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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)

NextDC Secures 169-hectare Land Parcel Outside Melbourne

Australian data center firm NextDC has acquired a large land parcel outside Melbourne, Victoria. Local media, including The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, report that the company has purchased 169 hectares in Lovely Banks, Victoria, near Geelong and around 70km west of Melbourne. The site ...

June 25, 2026

NEXTDC

Developer withdraws Proposed Data Center Project in Citrus County, Florida

Florida-based construction firm Deltona Corporation has pulled back its plan to develop a data center in Citrus County following pushback from residents and local officials. “On behalf of our client, Deltona Corporation, we respectfully submit this formal notice of withdrawal of applications CPA-...

June 25, 2026

Florida

Radian Arc to Deploy GPU Edge Platform in PureColo North America Data Centers

Radian Arc and PureColo have partnered to deploy GPU Edge infrastructure across the US and Canada, enabling low-latency services like cloud gaming and sovereign AI via Radian Arc Cloud Gaming and InferX GPUaaS. "North America represents one of the world's largest opportunities for Edge AI and ...

June 25, 2026

North America

DayOne to Acquire 65-Acre Johor Land Parcel from Malaysia’s Paragon Globe

Paragon Globe has agreed to sell a 65-acre site in Iskandar Puteri, Johor, to DayOne Data Centers for RM398 million ($96 million) under a conditional agreement disclosed to Bursa Malaysia. The parcels are located in Gerbang Nusajaya, near Nusajaya Tech Park, part of Malaysia’s data center hub. ...

June 24, 2026

DayOne

100MW Data Center Proposed for Wheeling, West Virginia

A 100MW data center could be developed in Wheeling, West Virginia. Stokes Inc said Silicon Foundation has acquired a 15-acre industrial site at 74 Warwood Avenue, formerly the Centre Foundry, to build a 60,000 sq ft (5,575 sqm) facility. Stokes will act as EPC contractor. The site has an active ...

June 24, 2026

West Virginia

20MW Data Center Proposed for Starbucks’ Seattle HQ in Washington

Colossus Data Center Advisors has submitted plans to develop a data center in Seattle, Washington, within the same building that houses Starbucks' global headquarters. According to Puget Sound Business Journal, The Seattle Times, and The Registry, the proposed facility would be located at 2...

June 24, 2026

Washington

Spanish ISP Sarenet Opens Data Center in Bizkaia

Spanish internet provider Sarenet has opened a new data center near Bilbao, located at the Derio Communications Hub in Bizkaia. The facility will support the company’s expansion in cloud services, cybersecurity, and business continuity, while reinforcing the Basque Country’s role as a digital eco...

June 24, 2026

Sarenet

SpaceXAI to Resume Work on Memphis Data Center Wastewater Facility by Q1 2027

SpaceXAI plans to resume construction of its Memphis wastewater treatment facility by Q1 2027, nearly a year after the project stalled. The company has informed local officials that the $80 million plant will support its nearby data centers. First announced in February 2025, the facility describe...

June 23, 2026

Memphis

60MW Data Center Planned in Närpiö, Finland

A 60MW data center is being planned in western Finland by renewable energy firm Aurinkokarhu. Reported by local media including Yle and Vasabladet, the project would be located in Närpiö (Närpes), in the Ostrobothnia region. The company has signed a preliminary agreement to acquire 18 hectares of...

June 23, 2026

Finland

Microsoft’s First Data Center at Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin Campus Now Operational

The first data center at Microsoft’s Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin campus is now officially operational, the company confirmed on June 23. Construction was completed just over two years after the project was first announced. The site is part of Microsoft’s “Fairwater” data center design and will form...

June 23, 2026

Microsoft Azure

EdgeMode Plans 300MW Natural Gas Data Center Campus in Toledo, Spain

EdgeMode is expanding in Spain with plans for a 300MW “Malpica AI” data center project in Mora, Toledo province. The company is partnering with hydrogen fuel cell developer Bloom Energy to build a campus focused on AI workloads. The initiative represents an estimated €3 billion ($3.42bn) investme...

June 23, 2026

EdgeMode

Tesla Files Trademark Application for Modular Data Center Solution

Tesla appears poised to enter the containerized data center market, according to a new trademark filing. Reported by Electrek and others, the company has submitted an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a modular data center product called “Megapod,” described as a hardware ...

June 22, 2026

Tesla

Amazon Employees Back Data Center Regulations, Allege Workplace Retaliation

Three Amazon employees have alleged that the company retaliated against them after they testified in support of a Seattle data center moratorium. According to reports, the employees—Darius Irani, Patrick Schloesser, and Liesl Wigand, all members of Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ)—were...

June 22, 2026

Amazon AWS

Proposed Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Campus Planned for Kansas

A proposed gigawatt-scale data center campus in Kansas could cover up to 1,000 acres in Emporia’s Industrial Park IV. The Flint Hills Digital Campus plans to use a combination of dedicated grid infrastructure and on-site power generation, though further details have yet to be released. A prop...

June 22, 2026

Kansas

Wyoming Approves Prometheus Hyperscale’s Gigawatt Data Center Campus

Prometheus Hyperscale has secured planning approval for its flagship Wyoming data center campus near Evanston. The Uinta County Board of Commissioners unanimously granted a conditional use permit for the 506-acre site. The project is expected to deliver an initial 1.25GW capacity, with plans to e...

June 22, 2026

Prometheus Hyperscale

Alibaba Cloud Opens Fifth Data Center in Japan

Alibaba Cloud has launched its fifth data center in Japan, further expanding its infrastructure footprint in the country. The new facility comes just months after the company added a fourth availability zone to its Japan region in March 2026. Alibaba Cloud first established its Tokyo region in 20...

June 20, 2026

Alibaba Cloud

Firmus Plans 288MW Data Campus in Tasmania

Australian AI cloud and data center company Firmus is expanding its presence in Tasmania, with plans for a campus in Bell Bay and a potential second site in Wesley Vale. A development application has been lodged for the Bell Bay project, which the company describes as an “AI factory” to be built ...

June 20, 2026

Firmus Technologies

Equinix Trials Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology at Data Center in Ireland

Equinix has launched its first trial of hydrogen fuel cell technology as a replacement for diesel backup generation at a data center in Ireland. Working with ESB and GeoPura, the company has deployed two hydrogen-powered generators at its DB3 Data Center facility. The 12-week trial will support c...

June 19, 2026

Equinix

Verne Breaks Ground on New Data Center in Mäntsälä, Finland

Verne has begun construction on a new data center in Finland, marking the first phase of development at its Mäntsälä campus. The company announced this week that work is underway on the initial 70MW phase of its data center campus in the Kapuli area of Mäntsälä, further expanding its footprint in...

June 19, 2026

Finland

Aston Power Raises $20M to Expand Private Power Platform for Data Centers

US power delivery platform Aston Power has raised $20 million in a funding round led by TDK Ventures and JLL Spark Global Ventures to expand its presence in the data center sector. The company said it will use the funding to grow its operations across North America and accelerate deployment of it...

June 19, 2026

United States

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