Northern Virginia Data Center News

Google pulls out of Minnesota data center project

Google has announced that it has canceled its $600 million data center in Becker, Minnesota, after calling off its electric service agreement. First announced back in 2019, and based near the Sherco power plant, Google dragged its feet on the development for quite some time, and although it r...

December 29, 2022

Google

QTS' Groningen data center connects to the Dutch city's new district heating project

QTS has announced that it has connected its Groningen data center to the Dutch city's new district heating project. The heating project has been built by local utility WarmteStad, which is projected to produce heat for more than 10,000 households, buildings, and knowledge institutions by 2026...

December 22, 2022

QTS Data Centers

Amazon postpones Virginia campus

Amazon has pressed pause on its 1 million sq ft (92,900 sqm) data center campus in Manassas, in Prince William County, Virginia. This announcement comes after the giant was scheduled to present three linked applications on 30 November. However, its special-use permit application has now been ...

December 19, 2022

Amazon AWS

Prince William County supervisors board sued over PW Digital Gateway decision

Following the Prince William County Board of Supervisors' decision to give the green light to the controversial PW Digital Gateway, it is now being faced with two lawsuits. The decision, which will permit changing the area's comprehensive plan, opening up the area to 25 million sq ft (2.3 mill...

December 14, 2022

Northern Virginia

Luxembourg's Ministry of Environment and Google's delayed data center

Google's Bissen data center project has gone quiet, according to Luxembourg's government, which says that it currently has no contact with the giant. The Ministry of Environment had requested a report on the environmental impact of the project, however Google also hasn't applied for a buildin...

December 14, 2022

Google

Equinix To Develop Data Center in Johannesburg

Equinix has announced its plan to venture into the South African data center market with a data center development. The company plans to invest $160m to develop a data center campus in Johannesburg. The 4MW data center called JN1 will have over 20,000 gross square feet of colocation space and ...

December 14, 2022

Equinix

Vantage To Develop Second Data Center Campus in Johannesburg, South Africa

Vantage Data Centers has announced plans for a second data center campus in Johannesburg, Japan. The facility called JNB2 will be located in Ekurhuleni, Johannesburg. JNB2’s first building will feature a two-story, 33,000 square meter (355,000 square foot), 20MW data center. It is scheduled...

December 14, 2022

Vantage Data Centers

Equinix announces plan to make its Ashburn data center more aesthetically pleasing

Following approval from the Loudoun Board of Supervisors last week, data center company Equinix has announced that it will be adding multi-colored LED lights to the exterior of one of its data centers in Ashburn, Virginia. This addition to DC21, located at 22175 Beaumeade Circle in Ashburn, ac...

December 13, 2022

Equinix

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

Aligned

Backblaze Unveils its US East Data Center: A Peek into 1.3 Exabytes of Raw Storage Capacity

Backblaze, a cloud storage and backup provider, recently offered a rare glimpse into its US East Data Center, highlighting its capacity to store and manage a staggering amount of data for its growing customer base. Located in CoreSite Reston, the data center is designed to ensure top-notc...

December 13, 2022

CoreSite Reston Campus VA1

CyrusOne accelerates carbon neutral pledge

Data center firm CyrusOne, a member of the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, has announced that it is accelerating its carbon-neutral pledge by ten years. The company is now promising to achieve this green goal by 2030 rather than 2040.According to the company, it will achieve this goal by imp...

December 12, 2022

CyrusOne

Equinix to adjust thermostats to optimize data centers

Equinix has announced, in line with a broader commitment to reduce its overall power, it will adjust its data center thermostats, shifting temperatures closer to 27°C (80°F) across its global data center fleet. This change, the company said, will lead to less energy used in 'unnecessary data ...

December 12, 2022

Equinix

Microsoft plans gas plant at Dublin Campus over energy constraint concerns

Microsoft has announced plans to build an 'unprecedentedly large-scale gas power plant' at its Grange Castle site, an upcoming data center development, due to its concerns about Ireland's energy grid constraints. According to the giant, plans are to build a 170 MW on-site power plant alongsid...

December 12, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Digital Realty’s Lamda Hellix Developing Fourth Data Center in Athens, Greece

Digital Realty's Greek data center unit Lamda Helix has announced plans to develop its fourth data center in Athens, Greece. The company's data center campus currently has two carrier-neutral data centers with a total capacity of 22 MW. It is also developing two more on the site. Lamda Heli...

December 09, 2022

Digital Realty Trust

Microsoft Looking To Expand its Leesburg Data Center Campus With Two Data Centers

According to BizJournal, Microsoft is planning to expand its Leesburg data center campus in Loudoun County, Virginia, by developing two data centers. The two data centers will be called IAD02 and IAD03. The planned data centers will span 44,200 square meters (475,700 square feet). The data cen...

December 09, 2022

Microsoft: IAD01-1

AWS Plans To Develop a 2.2 Million Square Feet Campus in Gainesville

Amazon is looking to develop a large data center campus in Gainesville, Virginia. The company submitted two special-use permit requests for a 2.2 million square feet data center campus that will sit on 117 acres of land at 5845 and 5945 Wellington Road. Per the company’s requests, it is lookin...

December 09, 2022

Amazon AWS

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

Aligned

T4 Group Signs Partnership With NTT New Zealand

T4 Group and NTT Ltd have signed an agreement that will see the former provide data center infrastructure for the latter. T4 Group is a colocation provider with data centers in Auckland and Whangarei, New Zealand. It also has a third facility under development on New Zealand’s South Island. Th...

December 08, 2022

NTT

QTS Looking To Expand in Prince William County

QTS is looking to expand its data center footprint in Prince William County, Northern Virginia. The company previously acquired a property at 10680 University Boulevard in 2018 for $5 million. The property is adjacent to its existing data center in Prince William County. The property was zoned...

December 07, 2022

QTS Data Centers

Amazon signs a new PPA in India with Vibrant Energy

Amazon has announced that it has signed 300MW worth of wind and solar power purchase agreements (PPA) in India with Vibrant Energy, a Macquarie Group's Green Investment Group (GIG) subsidiary. The projects, based in the states of Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka, are projected to generate 1,163,0...

December 06, 2022

Amazon AWS

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