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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 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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New Jersey

January 14, 2022

AWS continues to expand its local zones

Amazon AWS

Ever-growing and expanding its reach, AWS has announced that local zones are now available in Atlanta, Phoenix, and Seattle. This expansion means that the giant now has 17 Edge locations in 16 US metros. Its zones now include Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Kansas City, Las ...

January 14, 2022

A DartPoints-leased data center in Indiana has been sold

DartPoints

According to Five 9s Digital, it advised the owner of a DartPoints-leased data center in Columbus, Indiana, to sell off the property. The data center has been sold for $8.3 million. The facility in question is a purpose-built single-tenant data center. The data center is located at 2425 Tec...

January 14, 2022

Echelon Data Centres secures over $960m funding from Starwood Capital

Echelon Data Centres

Echelon Data Centres has announced a debt finance agreement with Starwood Capital Group. The agreement sees Echelon raise over €855 million ($969.8m). Echelon will use the funds to finance the completion of data centers on its four facilities in Ireland. The sites include DUB40, DUB20, DUB1...

January 14, 2022

Eirgrid report makes decision on data centers in Ireland

Republic of Ireland

EirGrid has made a decision on data center building in Ireland. The state-owned electric power transmission operator has outlined that it will not accept any further applications to build facilities in Dublin for "the foreseeable future" and perhaps not until 2028. That said, the data center a...

January 13, 2022

CloudHQ plans 4 million sq ft of data center buildings

CloudHQ

According to DgtlInfra, a firm with links to CloudHQ wants to develop a 4 million square feet data center on a 97-acre site in Virginia. The Loudoun County Planning & Zoning commission is looking to increase the approved data center use on the Dulles Berry project site in Ashburn to 4,050,...

January 12, 2022

Verne Global to expand its Iceland data center

Verne: Keflavik Campus

Verne Global has announced that it will be expanding its campus in Iceland. According to the company, this expansion will take place over the next year with a $93 million additional investment from Digital 9 Infrastructure (D9), following its acquisition of Verne Global in September 2021.The ...

January 12, 2022

More people speak out against data centers near Manassas battlefield

Northern Virginia

More people are speaking out against proposed data centers along Pageland Lane, near Manassas National Battlefield. The latest to outline his opposition to the construction plans is documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. In a letter to Prince William County Board of Supervisors, Burns expressed "fea...

January 12, 2022

Equinix pushes ahead with green energy deal

Equinix

Equinix has signed a green energy deal it has announced. By penning a 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Neoen and Prokon, Equinix will be provided with 85% of the energy produced by the 35MW Björkliden wind farm in the municipality of Närpes, in the western region of Ostrobothnia. T...

January 12, 2022

Akwa Ibom State to be site for technological development and data centers

Africa

Akwa Ibom is becoming an emerging technology and innovation hub in Africa. Chairman of the Akwa Ibom State Committee on Foreign Direct Investment Commission, Gabriel Ukpeh, said that the state government is working to ensure that undersea cable lands are in the works in the next 12 to 24 month...

January 11, 2022

Growth ahead for Colt Data Centre Services

Colt Data Centre Services

There is growth ahead for Colt Data Centre Services (DCS), as it announces the acquisition of ten parcels of land across Europe and APAC for the development of greenfield hyperscale data centres, including in London, Frankfurt, Paris and Japan.These parcels of land will see the company's portf...

January 11, 2022

Amazon data center in store for Desoto?

Amazon AWS

Reports are circulating about Amazon's recent purchase of a 9-acre development site on Hampton Road south of Interstate 20 in DeSoto, southern Dallas County. This latest land acquisition has got people talking about whether the giant is planning another data center, considering its recent and ...

January 10, 2022

Virginia's $124.5 million offering on tax breaks to data centers

Virginia

In Virginia's recently released Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, it was revealed that it offered $124.5 million in tax breaks to data centers last year. Comparatively, this is $14 million higher than the amount offered in 2020, which totaled $110.5 million, a figure that has gradually ri...

