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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 to d...

August 01, 2026

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New Jersey

September 04, 2025

Dominion Proposes New Rate Class for Data Centers

Virginia

Virginia’s primary electrical utility, Dominion Energy, has proposed the creation of a new rate class for data centers.The new class would apply to utility customers who consume more than 25MW of energy and have a monthly load factor of more than 75 percent. This will result in many, if not mo...

September 04, 2025

Microsoft Agrees to $6bn Cloud Discount for US government

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has agreed to provide the US government with up to $6 billion in discounts over the next three years. The discounts will apply to Azure cloud computing services, Microsoft 365, Copilot, Dynamics 365, and cybersecurity tools. The first year alone could see the government saving up to ...

September 03, 2025

North Dakota State University Awarded $3.85m for Supercomputer

North Dakota

North Dakota State University (NDSU) has been awarded $3.85 million to acquire and deploy an AI supercomputer named Bison, which will be housed in the university’s Center for Computationally Assisted Science and Technology (CCAST) data center and is expected to come online in the summer of 202...

September 03, 2025

Former Air Force Data Center up for Sale in Michigan

Michigan

A former US Air Force data center, used as a call center until recently, is up for sale in Michigan. Sitting on 3.6 acres in Iosco County’s Wurtsmith Industrial District, the single-story facility spans 13,100 sq ft (1,215 sqm).It was originally a data center supporting Wurtsmith Air Force Bas...

August 30, 2025

Data Journey Ends Deal with Greenidge to Acquire 152-acre Data Center

United States

US cryptocurrency data center and power generation firm Greenidge Generation has seen a deal to sell off two parcels of land to Data Journey in South Carolina fall through.As part of the initial agreement, Greenidge was set to support Data Journey in developing and building a new data center t...

August 30, 2025

Google to Invest $9bn in Virginia Data Centers

Google

Google and Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin this week announced Google will invest an additional $9 billion in Virginia through the end of 2026. The funds will go towards the development of a new data center in Chesterfield County and expansion of the existing facilities in Loudoun and Prince ...

August 30, 2025

Scala Secures $25m in Financing from Caterpillar Power Finance

Scala Data Centers

Brazilian data center developer Scala Data Centers has secured $25 million in financing from Caterpillar Power Finance, marking Caterpillar’s first with a data center company in Latin America. The financing is designed to drive sustainable growth across the company.“This milestone goes far be...

August 30, 2025

Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $863m in Series B2 funding

Google

Google-backed nuclear fusion company, Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), has successfully raised $863 million in Series B2 funding, adding a range of international investors to its list of backers. New investors included NVentures (Nvidia's venture capital arm), Counterpoint Global, Galaxy Int...

August 30, 2025

Stack Joins Multi-Billion-Dollar Data Center Project in New Mexico

New Mexico

Stack this week announced its role in Project Jupiter, a proposed large data center campus in Doña Ana County. Stack is collaborating with BorderPlex Digital Assets, with the two companies aiming to invest up to $165 billion over the entire project. Stack hasn’t detailed its exact role in the ...

August 29, 2025

Blue Owl to Fund Build-out of Pennsylvania Data Center Campus

CoreWeave

Blue Owl is funding the development of CoreWeave’s planned data center campus in Pennsylvania. Funds managed by Blue Owl Capital closed on a joint venture partnership to include $4 billion of funding for the previously announced CoreWeave developments in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.Blue Owl aims t...

August 29, 2025

Novva Data Centers Acquires 205 Acres of Land in Las Vegas

Novva Data Centers

US operator Novva Data Centers has acquired more land in Las Vegas, Nevada in a $181 million deal which reportedly closed earlier this month. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports VanTrust Real Estate sold nearly 205 acres in the Apex Industrial Park in North Las Vegas to Novva.According to th...

August 29, 2025

Amazon Pledges $570m to Expand Kuiper Service in Vietnam

Amazon AWS

Vietnam’s Ministry of Science and Technology has announced Amazon has pledged to invest $570 million in connectivity infrastructure by 2030 to deploy Kuiper services in the country. The investment will fuel up to six ground stations in the country, and set up satellite terminal manufacturing i...

