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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 Nuveen Invests in CleanArc Data Centers
Nuveen Invests in CleanArc Data Centers
May 03, 2025

Nuveen Invests in CleanArc Data Centers

US developer CleanArc Data Centers this week announced a strategic investment from Nuveen, the investment manager of the TIAA pension fund.“Nuveen is focused on expanding its investment in digital infrastructure, and CleanArc stood out for its strong leadership, commercial traction, and commit...

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Read Stack Infrastructure Sells European Colo Business to Apollo
Stack Infrastructure Sells European Colo Business to Apollo
May 02, 2025

Stack Infrastructure Sells European Colo Business to Apollo

Stack Infrastructure is selling its European colocation data centers to investment fund Apollo. Apollo will acquire seven data centers in five markets - Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen, Milan, and Geneva - and form a new, independent company to manage them. According to a statement from the busine...

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Read ESR and Stack Break Ground on 72MW Data Center Campus
ESR and Stack Break Ground on 72MW Data Center Campus
May 02, 2025

ESR and Stack Break Ground on 72MW Data Center Campus

ESR and Stack have broken ground on a new data center campus outside Osaka, located in Japan’s Kansai region. The Keihanna campus will offer 72MW of capacity and span 53,110 sqm (571,660 sq ft). The first facility, KIX01A, has begun construction. It will offer 18MW of capacity, and ESR estimat...

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Read AirJoule Raises $15m to Turn Data Center Waste Heat into Pure Water
AirJoule Raises $15m to Turn Data Center Waste Heat into Pure Water
May 02, 2025

AirJoule Raises $15m to Turn Data Center Waste Heat into Pure Water

AirJoule Technologies, which is developing technology to extract pure water from waste heat produced in industrial settings such as data centers, has raised $15 million. Proceeds from the fundraising will be used to commercialize AirJoule’s system, which the company claims can separate water f...

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Read BNP Paribas Signs Multi-Year Agreement with IBM Cloud
BNP Paribas Signs Multi-Year Agreement with IBM Cloud
May 02, 2025

BNP Paribas Signs Multi-Year Agreement with IBM Cloud

French multinational bank BNP Paribas has signed a ten-year agreement with IBM Cloud, expanding its use of the latter's cloud computing offering. BNP has been hosting IBM Cloud hardware in its data centers and the company will now build on that existing infrastructure by dedicating a new area ...

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Read Microsoft to Increase European Data Center Capacity by 40 Percent
Microsoft to Increase European Data Center Capacity by 40 Percent
May 02, 2025

Microsoft to Increase European Data Center Capacity by 40 Percent

Microsoft has pledged to increase its data center capacity in Europe by 40 percent over the next two years in a blog post by company president Brad Smith. Local cloud providers have pointed to the White House's attacks on NATO, tariffs on the EU, and threats to invade Greenland as justificatio...

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Read Nova Infrastructure Purchases Majority Stake in DartPoints
Nova Infrastructure Purchases Majority Stake in DartPoints
May 02, 2025

Nova Infrastructure Purchases Majority Stake in DartPoints

Investment fund Nova Infrastructure has purchased a majority stake in US-based data center operator DartPoints from Astra Capital Management. The investment includes an injection of growth capital that is designed to scale DartPoints’ platform and “expand its footprint through targeted investm...

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Read CtrlS Breaks New Ground in Bhopal, India
CtrlS Breaks New Ground in Bhopal, India
May 02, 2025

CtrlS Breaks New Ground in Bhopal, India

Indian data center firm CtrlS has broken ground on a data center located on a five-acre land parcel at the Badwai IT Park. CtrlS said that the facility would possess “24/7 operational reliability and high uptime,” but specific figures were not provided. Sridhar Pinnapureddy, chairman of CtrlS,...

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Read LSEG Expands use of AWS Cloud Platform
LSEG Expands use of AWS Cloud Platform
May 01, 2025

LSEG Expands use of AWS Cloud Platform

The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has expanded its existing multi-year agreement with the cloud provider and has named AWS the preferred cloud platform for its markets, risk intelligence, and FTSE Russell divisions.Daniel Maguire, group head of markets at LSEG, said: “Our ongoing collabor...

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Read Microsoft Signs Wind PPA with in West Virginia
Microsoft Signs Wind PPA with in West Virginia
May 01, 2025

Microsoft Signs Wind PPA with in West Virginia

Microsoft has signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with Clearway Energy Group in West Virginia which will see Microsoft granted access to energy generated by the 335MW Mount Storm wind farm located in Grant County, West Virginia. Valerie Wooley, SVP of Origination at Clearway, sai...

