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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 NED DC Breaks Ground on Data Center in Tel Aviv
NED DC Breaks Ground on Data Center in Tel Aviv
April 21, 2025

NED DC Breaks Ground on Data Center in Tel Aviv

Israeli data center developer NED this week announced the groundbreaking of the first phase of its debut Alpha Campus, a $350 million AI and cloud data center project.In development through a partnership with real estate firm Levinstein and investment firm Goldacre, NED is developing a 35,000 ...

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Read Top Data Center News from 14th - 19th April 2025
Top Data Center News from 14th - 19th April 2025
April 21, 2025

Top Data Center News from 14th - 19th April 2025

Segro & Icade Propose new data centers in FranceA lot of development might be coming to Paris this year as two different developers have proposed to build state of the art data centers in the suburbs of French capital Paris.X5 Group Plans 10MW Data Center in MoscowX5 Group has taken a big ...

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Read nLighten and Shell Spain Sign PPA for Madrid Data Center
nLighten and Shell Spain Sign PPA for Madrid Data Center
April 19, 2025

nLighten and Shell Spain Sign PPA for Madrid Data Center

European Edge data center firm nLighten has signed a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Shell Spain to power its MAD1 Edge data center in Madrid. The companies claim that the PPA goes beyond traditional supply contracts by providing nLighten with transparency on what renewable asset...

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Read Fluidstack Chooses Vast Data Platform for AI Workloads
Fluidstack Chooses Vast Data Platform for AI Workloads
April 19, 2025

Fluidstack Chooses Vast Data Platform for AI Workloads

AI cloud provider Fluidstack is working with Vast Data to power large-scale AI workloads. The Vast Data Platform offers multi-tenant security and reliability while supporting AI workloads, while Vast's DataEngine can provide integrated search capabilities and data processing designed for large...

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Read Fujitsu to Launch Data Center Energy Efficiency Initiative
Fujitsu to Launch Data Center Energy Efficiency Initiative
April 19, 2025

Fujitsu to Launch Data Center Energy Efficiency Initiative

Japanese IT services firm Fujitsu has partnered with US IT solutions provider Supermicro Inc. and Nidec, a Japanese electric motor manufacturer, on the initiative. As part of the collaboration, the partners will combine Fujitsu's liquid-cooling monitoring and control software, Supermicro’s hig...

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Read Sharon AI and New Era Helium to expand Texas site
Sharon AI and New Era Helium to expand Texas site
April 19, 2025

Sharon AI and New Era Helium to expand Texas site

Texas Critical Data Centers (TCDC), a joint venture (JV) between natural gas firm New Era Helium and AI data center developer Sharon AI, has expanded the site of its planned campus in Texas' Permian Basin. According to the partners, they have expanded the plot of land where the data center is ...

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Read Oracle Wins Two US Federal Contracts
Oracle Wins Two US Federal Contracts
April 18, 2025

Oracle Wins Two US Federal Contracts

Oracle has won two US federal contracts as the US Army’s Enterprise Cloud Management Agency (ECMA) expanded its use of OCI, and the company has been selected by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the STRATUS contract.Oracle US Defense Cloud regions are secure and isolated, specificall...

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Read Applied Digital Looks to Sell Cloud Business
Applied Digital Looks to Sell Cloud Business
April 18, 2025

Applied Digital Looks to Sell Cloud Business

Digital infrastructure firm Applied Digital has announced that it is set to sell its cloud services business as a result of both internal and external pressures. The company appears to pave the way for a potential pivot to becoming a real-estate investment trust (REIT) in the near future.“Afte...

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Read Tencent Cloud Launches Region in Osaka, Japan
Tencent Cloud Launches Region in Osaka, Japan
April 18, 2025

Tencent Cloud Launches Region in Osaka, Japan

Tencent Cloud is launching a new cloud region in the Kansai region of Osaka, which will be the third availability zone in Japan, joining Tencent's two other zones in Tokyo. In addition to the new cloud region, Tencent will open a new office in Osaka to help create more jobs in the region.Dowso...

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Read Townsend Group Invests in CleanArc Data Centers
Townsend Group Invests in CleanArc Data Centers
April 17, 2025

Townsend Group Invests in CleanArc Data Centers

CleanArc Data Centers has secured new investment from a real estate investor, Townsend Group. Terms of the deal were not shared, but existing investor Snowhawk retains a majority share in the data center firm. CleanArc said the investment will support the company’s growth."We're excited to wel...

