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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 PepsiCo Signs Multi-Year Contract with AWS
PepsiCo Signs Multi-Year Contract with AWS
May 14, 2025

PepsiCo Signs Multi-Year Contract with AWS

PepsiCo, Inc. has signed a multi-year agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS). The American multinational food, snack, and beverage corporation will migrate its applications and workloads to AWS' cloud platform as part of its "cloud-first" strategy."A cloud-first approach has been essential t...

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Read Colovore Secures $925m Debt Facility from Blackstone
Colovore Secures $925m Debt Facility from Blackstone
May 14, 2025

Colovore Secures $925m Debt Facility from Blackstone

Liquid-cooled data center firm Colovore has secured almost $1 billion in new debt funding to fuel its ongoing roll-out across the US. The new financing will fast-track Colovore’s national expansion of its liquid-cooled data centers across the US. Initial expansions are planned for Reno, Nevada...

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Read Akamai Completes Edgio Customer Migration
Akamai Completes Edgio Customer Migration
May 13, 2025

Akamai Completes Edgio Customer Migration

Akamai has completed the migration of customers from bankrupt CDN firm Edgio. Akamai Technologies' CEO Tom Leighton said that of those customer accounts acquired from Edgio, the company has seen a $16 million commitment over the next three years. In total, Akamai saw a revenue of $1.015 billio...

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Read NTT to Launch and List REIT in Singapore
NTT to Launch and List REIT in Singapore
May 13, 2025

NTT to Launch and List REIT in Singapore

NTT aims to establish and list a new data center real estate investment trust on the Singapore Stock Exchange, to be seeded with six NTT-owned data centers.The company said it aims to transfer six NTT Limited-owned data centers to a proposed Singapore real estate investment trust NTT DC REIT. ...

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Read Thunderhead and HMC to deliver up to 1.5GW of offgrid natural gas power for US data centers
Thunderhead and HMC to deliver up to 1.5GW of offgrid natural gas power for US data centers
May 13, 2025

Thunderhead and HMC to deliver up to 1.5GW of offgrid natural gas power for US data centers

Thunderhead Energy Solutions, a US-based behind-the-meter natural gas power developer, has secured funding from Harbert Management Corporation (HMC) to develop up to 1.5GW of power generation capacity for the data center market.The collaboration will focus specifically on onsite natural gas-po...

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Read Top Data Center News For Baxtel 5th- 9th of May 2025
Top Data Center News For Baxtel 5th- 9th of May 2025
May 12, 2025

Top Data Center News For Baxtel 5th- 9th of May 2025

1. Amazon to Invest $4billion in the Chile RegionAmazon Web Services has committed to investing over $4 billion in developing a cloud region in Chile to support the construction, connection, operation, and maintenance of data centers in the country2. Prometheus Hyperscale to Power Wyoming Data...

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Read Bahnhof Plans Bunker Data Center in Gothenburg, Sweden
Bahnhof Plans Bunker Data Center in Gothenburg, Sweden
May 12, 2025

Bahnhof Plans Bunker Data Center in Gothenburg, Sweden

Swedish data center firm Bahnhof this week announced plans for the Bunkerberget data center in central Gothenburg’s Gamlestaden. The site has been acquired from Bunkeberget AB, but terms weren’t shared.Bunkerberget was first blasted during World War II as a shelter for the citizens of Gothenbu...

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Read Start Campus and Schneider Electric to Deliver 26MW data center in Sines, Portugal
Start Campus and Schneider Electric to Deliver 26MW data center in Sines, Portugal
May 12, 2025

Start Campus and Schneider Electric to Deliver 26MW data center in Sines, Portugal

Schneider Electric has helped deliver the first stage of the Start Campus data center development in Portugal. Located on repurposed industrial land in Sines, Portugal, Start Campus could eventually become Europe’s biggest data center campus, with 1.2GW of power secured by the developer.“Start...

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Read Robi Axiata to Develop 100MW Solar Project in Bangladesh
Robi Axiata to Develop 100MW Solar Project in Bangladesh
May 12, 2025

Robi Axiata to Develop 100MW Solar Project in Bangladesh

Bangladeshi telco Robi Axiata has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with two renewable energy companies to develop a 100MW solar project to power its operations in the country. The three parties will form a special-purpose vehicle (SPV) to finance, build, and operate the solar park.De...

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Read UniSC Plans Migration to Microsoft Azure
UniSC Plans Migration to Microsoft Azure
May 10, 2025

UniSC Plans Migration to Microsoft Azure

Australia's University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC is planning to start moving its core infrastructure workloads to the cloud out of two on-premises data centers by the second half of this year. Initially, the project will be a "lift and shift" migration according to the university, which wil...

