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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

New Jersey

Read More applications for data centers in the greater Dublin area as grid capacity concerns continue
More applications for data centers in the greater Dublin area as grid capacity concerns continue
January 01, 2023

More applications for data centers in the greater Dublin area as grid capacity concerns continue

Dublin

According to reports, in the wake of the Dublin data center moratorium over grid issues, 21 new data centers are planned outside of the greater Dublin area. Sixteen of these facilities are large-scale data centers, while a further five smaller-scale data center projects are being discussed wit...

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Read Green Mountain Expands its Oslo Data Center
Green Mountain Expands its Oslo Data Center
December 30, 2022

Green Mountain Expands its Oslo Data Center

Green Mountain OSL1-Enebakk

Green Mountain has finalized the expansion of its data center campus in Oslo, Norway. As a component of its OSL1-Enebakk complex, the Nordic data center provider has constructed a new 13.5MW data center, initially slated to debut in November 2022, as was announced at the end of 2021. Earlier i...

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Read INNIO and NorthC Datacenters partner to build First Hydrogen Emergency Backup Power Solution
INNIO and NorthC Datacenters partner to build First Hydrogen Emergency Backup Power Solution
December 29, 2022

INNIO and NorthC Datacenters partner to build First Hydrogen Emergency Backup Power Solution

NorthC Datacenters

NorthC Datacenters (NorthC) has partnered up with INNIO to use its Jenbacher Ready for H2 engine technology to deliver an emergency backup power solution for its newest data center, set to be constructed in Eindhoven, Netherlands. According to the company, if it is faced with electricity grid...

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Read Google pulls out of Minnesota data center project
Google pulls out of Minnesota data center project
December 29, 2022

Google pulls out of Minnesota data center project

Google

Google has announced that it has canceled its $600 million data center in Becker, Minnesota, after calling off its electric service agreement. First announced back in 2019, and based near the Sherco power plant, Google dragged its feet on the development for quite some time, and although it r...

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Read New data center joint venture, Data Castle, launches
New data center joint venture, Data Castle, launches
December 29, 2022

New data center joint venture, Data Castle, launches

Germany / Deutschland

Data Castle, a new data center joint venture between Angelo Gordon and data center development management company DCD Data Center Developers, has announced plans to build and operate facilities in Germany. The JV will begin work on its plans in the town of Schwalbach am Taunus, just outside of...

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Read Alibaba Opens New Data Center in Tokyo
Alibaba Opens New Data Center in Tokyo
December 23, 2022

Alibaba Opens New Data Center in Tokyo

Tokyo

Alibaba has established a data center in Tokyo, Japan. The company stated in December 2022 that its Alibaba Cloud/Aliyun division had opened a third data center in Japan to "meet the transformation expectations" of clients. Unique Song, General Manager of Japan for Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, ...

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Read QTS' Groningen data center connects to the Dutch city's new district heating project
QTS' Groningen data center connects to the Dutch city's new district heating project
December 22, 2022

QTS' Groningen data center connects to the Dutch city's new district heating project

QTS Data Centers

QTS has announced that it has connected its Groningen data center to the Dutch city's new district heating project. The heating project has been built by local utility WarmteStad, which is projected to produce heat for more than 10,000 households, buildings, and knowledge institutions by 2026...

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Read Singtel partners with Telkom to enter Indonesia data center market
Singtel partners with Telkom to enter Indonesia data center market
December 22, 2022

Singtel partners with Telkom to enter Indonesia data center market

Indonesia

Singtel has announced that it has entered a strategic partnership with Telkom and energy company Medco Power for its first data center project in Indonesia. The data center campus will reportedly be developed in three phases on an 8-hectare site. With a total capacity of 51 MW when fully built...

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Read Scala Data Centers issues R$ 2 billion in green debentures
Scala Data Centers issues R$ 2 billion in green debentures
December 22, 2022

Scala Data Centers issues R$ 2 billion in green debentures

Scala Data Centers

Scala Data Centers has announced that it has issued green debentures worth R$2 billion (US$378m), with a maturity of five years. This is the largest green financing in Brazil and the first of its kind in Brazil's data center industry. According to the company, it will be used to finance Scala...

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Read Michigan Lawmakers Propose Eliminating Data Center Tax Breaks
Michigan Lawmakers Propose Eliminating Data Center Tax Breaks
December 22, 2022

Michigan Lawmakers Propose Eliminating Data Center Tax Breaks

Michigan

Legislators in Michigan are attempting to decrease the tax exemptions provided to data centers. In December of 2022, Yousef Rabhi, a Democrat from Michigan, presented two proposals to repeal sales and use tax breaks for data centers. Current Michigan legislation exempts data centers from sales...

