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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 Microsoft to invest $3.3 billion in Wisconsin AI data center
Microsoft to invest $3.3 billion in Wisconsin AI data center
May 14, 2024

Microsoft to invest $3.3 billion in Wisconsin AI data center

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft recently announced that it will be investing $3.3 billion in the AI data center it is building in Wisconsin to “expand its national cloud and AI infrastructure capacity.” The company will also be co-funding a new solar energy project which will generate 250MW of power.Microsoft noted...

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Read Zayo Group to split business into two independent entities
Zayo Group to split business into two independent entities
May 14, 2024

Zayo Group to split business into two independent entities

Europe

Zayo Group has announced plans to split its business into two independent entities, with one unit focusing on the company's European business and the other focusing on Zayo's business outside of its core European and North American markets.“The transition of our European business into an indep...

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Read New data center proposed outside Richmond, Virginia
New data center proposed outside Richmond, Virginia
May 13, 2024

New data center proposed outside Richmond, Virginia

Virginia

California-based Province Group has proposed to develop a $3 billion data center campus outside Richmond in Powhatan County, Virginia. According to Roxanne Salerno, economic development manager of Powhatan County, Province Group plans to invest $1.5bn in building the data centers, and the othe...

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Read UK’s fastest supercomputer now online
UK’s fastest supercomputer now online
May 13, 2024

UK’s fastest supercomputer now online

United Kingdom

The UK’s fastest supercomputer, Isambard-AI which  ranked 128 on the most recent edition of the Top500 list has come online. The £225 million ($273m) machine has also placed second on the Green500, a list that ranks supercomputers in terms of energy efficiency, with a rating of 68.8 gigaflops ...

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Read Tishman enters data center market with plans for Frankfurt facility
Tishman enters data center market with plans for Frankfurt facility
May 13, 2024

Tishman enters data center market with plans for Frankfurt facility

Germany / Deutschland

US real estate firm Tishman Speyer is entering the data center market with plans for a campus in Frankfurt, Germany and has acquired a 75,000 sqm site in the Osthafen area of Frankfurt am Main in order to develop a data center. The property, located close to a number of Digital Realty faciliti...

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Read O2 Telefonica and Nokia selects AWS to host 5G standalone network
O2 Telefonica and Nokia selects AWS to host 5G standalone network
May 13, 2024

O2 Telefonica and Nokia selects AWS to host 5G standalone network

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been selected to host O2 Telefónica Germany's 5G Standalone (5G SA) network as the telco confirmed that it has launched its 5G Cloud Core, built entirely in the cloud, using technology from vendors Nokia and AWS.“We are building our network of the future. With the...

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Read Mitre Corporation to deploy Nvidia supercomputer for government
Mitre Corporation to deploy Nvidia supercomputer for government
May 13, 2024

Mitre Corporation to deploy Nvidia supercomputer for government

United States

The Mitre Corporation is to deploy a GPU supercomputer, the new DGX SuperPod system from Nvidia for government use to support the company’s Federal AI Sandbox, a platform to improve experimentation with AI-enabled applications across federal government agencies.“Mitre’s purchase of a DGX Super...

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Read Te Tumu Paeroa selected as anchor tenant in Microsoft’s planned New Zealand region
Te Tumu Paeroa selected as anchor tenant in Microsoft’s planned New Zealand region
May 11, 2024

Te Tumu Paeroa selected as anchor tenant in Microsoft’s planned New Zealand region

Microsoft Azure

Te Tumu Paeroa, the office of the Maori Trustee, has signed an agreement to become the anchor tenant of Microsoft's upcoming New Zealand cloud region. The agreement with Microsoft and associated cloud migration is hoped to help landowners recover from major weather events more quickly, support...

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Read Georgia governor vetoes bill to pause data center tax breaks after it had passed both houses
Georgia governor vetoes bill to pause data center tax breaks after it had passed both houses
May 11, 2024

Georgia governor vetoes bill to pause data center tax breaks after it had passed both houses

Georgia

Gov. Brian Kemp this week decided to veto HB 1192, a bill that would pause tax breaks for data centers in Georgia after it had passed both houses.In a statement explaining the veto, Governor Kemp said the state extended data center exemptions to 2031 just two years ago, with projects starting ...

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Read BDCCL equips data centers with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
BDCCL equips data centers with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
May 11, 2024

BDCCL equips data centers with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Oracle

Government-owned Bangladesh Data Center Company Limited (BDCCL) has equipped its data centers with the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Dedicated Region wich can now be used by more than 30 government agencies in Bangladesh while meeting data governance and privacy requirements.Zunaid Ahmed P...

