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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 Intel Appoints Lip-Bu Tan as CEO
Intel Appoints Lip-Bu Tan as CEO
March 13, 2025

Intel Appoints Lip-Bu Tan as CEO

Beleaguered chipmaker Intel has appointed former director Lip-Bu Tan as its new CEO. Tan will take up his new role on March 18, and also rejoin the Intel board of directors.Intel named CFO David Zinsner and Intel Products CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus as interim co-CEOs following Gelsinger’s ...

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Read Ecoblox and Tenstorrent Form Partnership for AI and HPC Offerings
Ecoblox and Tenstorrent Form Partnership for AI and HPC Offerings
March 13, 2025

Ecoblox and Tenstorrent Form Partnership for AI and HPC Offerings

Modular data center firm Ecoblox and chip designer Tenstorrent have signed an agreement to help expand their AI and high performance computing (HPC) offerings in the Middle East and Africa. Both companies will work together to bring AI and HPC compute capacity to the Middle East/Africa region,...

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Read Eaton Acquires Fibrebond Corporation
Eaton Acquires Fibrebond Corporation
March 13, 2025

Eaton Acquires Fibrebond Corporation

Eaton this week announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Fibrebond Corporation, a designer and builder of pre-integrated modular power enclosures for data center, industrial, utility, and communications customers.“Fibrebond is known for its engineering capabilities and customer focus in...

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Read Digital Realty to Host Quantum Computer in Amsterdam
Digital Realty to Host Quantum Computer in Amsterdam
March 12, 2025

Digital Realty to Host Quantum Computer in Amsterdam

Digital Realty this week announced it would host a quantum system for SURF at the AMS17 facility in Amsterdam’s Science Park. The quantum computer will be deployed by SURF directly next to its existing national supercomputer, Snellius."We’re excited to partner with SURF to bring this pioneerin...

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Read OpenAI Signs AI Cloud Deal with CoreWeave
OpenAI Signs AI Cloud Deal with CoreWeave
March 12, 2025

OpenAI Signs AI Cloud Deal with CoreWeave

OpenAI has agreed an $11.9 billion deal to buy services from CoreWeave, which will see it take an equity stake in the AI cloud provider. This deal comes just before CoreWeave’s stock market debut, which is expected to happen in the next few weeks via an IPO. It will see OpenAI receive CoreWeav...

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Read Virgin Media O2 to Invest in UK Mobile Coverage Boost
Virgin Media O2 to Invest in UK Mobile Coverage Boost
March 12, 2025

Virgin Media O2 to Invest in UK Mobile Coverage Boost

Virgin Media O2 has announced plans to invest £700 million ($904m) into its mobile network this year in an effort to improve its reliability, speed, and coverage across the UK. The investment will be used to plug gaps in the telco's coverage in the country as the carrier reports that traffic o...

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Read JLL Secures Management Contract with Pure DC
JLL Secures Management Contract with Pure DC
March 11, 2025

JLL Secures Management Contract with Pure DC

JLL has announced it has secured a landmark facilities management contract with Pure Data Centres for a data center in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The company said its offerings will comprise ongoing maintenance and support for Yas Island’s low-voltage and high-voltage electrical systems, including its UP...

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Read Hyve Breaks Ground in Frankfurt, Germany
Hyve Breaks Ground in Frankfurt, Germany
March 11, 2025

Hyve Breaks Ground in Frankfurt, Germany

Managed hosting company Hyve has launched a new data center deployment in Frankfurt, Germany and has taken space in an Equinix data center. From there, Hyve will offer services including colocation, managed private cloud, managed enterprise cloud, hybrid and multi-cloud solutions, dedicated an...

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Read Data4 Signs Nuclear Deal with Westinghouse
Data4 Signs Nuclear Deal with Westinghouse
March 11, 2025

Data4 Signs Nuclear Deal with Westinghouse

European data center firm Data4 this week announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore the use of Westinghouse Electric Company’s AP300 SMR to power future data centers in Europe. Data4 will use the AP300 SMR as its technology of choice to evaluate deployment at one o...

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Read Partners Group Acquires GreenSquareDC
Partners Group Acquires GreenSquareDC
March 11, 2025

Partners Group Acquires GreenSquareDC

Swiss private equity firm Partners Group is to acquire Australian data center firm GreenSquareDC and will invest up to AU$1.2 billion (US$759m) in GreenSquare to establish the company as a “next generation data center platform.”Nicholas Kuys, managing director, Infrastructure Asia, Partners Gr...

