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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 Schneider Electric partners with Terrestrial Energy for small reactors
Schneider Electric partners with Terrestrial Energy for small reactors
April 26, 2024

Schneider Electric partners with Terrestrial Energy for small reactors

Canada

Nuclear small modular reactor (SMR) company Terrestrial Energy has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Schneider Electric to jointly develop commercial opportunities and advance the deployment of IMSR plants as the reactor company is currently developing a 190MWe Integral Molten Salt Rea...

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Read Microsoft’s cloud unit’s revenue surpasses estimations by $31.8 billion
Microsoft’s cloud unit’s revenue surpasses estimations by $31.8 billion
April 26, 2024

Microsoft’s cloud unit’s revenue surpasses estimations by $31.8 billion

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft, during its quarterly earnings call revealed that its cloud unit surpassed $31.8 billion in revenue for the quarter, up by 24 percent YoY. This led to a 4% increase in the company’s stock market, bridging the value to $128 billion. "We have the most comprehensive cloud footprint with...

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Read AtlasEdge plans expansion into Portugal
AtlasEdge plans expansion into Portugal
April 25, 2024

AtlasEdge plans expansion into Portugal

AtlasEdge

European Edge firm AtlasEdge announced this week that it is planning to develop data centers in Portugal and has ebtered the market with the acquisition of two adjacent sites in Lisbon that will deliver more than 20MW of IT load.“Our entry into the Portuguese market provides us with a key foot...

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Read AWS announces new campus in Indiana
AWS announces new campus in Indiana
April 25, 2024

AWS announces new campus in Indiana

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services has revealed that it is behind a planned data center in Indiana. The state overnor Eric J. Holcomb this week announced plans to invest $11 billion to build a data center campus in north central Indiana – the largest capital investment announcement in Indiana’s history.“Indi...

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Read SES unveils new satellite service
SES unveils new satellite service
April 25, 2024

SES unveils new satellite service

United States

SES this week announced that it has launched its O3b mPower satellite connectivity service and will be deploying it worldwide. SES will be introducing services in the coming months to O3b mPower customers to deliver reliable connectivity services ranging from tens of Mbps to multiple gigabits ...

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Read Sky signs new wing PPA in Scotland
Sky signs new wing PPA in Scotland
April 25, 2024

Sky signs new wing PPA in Scotland

Scotland

UK telco and media firm Sky has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Octopus Renewables Infrastructure to procure the output of a Scottish windfarm. Following this deal, ky UK buy 69 percent of the electricity produced by the 46MW Crossdykes windfarm, located in Lanarkshire, Scotland, ...

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Read Danfoss selects HPE GreenLake for cloud Services
Danfoss selects HPE GreenLake for cloud Services
April 25, 2024

Danfoss selects HPE GreenLake for cloud Services

United States

Danish engineering group Danfoss has selected HPE GreenLake for SAP S/4HANA Cloud at all it’s data centers for its cloud journey. It is now a joint offering from HPE and SAP and aims to bring SAP workloads to private cloud environments.“We have selected RISE with SAP and HPE GreenLake not only...

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Read Microsoft wins billion dollar contract from Coca-Cola
Microsoft wins billion dollar contract from Coca-Cola
April 24, 2024

Microsoft wins billion dollar contract from Coca-Cola

Microsoft Azure

Coca-Cola has made a $1.1 billion investment to use Microsoft's cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) services as part of a five-year agreement that will see Microsoft support Coca-Cola's core technology strategy systemwide.“This new agreement builds on the success of Coca-Cola’s partnership ...

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Read Digital Realty to partner with Enel X for grid balancing UPS systems
Digital Realty to partner with Enel X for grid balancing UPS systems
April 24, 2024

Digital Realty to partner with Enel X for grid balancing UPS systems

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has revealed that it will be partnering with energy firm Enel X to roll out grid-balancing UPS systems in Ireland. The integrated battery banks, housed within Digital Realty’s Irish data centers, will relieve grid dependence on fossil fuel power plants during periods of frequenc...

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Read IBM to buy Hashicorp for $6.4 billion
IBM to buy Hashicorp for $6.4 billion
April 24, 2024

IBM to buy Hashicorp for $6.4 billion

Kyndryl

IBM is set to buy out HashiCorp, a vendor that makes software to help businesses manage digital infrastructure, for $6.4 billion. It will pay $35 per share for HashiCorp. The company’s stock had been trading at a price of $24.88 before the deal was announced."Enterprise clients are wrestling w...

