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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 Google Strategic Sourcing Executive Joins OpenAI
Allyson Fealtman, a former Google data center strategic sourcing and supplier development lead, has joined OpenAI after 16 years at Google. She led 11 commodity managers overseeing liquid and air c...
October 17, 2026

Google Strategic Sourcing Executive Joins OpenAI

Google

Allyson Fealtman, a former Google data center strategic sourcing and supplier development lead, has joined OpenAI after 16 years at Google. She led 11 commodity managers overseeing liquid and air cooling, interconnects, and mechanical equipment. She joined OpenAI in May and will focus on strategi...

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Read Digital Realty Tops Out Second Seoul Data Center
Digital Realty has topped out ICN11, its second data center in Seoul, South Korea. The facility is expected to become operational in the second half of 2027. “The topping out isn't just a constr...
October 17, 2026

Digital Realty Tops Out Second Seoul Data Center

Digital Realty Bersama

Digital Realty has topped out ICN11, its second data center in Seoul, South Korea. The facility is expected to become operational in the second half of 2027. “The topping out isn't just a construction milestone; it's a powerful symbol of what happens when incredible teams come together to build s...

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Read LightEdge Considers Data Center Project Near Des Moines, Iowa
LightEdge plans to develop a colocation data center on ten acres in Boone Business Park, Iowa, about 48 miles northwest of Des Moines. The Boone County Economic Growth Corporation has signed a let...
October 16, 2026

LightEdge Considers Data Center Project Near Des Moines, Iowa

Iowa

LightEdge plans to develop a colocation data center on ten acres in Boone Business Park, Iowa, about 48 miles northwest of Des Moines. The Boone County Economic Growth Corporation has signed a letter of intent for the land sale. The city’s planning commission has approved the site plan for recomm...

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Read CapitaLand to Launch 53MW Data Center in Chennai, India, by Year-End
CapitaLand Investment Limited has unveiled plans for a 53MW data center in Ambattur, Chennai, targeted for completion by the end of 2026. The project is the first in Tamil Nadu under its CapitaLand...
October 16, 2026

CapitaLand to Launch 53MW Data Center in Chennai, India, by Year-End

CapitaLand

CapitaLand Investment Limited has unveiled plans for a 53MW data center in Ambattur, Chennai, targeted for completion by the end of 2026. The project is the first in Tamil Nadu under its CapitaLand India Trust platform. First proposed in 2021, the facility was initially planned to deliver 55MW by...

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Read Digital Realty Proposes Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Campus Near Indianapolis, Indiana
Digital Realty plans to develop a gigawatt-scale data center campus on 476 acres in Kokomo, Indiana, comprising three single-story buildings. Kokomo, the county seat of Howard County, is about 50 ...
October 16, 2026

Digital Realty Proposes Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Campus Near Indianapolis, Indiana

Digital Realty Bersama

Digital Realty plans to develop a gigawatt-scale data center campus on 476 acres in Kokomo, Indiana, comprising three single-story buildings. Kokomo, the county seat of Howard County, is about 50 miles north of Indianapolis. Located on greenfield land in Industrial Park North near US 31 and Count...

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Read BlackRock CEO Warns US Data Center Construction Slowdown Could Trigger Recession
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warned that a nationwide US data center construction moratorium could trigger a recession, given the economy’s growing reliance on AI infrastructure investment. JLL estimat...
October 16, 2026

BlackRock CEO Warns US Data Center Construction Slowdown Could Trigger Recession

United States

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warned that a nationwide US data center construction moratorium could trigger a recession, given the economy’s growing reliance on AI infrastructure investment. JLL estimates data center development will require $3 trillion in investment by 2030. Global occupancy stands a...

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Read Virginia Senator Calls for Three-Year Statewide Pause on Data Center Development
Virginia could introduce a three-year data center moratorium under Senate Bill 843, proposed by Democratic Senator Russet Perry, who represents Loudoun County. If passed, the bill would prevent sta...
October 15, 2026

Virginia Senator Calls for Three-Year Statewide Pause on Data Center Development

Virginia

Virginia could introduce a three-year data center moratorium under Senate Bill 843, proposed by Democratic Senator Russet Perry, who represents Loudoun County. If passed, the bill would prevent state agencies from approving data center planning applications for three years from July 1, 2027. Perr...

