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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 TalkTalk Secures £100m Investment
TalkTalk Secures £100m Investment
July 28, 2025

TalkTalk Secures £100m Investment

United Kingdom

TalkTalk Group has secured £100 million ($134m) in new funding from an existing shareholder. This includes approximately £50m ($67m) of non-core asset sales recently announced and amendments to existing debt facilities, allowing interest to be capitalized, increasing funding capacity by more t...

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Read Top Data Center News for 21st - 26th July, 2025
Top Data Center News for 21st - 26th July, 2025
July 28, 2025

Top Data Center News for 21st - 26th July, 2025

United States

Crusoe Plans 1.8GW Facility in WyomingCrusoe this week announced a strategic partnership with Tallgrass to develop a 1.8GW AI data center campus located in southeast Wyoming. Designed to scale up to 10GW, the campus will integrate multiple energy sources fueled by natural gas and future renewa...

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Read Microsoft Cuts Off Cloud Services to Nayara Energy
Microsoft Cuts Off Cloud Services to Nayara Energy
July 28, 2025

Microsoft Cuts Off Cloud Services to Nayara Energy

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has cut off cloud computing services to India's Nayara Energy, following EU sanctions on the oil refinery company. Nayara revealed it had initiated legal proceedings against Microsoft after the "abrupt and unilateral suspension of critical services," with Nayara claiming that Microso...

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Read Building a Data Center from Scratch: The Anatomy of a $500 Million Project
Building a Data Center from Scratch: The Anatomy of a $500 Million Project
July 27, 2025

Building a Data Center from Scratch: The Anatomy of a $500 Million Project

United States

Every photo you upload, every email you send, every movie you stream, and every app you open on your phone often rely on a physical place most people never see or think about, which is the data center. These are massive buildings filled with rows of humming servers that work around the clock t...

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Read AT&T Expects Billion-Dollar Tax Windfall
AT&T Expects Billion-Dollar Tax Windfall
July 26, 2025

AT&T Expects Billion-Dollar Tax Windfall

AT&T

AT&T CEO John Stankey views President Donald Trump’s recently passed budget as a financial windfall for the telecommunications space and teased an appetite for more fiber to feed growing market opportunities around its wired and wireless broadband services.“I've not seen the situation wher...

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Read Bitzero Secures $25m in Funding
Bitzero Secures $25m in Funding
July 26, 2025

Bitzero Secures $25m in Funding

United States

Crypto and HPC data center firm Bitzero  this week announced it has secured $25 million in funding for its mining operations. A part of the funding will be allocated to the purchase of 2,900 Bitmain S21 Pro miners, with hardware deployment set to be completed within four to six months.“Our mis...

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Read 5C Secures $835m from Brookfield
5C Secures $835m from Brookfield
July 26, 2025

5C Secures $835m from Brookfield

5C Data Centers

Canadian data center group 5C this week announced that it has successfully secured $835 million, including equity financing led by Brookfield Asset Management and debt financing led by Deutsche Bank.“5C is positioned to play a pivotal role in the AI revolution, and we are excited to welcome Br...

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Read Aligned to Develop 200-Acre Data Center Campus
Aligned to Develop 200-Acre Data Center Campus
July 25, 2025

Aligned to Develop 200-Acre Data Center Campus

Aligned

Aligned Data Centers this week announced plans to expand in Central Ohio with the development of a data center campus inside the Conesville Industrial Park in Coshocton. Coshocton is located approximately 63 miles (101 km) northeast of Columbus.Aligned will develop a 197-acre parcel adjacent t...

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Read euNetworks to Shut Down Amsterdam Data Center
euNetworks to Shut Down Amsterdam Data Center
July 25, 2025

euNetworks to Shut Down Amsterdam Data Center

Amsterdam

European fiber firm euNetworks is exiting its Amsterdam data center in the Netherlands as colocation customers have apparently been asked to vacate the data center by next year.The news was revealed by Dirk Pol, of Dutch connectivity firm i4 Solutions, in a post on LinkedIn. “euNetworks will b...

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Read Edge Data Center Firm Armada Raises $131m
Edge Data Center Firm Armada Raises $131m
July 25, 2025

Edge Data Center Firm Armada Raises $131m

United States

Containerized Edge data center company Armada has raised $131 million from investors and launched a new megawatt-scale product. The new funding round includes new investors Pinegrove Veriten and Glade Brook, as well as participation from existing investors such as Founders Fund, Lux Capital, S...

