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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 Oracle Launches First Cloud Region in Madrid, Spain
Oracle Launches First Cloud Region in Madrid, Spain
September 28, 2022

Oracle Launches First Cloud Region in Madrid, Spain

Oracle

Oracle has announced that it has launched a cloud region in the capital of Spain. The launch sees Oracle's total cloud region across the globe hit 40. This is the country's first region in the country. The general manager of Oracle Spain, Albert Triola, said: "Local organizations and public in...

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Read Datum Datacentres Acquires Teledata
Datum Datacentres Acquires Teledata
September 28, 2022

Datum Datacentres Acquires Teledata

Datum Datacentres Limited

Teledata has been acquired by Datum Datacentres. Datum Datacentres announced the acquisition of the Manchester-based colocation data center. Interestingly, Datum was also acquired last year by UBS. According to the company, the acquisition is a part of its regional expansion strategy. Detai...

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Read AQ Compute To Develop a 50MW Data Center in Barcelona, Spain
AQ Compute To Develop a 50MW Data Center in Barcelona, Spain
September 27, 2022

AQ Compute To Develop a 50MW Data Center in Barcelona, Spain

AQ Compute

AQ Compute has announced a partnership with CBRE that will see the company develop a new data center in Barcelona, Spain. The data center will have a capacity of 50MW and is scheduled to come online before the end of 2024. In addition to the 50MW facility, AQ Compute plans to develop more data...

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Read Yandex expands in Russia with new 63MW facility
Yandex expands in Russia with new 63MW facility
September 27, 2022

Yandex expands in Russia with new 63MW facility

Yandex NV

Yandex has announced that it is expanding in western Russia, with the addition of a new 63MW facility in the Grabtsevo industrial park in Kaluga, around 100 miles south of Moscow. According to reports, the data center is expected to span 130,000 square meters and house more than 3,800 server ...

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Read QScale starts work on second building at Quebec Lévis campus
QScale starts work on second building at Quebec Lévis campus
September 27, 2022

QScale starts work on second building at Quebec Lévis campus

QScale

QScale has reportedly commenced construction of Phase 2 of its campus in Lévis, outside Quebec City, a year ahead of schedule. The construction is one of the largest in the greater Quebec City region, and the project has seen an injection of $1 billion. QScale Speaking a...

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Read South Africa faces unprecedented power cuts
South Africa faces unprecedented power cuts
September 26, 2022

South Africa faces unprecedented power cuts

South Africa

South Africa is reportedly facing unprecedented levels of nationwide power blackouts. These blackouts come as a result of state-owned power utility Eskom, which produces 95% of the country’s electricity, implementing Stage 6 load shedding, which means that homes and businesses go without elect...

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Read Safaricom to expand footprint in Ethiopia
Safaricom to expand footprint in Ethiopia
September 26, 2022

Safaricom to expand footprint in Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Safaricom is to build a new data center outside Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, it has been announced. This comes following the signing of a developed land sublease agreement with Industrial Parks Development Corporation (IPDC) to build a new Tier-III quality ‘telco-cloud data center’. The facility wil...

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Read China's energy challenges, climate change, and what it means for data centers
China's energy challenges, climate change, and what it means for data centers
September 26, 2022

China's energy challenges, climate change, and what it means for data centers

China

Back in May 2021, Greenpeace said that China's data center emissions were to double, with its energy usage expected to nearly quadruple by 2035 (increasing by an estimated 289%). "Explosive growth" in digital infrastructure was identified as a major contributing factor to this. Considering the...

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Read Cargill moves into the bio-industrial business with its plant-based immersion cooling
Cargill moves into the bio-industrial business with its plant-based immersion cooling
September 26, 2022

Cargill moves into the bio-industrial business with its plant-based immersion cooling

United States

Cargill, an American food producer giant and the third largest meat producer in the world, has announced that it has created the world's first plant-based dielectric fluid for immersion cooling fluid in data centers. Named NatureCool 2000, the cooling liquid was designed for the data center an...

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Read Weserve Completes Acquisition of Datacenter Groningen
September 26, 2022

Weserve Completes Acquisition of Datacenter Groningen

Datacenter Groningen BV

Dutch company Weserve has acquired colocation firm Datacenter Groningen. Weserve was founded in 2003, and it operates and provides fiber optics. It also manages its own hardware and network from 25 data centers across the country. On the other hand, Datacenter Groningen owns and operates one d...

