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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 Axiata's tower subsidiary Edotco completes the acquisition of PLDT towers
Axiata's tower subsidiary Edotco completes the acquisition of PLDT towers
September 11, 2023

Axiata's tower subsidiary Edotco completes the acquisition of PLDT towers

Philippines

Axiata Group is done with the transfer of the remaining towers from PLDT's subsidiaries to its Philippine subsidiary. Thus, the Malaysian company has finalized an agreement to acquire and lease back 2,710 sites. The company declared that the final transfer of the six sites under its agreement ...

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Read Vantage Data Centers EMEA receives $1.6 bn from AustralianSuper
Vantage Data Centers EMEA receives $1.6 bn from AustralianSuper
September 11, 2023

Vantage Data Centers EMEA receives $1.6 bn from AustralianSuper

Vantage Data Centers

AustralianSuper has made an investment in Vantage Data Centers' EMEA operations. Last week, the company announced it would invest $1.6 billion to acquire a "significant minority stake" in Vantage Data Centers Europe, Middle East, and Africa (Vantage EMEA), backed by DigitalBridge. The pension ...

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Read King George County, Virginia, authorizes land rezoning for AWS data facility
King George County, Virginia, authorizes land rezoning for AWS data facility
September 11, 2023

King George County, Virginia, authorizes land rezoning for AWS data facility

Amazon AWS

The King George County Board of Supervisors authorized Amazon Web Service's (AWS) 19-building data center campus's 869-acre rezone from agriculture to industrial use. Birchwood Power Partners applied for rezoning for AWS. AWS has received this first approval, but Birchwood's attorney, Charlie ...

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Read Manulife successfully acquires Serverfarm
Manulife successfully acquires Serverfarm
September 08, 2023

Manulife successfully acquires Serverfarm

ServerFarm Realty

Manulife Investment Management has concluded the acquisition of data center firm Serverfarm on behalf of Manulife Infrastructure Fund II. In May 2023, Manulife announced its intention to acquire a majority stake in Serverfarm. Avner Papouchado, the CEO of Serverfarm, and NantCapital LLC will r...

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Read V.tal intends to construct a 6MW data center in Porto Alegre, Brazil
V.tal intends to construct a 6MW data center in Porto Alegre, Brazil
September 08, 2023

V.tal intends to construct a 6MW data center in Porto Alegre, Brazil

Brazil / Brasil

V.tal, a Brazilian data center company, revealed plans for a new facility in Porto Alegre. The data center will accommodate 400 racks of servers in two data halls spanning 75,350 square feet. This year is anticipated to be the start of construction for an H2 2024 completion date. The company s...

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Read University of Minnesota permits $40 million data center property sale to Meta
University of Minnesota permits $40 million data center property sale to Meta
September 08, 2023

University of Minnesota permits $40 million data center property sale to Meta

Meta

The University of Minnesota (UoM) Board of Regents has authorized the $39.7 million land sale to Meta. The 280-acre tract of land in UMore Park has been sold to Jimnist LLC, a subsidiary of Meta, for a data center.The land that comprises UMore Park is located in Rosemount and is bordered by Co...

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Read CyrusOne proposes seventh data center in Frankfurt
CyrusOne proposes seventh data center in Frankfurt
September 08, 2023

CyrusOne proposes seventh data center in Frankfurt

CyrusOne

CyrusOne is required to construct a new data center in Frankfurt, Germany. Last week, the company unveiled plans for its seventh data center facility in Frankfurt, designated FRA7 and situated on a 678,125-square-foot plot in the Frankfurt Westside business park. The development will include t...

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Read Operations commence at TikTok's Irish data center
Operations commence at TikTok's Irish data center
September 07, 2023

Operations commence at TikTok's Irish data center

Republic of Ireland

Operations have begun at TikTok's long-planned data center in Ireland, it has announced. This is its first in Ireland. It is also working on opening two more data centers in Europe, a second in Ireland and another in Norway. This move is a bid to please regulators, and ease spying fears, as pa...

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Read Digital Realty to expand in Italy
Digital Realty to expand in Italy
September 07, 2023

Digital Realty to expand in Italy

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it's expanding into the Italian market with a new Tier IV-quality data center, named ROM1. This announcement comes following the acquisition and pre-development planning of land in Rome. The facility will sit on a 22-hectare site, with construction set to comm...

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Read V.tal expands datacenter footprint in southern Brazil
V.tal expands datacenter footprint in southern Brazil
September 07, 2023

V.tal expands datacenter footprint in southern Brazil

Brazil / Brasil

V.tal has shared that it is expanding its footprint in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Set to be the company’s first in the country’s south region and fifth overall, the development (dubbed V.OA) will see an investment of 250mn reais (US$50.7mn), as part of the company’s wider expansion plan in Brazil a...

