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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)

Submer to Deploy Liquid Cooled Data Centers in India

Liquid cooling and data center firm Submer Technologies and the Government of Madhya Pradesh in India this week signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly develop up to 1GW of liquid-cooled AI data centers in Madhya Pradesh.Sanjay Dubey, additional chief secretary of the Department ...

July 28, 2025

India / Bhārata

Microsoft Signs 4.9 Million-tonne Carbon Removal Deal

Microsoft has signed a 12-year carbon offtake agreement with Vaulted Deep that will see the removal of up to 4.9 million tonnes of carbon dioxide and enable Vaulted to expand its operations to new sites across the US."As carbon removal moves beyond pilots and prototypes, there is growing deman...

July 24, 2025

Microsoft Azure

Google Signs Long Duration Energy Storage Partnership

Google has signed its first partnership with a long-duration energy storage (LDES) company, Energy Dome to support multiple commercial deployments worldwide to help scale the company’s CO2 battery technology.The company has developed a 20MW/200MWh battery, which it claims has a lifetime of mor...

July 24, 2025

Google

Oklo and Vertiv Partner on Nuclear Data Center Power

Small nuclear reactor developer Oklo and data center power and cooling firm Vertiv this week announced a collaboration agreement focused on the co-development of power and thermal management solutions tailored specifically for hyperscale and colocation data centers that will be deploying Oklo’...

July 22, 2025

United States

SunRocket Capital Funds $15m Solar and Storage Project in Illinois

US-based private lender SunRocket Capital has closed a $15 million financing package for a solar with battery storage project designed to provide power to the data center sector in Illinois.“SunRocket Capital is proud to facilitate the growth of renewable energy infrastructure that powers the ...

July 18, 2025

Illinois

Frontier Consortium Buys $1.75 Million of Carbon Credits

Frontier, a carbon credit purchasing consortium that counts Google and Meta as founding members, this week announced it has facilitated $1.75 million of carbon removal purchases from Karbonetiq (United States), Limenet (Italy), and pHathom (Canada) on behalf of buyers Stripe, Shopify, and Goog...

July 15, 2025

Google

Google Signs 3GW US Hydro Energy Deal with Brookfield

Brookfield Asset Management and Brookfield Renewable this week announced a first-of-its-kind Hydro Framework Agreement (HFA) with Google to deliver up to 3,000MW of carbon-free hydroelectric capacity across the United States.Under the agreement, hydroelectric assets will be relicensed, overhau...

July 14, 2025

Google

Eurowind, Edora to Develop Data Center in Denmark

Danish renewable energy developer Eurowind Energy has partnered with Danish IT services provider Edora to develop a data center within a renewable energy park in Jutland, Denmark. The pilot will see the partners build a data center within the confines of the Eurowind Energy Park consisting of ...

July 12, 2025

Europe

Microsoft Buys 2.95m Tons of Carbon Removal Credits in Denmark

Microsoft has signed a carbon removal agreement with Gaia, a joint venture between Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and Vestforbrænding, for 2.95 million tons of carbon removal credits.The credits will be generated from Gaia’s Energy from Waste (EfW) carbon capture storage (CCS) retrof...

July 09, 2025

Ofgem Approves £24bn in Transmission Upgrades

UK energy regulator Ofgem has provisionally approved a £24 billion ($32.7bn) investment package into the country’s gas and electricity transmission system.The funding will back the construction of 80 electricity transmission projects aimed at connecting more than 120GW of clean energy capacity...

July 05, 2025

United Kingdom

Microsoft to Deploy Energy Efficiency Platform across Data Centers

Microsoft has partnered with Univers, a Singapore-based software development firm, to explore energy enhancement measures across its data centers. This MoU will support the use of Microsoft AI Cloud capabilities to strengthen Univers' sustainability solutions.The platform enables organizations...

July 04, 2025

Microsoft Azure

Hut 8 Awarded Five-Year Capacity Contract for 310MW of Natural Gas Power in Ontario

Cryptomining and HPC firm Hut 8 has been awarded a five-year capacity contract with the Ontario Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) for 310MW of natural gas generation assets. The portfolio is owned and operated by Far North Power Corp, a partnership between Hut 8 and Macquarie Equi...

July 03, 2025

Hut 8 Corp

Microsoft to Buy 1.1m Tons of Carbon Removal Credits in Norway

Microsoft has agreed to purchase 1.1 million tons of carbon removal credits from Hafslund Celsio, an energy from waste (EfW) and carbon capture and storage (CCS) firm which is set to be delivered over a ten-year period, will be generated by a CCS project under development at the site of Norway...

June 30, 2025

Microsoft Azure

US Energy Sec Plans 11GW Data Center Campus in Texas

The Texas Tech University System (TTU System) announced a collaboration with recently founded energy and technology company Fermi America to develop a large AI and energy campus near Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle. The Advanced Energy and Intelligence Campus will reportedly include “18 millio...

June 28, 2025

Texas

Can the Cloud Go Green? Exploring the Path to Carbon-Neutral Data Centers

People consider the cloud to be intangible. However, there are dozens of servers powering that invisible force in thousands of data centers stationed around the world. These facilities, many of which operate continuously without interruption, consume vast amounts of energy and are increasingly...

June 27, 2025

United States

Meta Purchases 791MW of Renewable Power in the US

Meta has signed four renewable energy agreements across four projects in Ohio (x2), Arizona, and Texas, for a combined capacity of 791MW from Invenergy to power its US data center portfolio.The four contracted projects include the 300MW Yellow Wood Solar Energy Center in Clinton County, Ohio, ...

June 27, 2025

United States

Gridmatic Inks 10MW PPA in Texas

US-based power marketer Gridmatic has signed a 10MW Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Sol Systems in Texas, with a portion of the power supplied to data center developer EdgeConneX under a 24/7 carbon-free energy agreement (24/7 CFE). The PPA has a capacity of 14MW and reached commercial op...

June 26, 2025

Texas

Microsoft Signs Carbon Removal Deal in the US

Microsoft has signed yet another carbon removal deal, this time buying carbon removal credits from forestry projects in the US with Anew Climate and sister company Aurora Sustainable Lands. Both companies announced a 10-year agreement to deliver 4.8 million nature-based carbon removal credits ...

June 26, 2025

Microsoft Azure

Time Energy Launches Malaysia’s First Community Solar Project

Time Energy, the renewable division of Malaysian telco Time dotCom, has launched the country’s first community solar project for data centers. The company signed an agreement with AIMS Group, a colocation and Edge data center provider, which will be the first anchor customer, via the Community...

June 25, 2025

Malaysia

APR Energy Receives Approval for Natural Gas Powered Facility in Texas

APR Energy has obtained approval from state regulators to move forward with the development of an 800-acre data center in Pampa, Texas. The Pampa Chamber of Commerce and the Pampa Economic Development Corporation approved the project last Tuesday (July 10). The data center is expected to have ...

June 19, 2025

Texas

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