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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 Hydrogenated vegetable oil-based biodiesel: Compass Datacenters partners with Foster Fuels
Hydrogenated vegetable oil-based biodiesel: Compass Datacenters partners with Foster Fuels
June 06, 2022

Hydrogenated vegetable oil-based biodiesel: Compass Datacenters partners with Foster Fuels

Compass Datacenters

Compass Datacenters has announced that it has entered into a partnership with Foster Fuels, which will now serve as the data center company's "preferred green diesel provider," making it the first provider in the industry to use Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil-based biodiesel (HVO) to fuel its on-...

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Read Verne Global partners with Icelandic New Energy and Landsvirkjun to trial hydrogen fuel cells
Verne Global partners with Icelandic New Energy and Landsvirkjun to trial hydrogen fuel cells
June 01, 2022

Verne Global partners with Icelandic New Energy and Landsvirkjun to trial hydrogen fuel cells

Verne: IS-KEF-DC01

Verne Global is partnering up with Iceland's national power company Landsvirkjun to trial and deploy hydrogen fuel cells to its data center campus in Iceland. As data center companies push to make their operations greener, many have transitioned to renewables to fuel their facilities, however...

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Read Telefónica Announces €1 Billion Sustainability-Linked Senior Bond
May 30, 2022

Telefónica Announces €1 Billion Sustainability-Linked Senior Bond

Telefonica

Telefonica has announced that it has issued its first senior sustainable bond. The bond will be used to sponsor sustainability initiatives and projects. The nine-year bond amounts to €1 billion ($1.06 billion). Telefonica saw immense success with the bond as it was over subscribed by more t...

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Read Intel to build $700 million data center ‘mega lab’ in Hillsboro
Intel to build $700 million data center ‘mega lab’ in Hillsboro
May 27, 2022

Intel to build $700 million data center ‘mega lab’ in Hillsboro

Intel

Intel has announced that it is developing a $700 million research lab in Hillsboro, Oregon, which will focus on sustainable data center technology. To be located at the company’s Jones Farm campus, the lab will span 200,000 sq ft (18,580 sqm) and is expected to open next year. According to th...

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Read Telefónica's sustainable funding increases to over more than €4 billion
Telefónica's sustainable funding increases to over more than €4 billion
May 27, 2022

Telefónica's sustainable funding increases to over more than €4 billion

Spain

Telefónica has announced that it has successfully issued its first senior sustainable bond to fund sustainability projects and initiatives amounting to €1 billion ($1.06bn) with a term of nine years. Telefónica has now made five ESG issuances in the last three years totaling €4.25 billion ($4...

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Read Increased risk of grid blackouts ahead warns North American Electric Reliability Corp (NERC)
Increased risk of grid blackouts ahead warns North American Electric Reliability Corp (NERC)
May 24, 2022

Increased risk of grid blackouts ahead warns North American Electric Reliability Corp (NERC)

United States

The North American Electric Reliability Corp (NERC) has sounded the alarm that this summer, a number of states in the central and upper midwest, Texas, and Southern California, might be hit with blackouts due to the increased risk of power outages. This risk was outlined in the nonprofit's ann...

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Read New report reveals tech companies' investments have a huge climate impact
New report reveals tech companies' investments have a huge climate impact
May 24, 2022

New report reveals tech companies' investments have a huge climate impact

Google

Over the last few years, tech giants have made big claims regarding carbon emissions and their sustainability efforts, yet, despite many of them claiming to be carbon neutral, a new report has found that their investments' carbon footprint is, in fact, greater than all the emissions created by...

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Read RDA and MVGX partner for sustainable data center development
RDA and MVGX partner for sustainable data center development
May 23, 2022

RDA and MVGX partner for sustainable data center development

Singapore

MetaVerse Green Exchange (MVGX), a crypto exchange regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), has announced it is teaming up with AI firm Red Dot Analytics, for carbon measurement and to offset tropical data centers.Singapore implemented a three-year moratorium on new data center ...

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Read EirGrid halts up to 30 potential data centers
EirGrid halts up to 30 potential data centers
May 22, 2022

EirGrid halts up to 30 potential data centers

Republic of Ireland

The pressure on the Irish power supply is starting to bite, as state-owned grid manager EirGrid announces that it has stopped talks with dozens of data center companies and halted plans for up to 30 data centers. Currently, there are some 70 data centers in the State, which have become a huge ...

