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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 India's data center boom: Growth and projections
India's data center boom: Growth and projections
August 29, 2022

India's data center boom: Growth and projections

India / Bhārata

India is currently experiencing a data center boom, an expansion that is only expected to grow. According to research, while the industry was previously fragmented, it is now evolving rapidly as the industry becomes more consolidated. Presently, there are 138 data centers spanning India, with ...

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Read Google Announces The Launch of its Third Facility in Singapore
Google Announces The Launch of its Third Facility in Singapore
August 29, 2022

Google Announces The Launch of its Third Facility in Singapore

Google

Search engineer giant Google has announced opening of a new data center in Singapore. The company said in a statement: "We announced our first data center in Singapore in 2011, our second in 2015, and we recently hit another important milestone - with our third data center facility complete...

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Read Edge Centres Developing Edge Data Center in Thailand
Edge Centres Developing Edge Data Center in Thailand
August 29, 2022

Edge Centres Developing Edge Data Center in Thailand

Edge Centres

Edge Centres has announced expansion into Thailand. The company said it is developing three locations in the country and work has started on the first one. The Australian Edge data center firm will deploy the EC61 Chiang Mai site first. EC62 Phuket and EC63 Khon Kaen will also follow in qui...

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Read Scala Data Centers Announce The Launch of SP4 in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Scala Data Centers Announce The Launch of SP4 in Sao Paulo, Brazil
August 26, 2022

Scala Data Centers Announce The Launch of SP4 in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Scala: SGRUTB01 Tamboré

Scala Data Centers has announced the launch of its SP4 data center in Sao Paulo, Brazil. SP4 is located on the company’s Tambore data center campus in the Barueri area of Sao Paulo. The company told BNAmericas that the data center is at its first stage and will provide up to 6MW of IT power...

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Read Canberra Data Centres Opens Two New Data Centers in Auckland, New Zealand
Canberra Data Centres Opens Two New Data Centers in Auckland, New Zealand
August 25, 2022

Canberra Data Centres Opens Two New Data Centers in Auckland, New Zealand

CDC: Hobsonville 1

Canberra Data Centres has announced the opening of two new facilities in Auckland, New Zealand. The Australian data center company launched the data centers in Auckland's Hobsonville and Silverdale areas. The Silverdale campus is called Auckland Campus One, while the Hobsonville data center is...

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Read Microsoft To Develop a $215.9m Data Center in San Antonio, Texas
Microsoft To Develop a $215.9m Data Center in San Antonio, Texas
August 24, 2022

Microsoft To Develop a $215.9m Data Center in San Antonio, Texas

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has filed to develop a data center in San Antonio, Texas. The company is looking to develop the SAT15 facility at 3555 Westover Link in Bexar County, San Antonio. The new data center will span 245,000 square feet. Microsoft will also invest up to $215.9m in developing the facility. C...

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Read Data Center in Florida Occupied By Sprint Up For Sale
August 23, 2022

Data Center in Florida Occupied By Sprint Up For Sale

Miami

A Sprint Telecom-occupied data center in Florida has been put up for sale. The data center is located at 360 S. Lake Destiny Drive, Orlando. According to a property listing, the data center spans 2,430 square meters (26,245 square feet). It also sits on a 3.11-acre of land. The facility cur...

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Read Kennedy Wilson To Develop a 73MW Data Center in Slough, UK
August 23, 2022

Kennedy Wilson To Develop a 73MW Data Center in Slough, UK

London: Slough

A 73MW data center campus is being planned outside Slough, UK. Developers plan to demolish many office buildings that are not commercially viable to develop the facility. Kennedy Wilson’s affiliate Kwere II filed with the South Buckinghamshire council to develop the data center campus at Frame...

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Read Digital Realty Expanding in Dallas, Texas With $59m Data Center
Digital Realty Expanding in Dallas, Texas With $59m Data Center
August 23, 2022

Digital Realty Expanding in Dallas, Texas With $59m Data Center

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has plans to develop a new facility in Dallas, Texas. The data center firm filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation to develop the data center in the Lewisville area of Dallas. The company coined the development ‘Project Gold’ and is looking to invest up to $5...

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Read Poland To Develop National Data Center
August 23, 2022

Poland To Develop National Data Center

Poland

The government of Poland is looking to develop a National Data Center. This will comprise three fiber-linked facilities. The development comes after a draft bill document was published highlighting plans to build a ‘National Data Processing Center.’ According to the document, the plan is to st...

