MOUNT PLEASANT, WIS. — Microsoft has unveiled plans to invest $3.3 billion between now and the end of 2026 in the development of a data center campus in Mount Pleasant, about 28 miles south of Milwaukee. The tech giant plans to expand its national cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure capacity. The project is expected to bring 2,300 unionized construction jobs to the area by 2025, as well as to provide long-term employment opportunities over the next several years. Along with building a physical data center, Microsoft will partner with Gateway Technical College to construct a d ..read more

HOPKINTON, MASS. — JLL has arranged the sale of a 56,324-square-foot office and data center located in Hopkinton, about 30 miles west of Boston. According to LoopNet Inc., the two-story building at 117 South St. was built in 1981 and renovated in 1985. Mike Restivo and Scott Carpenter of JLL represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. Brett Paulsrud and Tom Sullivan, also with JLL, arranged acquisition financing on behalf of the buyer, locally based investment firm Rhino Capital. The new ownership plans to implement a value-add program. The post JLL Arranges Sale of 56,324 SF Office ..read more

NEW CARLISLE, IND. — Amazon Web Services (AWS), the web hosting division of Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has announced plans for an $11 billion data center campus in New Carlisle, a town of roughly 1,600 people located near the Michigan-Indiana border. The exact location of the site was not disclosed, but the campus will be situated within the Indiana Enterprise Center, a master-planned development in St. Joseph County that spans nearly 3,000 acres. The Indiana Economic Development Corp. has committed to several incentives for the project. These incentives include up to $18.3 million in employment-ba ..read more

IRVING, TEXAS — An affiliate of Edged Energy, a global data center developer and operator whose U.S. headquarters are based in Connecticut, is underway on construction of a 168,000-square-foot facility at 505 N. Wildwood Drive in Irving. The data center will have a critical power capacity of 24 megawatts. Construction is scheduled for a fall completion. The facility is one of about a dozen in Edged Energy’s development pipeline across Europe and North America. The post Edged Energy Underway on 168,000 SF Data Center in Irving appeared first on REBusinessOnline ..read more

The data center market remains a powerhouse of growth and demand in the commercial real estate world. REBusinessOnline sat down with Ryan Goeller, a principal at NAI KLNB commercial real estate services in Virginia, to discuss the various factors impacting this dynamic asset class. REBusinessOnline: Briefly, a data center is a dedicated building housing computer servers and storage systems, constantly processing and managing data for various applications. What is the current state of the data center market? Goeller: Extremely active, with very high demand. Development pipelines are at ful ..read more

HOUSTON — Morales Capital Group, an affiliate of Mexcor International, has unveiled redevelopment plans for Viva Center, a 2.3 million-square-foot office and warehouse complex on a 66-acre site in Houston. The developer plans to revitalize the facility to support the research and development of liquid-cooled IT equipment for supercomputing. Eduardo Morales, CEO of Mexcor International and Morales Capital Group, says he envisions the newly rebranded Viva Center as “a transformative tech hub that seamlessly blends Houston’s rich history with futuristic innovations. With a focus on integrating cu ..read more

ITASCA, ILL. — Cawley Commercial Real Estate has brokered the sale of 12 parcels of land totaling 14.2 acres in Itasca for an undisclosed price. Located on Marino Court, the site had long been a coveted location for developers over the past decade, with multiple unsuccessful attempts to secure the parcels. Andrew Maletich of Cawley worked on the deal for 27 months to secure contracts for all the parcels, overseeing the annexation and rezoning of the site into the Village of Itasca. He ultimately brokered the sale of the property, which sold to a large data center company. The post Cawley Broke ..read more

PHOENIX — Baker Development has started the final phase of demolition on a 72-acre industrial site in Phoenix, as part of a redevelopment of the property. Beginning in the 1960s, the site housed a Motorola semiconductor manufacturing campus. Work has been underway at the site for three years, and Baker has delivered one of four parcels to a data center user. Daniel J. Slack, president and COO of Baker, says that the developer is also “in discussions with other well-known companies attracted to the site’s substation-level power, its Foreign Trade Zone potential, as well as access to nearby hous ..read more

SPOTSYLVANIA, VA. — PowerHouse Data Centers has acquired 145 acres in Spotsylvania, with plans to develop a data center campus at the site. A joint venture with Harrison Street, the property will serve the data-intensive needs of hyperscale users in Northern Virginia. Dubbed PowerHouse 95, the project will feature three 300-megawatt (MW) substations, the first of which is currently under development and scheduled to provide 150 MWs of power by October 2025. Upon completion, the first substation will provide sufficient power to construct eight or more high-density data centers, and PowerHouse w ..read more

ASHBURN, VA. — H5 Data Centers has broken ground on a three-story, 255,000-square-foot data center in Ashburn, a city in Northern Virginia. The Denver-based developer has begun preleasing the property, which is set for delivery in the third quarter of 2024. The data center located on Beaumeade Circle will qualify for Virginia data center sales and use tax exemption, according to H5. Ashburn is known as the data center capital of the world and houses facilities leased to Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Meta, among others. The post H5 Data Centers Breaks Ground on 255,000 SF Facility in North ..read more