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Read Mid Yorkshire Teaching NaHS Trust's Dewsbury and District Hospital gets new data center
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NaHS Trust's Dewsbury and District Hospital gets new data center
May 10, 2024

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NaHS Trust's Dewsbury and District Hospital gets new data center

United Kingdom

The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NaHS Trust's Dewsbury and District Hospital in the UK has a new 'digital data center' (DDC). The DDC will be replacing the hospital's former data center, which has become outdated and was not able to be expanded as it was within an existing hospital building. Accordi...

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Read Atlanta City Council members propose new bill to block data center developments
Atlanta City Council members propose new bill to block data center developments
May 10, 2024

Atlanta City Council members propose new bill to block data center developments

Atlanta

Atlanta City Councilmen Jason Dozier and Matt Westmoreland have introduced bills to block data center developments around certain areas of the Georgia city near transit stops and the Beltline.“Excited to introduce legislation alongside Matt Westmoreland to address the rapid growth of data cent...

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Read Liberty Global approaches AI adoption with caution
Liberty Global approaches AI adoption with caution
May 10, 2024

Liberty Global approaches AI adoption with caution

Virgin Media Business

Liberty Global, the parent company of telco Virgin Media O2 and Edge data center provider AtlasEdge, this week said it's being cautious in its approach to AI adoption. at an event held in London this week by the company, Enrique Rodriguez, EVP and chief technology officer of Liberty Global, ac...

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Read EchoStar reports subscriber losses as bankruptcy fears increase
EchoStar reports subscriber losses as bankruptcy fears increase
May 10, 2024

EchoStar reports subscriber losses as bankruptcy fears increase

United States

EchoStar's financial fear increases as the company reports subscriber losses across the main areas of its business — wireless, broadband, and pay TV. The company ended Q1 with a net loss of $107.38 million, compared to net income of $253.53m the previous year. EchoStar said in its latest finan...

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Read Microsoft signs carbon removal project in Brazil
Microsoft signs carbon removal project in Brazil
May 10, 2024

Microsoft signs carbon removal project in Brazil

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft this week has finalized its carbon removal project with Re green in a deal which will fund the restoration of more than 16,000 hectares of degraded pastureland across Brazil (over half of which is already acquired with restoration activities underway), including in the States of Mara...

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Read Digital Realty launches new data center in Japan
Digital Realty launches new data center in Japan
May 10, 2024

Digital Realty launches new data center in Japan

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has broken ground on a new data center outside Tokyo, Japan, marking its third data center at the NRT campus in Inzai, Chiba prefecture. This new 31MW facility, known as NRT14, will be configurable to support private AI deployments at densities up to 70kW per rack via air-assist...

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Read NCSA expands Radiant Supercomputer
NCSA expands Radiant Supercomputer
May 09, 2024

NCSA expands Radiant Supercomputer

Illinois

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s (UIUC) National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)  this week announced it has installed additional graphics processing units (GPUs) to its private cloud Radiant system. The University acquired the GPU with a  funding commitment of $50 m...

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Read Unity Group and Windstream Holdings announce merger agreement
Unity Group and Windstream Holdings announce merger agreement
May 09, 2024

Unity Group and Windstream Holdings announce merger agreement

United States

Uniti Group Inc. and Windstream Holdings II, LLC last week announced a merger agreement which combines Uniti's wholesale-owned fiber network with Windstream's Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) business. The companies note that this merger will create a "premier insurgent fiber provider in the US," to c...

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Read Meta plans data center in Montgomery, Alabama
Meta plans data center in Montgomery, Alabama
May 09, 2024

Meta plans data center in Montgomery, Alabama

Alabama

Tech giant Meta, formerly known as Facebook, this week announced plans to build an $800 million data center in Montgomery County, Alabama. The facility is located across from Hyundai’s automotive assembly plant and will join Meta’s other Alabama data center campus 190 miles north in Huntsville...

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Read Grid Telecom to build CLS in Crete
Grid Telecom to build CLS in Crete
May 08, 2024

Grid Telecom to build CLS in Crete

Greece

Grid Telecom, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO) of Greece, and Quadrivium Digital, this week announced plans to build a cable landing station (CLS) on the Greek island of Crete. This CLS will be hosted within Quadrivium’s planned campus and will se...

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