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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 CTA calls for stricter measures against copper theft
CTA calls for stricter measures against copper theft
July 08, 2024

CTA calls for stricter measures against copper theft

Canada

The Canadian Telecommunications Association (CTA) has called for tougher measures to deter the theft of copper cables as related crimes have increased by an estimated 200% each year from 2021 to 2023.“It’s something we’ve seen over the past couple of years, quite a substantial increase in inst...

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Read AWS partners with Australian government for high-security data center development
AWS partners with Australian government for high-security data center development
July 06, 2024

AWS partners with Australian government for high-security data center development

Amazon AWS

Amazon has partnered with the Australian government for the development of a high-security data center that will handle top-secret information with an investment of A$2 billion to be made over the next decade. Due to the "top secret" nature of the project, neither the location nor the specific...

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Read Busamed migrates to private cloud environment with DataCentrix
Busamed migrates to private cloud environment with DataCentrix
July 06, 2024

Busamed migrates to private cloud environment with DataCentrix

South Africa

Private South African hospital group Busamed has migrated to a private cloud environment with Datacentrix, consolidating seven on-premise data centers into a single central environment.“Due to our acquisitions, the organization had not only attained new businesses but had inherited the technol...

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Read GlobalFoundries acquires Tagore Technology’s GaN IP portfolio
GlobalFoundries acquires Tagore Technology’s GaN IP portfolio
July 06, 2024

GlobalFoundries acquires Tagore Technology’s GaN IP portfolio

United States

Chipmaker GlobalFoundries (GF) has acquired a gallium nitride (GaN) IP portfolio from Tagore Technology, a fabless chip company that develops gallium nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) semiconductor technology for radio frequency and power management applications.“We are committed to being the fou...

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Read Dutch telcos secure additional 5G spectrum at an auction
Dutch telcos secure additional 5G spectrum at an auction
July 06, 2024

Dutch telcos secure additional 5G spectrum at an auction

Netherlands

Dutch telcos, KPN, Odido, and VodafoneZiggo all secured 100 MHz of spectrum in the 3.5GHz band during the country's latest auction this week which raised €174.4 million.“Companies and consumers have been waiting for this moment for a long time. Meanwhile, the demand for data is growing rapidly...

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Read ADNOC partners with e& for private 5G wireless networks
ADNOC partners with e& for private 5G wireless networks
July 06, 2024

ADNOC partners with e& for private 5G wireless networks

Abu Dhabi

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has paired with telco e& to build a private 5G wireless network that spans 11,000 square kilometers which will be the largest private 5G wireless network ever built in the energy industry.“This landmark project with e& is a milestone step in A...

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Read Pacific Avenue Capital Partners acquires KiddeFenwal
Pacific Avenue Capital Partners acquires KiddeFenwal
July 05, 2024

Pacific Avenue Capital Partners acquires KiddeFenwal

Europe

Private equity firm Pacific Avenue Capital Partners, a middle market-focused private equity firm specializing in carve-outs and complex situations, has acquired fire suppression company KiddeFenwal.“With its enviable product portfolio, established brand equity, and strong customer relationship...

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Read CCEP selects Systal Technology Solutions for network transformation
CCEP selects Systal Technology Solutions for network transformation
July 05, 2024

CCEP selects Systal Technology Solutions for network transformation

Europe

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) has partnered with Systal Technology Solutions for its network transformation across Europe, supporting more than 6,500 devices in 300 locations across 11 countries for CCEP.“We are thrilled to officially go live with our direct service as CCEP’s trusted t...

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Read Ericsson to book impairment charge for Vonage acquisition
Ericsson to book impairment charge for Vonage acquisition
July 05, 2024

Ericsson to book impairment charge for Vonage acquisition

Equinix

Ericsson has confirmed that it will record a noncash impairment charge of 11.4 billion Swedish crowns, which reflects lower anticipated market growth in some of Vonage’s current portfolio."We continue to advance our strategy to build a Global Network Platform for network APIs, which was the st...

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Read Phaidra raises funds for data center cooling control system
Phaidra raises funds for data center cooling control system
July 05, 2024

Phaidra raises funds for data center cooling control system

Seattle

Industrial AI company Phaidra has raised $12 million for its data center cooling control system  from Index Ventures and will use the money for R&D, implementation, and go-to-market efforts.“The data center industry is in the midst of an arms race to build new capacity wherever land and po...

