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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

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Read Microsoft Plans 38GW Of Data Center Capacity By 2032
Microsoft plans to more than triple its data center capacity over the next five years, targeting 38GW by 2032, up from its current 12GW. The capacity will combine Microsoft-owned facilities with le...
September 11, 2026

Microsoft Plans 38GW Of Data Center Capacity By 2032

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft plans to more than triple its data center capacity over the next five years, targeting 38GW by 2032, up from its current 12GW. The capacity will combine Microsoft-owned facilities with leased capacity from third-party providers, including neoclouds such as CoreWeave, Nscale, Lambda, Ire...

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Read S+B Gruppe Plans Data Center In Bucharest, Romania
Real estate developer S+B Gruppe has secured approval to build a 12MW Tier III data center in northern Bucharest, Romania. Named NIMB, the facility has received a building permit and grid connectio...
September 10, 2026

S+B Gruppe Plans Data Center In Bucharest, Romania

Romania

Real estate developer S+B Gruppe has secured approval to build a 12MW Tier III data center in northern Bucharest, Romania. Named NIMB, the facility has received a building permit and grid connection approval. It will provide 36,597 sq ft (3,400 sqm) of white space and is expected to open in 2028....

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Read Ivory Coast Plans First State-Owned Data Center For 2027 Launch
Ivory Coast is planning to build its first state-owned data center, with operations expected to begin in 2027. The project is being developed by Washington-based Cybastion Institute of Technology L...
September 10, 2026

Ivory Coast Plans First State-Owned Data Center For 2027 Launch

Ivory Coast - Côte d'Ivoire

Ivory Coast is planning to build its first state-owned data center, with operations expected to begin in 2027. The project is being developed by Washington-based Cybastion Institute of Technology LLC at an estimated cost of $66 million, with financial support from the US Export-Import Bank. The f...

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Read Friesen Elektra Explores Data Center Project In Lower Saxony, Germany
Friesen Elektra is exploring a data center at its planned Wasserstoffpark Friesland green hydrogen site near Sande, Lower Saxony. The company has applied for a zoning exemption to allow the project...
September 10, 2026

Friesen Elektra Explores Data Center Project In Lower Saxony, Germany

Germany / Deutschland

Friesen Elektra is exploring a data center at its planned Wasserstoffpark Friesland green hydrogen site near Sande, Lower Saxony. The company has applied for a zoning exemption to allow the project. No IT capacity has been disclosed, while the wider hydrogen park is planned for 400MW of power gen...

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Read High Wycombe Film Studio Conversion To Data Center Approved
Wycombe Park Ltd’s plans to convert a former film studio site into a data center near High Wycombe, UK, have been recommended for approval by Buckinghamshire Council’s Strategic Sites Committee. Th...
September 10, 2026

High Wycombe Film Studio Conversion To Data Center Approved

United Kingdom

Wycombe Park Ltd’s plans to convert a former film studio site into a data center near High Wycombe, UK, have been recommended for approval by Buckinghamshire Council’s Strategic Sites Committee. The site, south of Wycombe Air Park, was originally planned as an eight-phase film studio development ...

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Read Data Center Oil Leak Contaminates Water In Bangkok, Thailand
An oil leak at a Bangkok data center contaminated 32 cubic meters of water but has now been cleaned up. Thailand’s Pollution Control Department said the leak, reportedly from Damac Digital Thailand...
September 09, 2026

Data Center Oil Leak Contaminates Water In Bangkok, Thailand

Thailand / Prathet Thai

An oil leak at a Bangkok data center contaminated 32 cubic meters of water but has now been cleaned up. Thailand’s Pollution Control Department said the leak, reportedly from Damac Digital Thailand’s BKK 01 facility on Rama 9 Road, was successfully contained. An emergency cleanup began Monday eve...

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Read Hscale Secures $1B Hyperscaler Contract For Spanish Data Centers
Bain Capital-backed Hscale has secured a contract worth more than $1 billion with an unnamed hyperscaler for capacity at its data centers in Spain. The facilities will support the client’s cloud an...
September 09, 2026

Hscale Secures $1B Hyperscaler Contract For Spanish Data Centers

hscale

Bain Capital-backed Hscale has secured a contract worth more than $1 billion with an unnamed hyperscaler for capacity at its data centers in Spain. The facilities will support the client’s cloud and AI workloads, with the agreement potentially expanding to other Hscale data centers across EMEA. ...

