Data Center News

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...

Read more
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...

Read more
Read Backblaze Unveils its US East Data Center: A Peek into 1.3 Exabytes of Raw Storage Capacity
Backblaze Unveils its US East Data Center: A Peek into 1.3 Exabytes of Raw Storage Capacity

Backblaze Unveils its US East Data Center: A Peek into 1.3 Exabytes of Raw Storage Capacity

December 13, 2022 CoreSite Reston Campus VA1

Backblaze, a cloud storage and backup provider, recently offered a rare glimpse into its US East Data Center, highlighting its capacity to store and manage a staggering amount of data for its growing customer base. Located in CoreSite Reston, the data center is designed to ensure top-notch...

Read more
Read Microsoft Looking To Expand its Leesburg Data Center Campus With Two Data Centers
Microsoft Looking To Expand its Leesburg Data Center Campus With Two Data Centers

Microsoft Looking To Expand its Leesburg Data Center Campus With Two Data Centers

December 09, 2022 Hyperscale Data Center

According to BizJournal, Microsoft is planning to expand its Leesburg data center campus in Loudoun County, Virginia, by developing two data centers. The two data centers will be called IAD02 and IAD03. The planned data centers will span 44,200 square meters (475,700 square feet). The data...

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

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...

Read more
Read Meta To Expand its Data Center Campus in Richmond, Virginia
Meta To Expand its Data Center Campus in Richmond, Virginia

Meta To Expand its Data Center Campus in Richmond, Virginia

November 29, 2022 Hyperscale Data Center

Meta is looking to expand its data center campus in Richmond, Virginia. According to Richmond BizSense, Meta acquired 475 acres of land close to its existing facility within White Oak Technology Park in Henrico County. The social media company plans to develop new data centers under the umbrella...

Read more
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...

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

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...

Read more
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...

Read more
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...

Read more
Read Blackstone Data Services Plans 10-12MW Cryptomine Data Center in Tazewell County, Virginia
Baxtel

Blackstone Data Services Plans 10-12MW Cryptomine Data Center in Tazewell County, Virginia

October 31, 2022 Virginia

Blackstone Data Services has announced that it is developing a new crypto-mining data center. The new facility will be located in the Bluestone Business and Technology Park shell building in Virginia’s Tazewell County. Blackstone plans to invest up to $18 million in developing the facility....

Read more
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...

Read more
Read Iron Mountain To Develop another Data Center in its Manassas Campus
Iron Mountain To Develop another Data Center in its Manassas Campus

Iron Mountain To Develop another Data Center in its Manassas Campus

October 12, 2022 Iron Mountain Northern Virginia (Manassas)

Iron Mountain is looking to develop a new facility at its Manassas campus in Prince William County, Virginia. According to a a filing, Iron Mountain plans to develop the data center on a 24-acre parcel. Iron Mountain will invest up to $100m to bring the data center to life. Although the...

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

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,...

Read more
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...

Read more
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...

Read more
Read Protests over Amazon's Manassas data center
Protests over Amazon's  Manassas data center

Protests over Amazon's Manassas data center

August 30, 2022 AWS US East (N. Virginia)

Amazon’s Manassas data center has come under fire over noise pollution. According to reports, activists in Prince William County, Virginia, have united to protest against the facility, citing that the “area is being overrun with data center development,” and subsequently, the constant noise is...

Read more
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...

Read more
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...

Read more
Read Dominion Energy and data center capacity issues
Dominion Energy and data center capacity issues

Dominion Energy and data center capacity issues

August 01, 2022 Northern Virginia

Dominion Energy, a Northern American utility company, has warned that it may be unable to serve new data center projects in Ashburn, Northern Virginia. According to reports, this could mean that projects, which have seen tens of millions of dollars worth of investment, are stalled and potentially...

Read more

Ready to Level up Your
Data Center Strategy?