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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)

Google announces new cloud region in Doha, Qatar

Google has announced that it has launched a new cloud region located in Doha, Qatar, following the tech giant first announcing plans for expansion in this regard in 2020. The cloud region, the second that Google has launched this year, also launches alongside three availability zones and the ...

April 04, 2023

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Amazon signs PPAs with Iberdrola

Amazon has announced that it has signed another PPA with Iberdrola, through which it will be provided with wind and solar energy from its offshore wind farms in Germany for 1.1 terawatt-hours (TWh) annually. The wind farms, Baltic Eagle and Windanker, will have a total capacity of 476MW and 3...

April 04, 2023

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Latest figures on renewable power reveal data center operators increased purchases by 50 percent in a year

Recent figures from S&P Global have revealed that the amount of renewable power purchased by data center operators has surged 50 percent in just a year. This latest figure now means that the sector utilizes two-thirds of the renewable power available to corporates in the US. The report hi...

April 04, 2023

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Green Mountain plans sustainable expansion in Frankfurt, Germany

Green Mountain and KMW have formed a 50:50 joint venture to develop a new campus outside of Frankfurt, Germany. The campus has received approval from local authorities, and it is expected that construction will begin on the 25,000 sqm (269,100 sq ft) site, FRA1-Main, in the third quarter of 2...

April 04, 2023

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BT and TRIG partner for PPA

BT has announced that it has signed a new 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with the Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG) for renewable energy from the 35MW Blary Hill onshore wind farm, which is located in Kintyre, Scotland. This move aligns with the UK telco's net zero by 2031 target...

April 04, 2023

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Using 800GE Routing Interfaces, Nokia Oyj Increases Connectivity at OpenColo's Data Centers

Yesterday, Nokia and OpenColo reported that the first commercial field testing to transmit a 1.6 Terabit/s traffic flow across an 800GE link aggregation group using 800GE FR4 optics had been successfully completed. OpenColo, a cutting-edge supplier of data center connection and colocation serv...

April 04, 2023

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All of Unilever's Workloads Are Moved to The Cloud, Mostly to Microsoft Azure

Unilever has finished moving to the cloud. The business has shifted workloads for its 400+ brands to the cloud, using Azure as its main cloud platform, in what it calls the "biggest and most difficult cloud migration in the consumer products market." With the aid of Accenture, Microsoft, an...

April 04, 2023

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Edge Centres Completes The Acquisition of Hyson International

Hyson, a US hosting company, has been bought by Edge Centres. Hyson International, located in Missouri, has been acquired by Edge, a company based in Australia, according to a report last week by M&A advisory firm Corum Group. The agreement's details weren't made public. As a supplier o...

April 04, 2023

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Equinix to expand Infomart building in Dallas, Texas

After acquiring the Infomart building in Dallas, Texas in 2018, Equinix has announced that it is expanding the property. This expansion will see $180 million injected into the 1990 N. Stemmons Freeway property.The addition will involve the company adding more than 211,000 square feet (19,600 s...

April 03, 2023

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Huawei reveals data center trend break down

At the recent Top 10 Trends of Data Center Facilities conference, Huawei revealed its insights into emerging trends in the data center industry. With the theme of "Smart DC, Building the Green Future," the conference highlighted that to accommodate the exponential growth of data demand, which ...

April 03, 2023

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MDC Data Centers (MDC) and FiberLight partner to launch a new facility in Eagle Pass, Texas

FiberLight and MDC Data Center have partnered in Eagle Pass, Texas, to launch a new facility, located at 500 Bliss Street; the former will provide fiber services. The companies have outlined that the data center will "act as a bridge" between new fiber routes on the border, providing connectio...

April 03, 2023

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Motion Hosting opens new data center in Europe

InMotion Hosting has announced the opening of its first international data center in Europe. The three-story data center is located in Amsterdam, Netherlands and will reportedly offer customers NVMe Hardware, 99.99% Network Uptime and Security Monitoring, refined UltraStack Server Configuratio...

April 03, 2023

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Huawei Plans More Latin American Data Centers as Cloud Demand Rises

With Colombia set to be the next destination, Chinese technology giant Huawei says it is dedicated to establishing additional cloud regions (core data center hubs) and availability zones (AZs, minor data center hubs) throughout Latin America. Fernando Liu, president of the Latin American cloud...

April 03, 2023

Huawei Cloud

NTT's Network Down in Japan, Affecting Telecom Operations

On April 3, NTT East and NTT West, subsidiaries of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), were impacted by a network outage in Japan. NTT had a significant network outage that morning at about 7:10 local time, according to reports from regional media outlets, albeit the impacted services have s...

April 03, 2023

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SES is in Merger Negotiations With Intelsat

Last week, SES said that it had been in merger negotiations with Intelsat, a competitor in the satellite industry. Luxembourg-based SES made the statements in reaction to a Bloomberg article claiming that a merger worth $10 billion is in the works. In a statement released in reaction to market...

April 03, 2023

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Increasing Its Datacenter Operations, Angola Cables Has Reorganized Its Operations in Brazil

Since the need for data storage and processing capacity and traffic levels continues to rise, Angola Cables, a provider of wholesale telecom services, data centers, and interconnectivity, is extending its infrastructure in Brazil and broadening its business portfolio. As part of the company's ...

April 02, 2023

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Microsoft's $1bn Mount Pleasant facility receives Village Board approval

Microsoft has announced its plans to expand in Wisconsin, with a $1 billion data center campus in Mount Pleasant. The plan, discussed at a recent closed session meeting, outlined that the campus will be situated on a 315-acre parcel of land owned by the Village of Mount Pleasant. Microsoft is...

March 31, 2023

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Amazon and Oregon's clean energy bill

In Oregon, House Bill 2816, aims to require data centers to utilize renewable energy and reduce their carbon emissions and Amazon is fighting it. The giant has reportedly been lobbying against the bill since it was first introduced, despite its big green pledges and commitment to reach zero ca...

March 31, 2023

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EdgeCore plans a new Loudoun data center

EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure is reportedly working on a new data center with Penzance, a real estate investor and developer. The facility, which will be located at 1501 Moran Road in Sterling, Loudoun County, Northern Virginia will be three stories, spanning a 285,000-square-foot data cent...

March 31, 2023

EdgeCore Internet Real Estate, LLC

OVHcloud announces it will report on Scope 3 emissions to customers

OVHcloud has announced that it will release a full report of Scope 3 emissions produced by its cloud usage beginning this summer. Scope 3 emissions are those which are produced by a company indirectly up and down its value chain, and are increasingly coming under scrutiny. Despite flying under...

March 31, 2023

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