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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 Oracle Wins Two US Federal Contracts
Oracle Wins Two US Federal Contracts
April 18, 2025

Oracle Wins Two US Federal Contracts

Oracle has won two US federal contracts as the US Army’s Enterprise Cloud Management Agency (ECMA) expanded its use of OCI, and the company has been selected by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the STRATUS contract.Oracle US Defense Cloud regions are secure and isolated, specificall...

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Read Applied Digital Looks to Sell Cloud Business
Applied Digital Looks to Sell Cloud Business
April 18, 2025

Applied Digital Looks to Sell Cloud Business

Digital infrastructure firm Applied Digital has announced that it is set to sell its cloud services business as a result of both internal and external pressures. The company appears to pave the way for a potential pivot to becoming a real-estate investment trust (REIT) in the near future.“Afte...

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Read Tencent Cloud Launches Region in Osaka, Japan
Tencent Cloud Launches Region in Osaka, Japan
April 18, 2025

Tencent Cloud Launches Region in Osaka, Japan

Tencent Cloud is launching a new cloud region in the Kansai region of Osaka, which will be the third availability zone in Japan, joining Tencent's two other zones in Tokyo. In addition to the new cloud region, Tencent will open a new office in Osaka to help create more jobs in the region.Dowso...

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Read Townsend Group Invests in CleanArc Data Centers
Townsend Group Invests in CleanArc Data Centers
April 17, 2025

Townsend Group Invests in CleanArc Data Centers

CleanArc Data Centers has secured new investment from a real estate investor, Townsend Group. Terms of the deal were not shared, but existing investor Snowhawk retains a majority share in the data center firm. CleanArc said the investment will support the company’s growth."We're excited to wel...

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Read Microsoft Signs 15-year Carbon Removal Agreement in Louisiana
Microsoft Signs 15-year Carbon Removal Agreement in Louisiana
April 17, 2025

Microsoft Signs 15-year Carbon Removal Agreement in Louisiana

Microsoft has signed the largest permanent carbon removal to date after agreeing to a 15-year deal with bioenergy firm AtmosClear BR for 6.75 million tons of carbon removals. They will be generated from Atmos’ planned bioenergy carbon capture & storage (BECCS) project at the Port of Greate...

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Read X5 Group Plans 10MW Data Center in Moscow
X5 Group Plans 10MW Data Center in Moscow
April 17, 2025

X5 Group Plans 10MW Data Center in Moscow

Russia’s largest food retailer X5 Group last week announced that construction had started on its data center. The 6,000 sqm (64,583 sq ft) 10MW facility is due to go live in Q3 2026. It will use an outside air cooling system. The facility will host the company's own IT systems, including logis...

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Read Colt Technology Services Sells European Data Centers
Colt Technology Services Sells European Data Centers
April 17, 2025

Colt Technology Services Sells European Data Centers

Colt Technology Services this week announced the divestment of six facilities in Germany and the Netherlands to DWS-owned NorthC, as well as two in the UK to DWS separately. The NorthC transaction includes data centers across Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Düsseldorf, and Amsterdam, with ...

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Read Data Facilities Data Centers Completes the First Expansion in Hague
Data Facilities Data Centers Completes the First Expansion in Hague
April 17, 2025

Data Facilities Data Centers Completes the First Expansion in Hague

Dutch data center firm Data Facilities Data Centers (DFDC) has completed the first expansion of its facility in the Hague. The expansion will boost the site’s rack capacity from 165 to potentially 275, with the new capacity supporting up to 10kW per rack. “We’re excited to share a major milest...

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Read New Data Centers Proposed for Val-de-Marne, France
New Data Centers Proposed for Val-de-Marne, France
April 16, 2025

New Data Centers Proposed for Val-de-Marne, France

Two developers have proposed new data center projects in the suburbs of French capital Paris. Segro has proposed to build a data center at the Petits Carreaux business park near Bonneuil-sur-Marne, while another developer, Icade, plans to spend €280 million ($318m) building a new hyperscale da...

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Read Northampton Capital Partners Invests in Blueprint Data Centers
Northampton Capital Partners Invests in Blueprint Data Centers
April 16, 2025

Northampton Capital Partners Invests in Blueprint Data Centers

US data center firm Blueprint Data Centers has secured investment from an asset management company, Northampton Capital Partners. Scott McBride, founding partner at Northampton Capital Partners, said: “We are excited to work with the Blueprint team and look forward to what we believe will be a...

