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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

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September 14, 2026

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United States

Microsoft Plans 38GW Of Data Center Capacity By 2032 Microsoft has revealed its plans to more than triple its data center capacity over the next five years, targeting 38GW by 2032, up from its current 12GW with spending continuing to rise, from $55.7 billion in 2024 to $115.9 billion and $145.3 b...

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Read Damac And Vodafone Launch Data Center In Turkey
Damac Digital and Vodafone Türkiye have launched the first phase of a new data center in Izmir, Turkey, initially providing 4MW of capacity with plans to scale to 20MW. The project was announced in...
September 14, 2026

Damac And Vodafone Launch Data Center In Turkey

Turkey

Damac Digital and Vodafone Türkiye have launched the first phase of a new data center in Izmir, Turkey, initially providing 4MW of capacity with plans to scale to 20MW. The project was announced in 2024 and was originally planned as a $100 million, 6MW facility. Damac later increased the investme...

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Read 120MW Data Center Plans Withdrawn In Lombardy, Italy
Plans for a 120MW data center in Travagliato, Lombardy, have been withdrawn by developer East Gate, around 10 months after the project was submitted to the municipality. Mayor Renato Pasinetti conf...
September 12, 2026

120MW Data Center Plans Withdrawn In Lombardy, Italy

Italy

Plans for a 120MW data center in Travagliato, Lombardy, have been withdrawn by developer East Gate, around 10 months after the project was submitted to the municipality. Mayor Renato Pasinetti confirmed the withdrawal, saying the province of Brescia is expected to shelve the grid connection appli...

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Read Orbital Partners With Reflex Aerospace On Space Data Center Constellation
Orbital Compute has selected German satellite manufacturer Reflex Aerospace as its platform partner to develop the Orbital-1 constellation, planned to include 100,000 satellites for orbital data ce...
September 12, 2026

Orbital Partners With Reflex Aerospace On Space Data Center Constellation

Germany / Deutschland

Orbital Compute has selected German satellite manufacturer Reflex Aerospace as its platform partner to develop the Orbital-1 constellation, planned to include 100,000 satellites for orbital data centers. Reflex will lead satellite integration using a proven bus design that will become exclusive t...

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Read Oregon Pauses State Land Sales For Data Center Projects Through July 2027
Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has ordered state agencies to pause land transactions for new data center projects. The freeze covers unapproved easements, leases, land-use permits, property sales, and ...
September 11, 2026

Oregon Pauses State Land Sales For Data Center Projects Through July 2027

Oregon

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has ordered state agencies to pause land transactions for new data center projects. The freeze covers unapproved easements, leases, land-use permits, property sales, and other state land agreements for data centers. It will remain in place through July 1, 2027, unless l...

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Read NextDC Raises AU$1.1B Through Convertible Notes
Australian data center operator NextDC is raising AU$1.1 billion (US$796 million) through convertible notes to fund its digital infrastructure expansion. The latest fundraising marks the company’s ...
September 11, 2026

NextDC Raises AU$1.1B Through Convertible Notes

NEXTDC

Australian data center operator NextDC is raising AU$1.1 billion (US$796 million) through convertible notes to fund its digital infrastructure expansion. The latest fundraising marks the company’s third capital raise in just over four months. Convertible notes allow companies to raise debt that c...

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Read Microsoft Plans 38GW Of Data Center Capacity By 2032
Microsoft plans to more than triple its data center capacity over the next five years, targeting 38GW by 2032, up from its current 12GW. The capacity will combine Microsoft-owned facilities with le...
September 11, 2026

Microsoft Plans 38GW Of Data Center Capacity By 2032

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft plans to more than triple its data center capacity over the next five years, targeting 38GW by 2032, up from its current 12GW. The capacity will combine Microsoft-owned facilities with leased capacity from third-party providers, including neoclouds such as CoreWeave, Nscale, Lambda, Ire...

