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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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Oracle Expands Oracle Database@Azure offering
March 22, 2025

Oracle Expands Oracle Database@Azure offering

Oracle has expanded its Oracle Database@Azure offering. The company has now made its Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure available in these @Azure regions. The company has also added a new location to the offering at Microsoft Azure's East US 2 region, bringing the total...

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Read DigitalOcean to Deploy GPUs at Flexential Data Center
DigitalOcean to Deploy GPUs at Flexential Data Center
March 21, 2025

DigitalOcean to Deploy GPUs at Flexential Data Center

Cloud company DigitalOcean has signed an agreement with Flexential to bring a high-density GPU deployment to the latter's Atlanta-Douglasville data center which will include DigitalOcean's "GPU Droplets" powered by Nvidia H200 and AMD Instinct GPUs, and will be deployed across two connected da...

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Read Microsoft Partners with Core42 for Sovereign Cloud and AI infrastructure for Abu Dhabi
Microsoft Partners with Core42 for Sovereign Cloud and AI infrastructure for Abu Dhabi
March 20, 2025

Microsoft Partners with Core42 for Sovereign Cloud and AI infrastructure for Abu Dhabi

The Abu Dhabi government is partnering with Microsoft and Core42 for AI infrastructure and a sovereign cloud offering in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Both companies aim to establish a sovereign cloud computing environment capable of processing more than 11 million digital interactions daily...

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Read DSTA Partners with Oracle for Isolated Cloud Region
DSTA Partners with Oracle for Isolated Cloud Region
March 20, 2025

DSTA Partners with Oracle for Isolated Cloud Region

Singapore's Defense Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) has signed a contract with Oracle for an Oracle Cloud Isolated Region which will support both the Ministry of Defense (MINDEF) and Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), giving them access to a high-performance, air-gapped, and secure sovereign c...

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Read Core Capital Investments Unveils AI cloud Cartagon.ai
Core Capital Investments Unveils AI cloud Cartagon.ai
March 19, 2025

Core Capital Investments Unveils AI cloud Cartagon.ai

Core Capital Investments has launched an AI cloud platform dubbed Cartagon.ai with an initial funding of more than €30 million ($32.7m). The AI platform will be part of Cartagon, a cloud and IT service provider in Spain and Portugal and "managed vehicle" of Core Capital Partners“Cartagon.ai re...

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Read Cathedra Sells Cryptomine Data Center in North Dakota
Cathedra Sells Cryptomine Data Center in North Dakota
March 14, 2025

Cathedra Sells Cryptomine Data Center in North Dakota

Cathedra Bitcoin, a Vancouver-based developer and operator of crypto mining and data center infrastructure, has announced the sale of a 60MW Bitcoin mining facility in North Dakota to an unnamed third-party Bitcoin miner for a fee of $21 million. The company intends to use the funds to “develo...

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Read Celestial AI Raises $250m in Funding Round
Celestial AI Raises $250m in Funding Round
March 14, 2025

Celestial AI Raises $250m in Funding Round

Optical interconnect company Celestial AI has closed a $250 million Series C1 funding round which was led by Fidelity Management & Research Company and saw participation from existing investors AMD Ventures and Koch Disruptive Technologies, and new investors BlackRock, Maverick Silicon, an...

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Read University of Virginia on Lookout for New Research Data Center
University of Virginia on Lookout for New Research Data Center
March 14, 2025

University of Virginia on Lookout for New Research Data Center

The University of Virginia is looking to get a new data center which would be used for research purpose. If approved, the data center would have an initial 4MW of IT capacity and see $72 million of investment. This could be expanded to 16MW in the future.According to the university's vice pres...

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Read Ecoblox and Tenstorrent Form Partnership for AI and HPC Offerings
Ecoblox and Tenstorrent Form Partnership for AI and HPC Offerings
March 13, 2025

Ecoblox and Tenstorrent Form Partnership for AI and HPC Offerings

Modular data center firm Ecoblox and chip designer Tenstorrent have signed an agreement to help expand their AI and high performance computing (HPC) offerings in the Middle East and Africa. Both companies will work together to bring AI and HPC compute capacity to the Middle East/Africa region,...

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Read Digital Realty to Host Quantum Computer in Amsterdam
Digital Realty to Host Quantum Computer in Amsterdam
March 12, 2025

Digital Realty to Host Quantum Computer in Amsterdam

Digital Realty this week announced it would host a quantum system for SURF at the AMS17 facility in Amsterdam’s Science Park. The quantum computer will be deployed by SURF directly next to its existing national supercomputer, Snellius."We’re excited to partner with SURF to bring this pioneerin...

