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Local Officials Reject Proposed Data Center in New Brunswick, New Jersey

Local authorities in New Brunswick, New Jersey, voted on Wednesday against allowing the construction of a data center on a plot of land slated for redevelopment, instead requiring that a park be built on the site. The New Brunswick City Council was reviewing a proposal for the Jersey-Sandford ...

February 21, 2026

New Jersey

New Jersey Senate Advances Bill to Establish New Rate Class for Data Centers

The New Jersey Senate has advanced a bill that would create new tariff classes for “large load” data centers in an effort to protect ratepayers in the state from cost increases.The bill, cosponsored by ten Democrat lawmakers, would require public electrical utilities in the state to submit pro...

January 13, 2026

New Jersey

Stack Overflow Fully Exits Data Centers

Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer website for computer programmers, has officially exited its data center in New Jersey as part of its cloud migration effort. Stack noted that for the past 16 years it had been operating out of a physical data center in which the site reliability engineer (...

January 06, 2026

New Jersey

Lumen Appoints Jim Fowler as CTO

Lumen Technologies has appointed Jim Fowler as its executive vice president and chief technology and product officer. The new CTO is to succeed Dave Ward, who is leaving Lumen to become president and chief architect at Salesforce.Starting from January 6, Fowler will manage global technology an...

December 11, 2025

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NJFX Plans 10MW Liquid-cooled Data Hall in New Jersey

NJFX is expanding its cable landing station and data center site in New Jersey. The firm said the move is supported by the execution of an electric utility load letter supported by a $3 million deposit, targeting power delivery by end of 2026. Bala Consulting Engineers is working with the comp...

December 01, 2025

New Jersey

MacWeb Launches US East Cloud Region in New Jersey

Mac-based cloud infrastructure provider MacWeb has launched a new cloud region in New Jersey. The region gives customers access to cloud Mac mini and Mac Studio cluster nodes located near Manhattan and major network exchanges."Many application and AI engineers already develop on the Mac and wa...

November 29, 2025

New Jersey

InterServer selects 365 Data Centers for New Jersey expansion

Web hosting and managed service provider InterServer has selected 365 Data Centers as its colocation provider as it looks into expanding its offering in the New Jersey market. 365 has 20 data centers across the US, including multiple New Jersey locations such as Carlstadt and Bridgewater, enab...

January 09, 2025

New Jersey

CoreWeave to convert New Jersey lab building into data center

CoreWeave is expanding its data center footprint in New Jersey. According to local press, the company has signed a long-term lease with an Onyx Equities and Machine Investment Group partnership for the entirety of building 11 at The Northeast Science & Technology Center (NEST) in Kenilwort...

October 29, 2024

New Jersey

Lumen secures new contract from GAO

Lumen Technologies has secured a contract worth about $73.6 million from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) under the General Services Administration's Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) program. This multi-million dollar contract will see Lumen modernize network, data, voice...

April 15, 2024

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Former Sungard data center is up for sale in New Jersey

Via RI Marketplace, Real estate firm Marcus & Millichap is offering 1008 Virgil Avenue in Ridgefield, a former Sungard data center field as up for sale via auction and bidding for this property is set to begin March 25, with $750,000 listed as a starting bid. The listing reads, “The proper...

February 14, 2024

New Jersey

US Defense Information Systems Agency awards $110 million contract to Lumen

The US Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Lumen Technologies a $110 million contract to provide mission-critical network services to the US Department of Defense (DoD). This contract has a timeline of five years, from November 30, 2023, through September 30, 2028. This contract is...

November 10, 2023

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Lumen sells CND customers to Akamai as it shuts down the business

Lumen announced that it’s Content Delivery Network (CDN) business will be shut down and it has sold its customer contracts to Akamai. Both companies will undergo a transition services agreement for 90 days before Lumen completes its shut down. "We are deep into our transformation of Lumen and ...

October 16, 2023

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Lumen, a US telco, loses $8.74bn due to non-cash impairment

In the second quarter, Lumen Technologies reported a loss of $8.74 billion, a significant decrease from the $344 million profit in the same quarter last year. The company, formerly CenturyLink Enterprise, has lost more than 66 percent of its value this year, reducing its market capitalization ...

August 03, 2023

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Lumen To Sell its EMEA Operation to Colt For $1.8 Billion

Lumen has announced that it will sell its Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) operations to Colt in a $1.8 billion deal. The deal will see Lumen divest its EMEA business, including its data centers, terrestrial and subsea networks, and network equipment in the EMEA region, to Colt. The deal...

November 07, 2022

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USDA awards Lumen with a $1.2 billion network services contract

Lumen Technologies has won a $1.2 billion contract from the US Department of Agriculture. Lumen is to deliver a fully integrated wide-area data transport service to over 9,500 US Department of Agriculture locations across the country and around the world. With this contract, Lumen will offer a...

January 21, 2022

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Lumen pays $275,000 to DoJ for contacting former customers it divested

Lumen Technologies, formerly known as CenturyLink, has agreed to pay $275,000 to resolve a Civil Contempt Claim by the Department of Justice for its acquisition of Level 3 Communications Inc in 2016. The Justice Department accused Lumen (formerly CenturyLink) of violating the terms designed...

September 07, 2021

Lumen Technologies

Lumen divests CenturyLink ILEC assets

Lumen Technologies has announced that it is selling its current local exchange carrier (ILEC) business in 20 states for $7.5 billion. The firm will be selling the business to Apollo Funds. Lumen Technologies currently operates the ILEC business under the CenturyLink name, and the business incl...

August 06, 2021

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Lumen is selling its Latin American business to Stonepeak for $2.7 billion

Lumen Technologies has announced the sale of its entire Latin American business to Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners. The sale is said to be worth $2.7 billion. Australia’s largest pension fund, AustralianSuper, is also investing funds in the deal with Stonepeak. The current leadership team...

July 28, 2021

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