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Aligned Gets Maryland Data Center Planning Permission

Planning approval has been given for Aligned Data Centers to build a data center on the enormous Quantum Loophole campus in Frederick County, Maryland. Last week, the Frederick County Planning Commission authorized the initial site plan for the Quantum Loophole campus's first data center. The ...

May 18, 2023

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Aligned Data Centers Enters Canada, Invests In QScale

Aligned Data Centers has invested in the Canadian company QScale. The "strategic investment" received "strong support" from existing shareholders, according to QScale. The scale of the investment was not disclosed; however, it is described as a "major financing round" and is anticipated to cl...

May 09, 2023

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Aligned Acquires 177k Sq. Ft. Office Building in Chicago for New Data Center Campus

Aligned bought an office property in the Chicago, Illinois neighborhood of Elk Grove. It is currently unknown whether the company intends to convert the facility occupied by CitiBank into a data center. The Real Deal reports, citing Cook County public records, that Aligned purchased 50 Nort...

April 18, 2023

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Aligned joins the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership

Aligned Data Centers has announced that it has joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Green Power Partnership, which aims to encourage organizations to voluntarily utilize green power for the benefit of the planet and human health. Through signing up for the Green Power Partnership...

April 11, 2023

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Aligned plans 108MW Hillsboro campus

Aligned has announced plans for an expansion into Hillsboro, Oregon, with a 27-acre, 108 MW data center campus. At the campus, the initial data center, PDX-01) is expected to offer 72MW of critical capacity and feature 12 6MW data halls across 27 acres. The company has shared that this site w...

January 11, 2023

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Aligned To Develop a 264MW and 3.3 Million Square Feet Facility at Quantum Loophole's Maryland campus

Aligned has revealed plans for its new data center at the 2,100-acre Quantum Loophole campus in Frederick County, Maryland. Quantum Loophole revealed in May 2021 that it is developing a gigawatt-scale data center campus in Frederic County, Maryland. A year later, Aligned became the first compa...

December 13, 2022

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Bloomberg Reporting Aligned is Close To Odata Acquisition

According to Bloomberg, Aligned is looking to acquire Brazilian data center operator Odata. The report states that the discussions are in the advanced stage of a potential $1.8 billion deal. However, there’s still uncertainty about the deal, and it is more likely to fall through as it is to...

December 09, 2022

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Aligned Data Centers Plans To Develop 192MW Data Center at Quantum Loophole's Maryland campus

Aligned Data Centers has announced its plan for a massive data center in Frederick County, Maryland. The company plans to develop a gigawatt-scale facility at the 2,100-acre Quantum Loophole Campus. Earlier in May 2022, Aligned announced that it would develop a data center at the Quantum Looph...

December 06, 2022

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Aligned Data Centers continues investment in Phoenix with two new data center campuses

After acquiring two parcels of land in Arizona, Aligned Data Centers has announced plans for two new construction projects, mega campuses, spanning 400MW of IT load and approximately two million square feet. The facilities will reportedly prioritize sustainability, using Delta³ cooling technol...

October 17, 2022

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Aligned Data Centers announces expansion in Northern Virginia

Aligned Data Centers has announced its expansion in Northern Virginia, with the addition of a new 72 MW four-story data center across 430,000 sqft based at its new campus in Sterling. This addition will be the company’s third in the area and part of phase one of the campus development. The fa...

August 03, 2022

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TAAL & Lake Parime to deploy cryptomine at nuclear station

TAAL and Lake Parime have announced their intention to deploy a new cryptomine facility by an unidentified nuclear power station in Ohio, following the signing of a hosting agreement between the two. Through the deal, 3,000 TAAL-owned S19J Pro bitcoin mining units, with a capacity of 10MW, wil...

July 15, 2022

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Aligned To Develop a 100MW Facility in Salt Lake City, Utah

Aligned has announced that it is developing a new data center in Salt Lake, Utah. The data center will be called SLC-03, and it will be developed on its campus in West Jordan, Utah. The development will see Aligned add over 100MW capacity to the West Jordan campus. When this happens, it wil...

June 23, 2022

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Sustainably-linked loan for Aligned

Aligned Data Centers has announced that it has increased its existing sustainability-linked (SLL) from $375 million to $1.75 billion in an effort to “accelerate its next phase of strategic growth and expansion.” This loan is linked to ESG goals, and if the company manages to reach the pre-agr...

May 20, 2022

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Lincoln Property Company & Harrison Street Form JV To Develop 144MW Campus

Investment and real estate firms Harrison Street and Lincoln Property Company plan to develop an industrial campus and data center in New Albany, Ohio. Both companies have formed a joint venture for this purpose. The JV has purchased a 190-acre site to develop a multipurpose technology and dis...

May 19, 2022

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Aligned Data Centers announces adoption of material tracing system

Aligned Data Centers has announced the launch of a material tracing system called the OriginMark system. According to the company, this tracing system has been introduced to enhance and accelerate supply chain decarbonization. This will be achieved through the use of a unique identifier, simi...

April 14, 2022

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Aligned completes first phase of Salt Lake metro data center

Aligned Data Centers has announced that it has completed the first phase of the latest ‘Build-to-Scale’ waterless data center in the Salt Lake Metro Area. The company said that its decision to pursue a waterless build is in response to increased awareness of the importance of water conservati...

February 25, 2022

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Data center companies use Ledger8760 to track carbon emissions

Aligned, Ascent, Corscale, and T5 have all announced that they will be using Ledger8760's 24x7 tracking platform to record their carbon emissions' hour-by-hour. This tracking system will reportedly enable companies to be more transparent about their energy and utility data, and crucially, emi...

December 13, 2021

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Sustainable Finance: New way to address the environmental footprint of data centers

Much has been said about how data centers adversely affect the environment. However, more data centers have begun to become 'Greener.' Besides, in order to leave a better environmental footprint, many data center companies are now spending more on green energy. Investors and data center fin...

September 27, 2021

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Aligned announces $1.35 billion in securitized notes under its Green Finance framework

Aligned just announced $1.35 billion in securitized notes, which is issued under its new Green Finance Framework. The Company said the notes issued were the first-ever green data securitization as well as the largest ever inaugural data center securitization. Anubhav Raj, CFO of Aligned, sa...

August 27, 2021

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Aligned secures $250 million for sustainability and green growth plans

Aligned has announced that it has secured $250 million in sustainability-linked financing, bringing its total to $1.25 billion. Last year, it became the first data center company to receive a sustainability-linked loan (SLL). These loans are linked to sustainability initiatives, and the inter...

July 28, 2021

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