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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)

Macquarie invests in Applied Digital's AI data center business

Investment firm Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) is set to invest $5 billion into Applied, a cryptomining firm pivoting to AI and HPC data centers. Under the deal, MAM will invest up to $900 million in Applied's Ellendale campus in development in North Dakota, and has the right of first refusa...

January 20, 2025

Applied Digital

Telstra to form AI JV with Accenture

Australian carrier Telstra has this week detailed plans to form a joint venture (JV) with Accenture to speed up the company's data and AI roadmap. Telstra noted that the JV will enable its teams to operate more efficiently and effectively. The JV, which is set to be 60 percent owned by Accentu...

January 17, 2025

Australia

Uranium prices hit all-time high

Uranium prices have hit an all-time high, with artificial intelligence data centers driving increased demand for nuclear fuel. comes as large data center operators have begun prioritizing nuclear power as a crucial energy source for their operations. According to an FT report, the price of enr...

January 15, 2025

Microsoft Azure

Substrate AI plans 10MW data center outside Toledo

Spanish AI firm Substrate AI this week announced it aims to develop a 10MW facility on a 25,000 sqm (269,095 sq ft) site at the Torrehierro industrial estate in Talavera de la Reina that will host Nvidia GPU hardware, including NVL72 racks. The company will invest €100 million ($102.3m) in the...

January 11, 2025

Spain

Bit Digital acquires Montreal site for data center

US data center developer and crypto firm Bit Digital has acquired the site for a build-to-suit 5MW data center expansion project in Montreal, Canada.The company initially used cash on hand to fund the acquisition and is working to obtain mortgage financing to cover the site's acquisition and s...

January 04, 2025

United States

Equinix partners with Dell Technologies for private AI solution

Equinix and Dell Technologies are teaming up to offer a private AI solution that enables customers to train AI models on public and private clouds deployed on-premises. Using the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia which combines Dell PowerEdge XE9680 with Nvidia GPUs, the Nvidia Spectrum-X Ethernet p...

January 01, 2025

Equinix

Qualcomm claims win following mistrial in copyright battle with Arm

Qualcomm is claiming victory in its court battle with chip design giant Arm after a jury in the US found that its processor designs are properly licensed, despite the case ended in a mistrial, leaving the door open for Arm to return with a fresh action.After a week-long federal court trial hel...

December 23, 2024

United States

HPE to build Blue Lion supercomputer at LRZ

HPE will build an Nvidia-powered supercomputer at the Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ) in Germany. Dubbed Blue Lion, the system will employ 100 percent direct liquid cooling. The water-cooling solution will allow waste heat from the supercomputer to be reused for heating local buildings.“Pr...

December 19, 2024

Germany / Deutschland

Will 2025 be the Year of the Data Center? Here are Three Promising Facts from the Virginia Market

Last summer, Sequoia partner David Cahn declared that 2025 would be the “Year of the Data Center,” as project developers and investors lined up to expand data center capacity in support of the AI industry’s massive build-out. To validate this thesis, we looked at Baxtel’s proprietary data in o...

December 19, 2024

Nexalus partners with liquid cooling technology

Nexalus has teamed up with HPE in a partnership will see Nexalus deploy its liquid cooling technology - which it claims can recycle excess heat - into three of HPE’s server models, which it says offer enhanced thermal performance and reduced energy consumption.Kenneth O’Mahony, co-founder and ...

December 13, 2024

United States

Civo launches sovereign cloud region in India

UK-based cloud provider Civo has launched a sovereign cloud region in Mumbai, India as a part of a $25.52 million investment in the country. This investment will see India join Civo's existing regions across Europe, North America, and Asia. Civo said it aims to provide an equitable model of c...

December 13, 2024

India / Bhārata

EuroHPC JU selects seven hosting sites for AI factories

The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has selected seven sites to host the initiative’s new European AI factories. The factories represent a collaborative effort between 15 member states and two EuroHPC participating states and are the result of a €1.5 billion ($1.6bn) investment, combini...

December 12, 2024

Europe

Core Scientific to upgrade Texas data center

Core Scientific plans to refurbish its data center in Denton, Texas, turning it from a crypto facility into an AI site, spending as much as $6.1 billion on the new campus, the Denton City Council said, with a planned launch in 2027. As part of the deal, the City of Denton will lease 78.85 acr...

November 29, 2024

Texas

RWE selects HPE Private Cloud AI for weather modeling

Renewable energy company RWE has selected HPE's private coud AI for weather modeling and will be using HPE's Private Cloud for evaluating, fine-tuning, and inferencing its weather models. “As a leading provider of renewable energy, RWE is at the forefront of balancing the increasing power dema...

November 22, 2024

Colovore to expand footprint of liquid-cooled colocation data centers beyond Silicon Valley

Colovore is to expand its footprint of liquid-cooled colocation data centers beyond Silicon Valley and into Reno and Chicago. The company this week announced its second facility in Santa Clara, California, will open next month, and confirmed the locations of its next two sites.“We are staying ...

November 20, 2024

Chicago

Microsoft's AI VP Luis Vargas quits

Microsoft's vice president of AI, Luis Vargas, has quit the technology giant and will now be the founder and CTO of a new AI startup, details of which have yet to be revealed."I feel extremely fortunate to have worked with exceptional people on many exciting things, from introducing HA/DR in S...

November 14, 2024

Microsoft Azure

ECL plans to construct a 1GW hydrogen-powered AI data center in Texas, with Lambda as its inaugural tenant.

Data center startup ECL claims that it will build a 1GW AI data center on a more than 600-acre site east of Houston, Texas, powered by hydrogen.The TerraSite-TX1 will initially have a capacity of 50MW, coming next summer, at a cost of around $450 million. AI cloud provider Lambda will be the f...

September 25, 2024

Lintasarta unveils AI cloud 'GPU Merdeka' in Indonesia

Indonesian IT service management company Lintasarta has launched an AI cloud service called GPU Merdeka, a GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) would be a sovereign AI cloud featuring Nvidia chips. The GPU Merdeka service features GPU servers with a configuration of 8x Nvidia H100 SXM Tensor Core GPUs,...

August 25, 2024

Indonesia

Singtel and Bridge Alliance to launch GPU-as-a-Service in South Asia

Singapore's Singtel and the Bridge Alliance are set to launch a GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) offering in Southeast Asia. In February 2024 when the company first announched the launch, it mentioned that Singtel’s GPUaaS will be powered by Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPU-powered clusters that are opera...

August 20, 2024

South Asia

Foundry unveils GPU-based Foundry Cloud Platform

Foundry has launched its GPU-based Foundry Cloud Platform for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads which it claims can reduce operational complexity and compute cost by up to six times. The company seeks to overcome the GPU shortage by turning to existing GPUs that it claims are "vastly und...

August 14, 2024

United States

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