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Data Centre Developer Sues New Jersey Town for $300m

Data centre developer Hexa Builders is seeking $300 million in damages from Monroe Township, New Jersey, after officials rejected its proposed 1 million sq ft data centre in May. The lawsuit, filed...

Data centre developer Hexa Builders is seeking $300 million in damages from Monroe Township, New Jersey, after officials rejected its proposed 1 million sq ft data centre in May. The lawsuit, filed in New Jersey Superior Court, alleges the township council and planning board violated multiple constitutional rights, including zoning authority, fundamental fairness, and First and Fourteenth Amendment protections. Hexa argues the application was rejected because of the township’s opposition to d...

August 01, 2026

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Read Plans Filed for 400MW Data Center Campus Near Melbourne, Australia
HyperDC Pty Ltd has filed plans for a large-scale data center campus in Moorabool, outside Melbourne, Australia. The company submitted a planning permit application to the Victorian government for ...
September 30, 2026

Plans Filed for 400MW Data Center Campus Near Melbourne, Australia

Australia

HyperDC Pty Ltd has filed plans for a large-scale data center campus in Moorabool, outside Melbourne, Australia. The company submitted a planning permit application to the Victorian government for the proposed development. The project is planned for 715 Ballan Road, a largely vacant site outside ...

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Read Colovore Files Plans for $430m Data Center in Fort Worth, Texas
Colovore has filed plans for Colovore Alliance, a 156,500 sq ft (14,540 sqm) data center in Fort Worth, Texas. The $430m facility will be built on vacant land at 14700 Heritage Parkway, with constr...
September 30, 2026

Colovore Files Plans for $430m Data Center in Fort Worth, Texas

Colovore

Colovore has filed plans for Colovore Alliance, a 156,500 sq ft (14,540 sqm) data center in Fort Worth, Texas. The $430m facility will be built on vacant land at 14700 Heritage Parkway, with construction scheduled from December 2026 to December 2028. The landowner is listed as AIL Investment LP, ...

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Read Meta Signs Deal to Use AI Capacity at Firmus Data Centers in Southeast Asia
Meta has agreed to lease AI compute capacity from Australian neocloud Firmus across its upcoming Southeast Asian data centers. The deal expands an existing partnership under which Meta leases Nvidi...
September 30, 2026

Meta Signs Deal to Use AI Capacity at Firmus Data Centers in Southeast Asia

Meta

Meta has agreed to lease AI compute capacity from Australian neocloud Firmus across its upcoming Southeast Asian data centers. The deal expands an existing partnership under which Meta leases Nvidia GB300 NVL72 capacity at Firmus’ Melbourne facility. Firmus is developing AI factories with DayOne ...

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Read Schneider Electric and Equinix Trial Software-Defined Switchgear for Data Centers
Equinix and Schneider Electric have partnered to pilot software-defined medium-voltage switchgear at an undisclosed Equinix data center. The technology, developed by Schneider Electric, is designed...
September 30, 2026

Schneider Electric and Equinix Trial Software-Defined Switchgear for Data Centers

Equinix

Equinix and Schneider Electric have partnered to pilot software-defined medium-voltage switchgear at an undisclosed Equinix data center. The technology, developed by Schneider Electric, is designed to reduce the need for specialized cabling and hardware in data centers. Schneider said the softwar...

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Read Global Switch to Deploy Nvidia Blackwell Systems at Paris Data Center
Global Switch has been chosen to host a large Nvidia Blackwell cluster at its data center in Paris, France. The mostly liquid-cooled deployment will be installed at Global Switch’s Nvidia DGX-ready...
September 29, 2026

Global Switch to Deploy Nvidia Blackwell Systems at Paris Data Center

Global Switch

Global Switch has been chosen to host a large Nvidia Blackwell cluster at its data center in Paris, France. The mostly liquid-cooled deployment will be installed at Global Switch’s Nvidia DGX-ready facility in the city. The exact size has not been disclosed, but Global Switch described it as one ...

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Read Google Secures Approval to Expand Dublin Data Center
Google has received planning approval from An Coimisiún Pleanála to expand its data center campus at Grange Castle Business Park in Dublin, following a lengthy dispute with South Dublin County Coun...
September 29, 2026

Google Secures Approval to Expand Dublin Data Center

Google

Google has received planning approval from An Coimisiún Pleanála to expand its data center campus at Grange Castle Business Park in Dublin, following a lengthy dispute with South Dublin County Council. The company first proposed a 72,400 sqm (779,310 sq ft) third data center building at the campu...

