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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 STT GDC to go carbon neutral by 2030
STT GDC to go carbon neutral by 2030
March 31, 2021

STT GDC to go carbon neutral by 2030

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

STT Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has pledged to become carbon-neutral by 2030 it unveiled in its new environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategy. This strategy marks out the group's goals and targets for the next 5-10 years. Currently, 43% of the group’s electricity consump...

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Read Microsoft begins $140M data center in San Antonio
Microsoft begins $140M data center in San Antonio
March 31, 2021

Microsoft begins $140M data center in San Antonio

Hyperscale Data Center

Plans are in place for Microsoft to build another data facility in San Antonio. According to a filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, the data facility will be 79,385 square feet in size. It will be constructed at the 15000 block of Lambda Drive at Texas Research Park to...

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Read eStruxture will acquire Aptum's Canadian Colocation Business
eStruxture will acquire Aptum's Canadian Colocation Business
March 30, 2021

eStruxture will acquire Aptum's Canadian Colocation Business

eStruxture

eStruxture has announced that it will acquire Aptum's Canadian colocation business.  With the addition of the new facilities (five in Toronto, two in Montreal and one in Vancouver), eStruxture will operate a total of 14 facilities across Canada, increasing its total footprint to over 600,000 s...

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Read DC BLOX secures $187 million in Financing
DC BLOX secures $187 million in Financing
March 30, 2021

DC BLOX secures $187 million in Financing

DC BLOX

DC BLOX has announced that they have secured $187 million for long-term financing of their operations. The funding was led by Post Road Group and Bain Capital Credit. Kevin O’Donnell, the Chief Financial Officer of DC BLOX, commented that the capital raised would support the growth of the Comp...

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Read American Tower open Pittsburgh Edge Facility
American Tower open Pittsburgh Edge Facility
March 30, 2021

American Tower open Pittsburgh Edge Facility

American Tower: Pittsburgh

American Tower has announced it has opened a new Edge colocation facility in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It's a small edge facility located to the south of the city and below Mount Oliver, the 360 square foot Edge facility offers eight customer cabinets, 20 quarter-cabinet lockers, and three ful...

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Read Microsoft buys land for data center campus in Central Washington
Microsoft buys land for data center campus in Central Washington
March 29, 2021

Microsoft buys land for data center campus in Central Washington

Hyperscale Data Center

Microsoft has purchased 170 acres of underdeveloped land north of Pangborn Memorial Airport for $19.3 million. The investment could well rise to over $1 billion in the next five years to build a multi-phase data center. Microsoft has also started leveling the construction site in preparation f...

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Read Mapletree acquires Bank of America campus in Richmond VA
Mapletree acquires Bank of America campus in Richmond VA
March 26, 2021

Mapletree acquires Bank of America campus in Richmond VA

Mapletree: 8011 Villa Park

Mapletree Industrial Trust (MIT), a Singapore based REIT, acquired Bank of America’s campus at 8011 Villa Park Drive on March 12 for $208 million. The 46-acre campus in Richmond Virginia has five office buildings with a mix of office and data center space. The campus is 100 percent leased by C...

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Read Global Switch launches final stage of HK data centre
Global Switch launches final stage of HK data centre
March 25, 2021

Global Switch launches final stage of HK data centre

Global Switch Hong Kong

Global Switch has launched the final stage of its Hong Kong center, located in the Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate. The latest development provides an additional 35,600 sqm and 58MVA of utility. Now, the total infrastructure services of Global Switch Hong Kong's is 70,228 sqm, with a total uti...

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Read Facebook expanding Papillion Campus
Facebook expanding Papillion Campus
March 24, 2021

Facebook expanding Papillion Campus

Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook just announced that it would be expanding its data center campus in Papillion for the second time. Facebook said it would be expanding the data center facility at the intersection of Capehart Road and Nebraska 50 by about 1 million square feet. It also noted that the project would cos...

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Read Digital Realty Introduces New Connections to Google Cloud In 5 Major Metros
Digital Realty Introduces New Connections to Google Cloud In 5 Major Metros
March 23, 2021

Digital Realty Introduces New Connections to Google Cloud In 5 Major Metros

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty recently said that it has expanded secure, private access to Google Cloud’s global network in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Vienna in Austria, and Dusseldorf in Germany. Digital Realty also announced that it had added its second direct interconnect to Google Cloud in Frankfurt.The direc...

