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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 Ascenty Completes Development of Two Data Centers in Mexico
Ascenty Completes Development of Two Data Centers in Mexico
July 15, 2022

Ascenty Completes Development of Two Data Centers in Mexico

Ascenty

Ascenty has announced the launch of two new facilities in Mexico. It also revealed that it has finished constructing a second data center in Chile. Ascenty first announced its plans for data centers in Mexico in 2020. It has now launched both facilities in Queretaro, Mexico. These will be t...

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Read Nubes To Launch Tier III Data Center in Moscow
July 13, 2022

Nubes To Launch Tier III Data Center in Moscow

Moscow / Москва́

Russian IT company Nubes has announced that it is developing a Tier III standard data center in Moscow, Russia. The data center is scheduled to be in operation in Q4 2022. The data center will be located in the Biryulyovo Vostochnoye district of Moscow. It is also designed to accommodate 282 r...

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Read StratCap Completes Acquisition of Data Center in Jacksonville, Florida For Undisclosed Fee
StratCap Completes Acquisition of Data Center in Jacksonville, Florida For Undisclosed Fee
July 13, 2022

StratCap Completes Acquisition of Data Center in Jacksonville, Florida For Undisclosed Fee

StratCap Data Centers

StratCap has announced the acquisition of a data center in Jacksonville, Florida. The company revealed that its data center real estate division, StratCap Data Centers bought a triple net leased data center for an undisclosed fee. The facility spans 2,400 square meters (25,600 square feet) and...

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Read Merlin breaks ground on Bilbao, Spain data center
Merlin breaks ground on Bilbao, Spain data center
July 12, 2022

Merlin breaks ground on Bilbao, Spain data center

Spain

Merlin Properties has announced that it is soon to break ground on its first data center located near Bilbao, Spain. The Iberian real estate company reportedly laid its first stone at the Arasur data center, based near Vitoria, last week. This announcement is part of an almost €600 million ($6...

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Read Niagara Falls data center debate
Niagara Falls data center debate
July 11, 2022

Niagara Falls data center debate

New York

As reported by Baxtel at the end of June, Niagara Falls is being targeted as the site of a $1.5 billion technology and data center by New York City developer Howard Milstein and his partners, while the city launches a legal effort to create a new public park. While developers claim that the da...

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Read KT Cloud Breaks Ground on 26MW Facility in Seoul, South Korea
KT Cloud Breaks Ground on 26MW Facility in Seoul, South Korea
July 11, 2022

KT Cloud Breaks Ground on 26MW Facility in Seoul, South Korea

KT Corporation

South Korea's KT Cloud has started work on its new data center in Seoul, South Korea. The cloud company announced that it broke ground on the 26MW data center in Geumcheon District, Southern Seoul. KT Cloud said the data center would be named Gasan IDC. It will also have 10 stories above gr...

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Read Zscaler announces launch of co-located data centers in Canberra and Auckland
Zscaler announces launch of co-located data centers in Canberra and Auckland
July 11, 2022

Zscaler announces launch of co-located data centers in Canberra and Auckland

Auckland

Zscaler has announced that it has launched a new co-located data center in Canberra and a second co-located data center in Auckland, in a bid to offer both public and private sector enterprises in Australia and New Zealand "greater resilience" in support of their "zero trust cybersecurity post...

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Read American Tower Partners With Stonepeak in U.S. Data Center Business
American Tower Partners With Stonepeak in U.S. Data Center Business
July 11, 2022

American Tower Partners With Stonepeak in U.S. Data Center Business

American Tower Corporation

BOSTON & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--American Tower Corporation (NYSE: AMT) and Stonepeak, a leading alternative investment firm specializing in infrastructure and real assets, today announced that Stonepeak, on behalf of certain affiliated investment vehicles, will acquire an ownership int...

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Read Google and Microsoft invest in FlexiDAO carbon tracking software
Google and Microsoft invest in FlexiDAO carbon tracking software
July 08, 2022

Google and Microsoft invest in FlexiDAO carbon tracking software

Google

Tech giants, Google and Microsoft, have announced that they've invested in the carbon accounting startup FlexiDAO, which has now raised €6.1 million for its service that monitors the renewable energy that companies buy and the associated carbon emissions hour-by-hour and 24/7. While both Googl...

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Read Alibaba strives to keep up with Microsoft, Amazon and Google with carbon counting
Alibaba strives to keep up with Microsoft, Amazon and Google with carbon counting
July 08, 2022

Alibaba strives to keep up with Microsoft, Amazon and Google with carbon counting

Microsoft Azure

In an effort to keep up with the likes of tech rivals like Microsoft, Google and Amazon, Alibaba has announced that it is launching Energy Expert, a so-called 'sustainability platform' which will facilitate the organization's measuring, analyzing and managing of carbon emissions. This global l...

