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Read QTS is planning to expand Richmond site in Henrico County
QTS is planning to expand Richmond site in Henrico County

QTS is planning to expand Richmond site in Henrico County

November 19, 2019 QTS Richmond I

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 million...

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Read CyrusOne Data Centers in Northern Virginia Qualify for Tax Incentives
CyrusOne Data Centers in Northern Virginia Qualify for Tax Incentives

CyrusOne Data Centers in Northern Virginia Qualify for Tax Incentives

September 26, 2019 CyrusOne Sterling IX

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 the...

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Read Facebook will expand Henrico VA campus
Facebook will expand Henrico VA campus

Facebook will expand Henrico VA campus

September 26, 2019 Hyperscale Data Center

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...

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

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

September 16, 2019 Aligned Ashburn

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,...

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Read Digital Realty Acquires 13-acre property in Ashburn
Digital Realty Acquires 13-acre property in Ashburn

Digital Realty Acquires 13-acre property in Ashburn

May 23, 2019 Digital Realty: IAD-56

Washington Business Journal Reports that Digital Realty acquired a 13-acre property for $28 million. That puts the cost per acre at $2.14 million, which is a record in the region. The property was a former Airbus facility and is adjacent to the Equinix Ashburn Campus. Satellite view of the...

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Read Compass Datacenters Begins Construction on 75 MW Data Center Campus in Northern Virginia (PR)
Compass Datacenters Begins Construction on 75 MW Data Center Campus in Northern Virginia (PR)

Compass Datacenters Begins Construction on 75 MW Data Center Campus in Northern Virginia (PR)

May 16, 2019 Compass Loudoun County

Dallas – Compass Datacenters is beginning construction of its first data center in Loudoun County, Virginia. The 6MW building is on Compass’ Loudoun campus, which is planned for 500,000 square feet and 75MW of critical IT capacity. “Northern Virginia is one of the most dynamic data center markets...

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Read QTS files plans to expand Richmond campus in White Oak Technology Park
QTS files plans to expand Richmond campus in White Oak Technology Park

QTS files plans to expand Richmond campus in White Oak Technology Park

March 13, 2019 QTS Richmond I

A development plan was filed in March by an entity tied to QTS Data Centers for new two single-story data center buildings totaling 710,500 square feet on county-owned land in Sandston’s White Oak Technology Park, near Interstates 64 and 295. Dubbed in planning documents as “Project Isaac,” the...

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Read Microsoft and EDP Renewables Execute a Wind Energy Agreement in Ohio
Microsoft and EDP Renewables Execute a Wind Energy Agreement in Ohio

Microsoft and EDP Renewables Execute a Wind Energy Agreement in Ohio

March 07, 2019 Hyperscale Data Center

HOUSTON, and REDMOND, Wash. — March 7, 2019 — EDP Renewables SA (EDPR), through its fully owned subsidiary EDP Renewables North America LLC, and Microsoft Corp. have executed two 15-year power purchase agreements (PPA) totaling 125 megawatts (MW) that will bring the Timber Road IV Wind Farm to...

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Read Microsoft Announces Sixth Expansion in Mecklenburg County, Virginia
Microsoft Corporation will invest significant capital to expand its Boydton enterprise data center in Mecklenburg County, Virginia.

The project is Microsoft’s sixth expansion at the facility sin...

Microsoft Announces Sixth Expansion in Mecklenburg County, Virginia

January 24, 2019 Hyperscale Data Center

Microsoft Corporation will invest significant capital to expand its Boydton enterprise data center in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. The project is Microsoft’s sixth expansion at the facility since 2010 and will allow the company to further enhance its ability to serve customers in the U.S. and...

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Read Globalinx Data Centers has completed a diverse fiber cable network tie in into the MAREA and BRUSA CLS
Globalinx Data Centers has completed a diverse fiber cable network tie in into the MAREA and BRUSA CLS

Globalinx Data Centers has completed a diverse fiber cable network tie in into the MAREA and BRUSA CLS

December 01, 2018 Globalinx Virginia Beach

Virginia Beach, VA: Globalinx Data Centers LLC, Virginia Beach’s first and only Tier III carrier neutral data center campus that resides less than 800 yards away from MAREA and BRUSA CLS in Virginia Beach has completed its diverse fiber cable tie in. Globalinx strategic campus location offers...

