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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 Texas Instruments awarded $1.6bn in US CHIPS funding
Texas Instruments awarded $1.6bn in US CHIPS funding
August 18, 2024

Texas Instruments awarded $1.6bn in US CHIPS funding

Texas

The US Department of Commerce has signed a memorandum of terms with Texas Instruments that could see the company awarded $1.6 billion in CHIPS and Science Act funding which would support Texas Instrument’s plans to invest $18bn in the construction of two fabs in Sherman, Texas, and one in Lehi...

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Read Blueprint plans data center outside Austin, Texas
Blueprint plans data center outside Austin, Texas
August 18, 2024

Blueprint plans data center outside Austin, Texas

Texas

Taylor City Council last week granted unanimous approval to give Austin-based Blueprint Projects tax breaks on a proposed data center project in the city of Taylor.  The company plans to use land owned by the Taylor Economic Development Corp. at 1601 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Williamson ...

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Read Natron Energy to invest $1.4 billion on a giant factory in Edgecombe County, North Carolina
Natron Energy to invest $1.4 billion on a giant factory in Edgecombe County, North Carolina
August 18, 2024

Natron Energy to invest $1.4 billion on a giant factory in Edgecombe County, North Carolina

North Carolina

Sodium-ion battery manufacturer Natron Energy plans to spend $1.4 billion on a 1.2 million square foot (111,500 sqm) facility, at the Kingsboro CSX Select Megasite which is expected to produce 24GW of batteries annually at full capacity and lead to 1,000 jobs.  “Today is a momentous day for Na...

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Read Meta signs new solar PPA in US
Meta signs new solar PPA in US
August 17, 2024

Meta signs new solar PPA in US

United States

Meta has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to procure the output of two solar farms in the US, currently in development in Louisiana and Illinois. Construction is underway at RWE’s 274MWac County Run Solar in Illinois and 100MWac Lafitte Solar in Louisiana, both are due to go live in lat...

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Read Equinix explores deployment of hydrogen fuel cells at Dublin data center
Equinix explores deployment of hydrogen fuel cells at Dublin data center
August 17, 2024

Equinix explores deployment of hydrogen fuel cells at Dublin data center

Equinix

Colocation firm Equinix is exploring deployment of hydrogen fuel cells at its data center in Dublin, Ireland. A spokesperson for the company noted that while a temporary demonstration pod was deployed at one of the company's sites on tour from ESB and GeoPura, is not a permanent deployment.  P...

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Read TierPoint to expand data center footprint in St. Louis, Missouri
TierPoint to expand data center footprint in St. Louis, Missouri
August 16, 2024

TierPoint to expand data center footprint in St. Louis, Missouri

Missouri

US operator TierPoint this week announced that it has acquired a building in downtown St. Louis which it plans to retrofit into an enterprise-grade data center. ver the next year, the first phase of investment will build out 22,600 square feet of data center production space and 5MW of utility...

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Read NextDC launches new facility in Darwin
NextDC launches new facility in Darwin
August 16, 2024

NextDC launches new facility in Darwin

NEXTDC

Australian data center firm NextDC this week officially opened D1 data center in Darwin, developed in partnership with the Northern Territory Government and Vocus.  NextDC CEO Craig Scroggie said: “D1 will play a pivotal role in accelerated computing and represents the next step towards achiev...

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Read Quinbrook’s Rowan secures investment from Canadian pension fund
Quinbrook’s Rowan secures investment from Canadian pension fund
August 15, 2024

Quinbrook’s Rowan secures investment from Canadian pension fund

Canada

Rowan owner Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners this week announced that  Rowan Digital Infrastructure has secured a co-investment from University Pension Plan Ontario (UPP). The companies said UPP’s investment in Rowan will allow Quinbrook to “further advance its efforts” to provide solutions t...

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Read Telekom Malaysia to deploy Private 5G network at Petronas
Telekom Malaysia to deploy Private 5G network at Petronas
August 14, 2024

Telekom Malaysia to deploy Private 5G network at Petronas

Malaysia

Telekom Malaysia (TM) has deployed a Private 5G network for oil and gas company Petronas at its  LNG Complex in Bintulu, Sarawak.  According to TM, this location is one of four Petronas sites installed with a Private 5G network.  TM deployed the network along with the Digital Nasional Berhad (...

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Read PDG acquires new data center in Singapore
PDG acquires new data center in Singapore
August 14, 2024

PDG acquires new data center in Singapore

Singapore

Princeton Digital Group this week announced the acquisition of Yahoo’s Singapore data center, SG3 which offers 5MW across 5,400 sqm (58,125 sq ft).  Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Yahoo will continue to host its infrastructure at the facility.  Rangu Salgame, chairman, CEO and co-fo...