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Read Black Mountain Energy & Highwire's fracked gas mining proposal called a "parasitic project"
Black Mountain Energy & Highwire's fracked gas mining proposal called a "parasitic project"
July 08, 2022

Black Mountain Energy & Highwire's fracked gas mining proposal called a "parasitic project"

Australia

American fracking company Black Mountain's announcement that it will partner with crypto mining firm Highwire to use fracked gas from its planned Valhalla exploration project in Kimberley to power cryptocurrency mining has been met with significant opposition. According to Black Mountain, it h...

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Read Amazon and others to back US start-up Electric Hydrogen
Amazon and others to back US start-up Electric Hydrogen
July 08, 2022

Amazon and others to back US start-up Electric Hydrogen

Amazon AWS

As green hydrogen turns the heads of big investors, Amazon, Equinor, and others have announced they are backing energy startup Electric Hydrogen (EH2) with a $198 million round, led by Fifth Wall Climate Tech. EH2 is reportedly working on a ‘100MW-minimum’ electrolyzer technology for industria...

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Read Landmark Dividend Acquires Data Center For Undisclosed Fee
Landmark Dividend Acquires Data Center For Undisclosed Fee
July 08, 2022

Landmark Dividend Acquires Data Center For Undisclosed Fee

TIAA: Broomfield

Landmark Dividend, a subsidiary of DigitalBridge, has acquired an office and data center from GI Partners in Broomfield, Colorado. According to BizWest, An affiliate of Landmark Dividend, LD DI Assetco acquired the property from GI TC Broomfield LLC, an affiliate of GI Partners. The property i...

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Read AirTrunk Announces SYD1 Campus Final Phase Completion
AirTrunk Announces SYD1 Campus Final Phase Completion
July 07, 2022

AirTrunk Announces SYD1 Campus Final Phase Completion

AirTrunk Sydney

AirTrunk has completed the fifth and last building at its SYD1 data center campus in Sydney, Australia. The company announced the completion of the campus’ first phase in 2017. The campus also sits on over seven hectares of land. In addition, the site features 337,000 square feet (35,000 sq...

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Read The cities leading the data center growth in APAC
The cities leading the data center growth in APAC
July 07, 2022

The cities leading the data center growth in APAC

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

The APAC region has seen significant data center growth as of late, with an increase of 488 MW of new capacity in the first quarter of 2022, up from 185 MW in the previous quarter. Total capacity now stands at over 8,700 MW and has been largely driven by Tokyo, Sydney and Seoul.These were the ...

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Read Microsoft Azure data centers operating "with limited server capacity"
Microsoft Azure data centers operating "with limited server capacity"
July 07, 2022

Microsoft Azure data centers operating "with limited server capacity"

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure has announced that worldwide its data centers are now operating with a limited server capacity available to customers as a result of a global supply shortage. The company has over 200 data centers across the world, stretching across 60 regions - however, reports indicate that ...

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Read CloudHQ Acquires Land in Culpeper County For 60MW Data Center Campus
July 06, 2022

CloudHQ Acquires Land in Culpeper County For 60MW Data Center Campus

CloudHQ

CloudHQ has completed the acquisition of 100 acres in Culpeper County, Virginia. The data center developer is looking to develop a build-to-suit data center campus with up to 60MW capacity spanning 2.1 million square feet. According to Daily Progress, CloudHQ acquired the property for $12 mill...

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Read Equinix and Tamil Nadu Government Sign MoU
Equinix and Tamil Nadu Government Sign MoU
July 06, 2022

Equinix and Tamil Nadu Government Sign MoU

Equinix

Equinix has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Tamil Nadu, India. The MoU will help foster Equinix's planned project in Siruseri, Chennai. The data center company bought 4.5 acres of land for $9 million in the State Industries Promotion Corporatio...

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Read Raimon Land's MOU for sustainable data centers
Raimon Land's MOU for sustainable data centers
July 05, 2022

Raimon Land's MOU for sustainable data centers

Bangkok / Krung Thep

Riamon Land has announced that it will join forces with Nava Nakorn Public Company Limited, and RATCH Group Public Company Limited through an MoU to develop green data centers. According to Stephane Michel, Chief Operating Officer of Raimon Land, the MoU will enable the "pursuit of a deeper ex...

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Read Macquarie deal: CO2-cutting data center tech in Australia
Macquarie deal: CO2-cutting data center tech in Australia
July 05, 2022

Macquarie deal: CO2-cutting data center tech in Australia

Macquarie Data Centres

Macquarie Data Centres has announced it has signed a multi-year deal with ResetData, which will see Submer cooling technology used in Australia for the first time. This technology reportedly reduces CO2 emissions by up to 45% and also creates zero wastewater. Alongside this raft of benefits i...

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