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Plans for Harvard's old Motorola factory to become solar-powered data center

The former Motorola manufacturing and distribution facility in Harvard, Illinois, may be given new life, with prospective planners looking into transforming the building into a solar-powered data center.Green Data Center Real Estate in Vancouver is reportedly working with Solar Alliance of Kno...

June 04, 2021

Illinois

Yondr purchases 270 acres for Northern Virginia data center campus

After announcing a major $2 billion American expansion plan back in May, Yondr has acquired 270 acres of land in Northern Virginia. Although the specific location details are still under wraps, the company has disclosed that the sites are “in close proximity to Northern Virginia’s major fiber ...

June 03, 2021

Yondr Arcola, VA

Equinix plans to open $142m Silicon Valley data center this month

Equinix will be opening its new $142 million data center at its Silicon Valley on the 30th of June. The data center dubbed SV11 has a colocation space of 61,000 sqft with enough room for 1,450 cabinets. Also, Equinix plans to expand its existing Bloom Energy fuel cell deployment to use as a p...

June 03, 2021

Equinix SV11

Switch buys land from Dell for Austin data center campus

Switch has revealed the primary location of its Fifth Prime data center campus in Texas, following a purchase land agreement with Dell Technologies. The campus will be called "The Rock" and powered by 100% renewable energy.The land, located next to Dell's global headquarters in Round Rock, wil...

June 03, 2021

Switch Austin "The Rock"

COPT forms joint ventures with Blackstone, buys two data center shells

Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT) has announced a new joint venture with funds affiliated with Blackstone Real Estate to purchase data center shells.The JV has acquired a 90% stake in two single-tenant data center shell properties totalling 432,000 square feet (40,100 sqm). The propert...

June 03, 2021

Maryland

Bechtel and Nautilus form partnership to build sustainable, high-performance data centers

Bechtel and Nautilus have formed a partnership to deliver data centers with better environmental footprints. The centers will reportedly be energy-intensive, delivering high-performance while prioritizing sustainability. The centers will use Total Resource Usage Effectiveness (TRUE) technology...

June 03, 2021

Americas

DivcoWest acquires New York carrier hotel in New York; H5 will manage interconnection and colocation

DivcoWest, a real estate investment firm based in San Francisco, has announced that it has acquired a 10-story, mixed-used building carrier hotel from Jamestown Properties for $135 million. The building is located at 325 Hudson St., in Hudson Square. In concert with this transaction, H5 Data ...

June 01, 2021

H5: 325 Hudson Street

Facebook announces another data center expansion in Altoona, Iowa

Facebook has announced that it would be expanding its Altoona data center campus. The expansion will see Facebook add two more buildings to its existing eight buildings at the facility. The expansion will also see the total area space to 4.1 million square feet. Facebook initially announced it...

May 28, 2021

Facebook Altoona Iowa

Digital Realty opens new Toronto facility and broke ground in Marseille

Digital Realty has announced that it has opened its new YYZ12 data center in Toronto, Canada, while breaking ground on its Marseille facility.The new facility, located at 151 Front St (Toronto's carrier hotel), is DRT's third data center in the metro and will be fully interconnected with redu...

May 27, 2021

Digital Realty 151 Front

Hanley Energy expands in Virginia, will base US headquarters in Loudoun County

Hanley Energy has decided to expand its operations in Loudoun County, Virginia. The Irish company will be leasing a 36,600 square foot building from Merritt Properties for this purpose. Merritt initially bought the 6.7-acre site with plans to build a light industrial building over it. Besi...

May 26, 2021

Northern Virginia

$800M Data Center Coming To Mesa, Arizona Amidst Water Concerns

The Mesa City Council just approved the development for a Company that plans to build a data center on Elliot and Ellsworth roads in the northwest corner of Eastmark. Although the Company remains in mystery, the Mayor of Mesa City said the mystery Company would be investing $800 million to bri...

May 26, 2021

Phoenix

Facebook boosts capacity with multi-storey data center design

Following the trend of building taller buildings, Facebook has revealed that it is boosting its capacity with a new multi-storey data center design as part of its global infrastructure expansion. The design is being rolled out in its Prineville, Oregon campus, deployed in two new facilities.Th...

May 25, 2021

Facebook Prineville

DataBank expands SLC5 data center in Salt Lake City

DataBank has announced its recent expansion, adding a third data hall at its SLC5 data center. Based in Bluffdale, Utah, at its Granite Point North campus complex, the new addition takes its current capacity to 30,000 sq ft (2,790 sq m), with a 6MW of critical IT load.The center first opened ...

May 25, 2021

DataBank SLC5

Yondr Group Announces $2 Billion Investment in Data Centers in the Americas

Yondr Group has announced a major $2 billion expansion plan to deliver data infrastructures spanning across the US, Canada, Central, and South America as part of its global scaling strategy. By 2024, the group plans to deliver data centers across five continents. Yondr Group has appointed Éann...

May 20, 2021

North America

Microsoft gains approval for data center in Hoffman Estates, Illinois

Microsoft just gained approval from Hoffman Estates village board members to build a data center outside of Chicago, Illinois. The approved data center building is one of the two planned buildings at the 53-acre site. A 250,000 square feet building would be erected at the first phase while the...

May 20, 2021

Microsoft Hoffman Estates 1

New Tennessee solar farm to provide Facebook data center with 110MW of renewable energy

The Tennessee Valley Authority has just announced a deal with RWE Renewables and Facebook to build a 150MW solar facility near Millington TN. The solar facility will provide Facebook with 110MW of energy for its data centers in Gallatin, Tennessee, and across the Tennessee Valley. The solar f...

May 20, 2021

Facebook Gallatin TN

Data Center Review conducted in Prince William County

Prince William County, Virginia, may see more data centers being built in the region after County supervisors approved moves that could expand the Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District. This “overlay district” is the area where building data facilities is permitted.Established back in ...

May 19, 2021

Northern Virginia

Core Scientific to invest more than $100 million in new North Dakota data center

Core Scientific has announced that it will build a new data center based in Grand Forks, North Dakota, after securing a $269,000 loan from the Grand Forks Growth Fund.In partnership with Nodak Electric Cooperative and Minnkota Power Cooperative, the blockchain company has said it plans to inve...

May 19, 2021

Core Scientific: Grand Forks

Odata To Build a $217 Million Data Center In Chile

Odata has announced that it is planning to build its first data center in Chile. This new data center will sit on a 6-hectare site, and it will house over 40,000 square meters of data center buildings. Upon completion, the data center will have a capacity of 28MW. Odata also says it will be in...

May 18, 2021

ODATA Chile ST01

Foxconn opens globe-shaped data center at Wisconsin facility

Foxconn has just opened its Globe Data Center in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. The data center building is 34,000 square feet in size and, it includes a 100 feet steel sphere as part of its design. The facility’s steel globe frame was initially completed in September 2020 before the installation ...

May 18, 2021

Foxconn Industrial Internet Wisconsin

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