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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, including zoning authority, fundamental fairness, and First and Fourteenth Amendment protections. Hexa argues the application was rejected because of the township’s opposition t...

August 01, 2026

Posted by: Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

New Jersey

AtlasEdge Begins Next Expansion Phase of Hamburg Data Center

AtlasEdge has started the next expansion phase of its HAM002 data center in Ahrensburg, Germany. The phase will add 3.2MW of capacity, with the four-stage project set to reach 20MW across 10,000 sqm (107,640 sq ft) when complete. The facility’s first 4.4MW phase opened in 2024 and is nearly fully...

August 05, 2026

AtlasEdge

SpaceX's First Earnings Call Was Mostly a Data Center Call

SpaceX reported second-quarter results Tuesday, its first quarterly report as a public company. One might have expected the call to focus on rockets and Starlink. But with xAI folded into the company, the call spent only about ten minutes on rockets. The res...

August 05, 2026

xAI

Everllence to Supply 480MW of Gas Engines for US Data Center Developer

German engine manufacturer Everllence has signed a deal to supply 480MW of gas engine capacity to an unnamed US data center developer. The company will provide 24 of its 18V51/60G gas engines, which will power the data center behind the meter. “This contract is one of our most important off-g...

August 05, 2026

United States

CDC Files Plans for Data Center in Kemps Creek, Sydney

Australian data center operator CDC has filed plans for a new campus in western Sydney. The company submitted a SEARS application to the New South Wales government for a data center at 871–901 Mamre Road in Kemps Creek. The proposed 88.4-hectare development would feature a four-story, 144MW facil...

August 05, 2026

CDC Cyber Data Center International

AWS Withdraws From Planned Data Center Campus Near Maryland Nuclear Plant

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has dropped plans for a data center campus next to Maryland's Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant. The proposed project in Lusby, Calvert County, would have included eight buildings totaling 2.46 million square feet (228,540 sqm) and around 500MW of capacity, powered unde...

August 05, 2026

Amazon AWS

Former Microsoft Researcher Launches Data Center Robotics Startup

Swiss startup Exclaim Robotics, founded by a former Microsoft engineer, has raised $4.95 million in pre-seed funding to develop autonomous robots for AI data center maintenance. Backed by Founderful and Playfair, the company aims to automate remote hands tasks such as cleaning optics, reconnectin...

August 04, 2026

Microsoft Azure

Maincubes Completes First Module Of New Frankfurt Data Center

German data center operator Maincubes has completed the first module of its FRA03 facility in Frankfurt, a 16MW site featuring 7,680 sqm of data hall space across three floors and six IT rooms. The facility will run entirely on renewable energy and include waste heat recovery technology. Mainc...

August 04, 2026

Germany / Deutschland

UK Government Approves Controversial 5.2MW Truman Brewery Data Center

The UK government has approved the controversial redevelopment of Truman Brewery into a mixed-use development that includes a data center. Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary Angela Rayner granted approval after Tower Hamlets Council rejected the proposal in 2025. Following an appeal by T...

August 04, 2026

United States

NV Energy Files Lawsuit Against Tract Over Nevada Data Center Costs

Nevada utility NV Energy has filed a lawsuit against Denver-based data center developer Tract, alleging the company failed to cover the costs of serving its facilities and instead shifted those expenses to other utility customers across the state. “Most data center developers pursuing projects...

August 04, 2026

Denver

Three Men Arrested For Stealing Copper Wire From Virginia Data Center Construction Site

Three men have been arrested after allegedly stealing copper wire from a data center construction site in Loudoun County, Virginia. Police responded to reports of a burglary at a construction site near 45000 Maries Road in Sterling shortly before 12:30 a.m. on July 31. On August 1, authorities...

August 04, 2026

Virginia

Oregon Governor Halts Data Center Project And Blocks Land Sale Approval.

Oregon Governor Blocks Data Center Development Near Portland. Governor Tina Kotek has halted plans for a data center project outside Portland by directing the state to cancel its land sale agreement with developer Verrus. The state had planned to sell about 32 acres at Salem’s Mill Creek Corporat...

August 04, 2026

Oregon

CoreWeave To Develop 360MW Data Center Capacity In Indonesia

CoreWeave is expanding into Indonesia with plans to develop three data centers, marking its first entry into the Asia-Pacific region. Scheduled to launch in 2028, the facilities will provide a combined 360MW of IT capacity, with CoreWeave owning and operating the compute infrastructure while trai...

August 04, 2026

CoreWeave

Dominion Energy Secures Over 5GW of New Contracted Data Center Capacity

Dominion Energy, Virginia's primary electric utility, has added more than 5GW of contracted data center load to its pipeline since the end of last year. During its Q2 earnings call, the company said the increase represents an 11% rise. Previously, in its Q4 earnings report released in February, D...

August 03, 2026

Virginia

Top Data Center News for 27th July - 1st August, 2026

LG to Invest Additional $910m in 200MW Data Center Near Seoul **South Korean conglomerate LG will invest an additional 1.3 trillion won ($910 million) in its 200MW data center project in Paju,...

August 03, 2026

United States

LG to Invest Additional $910m in 200MW Data Center Near Seoul

South Korean conglomerate LG will invest an additional 1.3 trillion won ($910 million) in its 200MW data center project in Paju, located about 19 miles (31km) north of Seoul, according to local reports. The new investment more than doubles LG’s previous commitment of 615.6 billion won ($441.7 mil...

August 01, 2026

Seoul

CyrusOne Files Plans for Three-Building, $1.5bn Data Center Campus in Fairfield, Texas

CyrusOne has filed plans for three buildings at a new data center campus in Fairfield, Texas, located adjacent to Calpine’s Freestone natural gas power plant. The project, on FM 488 in Freestone County, about 90 miles (144.8km) south of Dallas, is part of a 760MW data center development being bui...

August 01, 2026

CyrusOne

DeepSeek Plans 1GW Data Center in Inner Mongolia, China

Chinese AI developer DeepSeek is reportedly planning to build a 1GW data center in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, according to a Bloomberg report. The facility is expected to be located in the city of Ulanqab, in the south-central part of the region. People familiar with the project to...

July 31, 2026

China

AWS Plans 800,000 sq ft Data Center Campus at GWU Site in Ashburn

Details have emerged about Amazon's latest planned data center campus in Northern Virginia. Loudoun County Supervisor Juli E. Briskman (D-Algonkian) said this week that Amazon has filed plans to develop a four-building, 800,000 sq ft (74,320 sqm) data center campus at the former George Washington...

July 31, 2026

Amazon AWS

Veolia to Operate 350MW Gas-Fired Microgrid for Ohio Data Center Campus

French energy and water utility Veolia has been selected to operate and maintain a 350MW microgrid powering an undisclosed AI data center campus in Ohio. The behind-the-meter energy system is designed to supply 100% of the facility’s power needs, combining gas engines, linear generators, and a 43...

July 31, 2026

Ohio

Nebius Reports 32x Emissions Increase Amid Rapid Data Center Expansion

European neocloud provider Nebius reported a 32x increase in carbon emissions over the past year, driven by rapid data center expansion. In its 2025 sustainability report, the company recorded 65,001 tons of CO2e in combined Scope 1 and Scope 2 market-based emissions, up from 2,036 tons in 2024. ...

July 31, 2026

Nebius

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