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Read Navarre Government Doubles Data Center Capacity
Navarre Government Doubles Data Center Capacity
April 30, 2025

Navarre Government Doubles Data Center Capacity

The Navarre government this week announced that it has invested €4 million ($4.54m) in the expansion and modernization of the facility. The Data Processing Center (CPD) saw its capacity increased from 200kW to 400kW of installed power, and can now house 96 racks (double the prior 48 racks) acr...

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Read Stack Infrastructure sells European Colo Business to Apollo
Stack Infrastructure sells European Colo Business to Apollo
April 30, 2025

Stack Infrastructure sells European Colo Business to Apollo

Stack Infrastructure has signed a deal with investment fund Apollo which will see Apollo acquire seven data centers in five markets - Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen, Milan, and Geneva - and form a new, independent company to manage them.  According to a statement from the businesses, the data cen...

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Read Airstar Bank Migrates Operations to Tencent Cloud
Airstar Bank Migrates Operations to Tencent Cloud
April 30, 2025

Airstar Bank Migrates Operations to Tencent Cloud

Hong Kong-based Airstar Bank has fully migrated its operations to the cloud, successfully running operations for more than 100 days. The company began its migration in December 2023, signing an agreement with Tencent Cloud that would see all business operations moving to the cloud.Felix Tao, C...

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Read Chillmine and Energywise to Develop Solar Powered Data Centers
Chillmine and Energywise to Develop Solar Powered Data Centers
April 29, 2025

Chillmine and Energywise to Develop Solar Powered Data Centers

Seattle-based cloud computing company Chillmine has signed a memorandum of understanding with Zimbabwean independent power producer (IPP) Energywise to develop solar-powered data centers across the country.They plan to use power from Energywise’s planned 100MW Runde River Solar Park in Zvishav...

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Read Rio de Janeiro to Host Latin America's Largest Data Center Campus
Rio de Janeiro to Host Latin America's Largest Data Center Campus
April 29, 2025

Rio de Janeiro to Host Latin America's Largest Data Center Campus

A new artificial intelligence (AI) data center campus has been announced in  Rio de Janeiro-the “Rio AI City” project. This project was revealed at the opening of the Web Summit Rio on 27 April and it is ti be located in the city’s Olympic Park. When completed, the project will reportedly be t...

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Read AT&T and Helium Partner fot Enhance WiFi Connectivity across US
AT&T and Helium Partner fot Enhance WiFi Connectivity across US
April 29, 2025

AT&T and Helium Partner fot Enhance WiFi Connectivity across US

AT&T has partnered with Helium to expand the number of WiFi hotspots available to its mobile customers.Helium Network operates as a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) company that lets individuals and organizations deploy WiFi hotspots in return for cryptocurrency tokens...

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Read ESR and Stack Break Ground on 72MW Japan Facility
ESR and Stack Break Ground on 72MW Japan Facility
April 28, 2025

ESR and Stack Break Ground on 72MW Japan Facility

ESR and Stack have broken ground on a new data center campus outside Osaka, located in Japan’s Kansai region. The Keihanna campus will offer 72MW of capacity and span 53,110 sqm (571,660 sq ft). The first facility, KIX01A, has begun construction. It will offer 18MW of capacity, and ESR estimat...

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Read EcoDataCenter Sells Facilities in Sweden to CapMan Infra
EcoDataCenter Sells Facilities in Sweden to CapMan Infra
April 28, 2025

EcoDataCenter Sells Facilities in Sweden to CapMan Infra

Swedish data center operator EcoDataCenter this week announced the sale of three of its data centers to CapMan Infra’s data center platform as part of a pivot to focus on larger-scale developments.. The sale comprises two facilities in Stockholm and one in Piteå.EcoDataCenter said the transact...

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Read Top Data Center News for 21st - 25th April 2025
Top Data Center News for 21st - 25th April 2025
April 28, 2025

Top Data Center News for 21st - 25th April 2025

Belltown Power Announces Six New Data CentersUS renewable energy developer Belltown Power Texas has announced six new data center developments across North Texas to have a combined capacity of 1.435GW and represent the company’s first in the US market.Homeless Camp Cleared for Microsoft Data C...

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Read Homeless camp Cleared for Microsoft Data Center
Homeless camp Cleared for Microsoft Data Center
April 26, 2025

Homeless camp Cleared for Microsoft Data Center

A homeless encampment in San José, California, has been cleared this week to make way for the construction of a Microsoft data center. The company bought a 64-acre site next to the road in 2017 for $73.2 million, and revealed plans to build a campus with two data center buildings. This was gra...

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