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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 Amazon Leases 5.5 Acres in Mumbai for 21 Years
Amazon Leases 5.5 Acres in Mumbai for 21 Years
August 04, 2022

Amazon Leases 5.5 Acres in Mumbai for 21 Years

Amazon AWS

Amazon Data Services is leasing 5.5 acres of land from Larsen & Toubro Ltd outside Mumbai. The lease is to run for 21 years and 6 months. According to Propstack, the property documents show that Amazon is looking to develop a data center on the leased land. Amazon will be paying $451,532 p...

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Read Aligned Data Centers announces expansion in Northern Virginia
Aligned Data Centers announces expansion in Northern Virginia
August 03, 2022

Aligned Data Centers announces expansion in Northern Virginia

Aligned

Aligned Data Centers has announced its expansion in Northern Virginia, with the addition of a new 72 MW four-story data center across 430,000 sqft based at its new campus in Sterling. This addition will be the company’s third in the area and part of phase one of the campus development. The fa...

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Read Bitzero announces intention to purchase old North Dakota missile site for data center
Bitzero announces intention to purchase old North Dakota missile site for data center
August 03, 2022

Bitzero announces intention to purchase old North Dakota missile site for data center

North Dakota

After announcing plans to build 200 megawatts of data centers in North Dakota over the next two to three years back in June, Bitzero has announced plans to redevelop a northeastern North Dakota anti-ballistic missile site into a data center. The $6 billion Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Comple...

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Read Datum Datacentres goes the HVO route for backup generators
Datum Datacentres goes the HVO route for backup generators
August 02, 2022

Datum Datacentres goes the HVO route for backup generators

Datum Datacentres Limited

Datum Datacentres is the latest data center company to announce it's switching to hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO) to replace its diesel for its backup generators, and is working with Keysource to help its transition to this more sustainable energy option. This comes as a wider commitment to ...

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Read The Greater London Authority to halt housing developments due to lack of electricity capacity
The Greater London Authority to halt housing developments due to lack of electricity capacity
August 02, 2022

The Greater London Authority to halt housing developments due to lack of electricity capacity

London

In the wake of a housing crisis, the Greater London Authority (GLA) has informed developers must halt new housing projects, with talk of a potential ban that could last until 2035, in response to energy constraints caused by data centers. Ealing, Hounslow and Hillingdon, which contributed to 1...

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Read Meta announces Sarpy data center expansion
Meta announces Sarpy data center expansion
August 02, 2022

Meta announces Sarpy data center expansion

Meta

Meta has announced that it will expand its Sarpy data center in Sarpy County, Nebraska, once again, with the introduction of a new building which will make it a nine-building, four million-square-foot (371,600 sqm) campus that will be fuelled with renewable energy sourced by wind farm projects...

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Read NextDC Finally Launches S3 Facility in Sydney
NextDC Finally Launches S3 Facility in Sydney
August 02, 2022

NextDC Finally Launches S3 Facility in Sydney

NextDC: S3 Sydney

NextDC has announced the launch of its S3 Sydney facility in Sydney, Australia. The Australian data center company announced on LinkedIn that S3 is now open and ready for customer tours. NextDC first started work on the S3 facility in March 2021. The company also revealed that it would have...

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Read Dominion Energy and data center capacity issues
Dominion Energy and data center capacity issues
August 01, 2022

Dominion Energy and data center capacity issues

Northern Virginia

Dominion Energy, a Northern American utility company, has warned that it may be unable to serve new data center projects in Ashburn, Northern Virginia. According to reports, this could mean that projects, which have seen tens of millions of dollars worth of investment, are stalled and potentia...

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Read Hilliard's Planning Commission Approves AWS' Proposal For Data Center Campus in Hilliard, Ohio
Hilliard's Planning Commission Approves AWS' Proposal For Data Center Campus in Hilliard, Ohio
August 01, 2022

Hilliard's Planning Commission Approves AWS' Proposal For Data Center Campus in Hilliard, Ohio

Amazon AWS

The Hilliard planning and zoning commission has approved Amazon Web Services’ proposal to develop a third data center campus in the city. The commission voted 4-3 to approve the proposal. The Board of Zoning Appeals also approved AWS’ request to increase the maximum building height to 63 feet ...

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Read Data Holdings Acquires Stack41
August 01, 2022

Data Holdings Acquires Stack41

Data Holdings

Data Holdings has announced the acquisition of Stack41. Stack41 is a Data Center as a Service company with operations in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Milwaukee. None of the companies revealed the terms of the transaction. Data Holdings owns a two-story data center located at 3135 W Highland ...

