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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

Posted by: Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

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Data Center Monitoring and DCIM: A Complete Guide to Intelligent Infrastructure Management

Data centers support today’s digital services, including cloud computing, AI, banking, healthcare, and online platforms. As infrastructure becomes larger and more complex, maintaining reliability, efficiency, and uptime has become increasingly challenging. **Modern facilities rely on interco...

July 28, 2026

United States

The Complete Guide to Data Center Tier I–IV

Introduction **In today's digital economy, virtually every online interaction depends on a data center. Whether someone is streaming a movie, making an online payment, accessing a cloud application, or training an artificial intelligence (AI) model, there is a data center working behind...

June 29, 2026

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Will AI Create a Global Power Crisis for Data Centers?

Artificial intelligence is driving a rapid expansion of data center infrastructure worldwide. As AI systems become more advanced and widely adopted, the demand for computing power and the electricity needed to support it is rising sharply.Unlike traditional cloud workloads, AI relies on high-d...

May 28, 2026

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The Rise of Data Centers in West Africa: Why Nigeria Is Leading the Digital Infrastructure Boom

In recent years, West Africa has been seen to emerge as a promising frontier for digital infrastructural investments. This has spotlighted West Africa to global technology firms, investors, and policymakers alike. At the center of this transformation is Nigeria, where a surge in data center de...

April 29, 2026

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Major Players and Competition in the Data Center Market

The global data center market is shaped by a complex and rapidly evolving competitive landscape, where a handful of powerful players coexist with hundreds of specialized operators spread across regions and niches. Rather than being controlled by a single dominant force, the industry is structu...

March 27, 2026

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Modular vs. Traditional Data Centers: Which Design Wins?

The global digital economy depends on data centers. Every AI model trained, financial transaction processed, cloud application delivered, and video streamed relies on physical infrastructure engineered for reliability, scalability, and efficiency. As demand increases, driven by artificial inte...

February 23, 2026

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What Makes a Data Center Go Down and How Outages Are Prevented

Few places on Earth are as quietly vital as a data center. From the outside, most look like simple warehouses: broad, windowless, and often isolated. However, data centers house some of the most complex environments ever engineered over centuries. Vast rooms filled with servers hum continuousl...

December 29, 2025

United States

The Role of Data Centers in National Security Infrastructure

Introduction: The New Foundations of Power About a century ago, national strength was measured by oil fields, steel production, and military strength. Times have changed, and so have the people and the metrics for national strength. Being in the computer age, national strength is measured in d...

October 29, 2025

United States

Beyond the Machines: Roles, Risks, and Realities in Data Centers

Data centers are self-run facilities, fully powered by automation. This is necessary to ensure that uptime numbers are accurate at all times. A crucial part of the data center infrastructure has also been designed to operate quietly in the background, leaving the core of these facilities,t and...

September 26, 2025

United States

Hyperscale to Hyper-Space: Data Centers Beyond Earth

Every day, humans generate more data than they did the previous day. In 2010, the planet generated approximately two zettabytes of digital information, a figure that increased to 64 zettabytes over the next decade. For comparison, one zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes, so large that if you tri...

August 29, 2025

United Kingdom

Building a Data Center from Scratch: The Anatomy of a $500 Million Project

Every photo you upload, every email you send, every movie you stream, and every app you open on your phone often rely on a physical place most people never see or think about, which is the data center. These are massive buildings filled with rows of humming servers that work around the clock t...

July 27, 2025

United States

Can the Cloud Go Green? Exploring the Path to Carbon-Neutral Data Centers

People consider the cloud to be intangible. However, there are dozens of servers powering that invisible force in thousands of data centers stationed around the world. These facilities, many of which operate continuously without interruption, consume vast amounts of energy and are increasingly...

June 27, 2025

United States

From Silicon Valley to Shanghai: The Top Colocation Providers Globally

In today’s digital era, where data has become as valuable as gold and as elusive as a shadow, it has become paramount for businesses worldwide, regardless of size or strength, to safeguard and properly manage all digital assets. Colocation providers play a crucial role in the tech industry by ...

May 05, 2025

Will 2025 be the Year of the Data Center? Here are Three Promising Facts from the Virginia Market

Last summer, Sequoia partner David Cahn declared that 2025 would be the “Year of the Data Center,” as project developers and investors lined up to expand data center capacity in support of the AI industry’s massive build-out. To validate this thesis, we looked at Baxtel’s proprietary data in o...

December 19, 2024

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