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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 Equinix partners with Nasdaq
Equinix partners with Nasdaq
December 16, 2021

Equinix partners with Nasdaq

Equinix

Equinix has formed a multi-year partnership with Nasdaq, Inc, which will help the company scale its NY11 data center in Carteret, New Jersey. This will also support the build-out of Nasdaq's cloud infrastructure.Tal Cohen, Executive Vice President, Head of North American Markets at Nasdaq, sa...

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Read DataBank to expand Plano data center
DataBank to expand Plano data center
December 16, 2021

DataBank to expand Plano data center

DataBank Plano DFW3

DataBank has announced that it is expanding its presence in Dallas, Texas, with the addition of two data halls to its Plano facility. This adds 22,000 sqft of space and a capacity of 3MW. According to the company, the two data halls (Data Halls 5 and 6) are expected to be completed by the sec...

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Read Meta/Facebook's Altoona campus to be its largest after latest expansion
Meta/Facebook's Altoona campus to be its largest after latest expansion
December 16, 2021

Meta/Facebook's Altoona campus to be its largest after latest expansion

Hyperscale Data Center

Meta/Facebook has revealed that it is expanding its Altoona, Iowa data center facility again. The company announced that it is developing two new buildings at the campus that will bring the facility to five million square feet. Meta noted that the expansion will be its seventh, and by so do...

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Read DataBank Expands Atlanta Facility
DataBank Expands Atlanta Facility
December 16, 2021

DataBank Expands Atlanta Facility

DataBank Atlanta ATL3

DataBank will be expanding its data center in Atlanta, Georgia. This will be the company’s second expansion announcement this week, as it announced the expansion of its Plano facility earlier. DataBank will be adding over 22,000 square feet of data center space to its ATL3 facility. The com...

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Read Australia's Trifalga launches data center unit, plans 800,000 sq ft data center in Sydney
December 16, 2021

Australia's Trifalga launches data center unit, plans 800,000 sq ft data center in Sydney

Sydney

Australian real estate company Trifalga is starting a data center unit with plans to have a largescale data center campus in Sydney. Trifalga and Trifalga DC’s first data center project will be an 800,000 square feet data center in Rouse Hill, Sydney. However, Trifalga did not reveal when the ...

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Read Vantage Data Centers breaks ground on two additional campuses
Vantage Data Centers breaks ground on two additional campuses
December 15, 2021

Vantage Data Centers breaks ground on two additional campuses

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has announced that it has broken ground on additional campuses in two of its existing strategic EMEA markets in both Frankfurt and Berlin. The Berlin campus will have 32MW of critical IT capacity and is due to be operational in the summer of 2022. Meanwhile, the Frankfurt...

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Read H5 Data Centers expands in Ohio through a data center acquisition
H5 Data Centers expands in Ohio through a data center acquisition
December 15, 2021

H5 Data Centers expands in Ohio through a data center acquisition

H5 Data Centers

H5 Data Centers has completed the acquisition of a data center at 925 Dalton Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. The 107,000 square feet (9,940 square meters) purpose-built data center was built to Tier III standards. It currently has a 2MW capacity, but it can be expanded to 6MW upon full buildout. ...

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Read Ascenty opens two data centers in Rio & Hortolândia, Brazil
Ascenty opens two data centers in Rio & Hortolândia, Brazil
December 15, 2021

Ascenty opens two data centers in Rio & Hortolândia, Brazil

Ascenty Rio de Janeiro

Ascenty has announced the opening of two new data centers in Hortolândia and Janeiro, Brazil. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and Digital Realty jointly own the data center firm. Ascenty opened its second data center at its RIO campus with 3MW of power and 3,000 square meters (32,300 square...

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Read VNET to form JV with Sovereign Wealth Fund to develop hyperscale data centers in China
December 15, 2021

VNET to form JV with Sovereign Wealth Fund to develop hyperscale data centers in China

China

VNET, formerly known as 21Vianet, has launched a joint venture with an unrevealed sovereign wealth fund to build and operate hyperscale data centers in China. The agreement will see VNET create individual project companies that will develop each data center. Upon completing the data centers, V...

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Read OVHcloud's solar PPA with EDF
OVHcloud's solar PPA with EDF
December 15, 2021

OVHcloud's solar PPA with EDF

OVH Group

OVHcloud has announced it has signed a 15-year renewable power purchase agreement (PPA) with EDF Renewables, whereby the energy company will supply electricity from its 50MW solar power plant, located in the south of France. The solar plant is expected to be operational by 2024“We are proud to...