January 10, 2022

Cordiant Acquires DataGryd and Emitel for $551m

Hudson Interxchange

Cordiant Digital Infrastructure has announced the acquisition of Polish digital infrastructure firm Emitel and US data center company DataGryd for $551m. Cordiant revealed that it had already entered a binding agreement to acquire some DataGryd Datacenters LLC assets that constitute its full o...

January 10, 2022

Keppel DC REIT Completes Acquisition Of Second Data Center In London

Keppel Data Center REIT

Keppel DC REIT has completed the acquisition of its second data center in London, UK. The Singaporean firm revealed that it acquired the data center in Bracknell for £57 million (S$105.5m/US$76.9m). The data center sits on a 4.7-acre property with three inter-linked two-story buildings. The da...

January 10, 2022

Five 9s Digital sells Kannapolis data center for $11.4 million

Segra: Charlotte

Five 9s Digital has sold a facility in Kannapolis, North Carolina, for $11.4 million. LD DI Assetco LLC is the buying company. BizJournal first reported the sale late last year. Five 9s acquired the property in question for $8.4 million in May 2020 from Castle & Cooke. The data center h...

January 10, 2022

Stack Infrastructure to develop a 216MW campus in Ashburn, Virginia

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure has revealed the development of a new 216MW data center campus in Ashburn, Virginia. The facility would be developed on an 80-acre site with three buildings with a combined space of 1 million square feet. The company revealed that the facility's first phase is scheduled...

January 07, 2022

Internet blackouts in Kazakhstan following protests

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan is experiencing internet blackouts as its government implements nationwide cuts. These blackouts follow fuel and anti-government protests; however, president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has called protestors "plotters," arguing that they are "financially motivated".According to NetBlocks,...

January 07, 2022

Interxion's Frankfurt data center completed

Digital Realty Frankfurt Campus

Interxion's latest data center in Frankfurt, Germany, FRA16, has been completed, it has announced. Located on the company's Ostend campus at Hanauer Landstrasse, the facility spans 4,800 sqm (51,600 sq ft) of white space, with a capacity of 16.5MW. The data center is expected to go live later...

January 07, 2022

Leeward repowers wind farm supplying Amazon with renewable energy

Amazon AWS

Leeward Renewable Energy LLC has announced that it has completed the repowering of its 54.4-MW Crescent Ridge wind farm in Illinois, which will provide Amazon with renewable energy. This process involved decommissioning nine turbines, installing Vestas turbines, and replacing 24 legacy turbine...

January 07, 2022

Cologix recapitalizes with Stonepeak

Cologix

Investment firm Stonepeak has revealed that it has recapitalized Cologix. Stonepeak is an Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund, and it has decided to pull out its investment in Cologix. The agreement sees Stonepeak Infrastructure Fund II LP and its co-investors sell Cologix to vehicles managed by S...

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AWS continues to expand its local zones

A DartPoints-leased data center in Indiana has been sold

Echelon Data Centres secures over $960m funding from Starwood Capital

Eirgrid report makes decision on data centers in Ireland

CloudHQ plans 4 million sq ft of data center buildings

Verne Global to expand its Iceland data center

More people speak out against data centers near Manassas battlefield

Equinix pushes ahead with green energy deal

Akwa Ibom State to be site for technological development and data centers

Growth ahead for Colt Data Centre Services

Amazon data center in store for Desoto?

Virginia's $124.5 million offering on tax breaks to data centers

Cordiant Acquires DataGryd and Emitel for $551m

Keppel DC REIT Completes Acquisition Of Second Data Center In London

Five 9s Digital sells Kannapolis data center for $11.4 million

Stack Infrastructure to develop a 216MW campus in Ashburn, Virginia

Internet blackouts in Kazakhstan following protests

Interxion's Frankfurt data center completed

Leeward repowers wind farm supplying Amazon with renewable energy

Cologix recapitalizes with Stonepeak

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