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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 iM Data Centers Joins Sustainability Consortium
iM Data Centers Joins Sustainability Consortium
September 05, 2022

iM Data Centers Joins Sustainability Consortium

Miami

iM Data Centers, a manufacturer of modular data centers, has announced that it is joining the Infrastructure Masons (iMasons) Climate Accord (ICA), a collaboration between digital infrastructure companies that have come together to push forward carbon neutrality initiatives. According to Dean ...

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Read Galaxy Backbone announces launch Tier IV data center
Galaxy Backbone announces launch Tier IV data center
September 05, 2022

Galaxy Backbone announces launch Tier IV data center

Nigeria

 The Galaxy Backbone (GBB) has announced that it is launching a Tier IV data center into the public and private sector space, in order to boost its digital infrastructure. In a statement, the agency said: “The infrastructure has been specifically built to respond to the desire of its growing b...

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Read Vantage Plans To Develop Another Data Center Campus in Sterling
Vantage Plans To Develop Another Data Center Campus in Sterling
September 05, 2022

Vantage Plans To Develop Another Data Center Campus in Sterling

Vantage Data Centers

According to BizJournal, Vantage is looking to develop another data center campus in Loudoun County, Virginia. According to Loudoun property records, the company acquired 17 acres of land at 22318 Glenn Drive for $46m in October 2021. Per the documents filed by Loudoun County Economic Developm...

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Read 1547 CSR Has Plans For a 150MW Facility in Pennsylvania
1547 CSR Has Plans For a 150MW Facility in Pennsylvania
September 05, 2022

1547 CSR Has Plans For a 150MW Facility in Pennsylvania

1547 Critical Systems Realty (fifteenfortyseven)

Fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547) has plans for a large data center campus in Pennsylvania. The company partnered with Green Fig Land Company (GFLC), a real estate company, to acquire over 100 acres of land to develop a data center campus. The data center will span 2 million squ...

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Read DigitalBridge and Equinix are The Final Bidders For Time Dotcom's Aims DC Business
DigitalBridge and Equinix are The Final Bidders For Time Dotcom's Aims DC Business
September 05, 2022

DigitalBridge and Equinix are The Final Bidders For Time Dotcom's Aims DC Business

DigitalBridge

According to Bloomberg, Equinix and DigitalBridge are the final two companies looking to buy Time Dotcom’s data center business. The companies are looking to sign an agreement to take over the business called Aims Data Centre within the next few weeks. Per sources, Time Dotcom might also re...

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Read CIM Group Lists a 24MW Purpose-built Data Center For Lease in San Francisco
September 05, 2022

CIM Group Lists a 24MW Purpose-built Data Center For Lease in San Francisco

San Francisco Bay Area

JLL and CIM Group have listed a new purpose-built data center for lease. The data center is located at 400 Paul Avenue in San Francisco, California. The data center offers 24MW of power across 182,250 square feet of two-story powered shell building on 7.3 acres. Per additional information in t...

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Read Africa Data Centres To Add 30MW Capacity To Its Johannesburg Data Center
Africa Data Centres To Add 30MW Capacity To Its Johannesburg Data Center
September 05, 2022

Africa Data Centres To Add 30MW Capacity To Its Johannesburg Data Center

Teraco Johannesburg JB1

Africa Data Centres (ADC) has announced that it has started expansion work on its Samrand data center. The expansion will see ADC add 30MW of power to one of its Johannesburg data center campuses. Africa Data Centres (ADC) is pan-African technology group business of Cassava Technologies. It ow...

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Read Amazon Web Services Launches UAE Cloud Region
Amazon Web Services Launches UAE Cloud Region
September 05, 2022

Amazon Web Services Launches UAE Cloud Region

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services has announced the launch of its new cloud region in the United Arab Emirates. The company said the cloud region’s official name is Middle East (UAE). It also noted that the API name is me-central-1. According to AWS, the zone is ready for use to store data and deploy worklo...

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Read Microsoft's Staffanstorp, Sweden Data Center Expansion Plan Canceled
Microsoft's Staffanstorp, Sweden Data Center Expansion Plan Canceled
September 02, 2022

Microsoft's Staffanstorp, Sweden Data Center Expansion Plan Canceled

Hyperscale Data Center

Microsoft has announced that it is no longer expanding one of its data centers in Sweden. Instead, it will explore other locations in the country to develop a new data center. Microsoft first announced a new Azure cloud region in Sweden in November 2020. It also officially opened the new cl...

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Read DataVita Announces Expansion Plan For its Fortis Data Center
September 02, 2022

DataVita Announces Expansion Plan For its Fortis Data Center

DataVita: Lanarkshire DV1

DataVita has announced that it is expanding its Fortis data center in Scotland. The company plans to invest £8 million ($9.3m) in the facility. The plan is to add 400 racks and 5,380 square feet (500 square meters) of space to its flagship data center. The MD of DataVita, Danny Quinn, said:...

