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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 Raxio announces $170 million sustainability-linked debt facility
Raxio announces $170 million sustainability-linked debt facility
April 19, 2023

Raxio announces $170 million sustainability-linked debt facility

Raxio Group

Raxio has announced that it has secured up to $170 million in sustainability-linked debt, as part of a multiple-tranche sustainability-linked debt facility. Through Proparco and the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF), a Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) company, the fina...

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Read Google signs 10-year wind deal with Eneco
Google signs 10-year wind deal with Eneco
April 19, 2023

Google signs 10-year wind deal with Eneco

Google

Google has announced that it has signed a new 10-year PPA with Eneco, a Dutch utility company, for 0.5TW/h of power, with a capacity of 153MW across the lifespan of the deal. The two wind farms the energy will be sourced from are the Fryslân offshore wind farm and the Kroningswind onshore win...

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Read Digital Realty makes a series of renewable energy announcements
Digital Realty makes a series of renewable energy announcements
April 14, 2023

Digital Realty makes a series of renewable energy announcements

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it has signed a number of renewable energy deals in line with its net zero and sustainability goals. In Australia the company has signed a renewable electricity supply contract with Origin Energy. The colocation company will procure energy from the Origin Sto...

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Read Iron Mountain signs PPA in the Netherlands
Iron Mountain signs PPA in the Netherlands
April 14, 2023

Iron Mountain signs PPA in the Netherlands

Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain will procure solar energy for its Dutch campus following the signing of a PPA with local energy company Sunrock, the largest developer of rooftop solar deployments in the Netherlands. Through the deal, the data center company will source energy from a 4MW solar system, which has...

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Read Google signs wind PPA with Luminus in Belgium
Google signs wind PPA with Luminus in Belgium
April 13, 2023

Google signs wind PPA with Luminus in Belgium

Google

Google has signed a new Power Purchase Agreement (PPAs) with Luminus to source wind energy in Belgium. The 12-year deal will see the tech giant acquire 23.8MW of energy from the Belgium energy company, sourced from four new onshore wind projects.According to Google, the PPA in Belgium will ke...

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Read Big data center development & hydrogen fuel hub on the way to Surry County, North Virginia
Big data center development & hydrogen fuel hub on the way to Surry County, North Virginia
April 13, 2023

Big data center development & hydrogen fuel hub on the way to Surry County, North Virginia

Northern Virginia

A first-of-its-kind combination data center and hydrogen fuel hub is on its way to Surry County, North Virginia, it has been announced. Middleburg-based Green Energy Partners LLC is leading the project, which is called the Surry Green Energy Center (SGEC) and comes after GEP secured 641 acres ...

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Read Vodafone announces solar panels at Gloucester mobile telephone exchange in UK
Vodafone announces solar panels at Gloucester mobile telephone exchange in UK
April 12, 2023

Vodafone announces solar panels at Gloucester mobile telephone exchange in UK

Vodafone

Vodafone has announced that it is deploying solar panels at a mobile telephone exchange site in Gloucester, England, to cover approximately 12% of the site’s annual energy consumption requirements. This is in line with its wider energy efficiency goals and 2027 net-zero pledge.The telecoms pr...

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Read Aligned joins the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership
Aligned joins the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership
April 11, 2023

Aligned joins the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership

Aligned

Aligned Data Centers has announced that it has joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Green Power Partnership, which aims to encourage organizations to voluntarily utilize green power for the benefit of the planet and human health. Through signing up for the Green Power Partnership...

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Read Scientists at NTU Singapore invent data center cooling spray
Scientists at NTU Singapore invent data center cooling spray
April 11, 2023

Scientists at NTU Singapore invent data center cooling spray

Singapore

When it comes to data center cooling, everyone's on the hunt for the latest innovative, efficient tech; and at Singapore's Nanyang Technical University (NTU), its research team is working on the latest solution. The group proposes cooling servers by spraying chips with fluid; dielectric fluid,...

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Read Oregon’s data center clean energy bill dies, following Amazon lobbying
Oregon’s data center clean energy bill dies, following Amazon lobbying
April 07, 2023

Oregon’s data center clean energy bill dies, following Amazon lobbying

Amazon AWS

House Bill 2816, which sought to impose greenhouse gas emissions standards to encourage data centers to cut their carbon emissions in Oregon, died in legislative committee this week. Amazon, which aggressively lobbied against the bill, has been cited as one of the major reasons for its defeat....

