August 17, 2021 AWS US East (N. Virginia)
According to BizJournal, Amazon Web Services is looking to expand its data center footprint in Loudoun County, North Virginia, by acquiring more land in the county. The report states that AWS bought 17.15 acres of land in the county for $32.5 million. The plot of land is currently empty, and it...
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July 21, 2021 Northern Virginia
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 Winchester Star reported that...
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July 02, 2021 AWS US East (N. 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 family...
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June 17, 2021 Northern Virginia
The Fauquier Times reports that Amazon Web Services is planning to buy 41.7 acres of land in Warrenton, North Virginia if the town finally changes its rules to allow the construction of data centers. At a Warrenton Planning Commission, it was proposed that the rule be changed and data centers...
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June 17, 2021 Northern Virginia
A one million square foot data center has been given the go-ahead just outside the town of Haymarket, following the Prince William Board of County Supervisors approving a rezoning and special use permit. Locals, however, have voiced their concerns that minority communities may be negatively...
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June 03, 2021 Yondr Arcola, VA
After announcing a major $2 billion American expansion plan back in May, Yondr has acquired 270 acres of land in Northern Virginia. Although the specific location details are still under wraps, the company has disclosed that the sites are “in close proximity to Northern Virginia’s major fiber...
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May 26, 2021 Northern Virginia
Hanley Energy has decided to expand its operations in Loudoun County, Virginia. The Irish company will be leasing a 36,600 square foot building from Merritt Properties for this purpose. Merritt initially bought the 6.7-acre site with plans to build a light industrial building over it. Besides,...
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May 19, 2021 Northern Virginia
Prince William County, Virginia, may see more data centers being built in the region after County supervisors approved moves that could expand the Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District. This “overlay district” is the area where building data facilities is permitted. Established back in...
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May 14, 2021 Northern Virginia
BlackChamber Group’s application to build a 530,000 sq ft (49,000 sq m) data center in Loudoun County has split the county’s board of supervisors. According to a report published in Washington Business Journal, the group’s proposal to build two facilities on the 23-acre plot could be rejected in...
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May 12, 2021 STACK Northern Virginia
Stack Infrastructure has purchased additional 25 acres of land in Manassas, Virginia. The land is next to its Prince William county campus, which is still under development. The plan is to use the new land to build additional two 36MW facilities. The CEO of Stack Infrastructure commented that the...
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May 12, 2021 Digital Fortress: Richmond
Digital Fortress has announced a new wholesale data campus in Richmond, Virginia. This 75-acre campus is now the largest data center in Digital Fortress’ eastern United States portfolio. The new data campus is Gold LEED-certified, and it is designed to Tier III standards with access to 4.2MW of...
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May 04, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
An agreement has been reached between AES and Google for AES to supply Google’s Northern Virginia data centers with renewable energy. The deal will see AES construct 500 MW of renewable energy and storage projects with a mix of wind, solar, hydro, and battery storage for Google’s data centers in...
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May 04, 2021 Northern Virginia
TA Realty has announced that it will be developing a new $1.8 billion secure data center in Loudoun County, VA. The initial buildings of the data center are expected to be ready by late 2021. Upon completion, the fully built-out campus will be over 1.5 million square feet. It will also have 300...
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April 28, 2021 Vantage Ashburn Campus
Vantage Data Centers just announced that it has completed the first phase of VA12. VA12 is the second of the five planned facilities situated at its Northern Virginia campus. The completed first phase of VA12 will provide 16MW of critical IT capacity to enterprises, hyperscalers, and cloud...
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March 26, 2021 Mapletree: 8011 Villa Park
Mapletree Industrial Trust (MIT), a Singapore based REIT, acquired Bank of America’s campus at 8011 Villa Park Drive on March 12 for $208 million. The 46-acre campus in Richmond Virginia has five office buildings with a mix of office and data center space. The campus is 100 percent leased by...
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December 16, 2020 Cologix Ashburn ASH1
Cologix has announced it broke ground on a large data center near the Equinix Ashburn campus. The Cologix campus will eventually be 1 million sqft and 120-megawatts. The two-story first phase will be 350,000 sqft spread across 16 data halls. Later phases call for the removal of the church and...
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June 16, 2020 Northern Virginia
ASHBURN, Va., /PRNewswire/ -- Dark Fiber & Infrastructure, LLC ("DF&I" or the "Company") today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to receive a majority investment from IPI Partners, LLC ("IPI"). IPI's investment will be used to accelerate the growth of DF&I's footprint and...
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June 02, 2020 Aligned Ashburn
ASHBURN, VIRGINIA – JUNE 2, 2020 – 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 hyperscale data center campus in Ashburn,...
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May 25, 2020 QTS Ashburn-Shellhorn
QTS has announced that it is fast tracking 42MW in Ashburn. Their construction blog post is below: QTS Ashburn-Shellhorn, our newest greenfield data center campus in the Ashburn, VA market has gotten underway in a hurry - with construction five weeks in and well ahead of schedule. The QTS...
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March 27, 2020 Hyperscale Data Center
Amazon submitted a fast-track application last week to build three data centers totaling approximately 300,000 SqFt on 90 acres in the South Riding area of Loudoun County. According to the company plans, the development will be completed in three phases, with the first ~260K SF phase being the...
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