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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 Johnson Controls Appoints Joakim Weidemanis as CEO
Johnson Controls Appoints Joakim Weidemanis as CEO
February 11, 2025

Johnson Controls Appoints Joakim Weidemanis as CEO

Industrial machine manufacturer Johnson Controls has appointed Joakim Weidemanis as CEO, effective March 12, 2025. During his stint at Danaher, Weidemanis grew the company’s diagnostics business through acquisitions and organic growth, taking leadership of an approximately $15 billion group ac...

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Read Top Data Center News from 3rd-8th February 2025
Top Data Center News from 3rd-8th February 2025
February 10, 2025

Top Data Center News from 3rd-8th February 2025

Amazon has signed two Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) in India for a combined 199MW across two onshore wind projects. The first PPA was signed with CleanMax, an Asia-focused renewable developer, while the second PPA was signed with BluPine Energy, an Indian renewable energy developer, for ene...

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Read 3M Joins Semiconductor US-JOINT Consortium
3M Joins Semiconductor US-JOINT Consortium
February 10, 2025

3M Joins Semiconductor US-JOINT Consortium

Multinational technology company 3M has joined the US-JOINT Consortium, a group of 12 semiconductor suppliers focused on developing next-generation semiconductor advanced packaging and back-end processing technologies. Since its inception, US-JOINT has also been overseeing the construction of ...

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Read CtrlS Completes 125MW Solar Farm to Power Mumbai Campus
CtrlS Completes 125MW Solar Farm to Power Mumbai Campus
February 10, 2025

CtrlS Completes 125MW Solar Farm to Power Mumbai Campus

Indian data center developer CtrlS Datacenters has completed the construction of a 125MW captive solar farm in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. CtrlS has said that the project will cover 60 percent of the energy requirements at its Mumbai data center campus. The campus currently houses five data ce...

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Read LANL to Lead Multi-institution Project
LANL to Lead Multi-institution Project
February 10, 2025

LANL to Lead Multi-institution Project

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) will lead a multi-institution project focused on transforming how chips are designed and manufactured and will explore how to fabricate chips that are more energy efficient and able to operate in extreme environments, in particular those with high levels o...

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Read Singtel Secures $475.9 Million Green Loan
Singtel Secures $475.9 Million Green Loan
February 08, 2025

Singtel Secures $475.9 Million Green Loan

Singtel’s regional data center arm, Nxera, this week announced a S$643 million five-year green loan to finance the development of the 58MW DC Tuas data center in Singapore. The funds will go toward funding the development and capital expenditure of DC Tuas, which is due to go live in 2026.As p...

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Read Equinix Launches Data Center in Paris, France
Equinix Launches Data Center in Paris, France
February 08, 2025

Equinix Launches Data Center in Paris, France

Equinix this week inaugurated its PA13x facility in the Meudon area of Île-de-France. It is part of Equinix’s xScale portfolio, targeting hyperscale customers. The €350 million ($361.4m) facility, located at 9 Avenue du Marechal Juin, totals 78,910 sq ft (7,330 sqm) of colocation space across ...

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Read Borealis Raises $148m in Debt Funding
Borealis Raises $148m in Debt Funding
February 08, 2025

Borealis Raises $148m in Debt Funding

Nordic firm Borealis Data Center (BDC) this week announced $148 million in funding from infrastructure investment firm Infranity and Iceland’s Arion Bank. The funds will support Borealis’ expansion plans in the Nordics, though further details weren't shared.“Our strategy for growth is rooted i...

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Read BT Ireland Sells Wholesale and Enterprise Units
BT Ireland Sells Wholesale and Enterprise Units
February 08, 2025

BT Ireland Sells Wholesale and Enterprise Units

BT has agreed to sell its Irish wholesale and enterprise unit including BT’s domestic network infrastructure, more than 400 customers, and associated teams supporting the wholesale and business enterprises to Cordiant subsidiary Speed Fibre Group.The transaction will not include BTCIL’s multin...

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Read Meta Attempts to Redesign Fiber Signal Amplification Sites
Meta Attempts to Redesign Fiber Signal Amplification Sites
February 08, 2025

Meta Attempts to Redesign Fiber Signal Amplification Sites

Social media firm Meta is attempting to redesign fiber signal amplification sites, just like subsea cable systems have repeaters every ~100km to amplify signals being sent between locations, in-line amplifier (ILA) sites amplify signals sent along terrestrial fiber. “Buildings were constructed...

