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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 Equifax to Decommission Data Center outside Atlanta
Equifax to Decommission Data Center outside Atlanta
September 12, 2025

Equifax to Decommission Data Center outside Atlanta

Atlanta

The City of Alpharetta last week announced that Equifax was investing $25 million to expand its Alpharetta campus, located in Fulton County. The expansion includes the renovation of the third floor of the JV White 1 building, converting it from a data center into collaborative office space. “T...

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Read LG to Provide Cooling Equipment to Datavolt’s Neom Facility
LG to Provide Cooling Equipment to Datavolt’s Neom Facility
September 12, 2025

LG to Provide Cooling Equipment to Datavolt’s Neom Facility

DataVolt

LG Electronics this week announced a strategic partnership to provide cooling solutions for an AI data center under development in Oxagon, the industrial hub of Saudi Arabia’s Neom City project.“We are building a new generation of net-zero, AI-ready data centers designed for performance, scale...

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Read New Firm Announces Plans for 20MW Liquid-Cooled Data Center
New Firm Announces Plans for 20MW Liquid-Cooled Data Center
September 12, 2025

New Firm Announces Plans for 20MW Liquid-Cooled Data Center

Chicago

A new liquid-cooled data center is being developed in downtown Chicago, Illinois by HydraVault, a new data center developer. The developer says the facility will be “designed from the ground up” for AI and financial systems.The 20MW two-story facility, located at 2538 South Wabash Avenue, will...

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Read Google Cloud to Provide AI and Cloud Services to Eneva
Google Cloud to Provide AI and Cloud Services to Eneva
September 11, 2025

Google Cloud to Provide AI and Cloud Services to Eneva

Google

Brazilian power generation firm Eneva has partnered with Google Cloud to use its cloud, data, and AI technologies to optimize its operations across the Brazilian market. Accenture migrated Eneva's infrastructure to Google Cloud to improve its access to data across the enterprise as a part of t...

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Read OpenAI Considers Data Center in South Korea
OpenAI Considers Data Center in South Korea
September 11, 2025

OpenAI Considers Data Center in South Korea

South Korea

OpenAI is considering developing a data center in South Korea.  OpenAI's chief strategy officer, Jason Kwon, said the company was open to partnerships regarding data center construction. He added that the ChatGPT-maker could expand its cooperation with the likes of Samsung and SK Telecom, and ...

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Read Portus Data Centers Names Falk Weinreich as CEO
Portus Data Centers Names Falk Weinreich as CEO
September 11, 2025

Portus Data Centers Names Falk Weinreich as CEO

Portus Data Centers

Portus Data Centers has secured a new Chief Executive Officer. This week, it announced the appointment of Falk Weinreich as its new Group CEO."Portus Data Centers has quickly positioned itself as one of the most important providers in the regional colocation sector," Weinreich said. "We want t...

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Read Legal & General Closes €600m Digital Infrastructure Fund
Legal & General Closes €600m Digital Infrastructure Fund
September 10, 2025

Legal & General Closes €600m Digital Infrastructure Fund

KAO Data

Kao Data investor Legal and General (L&G) has closed a €600 million ($706m) fund that will invest in digital infrastructure projects in Europe and the UK. This is “a key milestone in L&G’s asset management strategy to expand its private markets proposition,” the company said. A second ...

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Read Indian Miner to Explore Data Centers Construction at Decommissioned Mines
Indian Miner to Explore Data Centers Construction at Decommissioned Mines
September 10, 2025

Indian Miner to Explore Data Centers Construction at Decommissioned Mines

India / Bhārata

A state-owned Indian coal mining firm is considering building data centers in its decommissioned mines. The company initiated a feasibility study with the assistance of consultants. The studies will include site assessments, a comparative analysis of shortlisted locations, and a feasibility re...

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Read Google Behind West Memphis Data Center Project in Arkansas
Google Behind West Memphis Data Center Project in Arkansas
September 10, 2025

Google Behind West Memphis Data Center Project in Arkansas

Google

Google has confirmed it is behind a data center project in West Memphis, Arkansas. Dubbed Project Pyramid, plans were submitted earlier this year to develop a five-building data center campus on a 1,178-acre property on the south side of Bollinger Road in West Memphis, Crittenden County. The c...

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Read Compass Mining Energizes 7.5MW Site in Minnesota
Compass Mining Energizes 7.5MW Site in Minnesota
September 10, 2025

Compass Mining Energizes 7.5MW Site in Minnesota

Minnesota

Bitcoin mining and infrastructure services provider Compass Mining has energized a new 7.5MW site in Minnesota named Minnesota 2. It will be Compass's second facility in Minnesota, and the 23rd facility run by the company across the US and Canada.Compass Mining will be responsible for operatin...

