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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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Read Google signs major solar PPA in Spain
Google signs major solar PPA in Spain
December 01, 2022

Google signs major solar PPA in Spain

Google

Google has announced that it has signed a 12-year PPA with German energy infrastructure developer ib vogt to procure solar energy in the province of Zamora in Spain. ib vogt began work on the 149MWp Garnacha solar power plant in September, which is expected to commence commercial operations i...

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Read Extinction Rebellion protests against data centers as part of wider 'Make Amazon Pay’ campaign
Extinction Rebellion protests against data centers as part of wider 'Make Amazon Pay’ campaign
December 01, 2022

Extinction Rebellion protests against data centers as part of wider 'Make Amazon Pay’ campaign

Amazon AWS

As part of the 'Make Amazon Pay' campaign, climate groups Extinction Rebellion and Not Here Not Anywhere took to the giant's Irish Headquarters in protest. The groups called for Amazon's AWS to pay its workers, its taxes and pay for its damage to the climate, due to its 'unsustainable' environ...

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Read Vantage Secures $350m Loan From French Bank For Data Center in Santa Clara, California
Vantage Secures $350m Loan From French Bank For Data Center in Santa Clara, California
December 01, 2022

Vantage Secures $350m Loan From French Bank For Data Center in Santa Clara, California

Vantage Data Centers

According to Real Deal and Globe Street, Vantage Data Centers has received $350m in funding to develop a data center in Santa Clara, California. Vantage DC acquired a building in the city, and the fund will be used to convert it into a data center campus. The planned facility will span 44,5...

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Read Texas-Based Data Center Developer Signs Agreements with Landowners in Northern Virginia's Vint Hill and Catlett
December 01, 2022

Texas-Based Data Center Developer Signs Agreements with Landowners in Northern Virginia's Vint Hill and Catlett

Northern Virginia

According to Fauquier Times, a data center developer based in Texas has acquired two plots of land in Fauquier County, Virginia. The data center developer signed agreements with landowners in the Catlett and Vint Hill towns of Northern Virginia. The Vint Hill site spans 48 acres, and it was ac...

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Read Telenor and Axiata Complete Merger To Create Largest Telco in Malaysia
December 01, 2022

Telenor and Axiata Complete Merger To Create Largest Telco in Malaysia

Telenor Group

Telenor and Axiata Group have completed the merger of Malaysian mobile operators DiGi and Celcom. Talks about the merger have been ongoing for a while now, and the successful merger sees a new company called Celcom DiGi created. With a subscriber base of up to 20 million, Celcom Digi has becom...

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Read Yandex Looking To Depart its Cloud and Tech Units From Russia
Yandex Looking To Depart its Cloud and Tech Units From Russia
December 01, 2022

Yandex Looking To Depart its Cloud and Tech Units From Russia

Yandex NV

Russian company Yandex has announced plans to separate its cloud computing and other tech businesses from Russia, moving them out of the Eastern Europe country. Yandex’s ties with Russia have caused economic problems for it since the war in Ukraine. Earlier in the summer, Yandex sold off it...

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Read Stack Developing a 36MW Facility in Prince William County, Virginia
Stack Developing a 36MW Facility in Prince William County, Virginia
December 01, 2022

Stack Developing a 36MW Facility in Prince William County, Virginia

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure has announced that it has started work on a new facility in Virginia. The groundbreaking ceremony of the NVAL3 hyperscale data center campus took place this week. The data center’s first phase will deliver 36MW of capacity in a single building by Q1 2024. In addition, t...

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Read AWS Announces Local Zones in Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East
AWS Announces Local Zones in Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East
December 01, 2022

AWS Announces Local Zones in Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services has announced the launch of new Local Zones in Denmark, Oman, Argentina, and Denmark. The launch sees AWS’ total international Local Zones outside the US reach eight. Local Zones serve the purpose of Edge locations for hosting applications that need low latency to on-premis...

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Read Equinix To Develop New IBX Data Center in Johor, Malaysia
Equinix To Develop New IBX Data Center in Johor, Malaysia
December 01, 2022

Equinix To Develop New IBX Data Center in Johor, Malaysia

Equinix

Equinix has announced its plan to develop a new International Business Exchange IBX data center in Johor, Malaysia. The data center company said it would invest up to $40m in the first stages of the data center. The JH1 data center is scheduled to be in operation in Q1 2024. The facility wi...

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Read QTS Announces That Fire at its New Jersey Campus Won't Affect Construction on the Site
QTS Announces That Fire at its New Jersey Campus Won't Affect Construction on the Site
December 01, 2022

QTS Announces That Fire at its New Jersey Campus Won't Affect Construction on the Site

QTS Piscataway

Earlier on Wednesday, fire broke out at QTS’s data center campus in New Jersey. However, it was extinguished under two hours without any injuries. QTS has now come out to say the fire did not affect its data center operations. It also noted that the fire will not delay the construction of the ...

