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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 DataVita Announces Expansion Plan For its Fortis Data Center
September 02, 2022

DataVita Announces Expansion Plan For its Fortis Data Center

DataVita: Lanarkshire DV1

DataVita has announced that it is expanding its Fortis data center in Scotland. The company plans to invest £8 million ($9.3m) in the facility. The plan is to add 400 racks and 5,380 square feet (500 square meters) of space to its flagship data center. The MD of DataVita, Danny Quinn, said:...

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Read Equinix Expands its M2 Data Center in Melbourne, Australia
Equinix Expands its M2 Data Center in Melbourne, Australia
September 02, 2022

Equinix Expands its M2 Data Center in Melbourne, Australia

Equinix Melbourne ME2

Equinix has announced that it has completed the expansion of its second Melbourne data center in Australia. The expansion cost the company $23 million (US$ 15.7m). Equinix first opened the ME2 data center in February 2020. The company acquired 500 new cabinets to increase the data center’s tot...

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Read Microsoft's Staffanstorp, Sweden Data Center Expansion Plan Canceled
Microsoft's Staffanstorp, Sweden Data Center Expansion Plan Canceled
September 02, 2022

Microsoft's Staffanstorp, Sweden Data Center Expansion Plan Canceled

Hyperscale Data Center

Microsoft has announced that it is no longer expanding one of its data centers in Sweden. Instead, it will explore other locations in the country to develop a new data center. Microsoft first announced a new Azure cloud region in Sweden in November 2020. It also officially opened the new cl...

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Read CloudHQ To Develop a 180MW Facility in Minnesota
September 01, 2022

CloudHQ To Develop a 180MW Facility in Minnesota

CloudHQ

According to BizJournal, CloudHQ has plans to develop a data center in Chaska, Minnesota. The data center campus will sit on 72 acres of land in Carver County, Chaska. Per the filing, CloudHQ wants to either develop a large 1.8 million square feet (167,225 square meters) building or four build...

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Read Google Gets Land in Bissen, Luxemburg Reclassified For Potential $1B Data Center
Google Gets Land in Bissen, Luxemburg Reclassified For Potential $1B Data Center
September 01, 2022

Google Gets Land in Bissen, Luxemburg Reclassified For Potential $1B Data Center

Google

Google has announced that its land in Bissen, Luxemburg, has finally been reclassified for data center use. The company confirmed that construction can now begin on the land, which is planned for a €1 billion ($1bn) data center. Once completed, this will be one of the most significant const...

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Read Bridge Data Centres Expands into Thailand With Data Center Acquisition
August 31, 2022

Bridge Data Centres Expands into Thailand With Data Center Acquisition

Bridge Data Centres

Bridge Data Centres has announced it has expanded its operations into Thailand by acquiring a data center in Bangkok. The data center company acquired the facility from WHA Logistics. The company did not reveal the details of the deal. The data center acquired called BKK01 spans 70,000 squa...

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Read Protests over Amazon's Manassas data center
Protests over Amazon's Manassas data center
August 30, 2022

Protests over Amazon's Manassas data center

AWS US East (N. Virginia)

Amazon’s Manassas data center has come under fire over noise pollution. According to reports, activists in Prince William County, Virginia, have united to protest against the facility, citing that the “area is being overrun with data center development,” and subsequently, the constant noise i...

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Read Thames Water launches probe into data center water use in London
Thames Water launches probe into data center water use in London
August 30, 2022

Thames Water launches probe into data center water use in London

London

It has been revealed that Thames Water has launched a probe into the water use of data centers in the UK's capital,  following the utility company’s discovery that UK data centers have been using drinking water to cool down their servers. The news of review comes as the UK’s hosepipe ban comes...

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Read Edge Centres Developing Edge Data Center in Thailand
Edge Centres Developing Edge Data Center in Thailand
August 29, 2022

Edge Centres Developing Edge Data Center in Thailand

Edge Centres

Edge Centres has announced expansion into Thailand. The company said it is developing three locations in the country and work has started on the first one. The Australian Edge data center firm will deploy the EC61 Chiang Mai site first. EC62 Phuket and EC63 Khon Kaen will also follow in qui...

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Read Rostelecom Announces Plan For a Backup Data Center For Sverdlovsk Government
Rostelecom Announces Plan For a Backup Data Center For Sverdlovsk Government
August 29, 2022

Rostelecom Announces Plan For a Backup Data Center For Sverdlovsk Government

Rostelecom

Rostelecom has announced that it is developing a backup data center for Russia’s Yekaterinburg local government. The vice president and director of PJSC Rostelecom Yekaterinburg said: “Our team has already equipped the premises for the data center, having installed and launched all engineering...

