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Amazon Web Services to invest $35B in Va. data center campuses
Amazon Web Services plans to invest $35 billion by 2040 to establish multiple data center campuses across Virginia, creating 1,000 jobs, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Friday. Youngkin’s office said in a news release that “numerous localities in the commonwealth are under consideration” for the campuses, and specific sites “will be decided at a later date.” […]
Henrico aims to become coastal internet hub
Henrico isn’t the new Ashburn, but the county does have 18% of the East Coast’s internet traffic coursing through it. That’s a product of QTS Data Centers’ network access point (NAP) at Henrico’s White Oak Technology Park, which connects to three subsea internet cables from Europe and South America that converge in Virginia Beach. In […]
Prince William targets data center growth
Move over Loudoun County. Neighboring Prince William County could eventually wear the data center crown. Loudoun currently houses the world’s largest concentration of data centers, which cover more than 25 million square feet of county land. About 27 miles away, however, Prince William is projecting about 33 million square feet of data centers will be […]
Hanley Energy to add 343 jobs in Ashburn
Irish energy management company Hanley Energy will invest $8 million to expand its Hanley Energy Electrical division in Loudoun County, a project expected to create 343 jobs, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Thursday. Hanley Energy will open a facility at 44381 Russell Branch Parkway to serve the data center market in Ashburn with equipment installation and […]
Globalinx to add new subsea cable landing site in Va. Beach
Virginia Beach will have four more subsea bore pipes in Sandbridge by the third quarter of 2023, infrastructure that will allow more high-speed subsea cables connecting Virginia to Europe, Asia, the Caribbean and the Americas, the city announced Friday. Virginia Beach-based Globalinx Subsea Colocation provides colocation space for MAREA, BRUSA and DUNANT high-speed subsea telecommunication [&helli[...]
Report: Va. data center projects totaled $6.8B in 2021
Data centers are a primary driver of economic growth in Virginia, comprising $6.8 billion or 62% of all major economic investments announced last year by the Virginia Economic Development Partnership, according to a new report released Thursday by the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC). While the total for 2021 represents a decrease from 2020, when […]
Hot times in cooling tech
As far as problems go, this was a good one to have. A year into his tenure as director of Virginia operations for Swedish manufacturer Munters Group AB, Brian Frost was seeing “explosive growth” in sales of data center cooling systems manufactured at the company’s facilities in Buena Vista and Natural Bridge. Cooling equipment keeps […]
Prince William data center sells for $222.5M
Columbia, Maryland-based Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT) sold DC-6, a data center in Prince William County, for $222.5 million to Cloud Capital, an affiliate company of Washington, D.C.-based CloudHQ, COPT announced Jan. 25. The data center, which was built in 2009, is located at 9651 Hornbaker Road and has 100,000 square feet in raised floor […]
Herndon data center company to acquire Israeli company
Herndon-based EdgeConneX, a data center solutions company, has entered an agreement to acquire Israel-based Global Data Center (GDC), it announced Monday. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Once completed, EdgeConneX will gain GDC’s two underground facilities in Israel, in Herzliya Pituach and Petah Tikva. The company’s two data centers are built in accordance [&h[...]
Loudoun’s JK Land Holdings purchases 270 acres for data centers
The founder and CEO of Sterling-based JK Moving Services has purchased 270 acres in Loudoun and Prince William counties to be used for data centers that will provide 500 megawatts of IT capacity. Chuck Kuhn, CEO of JK Land Holdings LLC and JK Moving Services, has partnered with Dutch data center developer and operator Yondr […]
Rolling out the red carpet
With high-speed subsea internet cables landing on Virginia Beach’s shores and massive wind turbines propelling off its coast, the state’s largest city is primed to welcome new businesses and industries generating high-end jobs. “Virginia Beach is going to be the epicenter of economic development on the East Coast,” says Mayor Bobby Dyer. “I am convinced […]
AES to provide carbon-free power for Google’s Loudoun data centers
As part of Google LLC’s ambitious “moonshot” to produce all of its energy from carbon-free sources, Arlington-based The AES Corp. announced Tuesday that it has signed a 10-year agreement to provide carbon-free power for Google’s data centers in Loudoun County. A Fortune 500 international electrical utility, AES will provide 90% of the Google data centers’ […]
