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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

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Read Brookfield acquires 30-acres of land in Navi Mumbai for data center
Brookfield acquires 30-acres of land in Navi Mumbai for data center
August 16, 2021

Brookfield acquires 30-acres of land in Navi Mumbai for data center

Brookfield (BIP): Navi Mumbai

Brookfield Infrastructure has announced that it acquired a 30-acre land in Navi Mumbai with plans to build a data center on the site. The Company bought the land from real estate developer K Raheja Corp for Rs 600 crore ($81 million). Earlier in July, Brookfield and Digital Realty formed a joi...

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Read Latvia's Tet formally opens data center in Riga
Latvia's Tet formally opens data center in Riga
August 16, 2021

Latvia's Tet formally opens data center in Riga

Tet

Tet has announced the formal opening of its sixth data center in Riga, in accordance with expansion plans to grow the business by 15% each year. A €1.4 million investment went into its latest facility, adding another 60 racks to support demand. Speaking about the development of ICT in Latvia, ...

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Read Extinction Rebellion fights against €1.2bn data center expansion in Ennis
Extinction Rebellion fights against €1.2bn data center expansion in Ennis
August 13, 2021

Extinction Rebellion fights against €1.2bn data center expansion in Ennis

Art DC: Ennis Campus

Art Data Centres is facing backlash from climate protests over its plans to expand facility proposals in Clare, Ireland. The Ennis data center was first proposed back in 2019, at which point it was estimated to be a €450 million project. This has now jumped massively to €1.2 billion, encompass...

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Read NextDC receives approval for its 150MW Melbourne data center
NextDC receives approval for its 150MW Melbourne data center
August 13, 2021

NextDC receives approval for its 150MW Melbourne data center

NEXTDC

The Melbourne City Council has granted NextDC planning approval for its M3 data center. The data center in question has 150MW of capacity, and it is on 100,000 sqm (1,076,400 sq ft) of land. It will also be built to serve hyperscale customers. NextDC sited the M3 facility in West Footscray,...

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Read Galway County Council approves five-year planning extension for Apple Athenry data center
Galway County Council approves five-year planning extension for Apple Athenry data center
August 12, 2021

Galway County Council approves five-year planning extension for Apple Athenry data center

Hyperscale Data Center

Ireland’s Galway County Council has granted Apple a five-year planning permission extension for its Athenry data center. The facility had been canceled since 2019, but Apple applied to extend the site’s planning permission till November 2026. Apple first purchased the site in 2014 for $15 m...

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Read Hines raises $650m for investing in properties including data centers
Hines raises $650m for investing in properties including data centers
August 12, 2021

Hines raises $650m for investing in properties including data centers

Hines Interests

US-based Real estate firm Hines has raised $650m for a new fund targeting properties including data centers within the United States. The firm is also targeting industrial, multifamily, and other property types. Fund manager Adriana de Alcantara was quoted to have said the firm wants to inv...

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Read Beroe report: Green Data Center projects to grow 10%
Beroe report: Green Data Center projects to grow 10%
August 11, 2021

Beroe report: Green Data Center projects to grow 10%

World

Data center businesses are becoming increasingly environmentally conscious, realising that sustainability must be at the core of the industry going forward. As a result, green data center projects are on the rise. A recent study conducted by Beroe found that the global market for green data ce...

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Read Aligned invests in green future with $1.25B for waterless data center
Aligned invests in green future with $1.25B for waterless data center
August 11, 2021

Aligned invests in green future with $1.25B for waterless data center

Aligned SLC-04

Aligned has announced plans to develop its $1.25 billion SLC-04, a waterless data center, based in Salt Lake City. Instead of cooling its data centers with water, SLC-04 will use the cold desert climate to eliminate heat. The company's Delta3 cooling technology will accompany this. Accordi...

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Read GTR to build new data center in Tel Aviv
GTR to build new data center in Tel Aviv
August 11, 2021

GTR to build new data center in Tel Aviv

Global Technical Realty

Global Technical Realty (GTR) has announced that it is launching a 10.5MW data center in Petah Tikva, Israel. The facility will be an underground site that will be built for hyperscale purposes. It will also have 4,800 sqm (51,666 square feet) of space spread across two floors. Each of the ...

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Read Interxion to expand its data center footprint in Düsseldorf by leasing additional 12,000 sqm
Interxion to expand its data center footprint in Düsseldorf by leasing additional 12,000 sqm
August 11, 2021

Interxion to expand its data center footprint in Düsseldorf by leasing additional 12,000 sqm

Digital Realty: Düsseldorf

Interxion is leasing 12,000 sqm (129,000 square feet) in Düsseldorf to expand its data center capacity in the city. The Company has been occupying the property on In der Steele 27-43 in west Germany for 20 years, and it is leasing more space there to expand its data centers. The owner of t...

