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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

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New Jersey

Read CDC Plans 200MW Data Center Campus outside Perth
CDC Plans 200MW Data Center Campus outside Perth
August 11, 2025

CDC Plans 200MW Data Center Campus outside Perth

Australia

Australian data center operator CDC is planning a new campus outside Perth, Western Australia. The company aims to invest AU$415 million ($270.2m) in the first stage of the development in Maddington, 20 kilometres south-east of central Perth. The site will be operational in 2026.“In collaborat...

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Read Teraco Launches Second Phase of JB4 Data Center Campus
Teraco Launches Second Phase of JB4 Data Center Campus
August 11, 2025

Teraco Launches Second Phase of JB4 Data Center Campus

South Africa

South African data center company Teraco has expanded its data center outside Johannesburg. The Digital Realty subsidiary said the 30MW addition makes JB4 the largest standalone data center in Africa, serving 50MW of critical IT power load. The firm also said it is the first time 5MW data hall...

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Read Top News Stories from 4th-9th of August 2025
Top News Stories from 4th-9th of August 2025
August 11, 2025

Top News Stories from 4th-9th of August 2025

United States

Vermaland Plans $33bn Data Center in ArizonaLand developer Vermaland is planning a $33bn data center in Arizona dubbed the La Osa Project which would potentially be located in Pinal County on a 3,300-acre site and support up to 3GW of capacity, which would bring in more capacity than the entir...

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Read Brookfield to Launch Dedicated Strategy for AI Facilities
Brookfield to Launch Dedicated Strategy for AI Facilities
August 09, 2025

Brookfield to Launch Dedicated Strategy for AI Facilities

United States

Investment giant Brookfield Asset Management is to launch a dedicated strategy to develop AI infrastructure as announced in its Q2 2025 letter from CEO Bruce Flatt and president Connor Teskey to investors."We are launching a dedicated strategy focused on the development of AI infrastructure—de...

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Read AWS to Provide up to $1bn in Cloud Discounts
AWS to Provide up to $1bn in Cloud Discounts
August 09, 2025

AWS to Provide up to $1bn in Cloud Discounts

Amazon AWS

The US General Services Administration (GSA) has signed another discount deal with a cloud provider, Amazon which will see Amazon Web Services (AWS) providing the GSA with up to $1 billion in savings for cloud adoption, modernization, and training across US federal agencies through to the end ...

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Read Core Scientific's Largest Shareholder Opposes CoreWeave Acquisition
Core Scientific's Largest Shareholder Opposes CoreWeave Acquisition
August 08, 2025

Core Scientific's Largest Shareholder Opposes CoreWeave Acquisition

Core Scientific

Core Scientific's largest shareholder, Two Seas Capital LP, has announced its opposition to the $9bn acquisition proposed by CoreWeave. The alternative investment manager shared its dissatisfaction with the terms proposed on July 7, which would see AI cloud firm CoreWeave acquiring developer C...

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Read Edged Tops out Data Center in Iowa
Edged Tops out Data Center in Iowa
August 08, 2025

Edged Tops out Data Center in Iowa

Edged Energy

Data center firm Edged this week said it had topped out its facility in Ankeny, just north of Des Moines, marking the completion of the building’s structural frame. The facility will offer 13MW of capacity across 105,000 sq ft (9,755 sqm) and utilize a waterless cooling system from sister comp...

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Read Satoshi Energy Launches Behind-the-Meter Data Center at Texas
Satoshi Energy Launches Behind-the-Meter Data Center at Texas
August 08, 2025

Satoshi Energy Launches Behind-the-Meter Data Center at Texas

Texas

Cryptomine firm Satoshi Energy and energy firm Clearway this week announced the energization of a colocated high-performance computing data center at the Elbow Creek wind project in Howard County, Texas. The facility, hosted at Clearway’s 122MW Elbow Creek wind farm in Howard County, was devel...

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Read Tucson Rejects Amazon's Project Blue Data Center Campus
Tucson Rejects Amazon's Project Blue Data Center Campus
August 08, 2025

Tucson Rejects Amazon's Project Blue Data Center Campus

Tucson

The Tucson city council voted unanimously to reject Amazon's planned Project Blue AI data center campus. Mayor Regina Romero said that the city would also look to place limits on future data centers "to protect Tucson from this industry that is already here in Arizona."Project Blue is a 290-ac...

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Read Pentagon to Launch Next Iteration of JWCC Contract in 2026
Pentagon to Launch Next Iteration of JWCC Contract in 2026
August 07, 2025

Pentagon to Launch Next Iteration of JWCC Contract in 2026

United States

The Pentagon is planning to put out a request for proposals for the next iteration of its Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) program as soon as Q1 of 2026. The contract dubbed JWCC Next will replace the previous iteration, which was awarded in 2022, though there will be a transition per...

