DOUGLAS COUNTY, GA. — DC Blox has obtained $1.15 billion in construction financing for a new data center campus coming to Douglas County, which sits west of Atlanta. ING Capital LLC, Mizuho Bank Ltd. and Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking served as lead arrangers and joint bookrunners for the financing package. Other participating capital sources include First Citizens Bank, CoBank ACB, LBBW, Toronto-Dominion Bank, KeyBank and Huntington National Bank. The funds will support the development of a 120-megawatt (MW) data center and include campus expansion to support an additional 80 MW of space. The financing follows DC Blox securing a $265 million green loan and equity from Post Road Group for the project. DC Blox expects the campus, which will be utilized by cloud and AI users, to be available as early as 2027. The developer and operator has a data center underway in the county, as well as in Conyers, Ga., with a few more scattered around the Southeast.
BOSQUE COUNTY, TEXAS — A joint venture between Energy Capital Partners (ECP), an investment firm with a focus on investing in electricity and sustainability infrastructure, and global private equity firm KKR will develop a 190-megawatt data center in Bosque County, located outside of Waco in Central Texas. The facility will be located adjacent to the Thad Hill Energy Center and will span more than 700,000 square feet. A construction timeline was not disclosed. Global data center owner-operator CyrusOne is also a partner on the project, which is being developed as part of ECP and KKR’s $50 billion strategic partnership to support AI infrastructure growth in the United States.
KENILWORTH, N.J. — Newmark has brokered the $322 million sale of a facility within the Northeast Science & Technology Center, a 107-acre data center and life sciences campus located in the Northern New Jersey community of Kenilworth. Spanning roughly 2 million square feet and formerly owned and occupied by pharmaceutical company Merck, the campus comprises nine buildings with office, lab and research-and-development space, as well as a 50-megawatt substation, cogeneration and chiller plants and a central boiler facility. The buyer, New Jersey-based data center owner-operator CoreWeave, committed last fall to a 280,000-square-foot lease and a larger $1.2 billion investment at the property. The seller, a partnership between Onyx Equities and Machine Investment Group, bought the campus in 2023 for $187.5 million with plans to reposition the property into a life sciences and innovation hub. The Newmark deal team included Andrew Warin, Josh King, Brent Mayo, Doug Harmon and Jordan Roeschlaub. Cushman & Wakefield represented the buyer in the transaction.
LANCASTER, PA. — CoreWeave (NASDAQ: CRWV), a New Jersey-based data center owner-operator, plans to invest “more than $6 billion” in a new purpose-built artificial intelligence (AI) data center in Lancaster, about 80 miles west of Philadelphia. CoreWeave plans to lease the site, which will be co-developed by Chirisa Technology Parks and Machine Investment Group. Located at 216 Greenfield Road and 1375 Harrisburg Pike, the Lancaster facility will replace the former LSC Communications and R.R. Donnelley printing plants, which comprise a combined 1.5 million square feet of industrial space across 144 acres, according to Lancaster Online. The data center will have the capacity to consume 100 megawatts (MW) of power, with the potential to expand to 300 MW, representing one of the first large-scale data centers of its kind in the region, according to CoreWeave. CoreWeave’s announcement came during the CEO roundtable with President Donald Trump at Senator Dave McCormick’s inaugural Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit, hosted at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. “This Energy and Innovation Summit is a powerful testament to Pennsylvania’s readiness and ability to lead — to generate thousands of good-paying jobs, to unleash our incredible energy resources and to power the next AI and economic revolution, further …
SPARKS, NEV. — Vantage Data Centers is entering the Nevada market with a new $3 billion campus in Sparks, located outside of Reno in Storey County. The campus, dubbed NV1, will sit on 137 acres and offer a total 224 megawatts (MW) of critical IT load. Upon completion, the NV1 campus will house four multi-story data centers totaling 1.1 million square feet. The property will be designed with densities ranging from 360 watts to 720 watts per square foot in order to accommodate the “unique needs of AI deployments,” according to Vantage. Vantage will utilize a closed-loop chiller system to reduce water usage, with the ability to employ both traditional air-cooled compute loads and liquid cooling to support next-generation GPU (graphics processing unit) loads. Vantage is aiming to achieve LEED certification for the development. Vantage expects to employ more than 1,200 individuals across the construction and ongoing operations of the campus. The first two data centers to come on line at NV1 are fully preleased to undisclosed tenants. The first facility is scheduled to open in the second quarter of 2026. NV1 will be situated within Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center, which also houses Tesla Gigafactory 1 and operations for tech companies …
LOUISA COUNTY, VA. — EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure has announced plans to invest $17 billion for a new data center campus at Shannon Hill Regional Business Park in Central Virginia’s Louisa County. The new 697-acre campus will be situated near I-64 between Charlottesville and Richmond. The data center campus will span 3.9 million square feet and support more than 1.1 gigawatts of power. The Louisa County Industrial Development Authority and the Virginia Economic Development Partnership assisted EdgeCore in its site selection. Rappahannock Electric Cooperative and affiliate Hyperscale Energy will provide energy to the new campus. The construction timeline for the new development was not released. EdgeCore operates hyperscale data centers in Ashburn and Culpepper, Va., as well as Silicon Valley, greater Phoenix and Reno, Nev.
