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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 Georgia governor vetoes bill to pause data center tax breaks after it had passed both houses
Georgia governor vetoes bill to pause data center tax breaks after it had passed both houses
May 11, 2024

Georgia governor vetoes bill to pause data center tax breaks after it had passed both houses

Georgia

Gov. Brian Kemp this week decided to veto HB 1192, a bill that would pause tax breaks for data centers in Georgia after it had passed both houses.In a statement explaining the veto, Governor Kemp said the state extended data center exemptions to 2031 just two years ago, with projects starting ...

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Read Mid Yorkshire Teaching NaHS Trust's Dewsbury and District Hospital gets new data center
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NaHS Trust's Dewsbury and District Hospital gets new data center
May 10, 2024

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NaHS Trust's Dewsbury and District Hospital gets new data center

United Kingdom

The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NaHS Trust's Dewsbury and District Hospital in the UK has a new 'digital data center' (DDC). The DDC will be replacing the hospital's former data center, which has become outdated and was not able to be expanded as it was within an existing hospital building. Accordi...

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Read Atlanta City Council members propose new bill to block data center developments
Atlanta City Council members propose new bill to block data center developments
May 10, 2024

Atlanta City Council members propose new bill to block data center developments

Atlanta

Atlanta City Councilmen Jason Dozier and Matt Westmoreland have introduced bills to block data center developments around certain areas of the Georgia city near transit stops and the Beltline.“Excited to introduce legislation alongside Matt Westmoreland to address the rapid growth of data cent...

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Read Microsoft signs carbon removal project in Brazil
Microsoft signs carbon removal project in Brazil
May 10, 2024

Microsoft signs carbon removal project in Brazil

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft this week has finalized its carbon removal project with Re green in a deal which will fund the restoration of more than 16,000 hectares of degraded pastureland across Brazil (over half of which is already acquired with restoration activities underway), including in the States of Mara...

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Read Digital Realty launches new data center in Japan
Digital Realty launches new data center in Japan
May 10, 2024

Digital Realty launches new data center in Japan

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has broken ground on a new data center outside Tokyo, Japan, marking its third data center at the NRT campus in Inzai, Chiba prefecture. This new 31MW facility, known as NRT14, will be configurable to support private AI deployments at densities up to 70kW per rack via air-assist...

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Read EchoStar reports subscriber losses as bankruptcy fears increase
EchoStar reports subscriber losses as bankruptcy fears increase
May 10, 2024

EchoStar reports subscriber losses as bankruptcy fears increase

United States

EchoStar's financial fear increases as the company reports subscriber losses across the main areas of its business — wireless, broadband, and pay TV. The company ended Q1 with a net loss of $107.38 million, compared to net income of $253.53m the previous year. EchoStar said in its latest finan...

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Read Liberty Global approaches AI adoption with caution
Liberty Global approaches AI adoption with caution
May 10, 2024

Liberty Global approaches AI adoption with caution

Virgin Media Business

Liberty Global, the parent company of telco Virgin Media O2 and Edge data center provider AtlasEdge, this week said it's being cautious in its approach to AI adoption. at an event held in London this week by the company, Enrique Rodriguez, EVP and chief technology officer of Liberty Global, ac...

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Read Unity Group and Windstream Holdings announce merger agreement
Unity Group and Windstream Holdings announce merger agreement
May 09, 2024

Unity Group and Windstream Holdings announce merger agreement

United States

Uniti Group Inc. and Windstream Holdings II, LLC last week announced a merger agreement which combines Uniti's wholesale-owned fiber network with Windstream's Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) business. The companies note that this merger will create a "premier insurgent fiber provider in the US," to c...

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Read NCSA expands Radiant Supercomputer
NCSA expands Radiant Supercomputer
May 09, 2024

NCSA expands Radiant Supercomputer

Illinois

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s (UIUC) National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)  this week announced it has installed additional graphics processing units (GPUs) to its private cloud Radiant system. The University acquired the GPU with a  funding commitment of $50 m...

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Read Meta plans data center in Montgomery, Alabama
Meta plans data center in Montgomery, Alabama
May 09, 2024

Meta plans data center in Montgomery, Alabama

Alabama

Tech giant Meta, formerly known as Facebook, this week announced plans to build an $800 million data center in Montgomery County, Alabama. The facility is located across from Hyundai’s automotive assembly plant and will join Meta’s other Alabama data center campus 190 miles north in Huntsville...