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Read Nvidia joins with Jio for 2,000MW AI data facilities, Tata for AI cloud in India
Nvidia joins with Jio for 2,000MW AI data facilities, Tata for AI cloud in India
September 07, 2023

Nvidia joins with Jio for 2,000MW AI data facilities, Tata for AI cloud in India

India / Bhārata

Nvidia has partnered with Reliance Industries and Tata Group, India's two largest firms by market cap. The two companies will construct internal and external AI supercomputers and cloud platforms using Nvidia hardware. With Reliance, Nvidia will construct AI infrastructure "over an order of ma...

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Read Altice negotiating data center line up sale to Morgan Stanley
Altice negotiating data center line up sale to Morgan Stanley
September 07, 2023

Altice negotiating data center line up sale to Morgan Stanley

Altice Portugal (Portugal Telecom)

The French telecommunications company Altice is nearing an agreement to sell its French data centers to Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners. According to Los Echos, the two companies are in "advanced discussions," and a preliminary valuation agreement has been reached. The 92 data centers m...

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Read Construction starts on the county government data center in Maryland
Construction starts on the county government data center in Maryland
September 07, 2023

Construction starts on the county government data center in Maryland

Maryland

The Frederick County Government office building in Maryland, which includes a data center, is still under construction. The Prospect Center on Himes Avenue in Frederick will be converted as part of this undertaking. The county paid $20 million for the building in 2021, and it will house multip...

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Read Digital Realty will construct a data center in Rome
Digital Realty will construct a data center in Rome
September 07, 2023

Digital Realty will construct a data center in Rome

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty plans to extend its operations into Italy and has already purchased land in Rome, the country's capital. Following the purchase of land in Rome and the subsequent pre-development planning for it, the company announced its entry into the Italian market last week.The ROM1 data cen...

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Read ServerDomes plans dome-shaped data facilities across Mexican fiber line
ServerDomes plans dome-shaped data facilities across Mexican fiber line
September 07, 2023

ServerDomes plans dome-shaped data facilities across Mexican fiber line

México

US university subsidiary  ServerDomes will build aluminum dome data centers along a new Mexican fiber route. ServerDomes, a 2017 geodesic design from Portland, has partnered with Mexican infrastructure provider Fermaca Infraestructura.Fermaca will have exclusive rights to create ServerDomes-de...

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Read Belgian data center company KevlinX receives investment from Macquarie
Belgian data center company KevlinX receives investment from Macquarie
September 07, 2023

Belgian data center company KevlinX receives investment from Macquarie

Macquarie Data Centres

Macquarie has made an investment in a Belgian data center developer. Allen & Overy announced this week that it advised Macquarie Capital on its investment in KevlinX Holding B.V. Allen & Overy reported that KevlinX HoldCo is creating a data center in Brussels via its indirect subsidiar...

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Read Arm might be worth up to $52 billion after its IPO
Arm might be worth up to $52 billion after its IPO
September 06, 2023

Arm might be worth up to $52 billion after its IPO

1025Connect

Arm intends to price its initial public offering (IPO) between $47 and $51 per share, which could generate up to $4.9 billion for SoftBank. The IPO would value the semiconductor designer up to $52 billion, exceeding the $32 billion SoftBank paid for in 2016 but falling short of the $64 billion...

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Read Nestlé sells Swiss data center to local real estate firm
Nestlé sells Swiss data center to local real estate firm
September 06, 2023

Nestlé sells Swiss data center to local real estate firm

Switzerland

The multinational food conglomerate Nestlé has sold a Swiss data center. This week, Baker McKenzie Switzerland revealed that it advised Nestlé Global Real Estate on the transfer of its data center and office property to Orllati Real Estate SA. The site at Rte de Buyère 4 in Bussigny, canton of...

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Read Principal buys a pair of telco-occupied facilities in Dublin, Ireland
Principal buys a pair of telco-occupied facilities in Dublin, Ireland
September 06, 2023

Principal buys a pair of telco-occupied facilities in Dublin, Ireland

Vodafone

Principal Asset Management bought two data centers located in Dublin, Ireland, that are leased. Principal European Data Centre Fund I has made its fourth and fifth investments in Europe, this time in the capital of Ireland, according to IPE Real Assets and PropertyEU. The company has acquired ...

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Read I Squared Capital's nLighten buys Proximity, a UK-based edge company
I Squared Capital's nLighten buys Proximity, a UK-based edge company
September 06, 2023

I Squared Capital's nLighten buys Proximity, a UK-based edge company

Proximity Data Centres

nLighten, a European Edge data center company, has acquired the United Kingdom's Proximity Data Centres. The agreement's terms were not disclosed. nLighten, owned by I Squared Capital, plans to retain its data center operations in the country.Proximity, founded in 2020, administers ten regiona...

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