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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 DC Blox Secures $1.15bn Green Loan for Atlanta Data Center
DC Blox Secures $1.15bn Green Loan for Atlanta Data Center
August 13, 2025

DC Blox Secures $1.15bn Green Loan for Atlanta Data Center

DC BLOX

US data center firm DC Blox this week announced it has closed $1.15 billion in green loan financing for the construction of a data center campus in Douglas County, Georgia. The funds will support the development of a 120MW data center and include campus expansion to support an additional 80MW,...

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Read Goodman Secures Financing from Aareal Bank
Goodman Secures Financing from Aareal Bank
August 13, 2025

Goodman Secures Financing from Aareal Bank

United States

Germany’s Aareal Bank is moving into providing financing to data center customers and has entered into its first financing transaction in the data center asset class in July 2025 with Goodman Group."Frankfurt is Europe's largest Internet node, with a data transfer rate of more than 18 terabits...

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Read QTS Breaks Ground on Data Center in Iowa
QTS Breaks Ground on Data Center in Iowa
August 13, 2025

QTS Breaks Ground on Data Center in Iowa

QTS Data Centers

QTS has officially announced plans for a new data center campus in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The campus could support up to seven data center buildings at full build-out and see up to $10 billion invested.Tag Greason and David Robey, co-CEOs of QTS, said: “From day one, we believe in being a good ne...

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Read Zero Two Invests in APAC Data Center Firm Evolution
Zero Two Invests in APAC Data Center Firm Evolution
August 13, 2025

Zero Two Invests in APAC Data Center Firm Evolution

Abu Dhabi

Zero Two has invested in Evolution, taking a co-controlling position alongside Warburg Pincus. Terms of the deal were not shared, though reports from Mingtiandi puts the figure at $325 million.Darren Webb, CEO and co-founder of Evolution Data Centres, said: “We are absolutely delighted to welc...

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Read Flagstar Bank Selects Mphasis for Data Center Set Up
Flagstar Bank Selects Mphasis for Data Center Set Up
August 12, 2025

Flagstar Bank Selects Mphasis for Data Center Set Up

Michigan

Michigan's Flagstar Bank has selected Mphasis for the setup and inauguration of its upcoming data center facility. Flagstar describes it as "world-class," adding that it will support the bank's critical infrastructure and future growth and will enable it to leverage "modern data center capabil...

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Read DigitalBridge has 5.4GW of data center capacity in operation
DigitalBridge has 5.4GW of data center capacity in operation
August 12, 2025

DigitalBridge has 5.4GW of data center capacity in operation

DigitalBridge

Data center investor DigitalBridge revealed it has more than 5.4GW of data center capacity in development or operation. The company, which holds stakes in data center and energy businesses through various funds, said that roughly half of that was currently built, and the other half is under co...

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Read Microsoft Signs $236.4m Deal with Maybank
Microsoft Signs $236.4m Deal with Maybank
August 12, 2025

Microsoft Signs $236.4m Deal with Maybank

Microsoft Azure

Malaysian financial group Maybank has selected Microsoft Azure as one of its main cloud platforms in a five-year agreement. Valued at RM1 billion ($236.4m), the contract will see Maybank using Microsoft Azure for some of its "most strategic systems, functions, and data workloads."Dato’ Sri Kha...

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Read Top News Stories from 4th-9th of August 2025
Top News Stories from 4th-9th of August 2025
August 11, 2025

Top News Stories from 4th-9th of August 2025

United States

Vermaland Plans $33bn Data Center in ArizonaLand developer Vermaland is planning a $33bn data center in Arizona dubbed the La Osa Project which would potentially be located in Pinal County on a 3,300-acre site and support up to 3GW of capacity, which would bring in more capacity than the entir...

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Read CDC Plans 200MW Data Center Campus outside Perth
CDC Plans 200MW Data Center Campus outside Perth
August 11, 2025

CDC Plans 200MW Data Center Campus outside Perth

Australia

Australian data center operator CDC is planning a new campus outside Perth, Western Australia. The company aims to invest AU$415 million ($270.2m) in the first stage of the development in Maddington, 20 kilometres south-east of central Perth. The site will be operational in 2026.“In collaborat...

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Read Teraco Launches Second Phase of JB4 Data Center Campus
Teraco Launches Second Phase of JB4 Data Center Campus
August 11, 2025

Teraco Launches Second Phase of JB4 Data Center Campus

South Africa

South African data center company Teraco has expanded its data center outside Johannesburg. The Digital Realty subsidiary said the 30MW addition makes JB4 the largest standalone data center in Africa, serving 50MW of critical IT power load. The firm also said it is the first time 5MW data hall...

