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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)

Duos unveils Edge data center unit

Duos Technology, a company that specializes in Machine Vision and AI to analyze fast-moving objects including trains, has launched a new edge data center unit called Duos Edge AI, Inc. The company noted it already deploys some solutions – including a railcar inspection system used by companies...

June 21, 2024

United States

WIOCC secures green financing to fund OADC roll-out

Pan-African data center and fiber group WIOCC has secured green financing deal fromthe International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Proparco to fund its data center and fiber roll-out in three African countries.“We are excited to conclude this next stage of our capital raise, which will enable ...

June 21, 2024

Nigeria

IFFCO to use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for drone fertilizer spraying

The Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperation Ltd (IFFCO) has revealed plans to use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) for drone-based fertilizer spraying and has built a cloud-native application on Oracle Cloud that enables farmers to easily book, view, and manage drone-based spraying of IFFCO nan...

June 21, 2024

India / Bhārata

Johnson Controls sells Air Distribution Technologies unit

Johnson Controls this week announced it had reached a definitive agreement to sell its Air Distribution Technologies business to Truelink, a middle-market private equity firm based in Los Angeles. The brands included in this sale are Koch Filter, Titus, Ruskin, Krueger, PennBarry, and Tuttle ...

June 21, 2024

Los Angeles

Oracle to invest in AI and cloud computing in Spain

Oracle has announced plans to invest over $1 billion in artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing in Spain which will enable Oracle to open a third cloud computing region in the country, located in Madrid.“The opening of the third Oracle cloud region in Spain is excellent news for our c...

June 21, 2024

US Navy connects aircraft carrier to the cloud

The US Navy has conducted a pilot project to see if users at sea can connect to cloud services and the project has demonstrated that the Navy can consistently move several terabytes of data each day between the cloud and thousands of users.Navy CIO Commander Kevin White during a live video dem...

June 20, 2024

KKR and Singtel to invest in STT GDC

KKR and Singtel are set to invest in ST Telemedia Global Data Centres in an investment which will comprise an initial S$1.75bn (US$1.3bn) by the consortium via Redeemable Preference Shares. Once finished, Singtel and KKR may invest an additional S$1.24bn.Bruno Lopez, president & group CEO...

June 20, 2024

Vertiv join forces with Ballard for fuel-cell powered UPS test

Vertiv alongside fuel cell firm Ballard Power Systems this week entered into a strategic technology partnership, with a focus on backup power applications for data centers and critical infrastructures, scalable from 200kW to multiple megawatts.“As the soaring increase in data usage is driving ...

June 20, 2024

Microsoft signs carbon removal deal with Indigo AG

Microsoft has signed a carbon removal deal to purchase 40,000 agricultural soil-based carbon credits from Indigo AG's third carbon crop, issued in February.Brian Marrs, senior director of energy and carbon removal at Microsoft said: “Soil organic carbon restoration is vital to the future of f...

June 20, 2024

CBRE acquires Direct Line Global

Real estate services firm CBRE this week announced the acquisition of Direct Linel, a provider of mission-critical data center infrastructure, from Guardian Capital, a private equity firm.“This acquisition fits squarely with our strategy of enhancing our capabilities in asset classes that bene...

June 19, 2024

Fortum plans new data center campus in Jyväskylä, Finland

Finnish state-owned energy company Fortum is planning to develop a data center in Central Finland and has signed a letter of intent with the city of Jyväskylä to build a data center complex of at least 20 hectares on land owned by the city in the Seppälänkangas area of Jyväskylä.“Fortum is an...

June 19, 2024

HPE and Nvidia partner on AI portfolio with private cloud for GenAI

HPE and Nvidia have entered a partnership to develop a portfolio of AI products, which the two companies say will enable enterprises to accelerate the adoption of generative AI. According to a joint statement, the HPE Private Cloud AI integrates Nvidia’s AI computing, networking, and software ...

June 19, 2024

D-Wave to deploy on-premise quantum computer in Alabama

Quantum computing firm D-Wave will be placing an Advantage system on-premise at a new site operated by defense company Davidson Technologies. The QPU will be located at Davidson’s new global headquarters in Huntsville and placed in a secure facility developed to run sensitive applications.“Dav...

June 18, 2024

HPE and Danfoss team up on modular data center heat reuse package

HPE has partnered with engineering company Danfoss on a new package to help data center operators recover waste heat in a deal which will see HPE’s scalable modular data center (MDC) products combined with Danfoss heat reuse solutions.“Our strategic partnership with HPE is a great example of h...

June 18, 2024

United States

Petronas unveil data center cooling fluid

Oil and gas company Petronas Lubricants International announced this week that it will be launching its Petronas Iona Tera, a liquid coolant specifically designed for data centers, and has partnered with Iceotope.Petronas Lubricants International’s MD and group CEO, Hezlinn Idris said: "Petron...

June 18, 2024

Malaysia

Reliance Jio experiences nationwide outage across India

Reliance Jio is experiencing a nationwide outage across India as customers are experiencing issues with mobile Internet services, Jio Fiber, and other Jio services."Metrics show a disruption to leading India Internet provider Reliance Jio (AS55836) affecting multiple regions, corroborating use...

June 18, 2024

Africa Data Centres secures $109 million in financing

Cassava Technologies group ADC has secured a bespoke financing solution worth ZAR2 billion ($109m) arranged by the South African banking group RMB. The funding will allow the company to expand its data center capacity and meet the growing demand for cloud computing in South Africa – expanding ...

June 17, 2024

Africa Data Centres

StackPath to close down business and liquidate assets

Edge computing firm StackPath is closing the business and liquidating its assets as confirmed by many of its employees on LinkedIn. StackPath services set to be shuttered include Edge compute, DNS, object storage, network transit, data center colocation, and server monitoring. “After careful c...

June 17, 2024

United States

UK Home Office to migrate systems out of police data center

The UK's Home Office is planning to migrate all the systems and services out of a core Police data center located in Hendon, northwest London. The data center is government-owned, and has been home to the Police National Computer - a database of more than 130 million items - for the past 50 ye...

June 17, 2024

United Kingdom

Microsoft to invest heavily in new data centers in Aragon, Spain

Microsoft is planning to invest €6.69 billion ($7.16bn) in developing new data centers in the northeastern region of Aragon, Spain in a deal expected to span over the next 10 years. The regional government of Aragon has said that Microsoft filed for a construction permit to build data centers ...

June 15, 2024

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