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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 Google signs PPA with Engie for 100MW
Google signs PPA with Engie for 100MW
December 02, 2022

Google signs PPA with Engie for 100MW

Google

ENGIE and Google are teaming up following the signing of a Power Purchase Agreement (Corporate PPA). The 12-year 100 MW PPA will see ENGIE deliver more than 5 TWh of green energy to Google from the Moray West project. The project is an offshore wind farm of nearly 900 MW, which is scheduled to...

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Read The rise of the underground data center
The rise of the underground data center
December 02, 2022

The rise of the underground data center

Switzerland

APL has announced that it is teaming up with Swiss-based underground construction company, Eccus, to propose a novel data center location: underground caverns. The underground cavern excavated 30m under existing terrain, is a waterproof cylinder spanning up to 150m long, with chambers built in...

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Read Leading Edge Data Centres Opens New Facility in Coffs Harbour, Australia
Leading Edge Data Centres Opens New Facility in Coffs Harbour, Australia
December 02, 2022

Leading Edge Data Centres Opens New Facility in Coffs Harbour, Australia

Leading Edge Data Centres

Leading Edge Data Centres (LEDC) has opened a new data center in Australia’s Coffs Harbour. The company announced this on LinkedIn: “Today we cut the ribbon of our brand-new data center in Coffs Harbour, with over 40 in attendance. The new design Altas 30-rack facility is in high demand, an...

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Read Switzerland's Data Center Operator Green Closes $514 Million Refinancing
Switzerland's Data Center Operator Green Closes $514 Million Refinancing
December 02, 2022

Switzerland's Data Center Operator Green Closes $514 Million Refinancing

Green Datacenter AG

Green has announced the closing of a $514 million refinancing. The Swiss data center operator successfully refinanced its existing facilities with a total package of CHF 480 million ($514m) from Swiss and international banks. According to the company, the funds will be used to speed up its ...

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Read Poland’s 3S To Merge with Parent Company's Business Units
Poland’s 3S To Merge with Parent Company's Business Units
December 02, 2022

Poland’s 3S To Merge with Parent Company's Business Units

Grupa 3S SA

3S has announced that it would merge with Play and UPC, business units of its parent company Iliad. Play mobile network was founded in 2007 in Poland, and it provides mobile data, messaging, telephony, and video services to businesses and individual customers. On the other hand, UPC is a te...

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Read Australia's Spirit Technology Solutions Announces Decision to Sell Network and Data Center Assets to Maret Group
December 02, 2022

Australia's Spirit Technology Solutions Announces Decision to Sell Network and Data Center Assets to Maret Group

Australia

Spirit Technology Solutions has announced that it will sell its network and data center assets to Maret. The Australian communication provider revealed that it would transfer the assets to Maret but didn’t specify the data center assets it would be transferring. Sprint Technology would receive...

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Read Digital Realty Announces $350 Million Note Offering
Digital Realty Announces $350 Million Note Offering
December 02, 2022

Digital Realty Announces $350 Million Note Offering

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it is offering a $350 million note to the public. In addition, its Digital Core Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), listed in Singapore, will buy a stake in a Digital Realty-owned data center in Germany. The company noted that it is priced an underwritten ...

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Read Canberra Data Centres Announces $1.8bn Refinancing and $209m Capital Markets Issuance
Canberra Data Centres Announces $1.8bn Refinancing and $209m Capital Markets Issuance
December 02, 2022

Canberra Data Centres Announces $1.8bn Refinancing and $209m Capital Markets Issuance

Canberra Data Centres (CDC)

Canberra Data Centers has announced the close of a US$1.8 billion refinancing. Law firm Gilbert+Tobin (G+T) revealed that it advised the Australian data center firm on the AU$ 2.7 billion (US$1.8B) refinancing. G+T also said it advised CDC on upsizing its debt facilities and its US$209.4 mi...

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Read Google signs major solar PPA in Spain
Google signs major solar PPA in Spain
December 01, 2022

Google signs major solar PPA in Spain

Google

Google has announced that it has signed a 12-year PPA with German energy infrastructure developer ib vogt to procure solar energy in the province of Zamora in Spain. ib vogt began work on the 149MWp Garnacha solar power plant in September, which is expected to commence commercial operations i...

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Read Extinction Rebellion protests against data centers as part of wider 'Make Amazon Pay’ campaign
Extinction Rebellion protests against data centers as part of wider 'Make Amazon Pay’ campaign
December 01, 2022

Extinction Rebellion protests against data centers as part of wider 'Make Amazon Pay’ campaign

Amazon AWS

As part of the 'Make Amazon Pay' campaign, climate groups Extinction Rebellion and Not Here Not Anywhere took to the giant's Irish Headquarters in protest. The groups called for Amazon's AWS to pay its workers, its taxes and pay for its damage to the climate, due to its 'unsustainable' environ...