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Read OpenAI Adds Yvette Eden Ruiz To Community Engagement Team From JPMorgan Amid Data Center Backlash
OpenAI has hired senior executive Yvette Eden Ruiz to join its growing Community Engagement team as opposition to data center development intensifies. Ruiz joins from JPMorgan Chase, where she spen...
September 11, 2026

OpenAI Adds Yvette Eden Ruiz To Community Engagement Team From JPMorgan Amid Data Center Backlash

OpenAI

OpenAI has hired senior executive Yvette Eden Ruiz to join its growing Community Engagement team as opposition to data center development intensifies. Ruiz joins from JPMorgan Chase, where she spent 12 years. She announced her new role on LinkedIn. "I hesitated to post this, in part because the c...

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Read Ivory Coast Plans First State-Owned Data Center For 2027 Launch
Ivory Coast is planning to build its first state-owned data center, with operations expected to begin in 2027. The project is being developed by Washington-based Cybastion Institute of Technology L...
September 10, 2026

Ivory Coast Plans First State-Owned Data Center For 2027 Launch

Ivory Coast - Côte d'Ivoire

Ivory Coast is planning to build its first state-owned data center, with operations expected to begin in 2027. The project is being developed by Washington-based Cybastion Institute of Technology LLC at an estimated cost of $66 million, with financial support from the US Export-Import Bank. The f...

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Read High Wycombe Film Studio Conversion To Data Center Approved
Wycombe Park Ltd’s plans to convert a former film studio site into a data center near High Wycombe, UK, have been recommended for approval by Buckinghamshire Council’s Strategic Sites Committee. Th...
September 10, 2026

High Wycombe Film Studio Conversion To Data Center Approved

United Kingdom

Wycombe Park Ltd’s plans to convert a former film studio site into a data center near High Wycombe, UK, have been recommended for approval by Buckinghamshire Council’s Strategic Sites Committee. The site, south of Wycombe Air Park, was originally planned as an eight-phase film studio development ...

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Read S+B Gruppe Plans Data Center In Bucharest, Romania
Real estate developer S+B Gruppe has secured approval to build a 12MW Tier III data center in northern Bucharest, Romania. Named NIMB, the facility has received a building permit and grid connectio...
September 10, 2026

S+B Gruppe Plans Data Center In Bucharest, Romania

Romania

Real estate developer S+B Gruppe has secured approval to build a 12MW Tier III data center in northern Bucharest, Romania. Named NIMB, the facility has received a building permit and grid connection approval. It will provide 36,597 sq ft (3,400 sqm) of white space and is expected to open in 2028....

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Read Friesen Elektra Explores Data Center Project In Lower Saxony, Germany
Friesen Elektra is exploring a data center at its planned Wasserstoffpark Friesland green hydrogen site near Sande, Lower Saxony. The company has applied for a zoning exemption to allow the project...
September 10, 2026

Friesen Elektra Explores Data Center Project In Lower Saxony, Germany

Germany / Deutschland

Friesen Elektra is exploring a data center at its planned Wasserstoffpark Friesland green hydrogen site near Sande, Lower Saxony. The company has applied for a zoning exemption to allow the project. No IT capacity has been disclosed, while the wider hydrogen park is planned for 400MW of power gen...

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Read Hscale Secures $1B Hyperscaler Contract For Spanish Data Centers
Bain Capital-backed Hscale has secured a contract worth more than $1 billion with an unnamed hyperscaler for capacity at its data centers in Spain. The facilities will support the client’s cloud an...
September 09, 2026

Hscale Secures $1B Hyperscaler Contract For Spanish Data Centers

hscale

Bain Capital-backed Hscale has secured a contract worth more than $1 billion with an unnamed hyperscaler for capacity at its data centers in Spain. The facilities will support the client’s cloud and AI workloads, with the agreement potentially expanding to other Hscale data centers across EMEA. ...

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Read Damac And Vodafone Türkiye Triple Investment In Izmir Data Center Project
Damac Digital and Vodafone Türkiye have begun construction of their planned data center in Izmir, western Turkey. The project was first announced in 2024 with a $100 million investment, but Damac D...
September 09, 2026

Damac And Vodafone Türkiye Triple Investment In Izmir Data Center Project

DAMAC Digital

Damac Digital and Vodafone Türkiye have begun construction of their planned data center in Izmir, western Turkey. The project was first announced in 2024 with a $100 million investment, but Damac Digital has now increased the budget to $300 million. The facility will be Vodafone’s second data cen...

