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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

Posted by: Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

New Jersey

Read Extropic raises $14.1 million in seed funding to build physics-based AI computers
Extropic raises $14.1 million in seed funding to build physics-based AI computers
December 05, 2023

Extropic raises $14.1 million in seed funding to build physics-based AI computers

United States

Startup Quantum computing startup Extropic which was founded last year by former members of Alphabet’s quantum computing research team has raised $14.1 million in seed funding to build physics-based AI computers.  The company plans to build computers that allow generative AI to scale in an eff...

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Read Orange launches data center in Garborone, Botswana
Orange launches data center in Garborone, Botswana
December 05, 2023

Orange launches data center in Garborone, Botswana

Orange

Telco Orange recently unveiled a new data center in Gaborone, Botswana. The company posted on LinkedIn, “Hello from the new Orange Data Center at the Botswana Digital & Innovation Hub! This is the first Tier III data center in Botswana and third in Southern Africa.” According to ITWeb Afri...

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Read Ardent to purchase new data center facilities across US and UK
Ardent to purchase new data center facilities across US and UK
December 04, 2023

Ardent to purchase new data center facilities across US and UK

United States

Ardent Data Centers recently revealed its plans to acquire three data centers as part of a €110 million investment plan. The company mentioned it has successfully agreed letters of intent with two sites in the US and is the preferred bidder on a third in the UK. Once all three sites are acquir...

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Read DataVolt plans a new data center facility in Uzubekistan
DataVolt plans a new data center facility in Uzubekistan
December 04, 2023

DataVolt plans a new data center facility in Uzubekistan

Saudi Arabia

New Saudi firm DataVolt has revealed plans for a new data center campus in Uzbekistan and has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Digital Technologies, the Ministry of Energy, and the Ministry of Investment, Industry, and Trade of the Republic of Uzbekistan, to deve...

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Read Malaysian telco Axiata to exit Nepalese market
Malaysian telco Axiata to exit Nepalese market
December 04, 2023

Malaysian telco Axiata to exit Nepalese market

Malaysia

Malaysian telco Axiata Group Berhad  announced last week that it has entered into an unconditional sale and purchase agreement with Spectrlite UK Limited for the sale of Reynolds Holding Limited, which owns approximately 80 percent equity stake in Ncell Axiata Limited. The company mentioned th...

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Read Vertiv purchases liquid cooling business CoolTera
Vertiv purchases liquid cooling business CoolTera
December 04, 2023

Vertiv purchases liquid cooling business CoolTera

United States

Data center and digital infrastructure power and cooling company Vertiv recently purchased liquid cooling business CoolTera. Vertiv is now in charge of the provider of coolant distribution infrastructure, including certain contracts, patents, trademarks, and intellectual property from an affil...

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Read Evroc to build its first data center in Stockholm
Evroc to build its first data center in Stockholm
December 04, 2023

Evroc to build its first data center in Stockholm

Stockholm

New data center firm Evroc announced last week that it has signed an agreement with Arlandastad Group to select Stockholm as the location for its first facility and build it in 2024. The company also mentioned that it plans to invest €600 million in the project, which is one of ten it intends ...

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Read Mitratel acquires over 800 towers from Gametraco for $113 million
Mitratel acquires over 800 towers from Gametraco for $113 million
December 03, 2023

Mitratel acquires over 800 towers from Gametraco for $113 million

Jakarta

Jakarta-based PT Dayamitra Telekomunikasi Tbk (Mitratel)  revealed last week that it recently acquired 803 towers from infrastructure operator PT Gametraco Tunggal for around $113 million.  The Telkom Indonesia subsidiary noted that this acquisition includes 1.327 tenants, confirming that 562 ...

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Read Norway’s Green Mountain completes first Tiktok data center
Norway’s Green Mountain completes first Tiktok data center
December 01, 2023

Norway’s Green Mountain completes first Tiktok data center

Green Mountain AS

Green Mountain has completed the data center building at the OSL2-Hamar campus in Norway, which it claims is Europe’s largest data center run on renewable energy and has officially handed it over to TikTok. The social media company is now in charge of delivering, installing, and testing server...

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Read Verne Global introduces cooling liquid to underground Finnish facility
Verne Global introduces cooling liquid to underground Finnish facility
December 01, 2023

Verne Global introduces cooling liquid to underground Finnish facility

Verne Global

UK and Nordic provider Verne Global has added liquid cooling to its underground Finnish data center campus in conjunction with Dell and Intel. Verne is now offering direct liquid cooling (DLC) for systems installed in the Rock data center, which occupies ex-military tunnels in the bedrock at P...

