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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)

Fidelis New Energy to pursue energy and data center developments in West Virginia

Fidelis New Energy has announced it has chosen Mason County, West Virginia, US, as the location for a lifecycle net zero hydrogen production facility and a 1GW data center campus, known as the Mountaineer GigaSystem and the Monarch Cloud Campus. The campus could reportedly see a $5 billion inv...

August 17, 2023

CapitaLand acquires a data center in London, UK, from Digital Realty

CapitaLand, a Singaporean investment company, has acquired a London, UK, data center from Digital Realty. The manager of CapitaLand Ascendas REIT, CapitaLand Ascendas REIT Management Limited, announced this week the purchase of a colocation data center from an "unrelated global data center ope...

August 17, 2023

Ascendas Reit (CapitaLand)

Arctic Wolf announces launch of Australian data center

Arctic Wolf has opened a new local data center in Australia, it has announced. The local center, running as a module through AWS’s Sydney facility, is part of its strategic expansion. It launched in the country regionally last October. The company outlined that this move sets it apart from oth...

August 16, 2023

Principal buys Amsterdam logistics site for 42MW Switch DC data center

Principal Asset Management has purchased a Dutch logistics facility that will be converted into a data center. This week, the company announced the acquisition of a logistics facility for the Principal European Data Centre Fund I. The terms were not disclosed.The acquired facility in the Schip...

August 16, 2023

Switch Datacenters Amsterdam BV

Cyxtera property sought after by Brookfield and Digital Realty

Reportedly, Brookfield and Digital Realty are interested in acquiring the struggling Cyxtera. According to Bloomberg, several parties, including Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and Digital Realty Trust, are interested in purchasing the assets of the insolvent colocation company. The firms r...

August 16, 2023

Cyxtera Technologies

Data centers could be built on Maryland's old mall site for FBI HQ

Lerner Enterprises is evaluating a former Maryland mall as a possible campus for a data center if the FBI does not relocate there. Brightseat Associates LLC, a Lerner affiliate, filed a preliminary application for a "qualified data center" with Prince George's County's land use regulatory body...

August 16, 2023

Maryland

Data center design standards approved by Leesburg Town Council in Loudoun

Leesburg's Loudoun County Council unanimously approved data center design criteria. Unlike Ashburn, Virginia's Leesburg has no data centers; however, this may change. Three rezoning petitions may allow data center development in town. One is in the Oaklawn neighborhood, one close to the former...

August 16, 2023

Northern Virginia

Vultr expands in São Paulo, Brazil

Vultr has announced that it is expanding in Brazil. The company has shared that after launching a new cloud data center in Santiago earlier this year, it is now investing in São Paulo to provide additional capacity.This additional capacity will be an over 200% capacity expansion. Further, sinc...

August 16, 2023

Amazon signs PPA with Clean Energy Connect (CEC) for solar in Japan

Amazon has announced that it has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Clean Energy Connect (CEC), a solar power company in the Itochu group for solar energy. Through the 20-year corporate PPA, CEC will invest more than 10 billion yen ($75 million) by 2024 for the development of small ...

August 15, 2023

Amazon AWS

Tesla to build new 'first of its kind' data centers

Through a job ad, Tesla has announced that it plans to build so-called "first of its kind data centers."In a job posting, first highlighted by Electrek, Tesla outlines it is seeking a senior engineering program manager who would be "responsible for leading the full design & engineering of ...

August 15, 2023

New $370 million data hosting and cryptocurrency mining facility in Salalah, Oman

A new data hosting and cryptocurrency mining facility has been built in Oman for $370 million. Established in Salalah on August 13 by the Omani Ministry of Transport, Communications, and Information Technology (MTCIT), the center is part of the country's national infrastructure program. The da...

August 15, 2023

Oman

DoD procures a security advancement for Hawaii data center

The US Department of Defense (DoD) is soliciting proposals for a data center security upgrade in Hawaii. On August 14, the contract offer was released, giving businesses three weeks to present their ideas for the DoD's facility. The solution must upgrade the Defense Information Systems Agency ...

August 15, 2023

Hawaii

IP3 and Green Energy Partners form JV for development in Surry, Virginia

IP3 and Green Energy Partners have announced that they have formed a joint venture to work on the Surry Green Energy Center (SGEC) in Surry County, Virginia. Together, the two are planning to develop between 20 and 30 green data centers, on 641 acres in Surry County. The project includes a fle...

August 15, 2023

IXAfrica buys 11 acres for second Nairobi data center facility

IXAfrica has bought land in Nairobi, Kenya, for a second data center site. The company executed a contract with local real estate developer Tilisi Developments plc to acquire 11 acres of land in the Kenyan capital for the development of its second data center campus. Research is currently bein...

August 15, 2023

Nairobi

Bain to privatize ChinData in a $3.16 billion transaction

ChinData, a Chinese data center operator, will be taken private by existing investor Bain Capital. ChinData Group Holdings Limited revealed over the weekend that it had gone into a $3.16 billion merger deal with two Bain subsidiaries that will be taken private: BCPE Chivalry Bidco Limited and ...

August 15, 2023

Chindata Group

GreenSquareDC leases tract of land in Western Australia for wind & solar park to power data center

GreenSquareDC has shared that it is leasing a large tract of land at at Billericay Road in East Hyden, Perth, Western Australia, to develop a wind and solar park to power its 96MW data center. The long-term ground lease is for over 3,100 hectares of land, and on this land, the company will bu...

August 14, 2023

GLP's new global data center business breaks ground on its first Tokyo, Japan campus

GLP has announced that it has begun work on a new data center in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo West 1 (TKW1) is the company’s first foray into Japan, with the campus offering 31 MW across three buildings. The first building is projected to be ready for service by 2025, offering 10MW, while building two ...

August 14, 2023

Rowan plans a 1 million-square-foot data center in Morrow County, Oregon

Rowan Green Data in Morrow County, Oregon, plans to build a data center. Proposals for the Percheron Data Center near Boardman were recommended for approval by the County planning commission at the end of last month. Later this month, the proposal will be presented to the County Board of Commi...

August 14, 2023

Rowan Digital Infrastructure

India will get a "million qubit" quantum computing machine -centric data center

India's Greater Noida will soon house a data center dedicated to quantum computation. On August 11, the Utter Pradesh (UP) Government and Innogress, a project promoter, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the Indraprastha Quantum Data Center (IQDC).As a joint venture between Innogre...

August 14, 2023

India / Bhārata

British Land considering Vodafone-occupied data center sale to Realty Income

British Land is negotiating with Realty Income to sell an array of data centers occupied by Vodafone in London. In July, it was reported that Savills was seeking purchasers for the Network Portfolio, a collection of six facilities totaling 260,000 square feet. British Land, the proprietor of t...

August 14, 2023

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