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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 Serpro modular data center receives TIER 3 certification
Serpro modular data center receives TIER 3 certification
June 12, 2023

Serpro modular data center receives TIER 3 certification

Brazil / Brasil

Serpro has announced that its new data center in São Paulo has received TIER III certification. The facility has a total area of ​​1820 sqm and 503 sqm of prefabricated modules. The first three phases have been completed, with two further phases remaining, set to go ahead in early 2024. At ful...

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Read atNorth opens its sixth data center in the Nordics
atNorth opens its sixth data center in the Nordics
June 12, 2023

atNorth opens its sixth data center in the Nordics

atNorth

atNorth has announced that its third Iceland data center, ICE03, is now operational. The facility, located 250 km north of Reykjavík, offers an initial capacity of 12 MW, expandable to 50MW. Completed in just 11 months, the company now has a portfolio of six operational data centers, with an ...

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Read University of York moves data to Sweden for sustainability
University of York moves data to Sweden for sustainability
June 12, 2023

University of York moves data to Sweden for sustainability

EcoDataCenter Falun, Sweden

The University of York has outlined that it is moving its data to Sweden in a bid to make its operations more sustainable. The UK university has chosen the EcoDataCenter in Falun, Sweden, to store its data, which it says has aided it in reducing its emissions from data by 98%. This has been ma...

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Read Princeton Digital Group (PDG) signs PCA with Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited (TPREL)
Princeton Digital Group (PDG) signs PCA with Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited (TPREL)
June 09, 2023

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) signs PCA with Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited (TPREL)

Mumbai

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has signed a 25-year power consumption agreement (PCA) with Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited (TPREL) to procure solar energy in India. The deal will see the data center firm receive power generated by a solar project located in Nanded district, Maharashtra. Thi...

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Read Amazon signs PPA for wind energy in Finland
Amazon signs PPA for wind energy in Finland
June 02, 2023

Amazon signs PPA for wind energy in Finland

Amazon AWS

Amazon has announced that it has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with energy company Renantis for wind energy in Finland from its two Renantis' onshore wind farms when they're complete. The Mustalamminmäki and Koiramäki wind farms in Karstula, Central Finland, will have a combined cap...

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Read Batelco announces Bahrain data center now 100% solar powered
Batelco announces Bahrain data center now 100% solar powered
June 01, 2023

Batelco announces Bahrain data center now 100% solar powered

Bahrain

Batelco, Beyon Group's telecoms unit, has announced that one of its facilities is now Bahrain's first 100 percent green-energy-powered data center.This news follows the completion of Phase 2 of the Solar Park at the Beyon Data Oasis at Hamala. The facility in Bahrain is now entirely powered by...

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Read OVHcloud claims energy savings to be made from combined water and immersion cooling
OVHcloud claims energy savings to be made from combined water and immersion cooling
May 29, 2023

OVHcloud claims energy savings to be made from combined water and immersion cooling

France

According to new research by OVHcloud, hybrid liquid cooling technology has the power to reduce a data center's energy consumption by 20 percent when compared with using water cooling alone. The European cloud provider coupled up with the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne to test the cooli...

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Read Geothermal PPA for Microsoft in New Zealand
Geothermal PPA for Microsoft in New Zealand
May 27, 2023

Geothermal PPA for Microsoft in New Zealand

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Contact Energy for geothermal energy in New Zealand. The 10-year PPA was reportedly signed in September 2022 and will see Contact provide Microsoft with all the renewable energy attributes generated by Contact's new 51.4MW Te Huka Uni...

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Read Singtel signs 10-year PPA with Sembcorp
Singtel signs 10-year PPA with Sembcorp
May 27, 2023

Singtel signs 10-year PPA with Sembcorp

Singtel

Singtel has announced that it has signed a 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with energy firm Sembcorp. The deal, worth S$180 million (US$133.2m), will see energy supplied to the Singaporean telco, from October 1, 2023. Its existing electricity supply agreement (also with Sembcorp) will ...

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Read Edged Energy begins work on Chicago facility
Edged Energy begins work on Chicago facility
May 25, 2023

Edged Energy begins work on Chicago facility

Chicago

Edged Energy has announced that work has commenced on its new facility in the Aurora area of west Chicago, Illinois.Together, with Seefried Industrial Properties, Inc., the company broke ground on the new 65-acre, multi-building data center campus, its first in Illinois, and nearby CyrusOne fa...

