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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

New Jersey

Read 600MW data center campus on East London's green belt in Havering met with opposition
600MW data center campus on East London's green belt in Havering met with opposition
November 21, 2022

600MW data center campus on East London's green belt in Havering met with opposition

London

Leading environmental group CPRE has argued that Digital Reef's plans to build Europe's "largest data center" will cause "massive environmental damage" and has vowed to fight its development. As previously covered by Baxtel, the £5.3 billion ($5.97bn) project is to be built on land in North Oc...

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Read Vertiv partners with NUS and NTU to develop data center testbed facility
Vertiv partners with NUS and NTU to develop data center testbed facility
November 21, 2022

Vertiv partners with NUS and NTU to develop data center testbed facility

Vertiv

Vertiv is partnering up with the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore to develop a data center testbed facility, it has been announced. Named the Sustainable Tropical Data center Testbed (STDCT), the testing facility is state-of-the-art a...

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Read Dubai's Moro Hub named world's largest solar data center
Dubai's Moro Hub named world's largest solar data center
November 17, 2022

Dubai's Moro Hub named world's largest solar data center

Dubai

The Guinness Book of World Records has awarded Dubai's Moro Hub the title of the largest solar-powered data center in the world. Owned by Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), with a capacity of 100 MW data center, entirely fueled by DEWA-owned 3,000MW Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum So...

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Read Earth Wind & Power (EWP) to move 'green' data centers to oilfields in the Middle East
Earth Wind & Power (EWP) to move 'green' data centers to oilfields in the Middle East
November 16, 2022

Earth Wind & Power (EWP) to move 'green' data centers to oilfields in the Middle East

Middle East

Earth Wind & Power (EWP) has announced that it has signed with services company Oilserv to place its "green" data centers in oil fields across the Middle East, including in Kuwait, Iraq, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, and the United Arab Emirates. The company utilizes excess energy from win...

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Read Germany's Energy Efficiency Act and what it could mean for the data center industry
Germany's Energy Efficiency Act and what it could mean for the data center industry
November 15, 2022

Germany's Energy Efficiency Act and what it could mean for the data center industry

Germany / Deutschland

The German Federal Ministry for the Economy recently presented a draft for an "Act to Enhance Energy Efficiency, Improve Climate Protection and Implement EU Legislation," named the Energy Efficiency Act (ENEfG). This bill has been proposed with the aim of saving 500 Terawatt hours (TWh) of ene...

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Read AirTrunk signs renewable energy agreement to offset Microsoft’s energy use
AirTrunk signs renewable energy agreement to offset Microsoft’s energy use
November 14, 2022

AirTrunk signs renewable energy agreement to offset Microsoft’s energy use

AirTrunk

AirTrunk and Hong Kong utility CLP Power have signed a renewable energy agreement to offset Microsoft's energy use in its facilities by matching its electricity consumption with local renewable energy certificates (RECs). Through this agreement, AirTrunk will source hourly RECs from CLP Power...

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Read Scala signs 1.6GW PPA with Enel Américas
Scala signs 1.6GW PPA with Enel Américas
November 14, 2022

Scala signs 1.6GW PPA with Enel Américas

Scala Data Centers

Scala Data Centers has signed a PPA with Italian energy firm Enel Américas for data center power. The firm will reportedly provide the data center company with 1.6GW of power for its facilities across Chile, Peru, and Colombia, in a deal that represents 10% of Enel Américas' total existing ca...

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Read Microsoft signs wind PPA with Potentia and Greengate
Microsoft signs wind PPA with Potentia and Greengate
November 10, 2022

Microsoft signs wind PPA with Potentia and Greengate

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has entered into a 15-year power-purchase agreement with Potentia Renewables Inc. (Potentia) and Greengate Power Corporation's (Greengate) Paintearth Wind Project LP. As per the PPA, Microsoft will procure wind energy from the 198MW Paintearth Wind Project in Paintearth County, Albe...

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Read Volkswagen AG announces climate-neutral plans
Volkswagen AG announces climate-neutral plans
November 10, 2022

Volkswagen AG announces climate-neutral plans

Green Mountain AS

Volkswagen AG, the first automaker to commit to the Paris climate agreement, has announced its new climate-neutral plans, which detail that its data center activities will be carbon-neutral by 2027. This is three years earlier than expected in the European Green Deal, which committed European ...

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Read Greenpeace: Supply chains found to be holding big tech back from achieving sustainability goals
Greenpeace: Supply chains found to be holding big tech back from achieving sustainability goals
November 09, 2022

Greenpeace: Supply chains found to be holding big tech back from achieving sustainability goals

Apple

Tech giants like Apple have made big pledges when it comes to going green and introducing net-zero and water-positive targets. However, when it comes to their wider supply chains, it turns out they're not so green. According to a recent report from Greenpeace, on average, 77% of technology man...

