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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 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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September 05, 2025

Starlink Expands Ground Infrastructure in Chile

Chile

Chile’s undersecretariat of telecommunications (Subtel) this week authorized a request submitted by Starlink to roll out six ground stations across the country. Five of them will be located in the Metropolitan Region - in the municipalities of San Bernardo, Pudahuel, Las Condes, and Quilicura....

September 04, 2025

Microsoft Agrees to $6bn Cloud Discount for US government

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has agreed to provide the US government with up to $6 billion in discounts over the next three years. The discounts will apply to Azure cloud computing services, Microsoft 365, Copilot, Dynamics 365, and cybersecurity tools. The first year alone could see the government saving up to ...

September 04, 2025

Rackspace Appoints Gajen Kandiah as CEO

United States

Rackspace Technology appointed Gajen Kandiah as its new CEO to drive its cloud AI ambitions in the sector, after joining the hybrid cloud provider from Hitachi Digital, where he served for more than five years across various divisions, most notably as COO and executive chairman."I am honored t...

September 04, 2025

Dominion Proposes New Rate Class for Data Centers

Virginia

Virginia’s primary electrical utility, Dominion Energy, has proposed the creation of a new rate class for data centers.The new class would apply to utility customers who consume more than 25MW of energy and have a monthly load factor of more than 75 percent. This will result in many, if not mo...

September 04, 2025

Optus to Offload 340 Mobile Towers to Waveconn

Australia

Australian telco Optus has this week announced it will sell 340 mobile towers and rooftop sites to Australian digital infrastructure company Waveconn. The carrier said the transaction is part of the company's strategy to "unlock capital for future investment and enhance customer experience."Ac...

September 03, 2025

Digital Edge Breaks Ground on Data Center in Virginia

Digital Edge DC

APAC operator Digital Edge and local energy firm B.Grimm Power Public Company (BGRIM) this week celebrated the groundbreaking of their first joint data center in Chonburi. The companies said the project is part of a $1 billion investment plan to deliver hyperscale and AI-ready data center camp...

September 03, 2025

North Dakota State University Awarded $3.85m for Supercomputer

North Dakota

North Dakota State University (NDSU) has been awarded $3.85 million to acquire and deploy an AI supercomputer named Bison, which will be housed in the university’s Center for Computationally Assisted Science and Technology (CCAST) data center and is expected to come online in the summer of 202...

September 03, 2025

Former Air Force Data Center up for Sale in Michigan

Michigan

A former US Air Force data center, used as a call center until recently, is up for sale in Michigan. Sitting on 3.6 acres in Iosco County’s Wurtsmith Industrial District, the single-story facility spans 13,100 sq ft (1,215 sqm).It was originally a data center supporting Wurtsmith Air Force Bas...

September 02, 2025

Virtus Signs cPPA for 31MW of Power

United Kingdom

UK data center developer Virtus has signed a corporate Power Purchase Agreement (cPPA) for 31MW of wind power from the Lynn and Inner Dowsing (LID) windfarms, a pair of offshore wind farms in the North Sea. Virtus will offtake 16 percent of the total generation from LID, with a commencement da...

September 02, 2025

AWS Launches Cloud Region in New Zealand

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a new cloud region in New Zealand dubbed the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. This region consists of three availability zones. AWS has previously said it would invest around NZ$7.5 billion (US$5.3 billion) in its cloud operations and infrastructure...

September 01, 2025

Rezoning Requests Approved for Data Center in Ohio

Ohio

Rezoning requests for a data center outside Toledo, Ohio, have been approved. The land parcels are located in Oregon, a city in Lucas County east of Toledo. The Oregon City Council unanimously approved requests for seven land parcels totaling 20 acres to be rezoned from ‘Agricultural District’...

September 01, 2025

Top Data Center News for 25th - 30th August, 2025

United States

Google to Invest $9bn in Virginia Data CentersGoogle announced this week that it will invest an additional $9 billion in Virginia through the end of 2026, which will go towards the development of a new data center in Chesterfield County and the expansion of the existing facilities in Loudoun a...