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Read AWS Announces Local Zones in Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East
AWS Announces Local Zones in Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East
December 01, 2022

AWS Announces Local Zones in Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services has announced the launch of new Local Zones in Denmark, Oman, Argentina, and Denmark. The launch sees AWS’ total international Local Zones outside the US reach eight. Local Zones serve the purpose of Edge locations for hosting applications that need low latency to on-premis...

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Read Equinix To Develop New IBX Data Center in Johor, Malaysia
Equinix To Develop New IBX Data Center in Johor, Malaysia
December 01, 2022

Equinix To Develop New IBX Data Center in Johor, Malaysia

Equinix

Equinix has announced its plan to develop a new International Business Exchange IBX data center in Johor, Malaysia. The data center company said it would invest up to $40m in the first stages of the data center. The JH1 data center is scheduled to be in operation in Q1 2024. The facility wi...

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Read Yandex Looking To Depart its Cloud and Tech Units From Russia
Yandex Looking To Depart its Cloud and Tech Units From Russia
December 01, 2022

Yandex Looking To Depart its Cloud and Tech Units From Russia

Yandex NV

Russian company Yandex has announced plans to separate its cloud computing and other tech businesses from Russia, moving them out of the Eastern Europe country. Yandex’s ties with Russia have caused economic problems for it since the war in Ukraine. Earlier in the summer, Yandex sold off it...

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Read Stack Developing a 36MW Facility in Prince William County, Virginia
Stack Developing a 36MW Facility in Prince William County, Virginia
December 01, 2022

Stack Developing a 36MW Facility in Prince William County, Virginia

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure has announced that it has started work on a new facility in Virginia. The groundbreaking ceremony of the NVAL3 hyperscale data center campus took place this week. The data center’s first phase will deliver 36MW of capacity in a single building by Q1 2024. In addition, t...

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Read QTS Announces That Fire at its New Jersey Campus Won't Affect Construction on the Site
QTS Announces That Fire at its New Jersey Campus Won't Affect Construction on the Site
December 01, 2022

QTS Announces That Fire at its New Jersey Campus Won't Affect Construction on the Site

QTS: Piscataway 1 DC1

Earlier on Wednesday, fire broke out at QTS’s data center campus in New Jersey. However, it was extinguished under two hours without any injuries. QTS has now come out to say the fire did not affect its data center operations. It also noted that the fire will not delay the construction of the ...

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Read Vantage Secures $350m Loan From French Bank For Data Center in Santa Clara, California
Vantage Secures $350m Loan From French Bank For Data Center in Santa Clara, California
December 01, 2022

Vantage Secures $350m Loan From French Bank For Data Center in Santa Clara, California

Vantage Data Centers

According to Real Deal and Globe Street, Vantage Data Centers has received $350m in funding to develop a data center in Santa Clara, California. Vantage DC acquired a building in the city, and the fund will be used to convert it into a data center campus. The planned facility will span 44,5...

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Read Texas-Based Data Center Developer Signs Agreements with Landowners in Northern Virginia's Vint Hill and Catlett
December 01, 2022

Texas-Based Data Center Developer Signs Agreements with Landowners in Northern Virginia's Vint Hill and Catlett

Northern Virginia

According to Fauquier Times, a data center developer based in Texas has acquired two plots of land in Fauquier County, Virginia. The data center developer signed agreements with landowners in the Catlett and Vint Hill towns of Northern Virginia. The Vint Hill site spans 48 acres, and it was ac...

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Read Telenor and Axiata Complete Merger To Create Largest Telco in Malaysia
December 01, 2022

Telenor and Axiata Complete Merger To Create Largest Telco in Malaysia

Telenor Group

Telenor and Axiata Group have completed the merger of Malaysian mobile operators DiGi and Celcom. Talks about the merger have been ongoing for a while now, and the successful merger sees a new company called Celcom DiGi created. With a subscriber base of up to 20 million, Celcom Digi has becom...

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Read CorScale Plans to File FOr Permission To Develop a 140MW Facility in Iver, Buckinhamshire
CorScale Plans to File FOr Permission To Develop a 140MW Facility in Iver, Buckinhamshire
November 30, 2022

CorScale Plans to File FOr Permission To Develop a 140MW Facility in Iver, Buckinhamshire

Corscale

New data center company CorScale is looking to develop its first international data center in the UK. According to the Senior Vice President of CorScale, the company is a few days away from filing for planning permission to develop the facility in Iver, outside London. CorScale noted that the ...

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Read India’s Kotak Bank To Launch a New $1 Billion Data Center Fund
November 30, 2022

India’s Kotak Bank To Launch a New $1 Billion Data Center Fund

India / Bhārata

India’s Kotak Mahindra Bank’s investment arm Kotak Alternate Assets, has launched a new data center fund. The company announced the appointment of Subhamkar Das as the Chief Operating Officer of its new Kotak Data Centre platform. Kotak Alternate Assets is managed by Kotak Investment Advisors ...

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