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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 Energia Group granted permission for data centers in Dublin, Ireland
Energia Group granted permission for data centers in Dublin, Ireland
April 27, 2022

Energia Group granted permission for data centers in Dublin, Ireland

Dublin

Energia Group has announced that Fingal County Council has granted the company planning permission for two new data centers next to the Huntstown Power Station in Dublin, Ireland. The two facilities, known as Buildings A and B, are expected to have a gross floor area of c. 37,647 sqm (400,000 ...

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Read Alibaba shares new green goals
Alibaba shares new green goals
April 27, 2022

Alibaba shares new green goals

China

Alibaba has announced that it has joined the Low Carbon Patent Pledge (LCPP), which is an international platform that encourages companies to share patents for low carbon technologies. In line with this pledge, the company will make nine key patents for green data center technology available f...

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Read Iron Mountain constructs first-ever BREEAM certified data center
Iron Mountain constructs first-ever BREEAM certified data center
April 27, 2022

Iron Mountain constructs first-ever BREEAM certified data center

Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain Data Centers has added another layer to its sustainability efforts, after it secured BREEAM design certification for its Phoenix, AZ (AZP-2) data center. This makes the data center company the first in North America to receive "top tier certification" for sustainable constructio...

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Read Microsoft signs another PPA in Canada
Microsoft signs another PPA in Canada
April 27, 2022

Microsoft signs another PPA in Canada

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced it has signed another PPA, this time, with ATCO Group. The PPA will enable the giant to procure solar energy in Canada from a 37MW Deerfoot solar project, which is adjacent to ATCO's 27-MW Barlow project. According to reports, the projects' construction will take place...

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Read NorthC Buys Netrics Data Centers
NorthC Buys Netrics Data Centers
April 27, 2022

NorthC Buys Netrics Data Centers

NorthC Datacenters

NorthC has announced the acquisition of Netrics’ data center business. Netrics is a Swiss company, making the transaction NorthC’s first move into Switzerland. The deal sees NorthC take over three data centers, two of which are in Münchenstein and the last one in Biel. The total floor space...

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Read iM Critical To Develop 10MW Data Center Campus in Pittsburgh
April 27, 2022

iM Critical To Develop 10MW Data Center Campus in Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh

iM Critical has announced its plans to develop a modular data center campus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The campus will be developed on a 5.4-acre site. In addition, it will provide 10MW in capacity. According to the company, the first phase of development will offer 3MW, and it will come ...

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Read Datum Datacentres To Double The Space at Its Farnborough Facility
Datum Datacentres To Double The Space at Its Farnborough Facility
April 27, 2022

Datum Datacentres To Double The Space at Its Farnborough Facility

Datum FRN1

Datum Datacentres has begun an expansion process on its facility nine months after UBS Asset Management bought it. The company plans to double the space of its data center located at Farnborough, Hampshire, London. The facility currently has 3,750 square meters of space. It will now have 7,...

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Read Microsoft To Develop Data Center on a 40-acre Site in Manassas, Virginia
Microsoft To Develop Data Center on a 40-acre Site in Manassas, Virginia
April 27, 2022

Microsoft To Develop Data Center on a 40-acre Site in Manassas, Virginia

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is looking to develop a new data center in Manassas, Northern Virginia. The company submitted a request to the US Army Corps of Engineers to build the MNZ01 Balls Ford Road Data Center. The project will involve Microsoft developing two three-story buildings, MNZ01 and MNZ02, on the 4...

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Read Diode Ventures Planning a 220MW Facility in Kansas
Diode Ventures Planning a 220MW Facility in Kansas
April 26, 2022

Diode Ventures Planning a 220MW Facility in Kansas

Kansas City

Diode Ventures is looking to develop a massive data center campus in Kansas. The company filed a preliminary plan for a data center campus called Creek Technology Park. The campus will sit on an undeveloped 359 acres of land in the northeast of US Highway 169 and Interstate 435 in Missouri....

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Read QTS To Expand Its Richmond Facility in Virginia
QTS To Expand Its Richmond Facility in Virginia
April 26, 2022

QTS To Expand Its Richmond Facility in Virginia

QTS Richmond I

QTS has plans to expand its Richmond facility in Northern Virginia. The company filed to construct attendant structures and buildings at 6000 Technology Boulevard in Henrico County, Virginia. Per the application, the development project is called QTS East Expansion. The plan is to develop t...

