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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

New Jersey

Read Application for a new 48MW data center site filed in Middlesborough, UK
Application for a new 48MW data center site filed in Middlesborough, UK
January 05, 2023

Application for a new 48MW data center site filed in Middlesborough, UK

United Kingdom

A new data center campus is being proposed just outside of Middlesbrough at the former Croda chemicals plant within the Wilton International complex, it has been announced. So far, Redcar and Cleveland Council has decided that an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) isn’t required, after Cons...

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Read Twitter closes its Sacramento data center
Twitter closes its Sacramento data center
January 05, 2023

Twitter closes its Sacramento data center

Sacramento

Microblogging social media platform Twitter has undergone extensive changes as of late since the takeover by Elon Musk. From the introduction of Musk's paid verification plan, slashing nearly half of the platform's workforce in November, and his massive cost-cutting exercise, Musk's tenure as ...

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Read Key Point has announces plans for a new facility in Yekaterinburg
Key Point has announces plans for a new facility in Yekaterinburg
January 05, 2023

Key Point has announces plans for a new facility in Yekaterinburg

Russia / Россия

Keypoint is expanding in Yekaterinburg, it has announced, with the addition of a new facility, spanning 3,200 sqm (34,450 sq ft). It will reportedly be built inside an existing building and constructed with the aim of achieving Tier III certification, developed in partnership with Russian telc...

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Read Google seeks to expand Omaha, Nebraska data center
Google seeks to expand Omaha, Nebraska data center
January 04, 2023

Google seeks to expand Omaha, Nebraska data center

Google

Google is reportedly looking to expand its data center site development in Omaha, Nebraska after it first announced and filed to build a data center near State Street and Blair High Road to the northwest of the city in April. Now, according to reports, the giant has applied to rezone an addit...

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Read Residents of The Dalles, Oregon gain access to Google's water consumption data following lawsuit settlement
Residents of The Dalles, Oregon gain access to Google's water consumption data following lawsuit settlement
January 03, 2023

Residents of The Dalles, Oregon gain access to Google's water consumption data following lawsuit settlement

Hyperscale Data Center

Those living in drought-prone The Dalles, Oregon, home to Google’s massive data centers, now know how much water the giant has consumed. This information, previously kept a secret by city officials, has been released following a legal fight funded by Google and launched by the city against The...

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Read Supernap's Thailand data center to be powered with solar
Supernap's Thailand data center to be powered with solar
January 02, 2023

Supernap's Thailand data center to be powered with solar

Switch

Supernap has announced the launch of its first solar project, which will power its Thailand data center. Supernap, the first Tier IV, carrier-neutral, hyperscale data center in Thailand, chose WHA Utilities and Power Plc. (WHAUP) to install the solar power system. During the opening ceremony,...

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Read Meta's Kuna, Idaho, data center paused as part of wider AI redesign plans
Meta's Kuna, Idaho, data center paused as part of wider AI redesign plans
January 02, 2023

Meta's Kuna, Idaho, data center paused as part of wider AI redesign plans

Meta

The latest data center to take the hit in Meta's AI redesign rethink is its Kuna, Idaho, data center. The facility, an $800 million development, was only announced by the giant in February, with the company commencing work on the project in September. Kuna data center paused as p...

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Read Harrison Street & 1547 CSR Buys Texas Carrier Hotel
Harrison Street & 1547 CSR Buys Texas Carrier Hotel
January 02, 2023

Harrison Street & 1547 CSR Buys Texas Carrier Hotel

1547 Critical Systems Realty (fifteenfortyseven)

In McAllen, Texas, Fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547) and Harrison Street have bought a carrier hotel. The two corporations have acquired Chase Tower in McAllen, a 17-story building with a total area of around 209,000 square feet. The specifics of the transaction were not made pu...

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Read More applications for data centers in the greater Dublin area as grid capacity concerns continue
More applications for data centers in the greater Dublin area as grid capacity concerns continue
January 01, 2023

More applications for data centers in the greater Dublin area as grid capacity concerns continue

Dublin

According to reports, in the wake of the Dublin data center moratorium over grid issues, 21 new data centers are planned outside of the greater Dublin area. Sixteen of these facilities are large-scale data centers, while a further five smaller-scale data center projects are being discussed wit...

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Read Green Mountain Expands its Oslo Data Center
Green Mountain Expands its Oslo Data Center
December 30, 2022

Green Mountain Expands its Oslo Data Center

Green Mountain OSL1-Enebakk

Green Mountain has finalized the expansion of its data center campus in Oslo, Norway. As a component of its OSL1-Enebakk complex, the Nordic data center provider has constructed a new 13.5MW data center, initially slated to debut in November 2022, as was announced at the end of 2021. Earlier i...

