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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

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Read Intel partners with Vertiv to develop two-phase liquid cooling in Gaudi3 AI accelerator
Intel partners with Vertiv to develop two-phase liquid cooling in Gaudi3 AI accelerator
December 01, 2023

Intel partners with Vertiv to develop two-phase liquid cooling in Gaudi3 AI accelerator

Intel

Intel's new Gaudi3 AI accelerator is set to have two-phase liquid cooling developed in partnership with Vertiv. The systems will have a pumped two-phase (P2P) cooling system designed to remove up to 160kW of heat, using water from 17°C up to 45°C (62.6°F to 113°F). An alternative for air-coole...

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Read DigitalBridge closes its digital infrastructure after raising $1.1billion
DigitalBridge closes its digital infrastructure after raising $1.1billion
December 01, 2023

DigitalBridge closes its digital infrastructure after raising $1.1billion

DigitalBridge

DigitalBridge has closed its digital infrastructure credit fund, DigitalBridge Credit (DBC), after raising $1.1 billion. This fund will be used to support the growth of companies within the digital infrastructure sector. Investors, including pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign wealth...

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Read Meta unveils new Illinois data center
Meta unveils new Illinois data center
November 30, 2023

Meta unveils new Illinois data center

Illinois

Meta has finally launched its 2.3 million square feet DeKalb, Illinois, data center three years after construction began. According to the company, this construction took over $1 billion to complete and required 1,200 skilled workers. This site is expected to provide over 200 operational jobs ...

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Read Telefónica to cut jobs in Spain
Telefónica to cut jobs in Spain
November 30, 2023

Telefónica to cut jobs in Spain

Telefonica

Telefónica has revealed to the labor union representatives that it plans to cut jobs in Spain, according to the UGT union. The company did not specify how many jobs it intends to cut. However, the Spanish newspaper Cinco Dias reports that there could be as many as 3,000 jobs. The company is cu...

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Read Broadcom reduces VMware workforce by over 1200
Broadcom reduces VMware workforce by over 1200
November 30, 2023

Broadcom reduces VMware workforce by over 1200

California

Broadcom recently disclosed 1,267 layoffs for VMware employees at the Palo Alto, California, headquarters only a day after the layoff plans were announced. This also comes one week after Broadcom completed its acquisition of VMware.  A  letter from Jill Turner, Broadcom's vice president of hum...

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Read Climate groups to launch new Virginia data center pressure group on Friday
Climate groups to launch new Virginia data center pressure group on Friday
November 29, 2023

Climate groups to launch new Virginia data center pressure group on Friday

Virginia

A group of 20 environmental and climate groups will launch a coalition this week to rein in the data center industry across the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Virginia Data Center Reform Coalition will call for limits to data center development at a press conference on Friday, December 1. The C...

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Read Ohio firefighters killed in a tower maintenance accident
Ohio firefighters killed in a tower maintenance accident
November 29, 2023

Ohio firefighters killed in a tower maintenance accident

Ohio

Concord-Green fire chief Ralph Stegbauer and fire captain Jeffery Skaggs have both passed away while carrying out tower maintenance outside their firehouse in Ohio. Both firefighters were working on the Fayette County, Ohio tower when the mechanical lift they were in overturned. This accident ...

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Read DataBank raises capital for new data centers
DataBank raises capital for new data centers
November 29, 2023

DataBank raises capital for new data centers

DataBank

DataBank has raised $533 million of capital to build new data centers through debt and equity. This brings the total funds raised by the company this year to $1.6 billion, with  $715 million of secured notes issued in February and a $350 million credit facility announced later in March. DataBa...

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Read Musk to provide Israel with Starlink acces upon approval from Israel
Musk to provide Israel with Starlink acces upon approval from Israel
November 29, 2023

Musk to provide Israel with Starlink acces upon approval from Israel

Israel

Last month, Elon Musk mentioned that he would look into providing Gaza with its Starlink service to  "support connectivity to internationally recognized aid organizations in Gaza." In recent developments, Israel has responded to Musk saying Starlink's satellite network will only be allowed to ...

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Read Amazon and Nvidia to build the world’s largest cloud AI supercomputer
Amazon and Nvidia to build the world’s largest cloud AI supercomputer
November 29, 2023

Amazon and Nvidia to build the world’s largest cloud AI supercomputer

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services has revealed that it is in partnership with GPU-maker Nvidia to launch the Project Ceiba supercomputer. This supercomputer is expected to be the world’s largest cloud AI supercomputer, featuring  16,384 GH200 NVL32 Grace Hopper Superchips. The system will also feature the A...

