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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 Possible subsea cable damage linked to outage spike in West Africa
Possible subsea cable damage linked to outage spike in West Africa
March 15, 2024

Possible subsea cable damage linked to outage spike in West Africa

Africa

Outages are being reported along the western coast of Africa after a possible cable damage incident. Reports from MyBroadband have linked this downtime to multiple outages on undersea cables near Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire. Microsoft is reporting network latency issues in its South Africa North ...

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Read Vast Data unveils AI architecture developed with Nvidia
Vast Data unveils AI architecture developed with Nvidia
March 15, 2024

Vast Data unveils AI architecture developed with Nvidia

VAZATA

AI data platform Vast Data has unveiled an AI architecture for data centers,built in partnership with Nvidia. The data platform claims that the new system will deliver improved performance and quality of service, as well as enhanced zero-trust security. Jeff Denworth, co-founder at Vast Data, ...

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Read Edenor completes cloud migration to AWS and Microsoft
Edenor completes cloud migration to AWS and Microsoft
March 15, 2024

Edenor completes cloud migration to AWS and Microsoft

Argentina

Argentinian electricity company Edenor announced that its data architecture is now cloud-based, with Edenor using both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft's Azure cloud platforms.  “It's a foundational project because it allows us to generate the bases to be a data-driven company and to be...

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Read OVHcloud launches new data center environment in Toronto, Canada
OVHcloud launches new data center environment in Toronto, Canada
March 15, 2024

OVHcloud launches new data center environment in Toronto, Canada

OVH Group

European cloud provider OVHcloud announced this week that it has launched a new data center environment in Toronto, Canada. The company said its Ontario site will be supported by a C$145 million (US$107m) investment over the next eight years. "This new data center marks a major turning point i...

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Read WSI selects CDC Data Centres for digital tower deployment
WSI selects CDC Data Centres for digital tower deployment
March 15, 2024

WSI selects CDC Data Centres for digital tower deployment

Sydney

Western Sydney International Airport (WSI) has selected CDC Data Centres for its digital tower deployment. WSI will be one of the first in Australia to run a digital air traffic control tower and has partnered with CDC, Frequentis Australasia, and Airservices to develop the system. WSI will de...

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Read Equinix announces Google Cloud executive Adaire Fox-Martin as new CEO
Equinix announces Google Cloud executive Adaire Fox-Martin as new CEO
March 14, 2024

Equinix announces Google Cloud executive Adaire Fox-Martin as new CEO

Equinix

Equinix has appointed Google Cloud executive Adaire Fox-Martin as its new CEO to succeed Charles Meyers, who has led the company for six years. Fox-Martin who has led Google Cloud's go-to-market teams globally since early last year, has been a member of the Equinix board of Directors since 20...

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Read Keppel plans expansion into Japan
Keppel plans expansion into Japan
March 14, 2024

Keppel plans expansion into Japan

Keppel Data Center REIT

Keppel is expanding into Japan with plans to build and buy facilities in the country. In this regard, the company has siged a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mitsui Fudosan Co. Ltd. (Mitsui Fudosan) to ‘jointly explore data center development and investment opportunities’ in Japan and ...

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Read UK joins the European Union’s CJU program
UK joins the European Union’s CJU program
March 14, 2024

UK joins the European Union’s CJU program

United Kingdom

The UK has joined the European Union’s ‘Chips Joint Undertaking’ (CJU) program as a “participating state.” This is a move that gives the country access to a €1.3 billion semiconductor research and development fund. “We are very happy to welcome the UK to the Chips Joint Undertaking as a partic...

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Read Edgecore completes $440 million debt financing deal
Edgecore completes $440 million debt financing deal
March 14, 2024

Edgecore completes $440 million debt financing deal

EdgeCore Internet Real Estate, LLC

EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure has completely secured a $440 million debt financing deal for its Silicon Valley data center buildout. This deal along with a $1.9 billion deal secured in January, were both structured as Green Loans, with ING Capital LLC as the sole Green Loan Structuring Agent...

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Read CWCS acquires property in Nottingham for data center
CWCS acquires property in Nottingham for data center
March 13, 2024

CWCS acquires property in Nottingham for data center

United Kingdom

UK hosting firm CWCS has acquired a property in Nottingham and plans to turn the site into its latest data center. LoopNet lists this property at 3 Padge Road, was built in 1980 and totals 9,300 sq ft (863 sqm) across two floors. Karl Mendez, managing director of CWCS Managed Hosting, said: “I...