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Read Coreweave to make billion dollar investment in UK data centers
Coreweave to make billion dollar investment in UK data centers
May 08, 2024

Coreweave to make billion dollar investment in UK data centers

CoreWeave

AI cloud provider CoreWeave has revealed its plans to invest  £1 billion in expanding its operations in the UK which will enable the launch of two data centers in the UK in 2024, with further expansion plans for 2025. The cloud provider has also opened an office in London, which will be its Eu...

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Read New GPU cloud firm offering access to AMD GPUs launches
New GPU cloud firm offering access to AMD GPUs launches
May 08, 2024

New GPU cloud firm offering access to AMD GPUs launches

Norway

A new GPU cloud provider Nscale which relies on AMD hardware has announced its official launch and is now offering services based on AMD’s Instinct MI300X GPU accelerators from a cryptomining firm and sister company Arkon Energy’s data center in Glomfjord, Norway. “Over the coming years, AI wi...

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Read PLDT secures green loan for fiber network expansion
PLDT secures green loan for fiber network expansion
May 08, 2024

PLDT secures green loan for fiber network expansion

Philippines

Philippines Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) has secured a green loan from Metropolitan Bank & Trust Co. (Metrobank) worth 4 billion pesos ($69 million). Proceeds from the loan will be used toward expanding PLDT's fiber footprint, as it seeks to "narrow the country's digital divide, ...

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Read Grid Telecom to build CLS in Crete
Grid Telecom to build CLS in Crete
May 08, 2024

Grid Telecom to build CLS in Crete

Greece

Grid Telecom, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO) of Greece, and Quadrivium Digital, this week announced plans to build a cable landing station (CLS) on the Greek island of Crete. This CLS will be hosted within Quadrivium’s planned campus and will se...

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Read DataVolt unveils debut datacenter in Uzbekistan
DataVolt unveils debut datacenter in Uzbekistan
May 08, 2024

DataVolt unveils debut datacenter in Uzbekistan

Saudi Arabia

Saudi firm DataVolt has broken ground on its debut data center which will offer 10MW via a $150 million investment. in Tashkent, Uzbekistan this week. DataVolt said the data center features a modular infrastructure design, allowing for scalable solutions able to accommodate various workloads “...

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Read DXN enters agreement to deliver four cable landing stations for EMCS
DXN enters agreement to deliver four cable landing stations for EMCS
May 07, 2024

DXN enters agreement to deliver four cable landing stations for EMCS

Australia

Australian data center firm DXN has signed a US$3.8 million contract to deliver four cable landing stations for the East Micronesia Cable System (EMCS), expected  to be complete in Q1 of 2025. This would be the first submarine cable connection for the islands of Tarawa, Nauru, and Kosrae.Shali...

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Read Kohler sells majority stake in energy unit to investment firm
Kohler sells majority stake in energy unit to investment firm
May 07, 2024

Kohler sells majority stake in energy unit to investment firm

United States

Kohler Co. and Platinum Equity announced this week that it has sold a majority stake in its energy unit to investment firm Platinum Equity and both companies have closed the transaction to establish Kohler Energy as a separate, independent business."This strategic move allows Kohler to focus a...

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Read Microsoft signs new PPA in Ireland
Microsoft signs new PPA in Ireland
May 07, 2024

Microsoft signs new PPA in Ireland

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft revealed this week that it has entered into a long-term deal to offtake the output of the newly commissioned Lenalea Wind Farm near Letterkenny, County Donegal."At Microsoft, we are committed to playing our part in supporting the decarbonization of energy grids in markets in which we...

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Read GI Partners acquires fiber firm DQE Communications
GI Partners acquires fiber firm DQE Communications
May 06, 2024

GI Partners acquires fiber firm DQE Communications

GI Partners

Investment firm GI Partners this week announced the closing of the acquisition of Pennsylvanian regional fiber firm DQE Communications from DQE’s parent company, Pittsburgh-based Duquesne Light Holdings Inc. The company has also appointed Michael T. Sicoli as CEO of the company, effective imme...

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Read Microsoft signs new carbon capture deal in Sweden
Microsoft signs new carbon capture deal in Sweden
May 06, 2024

Microsoft signs new carbon capture deal in Sweden

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has signed the world’s largest carbon capture deal with Stockholm Exergi to remove carbon from an upcoming biomass plant in Sweden. The deal will cover 3.33 million tonnes of permanent carbon removals from bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) at Värtan, Stockholm.“We ar...

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