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Read TA Realty planning $1.8 billion, 300MW data center campus in Loudoun County, Virginia
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TA Realty planning $1.8 billion, 300MW data center campus in Loudoun County, Virginia

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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Read Vantage Data Centers Opens Second Data Center on its Northern Virginia Campus
Vantage Data Centers Opens Second Data Center on its Northern Virginia Campus

Vantage Data Centers Opens Second Data Center on its Northern Virginia Campus

April 28, 2021 Vantage VA11

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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Read Mapletree acquires Bank of America campus in Richmond VA
Mapletree acquires Bank of America campus in Richmond VA

Mapletree acquires Bank of America campus in Richmond VA

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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Read Cologix Starts Construction on Large Ashburn Data Center
Cologix Starts Construction on Large Ashburn Data Center

Cologix Starts Construction on Large Ashburn Data Center

December 16, 2020 Cologix: 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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Read New Dark Fiber Provider, DF&I, Announced Investment from IPI (PR)
New Dark Fiber Provider, DF&I, Announced Investment from IPI (PR)

New Dark Fiber Provider, DF&I, Announced Investment from IPI (PR)

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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Read Aligned Begins Construction on Second Hyperscale Data Center in Ashburn, VA (PR)
Aligned Begins Construction on Second Hyperscale Data Center in Ashburn, VA (PR)

Aligned Begins Construction on Second Hyperscale Data Center in Ashburn, VA (PR)

June 02, 2020 Aligned: IAD-01

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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Read QTS Ashburn-Shellhorn Construction on Fast-Track Program
QTS Ashburn-Shellhorn Construction on Fast-Track Program

QTS Ashburn-Shellhorn Construction on Fast-Track Program

May 25, 2020 QTS Ashburn-Shellhorn DC1

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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Read AWS is fast-tracking construction of three NOVA data centers
AWS is fast-tracking construction of three NOVA data centers

AWS is fast-tracking construction of three NOVA data centers

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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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 DC1

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: NVA9 Bldg-1A

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: IAD-01

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. Washington Business Journal...

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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 DC1

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 Phase 1

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. 

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

October 17, 2018 Iron Mountain VA-1

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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