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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 Work begins on Africell data center
Work begins on Africell data center
June 10, 2022

Work begins on Africell data center

Africa

In Freetown, Sierra Leone, construction has commenced on Africell’s data center, and a groundbreaking ceremony was recently held in the country’s capital to mark the occasion. According to the company, this facility will become the “center of the Africell network” in Sierra Leone, where it wil...

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Read Meta announces expansion of $1B Gallatin data center development
Meta announces expansion of $1B Gallatin data center development
June 10, 2022

Meta announces expansion of $1B Gallatin data center development

Meta

Meta has announced that it will be expanding its Gallatin data center campus, which is located in Tennessee. The plans for the campus, which will see an injection of $1B, were first announced back in 2020, and the campus will be powered in part by solar energy from a 110MW power purchase agre...

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Read Vantage Data Centers Enters Power Purchase Agreement with SolarAfrica
Vantage Data Centers Enters Power Purchase Agreement with SolarAfrica
June 10, 2022

Vantage Data Centers Enters Power Purchase Agreement with SolarAfrica

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has entered into a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with SolarAfrica, which will enable Vantage to supplement the local grid powering the company’s data center campus in Johannesburg (JNB1) with renewable energy. According to reports, the campus is set to open in Ju...

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Read T4's South Island Data Center's Location Chosen
June 10, 2022

T4's South Island Data Center's Location Chosen

New Zealand

T4 Group has announced that it would house its planned Tier IV facility in New Zealand’s South Island at a hotel in Invercargill. The hotel will also use the data center’s waste heat. T4 first announced plans for the data center in March 2022. The company revealed that it would invest $30 m...

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Read Neterra Opens SDC 2 in Sofia, Bulgaria
June 10, 2022

Neterra Opens SDC 2 in Sofia, Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Telecommunication company, Neterra, has launched a new data center in Sofia, Bulgaria. The new data center is called Sofia Data Center 2 (SDC 2). SDC 2 is located next to Neterra’s existing SDC 1 data center. Neterra first announced plans for SDC 2 in April 2021. The data center is housed i...

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Read Meta Adding Two More Buildings To Its Huntsville Facility in Alabama
Meta Adding Two More Buildings To Its Huntsville Facility in Alabama
June 10, 2022

Meta Adding Two More Buildings To Its Huntsville Facility in Alabama

Hyperscale Data Center

Meta has announced that it is expanding its Huntsville facility in Alabama. The company revealed that it is adding two new buildings to the data center to allow the data center buildings to span 3.5 million square feet of space. According to Meta, its investment in the facility will exceed ...

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Read iM Critical Opens Data Center in Miami
June 10, 2022

iM Critical Opens Data Center in Miami

Miami

iM Critical has announced the opening of its new data center in Miami, Florida. The 9,290 square meter (100,000 square foot) data center building offers 5MW capacity and more than 5,575 square meters (60,000 square feet) of colocation space. The CEO of iM Critical, Michael Roark, said the Miam...

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Read Apple's Hopes of Developing Its Athenry Data Center Dashed
Apple's Hopes of Developing Its Athenry Data Center Dashed
June 10, 2022

Apple's Hopes of Developing Its Athenry Data Center Dashed

Hyperscale Data Center

Ireland’s High Court has rescinded a decision to allow more time for Apple to develop a data center in Athenry, Galway County. Earlier in 2021, the Galway County Council extended Apple’s planning permission for a data center development in the county. This extension happened at a time when ...

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Read CoreSite Absorbs Three American Tower's Data Centers
CoreSite Absorbs Three American Tower's Data Centers
June 09, 2022

CoreSite Absorbs Three American Tower's Data Centers

CoreSite

CoreSite has integrated three data centers from American Tower into its data center portfolio. The data centers are located in Florida and Georgia. The three data centers are Orlando OR1, located at 9701 S. John Young Parkway, Orlando, Atlanta AT1, located at 55 Marietta Street NW, Atlanta)...

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Read Orange Inaugurates New Data Centers in France
Orange Inaugurates New Data Centers in France
June 09, 2022

Orange Inaugurates New Data Centers in France

Orange

Orange has announced that it opened two data centers in France. The French company commissioned the data centers in the Val-de-Reuil in Normandy and the Centre-Val de Loire region in France. The data center buildings span 172,200 square feet (16,000 square meters) and 53,800 square feet (5,...

