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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 Morrow County, Oregon, rezones Percheron data center land
Morrow County, Oregon, rezones Percheron data center land
September 12, 2023

Morrow County, Oregon, rezones Percheron data center land

Oregon

Land 11 miles southwest of Boardman in Oregon's Morrow County has been zoned from agricultural to industrial, and the board of commissioners has given authorization.  The change in zoning will permit the construction of data centers on the site. There are proposals to construct a 50MW solar fa...

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Read CyrusOne plans expansion in Frankfurt with seventh data center campus
CyrusOne plans expansion in Frankfurt with seventh data center campus
September 11, 2023

CyrusOne plans expansion in Frankfurt with seventh data center campus

CyrusOne Frankfurt FRA7

CyrusOne is set to develop another data center in Frankfurt, Germany. Named FRA7, this is the company’s seventh data center campus in Frankfurt. Construction is set to begin in the third quarter of 2024, with an expected delivery date of the second quarter of 2026. Based on a 63,000 sqm (678,1...

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Read SK ecoplant plans new 120MW data center campus
SK ecoplant plans new 120MW data center campus
September 11, 2023

SK ecoplant plans new 120MW data center campus

SK ecoplant: Pohang

SK ecoplant has shared plans for a new 120MW data center campus and landing station in Pohang, South Korea. This will reportedly be the first in Pohang City, and will see four data centers developed with a capacity of 30MW each, to be built by 2027.This comes following the signing of an invest...

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Read Virginia data center property rezoning divides Culpeper town council
Virginia data center property rezoning divides Culpeper town council
September 11, 2023

Virginia data center property rezoning divides Culpeper town council

Virginia

Culpeper Town Council is debating whether to rezon a land on East Chandler Street to create a six-building, 4.3 million-square-foot data center facility and substation in Culpeper County, Virginia. The 116-acre lot is zoned Residential-2 following 15 years of planning for a 490-home project. S...

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Read King George County, Virginia, authorizes land rezoning for AWS data facility
King George County, Virginia, authorizes land rezoning for AWS data facility
September 11, 2023

King George County, Virginia, authorizes land rezoning for AWS data facility

Amazon AWS

The King George County Board of Supervisors authorized Amazon Web Service's (AWS) 19-building data center campus's 869-acre rezone from agriculture to industrial use. Birchwood Power Partners applied for rezoning for AWS. AWS has received this first approval, but Birchwood's attorney, Charlie ...

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Read Sweden's nuclear-powered facility will power data centers
Sweden's nuclear-powered facility will power data centers
September 11, 2023

Sweden's nuclear-powered facility will power data centers

Sweden

Karnfull Next, a Swedish nuclear corporation, has announced plans for a campus of small modular reactors (SMRs) on the Swedish coast that will power data centers. The company intends to construct the facility in Nykoping, on the Swedish east coast, where the nuclear software company Studsvik c...

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Read EdgeConneX to build 200MW Cyberjaya facility in Malaysia
EdgeConneX to build 200MW Cyberjaya facility in Malaysia
September 11, 2023

EdgeConneX to build 200MW Cyberjaya facility in Malaysia

EdgeConneX

EdgeConneX continues to grow its APAC operations by adding three facilities in Malaysia, located in and around Kuala Lumpur. Business Today and Edge Malaysia report that EdgeConneX signed a sales and purchase contract with Cyberview earlier this month to acquire a 12.14-hectare tract of land i...

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Read Google proposes to build a data center in Kansas City
Google proposes to build a data center in Kansas City
September 11, 2023

Google proposes to build a data center in Kansas City

Google

Google has submitted two planning applications to Kansas City to develop its Northland at the Hunt Midwest Business Center site.  The cloud computing company acquired 78.9 acres in Northland, Kansas City, in 2019, followed by an additional 236.4 acres in December 2021, stating that the parcel ...

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Read Axiata's tower subsidiary Edotco completes the acquisition of PLDT towers
Axiata's tower subsidiary Edotco completes the acquisition of PLDT towers
September 11, 2023

Axiata's tower subsidiary Edotco completes the acquisition of PLDT towers

Philippines

Axiata Group is done with the transfer of the remaining towers from PLDT's subsidiaries to its Philippine subsidiary. Thus, the Malaysian company has finalized an agreement to acquire and lease back 2,710 sites. The company declared that the final transfer of the six sites under its agreement ...

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Read Vantage Data Centers EMEA receives $1.6 bn from AustralianSuper
Vantage Data Centers EMEA receives $1.6 bn from AustralianSuper
September 11, 2023

Vantage Data Centers EMEA receives $1.6 bn from AustralianSuper

Vantage Data Centers

AustralianSuper has made an investment in Vantage Data Centers' EMEA operations. Last week, the company announced it would invest $1.6 billion to acquire a "significant minority stake" in Vantage Data Centers Europe, Middle East, and Africa (Vantage EMEA), backed by DigitalBridge. The pension ...

