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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)

New study highlights significant AI water consumption

Data centers are already known for guzzling enormous amounts of water, so as AI enters its "gold rush" era, how will it affect water consumption? Well, a new study by researchers from the Universities of Colorado Riverside and Texas Arlington found that training large AI models like OpenAI's C...

April 18, 2023

Colorado (CO)

DataBank to expand one of its Seattle, Washington facilities

DataBank has announced it is expanding one of its Seattle, Washington facilities. The company plans to increase the floor space to 27,900 square feet (2,590 sqm) and up the available critical IT power to 3MW.“We decided to expand our footprint in the Seattle area based on how fast its digital...

April 18, 2023

DataBank

Microsoft eyes expansion in Chicago, Illinois

Following news that Microsoft has acquired over 30 more acres of land in Chicago, Illinois, it is believed that the giant will be expanding its data center presence in the region. The land, purchased for $41.5 million, is reportedly set to house two 207,000-square-foot (19,230 sqm) data center...

April 18, 2023

Microsoft Azure

AMD Introduces New Data Center Processor Tailored For Video Processing

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. debuted the Alveo MA35D, a new data center accelerator, last week. The Alveo MA35D will enable enterprises like streaming providers to handle video more efficiently. The MA35D is the replacement for a product formerly known as the Alveo U30. It can process four time...

April 18, 2023

Brookfield Secures A $3.8B Piece Of The European Data Center Market

The infrastructure division of Brookfield has entered the European data center market with the acquisition of a 31-center platform. The transaction, with a reported value of $3.8 billion, occurs as global capital focuses on development opportunities in the European data center market. Accordin...

April 18, 2023

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners

Aligned Acquires 177k Sq. Ft. Office Building in Chicago for New Data Center Campus

Aligned bought an office property in the Chicago, Illinois neighborhood of Elk Grove. It is currently unknown whether the company intends to convert the facility occupied by CitiBank into a data center. The Real Deal reports, citing Cook County public records, that Aligned purchased 50 Nort...

April 18, 2023

Aligned

Knight Frank Launches Southeast Asia Data Centre Index for Potential Hotspots

Real estate consultancy firm Knight Frank has launched the Southeast Asia Data Centre Opportunity Index. The Index ranks six markets in the region according to factors that impact their potential to become data center hotspots. The six markets included in the Index are Singapore, Indonesia, Ma...

April 18, 2023

Silicon Valley Sees Surge in Data Center Construction as Tech Giants Expand Operations

Silicon Valley is experiencing a surge in the construction of data centers, according to a report by real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield. At the end of last year, 17 new data centers were either under construction or in development, with a total planned area of 4.7 million square...

April 18, 2023

San Francisco Bay Area

Key Point Technologies Begins Construction on Siberia's Largest Data Center in Novosibirsk, Russia

Key Point Technologies, a Russian data center operator, has broken ground on a new facility in Novosibirsk. The data center is set to be one of the largest in Siberia, with a total capacity of 8MW. The Tier III quality facility will provide 8MW at completion. First announced in 2022, the fi...

April 18, 2023

Russia / Россия

StratCap Expands Data Center Portfolio with Acquisition of Two US Facilities

StratCap, a privately held investment firm, has acquired two data centers in the United States. The data centers, located in California and Missouri, were purchased for an undisclosed amount. StratCap acquired in Santa Clara, California, a purpose-built data center that is 100 percent leased t...

April 18, 2023

StratCap Data Centers

New Hybrid Data Center to Boost Student Learning in Nigeria

The National Association of Polytechnic Students (NAPS) has commissioned a new hybrid data center at the Delta State Polytechnic, Oghara. The new facility is expected to provide students with access to the latest technology and help improve their learning experience. According to the President...

April 18, 2023

Nigeria

Modular Data Centers Poised for Explosive Growth, Set to Reach $155.09 Billion by 2033

The global modular data centers market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19.3% and reach a size of $155.09 billion by 2033, according to a recent report. Modular data centers are self-contained computing facilities that can be easily transported and quickly assembl...

April 18, 2023

ManageEngine plans data center in Brazil

ManageEngine is reportedly considering establishing a data center in Brazil. It plans to have the facility operational by either late this year or early next, near its Santa Catarina or São Paulo offices. According to the company, regulatory barriers and import tax mean that a lack of local da...

April 17, 2023

Brazil / Brasil

JLL releases its 2023 Global Data Center Outlook

JLL recently released its 2023 Global Data Center Outlook and revealed that despite economic uncertainty, the data center industry continues to boom, especially in Northern Virginia, which continues to remain top of the data center market list. The outlook report suggests that demand from sma...

April 17, 2023

JLL

Ex-Intel Chief Architect Considers Data Center Opportunities For an Indian AI Startup

Raja Koduri, the former chief architect of Intel Corp, is negotiating a contract with Hiranandani-backed data center company Yotta for his generative artificial intelligence venture, which he says will have a significant presence in India. Koduri stated that his unnamed company would partner w...

April 17, 2023

Intel

Brazil's Odata Gets Licences For Santiago Data Center

Carlos Salata, the quality manager for Odata, stated that the company's ST01 data center in Santiago, Chile, has obtained three ISO certifications, completing the process of obtaining this set of labels for all of its regional sites. The ISO 9001, ISO 20000-1, and ISO 27001 certifications were...

April 17, 2023

ODATA SA

Asia-Pacific Data Center Power Market to Reach $5.34 Billion by 2027

The Asia-Pacific data center power market is projected to grow significantly in the coming years, driven by the increasing demand for cloud-based services, big data analytics, and the Internet of Things (IoT). The market is expected to reach a value of $100,625.1 million over 2023-2032. Accord...

April 17, 2023

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

Indian Data Centre Industry Poised for Strong Growth Per JLL Report

India's data center industry is expected to drive demand for real estate spanning over 9.1 million square feet by 2025, according to a report by JLL India. The report revealed that the data center industry in India has already seen investments of $977 million, with a current supply of 7.5 mill...

April 17, 2023

India / Bhārata

Human Rights Watch releases statement on Microsoft's Saudi Arabia plans

Microsoft's new cloud data center region in Saudi Arabia has faced criticism since the tech giant announced its plans in early February. Now, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for Microsoft to suspend its investment in the country until it can "clearly demonstrate" how it plans to mitigate ...

April 14, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Azintelecom LLC to expand data center footprint in Azerbaijan

AzInTelecom LLC is building a new data center in Azerbaijan. Announced at the recent "Sustainable Development Technologies: Technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Cloud Solutions," event, Sadig Yolchuev, advisor to the Chairman of AzInTelecom LLC, shared that while the company cu...

April 14, 2023

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