June 12, 2024 Virginia
Infrastructure-based connectivity provider Lightpath has announced an agreement to acquire all of the assets of United Fiber and Data (UFD) in a transaction subject to regulatory approvals and is expected to close in the third quarter of 2024.UFD owns and operates a diverse 323-route mile,...
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May 17, 2024 Virginia
The Loudoun County Planning Commission in Virginia has recommended approving the Hiddenwood Assemblage application to allow homeowners in Arcola to sell their land for a data center project. The Planning Commission described it as a "no-win situation," with some homeowners wanting the zoning...
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May 13, 2024 Virginia
California-based Province Group has proposed to develop a $3 billion data center campus outside Richmond in Powhatan County, Virginia. According to Roxanne Salerno, economic development manager of Powhatan County, Province Group plans to invest $1.5bn in building the data centers, and the other...
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April 05, 2024 Delaware
Inter-city rail service Amtrak has selected a construction company for its Unified Operations Center (UOC) Facility Project, which will include a data center, in Wilmington, Delaware. “One of our primary goals for the Renaissance Centre building is to create a new Amtrak Unified Operations Center...
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April 03, 2024 Delaware
Airspan Networks which specializes in developing 5G hardware and software, said it plans to trade its more than $205 million in funded debt for equity and raise up to $95 million in new equity financing and has filed for Chapter 11 protection at a Delaware bankruptcy court. “This support...
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March 28, 2024 Virginia
Virginia's Fauquier County has approved zoning changes for Vint Hill relating to the "planned commercial and industrial district" that will limit data centers. These zoning rules will require any buildings or assemblages of buildings of more than 50,000 sq ft (4,645 sqm) to apply for and receive...
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March 08, 2024 Virginia
Thermal management company Modine plans to expand its existing factory in Rockbridge County, Virginia with a $18.1 million investment. This expansion will create 211 new jobs in Virginia. “Virginia is a world leader in the data center industry, and we are proud to contribute to the industry’s...
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March 01, 2024 Virginia
Town council officials in Leesburg, Virginia, announced this week that they have voted to approve a rezoning application that will allow data centers and additional industrial and research park uses on two parcels of vacant land to the south of Leesburg. Springfield East, LC, the applicant sought...
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February 15, 2024 Virginia
The Loudoun County Planning Commission has rejected a data center proposed along Route 28 and the Old Ox Road interchange, close to Dulles International Airport in Virginia. This proposed project called "Innovation Gateway" project was for a 425-unit apartment building and 700,000 sq ft (65,030...
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January 05, 2024 West Virginia
West Virginia's Raleigh County Commission has indefinitely suspended a data center proposal for a new facility, which was to be developed between Flat Top Road and Joe Cooper Farm Road in Shady Spring. This development is now no longer under consideration with the County for lack of information....
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January 03, 2024 Virginia
A group of residents in Prince William County, Virginia recently sued the Board of County Supervisors through their formed non-profit "Devlin Defend Corporation” over a data center development. The residents submitted this lawsuit on December 28, hoping to stop the development of a nine-building...
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December 27, 2023 Virginia
Hourigan, a local developer has proposed a 320-acre data center campus outside Richmond, Virginia. The company has requested to rezone the land from agricultural to light industrial, noting that it expects to see around $1 billion invested in the project. The company said in a filing with...
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December 20, 2023 Virginia
Virginia's Fauquier County Board of Supervisors has approved a set of policies designed to curb data center developments in the area. These guidelines have been put in place to protect the county's rural character, the health and welfare of its citizens, as well as the value of the residential...
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December 14, 2023 Virginia
Cielo Digital Infrastructure is now on track to develop a 1.4 million square feet data center facility upon approval from Virginia’s Culpeper Country board. This project will be built on a 121-acre parcel along Nalles Mill Road following the County Board of Supervisors' vote to approve the...
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November 29, 2023 Virginia
A group of 20 environmental and climate groups will launch a coalition this week to rein in the data center industry across the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Virginia Data Center Reform Coalition will call for limits to data center development at a press conference on Friday, December 1. The...
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October 26, 2023 Virginia
The US Department of Labor (DOL) has awarded community colleges in Virginia $5 million in funding in an attempt to bridge the data center skills gap as a part of its Building Pathways to Infrastructure Jobs grant program. Seven of Virginia's community colleges will be using this grant which will...
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October 04, 2023 Maryland
A leading quantum computing firm, IonQ has announced plans for two rack-mounted solutions that introduce quantum capabilities to existing infrastructures: IonQ Forte Enterprise and IonQ Tempo. These solutions are mainly to help businesses leverage the power of quantum directly from their own data...
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October 02, 2023 North Carolina
After receiving additional government funding, North Carolina's Washington-Warren Airport is on track to get a new data center campus. This airport in Washington City will get $13.5 million in funding from the state budget. The government funds will be utilized to develop "key infrastructure,"...
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September 28, 2023 Virginia
Chuck Kuhn's real estate firm, JK Land Holdings, has expanded the proposed Gainesville data center via land acquisition in Virginia's Prince William County through its Wellington Road LLC affiliate. The company has also filed an application, which is currently under review, for up to 3.8 million...
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September 25, 2023 Virginia
Chirisa Investments has secured financing for constructing a data center in Chester, Virginia. According to Commercial Observer, Chirisa received $200 million in construction funding to build CoreWeave's 242,000-square-foot turnkey data center. CO's sources revealed that an undisclosed Brookfield...
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