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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

New Jersey

AWS Eyes Data Center Development at 4.5GW Gas Plant in Pennsylvania

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is exploring a potential data center development at a natural gas power plant near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. First reported by TribLive, Amazon is considering a data center campus next to the planned Homer City Redevelopment gas plant in Indiana County. “As part of ou...

August 07, 2026

Amazon AWS

PowerHouse Files Plans for 300MW Data Center Campus Near Dallas-Fort Worth

PowerHouse Data Centers is planning a new campus near Fort Worth, Texas. First reported by NBC, engineering firm Kimley-Horn has filed plans for a data center on about 88 acres in Westlake, north of Fort Worth. The proposed site is at 13580 Denton Highway, near US Highway 377 and Westport Parkway...

August 07, 2026

Dallas

Partners Group to Invest $1bn in AVK to Expand Data Center Microgrid Offering

Swiss private equity firm Partners Group has agreed to acquire a majority stake in UK-based data center power infrastructure provider AVK Power Solutions. Partners Group plans to invest more than $1 billion in equity, backed by debt financing, to accelerate AVK’s expansion and grow its microgrid ...

August 06, 2026

United Kingdom

Large Data Center Reportedly Planned for Burgenland, Austria

A large data center project is reportedly close to being announced in Burgenland, eastern Austria. According to Profil, the facility could be built on a site of up to 1.24 million sq ft (114,000 sqm) owned by the Burgenland Economic Development Agency near Nickelsdorf. Burgenland’s regional gover...

August 06, 2026

Austria

Texas Grid Audit Pauses New Data Center Approvals Across ERCOT

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered an audit of every data center advancing through ERCOT's interconnection process before additional projects can move forward. ERCOT has paused its Batch Zero large-load review, creating a new schedule risk for developers. The order is serious, but it is no...

August 06, 2026

Texas

Washington Officials Introduce Data Center Moratorium to Block 20MW Project

Real estate developer Blue Fern Development is planning a 20MW data center in Cle Elum, Washington, despite local officials introducing a moratorium in an effort to block the project. The proposed facility would span 100,000 sq ft (9,290 sqm) near Interstate 90 and require around $200 million in ...

August 06, 2026

Washington

Redaptive and Recurve Launch Platform to Unlock Grid Capacity for Data Centers

US energy solutions firm Redaptive and energy optimization company Recurve have launched a platform designed to reduce data centers’ time to power. The solution combines Redaptive’s financing and deployment capabilities with Recurve’s Flex platform, which measures and validates capacity created w...

August 06, 2026

United States

SpaceX's First Earnings Call Was Mostly a Data Center Call

SpaceX reported second-quarter results Tuesday, its first quarterly report as a public company. One might have expected the call to focus on rockets and Starlink. But with xAI folded into the company, the call spent only about ten minutes on rockets. The res...

August 05, 2026

xAI

AtlasEdge Begins Next Expansion Phase of Hamburg Data Center

AtlasEdge has started the next expansion phase of its HAM002 data center in Ahrensburg, Germany. The phase will add 3.2MW of capacity, with the four-stage project set to reach 20MW across 10,000 sqm (107,640 sq ft) when complete. The facility’s first 4.4MW phase opened in 2024 and is nearly fully...

August 05, 2026

AtlasEdge

Everllence to Supply 480MW of Gas Engines for US Data Center Developer

German engine manufacturer Everllence has signed a deal to supply 480MW of gas engine capacity to an unnamed US data center developer. The company will provide 24 of its 18V51/60G gas engines, which will power the data center behind the meter. “This contract is one of our most important off-g...

August 05, 2026

United States

AWS Withdraws From Planned Data Center Campus Near Maryland Nuclear Plant

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has dropped plans for a data center campus next to Maryland's Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant. The proposed project in Lusby, Calvert County, would have included eight buildings totaling 2.46 million square feet (228,540 sqm) and around 500MW of capacity, powered unde...

August 05, 2026

Amazon AWS

CDC Files Plans for Data Center in Kemps Creek, Sydney

Australian data center operator CDC has filed plans for a new campus in western Sydney. The company submitted a SEARS application to the New South Wales government for a data center at 871–901 Mamre Road in Kemps Creek. The proposed 88.4-hectare development would feature a four-story, 144MW facil...

August 05, 2026

CDC Cyber Data Center International

Oregon Governor Halts Data Center Project And Blocks Land Sale Approval.

Oregon Governor Blocks Data Center Development Near Portland. Governor Tina Kotek has halted plans for a data center project outside Portland by directing the state to cancel its land sale agreement with developer Verrus. The state had planned to sell about 32 acres at Salem’s Mill Creek Corporat...

August 04, 2026

Oregon

CoreWeave To Develop 360MW Data Center Capacity In Indonesia

CoreWeave is expanding into Indonesia with plans to develop three data centers, marking its first entry into the Asia-Pacific region. Scheduled to launch in 2028, the facilities will provide a combined 360MW of IT capacity, with CoreWeave owning and operating the compute infrastructure while trai...

August 04, 2026

CoreWeave

Three Men Arrested For Stealing Copper Wire From Virginia Data Center Construction Site

Three men have been arrested after allegedly stealing copper wire from a data center construction site in Loudoun County, Virginia. Police responded to reports of a burglary at a construction site near 45000 Maries Road in Sterling shortly before 12:30 a.m. on July 31. On August 1, authorities...

August 04, 2026

Virginia

UK Government Approves Controversial 5.2MW Truman Brewery Data Center

The UK government has approved the controversial redevelopment of Truman Brewery into a mixed-use development that includes a data center. Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary Angela Rayner granted approval after Tower Hamlets Council rejected the proposal in 2025. Following an appeal by T...

August 04, 2026

United States

NV Energy Files Lawsuit Against Tract Over Nevada Data Center Costs

Nevada utility NV Energy has filed a lawsuit against Denver-based data center developer Tract, alleging the company failed to cover the costs of serving its facilities and instead shifted those expenses to other utility customers across the state. “Most data center developers pursuing projects...

August 04, 2026

Denver

Former Microsoft Researcher Launches Data Center Robotics Startup

Swiss startup Exclaim Robotics, founded by a former Microsoft engineer, has raised $4.95 million in pre-seed funding to develop autonomous robots for AI data center maintenance. Backed by Founderful and Playfair, the company aims to automate remote hands tasks such as cleaning optics, reconnectin...

August 04, 2026

Microsoft Azure

Maincubes Completes First Module Of New Frankfurt Data Center

German data center operator Maincubes has completed the first module of its FRA03 facility in Frankfurt, a 16MW site featuring 7,680 sqm of data hall space across three floors and six IT rooms. The facility will run entirely on renewable energy and include waste heat recovery technology. Mainc...

August 04, 2026

Germany / Deutschland

Dominion Energy Secures Over 5GW of New Contracted Data Center Capacity

Dominion Energy, Virginia's primary electric utility, has added more than 5GW of contracted data center load to its pipeline since the end of last year. During its Q2 earnings call, the company said the increase represents an 11% rise. Previously, in its Q4 earnings report released in February, D...

August 03, 2026

Virginia

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