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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

Posted by: Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

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Read Microsoft To Develop Data Center on a 40-acre Site in Manassas, Virginia
Microsoft To Develop Data Center on a 40-acre Site in Manassas, Virginia
April 27, 2022

Microsoft To Develop Data Center on a 40-acre Site in Manassas, Virginia

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is looking to develop a new data center in Manassas, Northern Virginia. The company submitted a request to the US Army Corps of Engineers to build the MNZ01 Balls Ford Road Data Center. The project will involve Microsoft developing two three-story buildings, MNZ01 and MNZ02, on the 4...

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Read Diode Ventures Planning a 220MW Facility in Kansas
Diode Ventures Planning a 220MW Facility in Kansas
April 26, 2022

Diode Ventures Planning a 220MW Facility in Kansas

Kansas City

Diode Ventures is looking to develop a massive data center campus in Kansas. The company filed a preliminary plan for a data center campus called Creek Technology Park. The campus will sit on an undeveloped 359 acres of land in the northeast of US Highway 169 and Interstate 435 in Missouri....

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Read QTS To Expand Its Richmond Facility in Virginia
QTS To Expand Its Richmond Facility in Virginia
April 26, 2022

QTS To Expand Its Richmond Facility in Virginia

QTS Richmond I

QTS has plans to expand its Richmond facility in Northern Virginia. The company filed to construct attendant structures and buildings at 6000 Technology Boulevard in Henrico County, Virginia. Per the application, the development project is called QTS East Expansion. The plan is to develop t...

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Read North Myrtle Beach City To Invest $12m In Developing an Emergency Operations and Data Management Center
April 26, 2022

North Myrtle Beach City To Invest $12m In Developing an Emergency Operations and Data Management Center

South Carolina

The City of North Myrtle Beach in South Carolina has announced that it is developing an emergency operations and data management center. The city’s council members initially planned to spend $2 million developing the data center. However, the budget has risen to $12 million. North Myrtle Be...

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Read atNorth Launches its SWE01 DC Facility
atNorth Launches its SWE01 DC Facility
April 26, 2022

atNorth Launches its SWE01 DC Facility

atNorth Stockholm SWE01

atNorth has announced the launch of its new SWE01 DC facility in Kista, Sweden. The new data center is the first in the country designed to manage high-density workloads, including risk analysis, simulations, and AI. The facility has a total IT capacity of more than 11MW, spanning 6,400 square...

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Read Gaw Capital Makes Significant Investment in South Korea's Dreammark One
April 26, 2022

Gaw Capital Makes Significant Investment in South Korea's Dreammark One

South Korea

Hong Kong’s real estate private equity company Gaw Capital Partners has made a considerable investment in Dreammark One. Gaw announced that it signed agreements with IMM Investment Corp to invest in the South Korean data center company through a fund under its management. The investment det...

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Read Viettel To Develop The Largest Data Center in Vietnam
April 26, 2022

Viettel To Develop The Largest Data Center in Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam-based telecommunication firm Viettel has announced plans to develop a new data center in Ho Chi Minh City. The company revealed that it would be developing the largest data center in the country. Viettel aims to invest up to VND 6,000 billion ($261 million) in the data center project. ...

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Read GDS Starts Work on its RM1.38 Billion Data Center Campus in Johor, Malaysia
April 25, 2022

GDS Starts Work on its RM1.38 Billion Data Center Campus in Johor, Malaysia

Carrier-Neutral Data Center

GDS Holdings has announced that it has started work on a data center campus in Malaysia. The company revealed that it would invest RM1.38 billion in developing the 242,200 square feet (22,500 square meters) at the Nusajaya Tech Park in Johor. The hyperscale data center campus will deliver 5...

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Read Google replaces diesel at its St. Ghislain, Belgium data center
Google replaces diesel at its St. Ghislain, Belgium data center
April 25, 2022

Google replaces diesel at its St. Ghislain, Belgium data center

Google

Google has announced that it is replacing some of its diesel backup capacity at its St. Ghislain, Belgium data center, with a 2.75MW battery system from Fluence. This announcement aligns with Google's public pledge to use entirely carbon-free energy by 2030 by reducing its emissions. The batt...

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Read Supernap Thailand announces signing of PPA to build solar plant
Supernap Thailand announces signing of PPA to build solar plant
April 25, 2022

Supernap Thailand announces signing of PPA to build solar plant

Thailand / Prathet Thai

Supernap Thailand has announced that it has signed a PPA with WHA Utilities & Power, to build a solar plant alongside its data center just outside of Bangkok. The project, which will see an investment of THB 30 million (~$886,000), will take place on 10,000 sqm (107,600 sqft) of space. WHA...

