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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 con...

July 30, 2026

New Jersey

Nordic Data Center Company Glesys is purchased by Cube IM

European investment company Cube Infrastructure Management has purchased a controlling share in the Nordic data center company Glesys. The agreement's terms were kept confidential. The purchase was completed through the Cube Infrastructure Fund III with funding from the VIA Equity Fond III,...

March 22, 2023

Nordics

European Commission Approves Orange's Belgium Investment

The decision to allow Orange to purchase a controlling share in the Belgian cable companies VOO and Brutélé has been made. It follows the European Commission's approval of the transaction in accordance with the EU Merger Regulation. It comes after a protracted examination of the deal's competi...

March 22, 2023

Orange

Construction of H5's Ashburn, VA Data Center Begins

After dismantling the former data center there, H5 Data Centers has started construction on a new one in Ashburn, Virginia. This week, the company started building a 255,000-square-foot, three-story data center with a 42-megawatt capacity. The building is offered for pre-leasing at Loudoun Cou...

March 22, 2023

H5 Data Centers

Egyptian Government Halts Sale of Telecom Egypt Stake

Plans by the Egyptian government to sell a portion of the state-owned Telecom Egypt have been put on hold. According to Reuters, which cites people familiar with the situation, market factors are to blame for the suspension. It happened only a few weeks after rumors claimed that the Egyptian g...

March 22, 2023

Africa

Seznam.cz launches new data center located outside Prague

Seznam.cz has launched a new data center outside Prague, in Benátky nad Jizerou, known as 'Nagoya'. The Czech Internet portal outlined that the facility spans around 1,200 square meters, with a capacity of 3MW across two data halls with 200 racks. Work began on construction in February 2022. ...

March 21, 2023

Prague

Microsoft announces CO2 removal initiative with Running Tide

Microsoft is teaming up with Running Tide to remove 12,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) from its operations. This will be done through Running Tide's carbon capture and removal technology, which utilizes photosynthesis and ocean alkalinity enhancement to fix carbon from the fast carbon cycle,...

March 21, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Amazon announces HVO adoption in Dublin

In Dublin, Ireland, AWS has announced it is turning to HVO for its backup generators at its data centers. It will work with companies like Certa in Ireland to help develop a global supply chain, in order to create a more "accessible, steady, and sustainable supply of HVO." Further, it is inves...

March 21, 2023

Amazon AWS

OpsRamp to be Bought by Hewlett Packard Enterprise

OpsRamp, a provider of IT operations management services, will be acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), the company has announced. OpsRamp, situated in San Jose, California, controls, automates, and monitors IT infrastructure. Due to the purchase, the IT operations management business ...

March 21, 2023

Hewlett-Packard

AWS Wavelength Zone is Being Implemented by BT in Manchester

Wavelength Zones are being implemented across the UK by UK telecom BT in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), beginning in Manchester. Wavelength gives users access to cloud services in a local AWS Region and embeds Amazon compute and storage capabilities at the edge of 5G networks fo...

March 21, 2023

Amazon AWS

Akamai Technologies Will Purchase Ondat, a Cloud Storage Company

Akamai Technologies, an American provider of content delivery services, and Ondat, a provider of cloud storage, have signed a binding agreement. The transaction is anticipated to occur in the first quarter of 2023, and Akamai anticipates no major changes to its annual financial forecast. The a...

March 21, 2023

London

Recent Tower Sales Generate $220 Million For PLDT

Under an agreement with Frontier Tower Associates Philippines for a sale and leaseback, PLDT has consented to sell slightly over 1,000 communication towers. The agreement, which would likely cost the Filipino telecom company $220 million, continues the company's plan to market its tower assets...

March 21, 2023

ePLDT

Cologix to bring AWS outposts to Vancouver data centers

Cologix has announced that customers can now deploy AWS Outposts at its VAN3 digital edge data center. The facility is a 42,000-square-foot data center, the region’s largest neutral data center. Through this addition, customers in Cologix’s Vancouver data centers will be able to connect to AW...

March 21, 2023

Cologix

Amazon announces further staff cuts

Amazon has announced that it is to make further cuts to its workforce. Its total for the previous round of cuts reached 18,000; the new round is pegged to reach 9,000. The divisions set to be hit with cuts include: AWS, PXT [People Experience and Technology Solutions], Advertising, and Twi...

March 20, 2023

Amazon AWS

Teraco announces solar farm investment plans

Teraco has announced plans to invest in a solar farm located in the City of Ekurhuleni in eastern Johannesburg, South Africa. This investment is in 100MW utility-scale solar farms, which are currently under development and located with the data center, which is reportedly close to signing a w...

March 20, 2023

Teraco Data Environments

Eveo launches new data center in Paraná, Brazil

Eveo has announced that its new data center in the state of Paraná has gone live. Named PR1, this new facility is located in Curitiba, Brazil. Specifics regarding the capacity and size of the facility are yet to be shared. That being said, the company said that it had been built to Tier III st...

March 20, 2023

Brazil / Brasil

49% of Chilean GTD's Data Center Division Will be Purchased by Macquarie

The Australian investment firm Macquarie Capital made a non-binding bid that Chilean telecoms company GTD accepted to purchase 49% of a new subsidiary that includes all data centers in Chile, Peru, and Colombia. Moreover, property designated for future data centers is included in the sale. No ...

March 20, 2023

Macquarie Data Centres

Launch of The Indian Edge Platform by MetaEdge

A brand-new Edge data center platform has launched in India. This month, MetaEdge debuted to serve Edge clients in tier-two cities nationwide. It was initially only available in three of India's largest metropolises. The firm has debuted in Indore, Mumbai, and Delhi by offering colocation, bar...

March 20, 2023

India / Bhārata

Expansion of Data Center Utilities Approved by Leesburg Council

Leesburg may create a data center alley. Last Tuesday, the Town Council authorized water and sewer connections for two two-story data centers proposed for the Compass Creek retail development along the Dulles Greenway north of Microsoft's data center facility. A 400,000-square-foot data center...

March 20, 2023

Northern Virginia

Quantum Computer Purchased by OVHcloud

A French data center company OVHcloud purchased a quantum computer for internal usage. The technology was created by the French company Quandela, and a photonic processor powers the 2-qubit MosaiQ computer. Delivery is anticipated for this year's fall. No purchasing price was made public. OVH ...

March 20, 2023

OVH Group

Rostelecom Decides Against Selling The Armenian Business Unit

Rostelecom intends to increase investment in the company's Rostelecom Armenia business subsidiary (formerly GNC-ALFA). Rostelecom instead intends to increase its investment in the business. That signals a U-turn on the company's part, which had appeared poised to sell its subsidiary to Electri...

March 20, 2023

Rostelecom

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