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Read Beyon Solutions and Oracle to Develop Sovereign Cloud in Bahrain
Beyon Solutions and Oracle to Develop Sovereign Cloud in Bahrain
February 08, 2025

Beyon Solutions and Oracle to Develop Sovereign Cloud in Bahrain

Beyon Group has signed an agreement with Oracle to develop a sovereign cloud solution in Bahrain. The company's Beyon Solutions division will use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's (OCI) Dedicated Region offering to provide sovereign cloud services to businesses and government entities in Bahrain.T...

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Read Amazon Signs two PPAs in India
Amazon Signs two PPAs in India
February 07, 2025

Amazon Signs two PPAs in India

Amazon has signed two Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) in India for a combined 199MW across two onshore wind projects. The first PPA was signed with CleanMax, an Asia-focused renewable developer, for energy from a 100MW onshore wind project currently under development in Koppal, Karnataka.Kulde...

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Read Armada to Deploy Containerized Edge Data Centers in Saudi
Armada to Deploy Containerized Edge Data Centers in Saudi
February 07, 2025

Armada to Deploy Containerized Edge Data Centers in Saudi

Aramco Digital, Armada, and Microsoft this week announced a collaboration to deploy Armada’s satellite-connected Galleon Edge data centers and Commander software platform in Saudi Arabia. These deployments utilize Microsoft Azure's cloud in Armada's Galleon infrastructure; this includes Azure ...

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Read Amazon Signs PPA with ERG in Northern Ireland
Amazon Signs PPA with ERG in Northern Ireland
February 07, 2025

Amazon Signs PPA with ERG in Northern Ireland

Amazon has signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with Italian energy firm ERG Group as a pay-as-produced agreement in which ERG will supply the cloud giant with Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin (REGOs) produced by the Corlacky wind farm. According to ERG, the PPA will deliver ...

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Read 520-acre Data Center Campus Planned Wisconsin
520-acre Data Center Campus Planned Wisconsin
February 07, 2025

520-acre Data Center Campus Planned Wisconsin

A data center campus could be coming to Wisconsin as local press reports an unnamed developer is looking to build a campus in Beaver Dam in Dodge County, some 60 miles northwest of Milwaukee. A company working through the Degas LLC affiliate is seeking to invest around $567m developing a data ...

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Read EnCharge AI Closes $100m Funding Round
EnCharge AI Closes $100m Funding Round
February 07, 2025

EnCharge AI Closes $100m Funding Round

AI chip startup EnCharge AI has closed an oversubscribed $100 million Series B funding round led by Tiger Global and saw participation from Samsung Ventures and HH-CTBC. It brings the total amount raised by EnCharge AI to more than $144m. The company said it would use the funds to bring its fi...

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Read Amazon Looks to Develop Another Data Center in Ohio
Amazon Looks to Develop Another Data Center in Ohio
February 07, 2025

Amazon Looks to Develop Another Data Center in Ohio

Amazon is looking to develop another data center in Ohio and met the Marysville City Council to discuss a community reinvestment area agreement. The company intends to develop, construct, and operate “one or more data centers," with documents suggesting up to two buildings will be erected with...

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Read Prologis Plans 10GW Data Center Expansion
Prologis Plans 10GW Data Center Expansion
February 07, 2025

Prologis Plans 10GW Data Center Expansion

Real estate investment trust Prologis plans to substantially increase its data center portfolio over the coming decade. The company began expanding into the data center sector during the Covid 19 pandemic and often partners with Skybox Datacenters for the actual building of the facilities, whi...

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Read Templus acquires bitNAP from Cellnex
Templus acquires bitNAP from Cellnex
February 06, 2025

Templus acquires bitNAP from Cellnex

Spanish data center firm Templus has acquired Spanish colo bitNAP from Cellnex,  including bitNAP’s only data center facility in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona. The facility offers 1.7MW of power across 3,000 sqm (32,291 sq ft), with a PUE of 1.14.“This acquisition not only expands our m...

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