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The Ashburn Building Boom Continues
April 6th, 2010 : Rich Miller
Digital Realty Trust (DLR) said it will build two more new data centers in Ashburn, Virginia after fully leasing a 135,000 square foot facility it compelted in January. The announcement continues the building boom in Ashburn, currently home to more than 2 million square feet of data centers. Read More
Large Lease for CoreSite in Northern Virginia
March 22nd, 2010 : Rich Miller
Data center specialist CoreSite has leased a large chunk of space in northern Virginia to "one of the world’s largest IT service providers," the company said today. Read More
Qwest Buys Northern Virginia Data Center
February 15th, 2010 : Rich Miller
Qwest Communications (Q) has acquired an existing data center in northern Virginia that will serve as the company's 17th CyberCenter hosting facility. Buying an existing data center allowed Qwest to add capacity - including power capacity -more quickly than building a new site. Read More
REIT Buys Ashburn Data Center Campus
January 8th, 2010 : Rich Miller
First Potomac Realty Trust (FPO) has acquired a three-building campus in Ashburn, Virginia that houses several data center facilities, the company said this week. Read More
Digital Realty Buys More Virginia Properties
January 4th, 2010 : Rich Miller
Digital Realty Trust (DLR) said today that it has acquired two fully leased data centers in the hot northern Virginia market, as well as a parcel of land in the heart of Ashburn's "Data Center Alley" that can support future construction. Read More
Virginia IT Systems Lack Network Redundancy
November 23rd, 2009 : Rich Miller
Key IT systems for the state of Virginia are experiencing downtime because the state neglected to include network backup as a requirement in a 10-year, $2.3 billion outsourcing deal won by Northrop Grumman. Read More
Demand Remains Strong in Key Markets
October 21st, 2009 : Rich Miller
Data center demand is outpacing supply across the United States and pricing remains strong in key markets, according to the latest analysis by commercial real estate specialist Grubb & Ellis. Read More
LEED Gold for NTT America Ashburn Site
September 23rd, 2009 : Rich Miller
The NTT America data center in Ashburn, Virginia has earned a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold Certification, the company said today. Read More
How Apple Played The Incentive Game
July 7th, 2009 : Rich Miller
How did Apple get big tax breaks in North Carolina? It knew how to play the incentives game and pit rival states - in this case North Carolina and Virginia - against one another to extract the best possible economic scenario for its $! billion project. Read More