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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)

Oracle Database@Google Cloud adds Eight Regions

Oracle is expanding the availability of its multi-cloud offering, Oracle Database@Google Cloud to include eight new regions and will be introducing new capabilities to the offering.Over the next 12 months, Oracle Database@Google Cloud will be available in the US Central 1 (Iowa), North America...

February 03, 2025

Top Data Center News from January 27th - 31st 2025

This week, Amazon secured two solar Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) in Japan.The first deal is a 20-year PPA with EDP Renewables APAC, a subsidiary of EDP-Energias de Portugal and the second deal is another 20-year PPA with X-Elio in Japan for the full capacity of the 14MW Funaki solar plant....

February 03, 2025

Euroclear Signs Seven Year Cloud Deal with Microsoft

Belgium financial services company Euroclear has signed a seven-year cloud deal with Microsoft. Euroclear will develop a financial data-sharing platform, bring AI into its Euroclear FundsPlace to improve customer experience, as well as work to strengthen Euroclear's infrastructure backbone.Va...

February 01, 2025

Aussie Digital Transformation Agency Signs New Agreement with AWS

Australia's Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) has signed a new three-year agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for whole-of-government services and builds on the previous 2019 deal awarded to AWS.This agreement will see AWS provide support for Australian Public Service technology and clo...

February 01, 2025

Andhra Pradesh Government to Develop "Data City" in India

The Andhra Pradesh government is set to develop a 500-acre “Data City” in Visakhapatnam, India which will be located in Madhurawada and built to replicate Hyderabad’s HITEC City. The local government in the South Indian state has been focused on establishing the city of Visakhapatnam as a tech...

February 01, 2025

Polcom to Build Two Data Centers Near Krakow

Polish data center operator Polcom is set to build two new data centers and launch a new service platform - Polcom AI Cloud. The two data centers - DC3 and DC4 - will have a combined capacity of 44MW. Each facility will span three floors with three 300 sqm data halls.The facilities will use hy...

February 01, 2025

United Group Invests €120m in Four Renewable Projects

Southeastern European telco firm United Group has invested €120 million ($125.1 million) to support the development of three solar power plants and a wind farm in Bulgaria. The projects will have a combined capacity of 124MW.The first solar plant, located near Stara Zagora, reached operational...

January 31, 2025

CMA Releases Provisional Findings for Cloud Services Market Investigation

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has released its provisional findings for its cloud services market investigation which set out to see if there were elements of cloud service providers' offerings that had an "adverse effect on competition" (AEC), and has provisionally conclude...

January 31, 2025

Free University of Brussels to Host Incoming Flemish Tier-1 S upercomputer

The Flemish Supercomputer Centre (VSC) has selected the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Free University of Brussels) to host and manage the next Flemish Tier-1 supercomputer. It will be housed in a Nexus-built data center at the Green Energy Park in Zellik, a town in the province of Flemish Braba...

January 31, 2025

Amazon Signs Two PPAs in Japan

Amazon has secured two solar Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) in Japan.In its first deal, Amazon signed a 20-year PPA with EDP Renewables APAC, a subsidiary of EDP-Energias de Portugal, to buy power from a 44MW solar farm in Fukushima. The project includes 63,000 solar panels and is expected t...

January 31, 2025

NREL Launches Geothermal Storage Project

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a federally funded research center, has launched a new project to address the increasing energy consumption of data center cooling. It aims to incorporate geothermal underground thermal energy storage (UTES) technology at data center sites natio...

January 30, 2025

Trump Plans “100 percent tax” on Foreign Semiconductors

President Trump has announced plans to impose tariffs on foreign-made computer chips, semiconductors, and pharmaceuticals, in particular those originating from Taiwan, claiming the tariffs would incentivize tech companies to manufacture chips in the US instead of Taiwan."In the very near futur...

January 30, 2025

Salute Acquires Data Center Services Provider Keysource

Salute this week announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Keysource Group, with the deal is set to close in Q2 2025, subject to regulatory approval. The deal will see Keysource’s team of 130 join Salute. Jon Healy, EMEA president and group COO at Keysource, said: "Salute and ...

January 30, 2025

Microsoft acquires land in Kenosha, Wisconsin, for data center development

Microsoft has purchased another 240 acres of land in Wisconsin for data center projects. The land in question is nearby to Microsoft's existing Mount Pleasant project, construction on which was "paused" at the start of this year. At the time, Microsoft said: “We have paused early construction ...

January 30, 2025

Microsoft Azure

OpenAI Begins Hiring for Stargate Data Center's Core Team

OpenAI has begun hiring for the core team that will help develop The Stargate Project and is in search of a data center sourcing manager (equipment and vendors), and a technical program manager, infrastructure strategy. "Are you the type of person who is excited by massive global challenges sp...

January 30, 2025

STMicroelectronics Signs PPA with TotalEnergies in France

European semiconductor firm STMicroelectronics has signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Total Energies. The PPA will power STMicroelectronics sites in France and will be supplied from two recently constructed wind and solar farms with a combined capacity of 75MW."We are delight...

January 30, 2025

France

Lambda Installs GB200 NVL72 Rack in California

GPU cloud provider Lambda has deployed an Nvidia GB200 NVL72 rack system at EdgeCloudLink's (ECL) data center in Mountain View, California. The rack was installed on January 22, and the installation process took around "one hour" due to the flexibility of the data center.In a LinkedIn post, EC...

January 29, 2025

California

Arm Expands Cambridge Presence

British chip company Arm is expanding its presence in Cambridge and has signed a lease to take over new office and laboratory space at the developer’s Peterhouse Technology Park. Arm already occupies all six buildings at Peterhouse Technology Park, totaling 330,000 sq ft (30,658 sqm).The Optic...

January 29, 2025

United Kingdom

Intuitive Machines' IM-2 Lander Delivered to Cape Canaveral

The IM-2 mission lunar lander has been delivered to Cape Canaveral, Florida, currently set to launch on February 26, prepared to carry what could be the first data center on the Moon. Lonestar plans to use the system to see how storage behaves on the Moon's surface, with an eventual aim to use...

January 29, 2025

Florida

Could DeepSeek's Efficiency Advances Boost Nvidia's Long-Term Prospects?

DeepSeek's announcement of a new large language model achieving state-of-the-art performance at significantly reduced computational costs sent shockwaves through the AI infrastructure market, triggering a $1.2 trillion market decline and a 15% drop in Nvidia's stock value. The market's reactio...

January 29, 2025

United States

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