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Globalinx to Develop Data Center in Portsmouth, Virginia

Virginia data center firm Globalinx this week revealed plans to develop a backup data center in Portsmouth, a city some 20 miles west of its existing Virginia Beach site.Chris Mitchell, director of sales at Globalinx Datacenters, told the authority the company was building a data center within...

July 15, 2025

Virginia

Starwood Files for 1.2GW, 11-building Data Center Campus in Delaware

Plans have been filed for a large gigawatt-scale data center campus in Delaware, filing two applications with New Castle County to develop a new campus that would total 1.2GW across 6 million sq ft (557,418 sqm). Project Washington would see 11 buildings developed on approximately 580 acres of...

July 12, 2025

Delaware

Digital Core REIT seeks new tenant for Virginia data center

Digital Core REIT is looking for a new tenant for one of its data centers in Northern Virginia, as the current occupant of the data center, located at 8217 Linton Hall Road in Bristow, Prince William County, has decided to not exercise its option to extend its lease on the property, the proper...

January 02, 2025

Virginia

TPG Real Estate takes full control of Quantum Frederick Project

Quantum Loophole will no longer have any "active involvement" in the Quantum Frederick Project, a 2,100-acre data center campus and fiber optic loop (QLoop) in Frederick County, Maryland. This September, TPG sought a court order to remove Quantum Loophole from its role as manager of the $5 bil...

December 27, 2024

Maryland

TECfusions secures $300m loan for Virginia data center expansion

TECfusions has secured over $300 million to be used for the development and expansion of its Virginia site. In response to “urgent capacity needs” from a key tenant, gradual funding began in January 2024 and has now been solidified in a formal loan agreement, which includes the cumulative moni...

November 20, 2024

Virginia

PJM proposes to hasten grid connection for shovel-ready projects

Grid operator PJM has presented a proposal to permit “shovel-ready” energy projects an expedited route to interconnection to meet grid reliability needs. PJM, with a service area including Virginia and Ohio, has indicated it will provide stakeholders with a formal proposal early next month to ...

October 25, 2024

Virginia

Perennial Power and CEP Solar partner on renewable energy development in Virginia

Energy firm Perennial Power has partnered with CEP Solar in a collaboration that will prioritize solar and battery storage projects, with construction on the 1.5GW portfolio planned for late 2025.Perennial Power, part of the Sumitomo Group's renewable energy efforts, currently operates five pr...

October 19, 2024

Virginia

Stack receives approval for Gainesville data center

The Prince William Board of County Supervisors has approved a rezoning requestto rezone the land from agricultural to planned business district to enable two data centers to be built. in Gainesville, Virginia. The data centers are expected to total nearly 815,000 sq ft (75,716 sqm) and are per...

September 25, 2024

Virginia

New data center planned in Ashburn, Virginia

Daniel Golding, CTO of Appleby Strategy Group, this week announced plans for a new data center at the Quantum Park in Loudoun County. The address is 22001 Loudoun County Parkway, located within the Quantum Park business park. The park is the former UUNet/MCI Worldcom site that was a key connec...

September 11, 2024

Virginia

Synergy Group names Northern Virginia, Beijing, and Dublin as top 3 hyperscale locations

A report from Synergy Research Group found that just twenty state or metro markets account for 62 percent of the world’s current hyperscale data center capacity. Northern Virginia tops this list while the Greater Beijing Area takes the second place, with both making up 22 percent of global hyp...

August 23, 2024

Northern Virginia

Natron Energy to invest $1.4 billion on a giant factory in Edgecombe County, North Carolina

Sodium-ion battery manufacturer Natron Energy plans to spend $1.4 billion on a 1.2 million square foot (111,500 sqm) facility, at the Kingsboro CSX Select Megasite which is expected to produce 24GW of batteries annually at full capacity and lead to 1,000 jobs. “Today is a momentous day for Na...

August 18, 2024

North Carolina

Data Journey acquires Bed Bath & Beyond data center in North Carolina

Data Journey this week announced it has acquired the former purpose-built enterprise data center from Bed Bath & Beyond data center in Claremont, Catawba County, and has converted the facility into a colocation facility. This marks the company’s second facility acquisition, after acquiring...

July 31, 2024

North Carolina

Lightpath to acquire United Fiber and Data (UFD assets

Infrastructure-based connectivity provider Lightpath has announced an agreement to acquire all of the assets of United Fiber and Data (UFD) in a transaction subject to regulatory approvals and is expected to close in the third quarter of 2024.UFD owns and operates a diverse 323-route mile, hi...

June 12, 2024

Virginia

Virginia county recommends approval of applications to enable homeowners sell their lands for data center

The Loudoun County Planning Commission in Virginia has recommended approving the Hiddenwood Assemblage application to allow homeowners in Arcola to sell their land for a data center project. The Planning Commission described it as a "no-win situation," with some homeowners wanting the zoning c...

May 17, 2024

Virginia

New data center proposed outside Richmond, Virginia

California-based Province Group has proposed to develop a $3 billion data center campus outside Richmond in Powhatan County, Virginia. According to Roxanne Salerno, economic development manager of Powhatan County, Province Group plans to invest $1.5bn in building the data centers, and the othe...

May 13, 2024

Virginia

Amtrak selects nstruction company for Delaware center

Inter-city rail service Amtrak has selected a construction company for its Unified Operations Center (UOC) Facility Project, which will include a data center, in Wilmington, Delaware. “One of our primary goals for the Renaissance Centre building is to create a new Amtrak Unified Operations Ce...

April 05, 2024

Delaware

Airspan Networks files for Chapter 11 protection

Airspan Networks which specializes in developing 5G hardware and software, said it plans to trade its more than $205 million in funded debt for equity and raise up to $95 million in new equity financing and has filed for Chapter 11 protection at a Delaware bankruptcy court. “This support agr...

April 03, 2024

Delaware

Fauquier County approves zoning changes

Virginia's Fauquier County has approved zoning changes for Vint Hill relating to the "planned commercial and industrial district" that will limit data centers. These zoning rules will require any buildings or assemblages of buildings of more than 50,000 sq ft (4,645 sqm) to apply for and recei...

March 28, 2024

Virginia

Modine plans expansion of Virginia factory

Thermal management company Modine plans to expand its existing factory in Rockbridge County, Virginia with a $18.1 million investment. This expansion will create 211 new jobs in Virginia. “Virginia is a world leader in the data center industry, and we are proud to contribute to the industry’s ...

March 08, 2024

Virginia

Leesburg Council vote in favor of rezoning for proposed data center

Town council officials in Leesburg, Virginia, announced this week that they have voted to approve a rezoning application that will allow data centers and additional industrial and research park uses on two parcels of vacant land to the south of Leesburg. Springfield East, LC, the applicant so...

March 01, 2024

Virginia

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