March 07, 2023 Philippines
Diode Ventures and ENDEC have announced their partnership to build two data centers on the island of Luzon, the Philippines, in Tarlac province and New Clark City. Although details around the development are yet to be shared, Presidential Communications Office (PCO) secretary Cheloy Garafil said...
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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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March 07, 2023 Pennsylvania
Wesco has announced the launch of a data center group, namely Wesco Data Center Solutions. The company is set to be led by Rahi Systems founding member Tarun Raisoni, who will be senior vice president and general manager, following the recent acquisition of Rahi Systems Holdings.Speaking about...
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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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March 01, 2023 Sydney
Lacework has announced the availability of its new cloud data center in Sydney, New South Wales, which is pegged to provide organizations with lower latencies in Australia and New Zealand, with better support. Richard Davies, Area Director at Lacework, said that as the Australia and New Zealand...
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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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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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February 23, 2023 Northern Virginia
PowerHouse is one of the latest companies to enter Northern Virginia and join the data center boom. A division of American Real Estate Partners, and backed by investment firm Harrison Street, the company also recently joined the Infrastructure Masons (iMasons) Climate Accord, becoming one of 170...
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February 23, 2023 Connecticut
NE Edge Manager George McLaughlin III has announced plans for a data center in Connecticut at the Millstone nuclear power station. The two-building project contains one building with two 568,000 sqft stories, and a second with two 214,000 square foot stories. In total, the development would span...
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February 20, 2023 Kentucky
GE Appliances is offering its data center in Louisville, Kentucky, for purchase or lease. General Electric has hired JLL, according to a report this week, to market the data center at 4000 Buechel Bank Road in the 1,000-acre GE Appliance Park in Jefferson District for sale or lease. The GE Data...
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February 20, 2023 Northern Virginia
A piece of legislation that would have compelled the Virginia Department of Energy to study the impacts of data center development on the state’s environment, economy, energy resources and carbon-reduction goals has been defeated. A number of bills have been proposed by Del. Danica Roem, D-Prince...
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February 17, 2023 Northern Virginia
Finmarc Management Inc. has reportedly applied six years in advance for a data center development. Some have suggested that this is to avoid being halted by future restrictions imposed by legislation; others have argued it's due to energy capacity limitations in the Ashburn area. Although Loudoun...
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February 16, 2023 Northern Virginia
As the spotlight circles around Spotsylvania County for data center development, the Board of Supervisors is discussing how the county could be affected and how to plan accordingly. So far, one proposal in the region, filed by SpotsyTechnoCampus LLC, could bring forth a new facility in...
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February 16, 2023 Northern Virginia
Roblox, a maker of video games, invested hundreds of millions of dollars on data center and edge infrastructure in 2022 to serve its own gaming platform. Roblox reported earnings that were higher than forecasted and a rising user base, which caused the company's shares to increase by 25%. Roblox...
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February 09, 2023 Northern Virginia
Officials from Prince William County have postponed the vote on a data center construction plan. Following a lengthy discussion that ended at 3 am this Thursday, the Prince William Board of County Supervisors unanimously decided to postpone the Devlin Technology Park proposal until March 7. The...
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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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February 02, 2023 Northern Virginia
In Ashburn, Loudoun County, the Virginia quarry business Luck Stone Corp. is building a new data center facility. According to BizJournal, the company has requested to rezone a portion of its Ashburn property to accommodate up to 2 million square feet of additional data centers. This month, Luck...
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January 26, 2023 Northern Virginia
Northern Virginia is now one of the largest data center hubs in the world. Over the years, tax incentives have brought in tech companies from far and wide. However, with this influx of companies data centers, has come a surge in energy use, which is now projected to increase electricity use by...
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January 23, 2023 Atlanta
According to reports, a new data center is planned for Tilford Yard, on Atlanta’s Westside, under the project name Edged. This announcement comes following the filing of a building permit for a nearly 210,000-square-foot, two-level data center.Further to this, records show that Endeavour, the...
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January 19, 2023 Pennsylvania
Cumulus Data, a Talen Energy subsidiary, has announced that it has finished construction of its first data center building at its nuclear-powered Susquehanna 475MW data center campus in Pennsylvania. According to the company, six facilities are planned on the campus, which have the option to...
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