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Read AWS: New Indonesian cloud region for Jakarta
AWS: New Indonesian cloud region for Jakarta
December 15, 2021

AWS: New Indonesian cloud region for Jakarta

Amazon AWS

AWS has announced the launch of a new cloud region in Jakarta, Indonesia, and has been created to support the 'fast-growing startup ecosystem, large Indonesian enterprises, and government agencies.'The region is now the tenth active in the Asia Pacific and mainland China after Beijing, Hong K...

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Read New European Clean Hydrogen Partnership announced
New European Clean Hydrogen Partnership announced
December 15, 2021

New European Clean Hydrogen Partnership announced

Equinix

The European Clean Hydrogen Partnership has announced its €2.5 million EcoEdge PrimePower project (E2P2). The tech consortium making up the partnership includes Equinix, InfraPrime, RISE, Snam, SolidPower, TEC4FUELS and Vertiv. Together, they will pursue the development of low-carbon fuel cell...

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Read CloudHQ to buy United Airlines' Mount Prospect campus for mega data center development
December 15, 2021

CloudHQ to buy United Airlines' Mount Prospect campus for mega data center development

CloudHQ

According to Journal & Topics, CloudHQ has acquired United Airlines’ office campus in Mount Prospect, Illinois. Report has it that CloudHQ bought the property to make way for the development of a new 1.5 million square feet, $2.5 billion data center. Bill Cooney, the Development Directo...

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Read 365 Data Centers completes round of debt refinancing
365 Data Centers completes round of debt refinancing
December 14, 2021

365 Data Centers completes round of debt refinancing

365 Data Centers

365 Data Centers has announced that it completed a round of debt refinancing while also raising new funds. The firm refinanced all its existing debt. It also secured more funds from ING Capital LLC, TD Securities, CIT Group, Boundary Street Capital, and Regions Capital Markets. 365 Data Center...

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Read Cologix plans to raise $1.1 billion through ABS notes
Cologix plans to raise $1.1 billion through ABS notes
December 14, 2021

Cologix plans to raise $1.1 billion through ABS notes

Cologix

According to Asset Securitization Report, Cologix is planning to raise funds through a $1.1 billion securitization. Cologix will be issuing Asset-Backed Security notes by using proceeds from seventeen properties as backing. According to filings with the Kroll Bond Rating Agency, Deutsche Bank ...

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Read D9 Infrastructure buys landing station and data center in Newcastle for £15 million
D9 Infrastructure buys landing station and data center in Newcastle for £15 million
December 14, 2021

D9 Infrastructure buys landing station and data center in Newcastle for £15 million

Digital 9 Infrastructure

Digital 9 Infrastructure (D9) has completed the acquisition of a subsea fiber landing station and a Stellium-operated data center in Newcastle, UK. D9 revealed that it bought SeaEdge UK1 for £15 million. Interestingly, the site has a 10.6MW capacity data center. Besides, SeaEdge UK1 is the onl...

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Read Severfarm moves into Middle East
Severfarm moves into Middle East
December 14, 2021

Severfarm moves into Middle East

Serverfarm Israel ISR3

Severfarm has announced its expansion into the Middle East with the development of ISR3, its first hyperscale facility in Israel. The facility will have 9MW of critical capacity, supporting Israel's "accelerating digital economy" and launch in the latter half of 2022.Currently, the company's o...

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Read Johannesburg 1 to open in South Africa in April 2022
Johannesburg 1 to open in South Africa in April 2022
December 14, 2021

Johannesburg 1 to open in South Africa in April 2022

NTT

NTT has announced that it is “on track” to complete the turnkey data center development of its Johannesburg 1 Data Centre, located at Centralpoint Innovation District in Samrand, by early next year.The facility, developed by Growthpoint, includes 6,000sqm of IT space and features “high-end off...

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Read NextDC moves into Queensland's Sunshine Coast
NextDC moves into Queensland's Sunshine Coast
December 14, 2021

NextDC moves into Queensland's Sunshine Coast

NEXTDC

NextDC has acquired an Edge data center site located in Maroochydore, on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. The planned SC1 facility will have a capacity of 1MW. The facility will also be the landing station for the Sunshine Coast International Broadband Network (SCIBN), which connects to the 7000k...

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Read Data center companies use Ledger8760 to track carbon emissions
Data center companies use Ledger8760 to track carbon emissions
December 13, 2021

Data center companies use Ledger8760 to track carbon emissions

Aligned

Aligned, Ascent, Corscale, and T5 have all announced that they will be using Ledger8760's 24x7 tracking platform to record their carbon emissions' hour-by-hour. This tracking system will reportedly enable companies to be more transparent about their energy and utility data, and crucially, emi...

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