Locations

The latest trends in data center site selection and geography: where cloud computing facilities are being built and why, including the cost of power and tax incentives.

DCF Tours: NTT Global Data Centers Americas' Dallas TX1, Garland, Texas

Matt Vincent

Dec. 8, 2023

NTT recently announced a widely reported $50 million data center fit-out project in Garland involving nearly 300,000 SF of construction across two existing buildings on the campus...

Voices of the Industry

Data Center Development in an AI World

Voices of the Industry

Dec. 8, 2023

AI has gone mainstream, and the impact is reverberating everywhere. Mike Licitra, Vice President of Solutions Architecture at Stream Data Centers, has been watching the trend ...

An illustration of the planned TA Realty data center campus in Leesburg in Northern Virginia's Loudoun County. (Photo: TA Realty)

TA Realty Leases 430 MW Across Entire Leesburg Data Center Campus in Virginia's Loudoun County

Matt Vincent

Nov. 28, 2023

An agreement with a premier global cloud services provider includes leases across five buildings, making up the entire 1.9 million square-foot project in the growing Leesburg ...

Skybox Datacenters is joining the data center building boom south of Dallas.

Skybox Plans 300-Megawatt Campus South of Dallas

Rich Miller

Nov. 20, 2023

Developer Skybox Datacenters is teaming with Bandera Ventures and Principal Asset Management on a large new campus in Lancaster, Texas.

Aerial view of Compass Datacenters' campus in Red Oak, Texas. Photo: Compass Datacenters

How U.S. Manufacturing Is Rising To Meet Booming Data Center Industry Demand

Matt Vincent

Nov. 17, 2023

As exemplified by Schneider Electric's new $3 billion multi-year technology agreement with Compass Datacenters, infrastructure specialists locating key U.S. manufacturing facilities...

Rental car's eye view of entry into the Flexential Dallas-Plano Data Center at 3500 East Plano Parkway in Plano, Texas.

DCF Tours: Flexential Dallas-Plano Data Center, 18 MW Colocation Facility

Matt Vincent

Nov. 15, 2023

As told by our tour guide, Flexential Regional Vice President Tom Myers, the Dallas-Plano data center's customer base is highly diversified across the industrial, retail, manufacturing...

Land and Expand: Cologix, DataBank, Meta

Matt Vincent

Nov. 3, 2023

Land and Expand is a periodic feature at DCF highlighting recent data center developments, including new sites, land acquisitions and campus expansions. This edition of Land and...

Vantage Data Centers Has Been Having a Billion Dollar Moment, Much of It In Quincy, WA

Matt Vincent

Oct. 26, 2023

On the heels of significant new, green financing, DigitalBridge-led Vantage Data Centers celebrated the delivery of WA13 as the third and final facility in its $1 billion Quincy...

A panoramic view of the Iron Mountain BOS-1 Data Center.

Data Center Tours: Iron Mountain BOS-1, Northborough, MA

Matt Vincent

Oct. 23, 2023

The Iron Mountain BOS-1 Data Center is a colocation facility with 21,000 SF of usable floor space and 3.6 MW of power, with room to expand on its 58-acre campus. This article ...