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Read Damac And Vodafone Türkiye Triple Investment In Izmir Data Center Project
Damac Digital and Vodafone Türkiye have begun construction of their planned data center in Izmir, western Turkey. The project was first announced in 2024 with a $100 million investment, but Damac D...
September 09, 2026

Damac And Vodafone Türkiye Triple Investment In Izmir Data Center Project

DAMAC Digital

Damac Digital and Vodafone Türkiye have begun construction of their planned data center in Izmir, western Turkey. The project was first announced in 2024 with a $100 million investment, but Damac Digital has now increased the budget to $300 million. The facility will be Vodafone’s second data cen...

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Read Google And Blackstone JV Faces Delays On Data Center Projects
Google and Blackstone’s joint venture is facing delays at several data center projects across the US, although the partnership remains optimistic about its progress. Known internally as Project Bra...
September 09, 2026

Google And Blackstone JV Faces Delays On Data Center Projects

Google

Google and Blackstone’s joint venture is facing delays at several data center projects across the US, although the partnership remains optimistic about its progress. Known internally as Project Braid, the JV was formed in May 2026 to develop a cloud platform powered by Google’s Tensor Processing ...

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Read Digital Realty Launches 6.4MW Data Center In Nairobi, Kenya
Digital Realty has launched its second data center in Nairobi, Kenya. The company announced on September 7 that its Nairobi Two Data Center (NBO2) is now operational, adding 6.4MW of capacity to it...
September 08, 2026

Digital Realty Launches 6.4MW Data Center In Nairobi, Kenya

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has launched its second data center in Nairobi, Kenya. The company announced on September 7 that its Nairobi Two Data Center (NBO2) is now operational, adding 6.4MW of capacity to its Nairobi campus. The facility covers 12,000 sq ft (1,100 sqm). The launch follows iColo’s transitio...

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Read Greenfield And Finsbury Infrastructure To Invest €360M In Milan Data Center
UK infrastructure developer Greenfield and Finsbury Infrastructure plan to invest up to €360 million ($418m) to develop a 36MW data center east of Milan, Italy. Greenfield has already secured 80MW ...
September 08, 2026

Greenfield And Finsbury Infrastructure To Invest €360M In Milan Data Center

Milan

UK infrastructure developer Greenfield and Finsbury Infrastructure plan to invest up to €360 million ($418m) to develop a 36MW data center east of Milan, Italy. Greenfield has already secured 80MW of power capacity for the site, which will support AI, cloud, and enterprise workloads while boostin...

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Read Qualcomm And AWS Collaborate On Custom AI Silicon For Large-Scale Data Centers
Qualcomm is partnering with Amazon to develop customized AI infrastructure solutions. Under the multi-generational partnership, Qualcomm Technologies and Amazon will develop custom silicon for larg...
September 08, 2026

Qualcomm And AWS Collaborate On Custom AI Silicon For Large-Scale Data Centers

Amazon AWS

Qualcomm is partnering with Amazon to develop customized AI infrastructure solutions. Under the multi-generational partnership, Qualcomm Technologies and Amazon will develop custom silicon for large-scale AI data centers, focusing on AI inference and optical connectivity of up to 1.6T. The collab...

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Read SGC Energy Partners With Vertiv To Deploy PowerNexus At Gunsan AI Data Center
South Korean energy firm SGC Energy has partnered with Vertiv to improve power and cooling efficiency at its planned AI data center in Gunsan. Under a non-binding MoU, the companies will conduct jo...
September 08, 2026

SGC Energy Partners With Vertiv To Deploy PowerNexus At Gunsan AI Data Center

SGC Energy

South Korean energy firm SGC Energy has partnered with Vertiv to improve power and cooling efficiency at its planned AI data center in Gunsan. Under a non-binding MoU, the companies will conduct joint technical reviews, with Vertiv planning to deploy its PowerNexus integrated power solution at th...