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Read Brazil's State of Rio Grande do Sul To Invest to invest $18.3m in Disaster Recovery Data Center
April 25, 2022

Brazil's State of Rio Grande do Sul To Invest to invest $18.3m in Disaster Recovery Data Center

Brazil / Brasil

The State of Rio Grande do Sul’s information and communication center plans to develop a disaster recovery data center. Procergs (Centro de Tecnologia da Informação e Comunicação do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul SA), will be in charge of the project. The firm will receive BRL 87.9 million ($1...

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Read Digital 9 Infrastructure Buys Ficolo For €135 million
Digital 9 Infrastructure Buys Ficolo For €135 million
April 25, 2022

Digital 9 Infrastructure Buys Ficolo For €135 million

Digital 9 Infrastructure

Digital 9 Infrastructure has completed the acquisition of Ficolo for €135 million ($145m). Ficolo is a Finnish-based colocation provider which was founded in 2011. The data and cloud center firm has data centers in Tampere, Pori, and Helsinki. Chair of D9 Infrastructure, Jack Waters, said a...

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Read SK ecoplant and Digital Edge Partner To Develop 150MW Facility in South Korea
SK ecoplant and Digital Edge Partner To Develop 150MW Facility in South Korea
April 25, 2022

SK ecoplant and Digital Edge Partner To Develop 150MW Facility in South Korea

Digital Edge DC

Digital Edge and SK Ecoplant have formed a joint venture to develop a data center in Incheon, South Korea. The facility will be named Bupyeong data center. Per the agreement, the two firms will jointly develop and promote the 120MW hyperscale data center project. The facility will be locate...

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Read VueNow To Develop 40 Edge Facilities Across Bihar, India
April 22, 2022

VueNow To Develop 40 Edge Facilities Across Bihar, India

India / Bhārata

VueNow has revealed that it plans to develop multiple Edge data centers across Bihar, India. According to Business Standard, Bihar’s IT department received a proposal from VueNow about an investment plan to develop data centers across the state. This investment is worth Rs817 crore ($107m). Ac...

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Read Amazon announces 37 new renewable energy projects globally
Amazon announces 37 new renewable energy projects globally
April 22, 2022

Amazon announces 37 new renewable energy projects globally

Amazon AWS

Amazon recently announced it has invested in 37 renewable energy projects across the globe. Located across the US, Spain, France, Australia, Canada, India, Japan, and the United Arab Emirates, these projects will total 3.5 GW, bringing its global renewable energy portfolio to 15.7GW. Included...

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Read CyrusOne collaborates with Gexa Energy for wind and solar energy
CyrusOne collaborates with Gexa Energy for wind and solar energy
April 22, 2022

CyrusOne collaborates with Gexa Energy for wind and solar energy

CyrusOne

CyrusOne, a signatory and founding member of the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, has announced that it is collaborating with Gexa Energy following the signing of a new power purchase agreement (PPA). Through this agreement, the data center company will be provided with wind and solar power ...

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Read Google's plan to use 100% carbon-free energy in data centers by 2030
Google's plan to use 100% carbon-free energy in data centers by 2030
April 22, 2022

Google's plan to use 100% carbon-free energy in data centers by 2030

Google

Globally, Google's data centers are huge guzzlers of electricity, consuming around twice as much electricity as San Francisco. According to a Forbes article, in 2019, its facilities sucked up 12.4 terawatt-hours of power, which is comparable to the energy consumption of Sri Lanka. It is simult...

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Read VPLS Buys Carrier-1's Facility in Dallas, Texas
VPLS Buys Carrier-1's Facility in Dallas, Texas
April 22, 2022

VPLS Buys Carrier-1's Facility in Dallas, Texas

Evocative DA4

VPLS has completed the acquisition of Carrier-1’s 106,000 square feet data center in Dallas, Texas. The facility offers 10MW in capacity, and it will become VPLS’ fourth data center in Dallas. The CEO of VPLS, Arman Khalili, said the company is happy to welcome the employees and customers o...

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Read YTL Corp To Develop a 500MW Data Center Campus in Johor, Malaysia
YTL Corp To Develop a 500MW Data Center Campus in Johor, Malaysia
April 22, 2022

YTL Corp To Develop a 500MW Data Center Campus in Johor, Malaysia

YTL Johor

YTL Corp is looking to develop a 500MW data center campus in Johor, Malaysia. The Malaysian conglomerate announced that it wants to develop the solar-powered facility in the Iskandar region of Johor. According to the company, it will be the first data center park in the country to be solar-...

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Read Castle IT To Develop Data Centers in Reims and Aix-en-Provence
April 22, 2022

Castle IT To Develop Data Centers in Reims and Aix-en-Provence

France

According to La Tribune, Castle IT is looking to develop two more data centers in 2023. The report shows that the French colocation firm plans to build these facilities in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône and Reims, Marne. The development will also cost the company up to €30 million ($32.3...

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