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Read New Jersey Lawmakers Approve Bill Creating Large Load Data Center Tariff
New Jersey lawmakers have passed a bill directing the state’s Board of Public Utilities to create a dedicated tariff for data centers with capacities of 50MW or more, aimed at protecting other rate...

New Jersey Lawmakers Approve Bill Creating Large Load Data Center Tariff

July 03, 2026 New Jersey

New Jersey lawmakers have passed a bill directing the state’s Board of Public Utilities to create a dedicated tariff for data centers with capacities of 50MW or more, aimed at protecting other ratepayers from rising costs linked to new developments. The legislation, S731, replaces an earlier...

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Read Rackspace to Deploy 30MW of AMD AI Infrastructure Across Data Centers
Rackspace has signed an agreement with AMD to deploy 30MW of AI infrastructure across its data centers, targeting customers in regulated sectors such as healthcare. The rollout will begin later thi...

Rackspace to Deploy 30MW of AMD AI Infrastructure Across Data Centers

June 17, 2026 Rackspace

Rackspace has signed an agreement with AMD to deploy 30MW of AI infrastructure across its data centers, targeting customers in regulated sectors such as healthcare. The rollout will begin later this year and continue through 2028, with the capacity intended to support AI training and inference...

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Read Local Officials Reject Proposed Data Center in New Brunswick, New Jersey
Local Officials Reject Proposed Data Center in New Brunswick, New Jersey

Local Officials Reject Proposed Data Center in New Brunswick, New Jersey

February 21, 2026 New Jersey

Local authorities in New Brunswick, New Jersey, voted on Wednesday against allowing the construction of a data center on a plot of land slated for redevelopment, instead requiring that a park be built on the site. The New Brunswick City Council was reviewing a proposal for the Jersey-Sandford...

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Read New Jersey Senate Advances Bill to Establish New Rate Class for Data Centers
New Jersey Senate Advances Bill to Establish New Rate Class for Data Centers

New Jersey Senate Advances Bill to Establish New Rate Class for Data Centers

January 13, 2026 New Jersey

The New Jersey Senate has advanced a bill that would create new tariff classes for “large load” data centers in an effort to protect ratepayers in the state from cost increases.The bill, cosponsored by ten Democrat lawmakers, would require public electrical utilities in the state to submit...

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Read Stack Overflow Fully Exits Data Centers
Stack Overflow Fully Exits Data Centers

Stack Overflow Fully Exits Data Centers

January 06, 2026 New Jersey

Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer website for computer programmers, has officially exited its data center in New Jersey as part of its cloud migration effort. Stack noted that for the past 16 years it had been operating out of a physical data center in which the site reliability engineer...

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Read NJFX Plans 10MW Liquid-cooled Data Hall in New Jersey
NJFX Plans 10MW Liquid-cooled Data Hall in New Jersey

NJFX Plans 10MW Liquid-cooled Data Hall in New Jersey

December 01, 2025 New Jersey

NJFX is expanding its cable landing station and data center site in New Jersey. The firm said the move is supported by the execution of an electric utility load letter supported by a $3 million deposit, targeting power delivery by end of 2026. Bala Consulting Engineers is working with the company...

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Read MacWeb Launches US East Cloud Region in New Jersey
MacWeb Launches US East Cloud Region in New Jersey

MacWeb Launches US East Cloud Region in New Jersey

November 29, 2025 New Jersey

Mac-based cloud infrastructure provider MacWeb has launched a new cloud region in New Jersey. The region gives customers access to cloud Mac mini and Mac Studio cluster nodes located near Manhattan and major network exchanges."Many application and AI engineers already develop on the Mac and want...

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Read InterServer selects 365 Data Centers for New Jersey expansion
InterServer selects 365 Data Centers for New Jersey expansion

InterServer selects 365 Data Centers for New Jersey expansion

January 09, 2025 New Jersey

Web hosting and managed service provider InterServer has selected 365 Data Centers as its colocation provider as it looks into expanding its offering in the New Jersey market. 365 has 20 data centers across the US, including multiple New Jersey locations such as Carlstadt and Bridgewater,...

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Read Energy Vault partners with RSDC for novel battery storage system
Energy Vault partners with RSDC for novel battery storage system

Energy Vault partners with RSDC for novel battery storage system

December 12, 2024 Rackspace

Energy Vault has partnered with data center operator RSDC to deliver 2GW/20GWh of primary power to RSDC data centers through its battery energy storage system (BESS). Energy Vault will deploy its B-Nest BESS, a modular multi-story structure designed to house stackable lithium-ion BESS units at...

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Read CoreWeave to convert New Jersey lab building into data center
CoreWeave to convert New Jersey lab building into data center

CoreWeave to convert New Jersey lab building into data center

October 29, 2024 New Jersey

CoreWeave is expanding its data center footprint in New Jersey. According to local press, the company has signed a long-term lease with an Onyx Equities and Machine Investment Group partnership for the entirety of building 11 at The Northeast Science & Technology Center (NEST) in Kenilworth,...

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Read Former Sungard data center is up for sale in New Jersey
Former Sungard data center is up for sale in New Jersey

Former Sungard data center is up for sale in New Jersey

February 14, 2024 New Jersey

Via RI Marketplace, Real estate firm Marcus & Millichap is offering 1008 Virgil Avenue in Ridgefield, a former Sungard data center field as up for sale via auction and bidding for this property is set to begin March 25, with $750,000 listed as a starting bid. The listing reads, “The property...

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Read Data center leased by Rackspace for sale in Kansas City, Missouri
Data center leased by Rackspace for sale in Kansas City, Missouri

Data center leased by Rackspace for sale in Kansas City, Missouri

June 06, 2023 Rackspace

A data center occupied by Rackspace is for sale in Kansas City, Missouri. Collers are offering 10828 NW Airworld Drive as a "long-term NNN lease investment opportunity." No sale price was disclosed. The two-story, 77,545-square-foot building was built 1982 on 5.2 acres and came with a...

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Read Rackspace Experiences Disruptions in London, Sydney and Hong Kong
Rackspace Experiences Disruptions in London, Sydney and Hong Kong

Rackspace Experiences Disruptions in London, Sydney and Hong Kong

May 31, 2023 Rackspace

Rackspace is presently experiencing an outage across its European and Asia-Pacific data centers. In their SYD2, LON5, LON3, and HKG5 data centers, they encountered connectivity issues. Later, Rackspace announced that it had been discovered that any affected Linux VMs (virtual machines) would...

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Read Rackspace Appoints Third CEO in Two Years
Rackspace Appoints Third CEO in Two Years

Rackspace Appoints Third CEO in Two Years

April 25, 2019 Rackspace

Managed Cloud Service Provider Rackspace has appointed Kevin M Jones as their new Chief Executive Officer. It's the company's third CEO in two years. Jones was CEO at MV Transportation, the largest private paratransit service in the United States. Before MV Transportation, he held positions at...

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Read Rackspace and Switch Partner to host Rackspace Private Cloud in Switch Facilities (PR)
Rackspace and Switch Partner to host Rackspace Private Cloud in Switch Facilities (PR)

Rackspace and Switch Partner to host Rackspace Private Cloud in Switch Facilities (PR)

April 02, 2018 Rackspace

Switch and Rackspace announced a new agreement to deliver Rackspace private cloud solutions and connectivity to managed public cloud solutions on AWS, Azure and Google in Switch’s highly secure and reliable Tier 5® Platinum data center PRIME locations. The agreement builds on Rackspace’s...

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