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Read Vesper Infrastructure Acquires Terakraft
Vesper Infrastructure Acquires Terakraft
August 07, 2025

Vesper Infrastructure Acquires Terakraft

Norway

Investment firm Vesper Infrastructure announced this week it had invested in Terakraft, becoming the majority shareholder. Terakraft operates a data center that will offer 10MW of capacity following a “comprehensive refurbishment” and upgrade program. The facility will utilize liquid cooling (...

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Read AWS Now Offers OpenAI Models Access
AWS Now Offers OpenAI Models Access
August 07, 2025

AWS Now Offers OpenAI Models Access

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS)  revealed on August 5 that it would be offering "open weight models" from OpenAI via Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker AI for the first time. This will include OpenAI's two new open weight foundation models gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b."Open weight models are an imp...

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Read Apollo to Acquire Stream Data Centers
Apollo to Acquire Stream Data Centers
August 07, 2025

Apollo to Acquire Stream Data Centers

Stream Data Centers

US data center firm Stream will be acquired by Apollo Global Management following announcement that Apollo-managed funds have agreed to acquire a majority interest in Stream Data Centers (SDC) from Stream Realty Partners, a commercial real estate firm.Apollo said it is set to potentially deplo...

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Read Galaxy Data Center to Invest $2bn in Data Centers in Thailand
Galaxy Data Center to Invest $2bn in Data Centers in Thailand
August 07, 2025

Galaxy Data Center to Invest $2bn in Data Centers in Thailand

Thailand / Prathet Thai

China's Galaxy Data Center (GDC) has announced that it will invest $2bn in data centers in Thailand after the “Prime Minister meets investors: Confidence in Thailand’s future” investor forum held in Thailand at the Government House’s Peace and Friendship Building.Feng Hui, the founder of GDC, ...

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Read Maincubes to Develop First Data Center at Nauen Campus
Maincubes to Develop First Data Center at Nauen Campus
August 06, 2025

Maincubes to Develop First Data Center at Nauen Campus

Germany / Deutschland

Germany data center operator Maincubes is developing the first data center at its Nauen campus outside Berlin which will be the first of a maximum of six data centers constituting the campus, dubbed BER02.The announcement was made after two agreements - the land use and zoning plan, as well as...

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Read Fal Raises $125m in Series C Funding Round
Fal Raises $125m in Series C Funding Round
August 06, 2025

Fal Raises $125m in Series C Funding Round

United States

Artificial intelligence infrastructure provider and video, image, and audio provider Fal has raised $125 million and has closed its Series C round, which saw the company valued at $1.5 billion.Posting to LinkedIn, Fal wrote: “Fal’s Generative Media Cloud now powers tens of thousands of applica...

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Read TRG Datacenters Now Acquired by Tallvine Partners
TRG Datacenters Now Acquired by Tallvine Partners
August 06, 2025

TRG Datacenters Now Acquired by Tallvine Partners

TRG Datacenters

Investment firm Tallvine Partners this week announced the acquisition of Houston-based TRG Datacenters. TRG’s first and to-date only data center launched in 2018. The site totals 150,000 sq ft (13,935 sqm). Tallvine said its investment will fund TRG’s next phase of growth, including a planned ...

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Read AWS Signs 80MW PPA with Gentari
AWS Signs 80MW PPA with Gentari
August 06, 2025

AWS Signs 80MW PPA with Gentari

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has signed a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Gentari, a Malaysian-based renewable developer, for 80MW of wind power from a project in Tamil Nadu, India.The wind project is expected to commence operations in mid-2027 and will generate approximately 300,00...

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Read Bitfarms and T5 to Develop Data Center in Pennsylvania
Bitfarms and T5 to Develop Data Center in Pennsylvania
August 06, 2025

Bitfarms and T5 to Develop Data Center in Pennsylvania

T5 Data Centers

Bitfarms, a cryptomining company pivoting to AI and HPC data centers, this week announced its partnership with T5 Data Centers to “advance HPC/AI development” at its Panther Creek campus in the state.The partnership will focus on pre-construction, design, planning, and development approval pro...

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Read Hyundai to Deliver Nuclear Power to Fermi America's 11GW AI Campus
Hyundai to Deliver Nuclear Power to Fermi America's 11GW AI Campus
August 05, 2025

Hyundai to Deliver Nuclear Power to Fermi America's 11GW AI Campus

Fermi America

Fermi America, the developer of the planned 11GW HyperGrid AI mega campus in Amarillo, Texas, has partnered with Hyundai to deliver nuclear power to the project. The companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which supports the joint planning of a nuclear-based hybrid energy project...

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