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Read New data center joint venture, Data Castle, launches
New data center joint venture, Data Castle, launches
December 29, 2022

New data center joint venture, Data Castle, launches

Germany / Deutschland

Data Castle, a new data center joint venture between Angelo Gordon and data center development management company DCD Data Center Developers, has announced plans to build and operate facilities in Germany. The JV will begin work on its plans in the town of Schwalbach am Taunus, just outside of...

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Read Google pulls out of Minnesota data center project
Google pulls out of Minnesota data center project
December 29, 2022

Google pulls out of Minnesota data center project

Google

Google has announced that it has canceled its $600 million data center in Becker, Minnesota, after calling off its electric service agreement. First announced back in 2019, and based near the Sherco power plant, Google dragged its feet on the development for quite some time, and although it r...

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Read INNIO and NorthC Datacenters partner to build First Hydrogen Emergency Backup Power Solution
INNIO and NorthC Datacenters partner to build First Hydrogen Emergency Backup Power Solution
December 29, 2022

INNIO and NorthC Datacenters partner to build First Hydrogen Emergency Backup Power Solution

NorthC Datacenters

NorthC Datacenters (NorthC) has partnered up with INNIO to use its Jenbacher Ready for H2 engine technology to deliver an emergency backup power solution for its newest data center, set to be constructed in Eindhoven, Netherlands. According to the company, if it is faced with electricity grid...

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Read Alibaba Opens New Data Center in Tokyo
Alibaba Opens New Data Center in Tokyo
December 23, 2022

Alibaba Opens New Data Center in Tokyo

Tokyo

Alibaba has established a data center in Tokyo, Japan. The company stated in December 2022 that its Alibaba Cloud/Aliyun division had opened a third data center in Japan to "meet the transformation expectations" of clients. Unique Song, General Manager of Japan for Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, ...

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Read QTS' Groningen data center connects to the Dutch city's new district heating project
QTS' Groningen data center connects to the Dutch city's new district heating project
December 22, 2022

QTS' Groningen data center connects to the Dutch city's new district heating project

QTS Data Centers

QTS has announced that it has connected its Groningen data center to the Dutch city's new district heating project. The heating project has been built by local utility WarmteStad, which is projected to produce heat for more than 10,000 households, buildings, and knowledge institutions by 2026...

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Read Singtel partners with Telkom to enter Indonesia data center market
Singtel partners with Telkom to enter Indonesia data center market
December 22, 2022

Singtel partners with Telkom to enter Indonesia data center market

Indonesia

Singtel has announced that it has entered a strategic partnership with Telkom and energy company Medco Power for its first data center project in Indonesia. The data center campus will reportedly be developed in three phases on an 8-hectare site. With a total capacity of 51 MW when fully built...

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Read Scala Data Centers issues R$ 2 billion in green debentures
Scala Data Centers issues R$ 2 billion in green debentures
December 22, 2022

Scala Data Centers issues R$ 2 billion in green debentures

Scala Data Centers

Scala Data Centers has announced that it has issued green debentures worth R$2 billion (US$378m), with a maturity of five years. This is the largest green financing in Brazil and the first of its kind in Brazil's data center industry. According to the company, it will be used to finance Scala...

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Read Michigan Lawmakers Propose Eliminating Data Center Tax Breaks
Michigan Lawmakers Propose Eliminating Data Center Tax Breaks
December 22, 2022

Michigan Lawmakers Propose Eliminating Data Center Tax Breaks

Michigan

Legislators in Michigan are attempting to decrease the tax exemptions provided to data centers. In December of 2022, Yousef Rabhi, a Democrat from Michigan, presented two proposals to repeal sales and use tax breaks for data centers. Current Michigan legislation exempts data centers from sales...

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Read Meta hits pause on Huntsville, Alabama, data center expansion
Meta hits pause on Huntsville, Alabama, data center expansion
December 21, 2022

Meta hits pause on Huntsville, Alabama, data center expansion

Meta

Meta has paused construction on its data center expansion in Huntsville, Alabama. This follows the giant’s announcement that its Odense, Denmark project was being completely canceled, and its Temple, Texas development was being paused as part of a wider AI data center design change. The Hunts...

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Read Oracle Unveils Cloud Facility in Chicago
Oracle Unveils Cloud Facility in Chicago
December 20, 2022

Oracle Unveils Cloud Facility in Chicago

Oracle

In Chicago, Illinois, Oracle has established a new cloud region. The company announced the opening of a new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) area in Chicago in December 2022. The new area, which was disclosed in November 2022, is Oracle's 41st worldwide public cloud region (55 counting gov...

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