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Read Submer Launches Corenix Modular Data Center Infrastructure Platform
Submer Group has launched Corenix, a modular data center infrastructure company targeting neoclouds, hyperscalers, and AI operators. Corenix will design, build, integrate, and factory-test complete...
September 29, 2026

Submer Launches Corenix Modular Data Center Infrastructure Platform

Submer

Submer Group has launched Corenix, a modular data center infrastructure company targeting neoclouds, hyperscalers, and AI operators. Corenix will design, build, integrate, and factory-test complete data center modules covering IT, power, cooling, and networking before deploying them on-site. The ...

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Read Samsung Invests $1bn in KKR-Backed Helix Data Center Platform
Samsung has invested $1 billion in Helix Digital Infrastructure, the data center developer established by KKR. Helix and KKR announced on September 29 that Samsung committed the funding through its...
September 29, 2026

Samsung Invests $1bn in KKR-Backed Helix Data Center Platform

Samsung SDS

Samsung has invested $1 billion in Helix Digital Infrastructure, the data center developer established by KKR. Helix and KKR announced on September 29 that Samsung committed the funding through its long-duration capital fund, providing additional capital to support Helix’s data center expansion. ...

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Read Vertiv Expands Data Center Equipment Manufacturing Capacity In Slovakia
Vertiv is expanding its manufacturing facility in Slovakia to increase production capacity for data center power and cooling equipment. The company will add 22,000 sqm (236,806 sq ft) to its Nové M...
September 28, 2026

Vertiv Expands Data Center Equipment Manufacturing Capacity In Slovakia

Vertiv

Vertiv is expanding its manufacturing facility in Slovakia to increase production capacity for data center power and cooling equipment. The company will add 22,000 sqm (236,806 sq ft) to its Nové Mesto nad Váhom campus in western Slovakia, with the expansion expected to take two years. The expans...

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Read Goodman Withdraws Plans for 90MW Data Center Campus in Sydney, Australia
Australian real estate firm Goodman Group has withdrawn plans for Project Mars, a 90MW data center campus in Sydney’s Lane Cove area. The company said the application was withdrawn following signif...
September 28, 2026

Goodman Withdraws Plans for 90MW Data Center Campus in Sydney, Australia

Goodman Group

Australian real estate firm Goodman Group has withdrawn plans for Project Mars, a 90MW data center campus in Sydney’s Lane Cove area. The company said the application was withdrawn following significant changes to the policy and regulatory environment for large-scale data center development since...

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Read Digital Realty Plans Cable Landing Station In Los Angeles, California
Digital Realty is developing a new cable landing station (CLS) at its LAX12 data center in Los Angeles, California. The company announced the project last week, with the facility expected to suppor...
September 28, 2026

Digital Realty Plans Cable Landing Station In Los Angeles, California

Digital Realty Bersama

Digital Realty is developing a new cable landing station (CLS) at its LAX12 data center in Los Angeles, California. The company announced the project last week, with the facility expected to support subsea cables from 2028. Digital Realty has not disclosed how many cables the CLS will accommodate...

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Read Virtus Raises £2.45bn to Fund Data Center Expansion
European data center operator Virtus Data Centres has secured a £2.45 billion ($3.25bn) financing package from a consortium of 13 banks. BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole CIB, Société Générale, and Stan...
September 28, 2026

Virtus Raises £2.45bn to Fund Data Center Expansion

VIRTUS Data Centres Ltd

European data center operator Virtus Data Centres has secured a £2.45 billion ($3.25bn) financing package from a consortium of 13 banks. BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole CIB, Société Générale, and Standard Chartered Bank acted as coordinators and lead arrangers. The funding will support the developme...

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Read Switch Files Plans for 176-Acre Apex Data Center Campus in North Las Vegas
Switch has submitted a letter of intent to North Las Vegas officials for a roughly 175-acre data center campus at Apex Industrial Park, the first formal development proposal for a land position the...
September 26, 2026

Switch Files Plans for 176-Acre Apex Data Center Campus in North Las Vegas

Switch

Switch has submitted a letter of intent to North Las Vegas officials for a roughly 175-acre data center campus at Apex Industrial Park, the first formal development proposal for a land position the company has quietly assembled along the US-93 corridor since the start of the year. KTNV Las Vegas ...

