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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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Read Greenpeace: Supply chains found to be holding big tech back from achieving sustainability goals
Greenpeace: Supply chains found to be holding big tech back from achieving sustainability goals
November 09, 2022

Greenpeace: Supply chains found to be holding big tech back from achieving sustainability goals

Apple

Tech giants like Apple have made big pledges when it comes to going green and introducing net-zero and water-positive targets. However, when it comes to their wider supply chains, it turns out they're not so green. According to a recent report from Greenpeace, on average, 77% of technology man...

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Read Stack to develop new data center campus in Phoenix, Arizona
Stack to develop new data center campus in Phoenix, Arizona
November 08, 2022

Stack to develop new data center campus in Phoenix, Arizona

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack has announced that it’s developing a new 230 MW data center campus in Phoenix, Arizona, featuring five buildings on a 50-acre site. This site, which will span 1.7 million square feet (157,935 sqm), is the company’s second in the state and will run on 100% renewable energy, built with a ...

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Read Raxio breaks ground on facility in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Raxio breaks ground on facility in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
November 08, 2022

Raxio breaks ground on facility in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Raxio Group

The Raxio Group has announced that it has commenced work on its fifth data center in Côte d'Ivoire. This is reportedly the country's first Tier III-standard carrier-neutral colocation data center.The company held a ground-breaking ceremony at the site, located at the Village of Innovation and...

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Read Reef Group plans 600MW data center outside London
Reef Group plans 600MW data center outside London
November 08, 2022

Reef Group plans 600MW data center outside London

London

According to Havering Council, it is negotiating with a private sector developer, Digital Reef, to build a huge data center campus in the eastern London Borough of Havering. The London Data Freeport project would reportedly be 'Europe's largest data center' sitting on a site of 175 hectares. C...

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Read ESR Already Developing its 19.2MW OS1data center in Osaka, Japan
November 08, 2022

ESR Already Developing its 19.2MW OS1data center in Osaka, Japan

Osaka

Asia’s ESR Group has started work on its 19.2MW facility in Osaka, Japan. The real estate company revealed that the Cosmosquare OS1 data center would be phase 1 of its three-phase facility at Nanko Kita. The company plans to develop a total of 96MW on the site. OS1 is scheduled to be comple...

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Read Prince William board votes to approve PW Digital Gateway
Prince William board votes to approve PW Digital Gateway
November 07, 2022

Prince William board votes to approve PW Digital Gateway

Northern Virginia

After months of protests and deliberation, the Prince William County Board of Supervisors voted to approve a change to the county's comprehensive plan to allow a controversial data center development on the Digital Gateway lands. This vote of 5-2 permits 27 million square feet of data center s...

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Read Google signs new PPA with SB Energy
Google signs new PPA with SB Energy
November 07, 2022

Google signs new PPA with SB Energy

Google

This week, Google signed a 942 MW power purchase agreement (PPA) with SB Energy to procure solar energy in Texas. The giant is set to purchase 75% of the renewable energy produced by four of the solar projects under development; the Orion 1-3 and Eiffel solar projects total 1.2GW and are proje...

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Read In a water reduction effort, Meta increases server room temperatures to 90 degrees F
In a water reduction effort, Meta increases server room temperatures to 90 degrees F
November 07, 2022

In a water reduction effort, Meta increases server room temperatures to 90 degrees F

Meta

Meta (formerly Facebook) has announced that in an effort reduce its water consumption to become water-positive,  it has increased its server rooms' temperature by five degrees to 90°F (32.2°C). This was first announced at the 7×24 Exchange Fall Conference, and first implemented at one data cen...

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Read Vodafone NZ Sells Towers For $1 Billion
Vodafone NZ Sells Towers For $1 Billion
November 07, 2022

Vodafone NZ Sells Towers For $1 Billion

Vodafone

Vodafone NZ has sold off its tower infrastructure business. The deal is reportedly worth NZ $1.7bn ($1bn). One of the owners of Vodafone NZ- Infratil said the conditions for the transaction has been met and the sale was completed in the first week of November. Co-investors in Vodafone NZ- Infr...

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Read Lumen To Sell its EMEA Operation to Colt For $1.8 Billion
Lumen To Sell its EMEA Operation to Colt For $1.8 Billion
November 07, 2022

Lumen To Sell its EMEA Operation to Colt For $1.8 Billion

Lumen Technologies

Lumen has announced that it will sell its Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) operations to Colt in a $1.8 billion deal. The deal will see Lumen divest its EMEA business, including its data centers, terrestrial and subsea networks, and network equipment in the EMEA region, to Colt. The deal...