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Read Spark Sells Majority Stake in Data Center Business
Spark Sells Majority Stake in Data Center Business
August 11, 2025

Spark Sells Majority Stake in Data Center Business

New Zealand

Kiwi telco Spark New Zealand this week announced it has entered into an agreement to sell a 75 percent interest in its data center business to Pacific Equity Partners (PEP). The transaction values the business at up to NZ$705 million (US$417.6m), with Spark receiving NZ$486m (US$288m) upon com...

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Read AWS to Provide up to $1bn in Cloud Discounts
AWS to Provide up to $1bn in Cloud Discounts
August 09, 2025

AWS to Provide up to $1bn in Cloud Discounts

Amazon AWS

The US General Services Administration (GSA) has signed another discount deal with a cloud provider, Amazon which will see Amazon Web Services (AWS) providing the GSA with up to $1 billion in savings for cloud adoption, modernization, and training across US federal agencies through to the end ...

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Read Brookfield to Launch Dedicated Strategy for AI Facilities
Brookfield to Launch Dedicated Strategy for AI Facilities
August 09, 2025

Brookfield to Launch Dedicated Strategy for AI Facilities

United States

Investment giant Brookfield Asset Management is to launch a dedicated strategy to develop AI infrastructure as announced in its Q2 2025 letter from CEO Bruce Flatt and president Connor Teskey to investors."We are launching a dedicated strategy focused on the development of AI infrastructure—de...

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Read Edged Tops out Data Center in Iowa
Edged Tops out Data Center in Iowa
August 08, 2025

Edged Tops out Data Center in Iowa

Edged Energy

Data center firm Edged this week said it had topped out its facility in Ankeny, just north of Des Moines, marking the completion of the building’s structural frame. The facility will offer 13MW of capacity across 105,000 sq ft (9,755 sqm) and utilize a waterless cooling system from sister comp...

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Read Satoshi Energy Launches Behind-the-Meter Data Center at Texas
Satoshi Energy Launches Behind-the-Meter Data Center at Texas
August 08, 2025

Satoshi Energy Launches Behind-the-Meter Data Center at Texas

Texas

Cryptomine firm Satoshi Energy and energy firm Clearway this week announced the energization of a colocated high-performance computing data center at the Elbow Creek wind project in Howard County, Texas. The facility, hosted at Clearway’s 122MW Elbow Creek wind farm in Howard County, was devel...

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Read Tucson Rejects Amazon's Project Blue Data Center Campus
Tucson Rejects Amazon's Project Blue Data Center Campus
August 08, 2025

Tucson Rejects Amazon's Project Blue Data Center Campus

Tucson

The Tucson city council voted unanimously to reject Amazon's planned Project Blue AI data center campus. Mayor Regina Romero said that the city would also look to place limits on future data centers "to protect Tucson from this industry that is already here in Arizona."Project Blue is a 290-ac...

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Read Core Scientific's Largest Shareholder Opposes CoreWeave Acquisition
Core Scientific's Largest Shareholder Opposes CoreWeave Acquisition
August 08, 2025

Core Scientific's Largest Shareholder Opposes CoreWeave Acquisition

Core Scientific

Core Scientific's largest shareholder, Two Seas Capital LP, has announced its opposition to the $9bn acquisition proposed by CoreWeave. The alternative investment manager shared its dissatisfaction with the terms proposed on July 7, which would see AI cloud firm CoreWeave acquiring developer C...

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Read Galaxy Data Center to Invest $2bn in Data Centers in Thailand
Galaxy Data Center to Invest $2bn in Data Centers in Thailand
August 07, 2025

Galaxy Data Center to Invest $2bn in Data Centers in Thailand

Thailand / Prathet Thai

China's Galaxy Data Center (GDC) has announced that it will invest $2bn in data centers in Thailand after the “Prime Minister meets investors: Confidence in Thailand’s future” investor forum held in Thailand at the Government House’s Peace and Friendship Building.Feng Hui, the founder of GDC, ...

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Read Vesper Infrastructure Acquires Terakraft
Vesper Infrastructure Acquires Terakraft
August 07, 2025

Vesper Infrastructure Acquires Terakraft

Norway

Investment firm Vesper Infrastructure announced this week it had invested in Terakraft, becoming the majority shareholder. Terakraft operates a data center that will offer 10MW of capacity following a “comprehensive refurbishment” and upgrade program. The facility will utilize liquid cooling (...

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Read Pentagon to Launch Next Iteration of JWCC Contract in 2026
Pentagon to Launch Next Iteration of JWCC Contract in 2026
August 07, 2025

Pentagon to Launch Next Iteration of JWCC Contract in 2026

United States

The Pentagon is planning to put out a request for proposals for the next iteration of its Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) program as soon as Q1 of 2026. The contract dubbed JWCC Next will replace the previous iteration, which was awarded in 2022, though there will be a transition per...

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