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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)

Equinix secures a cheaper, green future

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) recently granted a group of businesses led by Equinix the right to form a renewable energy purchasing group. This formation will allow the group, which includes Nike, H&M, HSBC Bank, and Goldman Sachs, to negotiate access to cheaper...

August 18, 2021

Equinix

Mapletree acquires Lumen’s Minnesota data center for $26 million

As part of its acquisition of Sila Realty Trust’s data center portfolio, Mapletree Investment Trust has also acquired a Lumen data center in Minnesota. The facility is at 5400-5500 Feltl Road inside the Opus Business Park, Minnetonka. It is reported that Sila paid $26 million for the facility....

August 18, 2021

Lumen Minnetonka

Microsoft plans to build 980,000 square feet data center in Douglasville, GA

As part of its East US 3 Azure data center region, Microsoft wants to develop close to 1 million square feet of data center buildings in Douglasville, Georgia. Earlier in the year, Microsoft announced its plans for a new US Azure region. At the time of the announcement, the Company said it wou...

August 17, 2021

Microsoft Azure

AWS buys 17 acres in Loudoun County, North Virginia for $32.5m

According to BizJournal, Amazon Web Services is looking to expand its data center footprint in Loudoun County, North Virginia, by acquiring more land in the county. The report states that AWS bought 17.15 acres of land in the county for $32.5 million. The plot of land is currently empty, an...

August 17, 2021

AWS US East (N. Virginia)

Vocus to close its Melbourne data center, to be replaced by $1.5bn office complex

Vocus has announced that it is closing its data center in the Melbourne central business district in September. The facility is going to be demolished and replaced with a massive office complex. Vocus noted that arrangements had been made with customers to move to other facilities. It has a...

August 17, 2021

Vocus Melbourne (55 King) [Site Closed]

EdgeConneX agrees to acquire Israel's Global Data Center

EdgeConneX will be acquiring Israeli-based Global Data Center (GDC). Global Data Center was founded in 2013, and it operates two data centers in Petah Tikva and Herzliya, near Tel Aviv. The Petah Tikva and Herzliya facilities have 64,600 square feet and 48,400 square feet, respectively. GDC...

August 17, 2021

EdgeConneX

Facebook revealed as the company behind $800m Mesa project

Last week, Facebook announced that it is the tech company behind the data center in Mesa. The 960,000 sqft facility will see a projected $800 million investment, and an estimated 100 operational jobs and 1,500 construction jobs. That said, the tech giant's plans haven't been without opposition...

August 16, 2021

Apple Mesa

Data center merger and acquisition activities in Q2 of 2021

2021 has been an eventful year in the data center industry as we’ve seen some major merger and acquisition activities as these firms look to expand their capacities. We are going to shine the spotlight on the top five merger and acquisition activities in Q2 of 2021. We’ll be able to see wh...

August 16, 2021

Mapletree Redwood Data Centre Trust

Brookfield acquires 30-acres of land in Navi Mumbai for data center

Brookfield Infrastructure has announced that it acquired a 30-acre land in Navi Mumbai with plans to build a data center on the site. The Company bought the land from real estate developer K Raheja Corp for Rs 600 crore ($81 million). Earlier in July, Brookfield and Digital Realty formed a joi...

August 16, 2021

Brookfield (BIP): Navi Mumbai

Latvia's Tet formally opens data center in Riga

Tet has announced the formal opening of its sixth data center in Riga, in accordance with expansion plans to grow the business by 15% each year. A €1.4 million investment went into its latest facility, adding another 60 racks to support demand. Speaking about the development of ICT in Latvia, ...

August 16, 2021

Tet

Extinction Rebellion fights against €1.2bn data center expansion in Ennis

Art Data Centres is facing backlash from climate protests over its plans to expand facility proposals in Clare, Ireland. The Ennis data center was first proposed back in 2019, at which point it was estimated to be a €450 million project. This has now jumped massively to €1.2 billion, encompass...

August 13, 2021

Art DC: Ennis Campus

NextDC receives approval for its 150MW Melbourne data center

The Melbourne City Council has granted NextDC planning approval for its M3 data center. The data center in question has 150MW of capacity, and it is on 100,000 sqm (1,076,400 sq ft) of land. It will also be built to serve hyperscale customers. NextDC sited the M3 facility in West Footscray,...

August 13, 2021

NEXTDC

Galway County Council approves five-year planning extension for Apple Athenry data center

Ireland’s Galway County Council has granted Apple a five-year planning permission extension for its Athenry data center. The facility had been canceled since 2019, but Apple applied to extend the site’s planning permission till November 2026. Apple first purchased the site in 2014 for $15 m...

August 12, 2021

Apple Athenry

Hines raises $650m for investing in properties including data centers

US-based Real estate firm Hines has raised $650m for a new fund targeting properties including data centers within the United States. The firm is also targeting industrial, multifamily, and other property types. Fund manager Adriana de Alcantara was quoted to have said the firm wants to inv...

August 12, 2021

Hines Interests

Beroe report: Green Data Center projects to grow 10%

Data center businesses are becoming increasingly environmentally conscious, realising that sustainability must be at the core of the industry going forward. As a result, green data center projects are on the rise. A recent study conducted by Beroe found that the global market for green data ce...

August 11, 2021

World

Aligned invests in green future with $1.25B for waterless data center

Aligned has announced plans to develop its $1.25 billion SLC-04, a waterless data center, based in Salt Lake City. Instead of cooling its data centers with water, SLC-04 will use the cold desert climate to eliminate heat. The company's Delta3 cooling technology will accompany this. Accordi...

August 11, 2021

Aligned SLC-04

GTR to build new data center in Tel Aviv

Global Technical Realty (GTR) has announced that it is launching a 10.5MW data center in Petah Tikva, Israel. The facility will be an underground site that will be built for hyperscale purposes. It will also have 4,800 sqm (51,666 square feet) of space spread across two floors. Each of the ...

August 11, 2021

Global Technical Realty

Interxion to expand its data center footprint in Düsseldorf by leasing additional 12,000 sqm

Interxion is leasing 12,000 sqm (129,000 square feet) in Düsseldorf to expand its data center capacity in the city. The Company has been occupying the property on In der Steele 27-43 in west Germany for 20 years, and it is leasing more space there to expand its data centers. The owner of t...

August 11, 2021

Digital Realty: Düsseldorf

Norwegian updates sustainability strategy for data centers

The Norwegian government recently updated its sustainability strategy for all data centers in the country in its "Norwegian data centers - sustainable, digital power centers" report. This strategy, it hopes, will project Norway as the world's most sustainable data center nation.Launched by Lin...

August 11, 2021

Norway

AUBix LLC to build 40,000 sq ft data center in Auburn, Alabama

AUBix LLC, a new Company, has broken ground on its new data center in Auburn, Alabama. The firm says it will build a $120 million, 40,000 square foot facility on Samford Avenue, close to Auburn University’s campus. The first phase of the project is scheduled to be completed in Q1 of 2022.The f...

August 10, 2021

AUBix Auburn

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