September 01, 2025

Prometheus X Engie to Colocate Data Centers with Renewable Assets

Prometheus Hyperscale

AI data center developer Prometheus Hyperscale has partnered with Engie North America to colocate data centers with renewable and battery storage facilities in and around Dallas, Texas. This agreement will see Prometheus deploy liquid-cooled data center infrastructure alongside Engie's renewab...

August 30, 2025

Stack Joins Multi-Billion-Dollar Data Center Project in New Mexico

New Mexico

Stack this week announced its role in Project Jupiter, a proposed large data center campus in Doña Ana County. Stack is collaborating with BorderPlex Digital Assets, with the two companies aiming to invest up to $165 billion over the entire project. Stack hasn’t detailed its exact role in the ...

August 30, 2025

Data Journey Ends Deal with Greenidge to Acquire 152-acre Data Center

United States

US cryptocurrency data center and power generation firm Greenidge Generation has seen a deal to sell off two parcels of land to Data Journey in South Carolina fall through.As part of the initial agreement, Greenidge was set to support Data Journey in developing and building a new data center t...

August 30, 2025

Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $863m in Series B2 funding

Google

Google-backed nuclear fusion company, Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), has successfully raised $863 million in Series B2 funding, adding a range of international investors to its list of backers. New investors included NVentures (Nvidia's venture capital arm), Counterpoint Global, Galaxy Int...

August 30, 2025

FPT Launches Data Center in Ho Chi Minh City

Vietnam

FPT Corporation last week officially inaugurated and put into operation the FPT Fornix HCM02 Data Center at the Ho Chi Minh City High-Tech Park, an eight-story Fornix HCM02 which totals 10,000 sqm (110,000 sq ft) and has capacity for 3,600 racks. FPT said this is the first data center in Vietn...

August 30, 2025

Google to Invest $9bn in Virginia Data Centers

Google

Google and Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin this week announced Google will invest an additional $9 billion in Virginia through the end of 2026. The funds will go towards the development of a new data center in Chesterfield County and expansion of the existing facilities in Loudoun and Prince ...

August 30, 2025

Scala Secures $25m in Financing from Caterpillar Power Finance

Scala Data Centers

Brazilian data center developer Scala Data Centers has secured $25 million in financing from Caterpillar Power Finance, marking Caterpillar’s first with a data center company in Latin America. The financing is designed to drive sustainable growth across the company.“This milestone goes far be...

August 29, 2025

Hyperscale to Hyper-Space: Data Centers Beyond Earth

United Kingdom

Every day, humans generate more data than they did the previous day. In 2010, the planet generated approximately two zettabytes of digital information, a figure that increased to 64 zettabytes over the next decade. For comparison, one zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes, so large that if you tri...

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Starlink Expands Ground Infrastructure in Chile

Microsoft Agrees to $6bn Cloud Discount for US government

Rackspace Appoints Gajen Kandiah as CEO

Dominion Proposes New Rate Class for Data Centers

Optus to Offload 340 Mobile Towers to Waveconn

Digital Edge Breaks Ground on Data Center in Virginia

North Dakota State University Awarded $3.85m for Supercomputer

Former Air Force Data Center up for Sale in Michigan

Virtus Signs cPPA for 31MW of Power

AWS Launches Cloud Region in New Zealand

Rezoning Requests Approved for Data Center in Ohio

Top Data Center News for 25th - 30th August, 2025

Prometheus X Engie to Colocate Data Centers with Renewable Assets

Stack Joins Multi-Billion-Dollar Data Center Project in New Mexico

Data Journey Ends Deal with Greenidge to Acquire 152-acre Data Center

Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $863m in Series B2 funding

FPT Launches Data Center in Ho Chi Minh City

Google to Invest $9bn in Virginia Data Centers

Scala Secures $25m in Financing from Caterpillar Power Finance

Hyperscale to Hyper-Space: Data Centers Beyond Earth

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