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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 Hut 8 Acquires Majority Stake in Data Center Company Owned by Trump Sons
Hut 8 Acquires Majority Stake in Data Center Company Owned by Trump Sons
April 05, 2025

Hut 8 Acquires Majority Stake in Data Center Company Owned by Trump Sons

Crypto and AI data center firm Hut 8  said it has taken a majority 80 percent interest in American Data Centers, Inc., a company formed by a group of investors including Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., with American Data Centers, Inc. renamed and relaunched as American Bitcoin.“The launch of ...

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Read IREN Pauses Bitcoin Expansion to Focus on AI Data Center Build-out
IREN Pauses Bitcoin Expansion to Focus on AI Data Center Build-out
April 05, 2025

IREN Pauses Bitcoin Expansion to Focus on AI Data Center Build-out

Bitcoin mining firm IREN has announced it will pivot away from mining cryptocurrencies to focus on building out its AI data center and AI cloud service businesses. IREN cofounder and CEO Daniel Roberts explained that the company will pause the expansion of its Bitcoin mining operations upon th...

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Read Metrobloks Acquires Site in Miami for its First Data Center
Metrobloks Acquires Site in Miami for its First Data Center
April 04, 2025

Metrobloks Acquires Site in Miami for its First Data Center

Metrobloks this week announced it has completed the acquisition of a 4.05-acre land parcel located at 500 NW 137th Avenue to develop a 15.2MW multi-tenant data center. The facility will offer both liquid and air cooling, supporting rack densities up to 150kW.“We are excited to secure this site...

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Read Khazna Data Centers Confirms Fresh Funding
Khazna Data Centers Confirms Fresh Funding
April 04, 2025

Khazna Data Centers Confirms Fresh Funding

UAE-based Khazna Data Centers has taken investment from MGX and Silver Lake. Both firms are now holding undisclosed minority stakes in Khazna, alongside majority shareholder G42. The company described the news as “an exciting new chapter” in its development.As the two new investors come on boa...

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Read OVH and Luxembourg Post to Launch Sovereign Cloud Offering
OVH and Luxembourg Post to Launch Sovereign Cloud Offering
April 04, 2025

OVH and Luxembourg Post to Launch Sovereign Cloud Offering

OVH and Deep by Post Group have formed a strategic partnership to implement a sovereign cloud platform alongside the IT unit of Luxembourg’s state-owned post office. The cloud will operate separately from OVH’s platform, hosted and operated autonomously by Deep in its own data centers in Luxem...

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Read Equinix Signs First PPA in Japan with Trinasolar ISBU
Equinix Signs First PPA in Japan with Trinasolar ISBU
April 03, 2025

Equinix Signs First PPA in Japan with Trinasolar ISBU

Trinasolar International System Business Unit (ISBU), Trinasolar’s solar and battery storage (BESS) development arm, has signed a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Equinix for 30MW of solar power in Japan, marking  Equinix’s first in the Japanese market.“Our first PPA in Japan empowe...

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Read OVHcloud Signs 10-year PPA with Sunnic Lighthouse
OVHcloud Signs 10-year PPA with Sunnic Lighthouse
April 03, 2025

OVHcloud Signs 10-year PPA with Sunnic Lighthouse

European cloud provider OVHcloud has signed a ten-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with German solar developer Sunnic Lighthouse GmbH to power its data center in Limburg an der Lahn, in Western Germany."We are pleased to supply OVHcloud with solar power for the long term," says Arved von Ha...

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Read GLP Closes Fund to Purchase Data Center in China
GLP Closes Fund to Purchase Data Center in China
April 03, 2025

GLP Closes Fund to Purchase Data Center in China

Property investor GLP has closed its first digital infrastructure-focused fund in China and plans to buy a data center with the proceeds. The fund has assets under management of 2.6 billion Yuan ($358m), having raised cash from a group of institutional investors based in China and abroad.GLP s...

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Read Equinix’s SP4 Data Center in São Paulo Suffers Fire
Equinix’s SP4 Data Center in São Paulo Suffers Fire
April 02, 2025

Equinix’s SP4 Data Center in São Paulo Suffers Fire

Over the weekend, colocation giant Equinix suffered a fire at its SP4 facility in the São Paulo area of Brazil. The “small” fire occurred at 12:34pm local time on Sunday (March 30), with the company confirming an “isolated incident” had happened within a customer’s electrical equipment before ...

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Read Enlight to Develop Solar-Powered Data Center in Southern Israel
Enlight to Develop Solar-Powered Data Center in Southern Israel
April 02, 2025

Enlight to Develop Solar-Powered Data Center in Southern Israel

Israeli renewable energy company Enlight Renewables has won an Israel Land Authority tender to develop an integrated data center and renewable energy complex in Ashalim, southern Israel with plans to invest up to $1.1 billion in the project, which will be built on a 50-acre site.According to t...

