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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)

Alibaba Cloud's 2030 vision

Alibaba Cloud, a subsidiary of Alibaba, has announced that it is on track to have its global data centers running entirely on clean, renewable energy by 2030. As part of its green pledge and push towards more sustainable operations, the company has announced that it is upgrading five of its hy...

March 01, 2022

China

Aligned completes first phase of Salt Lake metro data center

Aligned Data Centers has announced that it has completed the first phase of the latest ‘Build-to-Scale’ waterless data center in the Salt Lake Metro Area. The company said that its decision to pursue a waterless build is in response to increased awareness of the importance of water conservati...

February 25, 2022

Aligned

NTT's bee project

On top of its Vienna 1 facility near Wienerberg, NTT is keeping bees. The company says that it decided to embark on this project based on the location of its facility, which is near a natural recreation area. Those on the team said that the project also allows the on-site team to “enjoy the de...

February 25, 2022

NTT

Sify signs more PPAs in India

Sify Technologies is renewing its commitment to sustainability with the signing of more than 200MW of power purchase agreements (PPAs) for wind and solar power. These green PPAs signed with Vibrant Energy Holdings will power the company’s latest hyperscale data centers. According to the compa...

February 24, 2022

Sify Technologies

Carbon Sense launched by Google

Google Cloud has launched Carbon Sense, an updated version of its tool for reporting and reducing carbon emissions. This new suite features Carbon Footprint (launched last year), a tool that measures the carbon emissions of Google customers' cloud usage, and an expanded version of Active Assi...

February 22, 2022

Google

Pexapark forecasts changes to PPA

In its "European PPA Market Outlook 2022" report, Pexapark outlined that change is afoot regarding the way in which data center operators purchase renewable energy. The energy price volatility of 2021 will reportedly have a long-term impact on PPA deals, with larger consumers buying up big off...

February 21, 2022

Europe

AT&T signs two solar Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs)

AT&T has signed two solar Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) with Vitol, an energy trader, it has announced. The virtual PPAs are for approximately 80MW and 75 MW at solar projects in Maryland and Pennsylvania. The two projects are expected to be fully operational by 2022 and 2023, respectiv...

February 17, 2022

AT&T

Carbon accounting standards in the industry

A number of organizations and companies have come together to form an initiative called the Carbon Call, which is seeking to achieve "reliable and interoperable" carbon emissions accounting to ensure the world reaches net-zero by midcentury. Among the twenty organizations launching the call is...

February 15, 2022

Microsoft Azure

NorthC and green hydrogen

NorthC's data center in Groningen is to be the first in Europe to use green hydrogen fuel cells (H2), created through electrolysis. According to the company, the 1.5MW facility will have 500kW of fuel cells. This will reportedly save tens of thousands of liters of diesel a year, the equivalen...

February 15, 2022

NorthC Datacenters

Data centers and the nuclear option

With the UN chief recently declaring that it's "code red for humanity," it has never been more clear that immediate action is required on the part of governments and industry leaders to make big sustainability changes. Of course, the data center and digital infrastructure industries have caugh...

February 14, 2022

Europe

Big tech greenwashing: A failure to deliver on sustainability pledges

Nearly every day, it seems another tech company has made another big green pledge; however, according to the nonprofit NewClimate Institute, big tech's promises to deliver on sustainability are not leading to action. Lacking real substance, according to the report, even the companies that are ...

February 11, 2022

Google

Element Critical partner up with NextEra Energy for renewables

Element Critical has inked a clean energy deal with NextEra Energy Resources, which will provide the data center company with renewable energy. The power purchase agreement (PPA) between the two companies, will see Element Critical provided with power from an ERCOT-connected, Texas-based win...

February 10, 2022

Element Critical

Mitsubishi Estate data center subsidiary turns to renewable energy for Tokyo data centers

Mitsubishi Estate subsidiary Marunouchi Direct Access (MDA) has announced its decision to make three of its Tokyo data centers more sustainable by switching to renewable energy. This switch happened in early February 2022 and was made through the RE100 climate plan using conforming feed-in tar...

February 10, 2022

Marunouchi Direct Access ltd

Hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) for Interxion backup generators

Interxion is one of the latest companies to turn to Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (HVO) for its data center backup generator needs. The company is using HVO100 fuel and the first site in its French portfolio to make the change was its new PAR8 site, in La Courneuve, Paris. The fuel is made f...

February 10, 2022

InterXion

Equinix unveils new sustainability initiatives

Equinix recently opened its Co-Innovation Facility (CIF) based near Washington, DC, which will be home to a number of trials focusing on the development of sustainable data center tech. At the facility, the company will partner with Bloom Energy, ZutaCore, Virtual Power Systems (VPS), and Natr...

February 03, 2022

Equinix

IDA CEO makes announcement on Dublin data centers

IDA Ireland Irish Development Agency (IDA) has announced that looking ahead, it is “unlikely” that any new data centres will be built in Dublin or along the east coast. However, Martin Shanahan, the head of the state’s development agency, has said it will build data centers if they are require...

January 31, 2022

Dublin

Microsoft to cut down 2,600 trees in San Antonio to make way for data center

Microsoft is to build a data center on a 33-acre plot in San Antonio, however, this will come at the expense of 2,642 trees. The move was recently given the go-ahead by the City Council, who voted 8-3 on Thursday, January 28, 2022. The giant will reportedly plant 833 trees around the data cen...

January 31, 2022

Microsoft Azure

DEAC and Neste announce partnership

DEAC has announced that it is teaming up with Neste, a producer of renewable diesel, helping the company to reach its goal of using 100% renewable energy by "as early as 2022." According to the company, it will enhance the sustainability of its data storage during potential power cuts. A...

January 28, 2022

Delska (DEAC, DLC Data Logistics Center)

Meta signs wind PPA in Iowa

In its latest move towards attaining more green credentials, Meta has announced the signing of a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Apex for its 225-MW Great Pathfinder Wind project in Iowa. This is the energy company’s fifth deal with the social media giant. According to CEO Mark Zuckerberg,...

January 26, 2022

Verizon signs seven Power Purchase Agreements

As it expands its usage of green energy, Verizon, has announced that it has signed seven new Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) for renewable energy representing 910MW. The company's sustainability goals are to have carbon neutrality across all its operations (scope 1 and 2) by 2035.Renewable En...

January 22, 2022

Verizon Enterprise

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