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, ILL. — SRM Cos. and Pearlmark have acquired a data center and flex industrial facility located at 545 E. Algonquin Road in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights. The transaction marks SRM’s first acquisition in the Chicago market. The property is fully leased to two tenants and features robust power and infrastructure. According to a release, the buyers plan to maintain and enhance the facility’s long-term value through proactive asset management and continued investment. Wintrust Commercial Real Estate provided acquisition financing.
EAGAN, MINN. — Oppidan Investment Co. has broken ground on a 61,000-square-foot data center on Argenta Trail, south of the YMCA property in the Minneapolis suburb of Eagan. The project marks one of only two ground-up data center developments currently underway in Minnesota, according to Oppidan, which is serving as the landlord and directly financing, developing and delivering the facility in partnership with a tenant. Completion is slated for 2026. Project partners include the City of Eagan, Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development, Dakota County, Greater MSP, Dakota Electric Association and Great River Energy. Gardner Builders is the general contractor, ERA Associates is the structural engineer, Stantec is the civil engineer, Salas O’Brien is the architect and States Manufacturing is the electric equipment supplier.
SEATTLE — Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) plans to invest “at least $20 billion” in future cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) innovation campuses in Pennsylvania. The Seattle-based e-commerce giant has identified Salem Township in Luzerne County and Falls Township in Bucks County as the first communities that will host these campuses, with other Pennsylvania communities also under consideration. “I’m proud to announce that we have secured the largest private sector investment in the history of Pennsylvania,” said Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro. “Pennsylvania is competing again.” Upon completion, the campuses will house data centers with computer servers, data storage drives, networking equipment and other technology infrastructure used for cloud computing capabilities and generative AI. Specific details about the sites and construction timelines were not released. Last week, Amazon made a similar announcement for a $10 billion data center innovation campus in Richmond County, N.C., which followed an $11 billion investment in Georgia that Amazon announced in January. Amazon stated that the Pennsylvania investment will create at least 1,250 new jobs, as well as thousands of jobs in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center supply chain. The new jobs will range from data center engineers and network specialists, to engineering operations managers, security …
RICHMOND COUNTY, N.C. — Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has announced plans to develop a new, $10 billion cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) innovation campus in Richmond County, roughly 80 miles east of Charlotte. According to the Seattle-based company, this marks one of the largest capital investment announcements in the history of the state. Upon completion, the campus will house data centers with computer servers, data storage drives, networking equipment and other technology infrastructure used for cloud computing capabilities and generative AI. The project will be situated at one of the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina’s Selectsite Readiness Program sites, which are designed to accommodate industries like AI and advanced manufacturing. Specific details about the site and construction timelines were not released. Amazon reports that the investment will create at least 500 new jobs, adding to the more than 192,000 tech professionals already in the state, as well as thousands of jobs in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center supply chain. “Amazon’s $10 billion investment in North Carolina underscores our commitment to driving innovation and advancing the future of cloud computing and AI technologies,” says David Zapolsky, chief global affairs and legal officer with Amazon. “This investment will position North Carolina …