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Former AOL Headquarters in Ashburn Will Become a Data Center Campus

By Rich Miller - January 12, 2022

An illustration of the ABX1 data center being developed by American Real Estate Partners and Harrison Street in Ashburn. (Image: AREP)

The former America Online campus in Ashburn will be converted into a large data center campus by its new owners, American Real Estate Partners (AREP) and Harrison Street, who are investing $1 billion to expand in Data Center Alley.

Tagged With: American Real Estate, Arcola, Ashburn, Dulles Cloud Corridor, Harrison Street, Northern Virginia

Pandemic Spurs Data Center Construction Boom in Northern Virginia

By Rich Miller - July 20, 2020

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Developers are racing to build more data centers in Northern Virginia to meet extraordinary demand for cloud computing resources due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tagged With: Arcola, Ashburn, Loudoun County, Northern Virginia, Northern Virginia Data Center Market Special Report

A New Cloud Corridor Emerges South of Ashburn

By Rich Miller - August 23, 2019

A new data center and adjacent substation in Arcola, Virginia. (Image: Google Maps)

A new cloud corridor is emerging in Northern Virginia, as data center developers lock down development parcels just west of Dulles Airport. Recent deals value data center sites at more than $1 million an acre.

Tagged With: Arcola, Dulles Cloud Corridor, Loudoun County, Northern Virginia

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Mitigate Risk, Improve Performance and Decrease Operating Expenses through Data Center Self-Performance

Mitigate Risk, Improve Performance and Decrease Operating Expenses through Data Center Self-Performance If a vendor conducts the actual work in your data center, then you or your operator aren’t maximizing your current operating resources and are experiencing incremental cost and risk. Chad Giddings of BCS Data Center Operations, explains the importance of your data center provider having a high-degree of self-performance.

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Data Center Innovation: Driving Flexibility with Microservices

It is imperative in today’s fast-paced data center environment that product and service innovations be rolled out quickly and safely. A new white paper from QTS explains how microservices have boosted the speed, flexibility, and resilience of their proprietary Service Delivery Platform (SDP).

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Edge Computing is Poised to Remake the Data Center Landscape

Data center leaders are investing in edge computing and edge solutions and actively looking at new ways to deploy edge capacity to support evolving business and user requirements.

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Northern Virginia Data Center Market: The Focal Point for Cloud Growth

The Northern Virginia data center market is seeing a surge in supply and an even bigger surge in demand. Data Center Frontier explores trends, stats and future expectations for the No. 1 data center market in the country.

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Data Center Frontier, in partnership with Open Spectrum, brings our readers a series that provides an introductory guidebook to the ins and outs of the data center and colocation industry. Think power systems, cooling, solutions, data center contracts and more. The Data Center 101 Special Report series is directed to those new to the industry, or those of our readers who need to brush up on the basics.

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