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Read Ares Acquires Land and Data Centers in Virginia
Ares Acquires Land and Data Centers in Virginia

Ares Acquires Land and Data Centers in Virginia

January 02, 2026 Virginia

Alternative investment manager Ares Management Corporation has expanded its data center platform Ada Infrastructure into the US, acquiring land in Virginia for a new campus.The Ares Digital Infrastructure business, through an Ares fund, has acquired a 314-acre site along the I-95 South data...

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Read Red Post Energy to Develop Natural Gas Power Solution for Planned Data Center
Red Post Energy to Develop Natural Gas Power Solution for Planned Data Center

Red Post Energy to Develop Natural Gas Power Solution for Planned Data Center

December 24, 2025 Virginia

US independent power producer Red Post Energy Group has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with data center developer Wise Innovation Hub Venture (Oasis) to develop a natural gas power supply solution for a planned data center and technology hub in Wise County, Virginia."Reliable, dispatchable power...

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Read Ares Acquires Land and Data Centers in Virginia
Ares Acquires Land and Data Centers in Virginia

Ares Acquires Land and Data Centers in Virginia

December 20, 2025 Virginia

Alternative investment manager Ares Management Corporation has expanded its data center platform Ada Infrastructure into the US, acquiring land in Virginia for a new campus.The Ares Digital Infrastructure business, through an Ares fund, has acquired a 314-acre site along the I-95 South data...

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Read Penzance Breaks Ground on Data Center in Chantilly, Virginia
Penzance Breaks Ground on Data Center in Chantilly, Virginia

Penzance Breaks Ground on Data Center in Chantilly, Virginia

October 14, 2025 Virginia

Real estate firm Penzance announced it has secured construction financing and broken ground on Chantilly Premier, a 100 percent leased powered shell located in Fairfax County, Northern Virginia."Penzance is excited to break ground on this project, which will deliver critical digital...

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Read CleanArc Receives Permission for 600MW Data Center Campus in Virginia
CleanArc Receives Permission for 600MW Data Center Campus in Virginia

CleanArc Receives Permission for 600MW Data Center Campus in Virginia

September 18, 2025 Virginia

CleanArc Data Centers has been granted planning permission for a 650-acre data center campus in Caroline County, Virginia. The Caroline County board of supervisors has approved the development, on a plot of land near Exit 110 of the Interstate 95 between Ashburn and Richmond.County officials said...

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Read Dominion Proposes New Rate Class for Data Centers
Dominion Proposes New Rate Class for Data Centers

Dominion Proposes New Rate Class for Data Centers

September 04, 2025 Virginia

Virginia’s primary electrical utility, Dominion Energy, has proposed the creation of a new rate class for data centers.The new class would apply to utility customers who consume more than 25MW of energy and have a monthly load factor of more than 75 percent. This will result in many, if not most,...

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Read Globalinx to Develop Data Center in Portsmouth, Virginia
 Globalinx to Develop Data Center in Portsmouth, Virginia

Globalinx to Develop Data Center in Portsmouth, Virginia

July 15, 2025 Virginia

Virginia data center firm Globalinx this week revealed plans to develop a backup data center in Portsmouth, a city some 20 miles west of its existing Virginia Beach site.Chris Mitchell, director of sales at Globalinx Datacenters, told the authority the company was building a data center within...

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Read Digital Core REIT seeks new tenant for Virginia data center
Digital Core REIT seeks new tenant for  Virginia data center

Digital Core REIT seeks new tenant for Virginia data center

January 02, 2025 Virginia

Digital Core REIT is looking for a new tenant for one of its data centers in Northern Virginia, as the current occupant of the data center, located at 8217 Linton Hall Road in Bristow, Prince William County, has decided to not exercise its option to extend its lease on the property, the property...

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Read TECfusions secures $300m loan for Virginia data center expansion
TECfusions secures $300m loan for Virginia data center expansion

TECfusions secures $300m loan for Virginia data center expansion

November 20, 2024 Virginia

TECfusions has secured over $300 million to be used for the development and expansion of its Virginia site. In response to “urgent capacity needs” from a key tenant, gradual funding began in January 2024 and has now been solidified in a formal loan agreement, which includes the cumulative monies...

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Read PJM proposes to hasten grid connection for shovel-ready projects
PJM proposes to hasten grid connection for shovel-ready projects

PJM proposes to hasten grid connection for shovel-ready projects

October 25, 2024 Virginia

Grid operator PJM has presented a proposal to permit “shovel-ready” energy projects an expedited route to interconnection to meet grid reliability needs. PJM, with a service area including Virginia and Ohio, has indicated it will provide stakeholders with a formal proposal early next month to...

