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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

December 11, 2025

Lumen Appoints Jim Fowler as CTO

Lumen Technologies

Lumen Technologies has appointed Jim Fowler as its executive vice president and chief technology and product officer. The new CTO is to succeed Dave Ward, who is leaving Lumen to become president and chief architect at Salesforce.Starting from January 6, Fowler will manage global technology an...

December 06, 2025

Equinix's Jeremy Mickler Joins OpenAI

Equinix

Jeremy Mickler has joined OpenAI's growing internal data center team to support its Stargate buildout. Mickler spent nearly ten years at Equinix, most recently as the design director of the global design and construction team."This transition comes with tremendous gratitude — for the people, c...

November 12, 2025

Microsoft Receives Approval for Data Center Campuses in Aragón, Spain

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has received the initial approval for its planned data center campuses in the Aragón region in Spain, dubbed MSFT Region, that will see the development of three campuses in La Muela, Villamayor de Gállego, and Zaragoza, as well as their interconnection via fiber optics.The project is...

October 21, 2025

OVHcloud Reappoints Founder Octave Klaba as CEO

OVH Group

European and US cloud provider OVHcloud has reappointed its founder and chairman of the board, Octave Klaba, as CEO, ending the separation of the chairman and CEO roles, and also ending Benjamin Revcolevschi's term of office after just one year, effective October 20, 2025.Newly-instated CEO Kl...

October 07, 2025

365 Data Centers CEO Bob DeSantis to Retire

365 Data Centers

Bob DeSantis, the co-founder and CEO of US operator 365 Data Centers, is to retire. The company announced the news this week, and DeSantis has initiated the transition of his responsibilities to the company’s chief revenue officer, Derek Gillespie, and CFO Steve Amelio, who has been promoted t...

October 06, 2025

Verizon Names Dan Schulman as CEO

Verizon Enterprise

Verizon has announced former PayPal CEO Dan Schulman as the carrier's next CEO. The CEO transition at the company means that current chief Hans Vestberg steps down from the role, which he has held since 2018.“I believe in Verizon and its future, and I am honored to be chosen to serve as CEO,” ...

October 03, 2025

Agency Established to Streamline Data Center Projects in Australia

Australia

An agency has been established to streamline data center investments in New South Wales, Australia. The Investment Delivery Authority (IDA), which began accepting Expressions of Interest (EoI) on September 30, promises to support major investment projects in the southeastern Australian state b...

October 02, 2025

Rostelecom to Build Data Center for PhosAgro

Russia / Россия

The Russian telco Rostelecom this week said it is beginning construction of a new data center for the PhosAgro Group at the Volkhov branch of PhosAgro subsidiary Apatit JSC. A groundbreaking ceremony has taken place, and construction is expected to be completed by 2026.Denis Novikov, general d...

September 25, 2025

EcoDataCenter Breaks Ground on Borlänge Facility

EcoDataCenter (EcoDC AB)

EcoDataCenter has broken ground on a new data center in Borlänge, Sweden, marking the beginning of construction on 20 hectares of land formerly occupied by a paper mill. At completion, the first phase of the facility will have access to 250MW of energy, with the company’s LinkedIn post stating...

September 23, 2025

Lumen data center in Reno gets operating license 26 years after launching

Reno

An existing data center in Reno, Nevada, was granted a new business license to operate after going without one for nearly 20 years. The 5,925 sq ft (550 sqm) building, on a 0.28-acre site at 220 Gardner Street, was set up in 1999 by Williams Telecommunications as a telecommunications facility....

September 22, 2025

Expansion Underway at Globalstar's Ground Station Site in Estonia

Estonia

Globalstar has announced that construction has started to double the size of its existing ground station in Estonia to assist the expansion of its mobile satellite system and services.“Our ground station in Estonia, like our facilities in Greece, Spain, and France, is supporting critical commu...

September 20, 2025

Cologix Takes Full Ownership of Two Toronto Facilities

Cologix

Cologix has taken full ownership of two data centers it occupies in Toronto, Canada.The Stonepeak-backed company acquired full ownership of TOR4, a purpose-built hyperscale data center in Toronto, from CIM Group. Located on a 3.4-acre site in Markham, Ontario, the 11MW, 50,000 sq ft (4,645 sqm...

September 16, 2025

EdgeConneX Partners with Ral Estate Firm Stockland

EdgeConneX

ASX-listed real estate firm Stockland announced it had formed an exclusive arrangement with EdgeConneX to establish a partnership to develop, own, and operate a data center portfolio, and was “exploring opportunities across Stockland’s logistics pipeline.”This partnership will combine “Stockla...

September 13, 2025

Intel Announces Leadership Shuffle

United States

Intel has announced a leadership shuffle, the largest change being the departure of Michelle Holthaus, chief executive of Intel Products, who will remain as a “strategic advisor over the coming months.”Kevork Kechichian will join Intel as executive vice president and general manager of Intel’s...

September 11, 2025

Portus Data Centers Names Falk Weinreich as CEO

Portus Data Centers

Portus Data Centers has secured a new Chief Executive Officer. This week, it announced the appointment of Falk Weinreich as its new Group CEO."Portus Data Centers has quickly positioned itself as one of the most important providers in the regional colocation sector," Weinreich said. "We want t...

September 09, 2025

KKR Hires Former AWS CEO Adam Selipsky

Amazon AWS

Investment firm KKR has appointed Adam Selipsky as a senior advisor for technology and AI strategy. Selipsky will advise on strategy, capital allocation, and governance for the firm’s $179 billion Real Assets business.Selipsky was the CEO of cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) from 2021 to 2...

September 04, 2025

Rackspace Appoints Gajen Kandiah as CEO

United States

Rackspace Technology appointed Gajen Kandiah as its new CEO to drive its cloud AI ambitions in the sector, after joining the hybrid cloud provider from Hitachi Digital, where he served for more than five years across various divisions, most notably as COO and executive chairman."I am honored t...

August 14, 2025

TeraWulf to Lease New York Site to Fluidstack

New York

Cryptomine and HPC data center firm TeraWulf this week announced two 10-year high-performance computing (HPC) colocation agreements with Fluidstack. TeraWulf will deliver more than 200MW of critical IT load (~250MW of gross capacity) at its Lake Mariner data center campus in New York. The deal...

August 01, 2025

Schneider Electric Says European Data Center Market is Picking up

Europe

French power and cooling company Schneider Electric saw revenues increase thanks to continued data center spending. However, the company noted that unfavorable foreign exchange dynamics hit its margins, while tariffs and materials inflation cut into profits."We see a double-digit growth opport...