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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](h...

June 21, 2026

Colorado (CO)

Elea Digital raises $100 million in sustainability-linked debt

Brazilian data center Elea Digital announced this week that it raised over $100 million in sustainability-linked debt. This fund will be used to aid ongoing organic expansion and align the company's infrastructure with international standards. Alessandro Lombardi, president of Elea Digital, s...

January 03, 2024

Elea Data Centers

Airtel Africa CEO to retire in July 2024

Airtel Africa revealed in an announcement this week that it’s CEO, Olusegun Ogunsanya, is to retire and will officially step down from his role in July 2024. He will then become the Airtel Africa Charitable Foundation’s inaugural Chair. Sunil Taldar has been appointed as managing director and ...

January 03, 2024

Africa

Iliad submits proposal for Vodafone merger in Italy

Iliad Group, owned by French tycoon Xavier Niel has submitted a proposal to Vodafone to merge the two telcos in Italy. In its offer, Iliad valued Vodafone Italia at €10.45 billion and is to receive €500 million in cash and 50 percent of the new business as part of the proposal with Vodafone re...

December 29, 2023

Vodafone

Scala Data Centers launches operations in Port Alegre, Brazil

Scala Data Centers has launched operations at its first data center in Porto Alegre, Brazil, dubbed SPOAPA01. This data center has an IT capacity of 4.8MW and was developed with an investment of $48 million, dedicated to hyperscale customers. SPOAPA01 is fully powered by certified renewable ...

December 29, 2023

Scala Data Centers

Telehouse launches fifth facility in Frankfurt

Telehouse has launched and fully leased its fifth data center at its Frankfurt campus dubbed building M. This data center now adds 4.5 MW of IT capacity which has been fully leased less than two months since its opening. Dr. Béla Waldhauser, managing director of Telehouse Deutschland said, "I...

December 29, 2023

Telehouse

TSMC chairman to retire next year

TSMC chairman Mark Liu will retire next year after holding the position since 2018, replacing the semiconductor manufacturer’s founder Morris Chang who retired the same year. Now, the board has recommended that the company’s current CEO and vice chairman, C.C. Wei replace Liu as chairman. On ...

December 29, 2023

Taiwan

Spanish gov’t to acquire 10% stake in Telefónica

The Spanish government is set to acquire a 10 percent stake in Telefónica. This comes a few months after Saudi Arabian telecoms company STC Group paid $2.25 billion to acquire a 9.9 percent stake in Telefónica which made it $2.25 billion to take a 9.9 percent stake in Telefónica’s biggest shar...

December 29, 2023

Telefonica

Google breaks ground on new facility in the Netherlands

Google has broken ground on a new data center in the Netherlands and has officially begun work on the facility in Winschoten, Groningen, in the north of the country. Marco Ynema, data center lead in the Netherlands at Google, said, "People are increasingly using digital tools, and organization...

December 28, 2023

Google

Global Switch CEO to retire and be replaced by COO Muldoon

Global Switch CEO John Corcoran is retiring and the company has announced that he will be stepping down from his duties on December 31, 2023. Global Switch's current chief operating officer Ashley Muldoon is to be appointed CEO, and will join the board. Shareholder approval for his appointment...

December 28, 2023

Global Switch

Digital Realty signs energy deal with Süwag Energie

Digital Realty has announced that it signed a renewable energy agreement with the energy service provider Süwag Energie AG to procure hydroelectric power in Germany. Following this agreement, Digital Realty has secured Guarantees of Origin (GoOs) for 6,000MWh of hydropower – originating from t...

December 28, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Equinix becomes one of U.S largest green bond issuers

Equinix is now one of the top ten largest green bond issuers in the United States after allocating $4.9 billion in green bonds to building and efficiency projects. These bonds will fund 172 green building projects on 105 sites, along with 33 energy efficiency projects. Equinix first issued gre...

December 28, 2023

Equinix

CtrlS breaks ground on new data center in Gujarat, India

CtrlS Datacenters has broken ground on its greenfield data center in GIFT City, Gujarat, India as it announces that it intends to invest Rs 250 crore in the project which is dubbed CtrlS Gandhinagar 1 DC. At the launch ceremony, Chief Minister of Gujarat, Bhupendrabhai Patel, laid the first st...

December 28, 2023

CtrlS Datacenters Ltd

Meta to proceed with 750,000 square feet facility in Rosemount city Council

The Rosemount City Council has voted unanimously in favor of the Meta data center development in Minnesota. Following this vote, the facility will be developed on part of the University of Minnesota's UMore Park. The approved plan d will see a 750,000 sq ft (69,670 sqm) data center campus be d...

December 28, 2023

Minnesota

The University of Stuttgart acquires two supercomputers from HPE

The University of Stuttgart has ordered two supercomputers called Hunter and Herder from HPE for its High Performance Computing Center. These systems will cost €115 million and they are expected to take the HLRS up to exascale level in two stages by 2027. Anna Steiger, Chancellor at the Univer...

December 27, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

Intel announces layoff plans across its Californian campuses

Intel has announced its plans to lay off 311 employees across two Californian campuses. This marks the second round of job cuts carried out by the company in California this year. Two separate "worker adjustment and retraining notifications" (WARNs) filed with the State of California’s Employ...

December 27, 2023

California

Arm begins job cuts across China

British semiconductor and software company Arm has laid off more than 70 software engineers based in China due to a downturn in the country's sales of devices such as smartphones and personal computers. In 2022, the company announced that it would cut about 1000 jobs, about 15 percent of its o...

December 27, 2023

China

Hourigan proposes 320-acre facility outside Richmond, Virginia

Hourigan, a local developer has proposed a 320-acre data center campus outside Richmond, Virginia. The company has requested to rezone the land from agricultural to light industrial, noting that it expects to see around $1 billion invested in the project. The company said in a filing with regu...

December 27, 2023

Virginia

Meta-led 2Africa subsea cable lands on the Canary Island

The Meta-led 2Africa subsea cable landed at Salinetas Beach in Telde, on the island of Gran Canaria. This project was carried out through a 50:50 partnership between Vodafone and the Cabildo de Tenerife, through Canalink. Canalink said, “We are delighted to be part of this project that will in...

December 27, 2023

Africa

New supercomputer inaugurated in Barcelona, Spain

The MareNostrum 5 supercomputer was recently inaugurated in Barcelona, Spain, hosted by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. It cost roughly €151 million to acquire and maintain this supercomputer, a fee which was split evenly between the EU and a Spanish-led consortium which includes Portuga...

December 27, 2023

Barcelona

Bluebird secures $285 million five-year credit facility

Bluebird Network has announced it has secured a $285 million five-year credit facility which will be used to refinance its existing debt and will fund ongoing capital expenditures, including network upgrades, expansion into new markets, and an awarded Middle Mile grant build. The company added...

December 27, 2023

Bluebird Network

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