October 18, 2023 California
A recent filing with the California Employment Development Department has revealed that Chip designer Qualcomm intends to cut its workforce significantly. The filing noted that Qualcomm is cutting 1,258 jobs in San Diego and Santa Clara, California, to reduce costs. The job cuts are to begin by...
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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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September 12, 2023 Oregon
Land 11 miles southwest of Boardman in Oregon's Morrow County has been zoned from agricultural to industrial, and the board of commissioners has given authorization. The change in zoning will permit the construction of data centers on the site. There are proposals to construct a 50MW solar farm...
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September 07, 2023 Maryland
The Frederick County Government office building in Maryland, which includes a data center, is still under construction. The Prospect Center on Himes Avenue in Frederick will be converted as part of this undertaking. The county paid $20 million for the building in 2021, and it will house multiple...
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August 16, 2023 Maryland
Lerner Enterprises is evaluating a former Maryland mall as a possible campus for a data center if the FBI does not relocate there. Brightseat Associates LLC, a Lerner affiliate, filed a preliminary application for a "qualified data center" with Prince George's County's land use regulatory body...
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August 14, 2023 Rowan Digital Infrastructure
Rowan Green Data in Morrow County, Oregon, plans to build a data center. Proposals for the Percheron Data Center near Boardman were recommended for approval by the County planning commission at the end of last month. Later this month, the proposal will be presented to the County Board of...
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July 25, 2023 Oregon
In Oregon, Cascade Locks port authority has announced the decision to discontinue Roundhouse Digital Infrastructure's $100 million data center project in the Columbia River Gorge. The startup had planned to build a 10MW data center targeting "niche government and energy industry" clients....
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June 28, 2023 Maryland
In Frederick County, a place which has become a highly attractive data center zone and is the location site of Quantum Loophole’s massive and recently paused data center campus, Frederick County Executive Jessica Fitzwater has formed a workgroup for data centers. Fitzwater formed the group in...
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April 18, 2023 California
StratCap, a privately held investment firm, has acquired two data centers in the United States. The data centers, located in California and Missouri, were purchased for an undisclosed amount. StratCap acquired in Santa Clara, California, a purpose-built data center that is 100 percent leased to a...
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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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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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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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February 08, 2023 Oregon
The Oregon state legislature has introduced a new bill which would require data centers and crypto miners in the state to comply with clean energy standards or be faced with a penalty. The 2023 'House Bill 2816' outlines that high-energy use facilities must reduce their emissions associated with...
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February 03, 2023 Austin
In Texas, a proposal for four data centers has been submitted on the location of a long-proposed private airport. The application for the 'Bastrop Project' data center was submitted to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) this month. The application is for a new construction of...
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January 26, 2023 California
ECL has announced $7 million in seed funding, with plans to build the first 3D-printed modular data center to be powered by green hydrogen in California. The first facility will be built at its headquarters in Mountain View, using a construction 3D printer and a local building services company....
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January 23, 2023 California
MDC Data Centers (formerly McAllen Data Centers) has announced that it is developing a new data center in San Diego, California, at 7014 Manya Cir. The new location is in partnership with Mexican telco Vívaro Telecom and will be ready to begin operations in the second quarter of 2023.The facility...
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January 17, 2023 Oregon
Crane Data Centers Inc. is partnering with Principal Asset Management through its real estate investment team, to build a 100+MW data center campus in the Forest Grove area, near Hillsboro.The campus, to be located in the Forest Grove area, will include a 300,000-square-foot facility on a 35-acre...
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October 07, 2022 Oregon
In September, it was announced that tax breaks for data centers in Oregon might be getting a serious re-examination. Over the years, through Oregon's enterprise zone program, tax incentives have made Oregon a haven for data center operators, with Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google saving around...
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September 19, 2022 California
Zscaler has announced that it has achieved carbon neutral status, and said that it intends to reach net zero emissions by 2025. However, the company has not published a link to the emissions and carbon accounting data underlying this claim along with the announcement, and the data has not yet...
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September 13, 2022 California
As heat extremes in California continue, Twitter has reportedly been left without one of its key data centers in Sacramento. First reported by CNN, an internal company memo outlined that the company experienced the loss of its Sacramento data center region on September 5th, with Carrie Fernandez,...
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