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Read xAI Buys Land for Second Memphis Data Center
xAI Buys Land for Second Memphis Data Center
March 11, 2025

xAI Buys Land for Second Memphis Data Center

xAI has bought a 1 million sq ft (92,905 sqm) site for a new data center in Memphis, as Elon Musk’s startup looks to expand its Colossus supercomputer. The company has purchased three parcels of land at 5400 Tulane Road, Whitehaven, through an affiliate company CTC Properties. It acquired an e...

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Read Crain's Chicago Business relies on Baxtel's data
Crain's Chicago Business relies on Baxtel's data
March 10, 2025

Crain's Chicago Business relies on Baxtel's data

Baxtel provided the data for the Crain Chicago Business Journal article that reports how the city is positioning itself for the data center boom. The city's efforts to attract more data centers will lead to economic growth, job creation, and property tax revenues. Read the article on Crain's C...

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Read Ori Industries Deploys GPUs at Kao Data Facility
Ori Industries Deploys GPUs at Kao Data Facility
March 10, 2025

Ori Industries Deploys GPUs at Kao Data Facility

AI cloud provider Ori's UK announced   that it would deploy Nvidia H200 GPUs in the UK late last year, but did not disclose which data center provider it would use.. However, the company has finally revealed that the GPU deployment is in Kao Data's facility in Harlow. “We are delighted to part...

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Read Orange Announces Plans to Leverage Data Center Assets
Orange Announces Plans to Leverage Data Center Assets
March 10, 2025

Orange Announces Plans to Leverage Data Center Assets

Orange has announced plans to leverage its data center assets as it looks to capitalize on the growth around data center demand. Michaël Trabbia, CEO of Orange Wholesale, noted last week at Mobile World Congress, the importance of Orange owning its own telecoms infrastructure, during a time wh...

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Read Top Data Center News for 3rd-8th March 2025
Top Data Center News for 3rd-8th March 2025
March 10, 2025

Top Data Center News for 3rd-8th March 2025

Nordic investment firm Areim this week announced it has completed an additional capital raise for its Nordic data center fund, Areim DC Fund, bringing the total raised capital to €900 million ($961m).AI infrastructure company Nebius has announced plans to build a 300MW data center in New Jerse...

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Read SAM Announces Plans for Vietnam's Largest Data Center Campus
SAM Announces Plans for Vietnam's Largest Data Center Campus
March 08, 2025

SAM Announces Plans for Vietnam's Largest Data Center Campus

Saigon Asset Management (SAM) has announced plans for the SAM DigitalHub, outside of Hanoi, Vietnam. The campus is located at the Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park (VSIP), a joint venture between Vietnam’s Becamex IDC Corporation and a Singaporean consortium led by Sembcorp Development. “The t...

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Read Microsoft to Invest $300m in Cloud and AI Infrastructure
Microsoft to Invest $300m in Cloud and AI Infrastructure
March 08, 2025

Microsoft to Invest $300m in Cloud and AI Infrastructure

Microsoft has committed to investing ZAR 5.4 billion ($298.6m) in cloud and AI infrastructure in South Africa by 2027. Microsoft has already invested ZAR 20.4 billion in infrastructure in South Africa over the past three years to establish data centers in Johannesburg and Cape Town.South Afric...

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Read First Nation Prophet River FN Plans Data Center in British Columbia
First Nation Prophet River FN Plans Data Center in British Columbia
March 08, 2025

First Nation Prophet River FN Plans Data Center in British Columbia

Prophet River FN, an independent Dene Tsaa Nation, has signed a deal with VC firm ABCT Pacific, which will see the pair work together to develop the data center near Fort St. John, a city in Northeast BC.Valerie Askoty, Prophet River FN chief, described the project as a “unique and forward-loo...

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Read Nebius to Build 300MW Data Center in New Jersey
Nebius to Build 300MW Data Center in New Jersey
March 08, 2025

Nebius to Build 300MW Data Center in New Jersey

AI infrastructure company Nebius has announced plans to build a 300MW data center in New Jersey. The facility will be completed in phases, with the first due to be delivered by summer 2025.In a statement, Nebius said the new Icelandic deployment would be powered by geothermal energy to reduce ...

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Read Soluna Acquires Land in Texas for Bitcoin Mining Site
Soluna Acquires Land in Texas for Bitcoin Mining Site
March 08, 2025

Soluna Acquires Land in Texas for Bitcoin Mining Site

Crypto and HPC data center provider Soluna has finalized the purchase of 60 acres of land in Texas for the construction of its new 187MW data center, which will be allocated to Bitcoin mining and intensive AI computing tasks. The site is colocated with a 240MW wind farm, allowing the firm to h...

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