United States Data Center News

Blackstone Data Services Plans 10-12MW Cryptomine Data Center in Tazewell County, Virginia

Blackstone Data Services has announced that it is developing a new crypto-mining data center. The new facility will be located in the Bluestone Business and Technology Park shell building in Virginia’s Tazewell County. Blackstone plans to invest up to $18 million in developing the facility. Ch...

October 31, 2022

Virginia

Vertiv releases its 'Data Center Sustainability' guide

Vertiv recently released its sustainability guide for the data center industry with the hope that it will help to decarbonize operations, improve water efficiency and reduce the industry’s overall environmental impact. The company, in its guide, highlighted figures from the International Energ...

October 26, 2022

United States

DRFortress is Expanding its Honolulu Facility

DRFortress has announced its plans to expand its Honolulu data center. The Hawaiian colo company will add 130 cabinets to the data center located at 3375 Koapaka Street. The expansion will see the facility's total cabinet increase to 600. Its data center space will also increase to 5,000 sq...

October 25, 2022

DRFortress Honolulu

Genesis Digital Assets commences work on new 40MW mining data center

Genesis Digital Assets, has broken ground on a new data center in Glasscock county Texas. Comprising four buildings when complete, the new facility is expected to be finished and fully operational by December this year. According to the company, the facility will utilize its proprietary techno...

October 21, 2022

Texas

DataBank Launches SLC6 Facility in Salt Lake City, Utah

DataBank has announced the opening of a new data center in Salt Lake City, Utah. The company named the new facility SLC6. DataBank first announced SLC6 in August 2021. The 171,000 square feet (15,885 square meters) data center offers 100,000 square feet of raised flooring, with 50,000 square f...

October 17, 2022

DataBank SLC6

Penzance looks to develop data center in Chantilly in Northern Virginia

Penzance, a real estate investment firm, has announced that it is considering a site that was previously earmarked for an auto sales facility for a data center development instead. The company has reportedly applied to rezone a plot of land, located in Chantilly in Northern Virginia, just off ...

October 13, 2022

Northern Virginia

Iron Mountain To Develop another Data Center in its Manassas Campus

Iron Mountain is looking to develop a new facility at its Manassas campus in Prince William County, Virginia. According to a a filing, Iron Mountain plans to develop the data center on a 24-acre parcel. Iron Mountain will invest up to $100m to bring the data center to life. Although the spe...

October 12, 2022

Iron Mountain Northern Virginia (Manassas)

Oregon to revisit tax breaks for data center operators and tech companies

In September, it was announced that tax breaks for data centers in Oregon might be getting a serious re-examination. Over the years, through Oregon's enterprise zone program, tax incentives have made Oregon a haven for data center operators, with Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google saving aroun...

October 07, 2022

Oregon

BlackChamber Plans To Develop a Large Data Center Campus in Northern Virginia

According to BizJournal, Real estate investment company BlackChamber Group has plans to develop a 157,900 square meter (1.7 million square feet) data center campus in Arcola, Loudoun County, Virginia. The company is looking to build four data center buildings on its land on Belmont Ridge Road,...

October 06, 2022

Northern Virginia

US Department of Energy's data center cooling fund

The US Department of Energy has announced a $42million funding package to develop high-performance energy efficient cooling solutions for data centers. This announcement comes following record high temperatures across the US, and multiple reports that the industry is seriously lagging when it ...

October 05, 2022

United States

Dominion Energy announces update about resuming connection in Loudoun County

Dominion Energy has announced that some new data centers in Loudoun County, home to the world's largest concentration of data centers, will be reconnected, following concerns that transmission infrastructure restraints would halt new additions. Back in July, the energy utility had said that ne...

October 03, 2022

Northern Virginia

Arsenal Digital Holdings Acquires Data Center in Texas

Arsenal Digital Holdings has announced that it has an agreement in place to acquire a data center campus in Texas. The crypto mining holding firm didn’t reveal the terms of the deal nor the location of the site. However, it noted that the property sits on a 50-acre site. It also said the prope...

October 03, 2022

Texas

Metro Edge Development Partners To Develop 21MW Facility in Chicago

Metro Edge Development Partners has announced its plans to develop a new data center in Chicago, Illinois. The real estate investment firm has already secured a 75-year lease on a 1.97-acre land in the Illinois Medical District (IMD). In addition, the company has the exclusive rights to dev...

October 03, 2022

Chicago

Cargill moves into the bio-industrial business with its plant-based immersion cooling

Cargill, an American food producer giant and the third largest meat producer in the world, has announced that it has created the world's first plant-based dielectric fluid for immersion cooling fluid in data centers. Named NatureCool 2000, the cooling liquid was designed for the data center an...

September 26, 2022

United States

Zscaler announces carbon neutral status and aim to achieve net-zero emissions by 2025

Zscaler has announced that it has achieved carbon neutral status, and said that it intends to reach net zero emissions by 2025. However, the company has not published a link to the emissions and carbon accounting data underlying this claim along with the announcement, and the data has not yet ...

September 19, 2022

California

Xcel property in Becker, Minnesota to house big data center project?

A $1 billion data center project could be on the way to Becker, Minnesota, as Xcel Energy Inc. announces plans to sell 348 acres of land at its Sherco location to an unknown data center company. This company is currently going by the name Elk River Technologies and was reportedly incorporated ...

September 15, 2022

Minnesota

Essential Twitter data center knocked offline by heat extremes

As heat extremes in California continue, Twitter has reportedly been left without one of its key data centers in Sacramento. First reported by CNN, an internal company memo outlined that the company experienced the loss of its Sacramento data center region on September 5th, with Carrie Fernand...

September 13, 2022

California

PW Digital Gateway project: Approval looks likely

Prince William County planners have recommended the approval of the PW Digital Gateway project, it has been announced. Subsequently, the controversial project is likely to go ahead. If approved, the project would see the rezoning of over 2,000 acres of land for up to 27.6 million square feet o...

September 12, 2022

Northern Virginia

Aligned Files To Triple its Data Center Footprint at its Plano Campus in Texas

Aligned has plans for a massive expansion at its Plano data center campus in the Dallas Fort Worth area of Texas. The Dallas Morning News was the first to report the development. Aligned already filed with the Plano planning commission to develop a second building on its Plano campus. The c...

September 12, 2022

Aligned Plano

Backblaze Expands Data Center Portfolio with Nautilus

Backblaze, a storage cloud platform, has contracted with Nautilus Data Technologies for 1 Megawatt deployment at their Stockton Data Center in California. The move comes as part of Backblaze's plan to expand its data center portfolio and provide more scalable, efficient, and affordable cloud ...

September 08, 2022

Nautilus Stockton

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