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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

Posted by: Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

New Jersey

46-Acre Data Center Campus Planned in Maquoketa, Iowa

An unnamed company is planning a data center campus on a 46-acre site off Highway 61, south of Maquoketa in eastern Iowa, according to local media reports from WQAD News 8 and KWQC 6. Maquoketa, in eastern Iowa's Jackson County, is being considered for a small- to mid-sized data center campus ...

July 07, 2026

Iowa

Orbital Proposes 10GW Space Data Center Network with 100,000 Satellites

Orbital Compute Inc. has filed with US regulators for permission to deploy up to 100,000 orbital data center (ODC) satellites over the coming years. The five-month-old space startup, which recently emerged from stealth with a $5 million pre-seed funding round, says the satellite constellation wou...

July 07, 2026

United States

Beacon Reveals Plans for Alabama Data Center Campus

Canadian data center developer Beacon has unveiled plans to build a new campus in Alabama. The company has outlined proposals for the Calvert Infrastructure Hub, which would be developed near the community of Calvert in Mobile County. Calvert is an unincorporated community in southwestern Alabama...

July 07, 2026

Beacon Data Centers

Pau to Build 1MW Data Center in Push for Digital Sovereignty

The French city of Pau is building a €3 million ($3.4 million), 1MW data center to support local businesses and government agencies. Funded by the Pau Béarn Pyrénées Agglomeration (CAPBP), which comprises 31 communes in the Pau region, the facility will be operated by French data center company A...

July 07, 2026

France

Proposed 99MW Data Center in Kern County, California

Applications have been submitted for the development of a 99 MW data center in California. The proposed facility would be located near the intersection of US Highway 395 and State Route 178 in Inyokern, an unincorporated community within Kern County, California. The single-story, 238,000 sq ft (2...

July 07, 2026

California

Samsung Targets Q2 2028 Launch for Floating Data Center

Samsung is reportedly targeting the second quarter of 2028 to launch its floating data center (FDC) initiative. The company’s heavy industries division aims to secure customer orders by the launch date, with Samsung Heavy Industries pursuing multiple projects as it works toward commercializing th...

July 07, 2026

Samsung SDS

Top Data Center News for 29th June - 4th July, 2026

National Grid Ventures Invests $1.75bn for Microsoft Texas Data Center **National Grid Ventures has acquired a 35% stake in Joulent for $1.75 billion to support development of Projec...

July 06, 2026

United States

Top Data Center News for 29th of June - 4th July, 2026

National Grid Ventures Invests $1.75bn for Microsoft Texas Data Center **National Grid Ventures has acquired a 35% stake in Joulent for $1.75 billion to support development of Projec...

July 06, 2026

United States

Amazon Expands Mumbai Data Center Land Lease by four Acres

Amazon has leased an additional four acres of land at its site in Powai, Mumbai, expanding its data center footprint in India. According to The Economic Times, the land has been leased from Larsen & Toubro Ltd under a 17-year agreement through Amazon Data Services, the company's primary data ce...

July 06, 2026

Amazon AWS

Digital Edge Plans 270MWV Data Center Campus Near Mumbai

APAC data center provider Digital Edge is reportedly planning a 270MW data center development near Mumbai, India.According to The Economic Times, citing a person familiar with the project, the company acquired an approximately 30-acre parcel at the proposed Green Integrated Data Centre Park in ...

July 06, 2026

Digital Edge DC

Canadian Developer Proposes 25-acre Data Center in Fergus, Ontario

Canadian developer Spur Innovation is planning a 50–75MW data center on a 25-acre site in Fergus, Ontario.According to an AI-generated factsheet attached to a report by the Wellington Advertiser, the proposal also includes a vertical farm and greenhouse complex at 865 Gartshore Street. The data c...

July 04, 2026

Ontario

National Grid Ventures Invests $1.75bn in Gas Plant for Microsoft Texas Data Center

National Grid Ventures (NGV), the commercial arm of National Grid, has acquired a 35% stake in Joulent for $1.75 billion to support development of power infrastructure for large data centers. The investment will help fund Project Kilby, a 2.67GW natural gas facility being developed with Chevron. ...

July 04, 2026

Microsoft Azure

NTT Facilities Creates Modular Design for Hyperscale Data Centers

NTT’s Facilities division says it has developed a prefabricated construction method, Hyper Ready Module, designed to speed up hyperscale data center delivery. The modular system uses prebuilt units that can be transported and assembled on-site, with the company claiming it could reduce delivery t...

July 03, 2026

NTT

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 ratepayers from rising costs linked to new developments. The legislation, S731, replaces an earlier vers...

July 03, 2026

New Jersey

Data Center Operator Renews Lease for Vanda 3 Data Center in Stockholm, Sweden

Alternative investment manager Barings has signed a 10-year lease extension with a global data center operator at its Vanda 3 facility in Kista, Stockholm. The deal includes an additional 30MW of power from Ellevio to support expansion, with Barings planning to add 25,000 sqm (269,100 sq ft) of d...

July 03, 2026

Sweden

300MW Data Center Campus Planned for Kent, UK

UK renewable energy developer Clearstone has proposed a 300MW data center campus in Kent. Planned for a 145-acre site near Dartford, the Ebbsfleet AI Data Centre Campus would comprise up to 180,000 sqm (1.9 million sq ft) of data center space across four buildings. The project has been designated...

July 03, 2026

United Kingdom

AWS reports record expansion in 2025, adding 1.2GW of data centre capacity in Q4 alone

Amazon Web Services (AWS) highlighted strong expansion in its latest sustainability report, saying it added more data centre capacity globally than any other company last year, including over 1.2GW in Q4 alone. Between October 2024 and October 2025, AWS added a total of 3.8GW. CEO Andy Jassy said...

July 02, 2026

Amazon AWS

NextDC Unveils 612MW S7 Data Centre, OpenAI Stargate Set to Be Customer

NextDC's proposed S7 data centre in Eastern Creek, Sydney, will provide up to 612MW of capacity, according to planning documents. The Australian developer submitted plans for the project in mid-March, several months after acquiring the 255,135 sqm site for AU$353 million (US$244m) in October 2024...

July 02, 2026

NEXTDC

Developer Withdraws Proposed Data Center Outside Calgary, Canada

A proposed data center outside Calgary, Canada, has been withdrawn by its developer. Kalina Distributed Power, a subsidiary of Australia’s Kalina Power, pulled its plan for the Lone Pine Energy Centre near Airdrie, which included a data center and 200MW gas-fired power plant. The company cited lo...

July 02, 2026

Canada

Kuok Group to Invest €5.3bn in Milan Data Campus

Malaysian conglomerate Kuok Group is considering investing up to €5.3 billion ($6bn) in a 300MW hyperscale data centre campus on the southern outskirts of Milan, according to Teleborsa. Italy's Industry Minister, Adolfo Urso, met with K2 Strategic CEO Meng Wei Kuok on 26 June to discuss the propo...

July 02, 2026

Malaysia

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