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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 T5 Data Centers acquires land outside Atlanta for a new data center campus
T5 Data Centers acquires land outside Atlanta for a new data center campus
August 31, 2024

T5 Data Centers acquires land outside Atlanta for a new data center campus

T5 Data Centers

T5 Data Centers this week announced plans to expand its Atlanta footprint with the development of a new data center campus in South Fulton County known as ATL IV. The company has already acquired land outside Atlanta, Georgia, a 91-acre site in Palmetto already zoned for data center use and re...

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Read euNetworks closes €2.1 billion equity recapitalization
euNetworks closes €2.1 billion equity recapitalization
August 31, 2024

euNetworks closes €2.1 billion equity recapitalization

Canada

Fiber firm euNetworks has closed on a €2.1 billion equity recapitalization led by a Stonepeak-managed vehicle anchored by Mercer and Aware Super. This funding received direct investments from the Investment Management Corporation of Ontario (IMCO) and APG Asset Management. In a statement, euNe...

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Read CoreWeave to deploy new Nvidia clusters in Sweden
CoreWeave to deploy new Nvidia clusters in Sweden
August 30, 2024

CoreWeave to deploy new Nvidia clusters in Sweden

Sweden

GPU cloud firm CoreWeave and Swedish colocation provider EcoDataCenter this week announced a partnership to host “one of Europe’s first large-scale Nvidia Blackwell clusters” in Sweden.  CoreWeave aims to deploy thousands of Blackwell GPUs to help meet demand for large-scale AI infrastructure ...

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Read Scala DC acquires stake in two wind farms in Brazil
Scala DC acquires stake in two wind farms in Brazil
August 30, 2024

Scala DC acquires stake in two wind farms in Brazil

Scala Data Centers

 Scala Data Centers has announced the largest agreement for the supply of renewable energy in Latin America with Serena which is set to come into effect in January 2025. "The agreement with Scala Data Centers reinforces how Serena is prepared to offer energy and infrastructure for high-perform...

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Read Major power outage across Venezuela brings country offline
Major power outage across Venezuela brings country offline
August 30, 2024

Major power outage across Venezuela brings country offline

Venezuela

 A huge power outage in Venezuela has brought a significant portion of the country offline and Minister of Communications and Information, Freddy Ñañez, claimed that the outage was due to intentional sabotage. A similar, smaller outage was blamed on saboteurs three days ago.  "Live network dat...

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Read Nvidia posts revenues of $30 billion in latest earnings report
Nvidia posts revenues of $30 billion in latest earnings report
August 30, 2024

Nvidia posts revenues of $30 billion in latest earnings report

United States

Nvidia posted revenues of $30 billion in its latest earnings report, with its data center division continued to show significant growth, bringing in $26.3bn - an increase of 154 percent from the same period last year. Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia said;  “Hopper demand remains strong...

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Read Microsoft signs new renewable energy deal in India
Microsoft signs new renewable energy deal in India
August 29, 2024

Microsoft signs new renewable energy deal in India

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft this week announced the signing of a green attribute sale contract of 437.6MW with  Indian renewable energy firm ReNew in a deal said to be amongst India's largest corporate renewable agreements.  As part of the agreement, ReNew will direct approximately $15 million of revenue from t...

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Read Aphorio Carter acquires data center outside Denver, Colorado
Aphorio Carter acquires data center outside Denver, Colorado
August 29, 2024

Aphorio Carter acquires data center outside Denver, Colorado

Colorado Colo

Aphorio Carter Critical Infrastructure Fund, LLC has announced that it has acquired the Centennial Data Center in Centennial, Arapahoe County, for approximately $7.3 million.The company said the property is a colocation data center fully leased to two "high-profile, Fortune 500 companies." One...

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Read Raxio Group launches new data center in Congo
Raxio Group launches new data center in Congo
August 28, 2024

Raxio Group launches new data center in Congo

Raxio Group

Raxio Group has launched a 1.5MW data center in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The facility which spans 1,542 sqm (16,598 sq ft) and can house up to 400 racks has received the Tier III design certification from Uptime Institute.  Robert Mullins, CEO of Raxio Group s...

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Read Meta signs geothermal energy deal in US
Meta signs geothermal energy deal in US
August 28, 2024

Meta signs geothermal energy deal in US

United States

Meta this week announced a deal with startup Sage Geosystems to use the latter’s new   proprietary Geopressured Geothermal System (GGS) to provide carbon-free power for its data centers. Meta did not specify where the geothermal projects would be located or which data centers would be powered ...