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Read Reef Group plans 600MW data center outside London
Reef Group plans 600MW data center outside London
November 08, 2022

Reef Group plans 600MW data center outside London

London

According to Havering Council, it is negotiating with a private sector developer, Digital Reef, to build a huge data center campus in the eastern London Borough of Havering. The London Data Freeport project would reportedly be 'Europe's largest data center' sitting on a site of 175 hectares. C...

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Read Google signs new PPA with SB Energy
Google signs new PPA with SB Energy
November 07, 2022

Google signs new PPA with SB Energy

Google

This week, Google signed a 942 MW power purchase agreement (PPA) with SB Energy to procure solar energy in Texas. The giant is set to purchase 75% of the renewable energy produced by four of the solar projects under development; the Orion 1-3 and Eiffel solar projects total 1.2GW and are proje...

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Read In a water reduction effort, Meta increases server room temperatures to 90 degrees F
In a water reduction effort, Meta increases server room temperatures to 90 degrees F
November 07, 2022

In a water reduction effort, Meta increases server room temperatures to 90 degrees F

Meta

Meta (formerly Facebook) has announced that in an effort reduce its water consumption to become water-positive,  it has increased its server rooms' temperature by five degrees to 90°F (32.2°C). This was first announced at the 7×24 Exchange Fall Conference, and first implemented at one data cen...

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Read Hrvatski Telekom signs wind PPA with Liburana
Hrvatski Telekom signs wind PPA with Liburana
November 03, 2022

Hrvatski Telekom signs wind PPA with Liburana

Croatia

Hrvatski Telekom has announced a ten-year virtual Power Purchase Agreement with Liburana doo. This vPPA, the first of its kind in Croatia, will see the construction of the 'Mazin Gračac' wind farm, which is forecast to produce 50 GWh per year.Speaking about the deal, Kostas Nebis, President of...

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Read CyrusOne proposes data center outside of London
CyrusOne proposes data center outside of London
November 01, 2022

CyrusOne proposes data center outside of London

CyrusOne

CyrusOne is reportedly proposing a new facility located just outside of London in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, UK. The company filed its application in October with Buckinghamshire council, which outlined its plans for the 'Iver Heath Data Park,' a proposal to redevelop the Shannon Group head...

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Read LCL switches diesel for HVO at its Brussels-West data center
LCL switches diesel for HVO at its Brussels-West data center
October 31, 2022

LCL switches diesel for HVO at its Brussels-West data center

Brussels

LCL has announced that it's replacing diesel with hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) for its backup generators at its Brussels-West data center in Aalst, after investing in six new 2.25 MVA generators. The company is reportedly the first to do so in Belgium, and it aims to have all the generator...

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Read Orange deploys solar panels at two of its data center sites in Poland
Orange deploys solar panels at two of its data center sites in Poland
October 27, 2022

Orange deploys solar panels at two of its data center sites in Poland

Orange

Orange has announced that it has deployed solar panels at two of its data center sites in Poland, made possible by a lease mode, signing a 20-year deal with Green Mobile Polska.According to reports, the panels have been operational since last week and Orange outlined that in the first two day...

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Read Vertiv releases its 'Data Center Sustainability' guide
Vertiv releases its 'Data Center Sustainability' guide
October 26, 2022

Vertiv releases its 'Data Center Sustainability' guide

United States

Vertiv recently released its sustainability guide for the data center industry with the hope that it will help to decarbonize operations, improve water efficiency and reduce the industry’s overall environmental impact. The company, in its guide, highlighted figures from the International Energ...

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Read New report reveals countries in the EU with the cleanest energy and what it means for the data center industry
New report reveals countries in the EU with the cleanest energy and what it means for the data center industry
October 25, 2022

New report reveals countries in the EU with the cleanest energy and what it means for the data center industry

Europe

In August, cloud management platform Cirrus Nexus released a report which analyzed the carbon intensity of electricity across a number of E.U. countries, and revealed the most climate-friendly regions to operate data centers. The company obtained its answers by analyzing the amount of energy c...

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Read Emerge to provide Khazna Data Centers with renewable energy from solar plant development
Emerge to provide Khazna Data Centers with renewable energy from solar plant development
October 18, 2022

Emerge to provide Khazna Data Centers with renewable energy from solar plant development

Abu Dhabi

Emerge, a joint venture (JV) between Masdar and EDF, has signed an agreement with Khazna Data Centers to provide it with renewable energy from a new solar plant development. The ground-mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) plant will provide power to Khazna's new data center in Masdar City, providin...

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