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Read STT GDC To Develop New Data Center in Seoul, South Korea
STT GDC To Develop New Data Center in Seoul, South Korea
June 09, 2022

STT GDC To Develop New Data Center in Seoul, South Korea

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has revealed that it will be developing a new data center in Seoul, South Korea. The data center will be developed in the Gasan-dong area in Seoul. This will be the company’s second facility in South Korea. The data center will span 335,900 square ...

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Read NTT signs 70MW solar PPA in Japan
NTT signs 70MW solar PPA in Japan
June 09, 2022

NTT signs 70MW solar PPA in Japan

NTT

NTT has announced that it has signed a PPA through which it will procure solar energy in Japan. Clean Energy Connect Co Ltd is the partner who will deploy solar power generating capacity for the company, and assist the group in achieving its aim of becoming carbon neutral by 2040. The project...

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Read AWS To Develop a Data Center in Warrenton, Virginia
AWS To Develop a Data Center in Warrenton, Virginia
June 09, 2022

AWS To Develop a Data Center in Warrenton, Virginia

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services plans to develop a new data center in Warrenton, Northern Virginia. The company has already filed with officials to develop a single-story, 220,000 square feet (20,400 square meters) data center at the intersection of Lee Highway and Blackwell Road in Warrenton town. AWS...

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Read DataVita To Open a 130-Rack Data Center in Glasgow
DataVita To Open a 130-Rack Data Center in Glasgow
June 09, 2022

DataVita To Open a 130-Rack Data Center in Glasgow

DataVita

DataVita has revealed that it will be opening a new data center in Glasgow. The company will be occupying space at a newly developed 14-story building located at 177 Bothwell Street. The building spans 29,000 square meters (313,000 square feet) and is said to be the largest single office bu...

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Read Stack Infrastructure Expands Into Australia With Partnership With Hickory
Stack Infrastructure Expands Into Australia With Partnership With Hickory
June 09, 2022

Stack Infrastructure Expands Into Australia With Partnership With Hickory

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure has announced that it is expanding into Australia. The company is partnering with Hickory, an Australian real estate developer. In addition, the development will see Stack develop data centers in three cities in the country. Stack Australia is already developing a data ...

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Read Equinix To Invest $86m in Developing a New Indian Facility
Equinix To Invest $86m in Developing a New Indian Facility
June 09, 2022

Equinix To Invest $86m in Developing a New Indian Facility

Equinix

Equinix has announced that it will be developing its third data center in Mumbai, India. The data center giant said it would invest over $86 million to develop the data center. According to the company, the data center will be housed on four-acre land. The data center will be located in Cha...

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Read President Biden cuts tax barriers on solar panel imports
President Biden cuts tax barriers on solar panel imports
June 08, 2022

President Biden cuts tax barriers on solar panel imports

United States

On Monday, President Biden launched a clean energy push with the announcement that there will be a two-year break from tariffs on solar panels coming from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, in an effort to bolster clean energy projects in the U.S. Alongside issuing this executive order...

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Read Prime Data Centers to expand in LA
Prime Data Centers to expand in LA
June 08, 2022

Prime Data Centers to expand in LA

Prime Data Centers

Prime Data Centers is to open a new hyperscale datacenter in Los Angeles after acquiring a 4.5-acre parcel, which is presently occupied by an industrial building, it has been announced. The facility will have a capacity of 33MW and be located in Vernon, Southern California. The data center pl...

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Read Ghana: Africa Data Centres plans 30MW facility
Ghana: Africa Data Centres plans 30MW facility
June 08, 2022

Ghana: Africa Data Centres plans 30MW facility

Africa Data Centres

Africa Data Centres has announced its plans to build a 30MW data center in Accra, Ghana, adding to its presence in Nairobi, Kenya; Lagos, Nigeria; Lomé, Togo; and Samrand and Midrand, South Africa. Further details around when the facility will go live are yet to be released. Tesh Durvasula, A...

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Read Google Launches First Cloud Region in Texas
Google Launches First Cloud Region in Texas
June 08, 2022

Google Launches First Cloud Region in Texas

Google

Google has announced a new cloud region in Dallas, Texas. In a statement by the company, it said it is happy to expand its presence in Texas by launching a new cloud region in Dallas, making it the second region in the central US and the eleventh in North America. This is the company’s firs...

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