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Read Ericson partners with Ooredo to provide 4G network of oil companies
Ericson partners with Ooredo to provide 4G network of oil companies
November 29, 2023

Ericson partners with Ooredo to provide 4G network of oil companies

Africa

Ericsson recently announced that it is working with Qatari mobile operator Ooredoo to provide its customers in the oil and gas sector with rugged 4G network connectivity. The network will be deployed offshore to connect the oil and gas customer’s facilities with arriving ships. Kevin Murphy, V...

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Read Google’s Nevada facility to be powered by geothermal power
Google’s Nevada facility to be powered by geothermal power
November 29, 2023

Google’s Nevada facility to be powered by geothermal power

Google

Google recently announced that its data centers in Nevada will be powered by a new geothermal power plant. This project, originally announced by Google and Fervo in 2021, is a  5MW project that will use Google AI systems to help with its operations. Michael Terrell, senior director of energy a...

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Read Ardian purchases data center company Verne Global
Ardian purchases data center company Verne Global
November 28, 2023

Ardian purchases data center company Verne Global

Verne Global

French private equity firm Ardian just purchased data center company Verne Global from Digital 9 Infrastructure. D9 bought Verne for $320 million in 2021 and has since then acquired and merged Finnish data center firm Ficolo and London’s Volta Data Centres into the Verne brand. However, D9 had...

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Read OpenAI hires Todd Underwood to head new SRE team
OpenAI hires Todd Underwood to head new SRE team
November 28, 2023

OpenAI hires Todd Underwood to head new SRE team

Google

OpenAI has hired Google’s Todd Underwood to head a new Site Reliability Engineering team focused on research and training workloads as it already has a functional team for the applied side working on inference and API products. The SRE concept originally started at Google, but has since spread...

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Read European Commission reveals plans to upgrade power grids
European Commission reveals plans to upgrade power grids
November 27, 2023

European Commission reveals plans to upgrade power grids

Europe

The European Commission is currently drafting a plan to invest about €584 billion to upgrade the region's power grids. With this investment, countries will be able to handle varied renewable energy loads, modernize transmission, and improve cyber security. The draft document posted by Reuters ...

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Read EcoDataCeter to double capacity of Swedish data center
EcoDataCeter to double capacity of Swedish data center
November 27, 2023

EcoDataCeter to double capacity of Swedish data center

EcoDataCenter (EcoDC AB)

EcoDataCenter has revealed plans to expand its main data center and more than double its current capacity. The first phase of the EcoDataCenter 1 expansion is expected to be completed by the third quarter of 2024, and the full build out by second quarter of 2025. The expansion will bring the t...

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Read OpenAI hires Google’s Richard Ho to head new hardware department
OpenAI hires Google’s Richard Ho to head new hardware department
November 27, 2023

OpenAI hires Google’s Richard Ho to head new hardware department

Google

OpenAI has hired Google’s Richard Ho as the head of hardware to lead the new division to help “influence roadmaps for hardware partners for data center networks, racks, and buildings.” Ho had spent about 9 years at Google, leading one of the company’s Cloud Tensor Processing Units projects, wi...

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Read Nexspace unveils new data center facility in Heidelberg, Germany
Nexspace unveils new data center facility in Heidelberg, Germany
November 25, 2023

Nexspace unveils new data center facility in Heidelberg, Germany

nexspace: Heidelberg

New colocation operator Nexspace recently unveiled its first facility in the Heidelberg Innovation Park (HIP) in Germany this month. The three-story site offers 2MW of IT load across 4,000 square meters, which is reportedly expandable to 8,000 square meters in the future.  Germany’s Data C...

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Read Rest Super invests in Quinbrook data center
Rest Super invests in Quinbrook data center
November 25, 2023

Rest Super invests in Quinbrook data center

Australia

Australian superannuation fund Rest Super announced this week that it is investing  $656 million in a data center and battery storage project from Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners in Brisbane. This investment will expose it to several assets, including solar and battery projects, green data s...

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Read Gigas to expand footprint in Lisbon
Gigas to expand footprint in Lisbon
November 25, 2023

Gigas to expand footprint in Lisbon

Spain

Spanish cloud company Gigas has planned to invest €3 million this year in its Oni data center in Lisbon, Portugal. The company purchased Portuguese telco Oni from MásMóvil in November 2020 for €40 million and plans to double the number of data rooms the 2,000 square meters site offers to ten, ...

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