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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

April 05, 2024

nLighten acquires seven data center from sister company

EXA Infrastructure

European Edge firm nLighten has acquired seven data centers from sister company Exa Infrastructure in a move which positions it as a "frontrunner" in the European data center market, while allowing Exa to focus on its terrestrial and subsea fiber network. This expansion brings nLighten's total...

April 05, 2024

Telecom Italia to receive a €1 billion payout

Rome

Telecom Italia (TIM) is set for a €1 billion ($1.1bn) payout after it won its 15-year dispute with the Italian government. A court in Rome ordered the government to pay the sum after TIM sought to recover the license fee it was required to pay to the state in 1998, the year after the telecoms ...

April 05, 2024

Amtrak selects nstruction company for Delaware center

Delaware

Inter-city rail service Amtrak has selected a construction company for its Unified Operations Center (UOC) Facility Project, which will include a data center, in Wilmington, Delaware. “One of our primary goals for the Renaissance Centre building is to create a new Amtrak Unified Operations Ce...

April 04, 2024

SK Hynix confirms investment in Indiana advanced chip packaging facility

Indiana

The South Korean chip manufacturer SK Hynix has confirmed earlier reports about building an advanced chip packaging facility in Indiania as it revealed its plans to invest $3.87 billion in the plant which will produce next-generation high bandwidth memory (HBM), the highest-performing Dynamic...

April 04, 2024

ColoHouse acquires Hivelocity

United States

Valterra Partners-owned colocation firm ColoHouse has acquired Hivelocity, a bare metal colocation provider in an acquisition which combines ColoHouse’s infrastructure and hosting services with Hivelocity’s bare metal servers, network automation, and virtual private cloud solutions. Jeremy Pea...

April 04, 2024

Google procures over 1.5GW of cleanenergy in 12 months

Google

Google has signed more than 1.5GW worth of Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) in the last 12 months. The company bought this amoung of clean energy through a new PPA procurement process developed in partnership with LevelTen Energy, which has now been released via the energy broker. “LEAP is hel...

April 04, 2024

Telia Company completes sale of Danish business unit

Sweden

Swedish telco Telia Company has confirmed in a new announcement that the sale of its Danish business unit to local energy and Internet firm Norlys has been finalized for DKK 6.25 billion ($900 million), on a cash and debt-free basis. “The sale of our Danish business marks a significant milesto...

April 03, 2024

Digital Core REIT acquires more shares in Osaka data center

Japan

Digital Core REIT has acquired an additional 10 percent share in a data center in Osaka, Japan via Digital Core REIT's subsidiary, Digital CR Singapore 4 Pte. Ltd., for JPY 7,725 million (~$51.5m), from Mitsubishi Corporation. The Osaka data center is a freehold facility with a 95 percent occu...

April 03, 2024

GDS partners with Gaw Capital for Japan expansion

GDS Services Ltd

Chinese data center firm GDS and real estate private equity firm Gaw Capital this week announced they will jointly invest in the construction of a data center campus with a total IT capacity of 40MW in Fuchu City, Tokyo. Both companies plan to develop a carrier-neutral data center park on two...

April 03, 2024

Airspan Networks files for Chapter 11 protection

Delaware

Airspan Networks which specializes in developing 5G hardware and software, said it plans to trade its more than $205 million in funded debt for equity and raise up to $95 million in new equity financing and has filed for Chapter 11 protection at a Delaware bankruptcy court. “This support agr...

April 03, 2024

Air force requests for RFP for enterprise IT service contracts

United States

The US Air Force has put out a request for proposals (RFP) for 'phase 2' of its enterprise IT service delivery, a contract which is a potential 10-year deal with a $12.5 billion budget and will work towards the Air Force's goals to centralize its many IT modernization efforts. This contract i...

April 02, 2024

Nucor Corporation launches data center infrastructure unit

California

Steelmaker Nucor Corporation this week announced that it has acquired Southwest Data Products, Inc. (SWDP), a manufacturer and a data center supplier and launched a new business unit that will help better serve its customers in the data center infrastructure industry. Nucor said SWDP and the ...

