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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 Teleindia Networks' subsidiary opens new data center in Bangalore, India
Teleindia Networks' subsidiary opens new data center in Bangalore, India
October 31, 2021

Teleindia Networks' subsidiary opens new data center in Bangalore, India

Teleindia Datasamudra

The subsidiary of Teleindia Networks' subsidiary Data Samudra has announced the launch of its first data center. The facility has 100,000 square feet of space and it is located in Bangalore’s KIADB IT Park. In addition, the facility will offer up to 25,000 square feet of colocation space and 3...

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Read Oracle to launch cloud region in Saudi Arabia’s Neom city
Oracle to launch cloud region in Saudi Arabia’s Neom city
October 29, 2021

Oracle to launch cloud region in Saudi Arabia’s Neom city

Oracle

Oracle is the latest company to join the Neom city project. Neom subsidiary, Neom Tech & Digital Holding Company, recently announced that Oracle will be the "first tenant" of the hyperscale data center in the new city.Abdullah Alswaha, Minister for Communications and Information Technology...

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Read Equinix Expands in Osaka, Japan with OS3 data center
Equinix Expands in Osaka, Japan with OS3 data center
October 29, 2021

Equinix Expands in Osaka, Japan with OS3 data center

Equinix Osaka OS3

Equinix has expanded in Japan by opening a new data center in Osaka called OS3. In Phase 1, the IBX facility will provide more than 33,000 square feet (3,070 square meters) of colocation space and 900 racks. OS3 will offer over 89,300 square feet (8,300 square meters) of colocation space and 2...

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Read CyrusOne to outsource the management of its US data centers to JLL
CyrusOne to outsource the management of its US data centers to JLL
October 29, 2021

CyrusOne to outsource the management of its US data centers to JLL

CyrusOne

CyrusOne has announced that it will be outsourcing the management of its US data centers to JLL. The agreement is expected to start on January 1st, 2022. CyrusOne announced the deal in an email it sent to its customers. In the email, CyrusOne says transitioning the management of its US data...

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Read Ziply Fiber expands to H5 Data Centers' facilities in Seattle and Washington
Ziply Fiber expands to H5 Data Centers' facilities in Seattle and Washington
October 29, 2021

Ziply Fiber expands to H5 Data Centers' facilities in Seattle and Washington

H5 Data Centers

H5 Data Centers has announced that Ziply Fiber is expanding to its data centers in downtown Seattle and Quincy, Washington. Ziply Fiber provides a commercial-grade purpose-built network for the internet. Ziply Fiber joins the different carriers available at H5’s Tier III data centers.  Chr...

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Read Mapletree Industrial Trust divests SG3 to Equinix for $92m
Mapletree Industrial Trust divests SG3 to Equinix for $92m
October 29, 2021

Mapletree Industrial Trust divests SG3 to Equinix for $92m

Equinix Singapore SG3

Mapletree Industrial Trust has sold an Equinix-occupied data center at 26A Ayer Rajah Crescent in Singapore to Equinix. The sale price of the facility is S$125 million (US$92.7m). The SG3 facility has 384,802 square feet of space. It is also a built-to-suit seven-story data center facility ...

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Read Facebook is expanding its Los Lunas data center in New Mexico
Facebook is expanding its Los Lunas data center in New Mexico
October 29, 2021

Facebook is expanding its Los Lunas data center in New Mexico

Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook announced this week that it is expanding its Los Lunas data center in New Mexico. Facebook plans to add another two buildings to the facility. Upon completion, the site will have almost 3.8 million square feet of space. The social media giant's investment in the facility will also ...

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Read Alibaba is Planning an Israeli cloud region
October 29, 2021

Alibaba is Planning an Israeli cloud region

Israel

According to reports, Chinese firm Alibaba is considering setting up a cloud region in Israel. Globes says Alibaba has been considering the move for some years, but the covid-19 pandemic caused the delay. Besides, Alibaba is not thinking about building its own facility; instead, it will be hos...

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Read NextDC plans to build a data center in Darwin, Australia
NextDC plans to build a data center in Darwin, Australia
October 29, 2021

NextDC plans to build a data center in Darwin, Australia

NEXTDC

NextDC has revealed its plan to expand to Darwin, Australia’s Northern Territory. It would be developing a Tier III data center called D1 in Darwin’s Central Business District. NextDC didn’t reveal the details of the facility’s specifications and the cost of the land it acquired. CEO of Ne...

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Read Stack Infrastructure is expanding its Northern Virginia campus
Stack Infrastructure is expanding its Northern Virginia campus
October 29, 2021

Stack Infrastructure is expanding its Northern Virginia campus

STACK Northern Virginia

Stack Infrastructure has announced that it has broken ground on a new data center on its Northern Virginia Campus in Manassas, Prince William County. According to Stack Infrastructure, the development will bring an additional 36MW of critical capacity with a goal of reaching 72MW. The firm ...

