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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 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 t...

August 01, 2026

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New Jersey

MARA has Entered Into a Joint Venture Agreement with Starwood to Expand its US Data Center Portfolio

Marathon Digital Holdings (MARA) has signed a strategic agreement with Starwood Capital Group and its data center platform, Starwood Digital Ventures (SDV), to convert and expand selected sites for enterprise, hyperscale, and AI workloads. SDV will manage the design, development, tenant acquis...

February 28, 2026

Starwood Digital Ventures

Xference has Launched a New Distributed Infrastructure Platform from its Data Center in Italy

Italy-based inference provider Xference has rolled out a new distributed infrastructure from a data center in Bergamo, in the Lombardy region. The startup also announced plans to launch a beta service for 100 selected users in the near term. The development follows a €700,000 (approximately $8...

February 27, 2026

Italy

Google has Acquired a 900-hectare Site in Finland for the Development of a New Data Center

The municipality of Vaala this week announced Google has acquired some 900 hectares in the area. The site is about six kilometres (3.7 miles) from the center of Vaala, near Fingrid's Nuojua substation on both sides of Ouluntie (Highway 22). Full details of the planned development haven’t been ...

February 27, 2026

Google

Digital Edge has Signed an 83MW Solar Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Hexa to Supply Renewable Energy to its Data Center in Navi Mumbai, India

Digital Edge has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Hexa Climate Solutions for 83MW of solar power to support the first phase of its 350MW BOM campus in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.“This 83MW PPA demonstrates how renewable energy can scale with the country’s digital economy, sett...

February 27, 2026

Digital Edge DC

Iron-sodium Battery Company Inlyte has Partnered with NTS to Deploy its Solution at a Data Center in Bern, Switzerland

US-based iron-sodium battery storage company Inlyte Energy has teamed up with Swiss data center operator NTS Colocation AG to roll out its technology across NTS’s facilities.The first initiative under the partnership will be a pilot installation at NTS’s data center in Bern. The companies have...

February 27, 2026

Switzerland

Cogent Completes Conversion of Former Sprint Sites into Data Centers, Continues Discussions Over Potential Sale of Facilities

The last couple of years have seen Cogent converting legacy technical buildings and switch sites previously used for Sprint’s wireline business into colocation data centers. The company has been looking to sell a number of those facilities on a wholesale basis. In October, Cogent signed a lett...

February 26, 2026

Ciena Launches New Optical Engine Designed For The AI-driven Data Center Era

In its first new solution since acquiring Nubis Communications last year, Ciena continues to tackle data center AI demands with the launch of a flexible, high-density pluggable optical engine, Vesta 200 6.4T CPX. The new solution is claimed to reduce power consumption by up to 70 percent, whil...

February 26, 2026

United States

President Trump Urges Big Tech to Develop Their Own Power Plants to Support Data Centers Across the US

US President Donald Trump has directed major data center operators and technology companies to build their own power generation infrastructure to supply their facilities. Speaking during his annual State of the Union address, Trump argued that the move is necessary to prevent consumers from be...

February 26, 2026

United States

Microsoft to Begin Permitting Process for 1,385-acre Data Center campus in North Carolina

The technology firm acquired the 1,350-acre Person County Mega Park in Woodsdale Township back in November 2024, reportedly paying $26.85 million for the land. At the time, no plans for the site were shared.Kyle Puryear, Person County board of commissioners chairman, said: “Person County is pr...

February 25, 2026

North Carolina

Vantage and Altarea Plan 400MW Data Center Development in Bordeaux, France

The campus, to be built on land owned by Altarea, is expected to rank among the largest data center developments in France, according to the companies. Altarea has already secured a 400MW grid connection for the site. However, the exact location and construction timeline have not been disclose...

February 25, 2026

Vantage Data Centers

Nvidia Posts Record Quarterly Data Center Revenue of $62.3 billion, Marking a 75% Year-over-year Increase

Revenue was up 20 percent from the previous quarter and 73 percent on the same period last year. Data center specific revenue hit $62.3bn, up 22 percent from Q3 and up 75 percent from a year ago. For the full fiscal year 2026, revenue totaled $215.9 billion, representing a 65% increase year ov...

February 25, 2026

NVIDIA

CPower, Bentaus, and Supermicro Complete AI Data Center Energy Orchestration Pilot Project in California

In collaboration with Supermicro, US virtual power producer (VPP) CPower Energy and AI orchestration platform Bentaus have completed a joint demonstration project aimed at improving how AI compute interacts with the power grid. As part of the trial, CPower transmitted real-time wholesale ele...

February 25, 2026

United States

ESR Plans to Develop a 60MW Data Center in Mumbai, India.

The company this week unveiled plans for a multi-story data center in the Rabale area of Mumbai, Maharashtra. The ESR Rabale MU1 Data Centre (MU1) will be developed on a 3.25-acre site and is designed to support up to 60MW of IT load. Total investment in the project is expected to reach $100 m...

February 25, 2026

ESR Group

Mississippi Governor Labels Data Center Moratoriums as “Civilizational Suicide”

The governor of Mississippi hit back at calls to pause data center construction across the US. Governor Tate Reeves claimed that those seeking a data center moratorium were "yearning to submit our society to outside forces: mobs, international councils, or communist China.""I understand indivi...

February 24, 2026

Mississippi

EQT-backed Scale Acquires Powered Land Specialist Reload to Expand its Data Center Footprint

EQT-backed US energy developer Scale has acquired Reload, a US-based provider of powered land for data centers.“We’re excited to partner with Scale, whose operational expertise combined with access to EQT’s long-term, forward-thinking capital and industrial insight will help us achieve a truly...

February 24, 2026

EQT

Nexalus Selects Alps Alpine to Manufacture Liquid Cooling Kits for Data Centers

The partnership will combine Nexalus’s expertise in advanced science, thermal engineering, and system-level design with Alps Alpine’s automotive-grade manufacturing capabilities, quality systems, and global operational presence. Together, the companies “form a unified platform capable of deli...

February 24, 2026

AWS EU Ireland Region (eu-west-1)

Google Plans to Develop a “Clean Energy” Colocated Data Center in Wilbarger County, Texas

Google has announced a new data center in Wilbarger County, Texas, to be powered by onsite ‘clean energy’ from US energy firm AES. AES has secured the land and grid interconnection agreements for the project and will construct the shared electrical infrastructure needed to support the co-locat...

February 24, 2026

Google

Starwood is Seeking to Acquire County-owned Land in Fairfax, Virginia, For The Development of a Data Center

As reported by Bizjournal and others, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors last week authorized a public meeting on plans to sell county-owned land to SCG Global Holdings LLC, a known affiliate of Starwood.The 28-acre property at 3721 Stonecroft Boulevard in Chantilly is currently home to t...

February 23, 2026

Starwood Digital Ventures

US Utility PPL Reports 23% Increase in Data Center Pipeline, Reaching 25.2GW.

In its latest earnings report, the utility said that it now expects at least 10GW of data center load to be signed under Electricity Service Agreements (ESA) by the end of Q1. Vincent Sorgi, president of PPL, said during the call that he believes “ all of the 25.2GW of projects have a high pro...

February 23, 2026

United States

Meta Plans to Deploy 366MW of Modular Gas-fired Units to Support a 1GW Data Center in El Paso, Texas

The 1GW project, which broke ground in October, would be powered by 813 modular generators, slated to come online by 2027. The units are expected to cost $473 million. The proposal has also drawn opposition from environmental and community organizations. For instance, the Sembrando Esperanza C...

February 23, 2026

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