This week’s Zoning In explores the evolving landscape of data center growth and regulation. Oregon, OH, approved a $17.3M land sale for a potential data center, promising economic gains, while Arizona and Virginia grapple with grid reliability challenges from rising energy demands, exploring new interconnection tariffs and renewable investments. Shenandoah County, VA, is weighing data center opportunities against infrastructure and environmental concerns, and Loudoun County continues to push back on projects combining data centers with […]
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Zoning In
Data Center Challenges and Community Relations October 15, 2024 We’re excited to introduce a new addition to our content lineup: “Zoning In.” This weekly series informs the data center ecosystem of the latest local data center regulations and challenges in community relations nationwide. As data centers continue to garner mainstream coverage and residents deploy more sophisticated tactics and better organizing, these weekly updates will spotlight critical trends and challenges data centers encounter in different communities […]
Stream Data Centers Breaks Ground on New Hyperscale Data Center Campus in San Antonio
Stream’s third San Antonio campus is scheduled to support 200 MW of IT capacity and 1.5 million square feet of data center space. June 26, 2024 08:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time SAN ANTONIO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Stream Data Centers, an industry leader in delivering exceptional data center experiences to global enterprise and hyperscale customers, has announced its ground breaking of a new 135-acre hyperscale campus in San Antonio, Texas. The campus will ultimately support up to five buildings […]
Milldam’s President Joins The Data Center Frontier Show Podcast to Discuss Data Center Community Relations and Engagement
Our President, Adam Waitkunas, was recently a guest on The Data Center Frontier Show Podcast to discuss data center community relations and tactics that data center developers can leverage to strengthen their relationships with local communities throughout North America. The discussion also focused on Milldam’s new Data Center Community Relations Service, which designs tailor-made community relations campaigns that utilize support at the local level. Check out the Episode to hear Adam’s conversation with Matt Vincent and David […]
O’Dwyer’s PR News Covers Milldam’s New Data Center Community Relations Service
O’Dwyer’s PR news recently wrote about Milldam’s newest service offering that helps data center developers bridge the gap between with local communities throughout North America. Check out the article here
Milldam Public Relations Launches Data Center Community Relations Practice to Bridge The Gap Between Digital Infrastructure Providers and Local Communities Throughout North America
As data center developers continue to meet resistance from local communities, it’s vital that the critical infrastructure community has the tools necessary to properly communicate to local stakeholders and officials, while highlighting the benefits and economic development opportunities inherent in critical infrastructure development LOS ANGELES – January 11, 2024 – Milldam Public Relations, a full-service public relations firm, today announced the launch of its Data Center Community Relations Service, the first community relations service exclusively serving the digital […]
DSI’s President Featured in Bisnow Discussing Data Center Trends for 2023
Phil Rafferty, President of Data Specialties Inc, recently spoke with Bisnow about some of the expected data center trends for 2023. From continued supply chain issues to delayed data center development, 2023 should be an interesting year. You can read the full article at Bisnow.
Data Center Knowledge Speaks to Milldam’s President About The Increased Public Pushback and The Importance of Data Center Community Relations
Data Center knowledge recently spoke with Milldam’s President, Adam Waitkunas about the increased pushback of data center development and the importance of data center community relations and engagement. In the piece, Adam highlights the need for data center developers to engage at the local level and have a community relations plan for each development. With each community comes a different set of challenges. You can read the full piece here