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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 SpaceX to de-orbit Starlink satellites that could potentially cause failures
SpaceX to de-orbit Starlink satellites that could potentially cause failures
February 14, 2024

SpaceX to de-orbit Starlink satellites that could potentially cause failures

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

SpaceX has revealed plans to de-orbit about 100 of its early Starlink satellites after finding a “common error” that could potentially cause failures. In a recent update on the company site, it revealed plans to perform controlled descents of the early-version 1 Starlink satellites in the comi...

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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
February 14, 2024

Former Sungard data center is up for sale in New Jersey

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 proper...

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Read Diraq secures $15 million in a Series 2-A funding round
Diraq secures $15 million in a Series 2-A funding round
February 14, 2024

Diraq secures $15 million in a Series 2-A funding round

Sydney

Quantum computing startup Diraq has raised $15 million in a Series 2-A funding round led by specialist investor Quantonation, a venture capital fund dedicated to quantum technologies, with participation from Higgins Family Investments and the University of New South Wales, Sydney. This latest ...

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Read Yondr breaks ground on second building at Virignia campus
Yondr breaks ground on second building at Virignia campus
February 13, 2024

Yondr breaks ground on second building at Virignia campus

Yondr Group

Yondr this week announced it has broken ground on a second building at its 48MW building data center campus in Loudoun County, Virginia, in partnership with local real estate firm JK Land Holdings. "We're thrilled to be part of this phase two groundbreaking project that not only enhances globa...

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Read Amazon Web Services signs wind PPA in Oregon
Amazon Web Services signs wind PPA in Oregon
February 13, 2024

Amazon Web Services signs wind PPA in Oregon

Amazon AWS

Amazon has signed a new power purchase agreement to procure the output of a wind farm from Avangrid, Inc., part of the Iberdrola Group. Avangrid, Inc., part of the Iberdrola Group. “We are proud to have signed this agreement with Amazon, a company that shares our commitment to accelerating the...

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Read Google unveils first data center campus in Norway
Google unveils first data center campus in Norway
February 12, 2024

Google unveils first data center campus in Norway

Google

Google has broken ground on its first data center campus in Norway, with the project scheduled to be fully live by 2026.  “Now we are building a data center in Norway!,” Tine Austvoll Jensen, country director for Google Norway, announced on LinkedIn this week. “Today we have finally announced ...

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Read Digital 9 Infrastructure to sell off its assets
Digital 9 Infrastructure to sell off its assets
February 12, 2024

Digital 9 Infrastructure to sell off its assets

Digital 9 Infrastructure

UK infrastructure fund Digital 9 Infrastructure has revealed plans to wind down and sell off its assets following a strategic review which started late last year. The company mentioned that it intends to “immediately commence” sale preparations for the company's wholly-owned assets ahead of la...

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Read IHS Towers signs new deal with Airtel Nigeria
IHS Towers signs new deal with Airtel Nigeria
February 12, 2024

IHS Towers signs new deal with Airtel Nigeria

Nigeria

Tower company IHS Towers has announced that Airtel Nigeria has signed a deal to renew its contract in the country and has committed to take 3,950 tenancies over the next five years, with the majority expected over 2024/2025. Following the terms of the renewed agreement, Airtel is to extend the...

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Read Microsoft plans new data center in South Africa
Microsoft plans new data center in South Africa
February 10, 2024

Microsoft plans new data center in South Africa

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft, this week revealed plans to build a new data center campus in Centurion, South Africa. “Still in the early phases of development, Microsoft aims to build out its cloud infrastructure in new areas of South Africa to meet growing demand from public sector and private organizations for...

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Read Viasat to enter ViaSat-3 F1 satellite into service next quarter
Viasat to enter ViaSat-3 F1 satellite into service next quarter
February 10, 2024

Viasat to enter ViaSat-3 F1 satellite into service next quarter

Americas

Satellite operator Viasat is to enter its ViaSat-3 F1 satellite into service next quarter, despite the new machine offering far less bandwidth than planned after a deployment issue. The company plans to make ViaSat-3 F1 the first in a constellation of three geostationary Ka-band communications...

