a product of 547 Energy, a clean energy investment firm and led by Vantage Data Centers founder Jim Trout. According to the company, it will offer hyperscale customers green developments via bundling new data center campuses...

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Read Vantage Data Centers to enter the London market
Vantage Data Centers to enter the London market

Vantage Data Centers to enter the London market

January 12, 2023 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has announced that it is to develop a 48MW data center campus in London. This move will see the company enter the London market for the first time with this £500 million ($600 million) project, its 11th EMEA campus. The company has announced that LHR, will total 430,000 sq ft...

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Read Prince William County supervisors board sued over PW Digital Gateway decision
Prince William County supervisors board sued over PW Digital Gateway decision

Prince William County supervisors board sued over PW Digital Gateway decision

December 14, 2022 Northern Virginia

Following the Prince William County Board of Supervisors' decision to give the green light to the controversial PW Digital Gateway, it is now being faced with two lawsuits. The decision, which will permit changing the area's comprehensive plan, opening up the area to 25 million sq ft (2.3 million...

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Read Vantage To Develop Second Data Center Campus in Johannesburg, South Africa
Vantage To Develop Second Data Center Campus in  Johannesburg, South Africa

Vantage To Develop Second Data Center Campus in Johannesburg, South Africa

December 14, 2022 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has announced plans for a second data center campus in Johannesburg, Japan. The facility called JNB2 will be located in Ekurhuleni, Johannesburg. JNB2’s first building will feature a two-story, 33,000 square meter (355,000 square foot), 20MW data center. It is scheduled to...

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Read Vantage Secures $350m Loan From French Bank For Data Center in Santa Clara, California
Vantage Secures $350m Loan From French Bank For  Data Center in Santa Clara, California

Vantage Secures $350m Loan From French Bank For Data Center in Santa Clara, California

December 01, 2022 Vantage Data Centers

According to Real Deal and Globe Street, Vantage Data Centers has received $350m in funding to develop a data center in Santa Clara, California. Vantage DC acquired a building in the city, and the fund will be used to convert it into a data center campus. The planned facility will span 44,500...

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Read Texas-Based Data Center Developer Signs Agreements with Landowners in Northern Virginia's Vint Hill and Catlett
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Texas-Based Data Center Developer Signs Agreements with Landowners in Northern Virginia's Vint Hill and Catlett

December 01, 2022 Northern Virginia

According to Fauquier Times, a data center developer based in Texas has acquired two plots of land in Fauquier County, Virginia. The data center developer signed agreements with landowners in the Catlett and Vint Hill towns of Northern Virginia. The Vint Hill site spans 48 acres, and it was...

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Read More data centers ahead for Loudoun County?
More data centers ahead for Loudoun County?

More data centers ahead for Loudoun County?

November 28, 2022 Northern Virginia

In recent years, Chuck Kuhn, the founder, and CEO of JK Moving, has become a big player in the data center real estate market scene in Northern Virginia. Now, it appears that he’s looking to develop a new facility in Loudoun County, following the application for a large data center and warehouse...

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Read Former Large Turkey Farm in Loudoun County Seeks Rezoning for Potential Data Center
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Former Large Turkey Farm in Loudoun County Seeks Rezoning for Potential Data Center

November 23, 2022 Northern Virginia

The owners of a former turkey farm in Leesburg, Northern Virginia, have plans to rezone part of the land for data center development. According to BizJournal, Orme Farm LLC, owners of up to 376 acres of land in Leesburg, Loudoun County, is working with an affiliate of real estate company Van...

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Read Prince William board votes to approve PW Digital Gateway
Prince William board votes to approve PW Digital Gateway

Prince William board votes to approve PW Digital Gateway

November 07, 2022 Northern Virginia

After months of protests and deliberation, the Prince William County Board of Supervisors voted to approve a change to the county's comprehensive plan to allow a controversial data center development on the Digital Gateway lands. This vote of 5-2 permits 27 million square feet of data center...

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Read Prince William Board of County Supervisors to vote on controversial data center development
Prince William Board of County Supervisors to vote on controversial data center development

Prince William Board of County Supervisors to vote on controversial data center development

November 01, 2022 Northern Virginia

Today the Prince William County Board of County Supervisors is set to vote on a much-anticipated and controversial data center development, "the PW Digital Gateway", ​​which would introduce 26.7 million square feet of data center space​​ to 2,100 acres next to rural land of historical and...