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Read Vantage Data Centers Opens Three New Facilities in Germany
Vantage Data Centers Opens Three New Facilities in Germany
November 04, 2022

Vantage Data Centers Opens Three New Facilities in Germany

Vantage Berlin BER1

Vantage Data Centers has opened three new facilities in Germany. The data center company announced the launch of these facilities in Frankfurt and Berlin. The new data centers see the company’s data center footprint in Germany rise by 72MW and 68,750 square meters (740,000 square feet). Van...

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Read Iron Mountain Completes Acquisition of XData in Spain, Gets One Data Center in Madrid
Iron Mountain Completes Acquisition of XData in Spain, Gets One Data Center in Madrid
November 04, 2022

Iron Mountain Completes Acquisition of XData in Spain, Gets One Data Center in Madrid

Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain has announced the acquisition of XData Properties of Spain. The acquisition sees the company take over a data center in Madrid, Spain. Iron Mountain also acquired land in Phoenix, Arizona, and Mumbai, India in a separate acquisition . XData was developing the large data center be...

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Read Slough Council To Sell For Paint Factory To Data Center Developer
November 04, 2022

Slough Council To Sell For Paint Factory To Data Center Developer

London: Slough

Slough Council has agreed to turn a former paint factory zoned for residential development into a data center. The Council decided to sell the site to an unnamed data center developer. Per council documents, the Slough Council acquired the site in February 2021 from Panattoni for £38.5 million...

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Read KKR The Favorite To Acquire Vodafone's Tower Unit
KKR The Favorite To Acquire Vodafone's Tower Unit
November 04, 2022

KKR The Favorite To Acquire Vodafone's Tower Unit

Vodafone

According to Bloomberg, Investment company KKR is the frontrunner in the race to acquire Vodafone’s tower arm unit, Vantage Towers. The unit is worth a stunning $14 billion. KKR is competing with Cellnex Telecom for the acquisition. Vodafone is trying to sell off its 82% stake in the business ...

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Read Colovore To Develop a 9MW Liquid-Cooled Data center in Santa Clara
Colovore To Develop a 9MW Liquid-Cooled Data center in Santa Clara
November 04, 2022

Colovore To Develop a 9MW Liquid-Cooled Data center in Santa Clara

Colovore

Colovore has announced its plans to build a new data center in Santa Clara, California. The US data center company revealed that it would be developing its second facility in the city at 3060 Raymond Street. The data center is located adjacent to its existing facility at 1101 Space Park Dri...

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Read Teraco completes new data center in Johannesburg, South Africa
Teraco completes new data center in Johannesburg, South Africa
November 03, 2022

Teraco completes new data center in Johannesburg, South Africa

Teraco JB4

Teraco, recently acquired by Digital Realty, has announced the completion of the first phase of its JB4 hyperscale data center addition to the Bredell Campus in the Ekurhuleni area in east Johannesburg, South Africa.Comprising 30,000 sqm of building structure, 8,000 sqm of data hall space acr...

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Read Hrvatski Telekom signs wind PPA with Liburana
Hrvatski Telekom signs wind PPA with Liburana
November 03, 2022

Hrvatski Telekom signs wind PPA with Liburana

Croatia

Hrvatski Telekom has announced a ten-year virtual Power Purchase Agreement with Liburana doo. This vPPA, the first of its kind in Croatia, will see the construction of the 'Mazin Gračac' wind farm, which is forecast to produce 50 GWh per year.Speaking about the deal, Kostas Nebis, President of...

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Read Data Center Development Coming To Nanaimo, Canada After Officials Granted Rezoning Request
November 02, 2022

Data Center Development Coming To Nanaimo, Canada After Officials Granted Rezoning Request

Canada

Officials of Nanaimo city in British Columbia, Canada, have granted permission to rezone 2.3 hectares to give way for data center development. The land in question is located at 2086 and 2090 East Wellington Road. The rural area, which is primarily undeveloped, features two residential houses ...

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Read Prime DC commences work on Santa Clara site
Prime DC commences work on Santa Clara site
November 02, 2022

Prime DC commences work on Santa Clara site

Prime Santa Clara (Martin)

Prime Data Centers has begun work on its Santa Clara data center in California. Located at 2175 Martin Ave, the three-story facility is on a 1.6-acre plot and is designed as a turnkey build-to-suit facility offering 80,000 square feet (7,430 sqm) of purpose-built data center space and 9MW with...

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Read Thor Acquires Coca-Cola Bottling Plant in Madrid For 100MW Data Center Development
November 02, 2022

Thor Acquires Coca-Cola Bottling Plant in Madrid For 100MW Data Center Development

Madrid

Thor Equities has announced the acquisition of a former Coca-Cola bottling plant in Madrid, Spain. The site is planned for a data center campus development. Swiss real estate investment company Stoneweg completed the sale on behalf of the Icona Capital Group to Thor. None of the companies reve...

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