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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 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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New Jersey

August 15, 2025

DayOne Plans 128MW Data Center in Finland

Finland

APAC data center firm DayOne this week announced plans to develop a campus in Lahti, some 100km northeast of Helsinki. The €1.2 billion ($1.4bn) project will be located in a former industrial site in Kiveriö. At full build-out, the project could total 128MW IT load."Finland is an ideal strateg...

August 15, 2025

Core42 Signs Deal with Northern Data for Access to 10,000 GPUs

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Northern Data and Core42, a G42 company, have signed an agreement to establish sovereign European AI cloud capacity. Under the partnership, Core42 will have access to up to 10,000 GPUs from Northern Data's Taiga Cloud business.Aroosh Thillainathan, Northern Data Group founder and CEO, said of ...

August 15, 2025

Avaio Digital Enters Spain with New Data Center

Spain

Data center firm Avaio Digital this week announced its first data center in Spain, in the town of Algete in the Community of Madrid. The €650 million ($759m) project – known as Algete Data Hub and Avaio Digital Scorpio – has secured 56.3MW of power with Iberdrola, in addition to the initial 8M...

August 15, 2025

Digital Alpha Invests $300m in GPUaaS Massed Compute

United States

GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) provider Massed Compute has received $300 million in investment from Digital Alpha which will be used to expand Massed Compute's AI cloud infrastructure footprint, including the purchase of Nvidia GPUs.“Massed Compute is purpose-built to meet the demands of modern AI-...

August 15, 2025

Rio de Janeiro City Hall Partners with Oracle and Nvidia for AI City

Oracle

The mayor of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil Eduardo Paes, during Rio Innovation Week this week, announced an agreement to accelerate the development of the "Rio AI City" project, which aims to transform the city into one of the main global hubs for artificial intelligence."We've signed with the worl...

August 15, 2025

Kildare Completes Government Data Center

Republic of Ireland

County Kildare in Ireland has completed the construction of a government data center which will be for government use, replacing several smaller data centers, and is located at the Backweston Campus in Kildare. It has been designed with sustainability in mind, and waste heat may be used at oth...

August 15, 2025

NextDC Expands Debt Facility by AU$1.3 billion

NEXTDC

Australian data center firm NextDC this week announced that, following the successful completion of general syndication, it has secured new senior debt facilities totaling AU$3.5 billion (US$2.28bn).NextDC CEO and MD, Craig Scroggie, said: "In light of recent record contract wins that are acce...

August 15, 2025

Vast Data Partners with SK Telecom on Haein AI Cluster

South Korea

Vast Data is teaming up with SK Telecom on the latter's AI cluster - the Haein Cluster was launched earlier this month with 1,000 Nvidia B200 GPUs, building on SK Telecom's existing offering based on Nvidia H100s.“Vast Data’s unified architecture has been instrumental in helping us move from l...

August 14, 2025

Rogers Sells Data Center Business to InfraRed Capital

Canada

Canadian telecoms firm Rogers this week announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Rogers Communications’ data center business, on behalf of InfraRed’s value-add strategy. Rogers said it will continue to sell data center services on behalf of InfraRed and will provide netw...

August 14, 2025

TeraWulf to Lease New York Site to Fluidstack

New York

Cryptomine and HPC data center firm TeraWulf this week announced two 10-year high-performance computing (HPC) colocation agreements with Fluidstack. TeraWulf will deliver more than 200MW of critical IT load (~250MW of gross capacity) at its Lake Mariner data center campus in New York. The deal...

August 14, 2025

EdgeMode Explores Development of 20MW AI Data Center in Sweden

Sweden

EdgeMode, a US-based data center developer, has partnered with AI infrastructure firm Vertical Data to market and deliver a 20MW AI data center in Sweden. The project aims to combine EdgeMode’s Marviken Smart Energy Cluster, which is tied to a 95MW renewable Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), imm...

