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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)

Slam Corp Sues Lynk Global for Attempt to cancel merger

Slam Corp, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) founded by former baseball star Alex “A-Rod” Rodriguez, is suing satellite mobile provider Lynk Global in a Florida court to prevent it from backing out of a proposed merger.Virginia-based Lynk moved to terminate its business combination ...

July 02, 2025

United States

University of Texas to Get $3m Data Center

The University of Texas is looking to deploy a new data center to be housed in the education building at 500 W University Avenue in El Paso, Texas. The data center will span 4,568 sq ft (424.4 sqm) and is estimated to cost around $3 million.According to the posting, the project will be private...

July 02, 2025

Texas

HPE Closes $14bn Acquisition of Juniper Networks

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has completed its long-awaited $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks. The Department of Justice (DOJ) approved the deal following HPE's agreement to a number of potentially significant conditions.“Today begins a new era for HPE – we are now at the epicent...

July 02, 2025

United States

Hut 8 Launches Cryptomine Data Center in Texas

Cryptomining and HPC data center firm Hut 8 Corp. has launched a Bitcoin mining data center in Texas which spans 162,000 sq ft (15,050 sqm) and will offer 205MW of capacity at full energization. Vega features a proprietary, rack-based, direct-to-chip liquid cooling system designed in-house by ...

July 02, 2025

Hut 8 Corp

Datum Launches Second Manchester Data Center

UK operator Datum Datacentres this week officially launched MCR2, marking the completion of the almost two-year construction project. The facility, located in Wythenshawe, provides capacity for up to 1,200 racks, each offering densities up to 30kW.Matt Edgley, COO at Datum Datacentres, said: “...

July 02, 2025

United Kingdom

EdgeMode Acquires Infrastructure Investor Blackberry AIF

EdgeMode has acquired an infrastructure firm as it plans to develop data centers across Spain. The merger would see EdgeMode, which describes itself as an AI data infrastructure company, acquire BAIF’s assets in exchange for equity and investment capital, forming a “platform to support EdgeMod...

July 02, 2025

Spain

Microsoft Launches Austrian Azure Cloud Region in Vienna

Microsoft has officially opened its cloud region in Austria at a joint press conference with State Secretary Alexander Pröll this week, but said companies would be able to start processing from the region in August.Hermann Erlach, general manager of Microsoft Austria, said: "The use of AI is o...

July 01, 2025

Microsoft Azure

Crusoe and Redwood Launch Microgrid to Power Data Centers

AI data center developer Crusoe has partnered with battery recycling firm Redwood Energy to develop a microgrid system powered through solar and repurposed electric vehicle (EV) batteries for modular AI data centers.This project is supposedly the largest microgrid in the North American market ...

July 01, 2025

United States

Palantir to Develop AI Software for The Nuclear Company

Military and surveillance company Palantir is partnering with The Nuclear Company (TNC) to co-develop and deploy NOS, an 'AI-driven' real-time software system focused on the construction of nuclear reactors.“Our mission is to build nuclear power the way America once built its greatest infrastr...

July 01, 2025

United States

Microsoft to Buy 1.1m Tons of Carbon Removal Credits in Norway

Microsoft has agreed to purchase 1.1 million tons of carbon removal credits from Hafslund Celsio, an energy from waste (EfW) and carbon capture and storage (CCS) firm which is set to be delivered over a ten-year period, will be generated by a CCS project under development at the site of Norway...

June 30, 2025

Microsoft Azure

Top Data Center News from 23rd-28th June 2025

Kakao Plans Data Center in Namyangju, South KoreaSouth Korean Internet firm Kakao has committed to a KRW 600 billion ($442.3m) investment that will see the company develop a 92,000 sqm (990,280 sq ft) AI-focused facility in Namyangju, a city in the nation's Gyeonggi province.DigitalBridge and ...

June 30, 2025

United States

US Energy Sec Plans 11GW Data Center Campus in Texas

The Texas Tech University System (TTU System) announced a collaboration with recently founded energy and technology company Fermi America to develop a large AI and energy campus near Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle. The Advanced Energy and Intelligence Campus will reportedly include “18 millio...

June 28, 2025

Texas

AMD and HCLTech Team Up for AI and Cloud Solutions

AMD has partnered with Indian tech company HCLTech to boost the development of solutions across AI, digital, and cloud. The partnership will support the creation of a “robust digital ecosystem,” the two companies said in a statement.This will include joint investments in innovation labs and tr...

June 28, 2025

United States

Lockton Launches New Data Center Insurance Product

Insurance brokerage Lockton has partnered with Parametrix, a provider of digital business interruption risk solutions, to bring a Service Level Agreement (SLA) insurance offering to the data center market. The companies said the parametric coverage offers immediate payouts triggered by predefi...

June 28, 2025

United States

Jet.AI Partners with Consensus Core for Canadian Data Centers

Jet.AI Inc., a company pivoting from aviation software and services into data centers, this week announced that it and Consensus Core Technologies, a Canadian provider of GPU infrastructure and AI cloud services, have executed a definitive agreement to jointly develop a phased hyperscale data ...

June 27, 2025

Canada

Meta Purchases 791MW of Renewable Power in the US

Meta has signed four renewable energy agreements across four projects in Ohio (x2), Arizona, and Texas, for a combined capacity of 791MW from Invenergy to power its US data center portfolio.The four contracted projects include the 300MW Yellow Wood Solar Energy Center in Clinton County, Ohio, ...

June 27, 2025

United States

Qarnot Launches Italian Data Center Facility

French data center firm Qarnot has launched a new data center deployment at the Lamarmora power plant in Brescia in Lombardy, in partnership with local energy firm A2A and connected it to the city’s local district heating network.Paul Benoit, Qarnot's CEO, said: "Partnering with A2A represents...

June 27, 2025

Italy

Sonim Looks to Merge with AI Data Center Firm

Nasdaq-listed Sonim Technologies, a provider of rugged mobile phones and other products, this week announced the signing of a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) for a proposed reverse take-over (RTO) with a privately owned US-based company that is “building out Nvidia-based high-performance co...

June 27, 2025

United States

Can the Cloud Go Green? Exploring the Path to Carbon-Neutral Data Centers

People consider the cloud to be intangible. However, there are dozens of servers powering that invisible force in thousands of data centers stationed around the world. These facilities, many of which operate continuously without interruption, consume vast amounts of energy and are increasingly...

June 27, 2025

United States

Gridmatic Inks 10MW PPA in Texas

US-based power marketer Gridmatic has signed a 10MW Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Sol Systems in Texas, with a portion of the power supplied to data center developer EdgeConneX under a 24/7 carbon-free energy agreement (24/7 CFE). The PPA has a capacity of 14MW and reached commercial op...

June 26, 2025

Texas

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