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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 Nautilus' floating data center faces opposition
March 11, 2022

Nautilus' floating data center faces opposition

Republic of Ireland

The Irish socialist party People Before Profit (PBP) has voiced its opposition to Nautilus Data Technologies' floating data center at Limerick Docks, which was originally approved back in 2019. Although construction is due to commence on the facility, Limerick PBP representative Cian Prendivil...

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Read atNort's Data Center in Stockholm Finally Comes Online
atNort's Data Center in Stockholm Finally Comes Online
March 11, 2022

atNort's Data Center in Stockholm Finally Comes Online

atNorth Stockholm SWE01

atNorth has announced the launch of its first data center in Stockholm, Sweden. The Icelandic company revealed that its Kista data center is now up and running. According to atNorth, the facility is Sweden’s first data center designed for high-density workloads such as risk analysis, simula...

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Read EcoDataCenter is Building a New Data Center at Its Falun Campus, Sweden
EcoDataCenter is Building a New Data Center at Its Falun Campus, Sweden
March 11, 2022

EcoDataCenter is Building a New Data Center at Its Falun Campus, Sweden

EcoDataCenter Falun, Sweden

EcoDataCenter has announced that it is developing a new data center at its Falun campus, in Sweden. The company revealed that it would be investing up to SEK 1 billion ($102m) in the development of the new facility. The new facility will add 15MW to the campus. Worthy of note is that EcoDataCe...

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Read Meta/Facebook is Project Velvet's First Tenant
Meta/Facebook is Project Velvet's First Tenant
March 11, 2022

Meta/Facebook is Project Velvet's First Tenant

Meta

According to Biz Journal, Meta will be the first tenant at the new large data center campus in Kansas, Missouri. Plans for a Golden Plains Technology Park, also known as Project Velvet, were first submitted in 2021. The developer has plans for a 510,000 square meters (5.5 million square fee...

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Read India's National Stock Exchange to relocate its data center
India's National Stock Exchange to relocate its data center
March 10, 2022

India's National Stock Exchange to relocate its data center

India / Bhārata

The National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) has announced plans to relocate its primary data center out of its Mumbai headquarters at the Bandra Kurla. This announcement comes following allegations that the NSE's former head was embroiled in a colocation scam that began in 2015, and ended with ...

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Read India's National Stock Exchange is Moving To a New Data Center
March 10, 2022

India's National Stock Exchange is Moving To a New Data Center

India / Bhārata

India’s largest stock exchange- The National Stock Exchange will be moving its primary data center from the Mumbai headquarters. The NSE move comes the organization’s former head was arrested over an alleged colocation scam. The scam involved him giving a broker privileged access to market dat...

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Read Web Werks Announce Plans For a 6MW Data Center in Hyderabad, India
Web Werks Announce Plans For a 6MW Data Center in Hyderabad, India
March 10, 2022

Web Werks Announce Plans For a 6MW Data Center in Hyderabad, India

Web Werks

Great news as Web Werks revealed that it would be developing a data center in Hyderabad, India. The facility will span 11,100 square meters (120,000 square feet) of space. In addition, the data center will be a Tier III facility with up to 20MVA of gross power. It will also have an IT load ...

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Read NEC and SCSK are Forming a Data Center Joint Venture
March 10, 2022

NEC and SCSK are Forming a Data Center Joint Venture

Japan

Two Japanese firms are coming together to form a data center joint venture. NEC and IT firm SCSK Corporation revealed that they are partnering up to strengthen their network and data center business involvement. The JW will see the firms create SCSK NEC Data Center Management, ltd. The new ...

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Read DataBank is Expanding its Las Vegas Data Center
DataBank is Expanding its Las Vegas Data Center
March 10, 2022

DataBank is Expanding its Las Vegas Data Center

DataBank

DataBank has announced that it will be expanding its LAS1 data center in Las Vegas, Nevada. The facility is located at 7185 Pollock Drive. DataBank will add 929 square meters (10,000 square feet) of data center space to the facility. Upon completion of the expansion, the data center’s total...

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Read Google Buys Mandiant for $5.4 billion
Google Buys Mandiant for $5.4 billion
March 10, 2022

Google Buys Mandiant for $5.4 billion

Google

Google has announced that it is acquiring Mandiant for $5.4 billion. This will be Google’s second-largest acquisition in history. Mandiant is a cybersecurity firm founded in 2004. The firm offers many threat detection and response services. Mandiant will also be joining Google Cloud upon the c...