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Read Department of Commerce signs non-binding preliminary memorandum with Rogue Valley Microdevices
Department of Commerce signs non-binding preliminary memorandum with Rogue Valley Microdevices
July 05, 2024

Department of Commerce signs non-binding preliminary memorandum with Rogue Valley Microdevices

United States

The US Department of Commerce has signed a non-binding preliminary memorandum of terms with Rogue Valley Microdevices (RVM) to provide up to $6.7 million in proposed direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act.“The proposed investment in RVM is another example of how the Biden-Harris Admini...

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Read TotalEnergies unveils Pangea 4 hybrid supercomputer
TotalEnergies unveils Pangea 4 hybrid supercomputer
July 05, 2024

TotalEnergies unveils Pangea 4 hybrid supercomputer

France

Energy company TotalEnergies has unveiled the latest generation of its Pangea supercomputer, housed at the Jean Féger Scientific and Technical Center at Pau in southwest France. The Pangea 4 system is smaller and more energy efficient than the Pangea II, using 87 percent less electricity than ...

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Read Microsoft partners with CCL for New Zealand cloud region
Microsoft partners with CCL for New Zealand cloud region
July 04, 2024

Microsoft partners with CCL for New Zealand cloud region

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced that CCL, a provider of IT and hybrid cloud services within local telco Spark's Business Group, will be its first at-scale cloud launch partner for the upcoming New Zealand cloud region.“We’ve seen huge interest from customers in leading end-to-end cloud services, hyper...

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Read Exa Infrastructure and Socar Fiber form new partnership terrestrial cable development
Exa Infrastructure and Socar Fiber form new partnership terrestrial cable development
July 04, 2024

Exa Infrastructure and Socar Fiber form new partnership terrestrial cable development

EXA Infrastructure

Exa Infrastructure and Socar Fiber have partnered to develop a new 1,850km terrestrial cable which will will span the breadth of Turkey (officially Türkiye), with the potential to run along the Iraq border as an alternative to subsea cables in the Red Sea corridor.Steve Roberts, senior vice pr...

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Read Hitachi Construction Machinery migrates large scale systems to Oracle
Hitachi Construction Machinery migrates large scale systems to Oracle
July 04, 2024

Hitachi Construction Machinery migrates large scale systems to Oracle

Japan

Japan's Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. Ltd. is migrating its large-scale systems for accounting, development, production, design, sales, parts, export, human resources, and services to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure from on-premise.“OCI is the only public cloud that can securely migrate missi...

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Read Virgin Media O2 and Vodafone sign 10-year etwork-sharing agreement
Virgin Media O2 and Vodafone sign 10-year etwork-sharing agreement
July 03, 2024

Virgin Media O2 and Vodafone sign 10-year etwork-sharing agreement

Vodafone

Virgin Media O2 and Vodafone have signed a new network-sharing deal in the UK which also includes plans for Virgin Media O2 to acquire spectrum from Vodafone, which could help the latter gain regulatory approval for its merger with Three."We are extending and bolstering elements of our existin...

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Read Department of Commerce announces funding to scale up 12 US Tech Hubs
Department of Commerce announces funding to scale up 12 US Tech Hubs
July 03, 2024

Department of Commerce announces funding to scale up 12 US Tech Hubs

United States

The US Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) has announced $504 million in funding to scale up 12 sites that were designated as Tech Hubs by the Biden Administration. This fund will be used to expand research into artificial intelligence, semiconductor manufacturin...

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Read Google signs new wind PPAs in Belgium
Google signs new wind PPAs in Belgium
July 03, 2024

Google signs new wind PPAs in Belgium

Google

Google has signed five new Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) totaling more than 118MW to procure wind energy in Belgium from Engie. Google will procure another 92MW from a Belgian wind farm in operation for eight years.Vincent Verbeke, CEO of Engie Belgium, said: “We are pleased to partner with...

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Read Iliad founder submits $4.1bn Millicom bid
Iliad founder submits $4.1bn Millicom bid
July 02, 2024

Iliad founder submits $4.1bn Millicom bid

France

French billionaire Xavier Niel has submitted a bid for Latin American telecoms group Millicom that values the carrier at $4.1 billion through his investment vehicle, Atlas Investissement.In a statement, Atlas said that its offer will ensure the company can expand its reach. "The purpose of the...

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Read Nvidia ex- exec Simona Jankowski appointed CFO of Lightmatter
Nvidia ex- exec Simona Jankowski appointed CFO of Lightmatter
July 02, 2024

Nvidia ex- exec Simona Jankowski appointed CFO of Lightmatter

United States

Nvidia’s former VP of investor relations and strategic finance, Simona Jankowski, has been appointed CFO of photonic computing company Lightmatter after leaving Nvidia after almost seven years with the company. Before her time at Nividia, she was a managing director at Goldman Sachs for over a...

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