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Read OpenAI Signs AI Cloud Deal with CoreWeave
OpenAI Signs AI Cloud Deal with CoreWeave
March 12, 2025

OpenAI Signs AI Cloud Deal with CoreWeave

OpenAI has agreed an $11.9 billion deal to buy services from CoreWeave, which will see it take an equity stake in the AI cloud provider. This deal comes just before CoreWeave’s stock market debut, which is expected to happen in the next few weeks via an IPO. It will see OpenAI receive CoreWeav...

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Read xAI Buys Land for Second Memphis Data Center
xAI Buys Land for Second Memphis Data Center
March 11, 2025

xAI Buys Land for Second Memphis Data Center

xAI has bought a 1 million sq ft (92,905 sqm) site for a new data center in Memphis, as Elon Musk’s startup looks to expand its Colossus supercomputer. The company has purchased three parcels of land at 5400 Tulane Road, Whitehaven, through an affiliate company CTC Properties. It acquired an e...

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Read SAM Announces Plans for Vietnam's Largest Data Center Campus
SAM Announces Plans for Vietnam's Largest Data Center Campus
March 08, 2025

SAM Announces Plans for Vietnam's Largest Data Center Campus

Saigon Asset Management (SAM) has announced plans for the SAM DigitalHub, outside of Hanoi, Vietnam. The campus is located at the Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park (VSIP), a joint venture between Vietnam’s Becamex IDC Corporation and a Singaporean consortium led by Sembcorp Development. “The t...

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Read Microsoft to Invest $300m in Cloud and AI Infrastructure
Microsoft to Invest $300m in Cloud and AI Infrastructure
March 08, 2025

Microsoft to Invest $300m in Cloud and AI Infrastructure

Microsoft has committed to investing ZAR 5.4 billion ($298.6m) in cloud and AI infrastructure in South Africa by 2027. Microsoft has already invested ZAR 20.4 billion in infrastructure in South Africa over the past three years to establish data centers in Johannesburg and Cape Town.South Afric...

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Read Nebius to Build 300MW Data Center in New Jersey
Nebius to Build 300MW Data Center in New Jersey
March 08, 2025

Nebius to Build 300MW Data Center in New Jersey

AI infrastructure company Nebius has announced plans to build a 300MW data center in New Jersey. The facility will be completed in phases, with the first due to be delivered by summer 2025.In a statement, Nebius said the new Icelandic deployment would be powered by geothermal energy to reduce ...

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Read Microsoft to Develop Azure Cloud Region in Kuwait
Microsoft to Develop Azure Cloud Region in Kuwait
March 06, 2025

Microsoft to Develop Azure Cloud Region in Kuwait

Microsoft announced a strategic partnership with the Government of Kuwait on March 6, that will see it develop an "AI powered" Azure region in the country. The cloud region will offer "advanced infrastructure" and is hoped to attract global businesses and researchers, and to help accelerate di...

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NTT Data Partners with Holy See for digital archive
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NTT Data Partners with Holy See for digital archive

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Read Continent 8 Launches Data Center in Missouri
Continent 8 Launches Data Center in Missouri
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Continent 8 Launches Data Center in Missouri

Continent 8 Technologies, a global managed hosting and cloud provider focused on iGaming and online sports betting sectors, has launched a new data center in Missouri in preparation for the opening of Missouri's regulated online sports betting market, which is scheduled for December 1, 2025.Mi...

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Read DMG Looks to Buy 10MW of Prefab Modular Data Centers
DMG Looks to Buy 10MW of Prefab Modular Data Centers
February 27, 2025

DMG Looks to Buy 10MW of Prefab Modular Data Centers

Crypto firm DMG Blockchain Solutions Inc. this week announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with an undisclosed counterparty to purchase the infrastructure for 10MW worth of prefabricated air-cooled data centers for its deployment of generative AI facilities.Upon execution ...

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Read DataVolt to Develop Data Center in Riyadh
DataVolt to Develop Data Center in Riyadh
February 25, 2025

DataVolt to Develop Data Center in Riyadh

Saudi-based data center developer DataVolt is to build a facility in Riyadh. The company and the Saudi Authority for Industrial Cities and Technology Zones (MODON) have agreed on land lease terms for the development of an AI-ready data center in Riyadh.“We are providing mission-critical digita...

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