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Read Edged unveils new data center in New Albany, Ohio
Edged unveils new data center in New Albany, Ohio
August 14, 2024

Edged unveils new data center in New Albany, Ohio

Ohio

Data center firm Edged Energy has officially announced plans for a new data center located at 6525 New Albany Road East, the 206,000 sq ft (19,140 sqm) facility will offer 24MW across two stories. Construction is underway and expected to be completed in July 2025.  “We are on a mission to buil...

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Read RadiusDC acquires data center in Miami
RadiusDC acquires data center in Miami
August 14, 2024

RadiusDC acquires data center in Miami

Miami

RadiusDC this week announced the acquisition of Miami I in the Sweetwater area of the city from NextStream, a data center operator in Latin America owned by Actis.  RadiusDC said it plans to immediately expand the site's capacity from 3.2MW to 9.2MW.  "We believe Miami I is an ideal asset to e...

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Read Foundry unveils GPU-based Foundry Cloud Platform
Foundry unveils GPU-based Foundry Cloud Platform
August 14, 2024

Foundry unveils GPU-based Foundry Cloud Platform

United States

Foundry has launched its GPU-based Foundry Cloud Platform for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads which it claims can reduce operational complexity and compute cost by up to six times.  The company seeks to overcome the GPU shortage by turning to existing GPUs that it claims are "vastly und...

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Read Iomart deploys rooftop solar in Maidenhead data center
Iomart deploys rooftop solar in Maidenhead data center
August 14, 2024

Iomart deploys rooftop solar in Maidenhead data center

United Kingdom

UK data center operator Iomart has announced it has installed 560 solar panels on its flagship data center in Maidenhead, the largest of Iomart’s 13 data centers in the UK. This investment will contribute to the aim of self-sustaining energy during the summer to power the site.  David Gammie, ...

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Read Amazon plans data center expansion in Hyderabad, India
Amazon plans data center expansion in Hyderabad, India
August 13, 2024

Amazon plans data center expansion in Hyderabad, India

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has confirmed its plans to expand its data center presence in Hyderabad, India with investment in the Telangana region. The discussions were held in California in the US, and have seen AWS express a desire to expand its data center facilities and workforce in Hyderaba...

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Read TalkTalk strikes new refinancing agreement in UK
TalkTalk strikes new refinancing agreement in UK
August 13, 2024

TalkTalk strikes new refinancing agreement in UK

United Kingdom

TalkTalk has struck a refinancing deal with lenders in the UK worth £400 million. This deal will enable TalkTalk to alleviate fears it would default on payments and extend its debt maturities to 2027. A group of SSN holders, a group of RCF banks, Ares Management Funds, and the company’s major ...

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Read Waterland Private Equity to acquire MVNO Lebara
Waterland Private Equity to acquire MVNO Lebara
August 13, 2024

Waterland Private Equity to acquire MVNO Lebara

Europe

Investment firm Waterland Private Equity has revealed its plans to acquire MVNO Lebara Group by buying out Alchemy and Triton Partners, the existing owners of Lebara since 2019. The company, founded in 2001 does not own a mobile spectrum license but sells mobile services to more than four mill...

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Read Indosat and Google Cloud expand partnership for sovereign Indonesian cloud
Indosat and Google Cloud expand partnership for sovereign Indonesian cloud
August 13, 2024

Indosat and Google Cloud expand partnership for sovereign Indonesian cloud

Google

 Indonesian telco Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and Google Cloud are expanding their partnership to create sovereign and Edge cloud services in Indonesia. The telco will offer Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) on-premises to customers in Indonesia via its data center arm. Customers will also have acc...

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Read JLL predicts Edge data center market to surpass $300bn by 2026
JLL predicts Edge data center market to surpass $300bn by 2026
August 11, 2024

JLL predicts Edge data center market to surpass $300bn by 2026

United States

A report from real estate consulting firm JLL has predicted that the global Edge data center market will hit a valuation of $317 billion by 2026. The report notes that a surge in data-dependent technologies, including AI and the Internet of Things (IoT), will drive the market growth, which can...

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Read Consensus Core selects Cologix for its Canadian deployment.
Consensus Core selects Cologix for its Canadian deployment.
August 11, 2024

Consensus Core selects Cologix for its Canadian deployment.

Canada

Artificial intelligence (AI) cloud provider Consensus Core has selected Cologix's Montreal data center for its Canadian deployment where it will offer its Nvidia-powered GPU-as-a-Service to the Canadian market.  Wayne Lloyd, co-founder and CEO of Consensus Core, said of the partnership with Co...

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