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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

Ark DC Looking To Develop a New Data Center in Corsham, Wiltshire

Ark Data Centres plans to develop a new data center at its Corsham campus in Wiltshire. The data center firm filed an application with the Wiltshire council for the new facility to be christened P5 South at its Spring Park campus close to Corsham. According to the application, Ark DC wants ...

March 21, 2022

Ark Data Centres (UK)

Pacific Asset Management and CPP Investments Are Teaming Up To Develop Hyperscale Data Center In Seoul

Pacific Asset Management and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board have formed a joint venture for the sole purpose of developing a hyperscale data center in Seoul, South Korea. The two companies announced that they would be investing KRW 200 billion (US$164.4 million) to develop the largest ca...

March 21, 2022

Seoul

Housing Minister Opposing Meta's Zeewolde Data Center Development

Meta’s data center proposal in Zeewolde, the Netherlands, appears to have hit another roadblock. The current Minister of Housing of the Netherlands, Hugo de Jonge, has revealed that he plans to prevent the development of the facility. Although the Zeewolde council has approved the zoning chang...

March 21, 2022

Hyperscale Data Center

Publix Wants To Develop a $40 Million Data Center in Florida

Publix has plans to develop a data center at a former FedEx building in Florida. According to reports, the Supermarket chain is looking to invest $40 million in the building located in Polk County, Florida. However, the details of the project aren’t concrete enough at this time, as Publix c...

March 21, 2022

Miami

Facebook's Meta to build $1 billion facility for the Metaverse

As Meta gets underway with its Metaverse plans, it has announced that it will be investing $1 billion in a new data center campus in Castilla La Mancha in the Toledo region of Spain, which will form the basis of the project. The facility will reportedly be built on a 191-hectare parcel of land...

March 18, 2022

Is Microsoft set to move into Newport, Wales?

Microsoft may be moving into Newport, Wales it has been announced. Reports are circulating that the giant has bought a one million square foot (92,900 sqm) factory in the area. Located next to Vantage's Newport campus, the factory was previously occupied by Quinn Radiators. Despite these circ...

March 18, 2022

Microsoft Azure

CyrusOne joins the orchard initiative

As more and more companies in the digital infrastructure sector realize the efforts required to change the trajectory of our planet’s path, more are joining different eco projects to contribute to the transformation. CyrusOne is one of these companies and has announced that it has joined Host ...

March 18, 2022

CyrusOne

Microsoft announces new Finland cloud region that will help to decarbonize local heating systems

Microsoft has announced that it is building a new data center region in Finland, joining Fortum's project to heat local homes and businesses in the Helsinki metropolitan area, and help decarbonize heating systems. This is reportedly the world's largest data center heat recovery project.For ye...

March 18, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Roswell City Council announces approval of Verizon data center expansion

Roswell City Council has given Verizon’s Rowswell data center the go-ahead after it unanimously approved the company’s rezoning request. The company’s expansion plans seek to develop a 50,800 square foot (4,700 sqm) facility and office on the site, which is as of yet undeveloped.Although the c...

March 18, 2022

Verizon Wireless

Korbank's Data Center Development in Warsaw Delayed Due To Specification Change

Polish telecommunications company, Korbank has revealed that it won’t be completing the construction of its Wroclaw data center till later. The data center was scheduled to be completed this month, but the date has been shifted to June of this year. The delay is happening because Korbank wants...

March 18, 2022

Warsaw

PLDT No Longer in a Hurry To Sell Off Its Data Center Unit

According to the Philippine Daily Inquirer, PLDT is having second thoughts over the sale of its data center unit. The Philippine telco has eased off its decision to sell its data center business after completing a deal to divest its cell tower asset. PLDT revealed earlier in the month that it ...

March 18, 2022

ePLDT

Equinix Is Acquiring Four Data Centers In Chile and Peru From Entel For $705 million

Equinix has acquired four data centers belonging to Entel in Peru and Chile for $705 million. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of the year. Per the deal, Equinix will take over one data center in Lima, Peru, and three facilities in Santiago, Chile. Under the terms of ...

March 18, 2022

Equinix

Amazon's Closes MGM $8.5bn Acquisition

Amazon has closed the acquisition of the US media company Metro Goldwyn Meyer (MGM). The transaction was worth $8.5 billion. The primary goal of the deal is to strengthen its Prime Video division. However, it also secures another cloud contract for AWS. AWS and MGM started working together ...

March 18, 2022

Amazon AWS

Vantage Investing CAD$900 in Canada Expansion Spree

Vantage Data Centers has announced that it is expanding its operations in Canada with significant developments. The company is looking to expand its existing facilities in Quebec and Montreal while developing a new campus in Montreal. It will be investing CAD$900 million (US$713m) in the ex...

March 18, 2022

Vantage Data Centers

PLDT Breaks Ground on The Largest Data Center in The Philippines

PLDT has begun working on a new data center outside Manila, the Philippines. The Philippines telco revealed plans for the 100MW facility in Santa Rosa last month. It had a ceremony earlier in the week to celebrate the groundbreaking at the site. The ceremony was led by The President and CEO...

March 18, 2022

ePLDT

Georgia Wants To Extend its Data Center Tax Exemptions Further

Georgia is looking to extend its tax exemptions for data centers by another five years. Earlier in 2018, the US state introduced the current sales tax exemptions for data centers through HB 696. The bill provides tax exemptions if it meets certain job creation thresholds and investments over a...

March 18, 2022

Georgia

Carrianna Group Sets Up Data Center in Hong Kong

Carrianna Group has announced the launch of a new data center in the Kwai Chang industrial area, Hong Kong. The Hong Kong property firm, Jun Gao Holdings Company Limited and Dr. Quentin Tsang jointly invested in the data center. The property has a gross floor area of 2,100 square meters (23,00...

March 18, 2022

Hong Kong

AWS To Invest £1.8 billion in The UK

AWS has announced its plans to invest up to £1.8 billion ($2.37bn) in the UK over the next two years. The funds will go into developing and operating data centers. Worthy of note is that the company did not reveal how it would specifically spend the funds. A blog post by the company said it...

March 18, 2022

Amazon AWS

Cryptomine facility headed for New Zealand’s South Island

Contact Energy has received the green light to build a cryptomine data center in New Zealand after approval was granted for the company’s resource consent application. This comes despite the significant amount of controversy around proposals. Critics argue that the facility will not benefit Ce...

March 17, 2022

New Zealand

Upstack announces partnership with Wyoming Hyperscale for sustainable data center

Upstack has formed a strategic partnership with Wyoming Hyperscale White Box (WHWB). The partnership will see the company gain access to the Wyoming Hyperscale White Box facility due to open by the end of 2022. Located in a remote mountainous site southeast of Evanston, according to the Thorno...

March 17, 2022

Wyoming

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