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Read rPlus Energies signs 200MW PPA with Idaho Power, supporting Meta
rPlus Energies signs 200MW PPA with Idaho Power, supporting Meta
May 24, 2023

rPlus Energies signs 200MW PPA with Idaho Power, supporting Meta

Meta

rPlus Energies has announced that it has signed a 200MW power purchase agreement (PPA) with Idaho Power, which has a special energy services agreement with Meta; output from the project will go into the same grid supporting Meta's new Kuna data center. The Ada County, Idaho solar farm, known a...

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Read Atlas and Hicloud partner for underwater data centers
Atlas and Hicloud partner for underwater data centers
May 18, 2023

Atlas and Hicloud partner for underwater data centers

China

Atlas and Shenzhen Hicloud Data Center Technology (Hicloud) have announced their partnership to explore reducing data center energy consumption. Through this deal, Atlas, an international group providing blockchain infrastructure-as-a-service, is now the first commercial Web3 user of the Under...

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Read Sonic Edge partners with Deep Green to launch 50 HPC/EdgePods across the UK
Sonic Edge partners with Deep Green to launch 50 HPC/EdgePods across the UK
May 18, 2023

Sonic Edge partners with Deep Green to launch 50 HPC/EdgePods across the UK

United Kingdom

Sonic Edge has announced a partnership with Deep Green to launch 50 HPC/EdgePods at locations across the UK this year and in early 2024. According to the company, these 50 deployments will range from 50kW to 2MW, while the partnership with Deep Green will power them with low-cost, carbon-free ...

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Read AT&T inks 15.6MW solar deal in New York
AT&T inks 15.6MW solar deal in New York
May 17, 2023

AT&T inks 15.6MW solar deal in New York

New York

AT&T has announced its plans to procure solar energy from five projects in Upstate New York from DSD Renewables (DSD). The deal will see AT&T serve as an anchor tenant subscriber for a five-project community solar portfolio; the company will offtake 15.5MW of the larger 24.1MW portfoli...

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Read Proteus's underwater lab and data center get the green light
Proteus's underwater lab and data center get the green light
May 15, 2023

Proteus's underwater lab and data center get the green light

Caribbean

Proteus’s underwater lab and accompanying data center have been given the green light. This follows the signing of a deal with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which saw the two agree a 2026 deployment and to conduct research together.The lab would span 2,000 sq ft (...

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Read Microsoft signs PPA with Helion Energy for fusion power by 2028 in world first
Microsoft signs PPA with Helion Energy for fusion power by 2028 in world first
May 12, 2023

Microsoft signs PPA with Helion Energy for fusion power by 2028 in world first

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has made a world first by inking a PPA deal with Helion for electricity from the company's first commercial fusion power plant. Scheduled to come online in 2028, the giant has been promised to receive 50MW or greater from the plant after a one-year ramp-up. This technology has been ...

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Read Fairfax County to look at new rules for data centers
Fairfax County to look at new rules for data centers
May 12, 2023

Fairfax County to look at new rules for data centers

Northern Virginia

According to a report by FFXNow, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors is set to look into the environmental impact of data centers in the midst of its ongoing data center boom. This week, following a unanimously approved motion introduced by Board Chairman Jeff McKay, county staff were inst...

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Read Kao Data announces expansion Manchester data center
Kao Data announces expansion Manchester data center
May 12, 2023

Kao Data announces expansion Manchester data center

KAO Data

Kao Data has announced plans to develop a new data center in Manchester, UK. The facility, located in Kenwood Point, will offer a capacity of 40 MW and will be the first Kao data center to be built in the North of England.  Based on a 39,000 sqm (419,800 sq ft) ex-industrial site, the facilit...

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Read Scala Data Centers signs iMasons' open letter for greater use of greener concrete
Scala Data Centers signs iMasons' open letter for greater use of greener concrete
May 12, 2023

Scala Data Centers signs iMasons' open letter for greater use of greener concrete

Scala Data Centers

Scala Data Centers has announced that it has signed an open letter published by iMasons Climate Accord (ICA), a non-profit striving for responsible digital transformation and sustainable digital infrastructure. The initiative strives to promote sustainable raw materials in the data center ind...

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Read DOE invests millions in funding for cooling solution projects
DOE invests millions in funding for cooling solution projects
May 10, 2023

DOE invests millions in funding for cooling solution projects

United States

As the imperative to decarbonize data becomes clearer, the U.S. the Department of Energy (DOE) has announced it will invest $40 million in funding for 15 projects for the development of high-performance, energy-efficient cooling solutions for data centers.The department outlined that data cent...

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