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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 t...

August 01, 2026

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New Jersey

Green Mountain Secures Neocloud Customer For London Data Center

Green Mountain has secured an unnamed neocloud customer at its LON-East data center campus in Romford, East London. The customer has taken 14MW of capacity at the facility, which is connected to major fiber routes linking the City of London, London Docklands, Slough, and international data center...

August 31, 2026

Green Mountain AS

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Starcloud Raises $250m Series A Extension For Orbital AI Data Centers **Orbital data center company Starcloud has raised $250 million in a Series A extension at a $2.3 billion v...

August 31, 2026

United States

DayOne, TNB Plan 1.5GW Onsite Power For Selangor Data Center

DayOne has partnered with TNB Power Generation to explore up to 1.5GW of on-site power generation and battery storage for its planned data center in Selangor, Malaysia. The partnership was formalized through a non-binding MoU, with the final capacity and configuration subject to feasibility studi...

August 31, 2026

DayOne

One Nuclear Signs Binding LOI For 2.88GW Gas Plant And BESS To Power Louisiana Data Center

US energy firm One Nuclear has signed a binding LOI with a Louisiana landowner group to develop Project Cayman, featuring a 2.88GW natural gas plant and a 700MW/2.88GWh battery storage system alongside a data center. The project is planned near RiverPlex MegaPark in southern Louisiana, between Ba...

August 31, 2026

Louisiana

Exascale Labs Partners With EnergyBank On Floating Wind Data Center Pilot In Norway

AI data center developer Exascale Labs has partnered with energy storage firm EnergyBank to explore AI data centers powered by floating offshore wind and long-duration battery storage. Under a non-binding MoU, the companies will develop an initial pilot with Zephyros-One, a 2.3MW floating wind tu...

August 31, 2026

Norway

Schwarz Group Plans €5.6bn Data Center In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

Schwarz Group and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania plan to develop a 240MW data center in Dummersdorf, Germany, backed by a €5.6 billion investment. The facility could expand to 1GW by 2045 and benefit from renewable wind power, a potential 380kV grid connection, and free cooling. Schwarz Group also...

August 29, 2026

Germany / Deutschland

Fossefall Partners With Armada For AI Data Center Deployments

Fossefall has partnered with Armada to deploy modular AI data centers across the Nordic region. The company will deploy five of Armada’s Leviathan modular data centers, providing a combined 9MW of capacity by Q1 2027. The partnership covers Norway, Sweden, and Finland, with the initial contract v...

August 29, 2026

Fossefall

atNorth Signs YIT Contract For Additional Data Center Building In Finland

atNorth is expanding its FIN04 data center campus in Myllykoski, Kouvola, Finland, with a new building called FIN04A1. The company has appointed YIT as the main contractor, responsible for construction and mechanical, electrical, and plumbing works. YIT was also selected to build another campus f...

August 28, 2026

Finland

Trump Admin Considers Semiconductor Tariffs On Data Center Servers

The Trump administration is considering new semiconductor tariffs that could also apply to products using chips, including data center servers. The proposal is still in its early stages and could change. A phase-in period is being considered, with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick supporting tar...

August 28, 2026

United States

Digital Realty Begins Construction On Fourth Data Center In Zurich, Switzerland

Digital Realty has started construction on a new data center in Glattbrugg, Zurich, Switzerland. The ZUR4 facility will provide 15MW of IT capacity across around 6,300 sqm (67,810 sq ft) and is expected to go live in 2028. The project will expand Digital Realty’s existing Zurich campus, which inc...

August 28, 2026

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Nexspace Begins Construction On New Data Center In Graz, Austria

German data center firm Nexspace has started construction on a new facility in Graz, Austria. The project will double Nexspace’s capacity in Graz, adding around 600 sqm (6,460 sq ft) of IT space and 2.2MW of capacity. “With today's groundbreaking ceremony, we are starting the construction of o...

August 28, 2026

Austria

The Most Expensive Room in a Data Center

Walk into a modern data center and you will probably notice the computers first. Thousands of servers sit in long rows, connected by cables and increasingly powerful GPUs handling everything from cloud applications to artificial intelligence. **It is easy to assume that this is where most ...

August 28, 2026

United States

Gateway Capital Files Plans For 81MW Data Center In Sydney, Australia

Gateway Capital has filed plans for an 81MW data center in Sydney, Australia. The Frederick Street Data Centre would be built on a 1.8-hectare site at 12 Frederick Street in St Leonards. The five-story facility would span 16,635 sqm (179,058 sq ft) and include an on-site substation. The projec...

August 27, 2026

Australia

OpenAI Secures Approval For 3.2GW Power Deal For Georgia Data Center

The Georgia Public Service Commission has approved a power supply agreement between Georgia Power and OpenAI for its planned data center in Effingham County. Under the deal, Georgia Power will add 3.2GW of generation capacity, with OpenAI covering the full infrastructure costs. The type of genera...

August 27, 2026

OpenAI

Nexspace Begins Construction On Data Center In Graz, Austria

German data center company Nexspace has started construction on a new facility in Graz, Austria. The project will double Nexspace’s capacity in Graz, adding around 600 sqm (6,460 sq ft) of IT space and 2.2MW of capacity. “With today's groundbreaking ceremony, we are starting the construction o...

August 27, 2026

Austria

Administrative Office Of U.S. Courts Seeks Vendor For Two Colocation Data Centers

The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AOUSC) is seeking a vendor to provide colocation services across two geographically diverse data centers. The agency has issued a request for information (RFI) for providers that can meet its requirements. AOUSC currently uses a Digital Realty facilit...

August 26, 2026

United States

Spain Proposes Rules Requiring Data Centers To Source 80% Of Power From New Renewables

Spain is preparing legislation that would require data centers of 1MW or more to source at least 80% of their electricity from new renewable generation on an hourly basis. The draft rules, approved for fast-track legislation, would apply only to new data centers and undergo public consultation be...

August 26, 2026

Spain

OpenAI’s Head Of Data Centers Chris Malone Departs Amid Leadership Changes

Chris Malone has left OpenAI after 18 months as head of data centers, amid several recent executive departures and changes within the company’s data center team. Malone joined OpenAI from Meta, where he spent nearly five years as a distinguished engineer. Before that, he worked at Google for almo...

August 26, 2026

OpenAI

Empyrion Secures Financing From E.Sun Bank For Taipei Data Center

Empyrion Digital has secured financing from E.Sun Bank for its 7MW TW1 Taipei Data Center in Taiwan. Located in Neihu, the five-story facility will offer 4,260 sqm (45,855 sq ft) of colocation space and is expected to be ready for service by Q4 2027. The data center will support AI, HPC, enterpri...

August 26, 2026

Empyrion Digital

Echelon Partners With Trinovium On Liquid Cooling For AI Data Centers

Irish data center company Echelon has partnered with Trinovium, a new liquid cooling subsidiary of Trinity Biotech, to develop cooling solutions for AI and high-density computing. The companies will focus on direct-to-chip cooling fluids, thermal management systems, and modular liquid cooling tec...

August 25, 2026

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