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Read Digital Realty Appoints New Global Head Of Energy
US colocation data center firm Digital Realty has appointed Jim Collins as senior vice president and global head of energy. Collins joins from Microsoft, where he spent 13 years in various leadersh...
September 26, 2026

Digital Realty Appoints New Global Head Of Energy

Digital Realty Trust

US colocation data center firm Digital Realty has appointed Jim Collins as senior vice president and global head of energy. Collins joins from Microsoft, where he spent 13 years in various leadership roles, most recently as general manager of global energy markets. Before Microsoft, he spent a de...

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Read Crusoe Ends $1.25B Boom Supersonic Turbine Order for AI Data Centers
[Crusoe](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/crusoe) has dropped its $1.25 billion launch order for Boom Supersonic's Superpower gas turbines, ending a plan to power AI campuses with turbines derived f...
September 26, 2026

Crusoe Ends $1.25B Boom Supersonic Turbine Order for AI Data Centers

Crusoe

Crusoe has dropped its $1.25 billion launch order for Boom Supersonic's Superpower gas turbines, ending a plan to power AI campuses with turbines derived from the engine behind its Overture supersonic airliner. Boom founder and CEO Blake Scholl said on Friday that the two Denver companies are no ...

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Read DensityAI, Founded By Former Tesla Dojo Execs, Valued At $10bn
AI chip startup DensityAI has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in funding at a $10 billion valuation. According to The Information, Andreessen Horowitz is in talks to lead the round, while De...
September 26, 2026

DensityAI, Founded By Former Tesla Dojo Execs, Valued At $10bn

Tesla

AI chip startup DensityAI has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in funding at a $10 billion valuation. According to The Information, Andreessen Horowitz is in talks to lead the round, while DensityAI has reportedly secured a purchase agreement with AWS based on performance requirements. Amaz...

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Read DOE Selects $1.9B In Grid Projects To Unlock 23GW Of Capacity
The U.S. [Department of Energy](https://www.energy.gov/articles/energy-department-announces-speed-power-investments-across-26-states-lower-electricity) said on September 24 that it intends to put $...
September 26, 2026

DOE Selects $1.9B In Grid Projects To Unlock 23GW Of Capacity

United States

The U.S. Department of Energy said on September 24 that it intends to put $1.9 billion of federal funding behind 31 grid-improvement projects in 26 states, a package aimed at adding transfer capacity for data centers and other large loads. Recipients will put up $3.35 billion more, bringing the t...

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Read Generac Secures $8bn Backup Generator Deal With Amazon
Generac has signed a long-term deal to supply backup generators to Amazon’s data centers. The agreement includes about $2.4 billion in deliveries over two years and could reach $8 billion overall. ...
September 26, 2026

Generac Secures $8bn Backup Generator Deal With Amazon

Amazon AWS

Generac has signed a long-term deal to supply backup generators to Amazon’s data centers. The agreement includes about $2.4 billion in deliveries over two years and could reach $8 billion overall. Amazon will also have the option to buy nearly 1.7 million Generac shares. “It provides visibility t...

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Read Applied Digital Picks Brookwood, Alabama For $3.2bn, 210MW Delta Forge 2 Campus
Applied Digital has confirmed Brookwood, Alabama, as the location of Delta Forge 2, its fifth AI Factory campus. The $3.2 billion project in Tuscaloosa County will deliver 210MW of critical IT load...
September 26, 2026

Applied Digital Picks Brookwood, Alabama For $3.2bn, 210MW Delta Forge 2 Campus

Applied Digital

Applied Digital has confirmed Brookwood, Alabama, as the location of Delta Forge 2, its fifth AI Factory campus. The $3.2 billion project in Tuscaloosa County will deliver 210MW of critical IT load under a long-term lease with a US-based, investment-grade hyperscaler. Operations are targeted for ...

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Read DOE Announces $1.9bn for 31 Grid Projects to Accelerate Data Center Connections
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $1.9 billion in funding for 31 grid improvement projects across 26 states, aimed at accelerating power connections for data centers and other large l...
September 25, 2026

DOE Announces $1.9bn for 31 Grid Projects to Accelerate Data Center Connections

United States

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $1.9 billion in funding for 31 grid improvement projects across 26 states, aimed at accelerating power connections for data centers and other large loads. The projects are part of the DOE’s SPARK initiative and will receive $5.25 billion in total, i...

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