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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 US Department of Energy's data center cooling fund
US Department of Energy's data center cooling fund
October 05, 2022

US Department of Energy's data center cooling fund

United States

The US Department of Energy has announced a $42million funding package to develop high-performance energy efficient cooling solutions for data centers. This announcement comes following record high temperatures across the US, and multiple reports that the industry is seriously lagging when it ...

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Read BT to obtain renewable energy from new wind project
BT to obtain renewable energy from new wind project
October 05, 2022

BT to obtain renewable energy from new wind project

BT Global Services

BT Group has announced that it has signed a Virtual Power Purchase Agreement (VPPA) with BayWa r.e. AG, a German renewable energy company, to procure energy from the Dalquhandy onshore wind farm in South Lanarkshire, Scotland.The wind farm, a ten turbine project, is currently being worked on ...

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Read Telehouse begins work on its Paris data center
Telehouse begins work on its Paris data center
October 05, 2022

Telehouse begins work on its Paris data center

Telehouse

Telehouse has announced that it has begun work on its new data center at its TH3 Paris Magny campus in France. The second on the site, the data center, is located on a former EADS military site and will provide 12,000 sqm (129,150 sq ft) of IT floor space and 18MW of capacity across five buil...

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Read CoreSite Acquires Hurricane Resistant Data Center in Miami, Florida
CoreSite Acquires Hurricane Resistant Data Center in Miami, Florida
October 05, 2022

CoreSite Acquires Hurricane Resistant Data Center in Miami, Florida

CoreSite

CoreSite has announced the acquisition of a data center in Miami, Florida. The data center acquired is a purpose-built 9,550 square meter (103,000 square feet) facility located at 2100 NW 84th Avenue. The company didn’t reveal the terms of the transaction. CoreSite is naming the new data ce...

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Read Keppel Corp Announces Acquisition of a Facility in Malaysia Owned By its Subsidiaries
Keppel Corp Announces Acquisition of a Facility in Malaysia Owned By its Subsidiaries
October 05, 2022

Keppel Corp Announces Acquisition of a Facility in Malaysia Owned By its Subsidiaries

Keppel Data Center REIT

Keppel Corporation has announced that it has absorbed one of its subsidiaries. The move will also see Keppel take ownership of one of the company’s data centers. Keppel acquired Juventas DC PTE ltd (JPL) for $25.4m from Causeway DC Pte Ltd. (CDCPL). JPL has now become Keppel Corp’s wholly-o...

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Read Australia’s iseek Acquires YourDC
Australia’s iseek Acquires YourDC
October 05, 2022

Australia’s iseek Acquires YourDC

iseek Communications

According to reports, iSeek has acquired YourDC. The Australian data center firm acquired the data center operator for a fee in the AU$50 to100 million (US$32-64m) region. The acquisition sees iSeek’s data center presence rise to seven across four cities. The CEO and founder of YourDC, Scot...

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Read Stack installs beehives at data center campus in Milan
Stack installs beehives at data center campus in Milan
October 04, 2022

Stack installs beehives at data center campus in Milan

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

In a bid to help the drastically declining bee population and push forward its ESG commitments, Stack has announced that it has deployed three beehives at its Milan campus in Italy. In its announcement on LinkedIn, the company outlined that while honeybees are responsible for 80% of the world'...

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Read Google announces location of its Berlin cloud region
Google announces location of its Berlin cloud region
October 04, 2022

Google announces location of its Berlin cloud region

Google

Google is reportedly close to buying a 30-hectare plot for its upcoming Berlin Google Cloud region in Germany having already signed corresponding preliminary contracts. According to reports by Maerkische Allgemeine, the site that it has chosen is in the Schenkendorf area of Mittenwalde, speci...

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Read International Finance Corporation invests $30 million in WIOCC
October 04, 2022

International Finance Corporation invests $30 million in WIOCC

Africa

International Finance Corporation (IFC) has announced that it has invested $30m in Western Indian Cable Company Holding Ltd. IFC is affiliated with the World Bank. The organization says the fund will help support WIOCC's continued rollout of new subsea cables, terrestrial fiber-optic networks,...

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Read Meta continues its expansion in Eagle Mountain, Utah
Meta continues its expansion in Eagle Mountain, Utah
October 04, 2022

Meta continues its expansion in Eagle Mountain, Utah

Meta

Social media giant Meta has announced that it is expanding its footprint in Eagle Mountain, Utah, with the expansion of its data center campus. The company made this announcement of the new additions on Facebook, where it said the campus grow by 2 million square feet. Meta's Eagl...