August 14, 2025

Equinix Signs Three Major Deals with Advanced Nuclear Firms

Equinix

US data center giant Equinix has expanded its commitment to nuclear energy, announcing three major agreements with advanced nuclear developers that together could provide up to 774MWe of power.The first deal was with Radiant, a microreactor company based in El Segundo, California. As part of t...

August 13, 2025

QTS Breaks Ground on Data Center in Iowa

QTS Data Centers

QTS has officially announced plans for a new data center campus in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The campus could support up to seven data center buildings at full build-out and see up to $10 billion invested.Tag Greason and David Robey, co-CEOs of QTS, said: “From day one, we believe in being a good ne...

August 13, 2025

DC Blox Secures $1.15bn Green Loan for Atlanta Data Center

DC BLOX

US data center firm DC Blox this week announced it has closed $1.15 billion in green loan financing for the construction of a data center campus in Douglas County, Georgia. The funds will support the development of a 120MW data center and include campus expansion to support an additional 80MW,...

August 13, 2025

Goodman Secures Financing from Aareal Bank

United States

Germany’s Aareal Bank is moving into providing financing to data center customers and has entered into its first financing transaction in the data center asset class in July 2025 with Goodman Group."Frankfurt is Europe's largest Internet node, with a data transfer rate of more than 18 terabits...

August 13, 2025

Zero Two Invests in APAC Data Center Firm Evolution

Abu Dhabi

Zero Two has invested in Evolution, taking a co-controlling position alongside Warburg Pincus. Terms of the deal were not shared, though reports from Mingtiandi puts the figure at $325 million.Darren Webb, CEO and co-founder of Evolution Data Centres, said: “We are absolutely delighted to welc...

August 12, 2025

Flagstar Bank Selects Mphasis for Data Center Set Up

Michigan

Michigan's Flagstar Bank has selected Mphasis for the setup and inauguration of its upcoming data center facility. Flagstar describes it as "world-class," adding that it will support the bank's critical infrastructure and future growth and will enable it to leverage "modern data center capabil...

August 12, 2025

Microsoft Signs $236.4m Deal with Maybank

Microsoft Azure

Malaysian financial group Maybank has selected Microsoft Azure as one of its main cloud platforms in a five-year agreement. Valued at RM1 billion ($236.4m), the contract will see Maybank using Microsoft Azure for some of its "most strategic systems, functions, and data workloads."Dato’ Sri Kha...

August 12, 2025

DigitalBridge has 5.4GW of data center capacity in operation

DigitalBridge

Data center investor DigitalBridge revealed it has more than 5.4GW of data center capacity in development or operation. The company, which holds stakes in data center and energy businesses through various funds, said that roughly half of that was currently built, and the other half is under co...

August 11, 2025

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DayOne Plans 128MW Data Center in Finland

Core42 Signs Deal with Northern Data for Access to 10,000 GPUs

Avaio Digital Enters Spain with New Data Center

Digital Alpha Invests $300m in GPUaaS Massed Compute

Rio de Janeiro City Hall Partners with Oracle and Nvidia for AI City

Kildare Completes Government Data Center

NextDC Expands Debt Facility by AU$1.3 billion

Vast Data Partners with SK Telecom on Haein AI Cluster

Rogers Sells Data Center Business to InfraRed Capital

TeraWulf to Lease New York Site to Fluidstack

EdgeMode Explores Development of 20MW AI Data Center in Sweden

Equinix Signs Three Major Deals with Advanced Nuclear Firms

QTS Breaks Ground on Data Center in Iowa

DC Blox Secures $1.15bn Green Loan for Atlanta Data Center

Goodman Secures Financing from Aareal Bank

Zero Two Invests in APAC Data Center Firm Evolution

Flagstar Bank Selects Mphasis for Data Center Set Up

Microsoft Signs $236.4m Deal with Maybank

DigitalBridge has 5.4GW of data center capacity in operation

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