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Read Opus Interactive Launches New Federal Cloud Services Offering from Iron Mountain’s Northern Virginia Data Center
Opus Interactive is expanding to the East Coast. The new Opus data center is located in Iron Mountian's Northern Virginia data center in Manassas. 

Source: <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/...

Opus Interactive Launches New Federal Cloud Services Offering from Iron Mountain’s Northern Virginia Data Center

October 17, 2018 Iron Mountain Northern Virginia (Manassas)

Opus Interactive is expanding to the East Coast. The new Opus data center is located in Iron Mountian's Northern Virginia data center in Manassas. Source: Businesswire.com

Read Chesterfield County Data Center That Hosts the Virginia Information Technologies Agency Was Sold For $44 Million
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Chesterfield County Data Center That Hosts the Virginia Information Technologies Agency Was Sold For $44 Million

August 25, 2018 Virginia Information Technologies Agency

With work on one of the region’s largest data centers underway in Henrico County, a smaller facility on the southern end of metro Richmond has changed hands in an eight-figure deal. The two-story, 193,000-square-foot data center at 11751 Meadowville Road in Chesterfield County’s Meadowville...

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Read Virginia Beach's new data center park expects to draw the likes of Snapchat, IBM and Uber
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Virginia Beach's new data center park expects to draw the likes of Snapchat, IBM and Uber

August 25, 2018 Virginia Beach

A Dutch company wants to create a new data center park to draw the likes of Snapchat, IBM and Uber. NxtVn will spend $1.5 billion to $2 billion to build a hub off General Booth Boulevard to attract companies that seek high-capacity connections from the U.S. to Europe. The company also plans to...

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Read Fairfax County Approves CoreSite's 22-Acre Data Center Campus Expansion In Reston
CoreSite is closer to approval at Sunrise Technology Park, a 21-acre office park in Reston with four existing buildings slated for data center redevelopment. The Fairfax County Planning Commission ...

Fairfax County Approves CoreSite's 22-Acre Data Center Campus Expansion In Reston

July 13, 2018 CoreSite Reston VA3

CoreSite is closer to approval at Sunrise Technology Park, a 21-acre office park in Reston with four existing buildings slated for data center redevelopment. The Fairfax County Planning Commission approved the project by CoreSite Realty Corp. on June 28. The proposal is part of a move by CoreSite...

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Read MAREA and BRUSA Subsea Cables Managed by Telxius will Extend to Equinix DC2 Data Center
Equinix has won two subsea deployments (MAREA and BRUSA) that will extend from their landing in Virginia Beach to Equinix DC2 in Ashburn.  

From the Press Release:
> The two subsea cables will ...

MAREA and BRUSA Subsea Cables Managed by Telxius will Extend to Equinix DC2 Data Center

July 12, 2018 Equinix Ashburn DC2

Equinix has won two subsea deployments (MAREA and BRUSA) that will extend from their landing in Virginia Beach to Equinix DC2 in Ashburn. From the Press Release: The two subsea cables will terminate in the U.S. directly into the MAREA and BRUSA cable landing station located in Virginia Beach, VA,...

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Read Globalinx Data Centers establishes carrier-neutral data center campus in Virginia Beach (PR)
Globalinx Data Centers establishes carrier-neutral data center campus in Virginia Beach (PR)

Globalinx Data Centers establishes carrier-neutral data center campus in Virginia Beach (PR)

January 22, 2018 Globalinx Virginia Beach

Honolulu, HI and Virginia Beach, VA – Globalinx Data Centers, Virginia Beach’s first and only carrier-neutral cable landing and terrestrial meet-me-point for international connectivity to Europe, Africa and South America, announced today at PTC’18 a new, three-phased data center campus in close...

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Read H5 Data Centers acquires Ashburn Data Center shell
H5 Data Centers acquires Ashburn Data Center shell

H5 Data Centers acquires Ashburn Data Center shell

June 10, 2015 H5 Ashburn

Denver, CO - H5 Data Centers, a national colocation and wholesale data center provider, today announced it has acquired a wholesale data center at 21800 Beaumeade Drive in Ashburn, Virginia. The Ashburn data center totals 70,000 SF, is expandable to more than 100,000 SF, and features at least 8.5...

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