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Read Government building in Ontario, Canada to be transformed into a data center
Government building in Ontario, Canada to be transformed into a data center
March 09, 2022

Government building in Ontario, Canada to be transformed into a data center

Canada

The Norfolk County council building in Ontario, Canada, could be converted into a data center, it has been announced. The building recently sold for CA$725,000 (US$566,000) and spans 12,000 sq ft (1,100 sq ft) on under one acre. The announcement of the sale was originally made back in 2020, wi...

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Read HostDime and its Eatonville data center
HostDime and its Eatonville data center
March 09, 2022

HostDime and its Eatonville data center

HostDime

HostDime recently celebrated a significant milestone in the construction of its 100,000-square-foot Eatonville data center with the last structural beam placed on the facility.According to Manny Vivar, the company’s CEO, the $37 million project will be the “Penn Station of Florida.” He added:...

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Read BitNile to expand the capacity of its Michigan data center
BitNile to expand the capacity of its Michigan data center
March 09, 2022

BitNile to expand the capacity of its Michigan data center

Michigan

BitNile has announced plans to expand its data center in Michigan to reach a capacity of 300 MW. This decision to expand capacity comes as the company seeks to accommodate Bitcoin mining operations at the facility, enabling the operation of approximately 90,000 Bitcoin miners. This, according ...

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Read China's Centrin Data is Partnering With SpaceDC
China's Centrin Data is Partnering With SpaceDC
March 09, 2022

China's Centrin Data is Partnering With SpaceDC

SpaceDC

Chinese operator Centrin Data is partnering with SpaceDC to sell two of the former’s data centers. Both companies will work together to sell Centrin’s data centers and services in China. The Singaporean firm will be offering data center space in Centrin’s Wuhan and Kunshan data centers. Bot...

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Read Microsoft Announce Plans For Hyderabad Cloud Region
Microsoft Announce Plans For Hyderabad Cloud Region
March 09, 2022

Microsoft Announce Plans For Hyderabad Cloud Region

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has revealed its plans for an Azure data center region in India. Microsoft’s potential cloud region in India will be in Hyderabad. However, it didn’t disclose any other details about the region. According to the Economic Times of India, Microsoft bought 22 acres of land in Mekaguda f...

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Read Empa begins research into data center waste heat
Empa begins research into data center waste heat
March 08, 2022

Empa begins research into data center waste heat

Switzerland

Swiss research body Empa has announced the launch of a new research project on data centers, namely ECO-Qube. The project is in response to the increasing demand for data and the growing prevalence of artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR) and the Internet of Things (IoT), which ...

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Read Southlake Verizon campus expands with new data center campus
Southlake Verizon campus expands with new data center campus
March 07, 2022

Southlake Verizon campus expands with new data center campus

Verizon Wireless

Verizon has announced its plans to expand its Southlake campus in Tarrant County, after the City Council voted unanimously to approve its plans at a meeting at the beginning of the week. As per the information contained within Southlake City documents, Verizon intends to build a data center ca...

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Read Eastlink announces opening of network facility in Halifax, Canada
Eastlink announces opening of network facility in Halifax, Canada
March 07, 2022

Eastlink announces opening of network facility in Halifax, Canada

Canada

Eastlink has announced the opening of its new network data center in Halifax, Nova Scotia, following an investment of C$20 million (US$15.7m) and three years of construction. The facility spans 13,000 sqft (1,200 sqm). Speaking about the reason the company decided to build the new facility, Je...

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Read Locals continue to challenge County Meath development
Locals continue to challenge County Meath development
March 04, 2022

Locals continue to challenge County Meath development

EngineNode

EngineNode's proposed data center in County Meath is the subject of continued controversy, as locals argue that unauthorized development has already started on the site, while the company claims that the work is related to 'archaeological tests.' EngineNode says that the archaeological testin...

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Read AWS says it will share its emissions data
AWS says it will share its emissions data
March 04, 2022

AWS says it will share its emissions data

Amazon AWS

In a bid to catch up with competitors Microsoft Azure and Google, AWS has announced the launch of a new free carbon tracker tool for customers. This tool, ​​the 'Customer Carbon Footprint Tool' comes as part of its commitment to The Climate Pledge and will enable its cloud customers to track, ...

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