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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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February 07, 2025

EnCharge AI Closes $100m Funding Round

AI chip startup EnCharge AI has closed an oversubscribed $100 million Series B funding round led by Tiger Global and saw participation from Samsung Ventures and HH-CTBC. It brings the total amount raised by EnCharge AI to more than $144m. The company said it would use the funds to bring its fi...

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Amazon Looks to Develop Another Data Center in Ohio
February 07, 2025

Amazon Looks to Develop Another Data Center in Ohio

Amazon is looking to develop another data center in Ohio and met the Marysville City Council to discuss a community reinvestment area agreement. The company intends to develop, construct, and operate “one or more data centers," with documents suggesting up to two buildings will be erected with...

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Prologis Plans 10GW Data Center Expansion
February 07, 2025

Prologis Plans 10GW Data Center Expansion

Real estate investment trust Prologis plans to substantially increase its data center portfolio over the coming decade. The company began expanding into the data center sector during the Covid 19 pandemic and often partners with Skybox Datacenters for the actual building of the facilities, whi...

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Templus acquires bitNAP from Cellnex
February 06, 2025

Templus acquires bitNAP from Cellnex

Spanish data center firm Templus has acquired Spanish colo bitNAP from Cellnex,  including bitNAP’s only data center facility in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona. The facility offers 1.7MW of power across 3,000 sqm (32,291 sq ft), with a PUE of 1.14.“This acquisition not only expands our m...

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February 06, 2025

Crusoe and Kalina to Develop Natural Gas Powered AI Data Centers in Canada

Artificial intelligence data center developer Crusoe has entered into a multi-year framework agreement with natural gas-fired power provider Kalina Distributed Power (KDP) to develop multiple colocated AI data centers powered by natural gas power plants in Alberta, Canada.Each potential coloca...

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Lightpath launches Edge data center unit
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Lightpath launches Edge data center unit

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Deserect News Reports on the Stargate Project, Using Baxtel Data
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Deserect News Reports on the Stargate Project, Using Baxtel Data

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Orange Romania Signs 10-year vPPA with Engie

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ProPublica quotes Baxtel
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ProPublica quotes Baxtel

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Alibaba Cloud Launches Mexico Cloud Region
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Alibaba Cloud Launches Mexico Cloud Region

Chinese cloud company Alibaba Cloud has launched its first Mexican cloud region located in Querétaro with one availability zone. The new region brings Alibaba's total network to 87 availability zones across 29 regions. Details about the data center hosting the region have not been shared.“The ...

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CommBank Signs Five- year Deal with AWS

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Prometheus Hyperscale Hires Liquid Cooling Expert John Gross as CTO

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DataBank Raises $250 Million from TJC
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DataBank Raises $250 Million from TJC

DataBank, a data center colocation, interconnection, and managed services company, has raised $250 million from TJC (formerly The Jordan Company). This incestment fund came from excess interest in the company's $2 billion round last October. The operator has raised nearly $5bn in debt and equi...

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Oracle Database@Google Cloud adds Eight Regions

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Top Data Center News from January 27th - 31st 2025

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Euroclear Signs Seven Year Cloud Deal with Microsoft

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Aussie Digital Transformation Agency Signs New Agreement with AWS

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Andhra Pradesh Government to Develop "Data City" in India

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Polcom to Build Two Data Centers Near Krakow
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Polcom to Build Two Data Centers Near Krakow

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