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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 Fiserv Will Maintain its Data Center in Brookfield, Wisconsin
Fiserv Will Maintain its Data Center in Brookfield, Wisconsin
February 23, 2023

Fiserv Will Maintain its Data Center in Brookfield, Wisconsin

Fiserv (First Data)

Fintech and payments company Fiserv will maintain its data center in Brookfield, Wisconsin, following the relocation of its headquarters to downtown Milwaukee. As per BizJournal, the decision to maintain the data center and its personnel in Brookfield results from the "prohibitive expenses" of...

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Read Aphorio Carter Buys Fibertown Data Facility in Texas
Aphorio Carter Buys Fibertown Data Facility in Texas
February 23, 2023

Aphorio Carter Buys Fibertown Data Facility in Texas

Fibertown Bryan

Aphorio Carter, an infrastructure fund, has purchased a Bryan, Texas, data center that was leased to the colocation company Fibertown. The Fibertown Data Center at 110 N Main Street in Brazos County was purchased by the Aphorio Carter Fund Management Corporation, a critical infrastructure and ...

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Read MIST Underwater Cable is Deployed by NTT in Mumbai, India
MIST Underwater Cable is Deployed by NTT in Mumbai, India
February 23, 2023

MIST Underwater Cable is Deployed by NTT in Mumbai, India

NTT

On February 22nd, NTT Global Data Centers revealed that its MIST subsea cable had arrived in Mumbai, India. The Myanmar/Malaysia India Singapore Transit (MIST) cable system has a length of approximately 5000 miles. It links Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Myanmar, as well as Mumbai and Chen...

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Read PLDT is Again Considering The Sale of a Share in The ePLDT/Vitro Data Center Company
PLDT is Again Considering The Sale of a Share in The ePLDT/Vitro Data Center Company
February 23, 2023

PLDT is Again Considering The Sale of a Share in The ePLDT/Vitro Data Center Company

PLDT VITRO Taguig

PLDT is apparently considering selling a portion of its data center operations. Bloomberg reports, citing sources familiar with the situation, that the telecommunications company is once again considering the sale of a "substantial minority share" in its data center holdings. The company is en...

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Read Airtrunk data center development at Tokyo data center
Airtrunk data center development at Tokyo data center
February 22, 2023

Airtrunk data center development at Tokyo data center

AirTrunk Tokyo TOK2

AirTrunk has announced that it has broken ground on the second phase of its TOK2 data center located in Tokyo, Japan. This follows the groundbreaking of the first phase only three months ago. The company has outlined that the new phase is scalable to approximately 50MW of capacity and custom-...

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Read Northwestern Mutual Abandons Franklin, Wisconsin Facility And On-site Data Center
Northwestern Mutual Abandons Franklin, Wisconsin Facility And On-site Data Center
February 22, 2023

Northwestern Mutual Abandons Franklin, Wisconsin Facility And On-site Data Center

Wisconsin

Northwestern Mutual is abandoning its campus in Franklin, Wisconsin, on the outskirts of Milwaukee, as part of a $500 million effort to relocate to an office complex in downtown Milwaukee. Per the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, this is partially due to the fact that the corporation no longer need...

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Read Varanium Launches Kudal, Maharashtra Containerized Edge Data enter
Varanium Launches Kudal, Maharashtra Containerized Edge Data enter
February 22, 2023

Varanium Launches Kudal, Maharashtra Containerized Edge Data enter

India / Bhārata

Varanium Cloud, an Indian digital technology startup, has opened a new Edge data center in Maharashtra. This week, the company's Hydra Web Services unit opened a containerized data facility in the municipality of Kudal in the Sindhudurg region. Although no details were provided, photos impl...

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Read Equinix Shuts Paris PA1 Data Center, Inks Pre-lease With Icade For New Site
Equinix Shuts Paris PA1 Data Center, Inks Pre-lease With Icade For New Site
February 21, 2023

Equinix Shuts Paris PA1 Data Center, Inks Pre-lease With Icade For New Site

Equinix Paris PA1

Equinix has shut down a data center in Paris and inked a new pre-leasing agreement for new construction in the French city with French real estate firm Icade.In its Q4 2022 financial report issued last week, the colo company said PA1 had been shut down. The purpose-built facility at 167 Rue...

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Read Techtonic planning 16MW underground data center
Techtonic planning 16MW underground data center
February 21, 2023

Techtonic planning 16MW underground data center

Israel

Techtonic is investing hundreds of millions of NIS ($55m+) in an underground data center, referred to as Titan 4, in Bet Shemesh, 20km east of Jerusalem. The facility will have a capacity of 16MW facility and pegged span an area of 15,000 square meters (161,450 sq ft) across 10 data halls. It ...

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Read South Korea launches data center for AI research
South Korea launches data center for AI research
February 21, 2023

South Korea launches data center for AI research

South Korea

South Korea's science ministry recently announced the opening of a computing data center to conduct AI studies. The Research Data Center of AI Innovation Hub, in the Seoul campus of Korea University, is a computing lab with 35 petaFLOPS computers. It has been reported that this will permit up ...