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Read Portus to Build 5.5MW Data Center in Munich, Germany
Portus to Build 5.5MW Data Center in Munich, Germany
May 10, 2025

Portus to Build 5.5MW Data Center in Munich, Germany

European operator Portus Data Centers is his week announced an expansion of its Munich colocation campus with the construction of an additional 5.5MW facility - Portus Data Centers Munich 2 (MUC2). The new data center will add 2,200 sqm (23,680 sq ft) of white space and increase the site’s tot...

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Read Microsoft to Purchase 3m Carbon Removal Credits from EFM
Microsoft to Purchase 3m Carbon Removal Credits from EFM
May 10, 2025

Microsoft to Purchase 3m Carbon Removal Credits from EFM

Microsoft has signed a deal with sustainable forest management firm EFM to purchase three million carbon removal credits. The deal includes an offtake agreement for 700,000 credits through 2035, generated from a 68,000-acre project in Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula that EFM is transition...

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Read Gcore and AzInTelecom Partner on Sovereign Cloud in Azerbaijan
Gcore and AzInTelecom Partner on Sovereign Cloud in Azerbaijan
May 10, 2025

Gcore and AzInTelecom Partner on Sovereign Cloud in Azerbaijan

Edge AI and cloud provider Gcore is teaming up with AzInTelecom LLC for a sovereign cloud offering in Azerbaijan. AzInTelecom will work with Gcore to develop a cloud platform that meets Azerbaijan's data regulations. The offering, dubbed the "AzInCloud" platform, will be a public cloud service...

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Read Prometheus Hyperscale to Power Wyoming Data Center with Natural Gas
Prometheus Hyperscale to Power Wyoming Data Center with Natural Gas
May 10, 2025

Prometheus Hyperscale to Power Wyoming Data Center with Natural Gas

US data center developer, Prometheus Hyperscale, has signed a partnership agreement to power its Wyoming data center with a natural gas power solution tied to carbon removal credits. The agreement will see the deployment of a natural gas power solution at its 1.2GW hyperscale data center campu...

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Read Microsoft Signs Community Solar Deal with Nexamp in US market
Microsoft Signs Community Solar Deal with Nexamp in US market
May 10, 2025

Microsoft Signs Community Solar Deal with Nexamp in US market

Microsoft has signed a long-term agreement with Nexamp to develop a portfolio of community solar projects across the US. As part of the agreement, Microsoft will purchase renewable energy certificates (REC) from the solar portfolio to help meet its 2030 carbon negative commitment.The partnersh...

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Read Edged Breaks Ground on data center in Des Moines, Iowa
Edged Breaks Ground on data center in Des Moines, Iowa
May 09, 2025

Edged Breaks Ground on data center in Des Moines, Iowa

Edged this week announced the groundbreaking of its newest data center in Ankeny, located just north of Des Moines. The 13.2MW, 105,000-square-foot (9,755 sqm) facility, built for high-density artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, will be equipped with a closed-loop waterless cooling system....

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Read AWS Launches Wavelength Zone Edge Location in Kansas
AWS Launches Wavelength Zone Edge Location in Kansas
May 09, 2025

AWS Launches Wavelength Zone Edge Location in Kansas

Amazon this week announced the general availability of AWS Wavelength in partnership with Verizon in the Lenexa area of Kansas City. AWS’ US East (N. Virginia) Region is the parent of the new Wavelength location. Wavelength embeds AWS compute and storage services at the Edge of communications ...

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Read Microsoft Expands Carbon Removal Agreement with Stockholm Exergi
Microsoft Expands Carbon Removal Agreement with Stockholm Exergi
May 09, 2025

Microsoft Expands Carbon Removal Agreement with Stockholm Exergi

Microsoft has extended a carbon removal agreement for bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) firm Stockholm Exergi. The revised agreement will increase the quantity of carbon removal credits from 3.33 million tons to 5.08 million tons. The credits will be generated by Stockholm’s B...

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Read PJM Selects 51 Projects for Fast Track Interconnection
PJM Selects 51 Projects for Fast Track Interconnection
May 09, 2025

PJM Selects 51 Projects for Fast Track Interconnection

US Regional Transmission Organization (RTO) PJM Interconnection, has selected 51 projects for its fast-track interconnection review process to meet surging energy demand primarily from the data center market. The projects selected have a combined capacity of 11.8GW. Of that, gas-fired generati...

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Read Roblox Breaks Ground on Data Center in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Roblox Breaks Ground on Data Center in Sao Paulo, Brazil
May 09, 2025

Roblox Breaks Ground on Data Center in Sao Paulo, Brazil

The company behind video game platform Roblox has broken ground on a data center in São Paulo, Brazil. The company announced the new infrastructure development on its DevForum site, writing: "You asked. We listened. Brazil servers are coming to São Paulo in early 2026!"Jerret West, chief marke...

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