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Read Avaio and Adam Real Estate Form JV For Hyperscale Data Center Development in Quebec, Canada
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Avaio and Adam Real Estate Form JV For Hyperscale Data Center Development in Quebec, Canada

February 10, 2022 Quebec City

Adam Real Estate and Avaio have come together to form a new hyperscale joint venture in Quebec, Canada. The joint venture will be called Gatineau Data Hub (GDH) to develop a new, sustainable, hyperscale facility in Gatineau, Quebec. Gatineau is located to the north of Ottawa. The partnership will...

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Read Plaza Realty Files For Rezoning of Land For a 1 million sq ft Data Center in Prince William County
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Plaza Realty Files For Rezoning of Land For a 1 million sq ft Data Center in Prince William County

February 09, 2022 Northern Virginia

The development of a large-scale data center in Prince William County, Virginia, is being proposed by developers. Developers submitted plans to have a site at 14854 Dumfries Road to the west of Dale City and the east of the Northern Virginia county be rezoned. They want to develop a 1 million...

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Read Amazon Acquires Three Office Properties in Loudoun County
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Amazon Acquires Three Office Properties in Loudoun County

February 03, 2022 Northern Virginia

According to Biz Journal, Amazon Data Services Inc. has acquired three office properties in Sterling, Virginia. The buildings acquired are located at 46020. 46010, and 46000 Manekin Plaza. The Loudoun County deed records show that Amazon paid over $21 million for the properties. According to...

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Read Prince William data center proposal moves ahead
Prince William data center proposal moves ahead

Prince William data center proposal moves ahead

February 02, 2022 Northern Virginia

The much-debated data center proposal located near Haymarket, Virginia, has made progress despite the Prince William County Planning Commission being unable to agree on a recommendation for the facility. The motion to recommend approval ended in a tie of 4:4, sending the proposal to the Board of...

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Read IDA CEO makes announcement on Dublin data centers
IDA CEO makes announcement on Dublin data centers

IDA CEO makes announcement on Dublin data centers

January 31, 2022 Dublin

IDA Ireland Irish Development Agency (IDA) has announced that looking ahead, it is “unlikely” that any new data centres will be built in Dublin or along the east coast. However, Martin Shanahan, the head of the state’s development agency, has said it will build data centers if they are required...

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Read AREP to invest in six data centers
AREP to invest in six data centers

AREP to invest in six data centers

January 17, 2022 Ashburn: Data Center Alley

American Real Estate Partners (AREP) has announced that, with Harrison Street, it is investing $1bn (€864m) in six data centres in the US. According to reports, this development plan will total 2.1m sqft of data centre space in Data Center Alley in Ashburn and Arcola, Virginia. Speaking about the...

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Read Gibtelecom initiates tree planting scheme in Wales
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Gibtelecom initiates tree planting scheme in Wales

January 14, 2022 Wales

Gibtelecom has teamed up with the charity Protect Earth for a forestation project. Already, it has planted over 600 native British trees at the Pantpurlais farm, Llandrindod Wells, Wales, including 12 species of native saplings, including 100 Silver Birch, 50 Common Alder, 25 Bird Cherry, and...

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Read More people speak out against data centers near Manassas battlefield
More people speak out against data centers near Manassas battlefield

More people speak out against data centers near Manassas battlefield

January 12, 2022 Northern Virginia

More people are speaking out against proposed data centers along Pageland Lane, near Manassas National Battlefield. The latest to outline his opposition to the construction plans is documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. In a letter to Prince William County Board of Supervisors, Burns expressed "fear"...

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Read TAOP to expand its Hong Kong Data Center
TAOP to expand its Hong Kong Data Center

TAOP to expand its Hong Kong Data Center

January 06, 2022 Hong Kong

Taoping Inc (TOAP) has announced that it is expanding its Taoping G Cloud Hong Kong Data Center (the "Center") in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong. The expansion is expected to be completed by the end of January 2022. The facility, built in May 2021, will have an estimated total hash rate of 700GH/s, and its...

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Read Cardiff Met Uni announces relocation of campus data center
Cardiff Met Uni announces relocation of campus data center

Cardiff Met Uni announces relocation of campus data center

January 05, 2022 Wales

Cardiff Metropolitan University in Wales has announced that it is relocating its primary data center to L block in the Llandaff Learning Centre. According to the university, the reasoning behind this move is due to its School of Technologies expanding into A block in January. The relocation also...

