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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

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Read DataBank plans 192MW data center facility in Virginia
DataBank plans 192MW data center facility in Virginia
November 16, 2023

DataBank plans 192MW data center facility in Virginia

DataBank

DataBank announced it has acquired 85 acres of land in Culpeper, Virginia, to construct a new data center campus, which will host up to three two-story data centers offering 1.4 million square feet of space. The new facility will use DataBank’s recently announced Universal Data Hall Design (UD...

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Read Digital Realty and Realty Income Corporation form a data center JV in Northern Virginia
Digital Realty and Realty Income Corporation form a data center JV in Northern Virginia
November 16, 2023

Digital Realty and Realty Income Corporation form a data center JV in Northern Virginia

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty and Realty Income Corporation established a joint data center venture in Northern Virginia. Following their agreement, the real estate investment firm invested $200 million and will get an 80 percent equity interest in two data centers currently under construction in Northern Vi...

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Read CyrusOne files to invest $15m in new San Antonio data center
CyrusOne files to invest $15m in new San Antonio data center
November 15, 2023

CyrusOne files to invest $15m in new San Antonio data center

CyrusOne

Colocation company CyrusOne has filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation to build a new data center for the 'CyrusOne SAT 8 & 9' project in San Antonio, Texas. The application notes that the company intends to invest $15 million in building a two-story data center and of...

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Read Xavier Niel acquires 6% stake in Belgian telco Proximus
Xavier Niel acquires 6% stake in Belgian telco Proximus
November 15, 2023

Xavier Niel acquires 6% stake in Belgian telco Proximus

Belgium

Xavier Niel, the founder of French telecoms company Iliad, has acquired a six percent stake in Belgian telco Proximus through his holding company Carraun.The Belgian government has a majority stake of 53.51% in this telco, while the company holds 4.59 percent of its share capital. Niel said, "...

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Read American Tower enters partnership with MTN Nigeria
American Tower enters partnership with MTN Nigeria
November 15, 2023

American Tower enters partnership with MTN Nigeria

American Tower Corporation

American Tower's African subsidiary, ATC Africa, recently signed a communication agreement with MTN Nigeria focused on 'driving sustainable networks.' Following this agreement, ATC Africa will facilitate new tenancies for MTN Nigeria over a multi-year period, starting in the second half of nex...

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Read Microsoft announces two in-house designed semiconductors
Microsoft announces two in-house designed semiconductors
November 15, 2023

Microsoft announces two in-house designed semiconductors

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has recently announced it is working on two in-house designed semiconductors. One is an Arm CPU called the Microsoft Azure Cobalt CPU, designed for general workloads, focusing on performance per watt and a dedicated AI accelerator. The other is the Microsoft Azure Maia AI Accelerator...

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Read Exa Infrastructure names Nick Read as interim CEO
Exa Infrastructure names Nick Read as interim CEO
November 14, 2023

Exa Infrastructure names Nick Read as interim CEO

EXA Infrastructure

Exa Infrastructure recently announced that former Vodafone chief executive Nick Read will lead the business with immediate effect. Read, appointed as chairman of Exa Infrastructure in June, will replace Martijn Blanken as chief executive on an interim basis. As part of the transition, Blanket ...

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Read Google to launch new cloud region in Saudi Arabia
Google to launch new cloud region in Saudi Arabia
November 14, 2023

Google to launch new cloud region in Saudi Arabia

Google

Google recently announced that it will be launching its Saudi Arabian cloud region this week. Anthony Cirot, Google Cloud’s EMEA South VP, posted on LinkedIn, “I'm thrilled to share an exciting milestone in Google Cloud's journey: the launch of our new cloud region in Saudi Arabia. This marks ...

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Read Teraco announces 30MW expansion of Brackenfell facility
Teraco announces 30MW expansion of Brackenfell facility
November 14, 2023

Teraco announces 30MW expansion of Brackenfell facility

Teraco Data Environments

Teraco has announced a 30MW expansion of its CT2 campus in Brackenfell as the second construction phase begins. The new capacity of this facility is scheduled to be available in the first quarter of 2025.  The Digital Realty-owned company completed the first phase of CT2 at the Brackenfell cam...

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Read CapitaLand India Trust secures $155m loan for data center development
CapitaLand India Trust secures $155m loan for data center development
November 14, 2023

CapitaLand India Trust secures $155m loan for data center development

India / Bhārata

Singapore's CapitaLand India Trust (CLINT) has secured a Rs 1,300 crore ($155.9m) five-year construction loan to develop its data center facility in Navi Mumbai. India. This fund, secured by J.P. Morgan India, will be used to finance the first phase of construction of the data center. Sanjeev ...

