CAPRE’s 2020 Data Center & Cloud Infrastructure Forecast East will be held January 30 in Ashburn, Virginia, adjacent to the epicenter of North America’s data center universe.
Explore the Design, Build Process of Aligned Ashburn in ‘Data Center Alley’
Northern Virginia, the largest data center in the market, is seeing a surge in supply and an even bigger surge in demand. Ashburn, Va., within this market experiencing hyper growth, is known as “data center alley.” A new white paper from Aligned Energy provides a case study and outlines one data center provider’s process in building in the top colocation market in North America with the launch of Aligned Ashburn.
A Case Study: Aligned Ashburn Data Center Campus
When complete, the Alligned Ashburn 26-acre 180 MW master-planned data center campus will offer over 1 mm sq. ft. of space. Download a new case study that explores how Aligned constructed a 368,755 square-foot data center and built out the first fully-commissioned 12 MW of data center space, expandable to 60 MW, in less than six months.
Sustainable by Design: Vantage Adds Green Features in Northern Virginia
Are customer office space and sustainable design differentiators in a data center? Vantage Data Centers thinks so, offering spacious, sunlit break rooms, and sustainability features that combine solar and wind power, and EV charging stations.
Northern Virginia: Less Hyper, But Still Plenty of Scale
After years of rocket-ship growth, the Northern Virginia data center market is still flying high, but in a slightly lower orbit than in 2018. Industry CEOs, executives and analysts discuss trends in Data Center Alley.
Aligned Energy Ready to Scale Up at New Ashburn Data Center
Aligned Energy has opened the doors at its first data center in Northern Virginia. Aligned Ashburn will showcase the company’s focus on efficiency and high-density cooling.
In Loudoun, Neighbors Want Better Looking Data Centers
Should data centers be designed to be more attractive in appearance? Data center aesthetics emerged as a community concern recently in Northern Virginia.
Amazon Continues its Cloud Expansion in Northern Virginia
Amazon Web Services continues to lease large amounts of new data center space in Northern Virginia, and may be boosting the size of its data centers.
The Data Center Dividend: Tax Revenue Surges in Loudoun County
Tax revenues have surged in Loudoun County, Virginia, boosted by taxes from the growing data center cluster in Ashburn’s Data Center Alley. The windfall highlights the potential for data centers as engines for economic development.
Digital Realty Acquires Prime Parcel in Ashburn’s Data Center Alley
Digital Realty has acquired a chunk of prime real estate in the heart of “Data Center Alley” in Northern Virginia, adjacent to the Equinix campus in Ashburn.
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