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Read Prince William County’s environmental officials reject rural crescent data center plan
Prince William County’s environmental officials reject rural crescent data center plan

Prince William County’s environmental officials reject rural crescent data center plan

December 24, 2021 Northern Virginia

Recently, Prince William County’s environmental officials announced that they were recommending that the request to replan 2,133-acres in the rural crescent for data centers should be rejected. The watershed management division has argued that the replan would be significantly detrimental to the...

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Read Prologis looking to develop data center in Northern Virginia
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Prologis looking to develop data center in Northern Virginia

December 19, 2021 Northern Virginia

Reports have it that Prologis has filed for permission to convert an industrial site in Sterling, Northern Virginia, into a data center. The company aims to develop a 500,000 square feet data center on its existing 19.5-acre industrial site. The development project is referred to as Prologis NOVA...

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Read Vantage Data Centers breaks ground on two additional campuses
Vantage Data Centers breaks ground on two additional campuses

Vantage Data Centers breaks ground on two additional campuses

December 15, 2021 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has announced that it has broken ground on additional campuses in two of its existing strategic EMEA markets in both Frankfurt and Berlin. The Berlin campus will have 32MW of critical IT capacity and is due to be operational in the summer of 2022. Meanwhile, the Frankfurt...

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Read Hickory DC is developing a 72MW data center in Melbourne
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Hickory DC is developing a 72MW data center in Melbourne

December 10, 2021 Melbourne

Australian real estate development company Hickory has begun construction on its first data center in Melbourne. The company first revealed plans for the data center in June. The facility will be located on a 3.5-hectare site in Truganina, West Melbourne. The data center was to have 269,000...

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Read Data center plans threaten Manassas National Battlefield Park say critics
Data center plans threaten Manassas National Battlefield Park say critics

Data center plans threaten Manassas National Battlefield Park say critics

December 09, 2021 Northern Virginia

Plans to build data centers opposite the Manassas National Battlefield Park are being opposed. Critics are warning that the proposal, known as "PW Digital Gateway", is the "Single greatest threat to Manassas National Battlefield Park in nearly three decades," compromising the environmental...

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Read Vantage Data Centers acquires PCCW DC
Vantage Data Centers acquires PCCW DC

Vantage Data Centers acquires PCCW DC

December 06, 2021 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers and its lead investor, Digital Bridge Group, have announced the acquisition of PCCW Ltd.’s data center business. The acquisition sees Vantage DC’s portfolio to include 100MW of existing and expansion capacity across many facilities in Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong. Besides, the...

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Read ESR proposes plans to convert cold storage facility into a data center in Hong Kong
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ESR proposes plans to convert cold storage facility into a data center in Hong Kong

November 25, 2021 Hong Kong

ESR Cayman Limited has reportedly submitted a proposal to convert Brilliant Cold Storage Tower 2 at 11-19 Wing Yip Street, in Kwai Chung, New Territories, into a data center. The proposed data center would have a capacity of 40MW, spanning 15-stories, adding a total of 450 sqm of space which...

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Read Vantage Data Centers tops-out of first data center in Goodyear, Arizona
Vantage Data Centers tops-out of first data center in Goodyear, Arizona

Vantage Data Centers tops-out of first data center in Goodyear, Arizona

November 24, 2021 Vantage: AZ11

Vantage Data Centers has expanded its data center campus in Goodyear, Arizona, by completing the construction of a new data center. The company revealed that it topped out its first 32MW data center on the Phoenix campus. Vantage acquired land in 2019 and began construction on the site. The first...

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Read Grid vulnerability warnings in Texas
Grid vulnerability warnings in Texas

Grid vulnerability warnings in Texas

November 22, 2021 Texas

There are growing concerns around grid availability in Texas after the announcement that as much as 5,000MW of cryptocurrency load could be added to the grid by 2023. According to reports, operator Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) will oversee 3,000-5,000 MW added in addition to the...

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Read Prince William County agrees to pause development of Gainesville data center
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Prince William County agrees to pause development of Gainesville data center

November 12, 2021 Northern Virginia

Prince William County’s planning commission has voted 6-1 to pause the development of a Gainesville data center until late January. CTP-II LLC proposed the data center project in question. CTP-II LLC wanted 22.72 acres of land to be rezoned from business and light industrial to data center...

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