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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)

Elisa launches edge data center with Wind River

Elisa Oyj and Wind River have reportedly deployed a "fully automated" Edge data center. This is the second edge site to go into commercial production this year. The project combines Wind River Studio Cloud Platform combines Wind River Studio Cloud Platform as the production-grade distributed K...

August 02, 2023

AWS launches its local zone edge location in Phoenix, Arizona

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch of a Local Zone Edge location in Phoenix, Arizona. The general availability of a Local Zone in Phoenix was first announced back in January 2022. It was known then as us-west-2-phx-1a, which appears to have now been replaced by the new us-west...

August 01, 2023

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Bitcoin Miner GDA opens of three new data centers in South Carolina

Genesis Digital Assets (GDA) has announced the opening of three new data centers in South Carolina's Western region. The company is one of the world's largest Bitcoin mining companies, and has 400 MW of capability spread across three continents. It reportedly accounts for about 2% of the Bitc...

August 01, 2023

South Carolina

Blackstone and QTS to build data centers worth $8bn for "once in a generation" AI growth

The premier property fund of Blackstone, valued at $68 billion, is selling assets and preparing to invest billions in data centers. According to the Financial Times, Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, or Breit, intends to invest $8 billion in the construction of new data centers through its ...

August 01, 2023

QTS Data Centers

Toyota looks to sell KDDI shares worth $1.8 billion

Toyota Motor Corporation intends to sell a roughly $1.80 billion stake in KDDI Corporation as part of a share buy-back deal. Reuters reports that the Japanese automaker wants to raise funds to accelerate vehicle electrification. Toyota's stake in the Japanese telco would decrease from 14.68 p...

August 01, 2023

KDDI

Accelevation Holdings establishes a business unit focused on data centers

Accelevation Holdings has established a new business entity focused on data centers. Conatech and Instor Solutions, two recently acquired subsidiaries, will be combined to form the Accelevation Data Center Business Unit.Accelevation will integrate the white space installation and project manag...

August 01, 2023

Two data centers secure a $15 million loan in Cape Verde

The island nation of Cape Verde (Cabo Verde) in Africa has been granted a loan to construct two new data centers. This week, the African Development Bank (ADB) and the government of Cabo Verde announced the signing of a loan agreement for $15.3 million to improve the Cabo Verde Technology Park...

August 01, 2023

Africa

AMD will invest $400 million in a new India facility

Over the next five years, AMD plans to invest approximately $400 million in India. With this investment, a new AMD campus will be constructed in Bengaluru (Bangalore), Karnataka. This will be the company's largest design center, and it is anticipated that approximately 3,000 new engineering po...

August 01, 2023

India / Bhārata

Cyxtera refuses leases at two data centers in Silicon Valley owned by Prime

Cyxtera plans to decline leases for two data centers held by Prime DC in Santa Clara, California. In June, Cyxtera filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy due to continuing losses and upcoming debt maturities. The organization is seeking a buyer or new investor. According to DgtlInfra, Cyxtera intends...

August 01, 2023

Cyxtera Technologies

Cellnex contemplates selling a stake in its Nordic enterprises

Cellnex is contemplating the sale of a minority stake in its Nordic operations, which could fetch up to $1.11 billion. Reuters reported last week that Cellnex would use the earnings to pay down debt, according to sources familiar with the matter.Reuters reported that Cellnex is collaborating w...

August 01, 2023

Nordics

CommScope will invest $60.3 million to expand its fiber manufacturing facility

Over the next four years, CommScope intends to invest $60,3 million to expand its manufacturing facilities in North Carolina. The telecommunications equipment supplier stated that the increased production will generate at least 250 new employment.The investment comes at a crucial moment for th...

August 01, 2023

Vodafone extends its European Edge presence to Spain using AWS

In collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Vodafone Business has implemented Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) in Spain. After launching the service in Germany and the United Kingdom two years prior, introducing the pilot service in Spain expanded its European footprint. Spain is the mos...

August 01, 2023

Amazon AWS

AMD will spend $135 million on chip R&D in Ireland

Over the next four years, AMD intends to invest $135 million in Ireland. The money will go toward studying and creating data centers, networking, 6G, and generative AI technologies. In addition, the company is anticipated to employ approximately 290 engineers and researchers in the country to ...

August 01, 2023

Dell'Oro: AI growth will drive data center capex to $500bn by 2027

The analyst firm Dell'Oro Group forecasts that data center capital expenditures will surpass $500 billion by 2027 due to AI infrastructure expenditures. As the market undergoes digestion, the group predicts that cloud and enterprise expenditure growth will decelerate in the near future.Despite...

August 01, 2023

AirTrunk has submitted plans for a 320MW facility in Sydney, Australia

AirTrunk has filed for its Sydney, Australia, SYD3 data center campus. After purchasing the land in 2021, the company has submitted plans to the New South Wales Department of Planning for a 320MW data center spanning 1.3 million square feet across seven stories.The property in question cost $7...

August 01, 2023

AirTrunk

The UK government to commit an additional $51 million for 5G

The British government has committed $51 million to nationwide 5G innovation. The government announced on July 31 that funding applications are now being accepted. According to the government, the investment is intended to accelerate innovation in industries such as advanced manufacturing, tra...

July 31, 2023

United Kingdom

Greenpixie awarded £50,000 grant to track data center emissions

Greenpixie, a London-based startup that calculates emissions data for companies that use cloud computing in data centers has been awarded a £50,000 ($64k) grant to track data center emissions. The UK Government grant is provided through Innovate UK, the UK's national innovation agency. The com...

July 31, 2023

WeTransfer cut server emissions by 78 percent in 2022

WeTransfer has said it cut its server emissions by 78 per cent in 2022. This comes following the company's 2020 pledge to reduce its emissions by 30 percent by 2025, and its migration to AWS in 2011. The company reportedly achieved "carbon-neutral certification," after using AWS' Customer Carb...

July 31, 2023

Amazon AWS

Digital Realty sells TPG Real Estate 80% of Northern Virginia data centers stake for $1.3bn

TPG Real Estate now owns 80% of three Digital Realty data centers in the US state of Virginia's Northern Virginia. Digital will continue to oversee the daily operations of the joint venture's facilities. The data center business aims to utilize the $1.3 billion in proceeds from the transaction...

July 28, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Microsoft increases data center and AI compute capex

This past quarter, Microsoft's capital expenditures increased to $10.7 billion as the company reported spending significantly on data centers, computing, and networking. The company announced that spending would increase each quarter throughout fiscal 2024, already higher than the $7.8bn capit...

July 28, 2023

Microsoft Azure

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