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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 Lambda Installs GB200 NVL72 Rack in California
Lambda Installs GB200 NVL72 Rack in California
January 29, 2025

Lambda Installs GB200 NVL72 Rack in California

California

GPU cloud provider Lambda has deployed an Nvidia GB200 NVL72 rack system at EdgeCloudLink's (ECL) data center in Mountain View, California. The rack was installed on January 22, and the installation process took around "one hour" due to the flexibility of the data center.In a LinkedIn post, EC...

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Read Arm Expands Cambridge Presence
Arm Expands Cambridge Presence
January 29, 2025

Arm Expands Cambridge Presence

United Kingdom

British chip company Arm is expanding its presence in Cambridge and has signed a lease to take over new office and laboratory space at the developer’s Peterhouse Technology Park. Arm already occupies all six buildings at Peterhouse Technology Park, totaling 330,000 sq ft (30,658 sqm).The Optic...

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Read Could DeepSeek's Efficiency Advances Boost Nvidia's Long-Term Prospects?
Could DeepSeek's Efficiency Advances Boost Nvidia's Long-Term Prospects?
January 29, 2025

Could DeepSeek's Efficiency Advances Boost Nvidia's Long-Term Prospects?

United States

DeepSeek's announcement of a new large language model achieving state-of-the-art performance at significantly reduced computational costs sent shockwaves through the AI infrastructure market, triggering a $1.2 trillion market decline and a 15% drop in Nvidia's stock value. The market's reactio...

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Read Intuitive Machines' IM-2 Lander Delivered to Cape Canaveral
Intuitive Machines' IM-2 Lander Delivered to Cape Canaveral
January 29, 2025

Intuitive Machines' IM-2 Lander Delivered to Cape Canaveral

Florida

The IM-2 mission lunar lander has been delivered to Cape Canaveral, Florida, currently set to launch on February 26, prepared to carry what could be the first data center on the Moon. Lonestar plans to use the system to see how storage behaves on the Moon's surface, with an eventual aim to use...

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Read Georgia PSC Approves New Billing Rules for Data Centers
Georgia PSC Approves New Billing Rules for Data Centers
January 28, 2025

Georgia PSC Approves New Billing Rules for Data Centers

Georgia

The Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) has voted to approve a new rule that allows new large-load Georgia Power customers using more than 100MW of electricity to be billed based on the risks associated with their projects.The rule, which passed unanimously, requires data centers to pay th...

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Read Former Contractor Arrested for Shutting Down British Museum's IT systems
Former Contractor Arrested for Shutting Down British Museum's IT systems
January 28, 2025

Former Contractor Arrested for Shutting Down British Museum's IT systems

United Kingdom

A former tech contractor at the British Museum reportedly shut down some of its IT systems, causing the museum to close some galleries and exhibitions. He allegedly gained access to an unauthorized area of the British Museum last week and turned off some of its IT systems after being dismissed...

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Read BT urges CNI to shift away from copper networks
BT urges CNI to shift away from copper networks
January 27, 2025

BT urges CNI to shift away from copper networks

United Kingdom

UK telco BT issued a rallying cry last week urging the UK's Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) providers to move away from the outdated analog copper landline network by the end of this year. The telco warned that the country's switch from its historic Public Switched Telephone Network (PS...

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Read NextEra Partners with GE Vernova on Gas for Data Centers
NextEra Partners with GE Vernova on Gas for Data Centers
January 27, 2025

NextEra Partners with GE Vernova on Gas for Data Centers

United States

US energy generator NextEra Energy has partnered with energy equipment manufacturer GE Vernova to develop gas-fired generation to meet the energy demands of data centers and will be taking further steps to restart the idled Duane Arnold Energy Center, a nuclear power plant in Iowa.NextEra CEO ...

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Read Verizon Launches AI-centric Network ffering
Verizon Launches AI-centric Network ffering
January 27, 2025

Verizon Launches AI-centric Network ffering

Verizon Enterprise

Verizon has launched a new AI-centric network offering called Verizon AI Connect, an integrated suite of solutions and products designed to “enable businesses to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) workloads at scale.” The telco s looking to make its underutilized data center assets available ...

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Read Canadian gov't urges Amazon to reconsider shutting down the distribution centers in Quebec
Canadian gov't urges Amazon to reconsider shutting down the distribution centers in Quebec
January 25, 2025

Canadian gov't urges Amazon to reconsider shutting down the distribution centers in Quebec

Amazon AWS

Amazon announced this week that it would be closing seven warehouses in Quebec over the next two months, cutting more than 1,700 workers as a result. Canada's Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry - François-Philippe Champagne - has written to Amazon's CEO Andy Jassy, requesting the co...