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Read Proposed Data Center Scaled Down in San Francisco, California
Proposed Data Center Scaled Down in San Francisco, California
July 25, 2025

Proposed Data Center Scaled Down in San Francisco, California

California

The Guadalupe Quarry Redevelopment Project propose in San Francisco, California, has been scaled down amid environmental concerns. The site is located south of San Francisco in the city of Brisbane and the company seeks to construct a 180,000 sq ft (17,000 sqm) data center and an industrial bu...

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Read AtlasEdge Launches Data Center in Germany
AtlasEdge Launches Data Center in Germany
July 25, 2025

AtlasEdge Launches Data Center in Germany

Germany / Deutschland

European operator AtlasEdge has launched a new data center in Stuttgart, Germany, STR001 in the Böblingen area of the city. The company said the site was 100 percent powered by renewable energy and is fully compliant with the German Energy Efficiency Act (Energieeffizienzgesetz).“We’re proud t...

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Read Crusoe Plans 1.8GW Facility in Wyoming
Crusoe Plans 1.8GW Facility in Wyoming
July 25, 2025

Crusoe Plans 1.8GW Facility in Wyoming

Wyoming

Crusoe this week announced a strategic partnership with Tallgrass to develop a 1.8GW AI data center campus located in southeast Wyoming. Designed to scale up to 10GW, the campus will integrate multiple energy sources fueled by natural gas and future renewable energy developments in the region....

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Read EdgeCore Secures $235 Million in ABS Financing
EdgeCore Secures $235 Million in ABS Financing
July 25, 2025

EdgeCore Secures $235 Million in ABS Financing

United States

US data center firm EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure this week announced the completion of an asset-backed securitization (ABS), totaling $235 million. Proceeds will be used to refinance construction loans and fund future green data center development."EdgeCore's rapid, exponential growth conti...

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Read Meta Partners with Amrize
Meta Partners with Amrize
July 25, 2025

Meta Partners with Amrize

Minnesota

Social media giant Meta and concrete maker Amrize last week announced a partnership to develop a “first-of-its-kind, AI-optimized concrete mix” tailored to meet the specific needs of Meta’s data center in Rosemount, Minnesota.“We work to design our data centers as efficiently and sustainably a...

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Read Google Signs Long Duration Energy Storage Partnership
Google Signs Long Duration Energy Storage Partnership
July 24, 2025

Google Signs Long Duration Energy Storage Partnership

Google

Google has signed its first partnership with a long-duration energy storage (LDES) company, Energy Dome to support multiple commercial deployments worldwide to help scale the company’s CO2 battery technology.The company has developed a 20MW/200MWh battery, which it claims has a lifetime of mor...

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Read Menlo Equities Launches Dedicated Data Center Platform
Menlo Equities Launches Dedicated Data Center Platform
July 24, 2025

Menlo Equities Launches Dedicated Data Center Platform

United States

US private real estate investment and development firm Menlo Equities is doubling down on data centers with a new dedicated platform - Menlo Digital, focused on the acquisition, development, and operation of data centers.Rick Holmstrom, Menlo Equities' founder and executive chairman, said: "We...

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Read Microsoft Signs 4.9 Million-tonne Carbon Removal Deal
Microsoft Signs 4.9 Million-tonne Carbon Removal Deal
July 24, 2025

Microsoft Signs 4.9 Million-tonne Carbon Removal Deal

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has signed a 12-year carbon offtake agreement with Vaulted Deep that will see the removal of up to 4.9 million tonnes of carbon dioxide and enable Vaulted to expand its operations to new sites across the US."As carbon removal moves beyond pilots and prototypes, there is growing deman...

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Read Scala Closes $328 Million Expansion Deal
Scala Closes $328 Million Expansion Deal
July 23, 2025

Scala Closes $328 Million Expansion Deal

Scala Data Centers

Scala Data Centers has successfully closed its first international project financing, securing $254 million in long-term financing for the construction of three hyperscale data centers and a critical power substation in Chile. The financing is set to fund the expansion of Scala's presence in t...

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Read Anthropic to Seek Gulf state Investments
Anthropic to Seek Gulf state Investments
July 23, 2025

Anthropic to Seek Gulf state Investments

United States

Anthropic will seek Gulf state investments, according to a leaked memo from CEO Dario Amodei.The leaked Slack message sent by Amodei to company staff on July 20 stated: “There is a truly giant amount of capital in the Middle East, easily $100B or more. If we want to stay on the frontier, we ga...

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