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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 Japan Meteorological Agency Receives 31 Petaflops Supercomputer From Fujitsu
Japan Meteorological Agency Receives 31 Petaflops Supercomputer From Fujitsu
March 01, 2023

Japan Meteorological Agency Receives 31 Petaflops Supercomputer From Fujitsu

Japan

The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has received a new 31.1 petaflop supercomputer from Fujitsu. The new system will be used to forecast the probability of linear rainbands, which can result in floods and landslides and is anticipated to be operational in March 2023. Cumulonimbus clouds that...

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Read Equinix signs solar PPAs in Spain
Equinix signs solar PPAs in Spain
February 28, 2023

Equinix signs solar PPAs in Spain

Equinix

Equinix has inked five new long-term PPAs in Spain from solar farms, totalling 225MW, which will be managed by IGNIS. This reportedly brings the company's contracted PPA capacity to 595 MW globally. While specific details regarding the location of the farms have not yet been shared, the compa...

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Read Odata invests in wind park for renewable supply
Odata invests in wind park for renewable supply
February 28, 2023

Odata invests in wind park for renewable supply

ODATA SA

Odata has reportedly acquired a minority stake in Omega Energia's 212MW Assuruá IV wind farm, in Bahia state's Xique-Xique municipality. Through this acquisition, the Brazil-based datacenter group will secure renewable energy for its data centers. Moreover, the company claims that the investm...

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Read Vodafone inks another PPA in the UK
Vodafone inks another PPA in the UK
February 28, 2023

Vodafone inks another PPA in the UK

Vodafone

Vodafone has announced the signing of a new PPA with Centrica and Mytilineos for solar power in the UK. The 10-year deal signed by the companies will see the telco procure energy from five solar farms in Norfolk, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Dorset. In total, the energ...

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Read NTT DATA to test exterior solar cells
NTT DATA to test exterior solar cells
February 28, 2023

NTT DATA to test exterior solar cells

NTT Data

NTT Data has announced that it is pursuing a demonstration testing of film-type perovskite solar cells installed on the exterior walls of buildings in collaboration with Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd. This is reportedly aligned with the company's pursuit of environmental measures for its data cen...

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Read Ncell Opens a Data Facility in Lalitpur, Nepal
Ncell Opens a Data Facility in Lalitpur, Nepal
February 28, 2023

Ncell Opens a Data Facility in Lalitpur, Nepal

South Asia

Nepali telecom Ncell has opened a new data center in Lalitpur. The Axiata-owned telecommunications company has reportedly established a new data center in the Nakkhu neighborhood of Lalitpur, just south of Kathmandu. The corporation invested over $15,1 million in the project, which it claims i...

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Read Hackers target data center passwords
Hackers target data center passwords
February 27, 2023

Hackers target data center passwords

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

Last week hackers gained access to two Asia-based data center firms, Shanghai-based GDS Holdings and Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centres. This revelation, first published by Bloomberg, comes after endpoint security firm Resecurity found evidence they had been compromised. Cyber se...

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Read TikTok plans two data centers in Europe
TikTok plans two data centers in Europe
February 27, 2023

TikTok plans two data centers in Europe

Europe

TikTok has announced its plans to build two more data centers in Europe. The company said this addition will support its growth and meet data residency requirements. Speaking about this expansion, Rich Waterworth, TikTok's general manager of operations in Europe, said: "We're continuing to del...

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Read Princeton Digital to expand Asian data center footprint
Princeton Digital to expand Asian data center footprint
February 27, 2023

Princeton Digital to expand Asian data center footprint

Princeton Digital Group

Singapore-based Princeton Digital has announced plans to develop more data centers in Asia, in a bid to support operations in its global headquarters. To do this, the company is injecting an investment of $1 billion. With this, the company is expanding into Batam with a 96-megawatt facility, o...

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Read Sonda Purchases The Remaining CEMIG Stake In The Ativas Data Center
Sonda Purchases The Remaining CEMIG Stake In The Ativas Data Center
February 27, 2023

Sonda Purchases The Remaining CEMIG Stake In The Ativas Data Center

Brazil / Brasil

Companhia Energética de Minas Gerais S.A. (CEMIG), a Brazilian energy company, has sold its share of the local data center corporation Ativas to Sonda, a Chilean IT company, which now owns the majority of the company. In a recent announcement, CEMIG stated that a share purchase contract had...

