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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 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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Read Ohio firefighters killed in a tower maintenance accident
Ohio firefighters killed in a tower maintenance accident
November 29, 2023

Ohio firefighters killed in a tower maintenance accident

Ohio

Concord-Green fire chief Ralph Stegbauer and fire captain Jeffery Skaggs have both passed away while carrying out tower maintenance outside their firehouse in Ohio. Both firefighters were working on the Fayette County, Ohio tower when the mechanical lift they were in overturned. This accident ...

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Read Google’s Nevada facility to be powered by geothermal power
Google’s Nevada facility to be powered by geothermal power
November 29, 2023

Google’s Nevada facility to be powered by geothermal power

Google

Google recently announced that its data centers in Nevada will be powered by a new geothermal power plant. This project, originally announced by Google and Fervo in 2021, is a  5MW project that will use Google AI systems to help with its operations. Michael Terrell, senior director of energy a...

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Read Musk to provide Israel with Starlink acces upon approval from Israel
Musk to provide Israel with Starlink acces upon approval from Israel
November 29, 2023

Musk to provide Israel with Starlink acces upon approval from Israel

Israel

Last month, Elon Musk mentioned that he would look into providing Gaza with its Starlink service to  "support connectivity to internationally recognized aid organizations in Gaza." In recent developments, Israel has responded to Musk saying Starlink's satellite network will only be allowed to ...

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Read Amazon and Nvidia to build the world’s largest cloud AI supercomputer
Amazon and Nvidia to build the world’s largest cloud AI supercomputer
November 29, 2023

Amazon and Nvidia to build the world’s largest cloud AI supercomputer

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services has revealed that it is in partnership with GPU-maker Nvidia to launch the Project Ceiba supercomputer. This supercomputer is expected to be the world’s largest cloud AI supercomputer, featuring  16,384 GH200 NVL32 Grace Hopper Superchips. The system will also feature the A...

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Read Ardian purchases data center company Verne Global
Ardian purchases data center company Verne Global
November 28, 2023

Ardian purchases data center company Verne Global

Verne Global

French private equity firm Ardian just purchased data center company Verne Global from Digital 9 Infrastructure. D9 bought Verne for $320 million in 2021 and has since then acquired and merged Finnish data center firm Ficolo and London’s Volta Data Centres into the Verne brand. However, D9 had...

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Read OpenAI hires Todd Underwood to head new SRE team
OpenAI hires Todd Underwood to head new SRE team
November 28, 2023

OpenAI hires Todd Underwood to head new SRE team

Google

OpenAI has hired Google’s Todd Underwood to head a new Site Reliability Engineering team focused on research and training workloads as it already has a functional team for the applied side working on inference and API products. The SRE concept originally started at Google, but has since spread...

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Read European Commission reveals plans to upgrade power grids
European Commission reveals plans to upgrade power grids
November 27, 2023

European Commission reveals plans to upgrade power grids

Europe

The European Commission is currently drafting a plan to invest about €584 billion to upgrade the region's power grids. With this investment, countries will be able to handle varied renewable energy loads, modernize transmission, and improve cyber security. The draft document posted by Reuters ...

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Read OpenAI hires Google’s Richard Ho to head new hardware department
OpenAI hires Google’s Richard Ho to head new hardware department
November 27, 2023

OpenAI hires Google’s Richard Ho to head new hardware department

Google

OpenAI has hired Google’s Richard Ho as the head of hardware to lead the new division to help “influence roadmaps for hardware partners for data center networks, racks, and buildings.” Ho had spent about 9 years at Google, leading one of the company’s Cloud Tensor Processing Units projects, wi...

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Read EcoDataCeter to double capacity of Swedish data center
EcoDataCeter to double capacity of Swedish data center
November 27, 2023

EcoDataCeter to double capacity of Swedish data center

EcoDataCenter (EcoDC AB)

EcoDataCenter has revealed plans to expand its main data center and more than double its current capacity. The first phase of the EcoDataCenter 1 expansion is expected to be completed by the third quarter of 2024, and the full build out by second quarter of 2025. The expansion will bring the t...