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Read Oxide deploys hardware on CoreSite data center in California
Oxide deploys hardware on CoreSite data center in California
April 24, 2024

Oxide deploys hardware on CoreSite data center in California

California

New cloud company Oxide is deploying its on-premise hardware at CoreSite’s data center in Silicon Valley. It also announced this week that it would ‘leverage colocation solutions’ at CoreSite's Silicon Valley SV2 data center. “The Oxide Cloud Computer empowers developers to build, run, and ope...

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Read WSF signs new MoU with Alibaba for cloud services
WSF signs new MoU with Alibaba for cloud services
April 23, 2024

WSF signs new MoU with Alibaba for cloud services

United States

The World Squash Federation (WSF) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Alibaba Cloud for cloud and AI technologies and is now set to use Alibaba's cloud computing to augment content, management and commercialization. WSF will also use the cloud provider's platform to develop a squash ...

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Read Vantage plansnew billion dollar data cener campus in Ireland
Vantage plansnew billion dollar data cener campus in Ireland
April 23, 2024

Vantage plansnew billion dollar data cener campus in Ireland

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has revealed that it will be spending €1 billion on a new data center campus development in Dublin.  The campus will be built at Profile Park, Grange Castle, a data center hub nine miles south of Dublin which is already home to the likes of Google, Digital Realty, and Cyru...

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Read ExxonMobil teams up with Intel for data center cooling fluid
ExxonMobil teams up with Intel for data center cooling fluid
April 23, 2024

ExxonMobil teams up with Intel for data center cooling fluid

Intel

Oil and gas company ExxonMobil has teamed up with Intel to develop new liquid cooling technologies for data centers. The two firms say the partnership has been set up to “design, test, research, and co-develop energy-efficient cooling fluid solutions”  for use with systems built on chipmaker I...

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Read Axis-REIT sells former steel site in Johor to unnamed data center operator
Axis-REIT sells former steel site in Johor to unnamed data center operator
April 23, 2024

Axis-REIT sells former steel site in Johor to unnamed data center operator

Malaysia

Malaysian firm Axis Real Estate Investment Trust (Axis-REIT) announced this week that it has sold a former steel complex in Johor to a data center operator in a deal valued at RM162 million ($33.9m) and is set to close in the second half of the year.The buyer wasn’t named, but the terms of the...

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Read Google fires 28 employees following series of internal protests
Google fires 28 employees following series of internal protests
April 22, 2024

Google fires 28 employees following series of internal protests

Google

Google has terminated the employment of 28 employees on Wednesday. This comes after a series of internal protests about labor conditions and the company's contract with the Israeli government and military.The protests were led by the "No Tech For Apartheid" organization. One of the protestors ...

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Read Fujitsu selects Oracle Alloy for cloud deployment in Japan
Fujitsu selects Oracle Alloy for cloud deployment in Japan
April 22, 2024

Fujitsu selects Oracle Alloy for cloud deployment in Japan

Oracle

Fujitsu has selected Oracle Alloy to deploy sovereign cloud services in Japan. Oracle Alloy is a cloud infrastructure platform that enables other companies to build their own cloud offering. By using Alloy, Fujitsu will expand its Hybrid IT offering Fujitsu Uvance. Fujitsu will deploy and mana...

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Read Crown Castle reveals update on fiber business review
Crown Castle reveals update on fiber business review
April 22, 2024

Crown Castle reveals update on fiber business review

Crown Castle

Tower company Crown Castle recently revealed that it has been in talks with multiple parties regarding its fiber business in recent months. Miller, who was the company's CEO until 2001, wants to sell the fiber business and has previously said the assets could fetch as much as $15 billion."The ...

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Read United Airlines to complete cloud migration soon
United Airlines to complete cloud migration soon
April 22, 2024

United Airlines to complete cloud migration soon

United States

United Airlines has almost completed its cloud migration as CFO Mike Leskinen revealed the company has migrated 70-90 percent of its workloads to the cloud, with the rest still on-premise.The company has had a challenging first quarter and is now attempting to offset those costs with "great op...

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Read CRA unveils Edge data center in Cukrák, outside Prague
CRA unveils Edge data center in Cukrák, outside Prague
April 20, 2024

CRA unveils Edge data center in Cukrák, outside Prague

Prague

Czech telecoms firm České Radiokomunikace (CRA) has unveiled its data center at a broadcast tower site in Cukrák, outside Prague after investing tens of millions of crowns (around $422,000) in repurposing its former transmitter into its eighth data center.Miloš MastnÍk, CEO at CRA, said: “Usin...

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