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Read Community And Business Groups Challenge Loudoun Data Center Emissions Permit
Community And Business Groups Challenge Loudoun Data Center Emissions Permit

Community And Business Groups Challenge Loudoun Data Center Emissions Permit

April 07, 2023 Northern Virginia

This spring and summer, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality is mulling over a proposal enabling data facilities in Loudoun County to draw power more routinely from on-site disaster diesel generators. The proposal aims to alleviate pressure on the transmission system, which transports...

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Read Direct Line Global triples presence at Ashburn Crossing, Virginia
Direct Line Global triples presence at Ashburn Crossing, Virginia

Direct Line Global triples presence at Ashburn Crossing, Virginia

April 06, 2023 Ashburn: Data Center Alley

Direct Line Global has announced that it has signed the lease for a 17,040-square-foot research and development space within Ashburn Crossing, an 80-acre business park in Ashburn, Virginia. Through this move, the company has tripled its presence in the area. Speaking about this expansion, Vern...

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Read Third Completely Diverse Dark Fiber Route Added to Bandwidth IG's San Francisco Bay Area network
Third Completely Diverse Dark Fiber Route Added to Bandwidth IG's San Francisco Bay Area network

Third Completely Diverse Dark Fiber Route Added to Bandwidth IG's San Francisco Bay Area network

April 06, 2023 San Francisco Bay Area

With the construction of its dark fiber network, Bandwidth Infrastructure Group (Bandwidth IG) is enhancing connection options for the San Francisco Bay Area's densely populated area of data centers. Critical fiber infrastructure is now available from Santa Clara in the San Francisco Bay Area to...

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Read AtlasEdge forms partnership with PacketFabric
AtlasEdge forms partnership with PacketFabric

AtlasEdge forms partnership with PacketFabric

April 05, 2023 Berlin

Atlas Edge has announced that it has partnered with PacketFabric, to expand cloud access across its network. The strategic partnership will see the company’s facilities connect to PacketFabric’s TruNaas Converge Platform, which will reportedly allow AtlasEdge customers to access PacketFabric’s...

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Read Motion Hosting opens new data center in Europe
Motion Hosting opens new data center in Europe

Motion Hosting opens new data center in Europe

April 03, 2023 Amsterdam

InMotion Hosting has announced the opening of its first international data center in Europe. The three-story data center is located in Amsterdam, Netherlands and will reportedly offer customers NVMe Hardware, 99.99% Network Uptime and Security Monitoring, refined UltraStack Server Configurations...

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Read Dominion Energy and PowerHouse Discover Solution to The Data Center Power Difficulties in Loudoun.
Dominion Energy and PowerHouse Discover Solution to The Data Center Power Difficulties in Loudoun.

Dominion Energy and PowerHouse Discover Solution to The Data Center Power Difficulties in Loudoun.

March 30, 2023 Northern Virginia

PowerHouse anticipates that the 265,000-square-foot building will be occupied by tenants in July, with complete construction scheduled for completion in October. Nonetheless, there is a pervasive power issue. Buddy Rizer, head of Loudoun County Economic Development, stated that each project has a...

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Read Concerns over Northern Virginia diesel generators leads to DEQ revising its relaxation of generator restrictions
Concerns over Northern Virginia diesel generators leads to DEQ revising its relaxation of generator restrictions

Concerns over Northern Virginia diesel generators leads to DEQ revising its relaxation of generator restrictions

March 22, 2023 Northern Virginia

Residents in North Virginia had recently raised their concerns about the decision made by the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to permit diesel generators to power data centers in the region. The DEQ announced that it would be looking into the permittance to preserve data center...

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Read Akamai Technologies Will Purchase Ondat, a Cloud Storage Company
Akamai Technologies Will Purchase Ondat, a Cloud Storage Company

Akamai Technologies Will Purchase Ondat, a Cloud Storage Company

March 21, 2023 London

Akamai Technologies, an American provider of content delivery services, and Ondat, a provider of cloud storage, have signed a binding agreement. The transaction is anticipated to occur in the first quarter of 2023, and Akamai anticipates no major changes to its annual financial forecast. The...

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Read Expansion of Data Center Utilities Approved by Leesburg Council
Expansion of Data Center Utilities Approved by Leesburg Council

Expansion of Data Center Utilities Approved by Leesburg Council

March 20, 2023 Northern Virginia

Leesburg may create a data center alley. Last Tuesday, the Town Council authorized water and sewer connections for two two-story data centers proposed for the Compass Creek retail development along the Dulles Greenway north of Microsoft's data center facility. A 400,000-square-foot data center...