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Read Lunar Digital Purchases Equinix's Manchester Facility
Lunar Digital Purchases Equinix's Manchester Facility
February 21, 2023

Lunar Digital Purchases Equinix's Manchester Facility

Equinix Manchester MA2

UK MSP Lunar Digital has acquired a Manchester data center owned by Equinix in the upcoming months. This week, Manchester-based Lunar Digital, a provider of managed cloud, data center, and cyber security solutions, revealed that it had bought Reynolds House, a leased Equinix building former...

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Read Allied Energy Corp signs with Enerhash USA for flare gas crypto mines
Allied Energy Corp signs with Enerhash USA for flare gas crypto mines
February 20, 2023

Allied Energy Corp signs with Enerhash USA for flare gas crypto mines

United States

Allied Energy has announced it has signed a definitive agreement with Enerhash USA and River Energy Group through which it will develop flare gas-powered crypto mines. According to the company, the first part of the project will be carried out at Allied's Thiel Well in Texas, which will be a b...

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Read Comcast issues $1 billion green bond
Comcast issues $1 billion green bond
February 20, 2023

Comcast issues $1 billion green bond

Comcast

Comcast has announced the issuance of a $1 billion 10-year green bond, proceeds from which will be allocated to five investment areas to drive the company’s clean energy infrastructure projects. The company has outlined that through this, it aims to encourage investors to support environmenta...

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Read AWS's announces Modular Data Center for Defense Department
AWS's announces Modular Data Center for Defense Department
February 20, 2023

AWS's announces Modular Data Center for Defense Department

Amazon AWS

AWS has announced AWS Modular Data Center (MDC) availability to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), meaning that the department will be able to more easily deploy modular data centers managed by AWS in infrastructure-limited locations. Through the MDCs, DoD customers will be provided with s...

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Read Amazon fuel cells at Oregon data centers would use natural gas
Amazon fuel cells at Oregon data centers would use natural gas
February 20, 2023

Amazon fuel cells at Oregon data centers would use natural gas

Amazon AWS

It has been revealed that in Oregon, Amazon is planning to power at least three of its Oregon data centers with natural gas fuel cells. That said, the number could be as high as seven. Amazon proposes the fuel cell technology it will use will oxidize the fossil fuel to generate electricity. Ho...

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Read Three Egyptian Data Center Campuses Are Being Planned by Gulf Data Hub & Elsewedy
Three Egyptian Data Center Campuses Are Being Planned by Gulf Data Hub & Elsewedy
February 20, 2023

Three Egyptian Data Center Campuses Are Being Planned by Gulf Data Hub & Elsewedy

Africa

Gulf Data Hub (GDH), a Middle Eastern data center company, intends to open additional campuses in Egypt. The company said this week that it had struck a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with engineering company Elsewedy Data Centers to build the biggest data center complex in Africa in Egy...

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Read Onix Data Facilities Extends Operations to Dakar, Senegal
Onix Data Facilities Extends Operations to Dakar, Senegal
February 20, 2023

Onix Data Facilities Extends Operations to Dakar, Senegal

Senegal

Onix, a data center company in West Africa, is growing into Senegal and providing colocation space in Dakar. This week, the corporation announced that the new data center is at the city's 2Africa Cable Landing Station (CLS). The Onix facility's specifications weren't disclosed. The corporation...

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Read A 185,000-square-foot Data Center is Being Planned by Digital Realty for Manassas, Virginia.
A 185,000-square-foot Data Center is Being Planned by Digital Realty for Manassas, Virginia.
February 20, 2023

A 185,000-square-foot Data Center is Being Planned by Digital Realty for Manassas, Virginia.

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Second Manassas LLC plans to build a 185,000-square-foot, one-story data center at 9905 Godwin Road in Manassas, as previously reported by Potomac Local News and InsideNoVa. The current Glen-Gary brickyard, which opened about 1964 and shut down in 2019, is being demolished for the faci...

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Read Construction Of a Data Center By CyrusOne Has Begun In Quincy, Washington
Construction Of a Data Center By CyrusOne Has Begun In Quincy, Washington
February 20, 2023

Construction Of a Data Center By CyrusOne Has Begun In Quincy, Washington

CyrusOne

CyrusOne is building a data center in Quincy, Washington. The corporation has a 45-acre block of land in the city of Washington State and has made it known that it intends to construct a campus there with built-to-suit buildings and a capacity of up to 96MW. The Columbia Basin Herald noted ...

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Read Data center impact study legislation defeated in Virginia
Data center impact study legislation defeated in Virginia
February 20, 2023

Data center impact study legislation defeated in Virginia

Northern Virginia

A piece of legislation that would have compelled the Virginia Department of Energy to study the impacts of data center development on the state’s environment, economy, energy resources and carbon-reduction goals has been defeated. A number of bills have been proposed by Del. Danica Roem, D-Pri...

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