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Data Center Development
In the News
"A draft bill to update design requirements for data centers is facing pushback from some who feel that the proposed criteria are overly restrictive and out of step with industry standards."
Frederick News Post "County work group recommends creating floating zone for data centers"
"In its final report, the work group recommended that the County Council create a CDI floating zone that can only be applied to land zoned General Industrial or Limited Industrial and meets the work group’s suggested “acceptable use” parameters."
Frederick News Post "Trial for lawsuit against Quantum Loophole set for January"
"A trial for a lawsuit Quantum Loophole's main project investor filed against the company for alleged mismanagement is scheduled to run from Jan. 13 to 15, 2025, in Wilmington, Delaware.... In the complaint, filed on Sept. 26, TPG alleges that Quantum Loophole significantly mismanaged its planned data center campus and a fiber-optic ring, also called the QLoop."
"Fitzwater’s data center workgroup in March issued a report recommending that the County Council look at removing critical digital infrastructure from the list of uses allowed by right in the LI and GI zones and creating a new floating zone with requirements specific to the data center industry."
"TPG alleged that Quantum Loophole doesn’t have proper experience with infrastructure development at this scale and misrepresented information, resulting in TPG increasing its financial investments in the projects."
"The Maryland Department of the Environment in June rescinded an offer to settle for $130,000 Quantum Loophole’s environmental violations related to constructing fiber optic infrastructure, citing the 'ongoing nature and severity of the violations,' according to a letter from the department."
"Speaking at the Maryland Association of Counties winter convention last week, Moore said he plans to make Maryland 'the best place for businesses to invest in data center infrastructure that will drive the technology economy.'"
Maryland Matters "Some states rethink data centers, as ‘electricity hogs’ strain the grid"