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Rowan Green Data can finally go ahead with its data center development in Temple, Texas after city council officials have approved its zoning request. The company announced late last year that it wants to develop 12,500 square meters (135,000 square feet of data center buildings on a site in B...

Compute North has announced that it has started constructing its 300MW data center. The facility is located at a gas-fired power plant in the lone star state of Texas. The CEO and co-founder of the company, Dave Perrill, said Compute North is thrilled to break ground on its new data center. He...

Tomorrow Water, a wastewater specialist, has announced that it has teamed with Samsung, Dohwa, and BNZ for a new sustainability initiative. This project will see the partners co-develop an architecture combining data centers with water treatment facilities. According to Tomorrow Water, pl...

According to BizJournal, QTS wants to expand its Dallas-Fort Worth facility in Texas. The company filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation to expand the data center campus located at 14100 Park Vista Blvd in Tarrant County. Per the first filing, the company is looking to inv...

Although it looked like a new data center would be on its way to Groton, Connecticut, last week, the Town Council decided to end negotiations with NE Edge LLC. This announcement came following the council's vote (five to one) to discontinue efforts to pursue a municipal host fee agreement with...

Aligned Data Centers has announced that it is expanding its presence in the Phoenix data center market. The company will be developing a new data center called PHX-05 at its flagship hyperscale campus in Arizona. Aligned revealed that the data center would be developed under an aggressive and ...

As the climate crisis reaches a tipping point, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed a new set of rules, which will require US companies with $25 million in assets to register with the SEC and include climate risks in their statutory reports. Part of this would see said ...

Honda has announced that it will be powering its US HQ data center in Torrance with a self-developed stationary fuel cell power station. The 1MW plant will be made from the same equipment utilized in its Clarity fuel cell-powered cars, providing the company with a zero-emission backup power so...

DataBank has announced that it is expanding its SAN1 facility in San Diego, California. The data center is located at 12270 World Trade Drive. DataBank will be adding 3,700 square meters (40,000 square feet) of raised floor space to the facility. By so doing, SAN1 will have a total capacity of...

Upstack has formed a strategic partnership with Wyoming Hyperscale White Box (WHWB). The partnership will see the company gain access to the Wyoming Hyperscale White Box facility due to open by the end of 2022. Located in a remote mountainous site southeast of Evanston, according to the Thorno...

The Norfolk County council building in Ontario, Canada, could be converted into a data center, it has been announced. The building recently sold for CA$725,000 (US$566,000) and spans 12,000 sq ft (1,100 sq ft) on under one acre. The announcement of the sale was originally made back in 2020, wi...

BitNile has announced plans to expand its data center in Michigan to reach a capacity of 300 MW. This decision to expand capacity comes as the company seeks to accommodate Bitcoin mining operations at the facility, enabling the operation of approximately 90,000 Bitcoin miners. This, according ...

Eastlink has announced the opening of its new network data center in Halifax, Nova Scotia, following an investment of C$20 million (US$15.7m) and three years of construction. The facility spans 13,000 sqft (1,200 sqm). Speaking about the reason the company decided to build the new facility, Je...