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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...

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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Read Yondr Group powers up Virginia facility
Yondr Group powers up Virginia facility
December 19, 2023

Yondr Group powers up Virginia facility

Yondr Group

Yondr Group has finally powered up its first data center in Loudoun County, Northern Virginia, after breaking ground on the facility in October 2022. Once completed, this facility will be able to deliver 96MW of IT capacity across two buildings, with the potential for further expansion. Eanna ...

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Read Lightmatter officially becomes a unicorn
Lightmatter officially becomes a unicorn
December 19, 2023

Lightmatter officially becomes a unicorn

Boston

Photonic computing company Lightmatter has now been crowned a Unicorn, raising $155 million at a $1.2 billion valuation. This funding is part of the series C investment round, which helped the company raise $154 million in May, successfully tripling the company’s value at the time. Overall, Li...

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Read Gigaclear secures £1.5 billion debt facility
Gigaclear secures £1.5 billion debt facility
December 18, 2023

Gigaclear secures £1.5 billion debt facility

United Kingdom

UK alternative network provider Gigaclear has recently secured a new debt facility of up to £1.5 billion, which is split between an upfront facility of around £1bn ($1.26bn) and an uncommitted accordion of circa £500 million. This new debt facility was provided by a consortium of banks includi...

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Read LevelTen Energy sets up carbon-free energy marketplace
LevelTen Energy sets up carbon-free energy marketplace
December 18, 2023

LevelTen Energy sets up carbon-free energy marketplace

Google

Renewables transaction company LevelTen Energy has set up a marketplace for time-based energy certificates to support renewable energy commitments around he clock. The GC Trading Alliance, supported by Google, Microsoft, and others, will be a platform to exchange "granular certificates" that v...

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Read Crusoe announces first European project
Crusoe announces first European project
December 16, 2023

Crusoe announces first European project

Crusoe

Crusoe Energy Systems LLC has announced a collaboration with atNorth, a Nordic colocation, computing and AI service provider, to colocate Crusoe Cloud GPUs in atNorth's ICE02 data center in Iceland, marking Crusoe’s first project in Europe.  Cully Cavness, Crusoe's co-founder and president, sa...

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Read Datagrid names Perrine Dhallum as CEO
Datagrid names Perrine Dhallum as CEO
December 16, 2023

Datagrid names Perrine Dhallum as CEO

New Zealand

New Zealand’s Datagrid announced this week that it has appointed Perrine Dhalluin as its new CEO, replacing Ludovic Hutier. Dhalluin was the CEO at Pacific Islands telecoms firm Intelia, before she left the role in November 2022, joining BW Digital as chief network officer. She has also held p...

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Read UK government proposes new regulations for data center security
UK government proposes new regulations for data center security
December 16, 2023

UK government proposes new regulations for data center security

United Kingdom

UK government launched a new consultation for data center security and resiliency regulation. The consultation dubbed “Protecting and enhancing the security and resilience of UK data infrastructure” is to source views on proposed regulations to improve the security and resilience of data infra...

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Read Armada raises funds for data center modules
Armada raises funds for data center modules
December 16, 2023

Armada raises funds for data center modules

Washington

Washington-based Edge computing firm Armada has announced that it recently raised $55 million for its Edge computing modules and management platform. The funds was raised from investors including Founders Fund, Lux Capital, Shield Capital, and 8090 Industries, with participation from Felicis, ...

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Read DC Blox plans new campus outside Atlanta
DC Blox plans new campus outside Atlanta
December 15, 2023

DC Blox plans new campus outside Atlanta

DC BLOX

US operator DC Blox announced this week that it had acquired 72 acres of land in Conyers, southeast of Atlanta in Rockdale County, Georgia, for a new data center campus. Once completed, this facility will feature 750,000 square feet (69,675 sqm) of space with 216MW of total power committed by ...

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Read Oracle launches second Chile cloud region
Oracle launches second Chile cloud region
December 15, 2023

Oracle launches second Chile cloud region

Oracle

Oracle this week announced the launch of a new region in the city of Valparaíso, to the west of the capital, Santiago. This new region marks the company’s second cloud region in Chile. Joaquin Ma-Shichoy, managing director at Oracle Chile, said, "The arrival of the second Oracle Cloud Region i...