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Read NTT is expanding its Vienna data center
NTT is expanding its Vienna data center
October 29, 2021

NTT is expanding its Vienna data center

NTT

NTT has announced that it has broken ground on expanding its data center in Vienna, Austria. The company will add 32,300 square feet (3,000 square meters) to the Vienna 1 facility. By so doing, Vienna will have 92,500 square feet (8,600 square meters) upon expansion. NTT says the expansion is ...

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Read Facebook is rebranding as Meta
Facebook is rebranding as Meta
October 29, 2021

Facebook is rebranding as Meta

Meta

Social Media and advertising giant Facebook have rebranded its company name as ‘Meta.’ The company’s top social media website will retain its name as Facebook. Its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp will also keep their names. The company revealed that it would start trading under the stock t...

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Read AWS announces three new Local Zones in Las Vegas, New York City, and Portland
AWS announces three new Local Zones in Las Vegas, New York City, and Portland
October 28, 2021

AWS announces three new Local Zones in Las Vegas, New York City, and Portland

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched new Local Zones in New York City, Las Vegas, and Portland. Local Zones are considered Edge locations that host applications that need low latency to end-users or on-premises installations. Sébastien Stormacq, the Principal Developer Advocate at Amazon ...

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Read Equinix announces plans for its new data center in Manchester, UK
Equinix announces plans for its new data center in Manchester, UK
October 28, 2021

Equinix announces plans for its new data center in Manchester, UK

Equinix

Equinix has revealed its plans for a new data center in Manchester, UK. The MA5 facility is the company’s fifth IBX facility in Manchester. It is situated in the Agecroft Commerce Park in Salford. The first phase of the facility will provide up to 3,600 square meters of colocation space. It...

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Read The Dalles grants Google tax breaks for new facilities
The Dalles grants Google tax breaks for new facilities
October 28, 2021

The Dalles grants Google tax breaks for new facilities

Google

The city council of The Dalles has voted to grant Google new property tax breaks. The tax breaks are for Google’s two new data centers. However, before Google commences work on its new data centers, it also hopes to increase its water usage significantly with a new agreement. The city counc...

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Read Bank of Israel's data center project reaches completion
Bank of Israel's data center project reaches completion
October 28, 2021

Bank of Israel's data center project reaches completion

Israel

The Bank of Israel's Information Technology Department has announced the completion of its data center project. The facility is built to Tier 4 standard and is reportedly close to receiving its official certification from the Uptime Institute. The data center has also been built with green tec...

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Read Digital Realty forms JW with Pembani Remgro to acquire Nigeria's Medallion Data Centres
Digital Realty forms JW with Pembani Remgro to acquire Nigeria's Medallion Data Centres
October 27, 2021

Digital Realty forms JW with Pembani Remgro to acquire Nigeria's Medallion Data Centres

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it has formed a joint venture with Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Fund to acquire Medallion Data Centres. Medallion is Nigeria’s top interconnection and colocation provider. The company operates two data centers in the country. One of the facilities is in Abuja...

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Read Raxio Group to open first carrier neutral Tier III data center in the Ivory Coast
Raxio Group to open first carrier neutral Tier III data center in the Ivory Coast
October 27, 2021

Raxio Group to open first carrier neutral Tier III data center in the Ivory Coast

Raxio Group

Raxio Group has announced its plans to develop a Tier III data center in Cote D’Ivoire (Ivory Coast). The data center will be located at the village of Innovation and Technology, 30KM from Abidjan. Raxio is developing the facility in collaboration with Master Power Technologies. The facilit...

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Read Africell opens data center in Angola
October 27, 2021

Africell opens data center in Angola

Angola

Africell has announced the opening of its new data center in Luanda, Angola. This is after it signed a new partnership with Angola Cables. According to Africell, the new facility will be in the Kings Tower building in the center of Luanda. CEO of Africell, Cristopher Lundh, said the company is...

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Read Ooredoo selects BDx as preferred bidder for Indonesian data centers
Ooredoo selects BDx as preferred bidder for Indonesian data centers
October 26, 2021

Ooredoo selects BDx as preferred bidder for Indonesian data centers

BDx Data Centers

PT Indosat, part of Qatar's Ooredoo QPSC, has announced that it has selected Big Data Exchange (BDx) as its "preferred bidder" for the majority stake in its data centers business.As reported by Bloomberg, BDx has emerged as the preferred buyer for a 75% stake in the company's data center asset...

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