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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

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New Jersey

Read 60MW Data Center Planned in Närpiö, Finland
A 60MW data center is being planned in western Finland by renewable energy firm Aurinkokarhu. Reported by local media including Yle and Vasabladet, the project would be located in Närpiö (Närpes), ...
June 23, 2026

60MW Data Center Planned in Närpiö, Finland

Finland

A 60MW data center is being planned in western Finland by renewable energy firm Aurinkokarhu. Reported by local media including Yle and Vasabladet, the project would be located in Närpiö (Närpes), in the Ostrobothnia region. The company has signed a preliminary agreement to acquire 18 hectares of...

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Read SpaceXAI to Resume Work on Memphis Data Center Wastewater Facility by Q1 2027
SpaceXAI plans to resume construction of its Memphis wastewater treatment facility by Q1 2027, nearly a year after the project stalled. The company has informed local officials that the $80 million...
June 23, 2026

SpaceXAI to Resume Work on Memphis Data Center Wastewater Facility by Q1 2027

Memphis

SpaceXAI plans to resume construction of its Memphis wastewater treatment facility by Q1 2027, nearly a year after the project stalled. The company has informed local officials that the $80 million plant will support its nearby data centers. First announced in February 2025, the facility describe...

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Read Amazon Employees Back Data Center Regulations, Allege Workplace Retaliation
Three Amazon employees have alleged that the company retaliated against them after they testified in support of a Seattle data center moratorium. According to reports, the employees—Darius Irani, P...
June 22, 2026

Amazon Employees Back Data Center Regulations, Allege Workplace Retaliation

Amazon AWS

Three Amazon employees have alleged that the company retaliated against them after they testified in support of a Seattle data center moratorium. According to reports, the employees—Darius Irani, Patrick Schloesser, and Liesl Wigand, all members of Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ)—were...

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Read Wyoming Approves Prometheus Hyperscale’s Gigawatt Data Center Campus
Prometheus Hyperscale has secured planning approval for its flagship Wyoming data center campus near Evanston. The Uinta County Board of Commissioners unanimously granted a conditional use permit f...
June 22, 2026

Wyoming Approves Prometheus Hyperscale’s Gigawatt Data Center Campus

Prometheus Hyperscale

Prometheus Hyperscale has secured planning approval for its flagship Wyoming data center campus near Evanston. The Uinta County Board of Commissioners unanimously granted a conditional use permit for the 506-acre site. The project is expected to deliver an initial 1.25GW capacity, with plans to e...

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Read Tesla Files Trademark Application for Modular Data Center Solution
Tesla appears poised to enter the containerized data center market, according to a new trademark filing. Reported by Electrek and others, the company has submitted an application with the U.S. Pate...
June 22, 2026

Tesla Files Trademark Application for Modular Data Center Solution

Tesla

Tesla appears poised to enter the containerized data center market, according to a new trademark filing. Reported by Electrek and others, the company has submitted an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a modular data center product called “Megapod,” described as a hardware ...

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Read Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Campus Planned for Kansas
A proposed gigawatt-scale data center campus in Kansas could cover up to 1,000 acres in Emporia’s Industrial Park IV. The Flint Hills Digital Campus plans to use a combination of dedicated grid inf...
June 22, 2026

Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Campus Planned for Kansas

Kansas

A proposed gigawatt-scale data center campus in Kansas could cover up to 1,000 acres in Emporia’s Industrial Park IV. The Flint Hills Digital Campus plans to use a combination of dedicated grid infrastructure and on-site power generation, though further details have yet to be released. A proposed...

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Read Top Data Center News for 15th - 20th of June, 2026
**[Data4 Unveils Plans for €5bn AI Data Center Project in Northern France](https://baxtel.com/news/data4-unveils-plans-for-5bn-700mw-ai-data-center-project-in-northern-france)** **Data4 has confir...
June 22, 2026

Top Data Center News for 15th - 20th of June, 2026

United States

Data4 Unveils Plans for €5bn AI Data Center Project in Northern France Data4 has confirmed plans for a 700MW data center campus in Escaudain, set to be the company's largest facility to date, to be developed on the site of the former Usinor steelworks in the Hauts-de-France region with an investm...

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Read Five Colorado Cities and Counties Pause or Ban New Data Centers in 2026
Colorado's Front Range spent the spring slamming the brakes on data centers. Denver, Jefferson County, Boulder County, Larimer County, and the city of Longmont have all moved to pause or ban new de...
June 21, 2026

Five Colorado Cities and Counties Pause or Ban New Data Centers in 2026

Colorado (CO)

Colorado's Front Range spent the spring slamming the brakes on data centers. Denver, Jefferson County, Boulder County, Larimer County, and the city of Longmont have all moved to pause or ban new development since May. Colorado Springs did the opposite. Its planning department quietly approved a r...

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Read Alibaba Cloud Opens Fifth Data Center in Japan
Alibaba Cloud has launched its fifth data center in Japan, further expanding its infrastructure footprint in the country. The new facility comes just months after the company added a fourth availab...
June 20, 2026

Alibaba Cloud Opens Fifth Data Center in Japan

Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud has launched its fifth data center in Japan, further expanding its infrastructure footprint in the country. The new facility comes just months after the company added a fourth availability zone to its Japan region in March 2026. Alibaba Cloud first established its Tokyo region in 20...

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Read Firmus Plans 288MW Data Campus in Tasmania
Australian AI cloud and data center company Firmus is expanding its presence in Tasmania, with plans for a campus in Bell Bay and a potential second site in Wesley Vale. A development application h...
June 20, 2026

Firmus Plans 288MW Data Campus in Tasmania

Firmus Technologies

Australian AI cloud and data center company Firmus is expanding its presence in Tasmania, with plans for a campus in Bell Bay and a potential second site in Wesley Vale. A development application has been lodged for the Bell Bay project, which the company describes as an “AI factory” to be built ...