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Read OVHcloud Develops Facility on Strasbourg Site Ravaged By Fire in 2021
OVHcloud Develops Facility on Strasbourg Site Ravaged By Fire in 2021
September 26, 2022

OVHcloud Develops Facility on Strasbourg Site Ravaged By Fire in 2021

OVH Strasbourg Campus

OVHcloud has announced opening of a new facility on the Strasbourg site ravaged by fire in 2021. The new data center named SBG5 cost the company €30 million ($30.5m). SBG5 data center is equipped with an automatic fire extinguishing system. Although this system is standard among modern data ce...

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Read T-Mobile Sells Data Center and Wireline Business to Cogent for $1
T-Mobile Sells Data Center and Wireline Business to Cogent for $1
September 26, 2022

T-Mobile Sells Data Center and Wireline Business to Cogent for $1

Cogent Communications

Cogent Communications Holdings has acquired T-Mobile’s wireline business for $1 billion. In addition, T-Mobile expects to have a pre-tax charge of $1 billion from selling the unit to Cogent. T-Mobile will also pay Cogent $350m in the first 1 year of closing the deal and another $350m over the ...

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Read Work on Meta's data center in Sarpy County halted following racist graffiti being found
Work on Meta's data center in Sarpy County halted following racist graffiti being found
September 23, 2022

Work on Meta's data center in Sarpy County halted following racist graffiti being found

Meta

Meta’s Sarpy County data center has once again found itself in the headlines following another racist incident on site. The primary contractor Turner Construction had shut down work on the Utah site regarding three other racist incidents, which included racist graffiti on a portable toilet an...

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Read Verne and Volta announce they're team up
Verne and Volta announce they're team up
September 23, 2022

Verne and Volta announce they're team up

Verne: Keflavik Campus

Verne Global and Volta Data Centres have announced that they have teamed up and will now be operating under the Verne Global brand, spanning from Iceland to the UK. Speaking about the decision to merge, Dominic Ward, CEO of Verne Global, said: “With two complementary, best-in-class data cente...

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Read Amazon invests in more renewable energy projects
Amazon invests in more renewable energy projects
September 23, 2022

Amazon invests in more renewable energy projects

Amazon AWS

Amazon has announced that it has invested in another wave of renewable energy projects, totaling 71. Altogether, these projects will take the giant total renewable energy production to 50,000GWh, the same amount required to power 4.6 million homes in the US annually. These projects include th...

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Read Bosung Group to expand in South Korea
Bosung Group to expand in South Korea
September 23, 2022

Bosung Group to expand in South Korea

South Korea

Bosung Group is expanding its data center footprint in SolaSeaDo, South Korea, with the addition of a new 200MW data center campus in SolaSeaDo, to the south of the country in Jeonnam Province. These expansion plans come following the company partnering up with The Green Korea (TGK), a joint v...

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Read NEC to expand its green data centers in Kanagawa and Kobe
NEC to expand its green data centers in Kanagawa and Kobe
September 23, 2022

NEC to expand its green data centers in Kanagawa and Kobe

Japan

NEC Corporation has announced that it is establishing two new green data centers, in response to the growing demand. The first is the "NEC Kanagawa Data Center: Phase 2 Building" which is scheduled to open in the second half of 2023, and the second is "NEC Kobe Data Center: Phase 3 Building," ...

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Read Raxio Breaks Ground on its 1.5MW Kinshasa Data Center in The DRC
Raxio Breaks Ground on its 1.5MW Kinshasa Data Center in The DRC
September 23, 2022

Raxio Breaks Ground on its 1.5MW Kinshasa Data Center in The DRC

Raxio Group

Raxio has announced that it has begun constructing its new Kinshasa facility in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The company first announced the data center in March 2021. At the ground-breaking ceremony, Raxio noted that the facility is the DRC’s first Tier III rated carrier-neutral...

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Read Borealis Data Center Buys Data Center For Undisclosed Fee in Reykjavík, Iceland
September 23, 2022

Borealis Data Center Buys Data Center For Undisclosed Fee in Reykjavík, Iceland

Iceland

Icelandic data center company Borealis Data Center has completed the acquisition of a data center just outside Reykjavik, Iceland. According to Visir, the company purchased the facility from Islandsbanki. However, the terms of the acquisition weren’t revealed. Borealis currently operates tw...

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Read Tighter guidelines on data centre sustainability needed, new report says
Tighter guidelines on data centre sustainability needed, new report says
September 22, 2022

Tighter guidelines on data centre sustainability needed, new report says

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

There have been a number of recent reports that have highlighted that data center operators are falling short when it comes to sustainability tracking. Morningstar Sustainanalytics, Uptime Institute's 12th annual Global data center survey, and now Cushman & Wakefield's report 'Energy, Wate...

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