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Read Cloudflare extends server hardware lifespan to five years
Cloudflare extends server hardware lifespan to five years
February 10, 2024

Cloudflare extends server hardware lifespan to five years

United Kingdom

Cloudflare, during its Q4 2023 earnings call this week, revealed has become the latest company to extend the lifespan of its server hardware and will save millions of dollars by adding a year to the operational lifespan of its data center IT kit. “With the evolution of the composition of our i...

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Read Khazna unveils new data center in Abu Dhabi
Khazna unveils new data center in Abu Dhabi
February 10, 2024

Khazna unveils new data center in Abu Dhabi

Khazna

Khazna Data Centers this week announced the launch of AUH6, a new data center in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE). Hassan Alnaqbi, CEO of Khazna Data Centers, said: “AUH6 embodies Khazna's commitment to pushing boundaries of technological innovation and sustainability in data...

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Read Aqua Comms signs new agreement with Energy Sciences Network for fiber pair
Aqua Comms signs new agreement with Energy Sciences Network for fiber pair
February 09, 2024

Aqua Comms signs new agreement with Energy Sciences Network for fiber pair

New York State

Aqua Comms has entered an agreement with Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) that for 25 percent of a fiber pair between New York, Dublin, and London. This agreement will last for 15 years and will give ESnet a dedicated 5Tbps data pipe on its AEC-1 subsea cable to accommodate data traffic from th...

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Read GI Partners' managing director, John Sheputis, announces resignation
GI Partners' managing director, John Sheputis, announces resignation
February 09, 2024

GI Partners' managing director, John Sheputis, announces resignation

GI Partners

GI Partners' managing director, John Sheputis, who has been with the company for over four years, has now announced his resignation. According to his LinkedIn profile, he left the MD role in November 2023, carrying on as a senior advisor until the end of the year before finally departing. He i...

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Read Azora to launch new European Edge data center platform
Azora to launch new European Edge data center platform
February 09, 2024

Azora to launch new European Edge data center platform

Spain

Investment manager Azora in collaboration with Core Capital, this week launched a new European Edge data center platform called Quetta Data Centers. The investment firm plans to invest over €500 million in constructing six Edge data centers in Spain and Portugal totaling 60MW of capacity. Sant...

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Read Singapore-based startup receives $12.5 million in funding for electricity transformers
Singapore-based startup receives $12.5 million in funding for electricity transformers
February 09, 2024

Singapore-based startup receives $12.5 million in funding for electricity transformers

Singapore

Singapore-based startup Amperesand, which makes SSTs that could replace standard transformers in electricity distribution, has been given $12.5 million in funding to develop solid-state transformers (SSTs), which could make electricity grids more efficient and flexible. "We are thrilled to par...

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Read Kyndryl and Google Cloud partner for AI solution needs
Kyndryl and Google Cloud partner for AI solution needs
February 09, 2024

Kyndryl and Google Cloud partner for AI solution needs

Google

Kyndryl and Google Cloud, which have been working together since 2021, has agreed to an extended partnership which will see the digital infrastructure services provider offer its clients access to Google’s AI tools, including its Gemini large language models. Following this partnership, the co...

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Read Iris Energy and Poolside sign new partnership
Iris Energy and Poolside sign new partnership
February 08, 2024

Iris Energy and Poolside sign new partnership

Texas

Iris Energy and AI startup Poolside have gotten into an agreement to give the latter cloud access to Nvidia GPUs. According to Iris Energy, the initial contract is three months, with a potential three month extension. Daniel Roberts, co-Founder and co-CEO of Iris Energy, said: “We are pleased ...

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Read Equinix signs new PPA in Australia
Equinix signs new PPA in Australia
February 07, 2024

Equinix signs new PPA in Australia

Equinix

Global colocation giant Equinix recently announced that it has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for 151MW of wind power in Australia. The company will  pay for 20 percent of the first phase of the giant Golden Plains Wind Farm project, which is being built in rural Victoria, not far fro...

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Read Gcore launches new serverless Edge solution
Gcore launches new serverless Edge solution
February 07, 2024

Gcore launches new serverless Edge solution

Luxembourg

European cloud and CDN firm Gcore has launched a new serverless Edge solution called FastEdge. FastEdge is built upon Gcore's content delivery network (CDN), which distributes the custom code across more than 160 Edge nodes worldwide. Gcore notes that this serverless Edge solution was designed...

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