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Read Meta hits pause on Huntsville, Alabama, data center expansion
Meta hits pause on Huntsville, Alabama, data center expansion
December 21, 2022

Meta hits pause on Huntsville, Alabama, data center expansion

Meta

Meta has paused construction on its data center expansion in Huntsville, Alabama. This follows the giant’s announcement that its Odense, Denmark project was being completely canceled, and its Temple, Texas development was being paused as part of a wider AI data center design change. The Hunts...

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Read Oracle Unveils Cloud Facility in Chicago
Oracle Unveils Cloud Facility in Chicago
December 20, 2022

Oracle Unveils Cloud Facility in Chicago

Oracle

In Chicago, Illinois, Oracle has established a new cloud region. The company announced the opening of a new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) area in Chicago in December 2022. The new area, which was disclosed in November 2022, is Oracle's 41st worldwide public cloud region (55 counting gov...

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Read Basin Electric seeks state approval for power plant expansion to accommodate burgeoning data center industry
Basin Electric seeks state approval for power plant expansion to accommodate burgeoning data center industry
December 19, 2022

Basin Electric seeks state approval for power plant expansion to accommodate burgeoning data center industry

North Dakota

Basin Electric has reportedly reached out for state approval for a power plant expansion in McKenzie County to accommodate the growing power requirements of the data center industry. The state Public Service Commission (PCS) received the company's expansion request back in October, which would...

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Read Meta signs deals for seven solar projects in Georgia and Tennessee
Meta signs deals for seven solar projects in Georgia and Tennessee
December 19, 2022

Meta signs deals for seven solar projects in Georgia and Tennessee

Meta

Meta has announced more solar projects, this time in Georgia and Tennessee. According to the company, the projects will be delivered through Silicon Ranch's partnership with Walton Electric Membership Corporation (EMC) and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Together, these three entities w...

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Read Amazon postpones Virginia campus
Amazon postpones Virginia campus
December 19, 2022

Amazon postpones Virginia campus

Amazon AWS

Amazon has pressed pause on its 1 million sq ft (92,900 sqm) data center campus in Manassas, in Prince William County, Virginia. This announcement comes after the giant was scheduled to present three linked applications on 30 November. However, its special-use permit application has now been ...

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Read Shell and NuScale announce nuclear-hydrogen partnership
Shell and NuScale announce nuclear-hydrogen partnership
December 19, 2022

Shell and NuScale announce nuclear-hydrogen partnership

United States

Shell has announced a partnership with US-based NuScale through which it aims to evaluate the production of hydrogen from small nuclear power stations inexpensively. This new deal is for the “Development and Demonstration of a Concept for an Economically Optimised IES” project, which will be c...

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Read Meta 'rescopes' global projects
Meta 'rescopes' global projects
December 16, 2022

Meta 'rescopes' global projects

Meta

Meta, as part of a wider plan to integrate AI into its data center operations, has paused a number of its data center projects in a 'rescoping' effort, it has been announced. The first facility development that the giant announced it was halting was at its data center campus in Odense, Denmar...

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Read V.tal plans new facility in Port Alegre, Brazil
V.tal plans new facility in Port Alegre, Brazil
December 16, 2022

V.tal plans new facility in Port Alegre, Brazil

Brazil / Brasil

V.tal has announced that it's planning a new facility in Porto Alegre after acquiring a building in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. While no details related to financial terms, location, building size, or timelines were shared, the company, a Brazilian fiber firm part of telco GlobeNet, in a s...

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Read AtlasEdge To Develop Two Data Centers in Manchester, UK
AtlasEdge To Develop Two Data Centers in Manchester, UK
December 16, 2022

AtlasEdge To Develop Two Data Centers in Manchester, UK

AtlasEdge

AtlasEdge has announced its plan to build two data centers in Manchester, UK. The company secured permission for two data center buildings in Salford, Manchester. This will be the company’s first development since it was established in 2021. AtlasEdge filed for the buildings in May 2022 and...

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Read Atman To Develop a 43MW Campus in Warsaw, Poland
Atman To Develop a 43MW Campus in Warsaw, Poland
December 16, 2022

Atman To Develop a 43MW Campus in Warsaw, Poland

Atman

Atman has announced its plan for a third data center campus in Warsaw. The Polish data center company bought a 5.5-hectare land in Duchnice to the west of Warsaw to develop the new facility. The Atman Data Center Warsaw-3 data center campus will feature three buildings with a total of 36 data ...

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