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Read New University at Buffalo School of Management research devises data center energy conservation strategy
New University at Buffalo School of Management research devises data center energy conservation strategy

New University at Buffalo School of Management research devises data center energy conservation strategy

March 16, 2023 Buffalo

The University at Buffalo School of Management (UB) has announced that recent research has discovered a strategy to conserve data center energy consumption and optimize processing performance. It found that data center managers can reduce energy consumption 10-30%. This can be done, the...

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Read Honda’s hydrogen fuel cells to be used in data centers
Honda’s hydrogen fuel cells to be used in data centers

Honda’s hydrogen fuel cells to be used in data centers

March 10, 2023 California

Honda has announced that its old retired Clarity fuel cells will now be used for backup power at one of its data centers as part of a trial project. The company said that this aligns with its carbon neutrality goals, which it aims to reach by 2050, and promotes circular economy principles. The...

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Read TexAmericas Center announces initiative to develop green data center park
TexAmericas Center announces initiative to develop green data center park

TexAmericas Center announces initiative to develop green data center park

March 08, 2023 Texas

TexAmericas Center has announced its plan to develop green energy data centers, which it has said will be suitable for major companies eyeing expansion. The property pegged for this development has over 400 acres, which reports outline would be suitable for hyperscale, corporate, retail and...

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Read Prince William County to pursue noise regulations for data centers
Prince William County to pursue noise regulations for data centers

Prince William County to pursue noise regulations for data centers

March 07, 2023 Northern Virginia

Virginia's Prince William County officials are looking into amending the county's noise regulations around data centers, having passed a resolution to initiate amendments to the Design Construction Standards Manual (DCSM) and zoning ordinance. These will reportedly assist officials in addressing...

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Read PowerHouse Data Centers & DPR Construction Mark 50% Completion for ABX-1 Data Center
PowerHouse Data Centers & DPR Construction Mark 50% Completion for ABX-1 Data Center

PowerHouse Data Centers & DPR Construction Mark 50% Completion for ABX-1 Data Center

March 02, 2023 Northern Virginia

PowerHouse Data Centers, a partnership between American Real Estate Partners (AREP) and Harrison Street that provides turnkey facility location, powered shell, and build-to-suit data center implementations, and DPR Construction, one of the nation's leading five data center contractors, have...

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Read Old Fremont Materials Factory Planned For Massive Data Center
Old Fremont Materials Factory Planned For Massive Data Center

Old Fremont Materials Factory Planned For Massive Data Center

March 02, 2023 California

The developer Valley Oak Partners, located in San Jose, California, has proposed constructing a data center with a floor space of 490,000 square feet at the former location of the construction materials firm USG in Fremont, California. According to Valley Oak, the facility would serve as a venue...

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Read LSEG Data Center Hosts TNS Trading & Market Data Systems
LSEG Data Center Hosts TNS Trading & Market Data Systems

LSEG Data Center Hosts TNS Trading & Market Data Systems

March 01, 2023 London

The trading and market data systems of its clients are being transferred from the Main Data Center, which is now in the City of London, to the new London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Data Center, which is located close to the Docklands. After securing considerable infrastructure capacity in the...

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Read Transaction Network Services Moves to New LSE Data Facility
Transaction Network Services Moves to New LSE Data Facility

Transaction Network Services Moves to New LSE Data Facility

March 01, 2023 London

The new London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) data center is now home to a number of clients of Transaction Network Services (TNS). TNS was compelled to move after LSEG declared that its present City of London data center would be shut down. The brand-new colocation facility in Docklands still...

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Read Valley Oak proposes 90MW data center in California
Valley Oak proposes 90MW data center in California

Valley Oak proposes 90MW data center in California

February 24, 2023 California

Valley Oak is pursuing a new data center in Fremont, California, it has been announced, to 'serve as a place for clients to either relocate their data servers or expand their data capacity.' The company submitted an application for a 490,000 square-foot (45,520 sqm) data center on approximately...

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Read Prince William County’s planning director and deputy resign amid data center controversy
Prince William County’s planning director and deputy resign amid data center controversy

Prince William County’s planning director and deputy resign amid data center controversy

February 24, 2023 Northern Virginia

Reports reveal that in recent months, a wave of Prince William County planning officials have resigned from their positions just as the data center development controversy heats up. County Planning Director Mark Buenavista, had only been in the job a month, but left his position last week....

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Read What Republican Bob Weir's election win means for the PW Gateway
What Republican Bob Weir's election win means for the PW Gateway

What Republican Bob Weir's election win means for the PW Gateway

February 24, 2023 Northern Virginia

As covered extensively by Baxtel, the PW Digital Gateway data center campus, planned outside Manassas, is the most controversial data center development in recent times. It has been opposed from many angles, with environmentalists arguing that it jeopardizes net-zero goals, and others arguing it...

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