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Read Nexspace unveils new data center facility in Heidelberg, Germany
Nexspace unveils new data center facility in Heidelberg, Germany
November 25, 2023

Nexspace unveils new data center facility in Heidelberg, Germany

nexspace: Heidelberg

New colocation operator Nexspace recently unveiled its first facility in the Heidelberg Innovation Park (HIP) in Germany this month. The three-story site offers 2MW of IT load across 4,000 square meters, which is reportedly expandable to 8,000 square meters in the future.  Germany’s Data C...

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Read Rest Super invests in Quinbrook data center
Rest Super invests in Quinbrook data center
November 25, 2023

Rest Super invests in Quinbrook data center

Australia

Australian superannuation fund Rest Super announced this week that it is investing  $656 million in a data center and battery storage project from Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners in Brisbane. This investment will expose it to several assets, including solar and battery projects, green data s...

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Read Gigas to expand footprint in Lisbon
Gigas to expand footprint in Lisbon
November 25, 2023

Gigas to expand footprint in Lisbon

Spain

Spanish cloud company Gigas has planned to invest €3 million this year in its Oni data center in Lisbon, Portugal. The company purchased Portuguese telco Oni from MásMóvil in November 2020 for €40 million and plans to double the number of data rooms the 2,000 square meters site offers to ten, ...

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Read Telkcom considers selling Swifnet tower division
Telkcom considers selling Swifnet tower division
November 25, 2023

Telkcom considers selling Swifnet tower division

South Africa

South African telco Telkom, which spun off its telecom towers and mast into a separate division in 2021, is looking to sell the assets to unlock more value in the business. The operator is now in exclusive negotiations over selling its masts and towers business, Swiftnet. The company mentioned...

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Read Germany’s Hauck Aufhäuser Lamp Privatbank to launch new data center fund
Germany’s Hauck Aufhäuser Lamp Privatbank to launch new data center fund
November 24, 2023

Germany’s Hauck Aufhäuser Lamp Privatbank to launch new data center fund

Germany / Deutschland

Germany’s Hauck Aufhäuser Lamp Privatbank announced that its real estate investment management unit is launching a €300 million fund for institutional investors, targeting data centers in major German cities. This is the company’s first-ever data center-focused fund.  Patrick Brinker, head of ...

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Read Ericsson issues its first-ever green bond
Ericsson issues its first-ever green bond
November 24, 2023

Ericsson issues its first-ever green bond

Europe

Swedish network vendor Telco OEM Ericsson announced that it has issued its first-ever green bond, a  €500 million bond with a maturity of four-and-a-half years issued under Ericsson's Euro Medium Term Note Program (EMTN). Carl Mellander, Ericsson’s CFO said, “The successful placement of this g...

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Read Graphcore discontinues China business, pulls out of the country
Graphcore discontinues China business, pulls out of the country
November 24, 2023

Graphcore discontinues China business, pulls out of the country

China

British chipmaker Graphcore has announced that it will pull out of China in the face of US export controls. The chipmaker is now letting go of most of its staff in China and discontinuing business there. This is another setback to the company, which is already struggling as it revealed in Octo...

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Read Microsoft to expand its footprint in Canada
Microsoft to expand its footprint in Canada
November 23, 2023

Microsoft to expand its footprint in Canada

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft this week announced that it will be expanding its footprint in Canada with multiple new data centers with an investment of US$500 million to expand its cloud computing and AI infrastructure in Quebec over the next two years. The company notes that this investment will increase its lo...

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Read NextDC commences construction on Darwin data center
NextDC commences construction on Darwin data center
November 23, 2023

NextDC commences construction on Darwin data center

NEXTDC

Two years after sharing initial plans, NextDC has finally begun construction at its D1  8MW data center in Australia's Northern Territory in Darwin. The site located close to the Charles Darwin University CBD campus is  being constructed by Kapitol Group NT and is expected to create around 200...

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Read Sam Altman returns as OpenAI’s CEO, with new board
Sam Altman returns as OpenAI’s CEO, with new board
November 23, 2023

Sam Altman returns as OpenAI’s CEO, with new board

Microsoft Azure

Sam Altman, who was suddenly fired by the board has “reached an agreement in principle” to return as CEO of OpenAI as nearly all of OpenAI’s employees threatened to leave the company if the board did not reverse its decision.  Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear, who was appointed as interim CEO ai...

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