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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)

Emerge to provide Khazna Data Centers with renewable energy from solar plant development

Emerge, a joint venture (JV) between Masdar and EDF, has signed an agreement with Khazna Data Centers to provide it with renewable energy from a new solar plant development. The ground-mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) plant will provide power to Khazna's new data center in Masdar City, providin...

October 18, 2022

Abu Dhabi

AWS partners with concrete company to develop a more sustainable concrete mix for its data centers

AWS has announced a new collaboration project with American Rock Products (ARP), a concrete company, to develop a concrete mix for data centers that is more sustainable. Labeled the most destructive material on earth, concrete is fundamentally unsustainable and a significant contributor to cl...

October 14, 2022

Amazon AWS

Amazon's data center emissions rise with Oregon expansion

According to a report by The Oregonian, Amazon’s data center expansion in Eastern Oregon has caused carbon emissions to soar in recent years. Oregon’s Morrow and Umatilla counties are the locations targeted by Amazon, in part due to local tax breaks, which have seen Amazon rake up tax breaks w...

October 14, 2022

Amazon AWS

EcoDataCenter announces eco plans

EcoDataCenters has announced that it is teaming up with WA3RM to promote circular economy principles by sharing excess heat for large-scale cultivation in fish farms and greenhouses. While others in the industry have already pursued such opportunities within agriculture, it's noted that typic...

October 13, 2022

EcoDataCenter (EcoDC AB)

Vodacom South Africa to pilot sourcing energy from independent suppliers

As recently reported by Baxtel, South Africa has been facing significant energy challenges resulting in regular outages, with Eskom implementing Stage 6 power cuts. This has meant that South Africans have been faced with power cuts for at least six hours a day. These power outages have had a h...

October 12, 2022

South Africa

GTA begins work on its Alupang Data Center in Guam

GTA, a telecommunications company in Guam, recently held a groundbreaking ceremony to signify the commencement of construction of its Alupang Data Center, under US-based Huntsman Family Investments (HFI) ownership. The facility and cable landing station will be built in Tamuning, Guam, and wil...

October 11, 2022

Guam

Orange outlines a number of energy-saving measures ahead of potential blackouts this winter

Orange recently released a number of sustainability measures to save energy and reduce electricity consumption in France. The company outlined that in the face of an energy crisis, with reports that Europe could face rolling blackouts, as a telecom business, it has a role to play in decreasin...

October 11, 2022

Orange

Scala Data Centers to build the largest data center campus in Chile after obtaining environmental license

Scala Data Centers has announced that it has received the environmental license to build the largest data center campus in Chile. The campus, which is scheduled to start operations in the first quarter of 2024, will have a combined 120MW of total capacity, with a projected initial delivery of...

October 10, 2022

Scala Data Centers

Telstra signs wind PPA with Ark Energy to procure renewable energy

Telstra has signed a power purchase agreement with Ark Energy, part of Korea Zinc Co, to procure from a wind farm in Queensland. This will be supplied from Ark’s 30% share of the 923.4MW MacIntyre Wind Farm, based near Warwick, which is projected to be the largest wind farm by 2025. Speaking a...

October 09, 2022

Telstra

BT to obtain renewable energy from new wind project

BT Group has announced that it has signed a Virtual Power Purchase Agreement (VPPA) with BayWa r.e. AG, a German renewable energy company, to procure energy from the Dalquhandy onshore wind farm in South Lanarkshire, Scotland.The wind farm, a ten turbine project, is currently being worked on ...

October 05, 2022

BT Global Services

Stack installs beehives at data center campus in Milan

In a bid to help the drastically declining bee population and push forward its ESG commitments, Stack has announced that it has deployed three beehives at its Milan campus in Italy. In its announcement on LinkedIn, the company outlined that while honeybees are responsible for 80% of the world'...

October 04, 2022

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Equinix tests hydrogen fuel cell power

Equinix is the latest company in the industry to trial hydrogen fuel cells as a power source for data centers. The company will be working in partnership with the Centre for Energy Research & Technology (CERT) under the National University of Singapore's (NUS) College of Design and Engine...

September 30, 2022

Equinix

The Uptime Institute’s 2022 Global Data Center Survey reveals the industry must evolve its sustainability reporting practices and prevent costly outages

On September 20th, Uptime released its 12th Annual Global Data Center Survey, which analyzed the growth and sustainability efforts of the industry, as well as the challenges it is facing. The report noted that the industry is “growing, dynamic and increasingly resilient” but largely failing on...

September 30, 2022

Europe

Microsoft signs nuclear carbon credits deal with Ontario Power Generation (OPG) as part of strategic partnership

Microsoft has signed a new energy deal with Canadian energy firm Ontario Power Generation (OPG) as part of a strategic partnership targeted at tackling climate change and “driving sustainable growth” in Ontario. According to Microsoft, the giant will procure Clean Energy Credit sourced from OP...

September 28, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Bulk announces it is expanding its facilities in Oslo and Kristiansand and prioritizing sustainability

Bulk is expanding both of its Norwegian data centers in Oslo and Kristiansand. The company outlined that it has already completed the installation of an on-site substation at its NO1 campus in Kristiansand, adding 100MW and has commenced work on the second data center at its NO1 campus. This ...

September 28, 2022

Bulk Infrastructure AS

Cargill moves into the bio-industrial business with its plant-based immersion cooling

Cargill, an American food producer giant and the third largest meat producer in the world, has announced that it has created the world's first plant-based dielectric fluid for immersion cooling fluid in data centers. Named NatureCool 2000, the cooling liquid was designed for the data center an...

September 26, 2022

United States

Amazon invests in more renewable energy projects

Amazon has announced that it has invested in another wave of renewable energy projects, totaling 71. Altogether, these projects will take the giant total renewable energy production to 50,000GWh, the same amount required to power 4.6 million homes in the US annually. These projects include th...

September 23, 2022

Amazon AWS

Bosung Group to expand in South Korea

Bosung Group is expanding its data center footprint in SolaSeaDo, South Korea, with the addition of a new 200MW data center campus in SolaSeaDo, to the south of the country in Jeonnam Province. These expansion plans come following the company partnering up with The Green Korea (TGK), a joint v...

September 23, 2022

South Korea

NEC to expand its green data centers in Kanagawa and Kobe

NEC Corporation has announced that it is establishing two new green data centers, in response to the growing demand. The first is the "NEC Kanagawa Data Center: Phase 2 Building" which is scheduled to open in the second half of 2023, and the second is "NEC Kobe Data Center: Phase 3 Building," ...

September 23, 2022

Japan

Tighter guidelines on data centre sustainability needed, new report says

There have been a number of recent reports that have highlighted that data center operators are falling short when it comes to sustainability tracking. Morningstar Sustainanalytics, Uptime Institute's 12th annual Global data center survey, and now Cushman & Wakefield's report 'Energy, Wate...

September 22, 2022

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

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