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Read Equinix Expands its M2 Data Center in Melbourne, Australia
Equinix Expands its M2 Data Center in Melbourne, Australia
September 02, 2022

Equinix Expands its M2 Data Center in Melbourne, Australia

Equinix Melbourne ME2

Equinix has announced that it has completed the expansion of its second Melbourne data center in Australia. The expansion cost the company $23 million (US$ 15.7m). Equinix first opened the ME2 data center in February 2020. The company acquired 500 new cabinets to increase the data center’s tot...

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Read CloudHQ To Develop a 180MW Facility in Minnesota
September 01, 2022

CloudHQ To Develop a 180MW Facility in Minnesota

CloudHQ

According to BizJournal, CloudHQ has plans to develop a data center in Chaska, Minnesota. The data center campus will sit on 72 acres of land in Carver County, Chaska. Per the filing, CloudHQ wants to either develop a large 1.8 million square feet (167,225 square meters) building or four build...

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Read Google Gets Land in Bissen, Luxemburg Reclassified For Potential $1B Data Center
Google Gets Land in Bissen, Luxemburg Reclassified For Potential $1B Data Center
September 01, 2022

Google Gets Land in Bissen, Luxemburg Reclassified For Potential $1B Data Center

Google

Google has announced that its land in Bissen, Luxemburg, has finally been reclassified for data center use. The company confirmed that construction can now begin on the land, which is planned for a €1 billion ($1bn) data center. Once completed, this will be one of the most significant const...

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Read Bridge Data Centres Expands into Thailand With Data Center Acquisition
August 31, 2022

Bridge Data Centres Expands into Thailand With Data Center Acquisition

Bridge Data Centres

Bridge Data Centres has announced it has expanded its operations into Thailand by acquiring a data center in Bangkok. The data center company acquired the facility from WHA Logistics. The company did not reveal the details of the deal. The data center acquired called BKK01 spans 70,000 squa...

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Read Protests over Amazon's Manassas data center
Protests over Amazon's Manassas data center
August 30, 2022

Protests over Amazon's Manassas data center

AWS US East (N. Virginia)

Amazon’s Manassas data center has come under fire over noise pollution. According to reports, activists in Prince William County, Virginia, have united to protest against the facility, citing that the “area is being overrun with data center development,” and subsequently, the constant noise i...

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Read Thames Water launches probe into data center water use in London
Thames Water launches probe into data center water use in London
August 30, 2022

Thames Water launches probe into data center water use in London

London

It has been revealed that Thames Water has launched a probe into the water use of data centers in the UK's capital,  following the utility company’s discovery that UK data centers have been using drinking water to cool down their servers. The news of review comes as the UK’s hosepipe ban comes...

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Read Rostelecom Announces Plan For a Backup Data Center For Sverdlovsk Government
Rostelecom Announces Plan For a Backup Data Center For Sverdlovsk Government
August 29, 2022

Rostelecom Announces Plan For a Backup Data Center For Sverdlovsk Government

Rostelecom

Rostelecom has announced that it is developing a backup data center for Russia’s Yekaterinburg local government. The vice president and director of PJSC Rostelecom Yekaterinburg said: “Our team has already equipped the premises for the data center, having installed and launched all engineering...

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Read Involta Expands its Independence, Ohio Facility
Involta Expands its Independence, Ohio Facility
August 29, 2022

Involta Expands its Independence, Ohio Facility

Ark: Independence

Involta has announced the expansion of its data center in Independent, Ohio. The data center company added 1,300 square meters (14,000 square feet) of space to the facility. It also added 1MW of power to the data center. The facility is located at 7300 E Pleasant Valley Road. The expansion ...

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Read CloudHQ Begins Construction of 80MW 1.5 Million Square Feet Data Center Campus in Illinois
August 29, 2022

CloudHQ Begins Construction of 80MW 1.5 Million Square Feet Data Center Campus in Illinois

CloudHQ

CloudHQ has announced that it has begun constructing a new facility in Mount Prospect, Illinois. Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd), an energy provider, said the (140,000 square meters) 1.5 million square feet data center campus would cost $2.5 billion. The first phase of the development i...

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Read AWS Looking To Develop a 900,000 Square Feet Data Center Campus in Bristow, Northern Virginia
AWS Looking To Develop a 900,000 Square Feet Data Center Campus in Bristow, Northern Virginia
August 29, 2022

AWS Looking To Develop a 900,000 Square Feet Data Center Campus in Bristow, Northern Virginia

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services has plans to develop an 83,600 square meter (900,000 square feet) data center campus in Bristow, Northern Virginia. The company has filed to rezone over 59 acres in Nokesville Road from A-1, Agricultural to Planned Business Development. This is for the sole purpose of devel...

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