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Read Ameresco Partners with CyrusOne to Develop Offgrid AI Data Center
Ameresco Partners with CyrusOne to Develop Offgrid AI Data Center
September 10, 2025

Ameresco Partners with CyrusOne to Develop Offgrid AI Data Center

California

US energy solutions provider Ameresco has partnered with the US Navy and data center developer CyrusOne to develop a 100MW data center at Naval Air Station (NAS) Lemoore, California. The facility will be colocated with a dedicated on-site energy generation facility built by Ameresco, forming a...

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Read EcoDataCenter Raises $703m in Debt Financing
EcoDataCenter Raises $703m in Debt Financing
September 09, 2025

EcoDataCenter Raises $703m in Debt Financing

Germany / Deutschland

EcoDataCenter has secured €600 million ($703m) in debt financing from Deutsche Bank Private Credit and Infrastructure which will be used to develop AI data centers in Sweden.“AI infrastructure is a new base industry, and we are building one of Europe’s most exciting companies in the sector. We...

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Read Polish Data Center Program Offers $220m in Funding to Applicants
Polish Data Center Program Offers $220m in Funding to Applicants
September 09, 2025

Polish Data Center Program Offers $220m in Funding to Applicants

Poland

A data center project in Poland is offering up to PLN 800 million ($220m) in funding for three state-owned data centers, with the Digital Poland Project Center calling for applications. The data centers are each expected to span around 2,000 sqm (21,527 sq ft), and will "largely" be powered by...

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Read KKR Hires Former AWS CEO Adam Selipsky
KKR Hires Former AWS CEO Adam Selipsky
September 09, 2025

KKR Hires Former AWS CEO Adam Selipsky

Amazon AWS

Investment firm KKR has appointed Adam Selipsky as a senior advisor for technology and AI strategy. Selipsky will advise on strategy, capital allocation, and governance for the firm’s $179 billion Real Assets business.Selipsky was the CEO of cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) from 2021 to 2...

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Read 250MW Off-Grid Facility Planned for Gibraltar
250MW Off-Grid Facility Planned for Gibraltar
September 08, 2025

250MW Off-Grid Facility Planned for Gibraltar

Brittany

Pelagos Data Centres this week announced plans to develop a 250MW project on the British territory of Gibraltar. The facility will be constructed in five phases at a 20,000 square meter (215,280 sq ft) site near the Port of Gibraltar.Konstantin Sokolov, chairman of Pelagos Data Centres, said: ...

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Read DataCrunch Proposes Data Center in Akaa, Finland
DataCrunch Proposes Data Center in Akaa, Finland
September 08, 2025

DataCrunch Proposes Data Center in Akaa, Finland

Finland

Helsinki-based AI cloud company DataCrunch is looking to develop a data center in Akaa, Finland and has purchased 10 hectares of land in the Akaa Point business district for around €600,000 ($698,200). "The scale of the investment is significant and it strengthens our city's tax revenue base, ...

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Read Top Data Center News for 1st- 6th September, 2025
Top Data Center News for 1st- 6th September, 2025
September 08, 2025

Top Data Center News for 1st- 6th September, 2025

United States

SAP to Spend €20bn on European Sovereign CloudGerman software company SAP is planning to invest more than €20 billion ($23.3bn) in expanding its sovereign cloud offering in Europe, launching various platforms for customers to deploy in their data centers. OData Secures $1.02bn in Green Financi...

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Read Nvidia Developing Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Reference Design
Nvidia Developing Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Reference Design
September 08, 2025

Nvidia Developing Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Reference Design

United States

Nvidia this week announced it was developing data center reference designs to be shared with partners and enterprises worldwide, known as the AI Factory Giga-Scale Reference Designs.Earlier this year, Nvidia introduced an Omniverse Blueprint for AI factory digital twins, allowing customers to ...

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Read Hitachi Energy to Invest $1bn into US Grid Infrastructure
Hitachi Energy to Invest $1bn into US Grid Infrastructure
September 06, 2025

Hitachi Energy to Invest $1bn into US Grid Infrastructure

United States

Hitachi Energy has announced a $1 billion investment to scale up its grid infrastructure manufacturing footprint in the US, addressing the power demand from the AI data center sector. Nearly half of the investment, $475 million, is earmarked for the construction of a new power transformer manu...

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Read OData Secures $1.02bn in Green Financing
OData Secures $1.02bn in Green Financing
September 06, 2025

OData Secures $1.02bn in Green Financing

ODATA SA

Latin American data center firm OData this week announced $1.02bn in green financing. The proceeds will be used for data center projects that “meet the highest standards of sustainability” across Brazil, Mexico, Chile, and Colombia. The company said the financing was the largest of its kind fo...

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