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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 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 t...

August 01, 2026

Posted by: Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

New Jersey

Trump bashes CHIPS Act at Interview

Former President Donald Trump criticized the CHIPS and Science Act during a three-hour interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, saying that the government should have levied tariffs on the semiconductor industry."That chip deal is so bad, we put up billions of dollars for rich companies to come and...

October 31, 2024

United States

UK government launches National Quantum Computing Centre in Harwell

The UK government has announced the opening of the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) in Harwell, UK. The 4,000 sqm (43,056 sq ft) facility will house 12 quantum computers and will provide industry, academia, and other sectors with open access to quantum computing platforms. It forms par...

October 31, 2024

United Kingdom

Fujitsu and Supermicro to jointly develop "green" servers and liquid cooling solutions

Fujitsu and Supermicro have announced plans to jointly develop “green” energy-efficient servers for high-performance computing. The companies said they will also jointly develop liquid-cooled solutions for high-performance computing, generative AI, and next-generation green data centers."Super...

October 31, 2024

NextSilicon launches Maverick-2 Intelligent Compute Accelerator

NextSilicon has unveiled what it claims is the world’s first Intelligent Compute Accelerator (ICA). Dubbed the Maverick-2 ICA, the Israeli startup said “the novel and original computing architecture” delivers more than 4x the performance-per-watt of traditional GPUs and 20x that of high-end CP...

October 31, 2024

Vantage unveils New Albany data center in Ohio

Vantage Data Centers has broken ground on a new data centre campus located 70 acres outside Columbus in New Albany. OH1 will provide a total of 192MW of IT capacity across more than 1.5 million square feet (139,355 sqm). The company said more than $2 billion will be invested in the project, wi...

October 31, 2024

Vantage Data Centers

Indiana advocacy group calls for state data center moratorium

Indiana consumer and environmental advocacy organization Citizens Action Coalition (CAC) has called for a pause on new hyperscale data center development in the state. The group this week called on the Indiana General Assembly to enact a moratorium on new hyperscale data centers used to power ...

October 30, 2024

Indiana

KKR signs partnership contract with ECP

KKR has signed a $50 billion strategic partnership with American investment firm Energy Capital Partners (ECP), which will focus on accelerating data centre, power generation, and transmission infrastructure development to support the expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computi...

October 30, 2024

Indian companies order thousands of Nvidia chips

Several companies in India have made significant orders for Nvidia chips. Among those firms are Reliance Industries, Tech Mahindra, Tata Communications, and Yotta Data Services. As reported by TechCrunch, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has revealed a slew of partnerships with Indian firms to deploy i...

October 30, 2024

ParTec partners with HDRZ research lab for petaflops AI supercomputer

German modular supercomputing company ParTec has partnered with the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HDRZ) research lab to jointly develop and operate an AI supercomputer. No information has been provided about the system’s hardware but in a statement, the two companies said it will be on...

October 30, 2024

Germany / Deutschland

Equinix to invest in two data centers in Bangkok, Thailand

Equinix this week announced an intention to invest approximately $500 million in Thailand in phases over the next ten years, including the recent acquisition of land in Bangkok for approximately $34m. The newly acquired land in the Bangna area of Bangkok will be used to establish two Equinix I...

October 30, 2024

Equinix

Citigroup signs multi-year contract with Google Cloud

American investment banking and financial services firm Citi has signed a multi-year contract with Google Cloud to use its cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) offerings. The agreement will see Citi migrate several workloads and applications to Google Cloud, and use Google Cloud's ...

October 29, 2024

Google

CoreWeave to convert New Jersey lab building into data center

CoreWeave is expanding its data center footprint in New Jersey. According to local press, the company has signed a long-term lease with an Onyx Equities and Machine Investment Group partnership for the entirety of building 11 at The Northeast Science & Technology Center (NEST) in Kenilwort...

October 29, 2024

New Jersey

FCC rules in favor of AT&T's FirstNet over 4.9 GHz spectrum usage

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has voted to transfer control of a chunk of the 4.9 GHz spectrum band to FirstNet, which operates a network for first responders that AT&T uses. The FCC voted 4-0 in favor of handing the spectrum to FirstNet. Commissioner Anna Gomez did not parti...

October 28, 2024

AT&T

OVHcloud names Benjamin Revcolevschi as CEO

European cloud and data center firm OVHcloud has appointed Benjamin Revcolevschi as CEO, breaking the news during its FY 2024 results this week, saying Michel Paulin resigned from his positions as director and CEO during a 23 October meeting. Revcolevschi joined OVH in May 2024 as deputy chief...

October 28, 2024

OVH Group

Vodafone amongst others complete 5G mmWave trials in UK

Vodafone, Qualcomm, and Ericsson have completed 5G Millimeter wave (mmWave) trials in the UK. In an announcement, carrier Vodafone said the two trials had been a success. Two trials were carried out, including one in Newbury, which used full spectrum bandwidth (800 MHz of mmWave spectrum)."Whi...

October 26, 2024

United Kingdom

Northern Data to divest Peak Mining crypto mining business

Northern Data Group confirmed on October 21 that it is considering dropping the crypto side of its business to focus more on its artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) solutions. The company notes that its Q3 2024 financial results saw strong sequential growth in its...

October 26, 2024

Vertiv posts third-quarter revenues of $2.07 billion, beats analyst expectations.

Digital infrastructure power and cooling company Vertiv posted third-quarter revenues of $2.07 billion, above analyst expectations which was 19 percent higher than the same time last year, while operating profit was $372 million, up 48 percent. However, the company said that it expected to ear...

October 26, 2024

Global Switch to sell Australia data center business

Global Switch has agreed to sell its Australian assets to investment manager HMC Capital for AU$2.12 billion (US$1.41bn). This deal for Global Switch Australia Holdings (GSAH) will provide Global Switch with capital to grow other parts of its business, the company said on Thursday morning. The...

October 26, 2024

Australia

PJM proposes to hasten grid connection for shovel-ready projects

Grid operator PJM has presented a proposal to permit “shovel-ready” energy projects an expedited route to interconnection to meet grid reliability needs. PJM, with a service area including Virginia and Ohio, has indicated it will provide stakeholders with a formal proposal early next month to ...

October 25, 2024

Virginia

VP and head of platform Amit Zavery to leave Google

The vice president, general manager, and head of platform at Google Cloud is set to depart after spending the last five and a half years at Google, joining from Oracle Cloud along with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian. "The decision to leave Google is one of the toughest I’ve ever made," Zavery ...

October 25, 2024

Google

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