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Read Manulife successfully acquires Serverfarm
Manulife successfully acquires Serverfarm
September 08, 2023

Manulife successfully acquires Serverfarm

ServerFarm Realty

Manulife Investment Management has concluded the acquisition of data center firm Serverfarm on behalf of Manulife Infrastructure Fund II. In May 2023, Manulife announced its intention to acquire a majority stake in Serverfarm. Avner Papouchado, the CEO of Serverfarm, and NantCapital LLC will r...

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Read CyrusOne proposes seventh data center in Frankfurt
CyrusOne proposes seventh data center in Frankfurt
September 08, 2023

CyrusOne proposes seventh data center in Frankfurt

CyrusOne

CyrusOne is required to construct a new data center in Frankfurt, Germany. Last week, the company unveiled plans for its seventh data center facility in Frankfurt, designated FRA7 and situated on a 678,125-square-foot plot in the Frankfurt Westside business park. The development will include t...

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Read V.tal intends to construct a 6MW data center in Porto Alegre, Brazil
V.tal intends to construct a 6MW data center in Porto Alegre, Brazil
September 08, 2023

V.tal intends to construct a 6MW data center in Porto Alegre, Brazil

Brazil / Brasil

V.tal, a Brazilian data center company, revealed plans for a new facility in Porto Alegre. The data center will accommodate 400 racks of servers in two data halls spanning 75,350 square feet. This year is anticipated to be the start of construction for an H2 2024 completion date. The company s...

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Read University of Minnesota permits $40 million data center property sale to Meta
University of Minnesota permits $40 million data center property sale to Meta
September 08, 2023

University of Minnesota permits $40 million data center property sale to Meta

Meta

The University of Minnesota (UoM) Board of Regents has authorized the $39.7 million land sale to Meta. The 280-acre tract of land in UMore Park has been sold to Jimnist LLC, a subsidiary of Meta, for a data center.The land that comprises UMore Park is located in Rosemount and is bordered by Co...

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Read Operations commence at TikTok's Irish data center
Operations commence at TikTok's Irish data center
September 07, 2023

Operations commence at TikTok's Irish data center

Republic of Ireland

Operations have begun at TikTok's long-planned data center in Ireland, it has announced. This is its first in Ireland. It is also working on opening two more data centers in Europe, a second in Ireland and another in Norway. This move is a bid to please regulators, and ease spying fears, as pa...

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Read Digital Realty to expand in Italy
Digital Realty to expand in Italy
September 07, 2023

Digital Realty to expand in Italy

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it's expanding into the Italian market with a new Tier IV-quality data center, named ROM1. This announcement comes following the acquisition and pre-development planning of land in Rome. The facility will sit on a 22-hectare site, with construction set to comm...

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Read V.tal expands datacenter footprint in southern Brazil
V.tal expands datacenter footprint in southern Brazil
September 07, 2023

V.tal expands datacenter footprint in southern Brazil

Brazil / Brasil

V.tal has shared that it is expanding its footprint in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Set to be the company’s first in the country’s south region and fifth overall, the development (dubbed V.OA) will see an investment of 250mn reais (US$50.7mn), as part of the company’s wider expansion plan in Brazil a...

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Read Digital Realty will construct a data center in Rome
Digital Realty will construct a data center in Rome
September 07, 2023

Digital Realty will construct a data center in Rome

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty plans to extend its operations into Italy and has already purchased land in Rome, the country's capital. Following the purchase of land in Rome and the subsequent pre-development planning for it, the company announced its entry into the Italian market last week.The ROM1 data cen...

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Read Construction starts on the county government data center in Maryland
Construction starts on the county government data center in Maryland
September 07, 2023

Construction starts on the county government data center in Maryland

Maryland

The Frederick County Government office building in Maryland, which includes a data center, is still under construction. The Prospect Center on Himes Avenue in Frederick will be converted as part of this undertaking. The county paid $20 million for the building in 2021, and it will house multip...

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Read Nvidia joins with Jio for 2,000MW AI data facilities, Tata for AI cloud in India
Nvidia joins with Jio for 2,000MW AI data facilities, Tata for AI cloud in India
September 07, 2023

Nvidia joins with Jio for 2,000MW AI data facilities, Tata for AI cloud in India

India / Bhārata

Nvidia has partnered with Reliance Industries and Tata Group, India's two largest firms by market cap. The two companies will construct internal and external AI supercomputers and cloud platforms using Nvidia hardware. With Reliance, Nvidia will construct AI infrastructure "over an order of ma...

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