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Read Serverfarm Completes Structure of First Data Center at Arkansas Campus
Serverfarm has topped out the first building at its new data center campus in Clarksville, Arkansas. CEO Avner Papouchado said the company is committed to the area and aims to be a long-term commun...
October 15, 2026

Serverfarm Completes Structure of First Data Center at Arkansas Campus

ServerFarm Realty

Serverfarm has topped out the first building at its new data center campus in Clarksville, Arkansas. CEO Avner Papouchado said the company is committed to the area and aims to be a long-term community partner. The two-story ARK1 facility will offer 108MW of capacity across 300,000 sq ft (27,870 s...

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Read NTT Installs Nvidia GPU Test Cluster at Munich 2 Data Center
NTT Global Data Centres has deployed an Nvidia GPU cluster at its Munich 2 data center, allowing clients to test AI applications at scale before committing to wider deployments. Dubbed AI Factory M...
October 15, 2026

NTT Installs Nvidia GPU Test Cluster at Munich 2 Data Center

NTT

NTT Global Data Centres has deployed an Nvidia GPU cluster at its Munich 2 data center, allowing clients to test AI applications at scale before committing to wider deployments. Dubbed AI Factory Munich, the cluster lets customers assess AI workloads against real-world infrastructure, security, d...

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Read Digital Realty Completes Structural Topping-Out of Second Seoul Data Center
Digital Realty has topped out ICN11, its second data center in Seoul, South Korea. The facility is expected to become operational in the second half of 2027. “The topping out isn't just a constr...
October 15, 2026

Digital Realty Completes Structural Topping-Out of Second Seoul Data Center

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has topped out ICN11, its second data center in Seoul, South Korea. The facility is expected to become operational in the second half of 2027. “The topping out isn't just a construction milestone; it's a powerful symbol of what happens when incredible teams come together to build s...

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Read Digi Power X Secures $200m Debt Financing for Alabama AI Data Center
Data center and energy infrastructure developer Digi Power X has secured a $200 million debt financing commitment, syndicated by Goldman Sachs and provided by an unnamed major lender. The funding w...
October 14, 2026

Digi Power X Secures $200m Debt Financing for Alabama AI Data Center

Alabama

Data center and energy infrastructure developer Digi Power X has secured a $200 million debt financing commitment, syndicated by Goldman Sachs and provided by an unnamed major lender. The funding will support its 40MW data center in Columbiana, Alabama, which is being built in two phases: 15MW by...

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Read Aether Infrastructure Acquires Former Gearbox Factory in Strasbourg for AI Data Center
French AI consortium Aether Infrastructure has signed a preliminary agreement to acquire the former Dumarey Powerglide factory in Strasbourg’s Port du Rhin district for its first data center. Forme...
October 14, 2026

Aether Infrastructure Acquires Former Gearbox Factory in Strasbourg for AI Data Center

France

French AI consortium Aether Infrastructure has signed a preliminary agreement to acquire the former Dumarey Powerglide factory in Strasbourg’s Port du Rhin district for its first data center. Formed to develop two AI data centers under the European Commission’s AI gigafactories program, Aether ha...

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Read LS Electric Wins $138m Switchgear Order for Bloom Fuel Cells at Pennsylvania Data Center
South Korean electrical equipment maker LS Electric has secured a 185.3 billion won ($138.5m) order from Bloom Energy to supply switchgear and distribution transformers for fuel cells at a Pennsylv...
October 14, 2026

LS Electric Wins $138m Switchgear Order for Bloom Fuel Cells at Pennsylvania Data Center

Pennsylvania

South Korean electrical equipment maker LS Electric has secured a 185.3 billion won ($138.5m) order from Bloom Energy to supply switchgear and distribution transformers for fuel cells at a Pennsylvania data center. Deliveries of the 38kV equipment are expected between April and July next year. Th...

