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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 Aligned To Develop a 264MW and 3.3 Million Square Feet Facility at Quantum Loophole's Maryland campus
Aligned To Develop a 264MW and 3.3 Million Square Feet Facility at Quantum Loophole's Maryland campus
December 13, 2022

Aligned To Develop a 264MW and 3.3 Million Square Feet Facility at Quantum Loophole's Maryland campus

Aligned

Aligned has revealed plans for its new data center at the 2,100-acre Quantum Loophole campus in Frederick County, Maryland. Quantum Loophole revealed in May 2021 that it is developing a gigawatt-scale data center campus in Frederic County, Maryland. A year later, Aligned became the first compa...

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Read Backblaze Unveils its US East Data Center: A Peek into 1.3 Exabytes of Raw Storage Capacity
Backblaze Unveils its US East Data Center: A Peek into 1.3 Exabytes of Raw Storage Capacity
December 13, 2022

Backblaze Unveils its US East Data Center: A Peek into 1.3 Exabytes of Raw Storage Capacity

Backblaze

Backblaze, a cloud storage and backup provider, recently offered a rare glimpse into its US East Data Center, highlighting its capacity to store and manage a staggering amount of data for its growing customer base.Located in CoreSite Reston, the data center is designed to ensure top-notch reli...

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Read CyrusOne accelerates carbon neutral pledge
CyrusOne accelerates carbon neutral pledge
December 12, 2022

CyrusOne accelerates carbon neutral pledge

CyrusOne

Data center firm CyrusOne, a member of the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, has announced that it is accelerating its carbon-neutral pledge by ten years. The company is now promising to achieve this green goal by 2030 rather than 2040.According to the company, it will achieve this goal by imp...

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Read Equinix to adjust thermostats to optimize data centers
Equinix to adjust thermostats to optimize data centers
December 12, 2022

Equinix to adjust thermostats to optimize data centers

Equinix

Equinix has announced, in line with a broader commitment to reduce its overall power, it will adjust its data center thermostats, shifting temperatures closer to 27°C (80°F) across its global data center fleet. This change, the company said, will lead to less energy used in 'unnecessary data ...

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Read Microsoft plans gas plant at Dublin Campus over energy constraint concerns
Microsoft plans gas plant at Dublin Campus over energy constraint concerns
December 12, 2022

Microsoft plans gas plant at Dublin Campus over energy constraint concerns

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced plans to build an 'unprecedentedly large-scale gas power plant' at its Grange Castle site, an upcoming data center development, due to its concerns about Ireland's energy grid constraints. According to the giant, plans are to build a 170 MW on-site power plant alongsid...

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Read Chandler adopts data center zoning amendment
Chandler adopts data center zoning amendment
December 12, 2022

Chandler adopts data center zoning amendment

Arizona

Chandler City Council has given the green light to adopt a zoning code amendment for the location and operation of data centers in the city. This unanimous vote follows the tabling of an ordinance by Cameron Carter, an attorney with Rose Law Group and representative of Aligned Data Centers, wh...

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Read Elea Digital announces sustainability-linked bond
Elea Digital announces sustainability-linked bond
December 09, 2022

Elea Digital announces sustainability-linked bond

Elea Data Centers

Brazilian data center firm Elea Digital has announced its first sustainability-linked bond. It has reportedly issued a $38 million bond to invest in more water-efficient equipment, through which it hopes to reduce its Water Usage Efficiency (WUE) to 0.31 liters and 0.2 liters per KW/h by By 20...

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Read Digital Realty’s Lamda Hellix Developing Fourth Data Center in Athens, Greece
Digital Realty’s Lamda Hellix Developing Fourth Data Center in Athens, Greece
December 09, 2022

Digital Realty’s Lamda Hellix Developing Fourth Data Center in Athens, Greece

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty's Greek data center unit Lamda Helix has announced plans to develop its fourth data center in Athens, Greece. The company's data center campus currently has two carrier-neutral data centers with a total capacity of 22 MW. It is also developing two more on the site. Lamda Heli...

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Read Bloomberg Reporting Aligned is Close To Odata Acquisition
Bloomberg Reporting Aligned is Close To Odata Acquisition
December 09, 2022

Bloomberg Reporting Aligned is Close To Odata Acquisition

Aligned

According to Bloomberg, Aligned is looking to acquire Brazilian data center operator Odata. The report states that the discussions are in the advanced stage of a potential $1.8 billion deal. However, there’s still uncertainty about the deal, and it is more likely to fall through as it is to...

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Read DigitalBridge & IFM Announces The Completion of Switch Inc acquisition
DigitalBridge & IFM Announces The Completion of Switch Inc acquisition
December 09, 2022

DigitalBridge & IFM Announces The Completion of Switch Inc acquisition

DigitalBridge

DigitalBridge and IFM Investors have announced the acquisition of Switch Inc. for $11 billion. The acquisition plan was first announced in May 2022. The deal sees Switch Inc. go private and delisted from the New York Stock Exchange. The Switch Inc. asset was highly coveted, and DigitalBridg...