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Read International Finance Corporation (IFC) Pumps $35m into Brazil’s OData
International Finance Corporation (IFC) Pumps $35m into Brazil’s OData
August 22, 2022

International Finance Corporation (IFC) Pumps $35m into Brazil’s OData

ODATA SA

International Finance Corporation (IFC) has announced the investment of $35m into Odata. The company announced on LinkedIn that it is supporting the growth of the Brazilian data center firm with the capital infuse. Odata will use the capital to develop a second data center in Querétaro, Mex...

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Read AWS granted permission for two data center buildings in Dublin despite controversy
AWS granted permission for two data center buildings in Dublin despite controversy
August 19, 2022

AWS granted permission for two data center buildings in Dublin despite controversy

Amazon AWS

AWS has reportedly been granted permission to build two data centers in Dublin on the site of a former Ricoh building, which was once earmarked for T5’s first European facility. This approval has gone ahead despite mounting concerns around energy availability in Dublin, environmental concerns...

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Read Validus Power Corp announces intention to build more cryptomining data centers in Canada
Validus Power Corp announces intention to build more cryptomining data centers in Canada
August 19, 2022

Validus Power Corp announces intention to build more cryptomining data centers in Canada

Validus Power

Despite there being what is being called “the crypto winter,” Validus Power Corp has announced that it is planning more cryptomining data centers at natural gas power stations in Ontario, Canada. This announcement comes after the company acquired the Iroquois Falls and Kingston Efficient Natur...

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Read Echelon's legal challenge over South Dublin data center ban
Echelon's legal challenge over South Dublin data center ban
August 19, 2022

Echelon's legal challenge over South Dublin data center ban

Echelon Data Centres

Echelon Data Centres has reportedly filed a legal challenge with the High Court against South Dublin County Council’s decision to ban new facilities in its function area during the lifetime of its 2022 to 2028 development. This legal action follows the motion tabled by the council’s People Be...

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Read Dominion to reconnect new data center connections in eastern Loudoun
Dominion to reconnect new data center connections in eastern Loudoun
August 19, 2022

Dominion to reconnect new data center connections in eastern Loudoun

Northern Virginia

Dominion, the primary power provider in Loudoun county, has announced that although Loudoun County's data center industry outpaces its capacity to deliver electricity, there is a way forward. In a conversation with Biz Journals, Bob Blue, Dominion's president and CEO, said that the company had...

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Read Microsoft Announces Launch of Qatar Azure Cloud Region
Microsoft Announces Launch of Qatar Azure Cloud Region
August 19, 2022

Microsoft Announces Launch of Qatar Azure Cloud Region

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced the launch of its first Azure cloud region in Doha, Qatar. The company said, “We are launching our newest data center region in Qatar. The new data center region includes Azure Availability Zones, which offer you additional resiliency for your applications by designing ...

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Read Figures around Microsoft's Holland data center water consumption cause concern
Figures around Microsoft's Holland data center water consumption cause concern
August 18, 2022

Figures around Microsoft's Holland data center water consumption cause concern

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft's data center in the province of North Holland has been exposed for its extreme water usage. It appears that the facility consumes significantly more water than original estimates, right as the country is faced with record temperatures. According to a report by local media company N...

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Read CyrusOne: Approval granted for Science-Based Carbon Target from SBTi
CyrusOne: Approval granted for Science-Based Carbon Target from SBTi
August 18, 2022

CyrusOne: Approval granted for Science-Based Carbon Target from SBTi

CyrusOne

CyrusOne has announced that it has received approval of its greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction target by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), reaffirming its commitment to the target of reducing absolute Scope 1 (fuels) and Scope 2 (electricity) GHG emissions by 38% by 2030 from ...

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Read Land meant for data center infrastructure in Fort Worth rezoned
Land meant for data center infrastructure in Fort Worth rezoned
August 18, 2022

Land meant for data center infrastructure in Fort Worth rezoned

Texas

According to reports, a parcel of land in Fort Worth, Texas, has been rezoned for residential and light industrial developments. Previously, the 361 acres of land was set aside for digital infrastructure and data center development, however this was never capitalized on. Specifically, the land...

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Read STT GDC opens third building at Singapore Defu campus as moratorium comes to a close
STT GDC opens third building at Singapore Defu campus as moratorium comes to a close
August 18, 2022

STT GDC opens third building at Singapore Defu campus as moratorium comes to a close

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has announced that it has opened its third building at its Singapore Defu campus in the east of the city-state. The facility, first announced back in April 2021, is a seven-story building with an IT load capacity of 15MW and spanning 156,000 square f...

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