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Read Google Announces The Launch of its Third Facility in Singapore
Google Announces The Launch of its Third Facility in Singapore
August 29, 2022

Google Announces The Launch of its Third Facility in Singapore

Google

Search engineer giant Google has announced opening of a new data center in Singapore. The company said in a statement: "We announced our first data center in Singapore in 2011, our second in 2015, and we recently hit another important milestone - with our third data center facility complete...

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Read India's data center boom: Growth and projections
India's data center boom: Growth and projections
August 29, 2022

India's data center boom: Growth and projections

India / Bhārata

India is currently experiencing a data center boom, an expansion that is only expected to grow. According to research, while the industry was previously fragmented, it is now evolving rapidly as the industry becomes more consolidated. Presently, there are 138 data centers spanning India, with ...

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Read CloudHQ Begins Construction of 80MW 1.5 Million Square Feet Data Center Campus in Illinois
August 29, 2022

CloudHQ Begins Construction of 80MW 1.5 Million Square Feet Data Center Campus in Illinois

CloudHQ

CloudHQ has announced that it has begun constructing a new facility in Mount Prospect, Illinois. Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd), an energy provider, said the (140,000 square meters) 1.5 million square feet data center campus would cost $2.5 billion. The first phase of the development i...

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Read AWS Looking To Develop a 900,000 Square Feet Data Center Campus in Bristow, Northern Virginia
AWS Looking To Develop a 900,000 Square Feet Data Center Campus in Bristow, Northern Virginia
August 29, 2022

AWS Looking To Develop a 900,000 Square Feet Data Center Campus in Bristow, Northern Virginia

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services has plans to develop an 83,600 square meter (900,000 square feet) data center campus in Bristow, Northern Virginia. The company has filed to rezone over 59 acres in Nokesville Road from A-1, Agricultural to Planned Business Development. This is for the sole purpose of devel...

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Read Involta Expands its Independence, Ohio Facility
Involta Expands its Independence, Ohio Facility
August 29, 2022

Involta Expands its Independence, Ohio Facility

Ark: Independence

Involta has announced the expansion of its data center in Independent, Ohio. The data center company added 1,300 square meters (14,000 square feet) of space to the facility. It also added 1MW of power to the data center. The facility is located at 7300 E Pleasant Valley Road. The expansion ...

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Read Scala Data Centers Announce The Launch of SP4 in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Scala Data Centers Announce The Launch of SP4 in Sao Paulo, Brazil
August 26, 2022

Scala Data Centers Announce The Launch of SP4 in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Scala: SGRUTB01 Tamboré

Scala Data Centers has announced the launch of its SP4 data center in Sao Paulo, Brazil. SP4 is located on the company’s Tambore data center campus in the Barueri area of Sao Paulo. The company told BNAmericas that the data center is at its first stage and will provide up to 6MW of IT power...

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Read Canberra Data Centres Opens Two New Data Centers in Auckland, New Zealand
Canberra Data Centres Opens Two New Data Centers in Auckland, New Zealand
August 25, 2022

Canberra Data Centres Opens Two New Data Centers in Auckland, New Zealand

CDC: Hobsonville 1

Canberra Data Centres has announced the opening of two new facilities in Auckland, New Zealand. The Australian data center company launched the data centers in Auckland's Hobsonville and Silverdale areas. The Silverdale campus is called Auckland Campus One, while the Hobsonville data center is...

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Read Microsoft To Develop a $215.9m Data Center in San Antonio, Texas
Microsoft To Develop a $215.9m Data Center in San Antonio, Texas
August 24, 2022

Microsoft To Develop a $215.9m Data Center in San Antonio, Texas

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has filed to develop a data center in San Antonio, Texas. The company is looking to develop the SAT15 facility at 3555 Westover Link in Bexar County, San Antonio. The new data center will span 245,000 square feet. Microsoft will also invest up to $215.9m in developing the facility. C...

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Read Kennedy Wilson To Develop a 73MW Data Center in Slough, UK
August 23, 2022

Kennedy Wilson To Develop a 73MW Data Center in Slough, UK

London: Slough

A 73MW data center campus is being planned outside Slough, UK. Developers plan to demolish many office buildings that are not commercially viable to develop the facility. Kennedy Wilson’s affiliate Kwere II filed with the South Buckinghamshire council to develop the data center campus at Frame...

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Read Poland To Develop National Data Center
August 23, 2022

Poland To Develop National Data Center

Poland

The government of Poland is looking to develop a National Data Center. This will comprise three fiber-linked facilities. The development comes after a draft bill document was published highlighting plans to build a ‘National Data Processing Center.’ According to the document, the plan is to st...

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