April 02, 2024

Microsoft signs new solar PPA in Texas

Microsoft Azure

Microsofr this week announced that it has entered into a two 200MW Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) with Energy firm Leeward Renewable Energy (LRE) which will help it purchase the power generated from two 200MW LRE solar facilities currently under development in Texas: Morrow Lake Solar in Frio...

April 02, 2024

Cyxtera and Evoque to rebrand under new Centersquare moniker

Cyxtera Technologies

US data center firms Cyxtera and Evoque are rebranding under the new Centersquare moniker. Cyxtera was acquired by Brookfield last year and is being combined with the investment firm’s other data center company, Evoque.Mullee said: “The birth of Centersquare is more than a name change. It’s a...

April 01, 2024

JLL to offer training education for next generation data center operators

United Kingdom

JLL has revealed its plans to offer free educational and training opportunities for the next generation of data center operators. The company has teamed up with non-profit organization Nomad Futurist Foundation to create a 16-hour curriculum called the Technical Development Program (TDP), bas...

April 01, 2024

Amazon invests additional $2.75 billion in AI startup Anthropic

Amazon AWS

Amazon has invested an additional $2.75 billion in AI startup Anthropic in a deal which marks the second round of funding provided by the cloud and eCommerce giant under a previously agreed plan to invest up to $4bn in the startup. Amazon made an initial investment of $1.25bn for a minority st...

March 29, 2024

Advania takes extra data center space at atNorth’s facility

atNorth

IT services provider Advania and colocation company atNorth have agreed to a deal that will see Advania take extra capacity at atNorth’s ICE03 site in Iceland, a 12MW data center in Akureyri that opened last year. A statement from both companies noted that “The expansion onto the ICE03 campus ...

March 29, 2024

BT signs new agreement with Global for new speed WiFi

BT Global Services

BT has entered a 10-year partnership with media group Global to repurpose its legacy payphones and kiosks into brand-new street WiFi hubs which will provide digital connectivity for more than 200 towns and cities across the UK. Followinf this agreement, Global will convert more than 2,000 conv...

March 29, 2024

Oriole Networks raises £10 million in seed funding

London

University College London (UCL) spinout Oriole Networks has raised £10 million ($12.6m) in a seed funding round co-led by UCL Technology Fund, Clean Growth Fund, XTX Ventures, and Dorilton Ventures, with support from Innovate UK Investor Partnership. “As the demand for compute continues to inc...

March 29, 2024

FCC rejects SpaceX’s bid for more spectrum

United States

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this week rejected SpaceX’s bid to use the 1.6GHz and 2GHz radio spectrums due to a technicality. SpaceX's satellite division Starlink, had been seeking approval to use up to 7,500 second-generation satellites with spectrum in the 1.6 GHz, 2 GHz, and 2.4...

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nLighten acquires seven data center from sister company

Telecom Italia to receive a €1 billion payout

Amtrak selects nstruction company for Delaware center

SK Hynix confirms investment in Indiana advanced chip packaging facility

ColoHouse acquires Hivelocity

Google procures over 1.5GW of cleanenergy in 12 months

Telia Company completes sale of Danish business unit

Digital Core REIT acquires more shares in Osaka data center

GDS partners with Gaw Capital for Japan expansion

Airspan Networks files for Chapter 11 protection

Air force requests for RFP for enterprise IT service contracts

Nucor Corporation launches data center infrastructure unit

Microsoft signs new solar PPA in Texas

Cyxtera and Evoque to rebrand under new Centersquare moniker

JLL to offer training education for next generation data center operators

Amazon invests additional $2.75 billion in AI startup Anthropic

Advania takes extra data center space at atNorth’s facility

BT signs new agreement with Global for new speed WiFi

Oriole Networks raises £10 million in seed funding

FCC rejects SpaceX’s bid for more spectrum

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