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Read Perennial Power and CEP Solar partner on renewable energy development in Virginia
Perennial Power and CEP Solar partner on renewable energy development in Virginia

Perennial Power and CEP Solar partner on renewable energy development in Virginia

October 19, 2024 Virginia

Energy firm Perennial Power has partnered with CEP Solar in a collaboration that will prioritize solar and battery storage projects, with construction on the 1.5GW portfolio planned for late 2025.Perennial Power, part of the Sumitomo Group's renewable energy efforts, currently operates five...

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Read Stack receives approval for Gainesville data center
Stack receives approval for Gainesville data center

Stack receives approval for Gainesville data center

September 25, 2024 Virginia

The Prince William Board of County Supervisors has approved a rezoning requestto rezone the land from agricultural to planned business district to enable two data centers to be built. in Gainesville, Virginia. The data centers are expected to total nearly 815,000 sq ft (75,716 sqm) and are...

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Read New data center planned in Ashburn, Virginia
New data center planned in Ashburn, Virginia

New data center planned in Ashburn, Virginia

September 11, 2024 Virginia

Daniel Golding, CTO of Appleby Strategy Group, this week announced plans for a new data center at the Quantum Park in Loudoun County. The address is 22001 Loudoun County Parkway, located within the Quantum Park business park. The park is the former UUNet/MCI Worldcom site that was a key...

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Read Synergy Group names Northern Virginia, Beijing, and Dublin as top 3 hyperscale locations
Synergy Group names Northern Virginia, Beijing, and Dublin as top 3 hyperscale locations

Synergy Group names Northern Virginia, Beijing, and Dublin as top 3 hyperscale locations

August 23, 2024 Northern Virginia

A report from Synergy Research Group found that just twenty state or metro markets account for 62 percent of the world’s current hyperscale data center capacity. Northern Virginia tops this list while the Greater Beijing Area takes the second place, with both making up 22 percent of global...

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Read Lightpath to acquire United Fiber and Data (UFD assets
Lightpath to acquire United Fiber and Data (UFD assets

Lightpath to acquire United Fiber and Data (UFD assets

June 12, 2024 Virginia

Infrastructure-based connectivity provider Lightpath has announced an agreement to acquire all of the assets of United Fiber and Data (UFD) in a transaction subject to regulatory approvals and is expected to close in the third quarter of 2024.UFD owns and operates a diverse 323-route mile,...

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Read Virginia county recommends approval of applications to enable homeowners sell their lands for data center
Virginia county recommends approval of applications to enable homeowners sell their lands for data center

Virginia county recommends approval of applications to enable homeowners sell their lands for data center

May 17, 2024 Virginia

The Loudoun County Planning Commission in Virginia has recommended approving the Hiddenwood Assemblage application to allow homeowners in Arcola to sell their land for a data center project. The Planning Commission described it as a "no-win situation," with some homeowners wanting the zoning...

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Read New data center proposed outside Richmond, Virginia
New data center proposed outside Richmond, Virginia

New data center proposed outside Richmond, Virginia

May 13, 2024 Virginia

California-based Province Group has proposed to develop a $3 billion data center campus outside Richmond in Powhatan County, Virginia. According to Roxanne Salerno, economic development manager of Powhatan County, Province Group plans to invest $1.5bn in building the data centers, and the other...

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Read Fauquier County approves zoning changes
Fauquier County approves zoning changes

Fauquier County approves zoning changes

March 28, 2024 Virginia

Virginia's Fauquier County has approved zoning changes for Vint Hill relating to the "planned commercial and industrial district" that will limit data centers. These zoning rules will require any buildings or assemblages of buildings of more than 50,000 sq ft (4,645 sqm) to apply for and receive...

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Read Modine plans expansion of Virginia factory
Modine plans expansion of Virginia factory

Modine plans expansion of Virginia factory

March 08, 2024 Virginia

Thermal management company Modine plans to expand its existing factory in Rockbridge County, Virginia with a $18.1 million investment. This expansion will create 211 new jobs in Virginia. “Virginia is a world leader in the data center industry, and we are proud to contribute to the industry’s...

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Read Leesburg Council vote in favor of rezoning for proposed data center
Leesburg Council vote in favor of rezoning for proposed data center

Leesburg Council vote in favor of rezoning for proposed data center

March 01, 2024 Virginia

Town council officials in Leesburg, Virginia, announced this week that they have voted to approve a rezoning application that will allow data centers and additional industrial and research park uses on two parcels of vacant land to the south of Leesburg. Springfield East, LC, the applicant sought...

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