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Read AirTrunk opens 2nd Sydney facility
AirTrunk opens 2nd Sydney facility
March 23, 2021

AirTrunk opens 2nd Sydney facility

AirTrunk Sydney SYD2

Airtrunk recently announced the opening of its second Sydney data center- Airtrunk SYD2 to help the growth of cloud customers. The new facility has 110MW of capacity and will be the 3rd largest single-campus data center in the entire Asia-Pacific region. SYD2 is powered by a dedicated 200MVA 1...

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Read STACK INFRASTRUCTURE Raises $400 million in Another Round of Structured Debt Financing
STACK INFRASTRUCTURE Raises $400 million in Another Round of Structured Debt Financing
March 19, 2021

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE Raises $400 million in Another Round of Structured Debt Financing

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE has lined up another large round of financing. The Data Center operator has borrowed $400 million through the sale of securitized notes, the latest in four transactions that have raised $1.8 billion to build more data centers.Last September STACK raised $325 million in sec...

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Read DRFortress Completes Hawaii Data Center Expansion
DRFortress Completes Hawaii Data Center Expansion
March 17, 2021

DRFortress Completes Hawaii Data Center Expansion

DRFortress Honolulu

HONOLULU, Hawaii  – DRFortress, the largest carrier-neutral data center and cloud marketplace operating in Hawaii, announces a major expansion to its data center campus in Honolulu is complete and ready for service. DRFortress added 125 cabinets, creating a total of 600 cabinets for lease and...

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Read NEXTDC launches NEXTneutral, its carbon neutrality program
NEXTDC launches NEXTneutral, its carbon neutrality program
March 17, 2021

NEXTDC launches NEXTneutral, its carbon neutrality program

NEXTDC

NEXTDC recently reaffirmed its commitment to sustainability by announcing its new data center carbon neutrality program, NEXTneutral. It is the first carbon-neutral colocation solution available in the local market and accredited as 100% carbon neutral under the Australian Federal Government's...

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Read Skybox sells Houston Facility to Element Critical
Skybox sells Houston Facility to Element Critical
March 16, 2021

Skybox sells Houston Facility to Element Critical

Element Critical Houston One

Element Critical has acquired Skybox's Houston One facility. Element Critical is the new owner, but Skybox will continue to operate the facility and handle wholesale leasing. Skybox and Element Critical jointly issued the press release below on March 16th 2021: Vienna, VA, — Element Critical, ...

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Read eStruxture Data Centers Names Al Shulman As New Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing
eStruxture Data Centers Names Al Shulman As New Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing
March 16, 2021

eStruxture Data Centers Names Al Shulman As New Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing

eStruxture

MONTREAL –  eStruxture, the largest Canadian-owned provider of network and cloud-neutral data center solutions, announces today the addition of Al Shulman as Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing. With more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunication and energy industries, Shulm...

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Read DartPoints acquires Immedion
DartPoints acquires Immedion
March 16, 2021

DartPoints acquires Immedion

DartPoints

DartPoints that it has signed an agreement to acquire Immedion and all its eight data centers. The eight data centers are in seven metropolitan areas, which are; Asheville, NC., Charleston, SC., Columbia, SC., Greenville, SC., Spartanburg, SC., Columbus, Ind., and Cincinnati. The transaction f...

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Read Oi Group begins selling its assets, closing the data centers deal with Piemonte Holding
Oi Group begins selling its assets, closing the data centers deal with Piemonte Holding
March 15, 2021

Oi Group begins selling its assets, closing the data centers deal with Piemonte Holding

Elea Data Centers

SÃO PAULO, March 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The financial group Piemonte Holding, from Rio de Janeiro, closed last Friday (12) the acquisition of five data centers from Oi for a total amount of R$ 367 million (approx. USD 70 million). The transaction is in accordance with the amendment to the ju...

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Read DataBank issues $658M of Secured Notes
DataBank issues $658M of Secured Notes
March 12, 2021

DataBank issues $658M of Secured Notes

DataBank

Colocation provider DataBank will issue $658 million of secured notes. The new securitization notes will refinance DataBank's existing credit facility. This securitization and refinancing of previous loans adds more than $200M in liquidity to DataBank's balance sheet, providing funding for gen...

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Read OVH Data Center SBG2 Destroyed by fire in Strasbourg
OVH Data Center SBG2 Destroyed by fire in Strasbourg
March 10, 2021

OVH Data Center SBG2 Destroyed by fire in Strasbourg

OVH Strasbourg Campus

A fire destroyed SBG2 and part of SBG1 data centers in Strasbourg, France. The facilities are part of a data center campus owned by OVH Cloud, a French cloud computing company. The fire destroyed completely destroyed SBG2 and 4 rooms out of 12 in the adjacent SBG1 data center. At this time, it...

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