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Read Norwegian updates sustainability strategy for data centers
Norwegian updates sustainability strategy for data centers
August 11, 2021

Norwegian updates sustainability strategy for data centers

Norway

The Norwegian government recently updated its sustainability strategy for all data centers in the country in its "Norwegian data centers - sustainable, digital power centers" report. This strategy, it hopes, will project Norway as the world's most sustainable data center nation.Launched by Lin...

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Read AUBix LLC to build 40,000 sq ft data center in Auburn, Alabama
AUBix LLC to build 40,000 sq ft data center in Auburn, Alabama
August 10, 2021

AUBix LLC to build 40,000 sq ft data center in Auburn, Alabama

AUBix Auburn

AUBix LLC, a new Company, has broken ground on its new data center in Auburn, Alabama. The firm says it will build a $120 million, 40,000 square foot facility on Samford Avenue, close to Auburn University’s campus. The first phase of the project is scheduled to be completed in Q1 of 2022.The f...

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Read Unnamed firm signs 2.4MW lease for Iron Mountain Boyers data center
Unnamed firm signs 2.4MW lease for Iron Mountain Boyers data center
August 10, 2021

Unnamed firm signs 2.4MW lease for Iron Mountain Boyers data center

Iron Mountain The Underground

An unnamed hyperscale enterprise software provider has entered into a 2.4MW data center lease agreement with Iron Mountain. The unknown firm will deploy at Iron Mountain’s WPA-1 data center facility in Boyers, Pennsylvania. Besides, the firm also has existing deployments at other Iron Mount...

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Read eBay invests in green power for its data centers
eBay invests in green power for its data centers
August 06, 2021

eBay invests in green power for its data centers

eBay

Another tech company switching to green power is eBay, which has just announced that it has signed a Virtual Power Purchase Agreement with Lightsource BP. This agreement will enable the tech giant to power its data centers with renewable energy from a solar farm in Louisiana, helping it to rea...

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Read The future of data center back-up energy
The future of data center back-up energy
August 06, 2021

The future of data center back-up energy

Microsoft Azure

With more and more data center companies committing to climate change initiatives, the industry is also looking at how it can make backup energy more sustainable too. For decades, diesel has served as the primary fuel for traditional backup generators - however, diesel fuels, whilst getting cl...

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Read Tackling data centers' cooling issues
Tackling data centers' cooling issues
August 06, 2021

Tackling data centers' cooling issues

Microsoft Azure

According to the principles of Moore’s law, technology will double in its capacity every two years. Although on the technological advancement front this is great news, with increased computer power comes challenges. The main challenge being increased excess heat and the need to cool it. A numb...

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Read Flexential enters sale-leaseback deal for Plano data center
Flexential enters sale-leaseback deal for Plano data center
August 06, 2021

Flexential enters sale-leaseback deal for Plano data center

Flexential

Flexential has made a leaseback agreement with Legacy Investing and Invesco Real Estate for its data center facility in Plano. The deal will see Flexential add 130,000 square feet to its existing space, which means it will be doubling its capacity with the expansion. None of the companies d...

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Read Lumen divests CenturyLink ILEC assets
Lumen divests CenturyLink ILEC assets
August 06, 2021

Lumen divests CenturyLink ILEC assets

Lumen Technologies

Lumen Technologies has announced that it is selling its current local exchange carrier (ILEC) business in 20 states for $7.5 billion. The firm will be selling the business to Apollo Funds. Lumen Technologies currently operates the ILEC business under the CenturyLink name, and the business incl...

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Read Mantra Data Centers plans significant expansion in India
Mantra Data Centers plans significant expansion in India
August 05, 2021

Mantra Data Centers plans significant expansion in India

Mantra Cata Centers

Mantra Data Centers has announced that it plans to make a significant investment in India, with proposals to inject $1 billion into its expansion project that will see data centers in NCR (Delhi), Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Mumbai, where it will build two. It has not yet been c...

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Read Green Mountain doubles the capacity of its DC3-Oslo facility
Green Mountain doubles the capacity of its DC3-Oslo facility
August 05, 2021

Green Mountain doubles the capacity of its DC3-Oslo facility

Green Mountain OSL1-Enebakk

Green Mountain has announced that it has expanded its DC3-Oslo facility in Norway. Green Mountain just acquired the 4MW facility, and it has doubled its capacity by adding another 4MW capacity to the site. Aside from that, it also added a new backup generator set to the facility. The CEO of...

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