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Read PAG Among Companies Now Looking To Acquire Global Switch
PAG Among Companies Now Looking To Acquire Global Switch
August 01, 2022

PAG Among Companies Now Looking To Acquire Global Switch

Global Switch

The number of companies looking to acquire Global Switch is increasing by the day as PAG has joined the long list of potential suitors. Global Switch is a London-based data center company founded in 1998 with 13 facilities across Asia, Europe, and Australia. Jiangsu Shagang, a Chinese steel co...

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Read Huawei Partners With Malawi For Data Center Development
Huawei Partners With Malawi For Data Center Development
July 29, 2022

Huawei Partners With Malawi For Data Center Development

Huawei Cloud

The Malawian government has announced the launch of a national data center in Blantyre. The country partnered with Huawei for the development of the facility. Huawei was responsible for building the data center. The data center will also host all Malawian government systems. Specifications ...

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Read Prince William County Planning Commission delves into PW Digital Gateway data center proposal
Prince William County Planning Commission delves into PW Digital Gateway data center proposal
July 29, 2022

Prince William County Planning Commission delves into PW Digital Gateway data center proposal

Northern Virginia

Prince William County officials have begun to delve into the PW Digital Gateway data center proposal in its first public review. Since it was first proposed, the project has been controversial. Proponents argue that the project will bring significant financial gains for the area, while opponen...

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Read Stack Launches New Data Center at its Milan Campus
Stack Launches New Data Center at its Milan Campus
July 29, 2022

Stack Launches New Data Center at its Milan Campus

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure has announced the opening of a data center in Siziano, outside Milan, Italy. The MIL02 data center has a capacity of 10MW, and it spans 97,000 square feet (9,000 square meters). Interestingly, Stack completed the data center in under 12 months. The new data center was deve...

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Read MBK Partners Mulling Over Vnet Acquisition
MBK Partners Mulling Over Vnet Acquisition
July 29, 2022

MBK Partners Mulling Over Vnet Acquisition

21Vianet

According to Bloomberg, Private equity company MBK Partners is mulling over the acquisition of China’s Vnet. Vnet Group Inc., formerly known as 21Vianet, is a Chinese data center firm. MBK is in discussions with a partner over a joint offer for Vnet. Vnet had been an acquisition target for ...

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Read AWS announces cloud region in Santiago, Chile
AWS announces cloud region in Santiago, Chile
July 28, 2022

AWS announces cloud region in Santiago, Chile

Amazon AWS

AWS has announced its plans to expand its footprint in Latin America with the development of a new cloud region in Santiago, Chile. Alongside this announcement, the company also explained that it had begun the process required to obtain an environmental permit for a $205 million data center i...

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Read American Real Estate Partners (AREP) launches a new data center division called PowerHouse Data Centers
American Real Estate Partners (AREP) launches a new data center division called PowerHouse Data Centers
July 28, 2022

American Real Estate Partners (AREP) launches a new data center division called PowerHouse Data Centers

Northern Virginia

American Real Estate Partners (AREP) has announced that it has launched a new data center division named PowerHouse Data Centers, with Luke Kipfer  as Vice President of Data Center Development and Construction and Jarrett Appleby as Data Center Strategy Consultant and Senior Advisor. According...

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Read Vantage Data Centers opens Johannesburg Data Center
Vantage Data Centers opens Johannesburg Data Center
July 28, 2022

Vantage Data Centers opens Johannesburg Data Center

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has announced the ground-breaking of its first facility on its 80MW Johannesburg campus, a project which launched in 2021. The two-story facility called JHB11 reportedly offers 16MW of capacity of 130,000sqft square feet (12,000 square meters). According to the company, t...

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Read Climate neutral data center pact members to cut water use to 400ml per kWh by 2040
Climate neutral data center pact members to cut water use to 400ml per kWh by 2040
July 27, 2022

Climate neutral data center pact members to cut water use to 400ml per kWh by 2040

Europe

The Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact (CNDCP), a group of data center operators which includes 90% of the European data center sector, recently pledged to cut their water use by a maximum of 400ml per kWh of computer power by 2040. This proposal was taken to the European Commission in its third...

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Read QTS releases annual ESG report renewing commitment to sustainability and social responsibility
QTS releases annual ESG report renewing commitment to sustainability and social responsibility
July 26, 2022

QTS releases annual ESG report renewing commitment to sustainability and social responsibility

QTS Data Centers

QTS recently published its annual ESG report, in which it highlighted its sustainability achievements and the different projects and initiatives it's pursuing in order to expand its commitment to social and environmental responsibility. This follows the company being named as one of America's ...

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