Washington, D.C.’s metropolitan area has long hummed with data centers. The region, which encompasses much of Northern Virginia, has become known as Data Center Alley, home to more data centers than ...

A data center, just off Argenta Trail in Eagan, is one of two now under construction in the city. Oppidan, a firm based in the Twin Cities, is developing the 61,000-square-foot, five-megawatt center.