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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)

Baker Hughes, Google Cloud Team on Data Center AI

US energy firm Baker Hughes has partnered with Google Cloud to develop AI tools aimed at optimizing power use and improving data center sustainability. The collaboration targets growing energy demand driven by AI and cloud expansion, with both companies exploring how to better leverage industr...

March 27, 2026

Google

Eleveight AI Deploys 512 Nvidia B300 GPUs at 2MW Armenia Data Center

Armenian startup Eleveight AI has installed 512 Nvidia B300 GPUs at its AI data center in Gagarin, with construction of the facility set to be completed this month. The company said the hardware is already in place, adding that the facility is designed to run on a renewable-heavy power mix and...

March 23, 2026

Armenia

OpenAI Reshuffles Leadership Amid Data Center Strategy Reset

OpenAI has reorganized its leadership as it shifts toward leasing more AI capacity from cloud providers. The company is still pursuing its global Stargate data center buildout with Oracle and SoftBank, but recent reports suggest it may scale back expansion plans in favor of rented infrastructu...

March 18, 2026

OpenAI

Ciena Launches New Optical Engine Designed For The AI-driven Data Center Era

In its first new solution since acquiring Nubis Communications last year, Ciena continues to tackle data center AI demands with the launch of a flexible, high-density pluggable optical engine, Vesta 200 6.4T CPX. The new solution is claimed to reduce power consumption by up to 70 percent, whil...

February 26, 2026

United States

CPower, Bentaus, and Supermicro Complete AI Data Center Energy Orchestration Pilot Project in California

In collaboration with Supermicro, US virtual power producer (VPP) CPower Energy and AI orchestration platform Bentaus have completed a joint demonstration project aimed at improving how AI compute interacts with the power grid. As part of the trial, CPower transmitted real-time wholesale ele...

February 25, 2026

United States

OpenAI Teams up with Tata to Expand Data Center Capacity in India

TCS’ HyperVault unit and OpenAI have agreed to a multi-year partnership to develop AI infrastructure in India. In the initial phase, TCS will develop AI infrastructure with 100MW of capacity, with an option to scale to 1GW.Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI, said: “India is already leading the way in AI ...

February 19, 2026

OpenAI

Singtel’s Nxera Launches New Data Center in Singapore

Singtel has launched a new data center in Singapore. Nxera, The company's data center arm, this week announced the opening of DC Tuas, its largest facility in Singapore. With 58MW of capacity, the company claimed DC Tuas is Singapore’s highest-capacity data center.Bill Chang, CEO of Nxera and ...

February 09, 2026

Singtel

xneelo Starts Construction on Second Data Center in Johannesburg

South African colocation and hosting firm xneelo this week announced it has started construction on a new facility in the Samrand area of the city. Full details weren’t shared, but xneelo said the new facility will be modeled on its first Samrand data center's “proven design” while introducin...

February 07, 2026

South Africa

UAE-based Electric and Autonomous Vehicle Company Robo.ai is setting its sights on Data Center Development.

An electric and autonomous vehicle developer is looking to move into the data center space.UAE-based Robo.ai last week announced that its Robo.ai Investments L.L.C.-FZ subsidiary has entered into a definitive joint venture agreement with Tachyon9 Corporation, a US-based data center infrastruct...

February 07, 2026

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

American Tower Pauses Plans for Edge Data Center in Indianapolis, Indiana

US tower and data center firm American Tower has dropped plans to develop an Edge facility at a telecoms site in Indianapolis, Indiana.The single-story building would have totaled 4MW on seven acres of the 53-acre property. The company was planning to use a closed-loop cooling system and not r...

February 06, 2026

American Tower Corporation

Multi-gigawatt Data Center Campus Planned in East Texas

A 2.1GW data center campus is being planned in East Texas. Amp Z is set to acquire land outside Lufkin in Angelina County, some 120 miles (193km) north of Houston.Citing county property records, the Lufkin Daily reports Verdant Industries, LLC, and Verdant Industries Realty, LLC, granted Amp Z...

February 06, 2026

Texas

Warehouse in Provo, Utah, to be Replaced with Data Center

B+F Timpanogos is looking to redevelop a warehouse property in Provo into a data center. The two requests, set to be discussed at a Provo planning commission meeting next week, are seeking a zoning amendment to add a warehouse at 1507 S 180 E in Provo to the city’s data center overlay district...

February 05, 2026

Utah

Croatian Telecom Upgrades Cooling Monitoring System at Zagreb Data Center

Croatian Telecom (aka Hrvatski Telekom) this week announced that, alongside Siemens, it had successfully completed the White Space Cooling Optimization (WSCO) project.“Thanks to intelligent sensor placement and AI-based cooling management, HT’s data center in Zagreb now operates more efficient...

February 05, 2026

Croatia

SGC Energy to Build 300MW Data Center in North Jeolla

South Korean energy company SGC Energy is set to build a 300MW data center in Gunsan, marking its first foray into the AI data center business.The 300MW facility will be built at the Gunsan National Industrial Complex 2, the largest of two industrial areas located around Gunsan that house ship...

February 05, 2026

South Korea

AT&T Partners with AWS and Amazon Leo

US telecoms firm AT&T is partnering with Amazon’s cloud and satellite units. The former will move more workloads to the cloud and utilize Amazon’s satellite fleet, while the cloud provider will benefit from new fiber connectivity between its data centers."This collaboration with AWS marks ...

February 05, 2026

AT&T

Google Gets Greenlight for Data Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma

The Sand Springs City Council has approved a data center campus development proposed by Google for just outside of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Dubbed "Project Spring," the campus is planned for an 827-acre property located at 5615 OK-97, Sand Springs, OK 74063, and is being developed by White Rose Partne...

February 05, 2026

Google

Amazon: 30,000 Jobs Out, $125 Billion in AI Spending In

The company blames bureaucracy. The balance sheet tells a different story.Amazon has now eliminated 30,000 corporate positions since October, making it the largest workforce reduction in the company's 30-year history. The cuts came in two waves: 14,000 in late October 2025, followed by another...

February 04, 2026

Amazon AWS

STT GDC Launches Direct-Current Data Center Testbed in Singapore

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) is launching a direct-current (DC) data center testbed in Singapore. Called FutureGrid Accelerator, it is Southeast Asia’s first live High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC)-powered AI infrastructure testbed.Located at the Nanyang Technological University,...

February 03, 2026

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

iXAfrica to Host Oracle Cloud Region in Nairobi, Kenya

East African data center firm iXAfrica this week announced it has been selected as the host partner for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) region in Nairobi, Kenya.“We are delighted to be in execution mode to bring OCI to Kenya,” said Snehar Shah, CEO, iXAfrica. “With this collaboration, iX...

February 03, 2026

Oracle

Sharon AI Appoints Co-founder James Manning as CEO

Neocloud Sharon AI has reshuffled its senior leadership team, with co-founder and chairman James Manning taking over the CEO role from Wolf Schubert. Manning became CEO on January 23, having served as chairman of the company since its founding in 2024.Commenting on his new role at the company,...

January 31, 2026

United States

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