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Read CyrusOne launches fifth data center in Frankfurt
CyrusOne launches fifth data center in Frankfurt
December 01, 2023

CyrusOne launches fifth data center in Frankfurt

CyrusOne

CyrusOne has just launched its fifth data center in Frankfurt, FRA5  located in Hanau, 25km east of Frankfurt's city center. This new campus, spanning 18,000 square meters across two buildings will offer 54MW of IT capacity. The launch ceremony hosted by Carsten Schneider was attended by Lord ...

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Read Sines facility in Portuguese scandal also destroyed natural habitats
Sines facility in Portuguese scandal also destroyed natural habitats
December 01, 2023

Sines facility in Portuguese scandal also destroyed natural habitats

Portugal

The Sines data center campus in Portugal involved in the Portuguese government corruption scandal is reported to have also destroyed natural habitats protected by Portuguese and European legislation. A report by the INCF revealed Start Campus built its first data center on the site in Sines on...

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Read Kao Data’s second Harlow facility now ready for operation
Kao Data’s second Harlow facility now ready for operation
December 01, 2023

Kao Data’s second Harlow facility now ready for operation

KAO Data

Kao Data recently completed work on its second data center in Harlow, UK and has noted that the facility is now ready for operations. According to a LinkedIn post shared by the company on November 28, the KLON-02  is a 10MW data center that has been designed and built "to the highest standards...

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Read Intel partners with Vertiv to develop two-phase liquid cooling in Gaudi3 AI accelerator
Intel partners with Vertiv to develop two-phase liquid cooling in Gaudi3 AI accelerator
December 01, 2023

Intel partners with Vertiv to develop two-phase liquid cooling in Gaudi3 AI accelerator

Intel

Intel's new Gaudi3 AI accelerator is set to have two-phase liquid cooling developed in partnership with Vertiv. The systems will have a pumped two-phase (P2P) cooling system designed to remove up to 160kW of heat, using water from 17°C up to 45°C (62.6°F to 113°F). An alternative for air-coole...

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Read DigitalBridge closes its digital infrastructure after raising $1.1billion
DigitalBridge closes its digital infrastructure after raising $1.1billion
December 01, 2023

DigitalBridge closes its digital infrastructure after raising $1.1billion

DigitalBridge

DigitalBridge has closed its digital infrastructure credit fund, DigitalBridge Credit (DBC), after raising $1.1 billion. This fund will be used to support the growth of companies within the digital infrastructure sector. Investors, including pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign wealth...

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Read Meta unveils new Illinois data center
Meta unveils new Illinois data center
November 30, 2023

Meta unveils new Illinois data center

Illinois

Meta has finally launched its 2.3 million square feet DeKalb, Illinois, data center three years after construction began. According to the company, this construction took over $1 billion to complete and required 1,200 skilled workers. This site is expected to provide over 200 operational jobs ...

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Read Telefónica to cut jobs in Spain
Telefónica to cut jobs in Spain
November 30, 2023

Telefónica to cut jobs in Spain

Telefonica

Telefónica has revealed to the labor union representatives that it plans to cut jobs in Spain, according to the UGT union. The company did not specify how many jobs it intends to cut. However, the Spanish newspaper Cinco Dias reports that there could be as many as 3,000 jobs. The company is cu...

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Read Broadcom reduces VMware workforce by over 1200
Broadcom reduces VMware workforce by over 1200
November 30, 2023

Broadcom reduces VMware workforce by over 1200

California

Broadcom recently disclosed 1,267 layoffs for VMware employees at the Palo Alto, California, headquarters only a day after the layoff plans were announced. This also comes one week after Broadcom completed its acquisition of VMware.  A  letter from Jill Turner, Broadcom's vice president of hum...

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Read Climate groups to launch new Virginia data center pressure group on Friday
Climate groups to launch new Virginia data center pressure group on Friday
November 29, 2023

Climate groups to launch new Virginia data center pressure group on Friday

Virginia

A group of 20 environmental and climate groups will launch a coalition this week to rein in the data center industry across the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Virginia Data Center Reform Coalition will call for limits to data center development at a press conference on Friday, December 1. The C...

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Read Ericson partners with Ooredo to provide 4G network of oil companies
Ericson partners with Ooredo to provide 4G network of oil companies
November 29, 2023

Ericson partners with Ooredo to provide 4G network of oil companies

Africa

Ericsson recently announced that it is working with Qatari mobile operator Ooredoo to provide its customers in the oil and gas sector with rugged 4G network connectivity. The network will be deployed offshore to connect the oil and gas customer’s facilities with arriving ships. Kevin Murphy, V...

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