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Read Raxio Breaks Ground on MZ1 Facility in Maputo, Mozambique
Raxio Breaks Ground on MZ1 Facility in Maputo, Mozambique
October 04, 2022

Raxio Breaks Ground on MZ1 Facility in Maputo, Mozambique

Raxio Group

Raxio Group has announced that construction has started at its Raxio MZ1 data center in Maputo, Mozambique. The facility will be Mozambique’s first carrier-neutral, privately owned data center. Raxio MZ1 is rated Tier III, and it has the capacity for 250 racks. The data center is scheduled ...

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Read South Dublin County Council (SDCC) to comply with government scrapping ban on new data centers
South Dublin County Council (SDCC) to comply with government scrapping ban on new data centers
October 03, 2022

South Dublin County Council (SDCC) to comply with government scrapping ban on new data centers

Dublin

After much back and forth, South Dublin County Council (SDCC) is now complying with the government's order to scrap plans to ban data centers in the area, despite serious concerns about the environmental impact of additional facilities and the extra pressure the would place on the grid. This c...

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Read Chayora finishes up work on the first data center on its new Shanghai Campus
Chayora finishes up work on the first data center on its new Shanghai Campus
October 03, 2022

Chayora finishes up work on the first data center on its new Shanghai Campus

Shanghai

Chayora, a Hong Kong-based data center operator, has announced that it has completed the construction of its first data center on its new Shanghai campus in China. The company first announced the campus back in November 2021, and in partnership with EdgeConneX, Edge will offer computing servic...

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Read Dominion Energy announces update about resuming connection in Loudoun County
Dominion Energy announces update about resuming connection in Loudoun County
October 03, 2022

Dominion Energy announces update about resuming connection in Loudoun County

Northern Virginia

Dominion Energy has announced that some new data centers in Loudoun County, home to the world's largest concentration of data centers, will be reconnected, following concerns that transmission infrastructure restraints would halt new additions. Back in July, the energy utility had said that ne...

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Read Arsenal Digital Holdings Acquires Data Center in Texas
Arsenal Digital Holdings Acquires Data Center in Texas
October 03, 2022

Arsenal Digital Holdings Acquires Data Center in Texas

Texas

Arsenal Digital Holdings has announced that it has an agreement in place to acquire a data center campus in Texas. The crypto mining holding firm didn’t reveal the terms of the deal nor the location of the site. However, it noted that the property sits on a 50-acre site. It also said the prope...

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Read Open Access Data Centres To Open Three New Edge Facilities in South Africa
October 03, 2022

Open Access Data Centres To Open Three New Edge Facilities in South Africa

South Africa

Open Access Data Centres (OADC) has announced its plan to launch three new Edge facilities in South Africa. The CEO of OADC, Dr. Ayotunde Coker, revealed in a statement that the company is further expanding its Edge data centers to more business hubs in the country to meet the demands of ISPs,...

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Read icolo.io Opens Second Data Center in Mombasa
October 03, 2022

icolo.io Opens Second Data Center in Mombasa

Kenya

Kenyan data center firm icolo.io has announced the completion and opening of its new facility in Mombasa, Kenya. The company posted on LinkedIn that the iColo MBA-2Nyali facility is open for business. The data center has 1.7MW of power and has 13,000 square feet (1,200 square meters) of floor ...

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Read Metro Edge Development Partners To Develop 21MW Facility in Chicago
October 03, 2022

Metro Edge Development Partners To Develop 21MW Facility in Chicago

Chicago

Metro Edge Development Partners has announced its plans to develop a new data center in Chicago, Illinois. The real estate investment firm has already secured a 75-year lease on a 1.97-acre land in the Illinois Medical District (IMD). In addition, the company has the exclusive rights to dev...

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Read Vantage announces the opening of its second data center in Cyberjaya, Malaysia
Vantage announces the opening of its second data center in Cyberjaya, Malaysia
September 30, 2022

Vantage announces the opening of its second data center in Cyberjaya, Malaysia

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers is expanding its presence in Malaysia, with its second data center in Cyberjaya. The facility, a four-story data center dubbed KUL12, will provide 10MW of capacity across 194,000 square feet of space when combined with its existing KUL11.Construction on the data center be...

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Read Equinix tests hydrogen fuel cell power
Equinix tests hydrogen fuel cell power
September 30, 2022

Equinix tests hydrogen fuel cell power

Equinix

Equinix is the latest company in the industry to trial hydrogen fuel cells as a power source for data centers. The company will be working in partnership with the Centre for Energy Research & Technology (CERT) under the National University of Singapore's (NUS) College of Design and Engine...

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