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Read Green building regulations and data center sustainability in India
Green building regulations and data center sustainability in India
April 07, 2023

Green building regulations and data center sustainability in India

India / Bhārata

In India, an increased focus on green buildings, from a regulatory perspective, is pegged to give rise to more sustainable data centers being built in the country. Experts have outlined that the publishing of recommendations on by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), in November o...

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Read AWS inks another PPA in Spain with Grenergy Renovables SA
AWS inks another PPA in Spain with Grenergy Renovables SA
April 07, 2023

AWS inks another PPA in Spain with Grenergy Renovables SA

Amazon AWS

Amazon has signed another Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), this time with Grenergy Renovables SA, to procure solar energy in Spain. The 10-year deal will provide AWS with 469 MWp of solar energy. Grenergy Renovables is an independent power producer (IPP) involved in large-scale renewable energ...

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Read AWS to offtake from Mercury's Turitea wind farm to power new Auckland region
AWS to offtake from Mercury's Turitea wind farm to power new Auckland region
April 06, 2023

AWS to offtake from Mercury's Turitea wind farm to power new Auckland region

Amazon AWS

Amazon has announced that it has inked a new Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in New Zealand Mercury to procure wind energy. The giant will procure around half the output from the local energy company's 103MW Turitea South onshore wind farm; which is more than is required to fuel Amazon Web Ser...

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Read Highlander completes first underwater facility and looks to develop net-zero wind-powered data center
Highlander completes first underwater facility and looks to develop net-zero wind-powered data center
April 06, 2023

Highlander completes first underwater facility and looks to develop net-zero wind-powered data center

China

According to a report by ChinaDaily, Highlander, one of the companies driving innovation in the underwater data center space, has announced that work on its first commercial facility is complete, for which it is now looking for export buyers. Further to this announcement, the company has outli...

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Read Lawsuit filed against Amazon data center in Warrenton, Northern Virginia
Lawsuit filed against Amazon data center in Warrenton, Northern Virginia
April 05, 2023

Lawsuit filed against Amazon data center in Warrenton, Northern Virginia

Amazon AWS

As Amazon continues its seemingly unstoppable global expansionm, in Warrenton, North Virginia, home to the biggest data center hub in the world, environmentalists and local residents have launched a lawsuit to try and stop the behemoth's growth in the region. The environmental nonprofit Citize...

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Read Amazon signs PPAs with Iberdrola
Amazon signs PPAs with Iberdrola
April 04, 2023

Amazon signs PPAs with Iberdrola

Amazon AWS

Amazon has announced that it has signed another PPA with Iberdrola, through which it will be provided with wind and solar energy from its offshore wind farms in Germany for 1.1 terawatt-hours (TWh) annually. The wind farms, Baltic Eagle and Windanker, will have a total capacity of 476MW and 3...

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Read Latest figures on renewable power reveal data center operators increased purchases by 50 percent in a year
Latest figures on renewable power reveal data center operators increased purchases by 50 percent in a year
April 04, 2023

Latest figures on renewable power reveal data center operators increased purchases by 50 percent in a year

Google

Recent figures from S&P Global have revealed that the amount of renewable power purchased by data center operators has surged  50 percent in just a year. This latest figure now means that the sector utilizes two-thirds of the renewable power available to corporates in the US. The report hi...

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Read Green Mountain plans sustainable expansion in Frankfurt, Germany
Green Mountain plans sustainable expansion in Frankfurt, Germany
April 04, 2023

Green Mountain plans sustainable expansion in Frankfurt, Germany

Green Mountain AS

Green Mountain and KMW have formed a 50:50 joint venture to develop a new campus outside of Frankfurt, Germany. The campus has received approval from local authorities, and it is expected that construction will begin on the 25,000 sqm (269,100 sq ft) site, FRA1-Main, in the third quarter of 2...

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Read BT and TRIG partner for PPA
BT and TRIG partner for PPA
April 04, 2023

BT and TRIG partner for PPA

BT Global Services

BT has announced that it has signed a new 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with the Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG) for renewable energy from the 35MW Blary Hill onshore wind farm, which is located in Kintyre, Scotland. This move aligns with the UK telco's net zero by 2031 target...

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Read Huawei reveals data center trend break down
Huawei reveals data center trend break down
April 03, 2023

Huawei reveals data center trend break down

Huawei Cloud

At the recent Top 10 Trends of Data Center Facilities conference, Huawei revealed its insights into emerging trends in the data center industry. With the theme of "Smart DC, Building the Green Future," the conference highlighted that to accommodate the exponential growth of data demand, which ...

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