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Read North Myrtle Beach City To Invest $12m In Developing an Emergency Operations and Data Management Center
April 26, 2022

North Myrtle Beach City To Invest $12m In Developing an Emergency Operations and Data Management Center

South Carolina

The City of North Myrtle Beach in South Carolina has announced that it is developing an emergency operations and data management center. The city’s council members initially planned to spend $2 million developing the data center. However, the budget has risen to $12 million. North Myrtle Be...

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Read atNorth Launches its SWE01 DC Facility
atNorth Launches its SWE01 DC Facility
April 26, 2022

atNorth Launches its SWE01 DC Facility

atNorth Stockholm SWE01

atNorth has announced the launch of its new SWE01 DC facility in Kista, Sweden. The new data center is the first in the country designed to manage high-density workloads, including risk analysis, simulations, and AI. The facility has a total IT capacity of more than 11MW, spanning 6,400 square...

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Read Gaw Capital Makes Significant Investment in South Korea's Dreammark One
April 26, 2022

Gaw Capital Makes Significant Investment in South Korea's Dreammark One

South Korea

Hong Kong’s real estate private equity company Gaw Capital Partners has made a considerable investment in Dreammark One. Gaw announced that it signed agreements with IMM Investment Corp to invest in the South Korean data center company through a fund under its management. The investment det...

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Read Viettel To Develop The Largest Data Center in Vietnam
April 26, 2022

Viettel To Develop The Largest Data Center in Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam-based telecommunication firm Viettel has announced plans to develop a new data center in Ho Chi Minh City. The company revealed that it would be developing the largest data center in the country. Viettel aims to invest up to VND 6,000 billion ($261 million) in the data center project. ...

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Read GDS Starts Work on its RM1.38 Billion Data Center Campus in Johor, Malaysia
April 25, 2022

GDS Starts Work on its RM1.38 Billion Data Center Campus in Johor, Malaysia

Carrier-Neutral Data Center

GDS Holdings has announced that it has started work on a data center campus in Malaysia. The company revealed that it would invest RM1.38 billion in developing the 242,200 square feet (22,500 square meters) at the Nusajaya Tech Park in Johor. The hyperscale data center campus will deliver 5...

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Read Google replaces diesel at its St. Ghislain, Belgium data center
Google replaces diesel at its St. Ghislain, Belgium data center
April 25, 2022

Google replaces diesel at its St. Ghislain, Belgium data center

Google

Google has announced that it is replacing some of its diesel backup capacity at its St. Ghislain, Belgium data center, with a 2.75MW battery system from Fluence. This announcement aligns with Google's public pledge to use entirely carbon-free energy by 2030 by reducing its emissions. The batt...

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Read Supernap Thailand announces signing of PPA to build solar plant
Supernap Thailand announces signing of PPA to build solar plant
April 25, 2022

Supernap Thailand announces signing of PPA to build solar plant

Thailand / Prathet Thai

Supernap Thailand has announced that it has signed a PPA with WHA Utilities & Power, to build a solar plant alongside its data center just outside of Bangkok. The project, which will see an investment of THB 30 million (~$886,000), will take place on 10,000 sqm (107,600 sqft) of space. WHA...

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Read Brazil's State of Rio Grande do Sul To Invest to invest $18.3m in Disaster Recovery Data Center
April 25, 2022

Brazil's State of Rio Grande do Sul To Invest to invest $18.3m in Disaster Recovery Data Center

Brazil / Brasil

The State of Rio Grande do Sul’s information and communication center plans to develop a disaster recovery data center. Procergs (Centro de Tecnologia da Informação e Comunicação do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul SA), will be in charge of the project. The firm will receive BRL 87.9 million ($1...

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Read Digital 9 Infrastructure Buys Ficolo For €135 million
Digital 9 Infrastructure Buys Ficolo For €135 million
April 25, 2022

Digital 9 Infrastructure Buys Ficolo For €135 million

Digital 9 Infrastructure

Digital 9 Infrastructure has completed the acquisition of Ficolo for €135 million ($145m). Ficolo is a Finnish-based colocation provider which was founded in 2011. The data and cloud center firm has data centers in Tampere, Pori, and Helsinki. Chair of D9 Infrastructure, Jack Waters, said a...

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Read SK ecoplant and Digital Edge Partner To Develop 150MW Facility in South Korea
SK ecoplant and Digital Edge Partner To Develop 150MW Facility in South Korea
April 25, 2022

SK ecoplant and Digital Edge Partner To Develop 150MW Facility in South Korea

Digital Edge DC

Digital Edge and SK Ecoplant have formed a joint venture to develop a data center in Incheon, South Korea. The facility will be named Bupyeong data center. Per the agreement, the two firms will jointly develop and promote the 120MW hyperscale data center project. The facility will be locate...

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