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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

New Jersey

Read Microsoft to deploy equivalent of five 561 petaflops Eagle supercomputers monthly
Microsoft to deploy equivalent of five 561 petaflops Eagle supercomputers monthly
May 18, 2024

Microsoft to deploy equivalent of five 561 petaflops Eagle supercomputers monthly

Microsoft Azure

Azure CTO Mark Russinovich recently claimed that Microsoft will be deploying the equivalent of five 561 petaflops Eagle supercomputers every single month.  That would represent the equivalent of 72,000 H100 GPUs every month, spread out across the company's growing data center footprint, and a ...

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Read Edgnex to build new data center in Indonesia
Edgnex to build new data center in Indonesia
May 17, 2024

Edgnex to build new data center in Indonesia

Indonesia

UAE data center firm Edgnex, a Damac-owned firm officially announced its investment into the Indonesian market at the Indonesia Cloud & Datacenter Convention this week.Hussain Sajwani, founder and chairman of Damac Group, said: "Edgenex identifies and invests in current and next-generation...

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Read Glass Lewis stands with Ted Miller against Crown Castle board
Glass Lewis stands with Ted Miller against Crown Castle board
May 17, 2024

Glass Lewis stands with Ted Miller against Crown Castle board

Crown Castle

Proxy firm Glass Lewis has publicly urged Crown Castle shareholders to vote for two activist director candidates, including the company's co-founder and former chief executive officer, Ted Miller, to the board, along with former CFO Charles Green. Furthermore, Glass Lewis also told shareholder...

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Read Virginia county recommends approval of applications to enable homeowners sell their lands for data center
Virginia county recommends approval of applications to enable homeowners sell their lands for data center
May 17, 2024

Virginia county recommends approval of applications to enable homeowners sell their lands for data center

Virginia

The Loudoun County Planning Commission in Virginia has recommended approving the Hiddenwood Assemblage application to allow homeowners in Arcola to sell their land for a data center project. The Planning Commission described it as a "no-win situation," with some homeowners wanting the zoning c...

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Read Digital Realty launches new cooling colocation offering
Digital Realty launches new cooling colocation offering
May 17, 2024

Digital Realty launches new cooling colocation offering

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty this week announced the launch of a direct liquid cooling (DLC) offering, available in 170 Digital Realty data centers globally. The company noted that the offering includes a range of mechanical solutions, such as rear door heat exchangers (RDHx) and DLC, offering power densiti...

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Read Alice & Bob makes quantum processor available on Google Cloud Marketplace
Alice & Bob makes quantum processor available on Google Cloud Marketplace
May 16, 2024

Alice & Bob makes quantum processor available on Google Cloud Marketplace

Google

Quantum computing firm Alice & Bob this week announced the immediate availability of its Boson 4 single cat-qubit chip series through the cloud via Google Marketplace. “When my co-founder and I started Alice & Bob, many thought cat qubits would never be more than a lab concept. We are ...

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Read UK joins European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking
UK joins European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking
May 16, 2024

UK joins European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has become a part of the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), allowing British researchers and scientists to apply for Horizon Europe-funded research and innovation calls relating to supercomputing. Following this agreement. he UK will also hav...

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Read BW digital & Telin partner up on a portion of Hawaiki Nui subsea system
BW digital & Telin partner up on a portion of Hawaiki Nui subsea system
May 16, 2024

BW digital & Telin partner up on a portion of Hawaiki Nui subsea system

Washington

BW Digital and PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia International (Telin) have signed a memorandum of understanding in Washington DC this week to team up on constructing the 10,000km Hawaiki Nui 1 cable, which will be part of the wider 26,000km system. The Hawaiki Nui 1 cable will link Australia, Indon...

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Read Intel selects Bloom Energy for additional fuel cells
Intel selects Bloom Energy for additional fuel cells
May 15, 2024

Intel selects Bloom Energy for additional fuel cells

Intel

Intel has selected Bloom Energy to expand the solid oxide fuel cell technology by installing additional megawatts of its fuel-cell-based Energy Server deployment at its Silicon Valley data center.“Intel is leading the industry in extreme energy-efficient high-performance computing data centers...

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Read Orange signs new 15-year PPA in France
Orange signs new 15-year PPA in France
May 15, 2024

Orange signs new 15-year PPA in France

Orange

Orange has signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement with  French solar & storage developer ZE Energy this week to procure solar power in France.The agreement is to offtake 90GWh annually produced by a new hybrid solar power plant being built in Landes. “Orange France is continuing its ren...