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Read DataGrid Files To Develop a 100MW Data Center in New Zealand
December 09, 2022

DataGrid Files To Develop a 100MW Data Center in New Zealand

New Zealand

According to Stuff.co.nz, DataGrid has filed an application to develop its first data center in southern New Zealand. The company filed the application with Southland District Council for a new facility in Makarewa, outside Invercargill. Plans for the data center in December 2020. The CEO o...

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Read Edge Centres Announces Launch of New Data Center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Edge Centres Announces Launch of New Data Center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
December 09, 2022

Edge Centres Announces Launch of New Data Center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Edge Centres

Edge Centres has opened a new data center in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. The company announced in a LinkedIn post that: “Today we launched our first location in Vietnam. Our first of 3 locations and the only data center to launch here this year. We would like to thank our partner USDC Technology ...

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Read Microsoft Looking To Expand its Leesburg Data Center Campus With Two Data Centers
Microsoft Looking To Expand its Leesburg Data Center Campus With Two Data Centers
December 09, 2022

Microsoft Looking To Expand its Leesburg Data Center Campus With Two Data Centers

Hyperscale Data Center

According to BizJournal, Microsoft is planning to expand its Leesburg data center campus in Loudoun County, Virginia, by developing two data centers. The two data centers will be called IAD02 and IAD03. The planned data centers will span 44,200 square meters (475,700 square feet). The data cen...

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Read AWS Plans To Develop a 2.2 Million Square Feet Campus in Gainesville
AWS Plans To Develop a 2.2 Million Square Feet Campus in Gainesville
December 09, 2022

AWS Plans To Develop a 2.2 Million Square Feet Campus in Gainesville

Amazon AWS

Amazon is looking to develop a large data center campus in Gainesville, Virginia. The company submitted two special-use permit requests for a 2.2 million square feet data center campus that will sit on 117 acres of land at 5845 and 5945 Wellington Road. Per the company’s requests, it is lookin...

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Read JLG and Mitsui sign MoU for data center & solar farm in Johor, Malaysia
JLG and Mitsui sign MoU for data center & solar farm in Johor, Malaysia
December 08, 2022

JLG and Mitsui sign MoU for data center & solar farm in Johor, Malaysia

Malaysia

JL and Group Sdn Bhd (JLG) and Japanese conglomerate Mitsui have announced a partnership that will see the development of a data center and solar farm in Johor, Malaysia. Through the MoU, the two will conduct a joint feasibility study on the development of a hyperscale data center and solar fa...

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Read Allied Energy partners with Enerhash for flare gas crypto operations
Allied Energy partners with Enerhash for flare gas crypto operations
December 08, 2022

Allied Energy partners with Enerhash for flare gas crypto operations

United States

Enerhash is the latest company to partner with an oil company to gain access to and explore the use of flared gas for mining operations. The crypto mining firm has signed an MoU with Allied Energy, through which the two work on the feasibility of developing solutions to utilize stranded and fl...

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Read CapitaLand To Develop a 36MW Data Center in Hyderabad, India
CapitaLand To Develop a 36MW Data Center in Hyderabad, India
December 08, 2022

CapitaLand To Develop a 36MW Data Center in Hyderabad, India

Ascendas Reit (CapitaLand)

CapitaLand is planning to develop a new data center in Hyderabad, India. CapitaLand India Trust Management Pte. Ltd. has signed an MoU with the Telangana government to develop a data center at CapitaLand India Trust’s International Tech Park Hyderabad (ITPH). The park is located at Madhapur...

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Read OADC Launches Data Centers in Johannesburg and Lagos
December 08, 2022

OADC Launches Data Centers in Johannesburg and Lagos

Africa

Open Access Data Centres (OADC) has launched facilities in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Lagos, Nigeria. OADC also noted that it would be launching two more facilities in Cape Town, South Africa while expanding its existing facility in Durban. OADC revealed that it opened a data center in...

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Read T4 Group Signs Partnership With NTT New Zealand
T4 Group Signs Partnership With NTT New Zealand
December 08, 2022

T4 Group Signs Partnership With NTT New Zealand

NTT

T4 Group and NTT Ltd have signed an agreement that will see the former provide data center infrastructure for the latter. T4 Group is a colocation provider with data centers in Auckland and Whangarei, New Zealand. It also has a third facility under development on New Zealand’s South Island. Th...

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Read Wind River Internet Looking To Develop a Data Center in Wyoming
December 08, 2022

Wind River Internet Looking To Develop a Data Center in Wyoming

Wyoming

Wind River Internet (WRI) has announced plans for a potential data center in Fremont County, Wyoming. The company revealed that it is hosting a public meeting on the 14th of December, 2022. The company plans to seek citizen input regarding developing a data center in Fremont County. The Execut...

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