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Read Aston Power Raises $20M to Expand Private Power Platform for Data Centers
US power delivery platform Aston Power has raised $20 million in a funding round led by TDK Ventures and JLL Spark Global Ventures to expand its presence in the data center sector. The company said...
June 19, 2026

Aston Power Raises $20M to Expand Private Power Platform for Data Centers

United States

US power delivery platform Aston Power has raised $20 million in a funding round led by TDK Ventures and JLL Spark Global Ventures to expand its presence in the data center sector. The company said it will use the funding to grow its operations across North America and accelerate deployment of it...

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Read Equinix Trials Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology at Data Center in Ireland
Equinix has launched its first trial of hydrogen fuel cell technology as a replacement for diesel backup generation at a data center in Ireland. Working with ESB and GeoPura, the company has deploy...
June 19, 2026

Equinix Trials Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology at Data Center in Ireland

Equinix

Equinix has launched its first trial of hydrogen fuel cell technology as a replacement for diesel backup generation at a data center in Ireland. Working with ESB and GeoPura, the company has deployed two hydrogen-powered generators at its DB3 Data Center facility. The 12-week trial will support c...

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Read Verne Breaks Ground on New Data Center in Mäntsälä, Finland
Verne has begun construction on a new data center in Finland, marking the first phase of development at its Mäntsälä campus. The company announced this week that work is underway on the initial 70M...
June 19, 2026

Verne Breaks Ground on New Data Center in Mäntsälä, Finland

Finland

Verne has begun construction on a new data center in Finland, marking the first phase of development at its Mäntsälä campus. The company announced this week that work is underway on the initial 70MW phase of its data center campus in the Kapuli area of Mäntsälä, further expanding its footprint in...

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Read Galaxy DC Secures $250 Million to Fund Data Center Platform Expansion
Singapore-based Galaxy DC has raised $250 million to fund its data center platform in an initial strategic financing round from a global investment institution. The company did not disclose the ide...
June 18, 2026

Galaxy DC Secures $250 Million to Fund Data Center Platform Expansion

Galaxy Data Center (GDC)

Singapore-based Galaxy DC has raised $250 million to fund its data center platform in an initial strategic financing round from a global investment institution. The company did not disclose the identity of the investor. Galaxy DC said the funding will support “GW-scale AI data center campuses acr...

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Read UK Government to Decide on Data Center Planned for Former Bedfordshire Quarry
UK government ministers will decide whether to approve plans for a data center campus at a former quarry in Bedfordshire after the project was designated a development of national significance. Rea...
June 18, 2026

UK Government to Decide on Data Center Planned for Former Bedfordshire Quarry

United Kingdom

UK government ministers will decide whether to approve plans for a data center campus at a former quarry in Bedfordshire after the project was designated a development of national significance. Real estate firm Questpit is proposing the Quest Park Data Center campus on a 143-acre site at Ampthill...

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Read Microsoft Begins Construction of La Porte Data Center Campus
Microsoft has broken ground on a new data center campus in La Porte, Indiana. Brad Smith, Microsoft vice chair and president, announced in a LinkedIn post that the groundbreaking ceremony took plac...
June 18, 2026

Microsoft Begins Construction of La Porte Data Center Campus

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has broken ground on a new data center campus in La Porte, Indiana. Brad Smith, Microsoft vice chair and president, announced in a LinkedIn post that the groundbreaking ceremony took place on June 17. Smith wrote: "Today we broke ground in La Porte, Indiana, alongside Mayor Tom Dermody,...

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Read Firstcolo Breaks Ground on New Data Center in Rosbach vor der Höhe, Germany
Firstcolo has started construction of FRA7, a 24MW data center in Rosbach vor der Höhe, near Frankfurt, Germany. The facility will span 11,555 sqm (124,360 sq ft) and support cloud, AI, and high-pe...
June 18, 2026

Firstcolo Breaks Ground on New Data Center in Rosbach vor der Höhe, Germany

FirstColo GmbH

Firstcolo has started construction of FRA7, a 24MW data center in Rosbach vor der Höhe, near Frankfurt, Germany. The facility will span 11,555 sqm (124,360 sq ft) and support cloud, AI, and high-performance computing workloads. The €250 million ($290 million) project is scheduled to open in early...

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Read Circe Energy Lands 2GW Gas Capacity Deal for Texas Data Center Development
Circe Energy has secured 2GW of natural gas generation capacity from Cummins to support its planned West Texas AI Infrastructure Campus. Located in the Permian Basin, the project is expected to lau...
June 17, 2026

Circe Energy Lands 2GW Gas Capacity Deal for Texas Data Center Development

Texas

Circe Energy has secured 2GW of natural gas generation capacity from Cummins to support its planned West Texas AI Infrastructure Campus. Located in the Permian Basin, the project is expected to launch with 150MW in 2027 and scale to 1.1GW by 2030, using behind-the-meter gas generation and microgr...

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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...
June 17, 2026

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

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 wo...

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Read Mayor of London Commits to Joint Effort on Data Center Growth Challenges
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has pledged "coordinated action" to address the challenges posed by rising data center demand across the capital, particularly growing pressure on power infrastructure. A re...
June 17, 2026

Mayor of London Commits to Joint Effort on Data Center Growth Challenges

London

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has pledged "coordinated action" to address the challenges posed by rising data center demand across the capital, particularly growing pressure on power infrastructure. A report commissioned by the Greater London Authority and prepared by Buro Happold found that while Lond...

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