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Read JV Plans 54MW Data Center In Dallas, Texas
A new 54MW data center is planned for the North Dallas Corridor, with Northampton Capital Partners and Provident Data Centers targeting a late 2027 launch. The exact location has not been disclosed...
September 07, 2026

JV Plans 54MW Data Center In Dallas, Texas

Texas

A new 54MW data center is planned for the North Dallas Corridor, with Northampton Capital Partners and Provident Data Centers targeting a late 2027 launch. The exact location has not been disclosed. The companies also agreed to develop additional inference-ready data center sites across US market...

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Read GLP Begins Development Of 200MW Data Center In Foshan, China
GLP has begun developing a 200MW data center campus in Foshan, Guangdong, China. The first 40MW phase is now under construction, with GLP investing RMB 4 billion ($600m) in the project. The campus ...
September 07, 2026

GLP Begins Development Of 200MW Data Center In Foshan, China

GLP

GLP has begun developing a 200MW data center campus in Foshan, Guangdong, China. The first 40MW phase is now under construction, with GLP investing RMB 4 billion ($600m) in the project. The campus is being built for an unnamed internet and cloud services company and is expected to be one of the l...

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Read Top Data Center News for 31st August - 5th September, 2026
**[Meta’s $1.2B Data Center In Kuna, Idaho, Goes Live](https://baxtel.com/news/meta-s-1-2b-data-center-in-kuna-idaho-goes-live)** **Meta’s Kuna, Idaho Data Center is now operational and has begun ...
September 07, 2026

Top Data Center News for 31st August - 5th September, 2026

United States

Meta’s $1.2B Data Center In Kuna, Idaho, Goes Live Meta’s Kuna, Idaho Data Center is now operational and has begun serving traffic, representing Meta's second AI-optimized facility in the fleet, with an overall investment of $1.2 billion. after being initially announced in 2022 before being tempo...

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Read Thailand Pauses 49 Data Center Projects As It Prepares New Regulations
Thailand has suspended construction on 49 data center projects over concerns about power consumption and impacts on local communities. The pause, announced by National Economic and Social Developme...
September 07, 2026

Thailand Pauses 49 Data Center Projects As It Prepares New Regulations

Thailand / Prathet Thai

Thailand has suspended construction on 49 data center projects over concerns about power consumption and impacts on local communities. The pause, announced by National Economic and Social Development Council secretary-general Danucha Pichayanan, will give officials time to develop new regulations...

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Read Key ASIC And CT Vision Plan Green AI Data Center In Malaysia
Key ASIC And CT Vision Partner On 300MW Green AI Data Center In Malaysia Malaysian semiconductor designer Key ASIC has partnered with Hong Kong-based investment firm CT Vision to develop a green AI...
September 07, 2026

Key ASIC And CT Vision Plan Green AI Data Center In Malaysia

Malaysia

Key ASIC And CT Vision Partner On 300MW Green AI Data Center In Malaysia Malaysian semiconductor designer Key ASIC has partnered with Hong Kong-based investment firm CT Vision to develop a green AI data center in Malaysia. The planned facility will provide around 300MW of IT capacity within five ...

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Read Bitdeer Acquires 200 Acres In Milam County, Texas, For AI And HPC Expansion
Bitdeer has acquired a 200-acre site in Milam County, Texas, for $100 million to support its AI and HPC infrastructure expansion. The land, formerly part of an Alcoa aluminum smelting plant, is adj...
September 05, 2026

Bitdeer Acquires 200 Acres In Milam County, Texas, For AI And HPC Expansion

BitDeer

Bitdeer has acquired a 200-acre site in Milam County, Texas, for $100 million to support its AI and HPC infrastructure expansion. The land, formerly part of an Alcoa aluminum smelting plant, is adjacent to Bitdeer’s existing Rockdale data center. The company said the combined sites provide 563MW ...

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Read Frankfurt Suburb Council Approves Data Center Proposal
Municipal authorities in Hesse, western Germany, have approved a new data center in Gießen developed by Revikon. The six-hectare (14-acre) facility is expected to cost more than €1 billion ($1.1bn)...
September 05, 2026

Frankfurt Suburb Council Approves Data Center Proposal

Frankfurt Data FFO AI GmbH

Municipal authorities in Hesse, western Germany, have approved a new data center in Gießen developed by Revikon. The six-hectare (14-acre) facility is expected to cost more than €1 billion ($1.1bn), consume up to 65MW of power, and create around 200 permanent jobs. Although 38 of Gießen’s 57 coun...

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