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Read Google And Blackstone JV Faces Delays On Data Center Projects
Google and Blackstone’s joint venture is facing delays at several data center projects across the US, although the partnership remains optimistic about its progress. Known internally as Project Bra...
September 09, 2026

Google And Blackstone JV Faces Delays On Data Center Projects

Google

Google and Blackstone’s joint venture is facing delays at several data center projects across the US, although the partnership remains optimistic about its progress. Known internally as Project Braid, the JV was formed in May 2026 to develop a cloud platform powered by Google’s Tensor Processing ...

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Read Data Center Oil Leak Contaminates Water In Bangkok, Thailand
An oil leak at a Bangkok data center contaminated 32 cubic meters of water but has now been cleaned up. Thailand’s Pollution Control Department said the leak, reportedly from Damac Digital Thailand...
September 09, 2026

Data Center Oil Leak Contaminates Water In Bangkok, Thailand

Thailand / Prathet Thai

An oil leak at a Bangkok data center contaminated 32 cubic meters of water but has now been cleaned up. Thailand’s Pollution Control Department said the leak, reportedly from Damac Digital Thailand’s BKK 01 facility on Rama 9 Road, was successfully contained. An emergency cleanup began Monday eve...

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Read SGC Energy Partners With Vertiv To Deploy PowerNexus At Gunsan AI Data Center
South Korean energy firm SGC Energy has partnered with Vertiv to improve power and cooling efficiency at its planned AI data center in Gunsan. Under a non-binding MoU, the companies will conduct jo...
September 08, 2026

SGC Energy Partners With Vertiv To Deploy PowerNexus At Gunsan AI Data Center

SGC Energy

South Korean energy firm SGC Energy has partnered with Vertiv to improve power and cooling efficiency at its planned AI data center in Gunsan. Under a non-binding MoU, the companies will conduct joint technical reviews, with Vertiv planning to deploy its PowerNexus integrated power solution at th...

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Read Digital Realty Launches 6.4MW Data Center In Nairobi, Kenya
Digital Realty has launched its second data center in Nairobi, Kenya. The company announced on September 7 that its Nairobi Two Data Center (NBO2) is now operational, adding 6.4MW of capacity to it...
September 08, 2026

Digital Realty Launches 6.4MW Data Center In Nairobi, Kenya

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has launched its second data center in Nairobi, Kenya. The company announced on September 7 that its Nairobi Two Data Center (NBO2) is now operational, adding 6.4MW of capacity to its Nairobi campus. The facility covers 12,000 sq ft (1,100 sqm). The launch follows iColo’s transitio...

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Read Qualcomm And AWS Collaborate On Custom AI Silicon For Large-Scale Data Centers
Qualcomm is partnering with Amazon to develop customized AI infrastructure solutions. Under the multi-generational partnership, Qualcomm Technologies and Amazon will develop custom silicon for larg...
September 08, 2026

Qualcomm And AWS Collaborate On Custom AI Silicon For Large-Scale Data Centers

Amazon AWS

Qualcomm is partnering with Amazon to develop customized AI infrastructure solutions. Under the multi-generational partnership, Qualcomm Technologies and Amazon will develop custom silicon for large-scale AI data centers, focusing on AI inference and optical connectivity of up to 1.6T. The collab...

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Read Greenfield And Finsbury Infrastructure To Invest €360M In Milan Data Center
UK infrastructure developer Greenfield and Finsbury Infrastructure plan to invest up to €360 million ($418m) to develop a 36MW data center east of Milan, Italy. Greenfield has already secured 80MW ...
September 08, 2026

Greenfield And Finsbury Infrastructure To Invest €360M In Milan Data Center

Milan

UK infrastructure developer Greenfield and Finsbury Infrastructure plan to invest up to €360 million ($418m) to develop a 36MW data center east of Milan, Italy. Greenfield has already secured 80MW of power capacity for the site, which will support AI, cloud, and enterprise workloads while boostin...

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