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Read Sinn Fein politician describes Ireland’s lack of national supercomputer as “embarassing”
Sinn Fein politician describes Ireland’s lack of national supercomputer as “embarassing”
May 14, 2024

Sinn Fein politician describes Ireland’s lack of national supercomputer as “embarassing”

United Kingdom

Louise O'Reilly, Teachta Dála (TD) and spokesperson for Enterprise, Trade, and Employment of the Sinn Féin political party has criticized the Irish government for failing to acquire a new supercomputer. "High performance computing (HPC) is at the core of the fifth industrial revolution and cen...

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Read Microsoft to invest $3.3 billion in Wisconsin AI data center
Microsoft to invest $3.3 billion in Wisconsin AI data center
May 14, 2024

Microsoft to invest $3.3 billion in Wisconsin AI data center

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft recently announced that it will be investing $3.3 billion in the AI data center it is building in Wisconsin to “expand its national cloud and AI infrastructure capacity.” The company will also be co-funding a new solar energy project which will generate 250MW of power.Microsoft noted...

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Read Zayo Group to split business into two independent entities
Zayo Group to split business into two independent entities
May 14, 2024

Zayo Group to split business into two independent entities

Europe

Zayo Group has announced plans to split its business into two independent entities, with one unit focusing on the company's European business and the other focusing on Zayo's business outside of its core European and North American markets.“The transition of our European business into an indep...

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Read New data center proposed outside Richmond, Virginia
New data center proposed outside Richmond, Virginia
May 13, 2024

New data center proposed outside Richmond, Virginia

Virginia

California-based Province Group has proposed to develop a $3 billion data center campus outside Richmond in Powhatan County, Virginia. According to Roxanne Salerno, economic development manager of Powhatan County, Province Group plans to invest $1.5bn in building the data centers, and the othe...

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Read UK’s fastest supercomputer now online
UK’s fastest supercomputer now online
May 13, 2024

UK’s fastest supercomputer now online

United Kingdom

The UK’s fastest supercomputer, Isambard-AI which  ranked 128 on the most recent edition of the Top500 list has come online. The £225 million ($273m) machine has also placed second on the Green500, a list that ranks supercomputers in terms of energy efficiency, with a rating of 68.8 gigaflops ...

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Read Tishman enters data center market with plans for Frankfurt facility
Tishman enters data center market with plans for Frankfurt facility
May 13, 2024

Tishman enters data center market with plans for Frankfurt facility

Germany / Deutschland

US real estate firm Tishman Speyer is entering the data center market with plans for a campus in Frankfurt, Germany and has acquired a 75,000 sqm site in the Osthafen area of Frankfurt am Main in order to develop a data center. The property, located close to a number of Digital Realty faciliti...

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Read Mitre Corporation to deploy Nvidia supercomputer for government
Mitre Corporation to deploy Nvidia supercomputer for government
May 13, 2024

Mitre Corporation to deploy Nvidia supercomputer for government

United States

The Mitre Corporation is to deploy a GPU supercomputer, the new DGX SuperPod system from Nvidia for government use to support the company’s Federal AI Sandbox, a platform to improve experimentation with AI-enabled applications across federal government agencies.“Mitre’s purchase of a DGX Super...

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Read O2 Telefonica and Nokia selects AWS to host 5G standalone network
O2 Telefonica and Nokia selects AWS to host 5G standalone network
May 13, 2024

O2 Telefonica and Nokia selects AWS to host 5G standalone network

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been selected to host O2 Telefónica Germany's 5G Standalone (5G SA) network as the telco confirmed that it has launched its 5G Cloud Core, built entirely in the cloud, using technology from vendors Nokia and AWS.“We are building our network of the future. With the...

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Read Te Tumu Paeroa selected as anchor tenant in Microsoft’s planned New Zealand region
Te Tumu Paeroa selected as anchor tenant in Microsoft’s planned New Zealand region
May 11, 2024

Te Tumu Paeroa selected as anchor tenant in Microsoft’s planned New Zealand region

Microsoft Azure

Te Tumu Paeroa, the office of the Maori Trustee, has signed an agreement to become the anchor tenant of Microsoft's upcoming New Zealand cloud region. The agreement with Microsoft and associated cloud migration is hoped to help landowners recover from major weather events more quickly, support...

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Read Georgia governor vetoes bill to pause data center tax breaks after it had passed both houses
Georgia governor vetoes bill to pause data center tax breaks after it had passed both houses
May 11, 2024

Georgia governor vetoes bill to pause data center tax breaks after it had passed both houses

Georgia

Gov. Brian Kemp this week decided to veto HB 1192, a bill that would pause tax breaks for data centers in Georgia after it had passed both houses.In a statement explaining the veto, Governor Kemp said the state extended data center exemptions to 2031 just two years ago, with projects starting ...

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