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Read Paratus unveils second teleport in Pretoria, South Africa
Paratus unveils second teleport in Pretoria, South Africa
November 13, 2023

Paratus unveils second teleport in Pretoria, South Africa

South Africa

Pan-African digital infrastructure firm Paratus has launched a new teleport in Pretoria, marking its second teleport in South Africa. Paratus announced the launch of the new Goedehoop Teleport in Doornkloof, some 50 miles north of Johannesburg. Managing director of Paratus South Africa, Kallie...

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Read Liberty Latin America to sell telecom towers to PTI for $407m
Liberty Latin America to sell telecom towers to PTI for $407m
November 13, 2023

Liberty Latin America to sell telecom towers to PTI for $407m

France

Liberty Latin America (LLA) recently agreed to sell about 1,300 telecom towers to Phoenix Tower International (PTI) for $407 million. Tower sites to be monetized in this transaction include towers in locations across Panama, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Barbados, and the British Virgin I...

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Read Digicel to deactivate 2G network in Trinidad and Tobago next year
Digicel to deactivate 2G network in Trinidad and Tobago next year
November 13, 2023

Digicel to deactivate 2G network in Trinidad and Tobago next year

South America

Digicel has confirmed its plans to deactivate its 2G network in Trinidad and Tobago on March 31, 2024, as it intends to focus strictly on its 3G, 4G, and 4G LTE services. Operators have also reportedly designed technical solutions to eliminate 2G and 3G-only devices. Reyanne Sobers, general ma...

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Read Nvidia launches H200 GPU, its latest high-end GPU
Nvidia launches H200 GPU, its latest high-end GPU
November 13, 2023

Nvidia launches H200 GPU, its latest high-end GPU

United States

Nvidia has launched H200, its latest high-end GPU for training AI models. This new GPU, identical to the H100, has significant improvements as it features 41GB of HBM3e and a 4.8TBps memory bandwidth compared to the H100's 80GB of HBM3 and 3.5TBps of memory bandwidth. Ian Buck, vice president ...

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Read Carter Funds acquires data center in Collierville, Tennessee
Carter Funds acquires data center in Collierville, Tennessee
November 11, 2023

Carter Funds acquires data center in Collierville, Tennessee

Tennessee

This week, Aphorio Carter Fund Management Company, the critical infrastructure and data center division of Carter Funds, announced that it had acquired a fully leased enterprise data center property in Collierville for about $13 million. John Regan, chief investment officer of Aphorio Carter, ...

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Read Upstack acquires technology advisory firm PCM
Upstack acquires technology advisory firm PCM
November 11, 2023

Upstack acquires technology advisory firm PCM

United States

Data center directory firm Upstack has acquired technology advisory firm Progressive Communications Management (PCM), which specializes in advising enterprise and midmarket organizations on cloud, network, and communications solutions. Following this acquisition, PCM co-founders Bob Matthews a...

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Read Palisade Infrastructure acquires ISP Rainier Connect
Palisade Infrastructure acquires ISP Rainier Connect
November 11, 2023

Palisade Infrastructure acquires ISP Rainier Connect

Washington

Australian infrastructure investment firm Palisade Infrastructure this week completed the acquisition of 100 percent of the equity interests in Mashell, Ranier's parent company. Following this acquisition, Rainier Connect has been rebranded as Lightcurve with immediate effect. Mike Reynolds, m...

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Read US Defense Information Systems Agency awards $110 million contract to Lumen
US Defense Information Systems Agency awards $110 million contract to Lumen
November 10, 2023

US Defense Information Systems Agency awards $110 million contract to Lumen

Lumen Technologies

The  US Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Lumen Technologies a $110 million contract to provide mission-critical network services to the US Department of Defense (DoD). This contract has a timeline of five years, from November 30, 2023, through September 30, 2028. This contract is...

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Read Hausbank München to relocate German data centers to Kyndryl premises
Hausbank München to relocate German data centers to Kyndryl premises
November 10, 2023

Hausbank München to relocate German data centers to Kyndryl premises

Germany / Deutschland

IT services firm Kyndryl announced this week that it will be helping German cooperative bank Hausbank München to relocate two of its data centers from on-premise facilities to Kyndryl’s own facilities in Frankfurt.  Kyndryl will rebuild the dedicated server infrastructure, establish a moderniz...

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Read Naver launches 270MW data center in Sejong, South Korea
Naver launches 270MW data center in Sejong, South Korea
November 09, 2023

Naver launches 270MW data center in Sejong, South Korea

South Korea

South Korean technology firm Naver held an opening event for the first phase of its Sejong campus, its second major campus in Korea. This campus, currently spanning 290,000 square meters, is expected to reach 270MW of capacity at densities of 20kW and can reportedly hold 600,000 servers, runni...

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