August 28, 2025

OpenLight Secures $34m in Funding

United States

OpenLight, a designer of custom application-specific photonic chips, has secured $34 million in a funding round that was co-led by Xora Innovation and Capricorn Investment Group. Other participants include Mayfield; HPE’s Juniper Networks; Lam Capital, the corporate venture arm of Lam Research...

August 25, 2025

Meeza Secures $219m Funding for 44MW expansion

Qatar

Meeza, a data center and IT firm in Qatar announced this week that it has secured a QAR 800 million ($219.3m) Commodity Murabaha bank facility from Dukhan Bank to fund its build-out. The financing will fund expansion plans to add 44MW of data center capacity. The first phase will deliver 24MW,...

August 25, 2025

Essential Utilities Invests $24m into Planned 944MW Facility

Pennsylvania

Essential Utilities, a US-based utility company focusing on natural gas and wastewater treatment, has invested $26 million into a data center project in development in Greene County, Pennsylvania.The utility signed an agreement with independent power producer International Electric Power III (...

August 23, 2025

US Government Acquires 10% Stake in Intel

United States

The US government has taken a 9.9 percent stake in beleaguered chipmaker and designer Intel, investing $8.9 billion in Intel, with $5.7bn coming from funds that would have been awarded through the CHIPS Act and $3.2bn from funds from the Secure Enclave program. Intel has already received $2.2b...

August 22, 2025

Atmosphere DC Secures Investment from AGC Equity Partners

United States

Atmosphere Data Centers, a new US-based operator this week announced it has secured a “significant strategic growth investment” from AGC Equity Partners, a global institutional investment firm. “This investment represents a major milestone for Atmosphere,” said Chuck McBride, CEO of Atmosphere...

August 20, 2025

Galaxy Digital Closes $1.4bn Debt Facility

Texas

Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. has closed a $1.4 billion project financing facility for the development of its Helios data center campus in Texas which was previously used by Galaxy for cryptomining, before being converted to host AI cloud provider CoreWeave."This financing marks a major milesto...

August 20, 2025

Avaio Targets $6bn Mississippi Data Center Campus

AVAIO Digital Partners

Data center developer Avaio Digital Partners this week announced plans for a new $6 billion data center campus in Mississippi's Rankin County. The campus, known as Avaio Digital Taurus, will total 600,000 sq ft (55,742 sqm) of data center space and 116MW of capacity. The company said the proje...

August 19, 2025

Opposition Calls to Relocate $1.2bn University of Michigan Data Centers

Michigan

Two data centers planned by the University of Michigan (U-M) have been asked to relocate following a meeting by local officials. The data centers are part of a $1.2bn project, and are currently planned for 124 acres purchased by U-M off Textile Road in Ypsilanti Township in June 2024.The data ...

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Dominion Proposes New Rate Class for Data Centers

Microsoft Agrees to $6bn Cloud Discount for US government

North Dakota State University Awarded $3.85m for Supercomputer

Former Air Force Data Center up for Sale in Michigan

Data Journey Ends Deal with Greenidge to Acquire 152-acre Data Center

Google to Invest $9bn in Virginia Data Centers

Scala Secures $25m in Financing from Caterpillar Power Finance

Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $863m in Series B2 funding

Stack Joins Multi-Billion-Dollar Data Center Project in New Mexico

Blue Owl to Fund Build-out of Pennsylvania Data Center Campus

Novva Data Centers Acquires 205 Acres of Land in Las Vegas

Amazon Pledges $570m to Expand Kuiper Service in Vietnam

OpenLight Secures $34m in Funding

Meeza Secures $219m Funding for 44MW expansion

Essential Utilities Invests $24m into Planned 944MW Facility

US Government Acquires 10% Stake in Intel

Atmosphere DC Secures Investment from AGC Equity Partners

Galaxy Digital Closes $1.4bn Debt Facility

Avaio Targets $6bn Mississippi Data Center Campus

Opposition Calls to Relocate $1.2bn University of Michigan Data Centers

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