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Read Google Signs Corporate PPA in Taiwan
Google Signs Corporate PPA in Taiwan
April 16, 2025

Google Signs Corporate PPA in Taiwan

Google has signed its first corporate Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for a geothermal project in the APAC region. According to Google, the long-term PPA is aimed at catalyzing the geothermal market in the region and involves a direct equity investment in Baseload."This long-term partnership wi...

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Read Intel Sells 51% Stake in Altera for $8.75bn
Intel Sells 51% Stake in Altera for $8.75bn
April 16, 2025

Intel Sells 51% Stake in Altera for $8.75bn

Intel has agreed to sell 51 percent of FPGA chip company Altera to private equity firm Silver Lake for $8.75 billion. Altera will retain a 49 percent stake in Altera, which Intel said will allow it to “participate in Altera’s future success while focusing on its core business.” Intel also anno...

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Read Vantage Loses Appeal in Dublin
Vantage Loses Appeal in Dublin
April 15, 2025

Vantage Loses Appeal in Dublin

Irish planning regulator An Bord Pleanála this week rejected Vantage’s appeal after it was previously denied permission for a data center. Vantage had hoped to build a single two-story data center totaling 12,895 sqm (138,780 sq ft). As well as 13 emergency backup generators, the application a...

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Read atNorth Signs Heat-reuse Agreement in Finland
atNorth Signs Heat-reuse Agreement in Finland
April 15, 2025

atNorth Signs Heat-reuse Agreement in Finland

European data center developer atNorth has signed a heat-reuse agreement with Kesko Corporation, a Finnish retail conglomerate. The agreement will see waste heat generated from atNorth’s FIN02 data center in Sinimäki, Espoo, provided to a neighboring Kesko store."One of the key goals of our am...

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Read Microsoft Signs Carbon Removal Agreement with CO280
Microsoft Signs Carbon Removal Agreement with CO280
April 15, 2025

Microsoft Signs Carbon Removal Agreement with CO280

Microsoft has signed a carbon removal agreement with CO280, a Canadian based CO2 removal firm which retrofits existing pulp and paper mills with carbon capture units to capture biogenic CO2 from boiler stack emissions for permanent geological storage. Microsoft will purchase 3.685 million tons...

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Read Top Data Center News from 7th-12th April 2025
Top Data Center News from 7th-12th April 2025
April 14, 2025

Top Data Center News from 7th-12th April 2025

Alphabet has restated its commitment to investing in AI and the necessary infrastructure as its CEO revealed that the company was still committed to spending around $75 billion on building out data center capacity to support AI.Meta has revealed massive plans to bring a new state-of-the-art “A...

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Read Sparrow Quantum raises $24m in Funding Round
Sparrow Quantum raises $24m in Funding Round
April 14, 2025

Sparrow Quantum raises $24m in Funding Round

Sparrow Quantum has raised $24 million in a Series A funding round led by PensionDanmark with participation from the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark, Novo Holdings, and the European Innovation Council.The company has developed Sparrow Core, described as an “on-chip deterministic single-p...

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Read BluSky AI Inc launches Modular Data Center Business
BluSky AI Inc launches Modular Data Center Business
April 14, 2025

BluSky AI Inc launches Modular Data Center Business

BluSky AI Inc. has announced its "transformation" into "new operations" as a modular data center company this week. The company was previously known as Inception Mining and focused on precious metals including gold. The company aims to offer prefabricated modular data centers designed for quic...

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Read Mark IV Capital Sells 300 Acres in Industrial Park outside Reno, Nevada
Mark IV Capital Sells 300 Acres in Industrial Park outside Reno, Nevada
April 12, 2025

Mark IV Capital Sells 300 Acres in Industrial Park outside Reno, Nevada

Real estate investment firm Mark IV Capital this week announced the sale of 300 acres within its Victory Logistics District to an unnamed technology company for a potential data center development. The buyer is described as a “global leader in enterprise software, cloud computing, artificial i...

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Read Hypertec Cloud Acquires 5C Data Centers
Hypertec Cloud Acquires 5C Data Centers
April 12, 2025

Hypertec Cloud Acquires 5C Data Centers

AI cloud provider Hypertec Cloud has acquired colocation and data center provider 5C Data Centers and both companies have joined together to form 5C Group, through which they will develop AI data center infrastructure across the US.Hypertec Cloud president Jonathon Ahdoot will head the new com...

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