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Read Memphis Council Delays Vote on Proposed Year-Long Data Center Moratorium Amid Protests
Memphis City Council has delayed a vote on a proposed 12-month data center moratorium for a second time, despite protests from more than 100 residents. The pause, proposed by councilor JB Smiley Jr...
October 14, 2026

Memphis Council Delays Vote on Proposed Year-Long Data Center Moratorium Amid Protests

Memphis

Memphis City Council has delayed a vote on a proposed 12-month data center moratorium for a second time, despite protests from more than 100 residents. The pause, proposed by councilor JB Smiley Jr., would allow officials to assess data centers’ social, health, and environmental impacts. Councilo...

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Read Microsoft Acquires 600 Acres for Data Center Development in Woodward, Iowa
Microsoft has acquired 600 acres in Woodward, around 30 miles northwest of Des Moines, Iowa, for a potential data center campus. The purchase was disclosed at a residents’ meeting on October 12, fo...
October 14, 2026

Microsoft Acquires 600 Acres for Data Center Development in Woodward, Iowa

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has acquired 600 acres in Woodward, around 30 miles northwest of Des Moines, Iowa, for a potential data center campus. The purchase was disclosed at a residents’ meeting on October 12, four days after the sale closed. The site lies between Highway 141 and Seminole Avenue, but developmen...

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Read Third Yandex Data Center in Russia Hit by Drone Strike
A third Yandex data center in Russia has been hit by Ukrainian drone strikes within a week, forcing the company to suspend operations at its Vladimir facility. Yandex said no one was injured, but a...
October 13, 2026

Third Yandex Data Center in Russia Hit by Drone Strike

Yandex NV

A third Yandex data center in Russia has been hit by Ukrainian drone strikes within a week, forcing the company to suspend operations at its Vladimir facility. Yandex said no one was injured, but at least 84 services were affected, with Yandex Cloud operating in limited mode. The Sasovo and Kalug...

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Read Orcadian Energy Ends Data Center Deal for North Sea Gas Field
UK oil and gas firm Orcadian Energy has terminated an agreement with an undisclosed US digital infrastructure operator to develop a gas-powered offshore data center in the North Sea. The July agree...
October 13, 2026

Orcadian Energy Ends Data Center Deal for North Sea Gas Field

Orcadian Energy

UK oil and gas firm Orcadian Energy has terminated an agreement with an undisclosed US digital infrastructure operator to develop a gas-powered offshore data center in the North Sea. The July agreement proposed a data center of up to 200MW powered by gas from the Earlham and Orwell fields, estima...

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Read SoftBank Explores Potential AI Data Center Project in Borneo
SoftBank Group, Singaporean technology company Grab Holdings, and Malaysian oil and gas firm Petroleum Sarawak Berhad (Petros) have signed a framework agreement to explore an AI and digital infrast...
October 13, 2026

SoftBank Explores Potential AI Data Center Project in Borneo

Softbank Corp.

SoftBank Group, Singaporean technology company Grab Holdings, and Malaysian oil and gas firm Petroleum Sarawak Berhad (Petros) have signed a framework agreement to explore an AI and digital infrastructure platform in Sarawak, Malaysia. Details of any planned data center development have not been ...

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Read Nebius Signs LOI With Volt for Rotterdam Data Center Capacity
AI cloud provider Nebius has signed an LOI with Volt to become the first offtaker at its planned AI Gigafactory in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The campus is planned to deliver 600MW across six buil...
October 13, 2026

Nebius Signs LOI With Volt for Rotterdam Data Center Capacity

Nebius

AI cloud provider Nebius has signed an LOI with Volt to become the first offtaker at its planned AI Gigafactory in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The campus is planned to deliver 600MW across six buildings, with the first phase comprising two 100MW data centers. The initial phase is expected to cost...

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Read Data Center Fires and Power Outages Have Doubled Since 2024
Data center fires and power failures have more than doubled since 2024, according to the Energy Incident Register. Reported incidents rose from eight in 2024 to 20 in 2025 and 19 in 2026. Of 93 inc...
October 12, 2026

Data Center Fires and Power Outages Have Doubled Since 2024

United States

Data center fires and power failures have more than doubled since 2024, according to the Energy Incident Register. Reported incidents rose from eight in 2024 to 20 in 2025 and 19 in 2026. Of 93 incidents recorded across 26 countries since 2010, 47 occurred from 2024 onward. The US recorded 33 inc...

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