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Read Chiplet startup Baya Systems raises $36m in Series B funding round
Chiplet startup Baya Systems raises $36m in Series B funding round
January 25, 2025

Chiplet startup Baya Systems raises $36m in Series B funding round

New York

Chiplet technology startup Baya Systems has raised more than $36 million in a Series B funding round led by Maverick Silicon and backed by a strategic investment from Synopsys. It also saw participation from current investors, including Matrix Partners and Intel Capital.Growing AI workloads ar...

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Read Santee Cooper proposes nuclear power station acquisition
Santee Cooper proposes nuclear power station acquisition
January 25, 2025

Santee Cooper proposes nuclear power station acquisition

South Carolina

Santee Cooper, South Carolina’s state-owned electric and water utility, has launched a Request for Proposals (RFP) to acquire and complete or propose alternatives for two partially constructed generating units at the Virgil C Summer Nuclear Power Station in Fairfield County, South Carolina.The...

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Read Sailfish plans multi-gigawatt data center park outside DFW, Texas
Sailfish plans multi-gigawatt data center park outside DFW, Texas
January 25, 2025

Sailfish plans multi-gigawatt data center park outside DFW, Texas

Texas

Ryan Hughes, founder of real estate firm Sailfish, this week announced Comanche Circle, a 2,600-acre master-planned data center community in Hood County’s Tolar, Texas. Hughes said Sailfish Digital Ventures (SDV) will develop nine data center campuses with a cumulative 5GW of power delivered v...

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Read AWS to invest in cloud infrastructure in Maharashta, India
AWS to invest in cloud infrastructure in Maharashta, India
January 24, 2025

AWS to invest in cloud infrastructure in Maharashta, India

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has committed to invest $8.3 billion in developing cloud infrastructure for its AWS Asia-Pacific (Mumbai) Region in Maharashtra, India. The company signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on January 22, 2025, during the World Economic Forum 2025 to formalize the pl...

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Read Susquehanna Nuclear files petition to review FERC order
Susquehanna Nuclear files petition to review FERC order
January 24, 2025

Susquehanna Nuclear files petition to review FERC order

Amazon AWS

Susquehanna Nuclear LLC, the owner and operator of the 2.5GW Susquehanna steam electric station, has filed a petition in the Fifth Circuit court seeking a review of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) order rejecting an expanded interconnection service agreement (ISA) at the powe...

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Read Novacap closes first digital infrastructure fund
Novacap closes first digital infrastructure fund
January 24, 2025

Novacap closes first digital infrastructure fund

New York

North American investment firm Novacap this week announced the final closing of Novacap Digital Infrastructure Fund I, the firm's first fund dedicated entirely to investing in digital infrastructure. The firm has also named its recently announced data center joint venture with H5, HyScale Data...

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Read Harrison Street raises $600m for data center fund
Harrison Street raises $600m for data center fund
January 24, 2025

Harrison Street raises $600m for data center fund

North America

Investment firm Harrison Street this week announced that it had closed approximately $600 million in capital commitments across its HS Digital Fund and associated vehicles. The fundraise represents Harrison Street’s first dedicated pool of investment capital for its digital assets platform.“Fo...

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Read 320MW data center campus planned for Hertfordshire, UK now approved
320MW data center campus planned for Hertfordshire, UK now approved
January 24, 2025

320MW data center campus planned for Hertfordshire, UK now approved

United Kingdom

Plans for a 320MW UK data center, which developers claim will be the largest of its kind in Europe, has been given the go-ahead. The DC01UK campus in Hertfordshire will be built on 85 acres of land adjacent to the M25 motorway, to the east of the South Mimms Services.The scheme was given the o...

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Read Clayco launches dedicated data center division
Clayco launches dedicated data center division
January 23, 2025

Clayco launches dedicated data center division

Equinix

US construction contractor Clayco last week announced the launch of Clayco Compute, an integrated data center delivery business unit focused on specialized construction of advanced technology centers to cater to data center and quantum computing construction projects. The unit will encompass l...

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Read EU tech players team up for sovereign Edge cloud in Europe
EU tech players team up for sovereign Edge cloud in Europe
January 23, 2025

EU tech players team up for sovereign Edge cloud in Europe

Europe

Eight European technology organizations have teamed up to launch a sovereign Edge cloud platform in Europe dubbed Virt8ra. The testbed platform is a collaboration between Arsys, BIT, the Gdańsk University of Technology, Infobip, Ionos, Kontron, Mondragon Corporation, and Oktawave. It is coordi...

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