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Read SWU Launches Data Center in Ulm Science Park, Germany
SWU Launches Data Center in Ulm Science Park, Germany
April 02, 2025

SWU Launches Data Center in Ulm Science Park, Germany

German telco Stadtwerke Ulm/Neu-Ulm GmbH (SWU) has launched a data center in the Ulm Science Park in Ulm, Germany. The facility offers space for 150 cabinets across 1,430 sqm (15,400 sq ft). It will also operate with a PUE value below 1.3, and has 1.6MW of backup diesel generation.“The new dat...

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Read Edgnex Buys Finnish Data Center Developer Hyperco
Edgnex Buys Finnish Data Center Developer Hyperco
April 01, 2025

Edgnex Buys Finnish Data Center Developer Hyperco

Finnish data center developer Hyperco and Dubai operator Edgnex have formed a “strategic partnership” which will see Damac-owned Edgnex acquire Hyperco. Hyperco CEO Aleksi Taipale wrote on Linkedin that he and the existing Hyperco management team would remain in place following the takeover."O...

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Read Neon Cloud Launches Data Center in India
Neon Cloud Launches Data Center in India
April 01, 2025

Neon Cloud Launches Data Center in India

Neon Cloud has launched in India with a data center in Gurgaon which offers cloud services, including virtual machines and Kubernetes, and will soon also feature access to GPUs. Additional services include block storage, object storage, secure backups, virtual private cloud, cloud firewall, an...

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Read Pulsant Purchases Two Data Centers in the UK
Pulsant Purchases Two Data Centers in the UK
April 01, 2025

Pulsant Purchases Two Data Centers in the UK

UK Edge data center firm Pulsant  this week announced it had acquired data centers in Birmingham and Fareham from technology solutions and services provider SCC. The deal includes the facilities, facilities teams, and colocation clients.The Cole Valley facility, located at 20 Westwood Avenue i...

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Read Vodacom Launches Data Center in Mozambique
Vodacom Launches Data Center in Mozambique
March 31, 2025

Vodacom Launches Data Center in Mozambique

Mobile operator Vodacom has launched a data center in Maputo, Mozambique. This facility, said to be the largest in the country is a carrier-neutral data center  which also offers direct access to the 2Africa subsea cable, hosted in Vodacom Mozambique’s equipment room in Matola.The launch was a...

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Read 8- Building Data Center Proposed in Kentucky
8- Building Data Center Proposed in Kentucky
March 31, 2025

8- Building Data Center Proposed in Kentucky

Western Hospitality Partners is planning a data center campus known as Project Lincoln: OC Data Center on a 267-acre plot of land at 3557 North Highway 53 outside La Grange in Oldham County, some 28 miles northeast of downtown Louisville.“After many rounds of research and assessment, Oldham Co...

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Read Jericho Energy Launches Modular Data Center Business
Jericho Energy Launches Modular Data Center Business
March 31, 2025

Jericho Energy Launches Modular Data Center Business

Canadian energy company Jericho Energy Ventures has launched a modular data center business that aims to utilize its natural gas assets as the foundation for developing AI-specific modular data centers.According to the company, it currently owns and operates 40,000 acres of productive land acr...

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Read Top News Stories for 24th-29th of March 2025
Top News Stories for 24th-29th of March 2025
March 31, 2025

Top News Stories for 24th-29th of March 2025

A consortium of Japanese companies and financial institutions have proposed to make history in Japan by developing an offshore floating data center demonstration project off the coast of Yokohama.Aviation giant Emirates Group will be taking sustainable energy a step further as the company has ...

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Read Emirates to Relocate Data Center to World's Largest Solar Park
Emirates to Relocate Data Center to World's Largest Solar Park
March 29, 2025

Emirates to Relocate Data Center to World's Largest Solar Park

Aviation giant Emirates Group has agreed to relocate its data center within the Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park. The group plans to start the relocation from mid-2026 to the Moro Hub- a 100MW data center owned by the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, which is powered directly by...

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Read Japanese Consortium Proposes Floating Data Center
Japanese Consortium Proposes Floating Data Center
March 29, 2025

Japanese Consortium Proposes Floating Data Center

A consortium of Japanese companies and financial institutions have proposed to develop an offshore floating data center demonstration project off the coast of Yokohama, Japan. According to reports, the project will use a 25-meter by 80-meter mini-float moored at Yokohama Port’s Osanbashi Pier....

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