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Read Meta shares details of new 24k GPU AI clusters
Meta shares details of new 24k GPU AI clusters
March 13, 2024

Meta shares details of new 24k GPU AI clusters

Microsoft Azure

Meta has shared the details of the hardware, network, storage, design, performance, and software that make up its two new 24,000-GPU data center scale training clusters. These clusters based on Meta’s AI Research SuperCluster (RSC) are being usedto train its Llama 3 large language AI model. I...

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Read Arabsat signs MoU with Anexia
Arabsat signs MoU with Anexia
March 13, 2024

Arabsat signs MoU with Anexia

United States

Arabsat and cloud and managed services company Anexia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for satellite-connected private cloud infrastructure. This new agreement will bring together satellite communications, private cloud services, and GPU technology services by combining their of...

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Read US Politicians propose plan to restore the FCC’s spectrum authority
US Politicians propose plan to restore the FCC’s spectrum authority
March 13, 2024

US Politicians propose plan to restore the FCC’s spectrum authority

United States

Two US politicians have proposed a new spectrum pipeline legislation to restore the US Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) authority to hold spectrum auctions. This comes about a year after the US Senate allowed it to lapse for the first time ever. The proposal by senators Ted Cruz and J...

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Read Airtel’s Nxtra begins construction on Lagos data center
Airtel’s Nxtra begins construction on Lagos data center
March 13, 2024

Airtel’s Nxtra begins construction on Lagos data center

Lagos

Airtel Africa this week officially broke ground on a new facility in Lagos’s Victoria Island. The facility will deliver 38MW and is expected to be live by the first quarter of 2026. It  will also be the first of five hyperscale data centers developed by Airtel Africa on the continent through N...

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Read Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners launches new data center-focused unit
Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners launches new data center-focused unit
March 12, 2024

Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners launches new data center-focused unit

Singtel

Alphabet spin-out Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners (SIP) has launched a new data center-focused unit. “SIP is taking a lead on the private sector solutions by bringing Verrus — a new SIP platform company that builds next-generation data centers — out of stealth after several years of internal ...

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Read WSI selects CDC Data Centres for digital tower deployment
WSI selects CDC Data Centres for digital tower deployment
March 12, 2024

WSI selects CDC Data Centres for digital tower deployment

CDC Cyber Data Center International

Western Sydney International Airport (WSI) has selected CDC Data Centres for its digital tower deployment. WSI will be one of the first in Australia to run a digital air traffic control tower and has partnered with CDC, Frequentis Australasia, and Airservices to develop the system. WSI will de...

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Read Optus' head of networks resigns after lengthy outage in Australia
Optus' head of networks resigns after lengthy outage in Australia
March 12, 2024

Optus' head of networks resigns after lengthy outage in Australia

Australia

Optus' head of networks, Lambo Kanagaratnam, has resigned months after the Australian telco suffered a lengthy outage,  becoming the second high-profile name at the company to depart after CEO Kelly Bayer resigned in November. The company's interim CEO Michael Ventor informed staff at the telc...

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Read WSI selects CDC Data Centres for digital tower deployment
WSI selects CDC Data Centres for digital tower deployment
March 12, 2024

WSI selects CDC Data Centres for digital tower deployment

Sydney

Western Sydney International Airport (WSI) has selected CDC Data Centres for its digital tower deployment. WSI will be one of the first in Australia to run a digital air traffic control tower and has partnered with CDC, Frequentis Australasia, and Airservices to develop the system. WSI will de...

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Read FCC increases benchmark for high-speed fixed broadband to 100Mbps
FCC increases benchmark for high-speed fixed broadband to 100Mbps
March 11, 2024

FCC increases benchmark for high-speed fixed broadband to 100Mbps

United States

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has increased its benchmark for high-speed fixed broadband to download speeds of 100 megabits per second and upload speeds of 20 megabits per second. This fulfils a  four-fold increase from the 25/3 Mbps benchmark set by the Commission in 2015 The in...

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Read Iridium Communications acquires PNT provider Satelles for $115 million
Iridium Communications acquires PNT provider Satelles for $115 million
March 11, 2024

Iridium Communications acquires PNT provider Satelles for $115 million

United States

Iridium Communications, in its first ever acquisition has acquired Positioning Navigation and Timing (PNT) provider Satelles. The company revealed that it had entered into an agreement to acquire Satelles, Inc., a provider of satellite-based time and location services akin to GPS and other GNS...

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