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Read Vantage Data Centers Acquires 10 Acres in Sterling for $27 million
Vantage Data Centers Acquires 10 Acres in Sterling for $27 million

Vantage Data Centers Acquires 10 Acres in Sterling for $27 million

October 26, 2022 Vantage Data Centers

According to BizJournal, Vantage has bought 10 acres of land in Loudoun County. The company acquired the land for $27m from Boston Properties Inc. Per local county property records, Boston Properties Inc. sold the two undeveloped parcels to Vantage Data Centers. The real estate investment company...

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Read Penzance looks to develop data center in Chantilly in Northern Virginia
Penzance looks to develop data center in Chantilly in Northern Virginia

Penzance looks to develop data center in Chantilly in Northern Virginia

October 13, 2022 Northern Virginia

Penzance, a real estate investment firm, has announced that it is considering a site that was previously earmarked for an auto sales facility for a data center development instead. The company has reportedly applied to rezone a plot of land, located in Chantilly in Northern Virginia, just off of...

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Read BlackChamber Plans To Develop a Large Data Center Campus in Northern Virginia
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BlackChamber Plans To Develop a Large Data Center Campus in Northern Virginia

October 06, 2022 Northern Virginia

According to BizJournal, Real estate investment company BlackChamber Group has plans to develop a 157,900 square meter (1.7 million square feet) data center campus in Arcola, Loudoun County, Virginia. The company is looking to build four data center buildings on its land on Belmont Ridge Road,...

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Read Dominion Energy announces update about resuming connection in Loudoun County
Dominion Energy announces update about resuming connection in Loudoun County

Dominion Energy announces update about resuming connection in Loudoun County

October 03, 2022 Northern Virginia

Dominion Energy has announced that some new data centers in Loudoun County, home to the world's largest concentration of data centers, will be reconnected, following concerns that transmission infrastructure restraints would halt new additions. Back in July, the energy utility had said that new...

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Read Vantage announces the opening of its second data center in Cyberjaya, Malaysia
Vantage announces the opening of its second data center in Cyberjaya, Malaysia

Vantage announces the opening of its second data center in Cyberjaya, Malaysia

September 30, 2022 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers is expanding its presence in Malaysia, with its second data center in Cyberjaya. The facility, a four-story data center dubbed KUL12, will provide 10MW of capacity across 194,000 square feet of space when combined with its existing KUL11. Construction on the data center began...

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Read PW Digital Gateway project: Approval looks likely
PW Digital Gateway project: Approval looks likely

PW Digital Gateway project: Approval looks likely

September 12, 2022 Northern Virginia

Prince William County planners have recommended the approval of the PW Digital Gateway project, it has been announced. Subsequently, the controversial project is likely to go ahead. If approved, the project would see the rezoning of over 2,000 acres of land for up to 27.6 million square feet of...

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Read Vantage Plans To Develop Another Data Center Campus in Sterling
Vantage Plans To Develop Another Data Center Campus in Sterling

Vantage Plans To Develop Another Data Center Campus in Sterling

September 05, 2022 Vantage Data Centers

According to BizJournal, Vantage is looking to develop another data center campus in Loudoun County, Virginia. According to Loudoun property records, the company acquired 17 acres of land at 22318 Glenn Drive for $46m in October 2021. Per the documents filed by Loudoun County Economic...

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Read Dominion to reconnect new data center connections in eastern Loudoun
Dominion to reconnect new data center connections in eastern Loudoun

Dominion to reconnect new data center connections in eastern Loudoun

August 19, 2022 Northern Virginia

Dominion, the primary power provider in Loudoun county, has announced that although Loudoun County's data center industry outpaces its capacity to deliver electricity, there is a way forward. In a conversation with Biz Journals, Bob Blue, Dominion's president and CEO, said that the company had...

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Read Prince William County officials grant rezoning request for four million sqft data center campus in Bristow
Prince William County officials grant rezoning request for four million sqft data center campus in Bristow

Prince William County officials grant rezoning request for four million sqft data center campus in Bristow

August 04, 2022 Northern Virginia

The ever-expanding data center hub in Prince William County is to see another addition, after Prince William County Officials voted 6-1 to grant a rezoning request for a planned four million sqft data center campus in Bristow. The data center developer is Stanley Martin, which, according to...

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