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Read DC Two Sells DComm Its Modular Data Center Assets For $2 Million
DC Two Sells DComm Its Modular Data Center Assets For $2 Million
February 27, 2023

DC Two Sells DComm Its Modular Data Center Assets For $2 Million

Zettagrid

DC Two, an Australian provider of data centers and cloud services, has received $2.02 million from DComm Infrastructure for its non-core infrastructure assets. DComm Ventures, a web 3.0 technology group of corporations in the blockchain sector, owns DComm Infrastructure as a subsidiary. Accord...

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Read Microsoft International Data enter Battery-sharing
Microsoft International Data enter Battery-sharing
February 26, 2023

Microsoft International Data enter Battery-sharing

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft wants to duplicate a Dublin data center battery-sharing agreement. In 2022, Eaton unveiled a lithium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS) with grid-interactive UPS to exchange energy with the local grid. The corporation told a London conference that this technique was ideal for t...

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Read QTS plans for Northland data center in question
QTS plans for Northland data center in question
February 24, 2023

QTS plans for Northland data center in question

QTS Data Centers

Following speculation that QTS Realty Trust Inc. was the company seeking new development within Rocky Branch Creek Technology Park, and later confirmation, it looks like the company's Northland data center plans have now fallen through.The company was reportedly set to acquire the property nor...

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Read Valley Oak proposes 90MW data center in California
Valley Oak proposes 90MW data center in California
February 24, 2023

Valley Oak proposes 90MW data center in California

California

Valley Oak is pursuing a new data center in Fremont, California, it has been announced, to 'serve as a place for clients to either relocate their data servers or expand their data capacity.' The company submitted an application for a 490,000 square-foot (45,520 sqm) data center on approximatel...

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Read Prince William County’s planning director and deputy resign amid data center controversy
Prince William County’s planning director and deputy resign amid data center controversy
February 24, 2023

Prince William County’s planning director and deputy resign amid data center controversy

Northern Virginia

Reports reveal that in recent months, a wave of Prince William County planning officials have resigned from their positions just as the data center development controversy heats up. County Planning Director Mark Buenavista, had only been in the job a month, but left his position last week. Sim...

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Read What Republican Bob Weir's election win means for the PW Gateway
What Republican Bob Weir's election win means for the PW Gateway
February 24, 2023

What Republican Bob Weir's election win means for the PW Gateway

Northern Virginia

As covered extensively by Baxtel, the PW Digital Gateway data center campus, planned outside Manassas, is the most controversial data center development in recent times. It has been opposed from many angles, with environmentalists arguing that it jeopardizes net-zero goals, and others arguing ...

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Read Amazon data center protests fail to stop development getting green light
Amazon data center protests fail to stop development getting green light
February 24, 2023

Amazon data center protests fail to stop development getting green light

Amazon AWS

Amazon's plans to expand its data center footprint in Northern Virginia, with a huge investment of $35 billion, is continuing to receive pushback from protestors and residents. Northern Virginia has the largest concentration of data centers in the world, being the epicenter of a data center bo...

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Read Kio is Developing a Third Data Center in Querétaro, Mexico
Kio is Developing a Third Data Center in Querétaro, Mexico
February 24, 2023

Kio is Developing a Third Data Center in Querétaro, Mexico

KIO Data Centers

Kio Networks, a Mexican data center company, is developing a third data center in Querétaro. The corporation revealed this week that it had purchased 261,100 square feet of land in Querétaro for the development of a new data center. QRO3 will be the company's third plant in the region, and ...

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Read Central and Eastern Europe Data Center Building Industry To Gain $1.05 Billion in 2028
Central and Eastern Europe Data Center Building Industry To Gain $1.05 Billion in 2028
February 24, 2023

Central and Eastern Europe Data Center Building Industry To Gain $1.05 Billion in 2028

Europe

As shown by Arizton's most recent research study, the market for data center building in Central and Eastern Europe would expand at a CAGR of 10.64% between 2022 and 2028. Sustained attempts to attract data center operators, expansion in 5G connectivity and construction of edge data centers, a...

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Read GDL-IX, Latin America's Latest IXP, To Be Housed at HostDime's Mexico Data Facility
GDL-IX, Latin America's Latest IXP, To Be Housed at HostDime's Mexico Data Facility
February 24, 2023

GDL-IX, Latin America's Latest IXP, To Be Housed at HostDime's Mexico Data Facility

HostDime

HostDime Mexico is delighted to report that GDL-IX, Guadalajara's inaugural peering exchange, will reside in its Guadalajara data center. So when HostDime's new Tier IV data center in Guadalajara is completed in the coming year, GDL-IX will be expanded to the new facility. By March 10, 2023, G...

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