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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, ![42freeway.com](/rails/active_storage/blobs/proxy/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBdTlhIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--5f3cef913beeff96c0f9159c4839dee30ea05d42/Monroe...

August 01, 2026

Posted by: Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

New Jersey

ICT firm Cratis to launch data center in Varazdin

Croatian ICT solutions provider Cratis revealed that it will launch a new data center this month in Varazdin, north of Zagreb, in partnership with local polyethylene films, bags, and packaging manufacturer Muraplast.This new DC North facility will offer 2.8MW across six data rooms – each 340 s...

October 19, 2023

Croatia

IRS, Microsoft disagree over alleged tax debt

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) alleges that tech giant Microsoft owes the US government about $28.9 billion in taxes, penalties, and interest. However, Microsoft has denied these charges and intents to "vigorously contest" them. Microsoft revealed in an SEC filing that it received a Notice...

October 19, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Technical issues at data center causes banking issues across Singapore

An outage at an Equinix data center on Saturday brought DBS and Citibank banking services in Singapore offline. This outage also affected other services in its Asian region including the Philippines, Hong Kong and India as people complained about having issues with Facebook, Instagram, WhatsAp...

October 18, 2023

Equinix

UK regulators approves Microsoft's acquisition of $68.7bn Activision Blizzard acquisition

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has finally approved Microsoft's proposed acquisition of famous video games publisher Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion. This comes after an initial blockage of the deal over concerns relating to the impact of this acquisition on competition...

October 18, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Qualcomm to reduce workforce in California by December

A recent filing with the California Employment Development Department has revealed that Chip designer Qualcomm intends to cut its workforce significantly. The filing noted that Qualcomm is cutting 1,258 jobs in San Diego and Santa Clara, California, to reduce costs. The job cuts are to begin b...

October 18, 2023

California

Swedish telco Telia names new president and CEO

Swedish telco Telia Company has named Patrik Hofbauer as its new president and CEO, bringing the company's search for a CEO since July to an end. The board of directors agreed with the decision to appoint Hofbauer, and he will be leaving his role as CEO of the gambling firm Svenska Spel to beg...

October 18, 2023

Sweden

Web Werks & Iron Mountain acquire 4 acres in Chennai for DC construction

Web Werks and Iron Mountain recently purchased a four-acre parcel of land in the Ambattur area of Chennai, India for the construction of two data center campuses. These parcel will support two buildings called CHE-1 and CHE-2 which will be built to Tier III standards and will support a total ...

October 17, 2023

Web Werks

State-owned Telecom Namibia to build 500 telco towers across the country

State-owned Telecom Namibia intends to deploy 500 telecom towers across the country over the next five years to support its effort to improve both the quality and availability of its mobile service. This is in line with the telco’s investment program created last year to invest $155 million to...

October 17, 2023

South Africa

Local council grants permission for new DC campus outside Middlesbrough, UK

Redcar & Cleveland Council granted Wilton Data Center an outline consent for a new data center campus at the Wilton International Park, just outside Middlesbrough in North Yorkshire, UK. Wilton intends to construct 150,000 square meter of data center space on a 32-acre plot. The company di...

October 17, 2023

United Kingdom

Data center operator Switch names Madonna Park as CFO

US data center company Switch has named Madonna Park as its chief financial officer, replacing Gabe Nacht. Park is now in charge of managing the company’s finances and leading the accounts, finance, internal audit and investor relations teams. Switch founder and CEO Rob Roy said, "Madonna will...

October 17, 2023

Switch Datacenters Amsterdam BV

American Tower to cut emissions intensity in African tower

American Tower Corporation (ATC) Africa has begun to progressively push its sustainability strategy as it announced that direct greenhouse emissions (GHG) per tower dropped by 21 percent against its 2019 baseline. ATC notes that this was down to an "increased deployment of on-site solar power...

October 16, 2023

American Tower Corporation

Veon completes sale of Russian Subsidiary

The Amsterdam-based telco Operator group Veon has completed the sale of its Russian business to the senior management team of the PJSC VimpelCom (Beeline Russia) led by CEO Alexander Torbakhov. successfully exiting the Russian market. Veon Group CEO Kaan Terzioglu said, "The closing of the sal...

October 16, 2023

Russia / Россия

USCG awards data center support services contract to Credence Management Solutions

Credence Management Solutions, a government-focused IT services company will be awarded a six-months data center support services contract by the US Coast Guard (USCG). A notice posted by the USCG mentioned that it would reduce competition to awards a sole task order for a part of its existing...

October 16, 2023

United States

Telehouse to expand its largest existing DC facility

KDDI-owned global data center service provider Telehouse Europe has announced plans to upgrade its largest existing data center, Telehouse South in London. The company announced that Skanska will be the contractor to complete the first phase of this upgrade which is expected to be finalized by...

October 16, 2023

Telehouse

AtNorth to expand DC footprint to Denmark

AtNorth, a major supplier of colocation, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence services in the Nordic region, has announced plans to expand its data center footprint into Denmark by opening a new data center campus in Ballerup, just outside Copenhagen. The company made this a...

October 16, 2023

atNorth

Indian DC company to invest $2bn in Asia and Middle East expansion

Indian data center company CtrlS Datacenters plans to invest $2 billion over the next six years for its expansion across Asia and the Middle East. The company plans to add 350MW of AI and cloud-ready hyperscale data center capacity to its existing 234MW capacity. Sridhar Pinnapureddy, founder ...

October 16, 2023

India / Bhārata

Microsoft plans new DC region in Aragon, Spain

Microsoft recently revealed plans to build a new data center campus in Aragon, in the northeastern region of Spain. The company is yet to share details about this development. However, local press have reported that Microsoft plans to develop three sites around Zaragoza; A 63-acre site in the ...

October 16, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Lumen sells CND customers to Akamai as it shuts down the business

Lumen announced that it’s Content Delivery Network (CDN) business will be shut down and it has sold its customer contracts to Akamai. Both companies will undergo a transition services agreement for 90 days before Lumen completes its shut down. "We are deep into our transformation of Lumen and ...

October 16, 2023

Lumen Technologies

DataVita adopts HVO as fuel in Glasgow facility

UK data center operator DataVita has adopted hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) as its diesel alternative to reduce its carbon footprint and green its backup operations. The company now uses HVO as fuel for backup generators at its facility in Glasgow, Scotland."Today marks a significant milesto...

October 13, 2023

DataVita

Digital Realty and Dutch college launches demonstration data center to teach students

Digital Realty has partnered with a Dutch vocational college in Amsterdam to launch a new demo data center to teach students data center skills. Students from the Cloud & Infrastructure Technician course opened the demo data center at MBO College Zuidoost this week. Melissa Scholten, senio...

October 13, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

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