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Read CoreSite plans new facilities in Secaucus and Denver
CoreSite plans new facilities in Secaucus and Denver
December 15, 2023

CoreSite plans new facilities in Secaucus and Denver

CoreSite

American Tower subsidiary CoreSite revealed its plans to expand its data center footprints in New Jersey and Colorado. The company revealed that it is already making plans for a data center in New Jersey which will be located adjacent to its NY2 facility at 2 Emerson Lane in Secaucus. It has a...

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Read Oracle deploys database service in Microsoft Azure East US region
Oracle deploys database service in Microsoft Azure East US region
December 15, 2023

Oracle deploys database service in Microsoft Azure East US region

Oracle

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has deployed its database services in the Microsoft Azure East US region's data centers, making it accessible to Microsoft customers. This new Oracle Database@Azure service covers all the abilities of the Oracle Database, alongside Azure services, such as the OpenAI...

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Read Cielo to develop massive data center in Virginia’s Culpeper County
Cielo to develop massive data center in Virginia’s Culpeper County
December 14, 2023

Cielo to develop massive data center in Virginia’s Culpeper County

Virginia

Cielo Digital Infrastructure is now on track to develop a 1.4 million square feet data center facility upon approval from Virginia’s Culpeper Country board. This project will be built on a 121-acre parcel along Nalles Mill Road following the County Board of Supervisors' vote to approve the pro...

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Read Seraya Partners reaches goal of $800 million APAC funding
Seraya Partners reaches goal of $800 million APAC funding
December 14, 2023

Seraya Partners reaches goal of $800 million APAC funding

Singapore

Singapore-based Seraya Partners has closed an $800 million fund dedicated to digital infrastructure and energy transition investments. Half of the fund has already been dedicated to three companies: data center operator Empyrion DC, offshore wind vessel operator Cyan Renewables, and solar, win...

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Read Penta Infra extends data center footprint to Hamburg
Penta Infra extends data center footprint to Hamburg
December 14, 2023

Penta Infra extends data center footprint to Hamburg

Penta Infra

Penta Infra announced this week that it is looking to extend its footprints to Germany and has begun constructing a new colocation data center in Hamburg. Once completed, this facility will offer 4.4MW across 2,500 square meters of white space. It will also be able to offer heat re-use as the ...

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Read Arcus unveils new European data center platform
Arcus unveils new European data center platform
December 13, 2023

Arcus unveils new European data center platform

Europe

Arcus Infrastructure Partners has recently launched a new European data center platform. This comes as the company announces the purchase of Internet Port Hamburg (IPHH), a regional data center operator and Internet service provider, and the launch of Portus Data Centers. Adriaan Oosthoek, cha...

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Read Microsoft to use renewable natural gas in San Jose facility
Microsoft to use renewable natural gas in San Jose facility
December 13, 2023

Microsoft to use renewable natural gas in San Jose facility

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft recently revealed its plans to use renewable natural gas (RNG) made from food waste to help power a microgrid that provides resilience at its San Jose data center. Fuel cell provider Enchanted Rock is in charge of this project and announced in 2022 that the microgrid would use biogas...

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Read Meta signs renewable energy deal in Arizona
Meta signs renewable energy deal in Arizona
December 13, 2023

Meta signs renewable energy deal in Arizona

Arizona

Social network company Meta announced this week that it has signed a new renewable energy deal in Arizona with Ørsted to support its Mesa data center with new solar energy from the Salt River Project. Following this contract, the social network company will receive most of the output of Ørsted...

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Read County’s planning staff recommends denial of massive data center project again
County’s planning staff recommends denial of massive data center project again
December 13, 2023

County’s planning staff recommends denial of massive data center project again

Compass Datacenters

The Prince William County staff have again recommended the denial of all three rezoning requests associated with the PW Digital Gateway data center project. This comes after two rejections of the rezoning requests by QTS and Compass in recent months.  County staff said in a report, “At this po...

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Read European Commission to provide €1.2 billion for cloud and Edge efforts
European Commission to provide €1.2 billion for cloud and Edge efforts
December 12, 2023

European Commission to provide €1.2 billion for cloud and Edge efforts

Europe

The European Commission will provide €1.2 billion ($1.29bn) in state funding for cloud computing and Edge development. The IPCEI Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure and Services (IPCEI CIS) was notified by all seven Member States: France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and ...

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