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Read Qualcomm acquires 4G IoT tech
Qualcomm acquires 4G IoT tech
August 28, 2024

Qualcomm acquires 4G IoT tech

France

 Qualcomm has acquired 4G IoT technology assets from France-based Sequans specializes in supplying 4G and 5G semiconductor products for IoT. This acquisition includes certain employees, assets, and licenses.   Nakul Duggal, group general manager of automotive, industrial and embedded IoT, and ...

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Read Singtel and Hitachi partner on new AI data centers in Japan
Singtel and Hitachi partner on new AI data centers in Japan
August 28, 2024

Singtel and Hitachi partner on new AI data centers in Japan

Japan

 Singaporean telco Singtel and Japanese giant Hitachi have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on “next-generation data centers and GPU cloud” in Japan and potentially the wider Asia Pacific region under the lead of Singtel's Digital InfraCo unit.  Bill Chang, CEO of Sing...

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Read IBM announces two new AI-focused chips for its Z-systems mainframes
IBM announces two new AI-focused chips for its Z-systems mainframes
August 28, 2024

IBM announces two new AI-focused chips for its Z-systems mainframes

California

IBM has announced two new AI-focused chips for its Z-systems mainframes at the Hot Chips 2024 event this week in California. The new Telum II chip which was designed to power IBM Z systems features increased frequency, memory capacity, a 40 percent growth in cache, and integrated AI accelerato...

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Read Toyo Tire selects HPE for HPC via GreenLake cloud offering
Toyo Tire selects HPE for HPC via GreenLake cloud offering
August 27, 2024

Toyo Tire selects HPE for HPC via GreenLake cloud offering

Japan

Japanese tire company Toyo Tire Corporation has selected Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to deliver a high-performance computing (HPC) system via its GreenLake cloud offering.  It will be providing its seventh-generation HPC system, which is three times more powerful than its predecessor, as ...

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Read Bitfarms to acquire Stronghold Mining for $125 million
Bitfarms to acquire Stronghold Mining for $125 million
August 27, 2024

Bitfarms to acquire Stronghold Mining for $125 million

Canada

Cryptomining firm Bitfarms has entered into a definitive partnership with Stronghold Digital Mining under which Bitfarms will acquire Stronghold in a stock-for-stock merger transaction. The deal is valued at approximately $125 million equity value plus the assumption of debt valued at approxim...

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Read Equity investor Warburg Pincus acquires Service Express
Equity investor Warburg Pincus acquires Service Express
August 27, 2024

Equity investor Warburg Pincus acquires Service Express

United States

 Private equity firm and investor Warburg Pincus has acquired data center service company Service Express which provides third-party post-warranty data center maintenance services and managed services from Harvest Partners LP on August 15. Steve Fessler, partner at Harvest, said: "When we part...

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Read Microsoft petitioned for illegally dumping waste in local lake
Microsoft petitioned for illegally dumping waste in local lake
August 25, 2024

Microsoft petitioned for illegally dumping waste in local lake

Microsoft Azure

Residents in Mekagunda, a village near Indian tech hotspot Hyderabad have filed a petition against Microsoft, and 35 other companies and government bodies in Telangana's High Court,  alleging that Microsoft has illegally occupied land beyond its property, and is dumping industrial waste into a...

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Read Six Russian supercomputing centers team up for research consortium
Six Russian supercomputing centers team up for research consortium
August 25, 2024

Six Russian supercomputing centers team up for research consortium

Russia / Россия

Six Russian supercomputing centers are teaming up to form a research consortium called the Distributed Scientific Supercomputer Infrastructure consortium. These facilities will combine a relatively meager 1.5 petaflops of compute performance with scientific data storage systems exceeding 15 PB...

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Read Grid Telecom and Tamares Telecom partner on cable landing station in Cyprus
Grid Telecom and Tamares Telecom partner on cable landing station in Cyprus
August 25, 2024

Grid Telecom and Tamares Telecom partner on cable landing station in Cyprus

Europe

IPTO subsidiary Grid Telecom and Israeli firm Tamares Telecom have signed a Heads of Agreement to both participate in the joint venture Tamares Telecom Cyprus.  The venture will establish a carrier-neutral, open-access hub with interconnection data center facilities to connect the island to Gr...

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Read Nokia partners with Axiom Space for 4G-enabled spacesuits
Nokia partners with Axiom Space for 4G-enabled spacesuits
August 25, 2024

Nokia partners with Axiom Space for 4G-enabled spacesuits

United States

Nokia has partnered with Axiom Space to equip the company's next-generation spacesuits with advanced 4G/LTE communications to be used by astronauts on Axiom's Artemis III lunar mission. This partnership will see the two companies incorporate high-speed cellular-network capabilities in the Axio...

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