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Read AWS announces water positive goals for 2030 & pledges to report on WUE each year
AWS announces water positive goals for 2030 & pledges to report on WUE each year
November 30, 2022

AWS announces water positive goals for 2030 & pledges to report on WUE each year

Amazon AWS

Amazon has announced its goal of becoming water positive by 2030, which, according to AWS, will see it returning more water to the communities that it uses in its operations. It also promised to report on its WUE each year. Through this announcement, it joins the likes of other tech giants, Go...

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Read CorScale Plans to File FOr Permission To Develop a 140MW Facility in Iver, Buckinhamshire
CorScale Plans to File FOr Permission To Develop a 140MW Facility in Iver, Buckinhamshire
November 30, 2022

CorScale Plans to File FOr Permission To Develop a 140MW Facility in Iver, Buckinhamshire

Corscale

New data center company CorScale is looking to develop its first international data center in the UK. According to the Senior Vice President of CorScale, the company is a few days away from filing for planning permission to develop the facility in Iver, outside London. CorScale noted that the ...

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Read India’s Kotak Bank To Launch a New $1 Billion Data Center Fund
November 30, 2022

India’s Kotak Bank To Launch a New $1 Billion Data Center Fund

India / Bhārata

India’s Kotak Mahindra Bank’s investment arm Kotak Alternate Assets, has launched a new data center fund. The company announced the appointment of Subhamkar Das as the Chief Operating Officer of its new Kotak Data Centre platform. Kotak Alternate Assets is managed by Kotak Investment Advisors ...

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Read Canberra DC Plans Expansion of its Auckland Campuses in New Zealand After Land Purchase
Canberra DC Plans Expansion of its Auckland Campuses in New Zealand After Land Purchase
November 29, 2022

Canberra DC Plans Expansion of its Auckland Campuses in New Zealand After Land Purchase

Canberra Data Centres (CDC)

Canberra Data Centres has announced that it has bought more land in New Zealand. The company acquired the land in Hobsonville and Silverdale, Auckland. The plan is to expand its existing data center campuses in Auckland with the acquired land.  The Founder and CEO of CDC, Greg Boorer, said...

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Read Africa Data Centres Announces New Data Center in Kigali, Rwanda
Africa Data Centres Announces New Data Center in Kigali, Rwanda
November 29, 2022

Africa Data Centres Announces New Data Center in Kigali, Rwanda

Africa Data Centres

Africa Data Centres has announced that it is developing its first data center in Kigali, Rwanda. According to the company, the purpose-built data center will offer 2MW of capacity. ADC also revealed that it would break ground on the data center in Q1 2023. It, however, did not reveal the ex...

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Read Meta To Expand its Data Center Campus in Richmond, Virginia
Meta To Expand its Data Center Campus in Richmond, Virginia
November 29, 2022

Meta To Expand its Data Center Campus in Richmond, Virginia

Hyperscale Data Center

Meta is looking to expand its data center campus in Richmond, Virginia. According to Richmond BizSense, Meta acquired 475 acres of land close to its existing facility within White Oak Technology Park in Henrico County. The social media company plans to develop new data centers under the umbrel...

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Read Amazon signs new PPA in Indonesia
Amazon signs new PPA in Indonesia
November 28, 2022

Amazon signs new PPA in Indonesia

Amazon AWS

AWS has announced that it has signed a PPA with Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) to procure solar power for its operations in Indonesia. The state-owned electric utility will buy electricity from 210 MW of solar projects (four solar projects located in Bali and Java Island.)PLN stated that the ...

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Read More data centers ahead for Loudoun County?
More data centers ahead for Loudoun County?
November 28, 2022

More data centers ahead for Loudoun County?

Northern Virginia

In recent years, Chuck Kuhn, the founder, and CEO of JK Moving, has become a big player in the data center real estate market scene in Northern Virginia. Now, it appears that he’s looking to develop a new facility in Loudoun County, following the application for a large data center and warehou...

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Read Brazil’s Zeittec To Develop Data Center for Federal University of Espírito Santo
November 28, 2022

Brazil’s Zeittec To Develop Data Center for Federal University of Espírito Santo

Brazil / Brasil

Zeittec plans to develop a new data center for the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES) in Vitoria, Espirito Santo. The Brazilian firm plans to develop the facility in seven months. The first phase will see Zeittec renovate UFES to allow it to receive servers and all needed data cent...

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Read Ennis Data Centre appeal reaches next stage
Ennis Data Centre appeal reaches next stage
November 28, 2022

Ennis Data Centre appeal reaches next stage

Republic of Ireland

The appeal against the Ennis Data Centre is reportedly moving to the next stage, according to a report by local newspaper, the Clare Herald. A response from the developer has been passed on from An Bord Pleanála, Ireland's national independent planning body, to the appellants, which include th...

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