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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

Posted by: Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

New Jersey

March 16, 2024

UK telcos urged to stop installation of new telegraph poles

United Kingdom

UK’s Data and Digital Infrastructure Minister Julia Lopez has urged telecommunication companies in the UK to stop the installation of new telegraph poles. The minister wrote a public letter to the operators asking them to prioritize sharing existing telegraph poles ahead of building new ones. ...

March 16, 2024

Ardian completes Verne acquisition

Verne Global

Investment firm Ardian this week said it had completed the acquisition of European data center firm Verne from UK infrastructure firm Digital 9 Infrastructure plc (D9). The company will support the expansion of Verne with up to $1.2bn committed investment through equity and debt to “deliver an...

March 16, 2024

Vodafone sells Italian business for €8 billion

Vodafone

Vodafone has sold its Italian business to Swisscom for €8 billion in a deal which will see Swisscom merge Vodafone with its Italian subsidiary Fastweb. This merger was announced in Europe this week after the Spanish government approved the proposed Orange and MásMóvil merger. Margherita Della ...

March 16, 2024

Google signs new energy contract in Mesa, Arizona

Google

Google has signed a new renewable energy agreement to power its operations in Mesa, Arizona. The company mentioned that this new agreement includes a mix of dedicated wind power, solar energy, and battery storage from three facilities operated by NextEra Energy Resources on SRP’s power grid in...

March 16, 2024

Philips and AWS partner for medical technology project

Amazon AWS

Electronics giant Philips and AWS have partnered for a medical technology project to make digitalized pathology slides available at scale in the cloud. This is an expansion of the existing relationship with both companies, with Philips having selected AWS as its cloud partner seven years ago. ...

March 15, 2024

Edenor completes cloud migration to AWS and Microsoft

Argentina

Argentinian electricity company Edenor announced that its data architecture is now cloud-based, with Edenor using both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft's Azure cloud platforms. “It's a foundational project because it allows us to generate the bases to be a data-driven company and to be...

March 15, 2024

Possible subsea cable damage linked to outage spike in West Africa

Africa

Outages are being reported along the western coast of Africa after a possible cable damage incident. Reports from MyBroadband have linked this downtime to multiple outages on undersea cables near Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire. Microsoft is reporting network latency issues in its South Africa North ...

March 15, 2024

Vast Data unveils AI architecture developed with Nvidia

VAZATA

AI data platform Vast Data has unveiled an AI architecture for data centers,built in partnership with Nvidia. The data platform claims that the new system will deliver improved performance and quality of service, as well as enhanced zero-trust security. Jeff Denworth, co-founder at Vast Data, ...

March 15, 2024

WSI selects CDC Data Centres for digital tower deployment

Sydney

Western Sydney International Airport (WSI) has selected CDC Data Centres for its digital tower deployment. WSI will be one of the first in Australia to run a digital air traffic control tower and has partnered with CDC, Frequentis Australasia, and Airservices to develop the system. WSI will de...

March 15, 2024

OVHcloud launches new data center environment in Toronto, Canada

OVH Group

European cloud provider OVHcloud announced this week that it has launched a new data center environment in Toronto, Canada. The company said its Ontario site will be supported by a C$145 million (US$107m) investment over the next eight years. "This new data center marks a major turning point i...

March 14, 2024

Equinix announces Google Cloud executive Adaire Fox-Martin as new CEO

Equinix

Equinix has appointed Google Cloud executive Adaire Fox-Martin as its new CEO to succeed Charles Meyers, who has led the company for six years. Fox-Martin who has led Google Cloud's go-to-market teams globally since early last year, has been a member of the Equinix board of Directors since 20...

March 14, 2024

Keppel plans expansion into Japan

Keppel Data Center REIT

Keppel is expanding into Japan with plans to build and buy facilities in the country. In this regard, the company has siged a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mitsui Fudosan Co. Ltd. (Mitsui Fudosan) to ‘jointly explore data center development and investment opportunities’ in Japan and ...

March 14, 2024

UK joins the European Union’s CJU program

United Kingdom

The UK has joined the European Union’s ‘Chips Joint Undertaking’ (CJU) program as a “participating state.” This is a move that gives the country access to a €1.3 billion semiconductor research and development fund. “We are very happy to welcome the UK to the Chips Joint Undertaking as a partic...

March 14, 2024

Edgecore completes $440 million debt financing deal

EdgeCore Internet Real Estate, LLC

EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure has completely secured a $440 million debt financing deal for its Silicon Valley data center buildout. This deal along with a $1.9 billion deal secured in January, were both structured as Green Loans, with ING Capital LLC as the sole Green Loan Structuring Agent...

March 13, 2024

CWCS acquires property in Nottingham for data center

United Kingdom

UK hosting firm CWCS has acquired a property in Nottingham and plans to turn the site into its latest data center. LoopNet lists this property at 3 Padge Road, was built in 1980 and totals 9,300 sq ft (863 sqm) across two floors. Karl Mendez, managing director of CWCS Managed Hosting, said: “I...

March 13, 2024

Meta shares details of new 24k GPU AI clusters

Microsoft Azure

Meta has shared the details of the hardware, network, storage, design, performance, and software that make up its two new 24,000-GPU data center scale training clusters. These clusters based on Meta’s AI Research SuperCluster (RSC) are being usedto train its Llama 3 large language AI model. I...

March 13, 2024

Arabsat signs MoU with Anexia

United States

Arabsat and cloud and managed services company Anexia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for satellite-connected private cloud infrastructure. This new agreement will bring together satellite communications, private cloud services, and GPU technology services by combining their of...

March 13, 2024

Airtel’s Nxtra begins construction on Lagos data center

Lagos

Airtel Africa this week officially broke ground on a new facility in Lagos’s Victoria Island. The facility will deliver 38MW and is expected to be live by the first quarter of 2026. It will also be the first of five hyperscale data centers developed by Airtel Africa on the continent through N...

March 13, 2024

US Politicians propose plan to restore the FCC’s spectrum authority

United States

Two US politicians have proposed a new spectrum pipeline legislation to restore the US Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) authority to hold spectrum auctions. This comes about a year after the US Senate allowed it to lapse for the first time ever. The proposal by senators Ted Cruz and J...

March 12, 2024

Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners launches new data center-focused unit

Singtel

Alphabet spin-out Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners (SIP) has launched a new data center-focused unit. “SIP is taking a lead on the private sector solutions by bringing Verrus — a new SIP platform company that builds next-generation data centers — out of stealth after several years of internal ...

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UK telcos urged to stop installation of new telegraph poles

Ardian completes Verne acquisition

Vodafone sells Italian business for €8 billion

Google signs new energy contract in Mesa, Arizona

Philips and AWS partner for medical technology project

Edenor completes cloud migration to AWS and Microsoft

Possible subsea cable damage linked to outage spike in West Africa

Vast Data unveils AI architecture developed with Nvidia

WSI selects CDC Data Centres for digital tower deployment

OVHcloud launches new data center environment in Toronto, Canada

Equinix announces Google Cloud executive Adaire Fox-Martin as new CEO

Keppel plans expansion into Japan

UK joins the European Union’s CJU program

Edgecore completes $440 million debt financing deal

CWCS acquires property in Nottingham for data center

Meta shares details of new 24k GPU AI clusters

Arabsat signs MoU with Anexia

Airtel’s Nxtra begins construction on Lagos data center

US Politicians propose plan to restore the FCC’s spectrum authority

Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners launches new data center-focused unit

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