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Read Atmos Energy and its natural gas-powered fuel cell
Atmos Energy and its natural gas-powered fuel cell
May 20, 2022

Atmos Energy and its natural gas-powered fuel cell

Texas

Atmos Energy has announced that it has installed a 460-kilowatt natural gas powered-fuel cell at its corporate data center, located in Dallas, Texas. According to the company, the fuel cell will be powered by methane-derived natural gas, which will be captured at landfills and livestock farms,...

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Read Sustainably-linked loan for Aligned
Sustainably-linked loan for Aligned
May 20, 2022

Sustainably-linked loan for Aligned

Aligned

Aligned Data Centers has announced that it has increased its existing sustainability-linked (SLL) from $375 million to $1.75 billion in an effort to “accelerate its next phase of strategic growth and expansion.” This loan is linked to ESG goals, and if the company manages to reach the pre-agr...

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Read Digital Realty signs 158MW solar PPAs
Digital Realty signs 158MW solar PPAs
May 20, 2022

Digital Realty signs 158MW solar PPAs

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has announced that it has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for solar energy in California and another Georgia, with Terra-Gen and Georgia Power, respectively. The former is for a 12-year agreement with Terra-Gen, which will support the development of the 130MW Edwards Sa...

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Read Green innovations: Algae and sunlight power computing
Green innovations: Algae and sunlight power computing
May 19, 2022

Green innovations: Algae and sunlight power computing

United Kingdom

As the race towards more green tech solutions continues, researchers from the University of Cambridge have announced that they have been working on an interesting energy innovation that could, in the future, replace batteries in small off-grid Internet of Things devices. The device was found t...

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Read The bitcoin crackdown and the need for the industry to go green
The bitcoin crackdown and the need for the industry to go green
May 19, 2022

The bitcoin crackdown and the need for the industry to go green

United States

According to reports, the State of New York is seeking to implement a ban on new bitcoin mining operations in order to decrease its carbon footprint. The proposed bill would, if passed, place a two-year moratorium on cryptocurrency mining operations that use proof-of-work authentication method...

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Read Centrin Data and Huawei Digital Power form strategic partnership for data centers and green energy
Centrin Data and Huawei Digital Power form strategic partnership for data centers and green energy
May 13, 2022

Centrin Data and Huawei Digital Power form strategic partnership for data centers and green energy

Huawei Cloud

Centrin Data and Huawei Digital Power recently formed a strategic partnership to cooperate on data center business and infrastructure, smart photovoltaics, green energy storage, comprehensive smart energy management. The partnership was recognised at a signing ceremony held in Beijing this wee...

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Read Equinix and the plan for a district heating scheme in Blanchardstown, Dublin
Equinix and the plan for a district heating scheme in Blanchardstown, Dublin
May 13, 2022

Equinix and the plan for a district heating scheme in Blanchardstown, Dublin

Equinix

Equinix has announced its involvement in a new district heating system project in Blanchardstown, Dublin. The data center company is teaming up with Codema, the Dublin energy agency, which will begin by carrying out a feasibility study. The project will reportedly be based around Equinix's DB...

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Read YTL's solar-powered data center campus
YTL's solar-powered data center campus
May 11, 2022

YTL's solar-powered data center campus

Malaysia

YTL Power recently announced the development of a 500MW solar-powered data center campus in Johor, the first of its kind in Malaysia. 30km from Singapore, the data center park is based in the Iskandar region of Johor, where 275 acres of the site will be dedicated to data center development off...

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Read Telenor signs wind PPA
Telenor signs wind PPA
May 11, 2022

Telenor signs wind PPA

Telenor Group

Oslo-based telco Telenor, has announced that it has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Hydro Energi AS to procure wind energy to power its Norwegian operations. The 260MW Stor-Skälsjön wind power project will be used to power the company's Norwegian consumption and total more than 86...

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Read Renewable energy and Grid Share's bitcoin mining data center
Renewable energy and Grid Share's bitcoin mining data center
May 10, 2022

Renewable energy and Grid Share's bitcoin mining data center

New Zealand

Grid Share has announced that it plans to launch a bitcoin mining data center in New Zealand's south island. The facility will be built next to a hydroelectric dam, the Pioneer Energy-owned Monowai Power Station, with whom Grid Share has partnered to supply energy. The 2MW facility will utiliz...

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Read What does CyrusOne's most recent sustainability report reveal?
What does CyrusOne's most recent sustainability report reveal?
May 10, 2022

What does CyrusOne's most recent sustainability report reveal?

CyrusOne

CyrusOne, a  founder and signatory of the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, recently released its latest sustainability report, where it outlined its efforts to cut both Scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions, and revealed it has hit its 2030 carbon reduction commitments eight years early and become ...

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