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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 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 t...

August 01, 2026

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xAI Buys Land for Second Memphis Data Center

xAI has bought a 1 million sq ft (92,905 sqm) site for a new data center in Memphis, as Elon Musk’s startup looks to expand its Colossus supercomputer. The company has purchased three parcels of land at 5400 Tulane Road, Whitehaven, through an affiliate company CTC Properties. It acquired an e...

March 11, 2025

SAM Announces Plans for Vietnam's Largest Data Center Campus

Saigon Asset Management (SAM) has announced plans for the SAM DigitalHub, outside of Hanoi, Vietnam. The campus is located at the Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park (VSIP), a joint venture between Vietnam’s Becamex IDC Corporation and a Singaporean consortium led by Sembcorp Development. “The t...

March 08, 2025

Microsoft to Invest $300m in Cloud and AI Infrastructure

Microsoft has committed to investing ZAR 5.4 billion ($298.6m) in cloud and AI infrastructure in South Africa by 2027. Microsoft has already invested ZAR 20.4 billion in infrastructure in South Africa over the past three years to establish data centers in Johannesburg and Cape Town.South Afric...

March 08, 2025

Nebius to Build 300MW Data Center in New Jersey

AI infrastructure company Nebius has announced plans to build a 300MW data center in New Jersey. The facility will be completed in phases, with the first due to be delivered by summer 2025.In a statement, Nebius said the new Icelandic deployment would be powered by geothermal energy to reduce ...

March 08, 2025

Microsoft to Develop Azure Cloud Region in Kuwait

Microsoft announced a strategic partnership with the Government of Kuwait on March 6, that will see it develop an "AI powered" Azure region in the country. The cloud region will offer "advanced infrastructure" and is hoped to attract global businesses and researchers, and to help accelerate di...

March 06, 2025

NTT Data Partners with Holy See for digital archive

NTT Data has signed a partnership with the Holy See (Vatican) to support its activities in Japan. Both companies will be expanding their existing relationship to "identify opportunities for future collaboration.""NTT Data is our technology partner in Japan. We appreciate their support for our ...

March 04, 2025

Continent 8 Launches Data Center in Missouri

Continent 8 Technologies, a global managed hosting and cloud provider focused on iGaming and online sports betting sectors, has launched a new data center in Missouri in preparation for the opening of Missouri's regulated online sports betting market, which is scheduled for December 1, 2025.Mi...

February 28, 2025

DMG Looks to Buy 10MW of Prefab Modular Data Centers

Crypto firm DMG Blockchain Solutions Inc. this week announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with an undisclosed counterparty to purchase the infrastructure for 10MW worth of prefabricated air-cooled data centers for its deployment of generative AI facilities.Upon execution ...

February 27, 2025

DataVolt to Develop Data Center in Riyadh

Saudi-based data center developer DataVolt is to build a facility in Riyadh. The company and the Saudi Authority for Industrial Cities and Technology Zones (MODON) have agreed on land lease terms for the development of an AI-ready data center in Riyadh.“We are providing mission-critical digita...

February 25, 2025

Sesterce Invests €450m in AI data Center in France

French cloud computing provider Sesterce is investing €450 million ($471.85m) into developing an AI data center set to be located in the Rovaltain business park in Valence Romans Agglo, and will house 40,000 GPUs for the training and deployment of AI. Works will commence in September 2025 with...

February 24, 2025

Jet.AI Pivots to Data Center Development

Jet.AI, a company that develops AI solutions for the aviation industry, is selling its aviation business and pivoting to developing data centers. The company is in the process of planning a 50MW facility around Las Vegas for its debut project. FlyExclusive will acquire the business in conjunct...

February 22, 2025

Bitfarms Explores Pivot to HPC and AI

Bitfarms last week announced it had tapped Appleby Strategy Group (ASG) and World Wide Technology (WWT), to conduct a comprehensive feasibility analysis on all its North American sites and advise on its global HPC/AI strategy. According to the company, ASG and WWT are evaluating Bitfarms’ ener...

February 21, 2025

STMicroelectronics Unveils New Data Center Photonics Chip

STMicroelectronics has launched a new data center photonics chip, developed in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS). The PIC100 chip was developed to support incoming 800Gbps and 1.6Tbps optical interconnects across all workloads, including artificial intelligence (AI).“AI is changing ...

February 20, 2025

Fluidstack Signs MoU for 1GW AI Supercomputer

GPU cloud provider Fluidstack has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the French government to build an AI supercomputer in the country which will be one of the world’s largest low-carbon AI supercomputers. The facility set to house the system will offer 1GW of dedicated AI compute and w...

February 19, 2025

Wa'ed Ventures Invests in AI Cloud Provider Ori

Aramco's venture capital arm Wa'ed Ventures has invested in UK AI cloud provider Ori to support Ori's expansion into the Middle East market over the next 12 months. The investment follows Ori's recent £140 million ($176.23m) raise, and the AI cloud provider has another larger raise underway th...

February 19, 2025

EU Allocates €20bn to Developing Four “AI gigafactories”

The European Commission is to spend billions of Euros on developing new AI supercomputing clusters. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the launch of InvestAI, an initiative to mobilize €200 billion ($209bn) for investment in AI, including a new European fund of €20bn ($20.9bn)...

February 14, 2025

Riot Platforms plans expansion into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing workloads

Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms is considering an expansion into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing workloads and has appointed three new directors to its board to evaluate whether spare capacity can be repurposed.Riot, which develops some of the largest mining facilities in t...

February 12, 2025

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Reimei Quantum Computer goes Online

Quantinuum has successfully deployed its Reimei quantum computer at the Wako, Saitama, campus of Japanese research institute Riken. It is now fully operational and will be used to accelerate quantum applications across physics and chemistry.The Quantinuum H1-1 ion trap quantum computer contain...

February 12, 2025

NXP Semiconductors Acquires Kinara for $307m

Netherlands-based NXP Semiconductors has acquired AI chip startup Kinara in a $307 million all-cash agreement. The company says this acquisition would enable it to “enhance and strengthen” its ability to provide scalable AI platforms by combining Kinara’s NPUs and AI software with NXP’s soluti...

February 12, 2025

Alibaba Cloud Launches Mexico Cloud Region

Chinese cloud company Alibaba Cloud has launched its first Mexican cloud region located in Querétaro with one availability zone. The new region brings Alibaba's total network to 87 availability zones across 29 regions. Details about the data center hosting the region have not been shared.“The ...

February 05, 2025

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