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Cologix Breaks Ground on 1 Million SF Data Center in Ashburn

By Rich Miller - December 15, 2020 Leave a Comment

A row of cabinets inside a data center. (Photo: Cologix)

Cologix says it has broken ground on a large data center campus in Northern Virginia, commencing construction on a planned 1 million square foot campus in the heart of “Data Center Alley” in Ashburn.

Tagged With: Ashburn, Cologix, Loudoun County, Northern Virginia

Equinix Expands in Ashburn, Plans Fleet of Four-Story Data Centers

By Rich Miller - November 17, 2020 1 Comment

The Equinix DC21 data center in Ashburn, Virginia. (Photo: Equinix)

Equinix is expanding in Northern Virginia’s Data Center Alley, opening a new campus in Ashburn featuring an innovation lab and new design for a series of four-story data centers.

Tagged With: Ashburn, Equinix, Loudoun County, Northern Virginia

$360 Million Project Planned at Prime Site in Ashburn’s Data Center Alley

By Rich Miller - October 13, 2020 2 Comments

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Plans are underway for a $360 million data center project in the heart of Data Center Alley in Ashburn, Virginia, situated at the most connected point on the Internet.

Tagged With: Ashburn, Loudoun County, Northern Virginia

Data Center Tax Revenues Provide Pandemic Cushion for Some Counties

By Rich Miller - October 7, 2020 1 Comment

Construction continues at Aligned’s second hyperscale data center in Ashburn, Virginia. (Photo: Aligned)

Data centers have provided an economic cushion for hard-hit county budgets in areas with clusters of cloud computing campuses. Data centers have been in growth mode, providing a bright spot as the pandemic has depressed revenues for state and county governments.

Tagged With: Ashburn, Data Center Incentives, Economic Development, Loudoun County, Northern Virginia

Microsoft Buys Land in Dulles Cloud Corridor

By Rich Miller - August 14, 2020 Leave a Comment

The view from inside the cold aisle of a Microsoft Azure data center. (Photo: Microsoft)

Microsoft has acquired land in the fast-growing Dulles Cloud Corridor in Northern Virginia, paying about $1.4 million an acre for land zoned for data center use.

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

AWS Plans Massive Expansion of its Northern Virginia Cloud Cluster

By Rich Miller - August 3, 2020 Leave a Comment

A recent design for an Amazon Web Services data center on Loudoun County, Virginia. (Photo: Amazon Web Services)

Amazon Web Services is continuing to expand in Northern Virginia, including a massive data center campus just south of Dulles Airport, which could add up to 2.5 million square feet of cloud computing capacity.

Tagged With: Amazon Web Services, Dulles Cloud Corridor, Loudoun County, Northern Virginia

Pandemic Spurs Data Center Construction Boom in Northern Virginia

By Rich Miller - July 20, 2020 Leave a Comment

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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: Less Hyper, But Still Plenty of Scale

By Rich Miller - October 3, 2019 Leave a Comment

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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.

Tagged With: Ashburn, Loudoun County, Manassas, Northern Virginia, Northern Virginia Data Center Market, Prince William County

A New Cloud Corridor Emerges South of Ashburn

By Rich Miller - August 23, 2019 1 Comment

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

The Data Center Dividend: Tax Revenue Surges in Loudoun County

By Rich Miller - June 4, 2019 Leave a Comment

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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.

Tagged With: Ashburn, Economic Development, Loudoun County, Northern Virginia, Northern Virginia Data Center Market

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