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The Chicago Tribune cited Baxtel in an investigation of the tensions surrounding data center development in Illinois. According to the article, Illinois currently has 108 data centers, nearly twice as many as Indiana and Wisconsin combined. 

Yet industry groups warn the state is losing billions in new investment to neighbors, in part because of Illinois's Biometric Information Privacy Act. Reporters John Lippert and R. Christian Smith detail how local conflicts in Aurora, Naperville, and DeKalb County are compounding the regulatory uncertainty facing operators considering the Illinois market.

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Baxtel provided the data for the Crain Chicago Business Journal article that reports how the city is positioning itself for the data center boom.

The city's efforts to attract more data centers will lead to economic growth, job creation, and property tax revenues. Read the article on Crain's Chicago Business

The Associated Press used Baxtel's data on the size of the Johor data center market for an in-depth article on Malaysia's growing market located near the tapped-out Singapore market.

KVUE reporter Jenni Lee interviewed Baxtel's founder, Eric Bell, about the growth of the Texas data center market.

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"According to data from Baxtel, Utah currently has 47 data center facilities that occupy over 6.3 million square feet and consume nearly 600 megawatts of power. While the biggest single facility is the National Security Agency’s 1.5 million square-foot data center in Saratoga Springs, Facebook owner Meta is the biggest single operator with seven data centers in the state, per Baxtel data."

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ProPublica used Baxtel’s data in its recent report examining Washington Governor Bob Ferguson’s order to study the impact of data centers on the state’s energy use, tax revenue, and job creation, amid growing concerns about their electricity consumption and tax incentives.

ABC WFAA used Baxtel's research on the Texas data center market in an article about OpenAI's Stargate data center.

The Prince William Times used Baxtel’s data to quantify Amazon’s expanding presence in Prince William County, highlighting that Amazon now operates 42 data centers in the county and 135 in Virginia overall. The article reports that Amazon paid $53.5 million for most of Colchester Industrial Park, significantly increasing its data center footprint in the region and reinforcing Northern Virginia’s status as a major data center hub.

The Seattle Times used Baxtel's data to analyze the recent data center growth in Washington state.

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Johor’s data centres getting a boost from the Singapore factor; water, power remain bottlenecks

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From the perspective of the data centre industry, Denmark has an advantageous position due to its many international submarine cable connections and proximity to several internet exchanges. Furthermore, besides being a transit land for data, Denmark is interconnected with many of its neighbours through its highly reliable electric grid.

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With his trademark black shirt and long gray hair, Otto Toto Sugiri, cofounder and president director of data center company DCI Indonesia, stands out among the country’s youthful tech entrepreneurs. The 68-year-old, who learned to program before many of those entrepreneurs were born, is one of Indonesia’s earliest tech entrepreneurs, blazing a trail for others to follow.

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Washington State Department of Commerce's State of the Data Center Industry leverages Baxtel's data to analyze the effects of Data Centers on the power capacity in the state.