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Five Colorado Cities and Counties Pause or Ban New Data Centers in 2026

Colorado's Front Range spent the spring slamming the brakes on data centers. Denver, Jefferson County, Boulder County, Larimer County, and the city of Longmont have all moved to pause or ban new development since May. Colorado Springs did the opposite. Its planning department quietly approved a roughly 50 MW AI data center at the former Intel chip fab near Garden of the Gods Road. ...

June 21, 2026

Posted by: Mike Bavto

Colorado (CO)

Aon Expands Data Center Insurance Offering With $5bn Capacity Increase

Aon has expanded its Data Center Lifecycle Insurance Program (DCLP), adding $5 billion in capacity and broader risk solutions for data center developers and operators. The multi-line insurance program covers construction, cargo, cyber, and operational risks across the data center lifecycle. The e...

July 21, 2026

United States

Prysmian Signs $6.29bn Data Center Connectivity Deal With Molex

Italian cable manufacturer Prysmian has signed a €5.5 billion ($6.29bn) agreement with Koch-owned Molex to supply optical cables for data center deployments. The deal includes a €550 million ($570m) upfront payment and will run for up to 10 years. Prysmian, founded in 1879, produces energy and te...

July 21, 2026

Italy

Power and Cooling Failure Causes Google Cloud Outage in Netherlands

Google Cloud suffered an outage in the Netherlands after a data center experienced a loss of utility power and cooling capacity. The Europe-West4 availability zone was affected for nearly 15 hours, impacting services including Google Cloud VMware Engine, Bare Metal Solution, and Google Cloud NetA...

July 21, 2026

Google

IFC to Invest Up to $175m in AirTrunk Data Centers in Johor, Malaysia

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) will invest up to $175 million in AirTrunk’s planned data centers in Johor, Malaysia. AirTrunk’s JHB1 facility, which opened in July 2024, currently provides more than 50MW of capacity and is expected to reach over 150MW at full build-out. JHB2, announc...

July 20, 2026

Malaysia

Top Data Center News for 13th-18th July, 2026

Stream Proposes 867-Acre Data Center Campus in Graham, Texas **Stream Data Centers is planning a data center campus called Project Saltworks on an approximately 890-acre site in Graham, Texas, to include 1...

July 20, 2026

United States

Off-Grid Data Center Planned for Letcher County, Kentucky

A new data center could be coming to Kentucky. WYMT reports that the Appalachian Industrial Development Authority (AIDA) has signed an agreement with Diversified Gas and Oil Corporation and Maverick Holdings to potentially acquire a 100-acre site at Gateway Business Park in Letcher County. The pr...

July 20, 2026

Kentucky

New Mexico Rejects Gas Pipeline for Oracle's 2.5GW Project Jupiter Data Center

Oracle’s planned 2.5GW Project Jupiter data center in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, has faced another regulatory setback. The New Mexico State Land Office rejected Energy Transfer’s permit application for the Green Chile Project, a 17-mile natural gas pipeline extension intended to supply fuel for...

July 20, 2026

Oracle

Fujitsu Sells Australian Data Center Business to Next Capital

Fujitsu has agreed to sell its Australian data center business to private equity firm Next Capital. The deal includes five data centers totaling 25MW of capacity, with room to expand to 100MW. Financial terms were not disclosed, and Fujitsu said operations will continue as normal until the transa...

July 20, 2026

Fujitsu

Elisa Targets Data Center Growth as Finland’s Market Expands

Elisa CEO Topi Manner has highlighted the data center market as a key long-term growth opportunity for the telecom company. Speaking during Elisa’s Q2 earnings call, Manner said the quarter marked the start of the company’s large-scale data center connectivity business, amid Finland’s ongoing dat...

July 18, 2026

Elisa Corporation

Stream Proposes 867-Acre Data Center Campus in Graham, Texas

Headwaters Site Development, an affiliate of Stream Data Centers, is planning a data center campus called Project Saltworks on an approximately 890-acre site in Graham, Texas. The proposed development would include 15 data center buildings on land south of Lake Graham, near FM 61 and FM 209. S...

July 18, 2026

Texas

Florida Data Center Project Delayed by Lack of Available Water Supply

A planned data center project in Haines City, Florida, is facing delays due to limited water capacity. Local reports say Cielo’s proposed 300MW campus, planned for a 74-acre site along Marion Road and State Road 544-East, could require up to 150,000 gallons (681,913 liters) of water per day. H...

July 18, 2026

Florida

Stack Infrastructure Cancels Planned Data Center in Hesse, Germany

A planned Stack Infrastructure data center in Hesse, Germany, has been canceled. The hyperscale facility, planned for a site near Babenhausen southeast of Frankfurt, was dropped due to uncertainty over local government support. The €3 billion ($3.4bn) project was expected to create up to 200 perm...

July 18, 2026

Germany / Deutschland

MedOne Promotes Former CEO Ronnie Sadeh to President

Israeli data center operator MedOne has promoted CEO Ronnie Sadeh to president after more than 15 years in the role. Sadeh, who joined the company’s leadership team in 2009, will be succeeded as CEO by Eitan Damari, a former executive at Taavura Holdings Group and Livnat Group. Founded in 1997...

July 17, 2026

MedOne

UK Oil and Gas Firm Plans 200MW Gas-Powered Offshore Data Center in North Sea

UK oil and gas company Orcadian has proposed an offshore data center in the North Sea powered by a natural gas plant using gas from its Earlham and Orwell fields. The company plans to generate power offshore, capture the resulting CO₂ emissions, and store them in the Earlham reservoir. Orcadian s...

July 17, 2026

United Kingdom

Colocation Data Center Proposed in Birmingham, Alabama

A new data center could be coming to Birmingham, Alabama. Officials in Fairfield, Alabama, have announced that a colocation data center development is being proposed in the city. Details of the proposed project have not yet been disclosed, but Fairfield officials will hold a town hall later th...

July 17, 2026

Alabama

PowerX and Highreso Partner on Data Center and BESS Collaboration

Japanese battery energy storage system (BESS) developer PowerX and data center operator Highreso have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate on deploying battery storage at Highreso's data centers and expanding its GPU data center business. Highreso operates the GPUSOROBAN GPU ...

July 16, 2026

Japan

Crusoe Tied to Proposed Data Center Development in Virginia's Franklin County

A proposed data center project could be coming to Franklin County, Virginia. Local media report that county officials have been in discussions with Crusoe over the potential "Project Flash" development since November. Few details have been disclosed, but the project is reportedly being considered...

July 16, 2026

Crusoe

BlackRock GIP and ACS Name Data Center JV Coravel, Secure First Texas Customer

BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) and ACS have launched Coravel, a data center platform targeting hyperscalers. Coravel has a 1.7GW development pipeline across the US, Europe, and Australia, with 150MW under construction. The company has also signed its first hyperscaler customer f...

July 16, 2026

Texas

Macquarie DC Acquires 34,200 sqm Sydney Site for 200MW Data Center Campus

Macquarie Technology Group subsidiary Macquarie Data Centres has exercised its option to acquire a 34,200 sqm (368,125 sq ft) site in Sydney's Macquarie Park for a planned 200MW data center campus. The AU$240 million (US$167.95 million) acquisition is expected to close in the coming weeks followi...

July 16, 2026

Australia

SLB Partners With Liberty Energy On Data Center Power Solutions

SLB and Liberty Energy are partnering to deliver modular power and infrastructure solutions for AI and high-performance data centers. The companies aim to accelerate deployments through behind-the-meter power systems that bypass traditional grid connection timelines. "The bottleneck in AI infr...

July 15, 2026

United States

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