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Read Microsoft Signs 15-year Carbon Removal Agreement in Louisiana
Microsoft Signs 15-year Carbon Removal Agreement in Louisiana
April 17, 2025

Microsoft Signs 15-year Carbon Removal Agreement in Louisiana

Microsoft has signed the largest permanent carbon removal to date after agreeing to a 15-year deal with bioenergy firm AtmosClear BR for 6.75 million tons of carbon removals. They will be generated from Atmos’ planned bioenergy carbon capture & storage (BECCS) project at the Port of Greate...

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Read X5 Group Plans 10MW Data Center in Moscow
X5 Group Plans 10MW Data Center in Moscow
April 17, 2025

X5 Group Plans 10MW Data Center in Moscow

Russia’s largest food retailer X5 Group last week announced that construction had started on its data center. The 6,000 sqm (64,583 sq ft) 10MW facility is due to go live in Q3 2026. It will use an outside air cooling system. The facility will host the company's own IT systems, including logis...

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Read Colt Technology Services Sells European Data Centers
Colt Technology Services Sells European Data Centers
April 17, 2025

Colt Technology Services Sells European Data Centers

Colt Technology Services this week announced the divestment of six facilities in Germany and the Netherlands to DWS-owned NorthC, as well as two in the UK to DWS separately. The NorthC transaction includes data centers across Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Düsseldorf, and Amsterdam, with ...

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Read Data Facilities Data Centers Completes the First Expansion in Hague
Data Facilities Data Centers Completes the First Expansion in Hague
April 17, 2025

Data Facilities Data Centers Completes the First Expansion in Hague

Dutch data center firm Data Facilities Data Centers (DFDC) has completed the first expansion of its facility in the Hague. The expansion will boost the site’s rack capacity from 165 to potentially 275, with the new capacity supporting up to 10kW per rack. “We’re excited to share a major milest...

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Read New Data Centers Proposed for Val-de-Marne, France
New Data Centers Proposed for Val-de-Marne, France
April 16, 2025

New Data Centers Proposed for Val-de-Marne, France

Two developers have proposed new data center projects in the suburbs of French capital Paris. Segro has proposed to build a data center at the Petits Carreaux business park near Bonneuil-sur-Marne, while another developer, Icade, plans to spend €280 million ($318m) building a new hyperscale da...

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Read Northampton Capital Partners Invests in Blueprint Data Centers
Northampton Capital Partners Invests in Blueprint Data Centers
April 16, 2025

Northampton Capital Partners Invests in Blueprint Data Centers

US data center firm Blueprint Data Centers has secured investment from an asset management company, Northampton Capital Partners. Scott McBride, founding partner at Northampton Capital Partners, said: “We are excited to work with the Blueprint team and look forward to what we believe will be a...

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Read Google Signs Corporate PPA in Taiwan
Google Signs Corporate PPA in Taiwan
April 16, 2025

Google Signs Corporate PPA in Taiwan

Google has signed its first corporate Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for a geothermal project in the APAC region. According to Google, the long-term PPA is aimed at catalyzing the geothermal market in the region and involves a direct equity investment in Baseload."This long-term partnership wi...

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Read Intel Sells 51% Stake in Altera for $8.75bn
Intel Sells 51% Stake in Altera for $8.75bn
April 16, 2025

Intel Sells 51% Stake in Altera for $8.75bn

Intel has agreed to sell 51 percent of FPGA chip company Altera to private equity firm Silver Lake for $8.75 billion. Altera will retain a 49 percent stake in Altera, which Intel said will allow it to “participate in Altera’s future success while focusing on its core business.” Intel also anno...

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Read Vantage Loses Appeal in Dublin
Vantage Loses Appeal in Dublin
April 15, 2025

Vantage Loses Appeal in Dublin

Irish planning regulator An Bord Pleanála this week rejected Vantage’s appeal after it was previously denied permission for a data center. Vantage had hoped to build a single two-story data center totaling 12,895 sqm (138,780 sq ft). As well as 13 emergency backup generators, the application a...

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Read atNorth Signs Heat-reuse Agreement in Finland
atNorth Signs Heat-reuse Agreement in Finland
April 15, 2025

atNorth Signs Heat-reuse Agreement in Finland

European data center developer atNorth has signed a heat-reuse agreement with Kesko Corporation, a Finnish retail conglomerate. The agreement will see waste heat generated from atNorth’s FIN02 data center in Sinimäki, Espoo, provided to a neighboring Kesko store."One of the key goals of our am...

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