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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)

Building a Data Center from Scratch: The Anatomy of a $500 Million Project

Every photo you upload, every email you send, every movie you stream, and every app you open on your phone often rely on a physical place most people never see or think about, which is the data center. These are massive buildings filled with rows of humming servers that work around the clock t...

July 27, 2025

United States

Bitzero Secures $25m in Funding

Crypto and HPC data center firm Bitzero this week announced it has secured $25 million in funding for its mining operations. A part of the funding will be allocated to the purchase of 2,900 Bitmain S21 Pro miners, with hardware deployment set to be completed within four to six months.“Our mis...

July 26, 2025

United States

5C Secures $835m from Brookfield

Canadian data center group 5C this week announced that it has successfully secured $835 million, including equity financing led by Brookfield Asset Management and debt financing led by Deutsche Bank.“5C is positioned to play a pivotal role in the AI revolution, and we are excited to welcome Br...

July 26, 2025

5C Data Centers

AT&T Expects Billion-Dollar Tax Windfall

AT&T CEO John Stankey views President Donald Trump’s recently passed budget as a financial windfall for the telecommunications space and teased an appetite for more fiber to feed growing market opportunities around its wired and wireless broadband services.“I've not seen the situation wher...

July 26, 2025

AT&T

Aligned to Develop 200-Acre Data Center Campus

Aligned Data Centers this week announced plans to expand in Central Ohio with the development of a data center campus inside the Conesville Industrial Park in Coshocton. Coshocton is located approximately 63 miles (101 km) northeast of Columbus.Aligned will develop a 197-acre parcel adjacent t...

July 25, 2025

Aligned

Edge Data Center Firm Armada Raises $131m

Containerized Edge data center company Armada has raised $131 million from investors and launched a new megawatt-scale product. The new funding round includes new investors Pinegrove Veriten and Glade Brook, as well as participation from existing investors such as Founders Fund, Lux Capital, S...

July 25, 2025

United States

EdgeCore Secures $235 Million in ABS Financing

US data center firm EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure this week announced the completion of an asset-backed securitization (ABS), totaling $235 million. Proceeds will be used to refinance construction loans and fund future green data center development."EdgeCore's rapid, exponential growth conti...

July 25, 2025

United States

AtlasEdge Launches Data Center in Germany

European operator AtlasEdge has launched a new data center in Stuttgart, Germany, STR001 in the Böblingen area of the city. The company said the site was 100 percent powered by renewable energy and is fully compliant with the German Energy Efficiency Act (Energieeffizienzgesetz).“We’re proud t...

July 25, 2025

Germany / Deutschland

Proposed Data Center Scaled Down in San Francisco, California

The Guadalupe Quarry Redevelopment Project propose in San Francisco, California, has been scaled down amid environmental concerns. The site is located south of San Francisco in the city of Brisbane and the company seeks to construct a 180,000 sq ft (17,000 sqm) data center and an industrial bu...

July 25, 2025

California

Meta Partners with Amrize

Social media giant Meta and concrete maker Amrize last week announced a partnership to develop a “first-of-its-kind, AI-optimized concrete mix” tailored to meet the specific needs of Meta’s data center in Rosemount, Minnesota.“We work to design our data centers as efficiently and sustainably a...

July 25, 2025

Minnesota

Crusoe Plans 1.8GW Facility in Wyoming

Crusoe this week announced a strategic partnership with Tallgrass to develop a 1.8GW AI data center campus located in southeast Wyoming. Designed to scale up to 10GW, the campus will integrate multiple energy sources fueled by natural gas and future renewable energy developments in the region....

July 25, 2025

Wyoming

euNetworks to Shut Down Amsterdam Data Center

European fiber firm euNetworks is exiting its Amsterdam data center in the Netherlands as colocation customers have apparently been asked to vacate the data center by next year.The news was revealed by Dirk Pol, of Dutch connectivity firm i4 Solutions, in a post on LinkedIn. “euNetworks will b...

July 25, 2025

Amsterdam

Menlo Equities Launches Dedicated Data Center Platform

US private real estate investment and development firm Menlo Equities is doubling down on data centers with a new dedicated platform - Menlo Digital, focused on the acquisition, development, and operation of data centers.Rick Holmstrom, Menlo Equities' founder and executive chairman, said: "We...

July 24, 2025

United States

Microsoft Signs 4.9 Million-tonne Carbon Removal Deal

Microsoft has signed a 12-year carbon offtake agreement with Vaulted Deep that will see the removal of up to 4.9 million tonnes of carbon dioxide and enable Vaulted to expand its operations to new sites across the US."As carbon removal moves beyond pilots and prototypes, there is growing deman...

July 24, 2025

Microsoft Azure

Google Signs Long Duration Energy Storage Partnership

Google has signed its first partnership with a long-duration energy storage (LDES) company, Energy Dome to support multiple commercial deployments worldwide to help scale the company’s CO2 battery technology.The company has developed a 20MW/200MWh battery, which it claims has a lifetime of mor...

July 24, 2025

Google

Scala Closes $328 Million Expansion Deal

Scala Data Centers has successfully closed its first international project financing, securing $254 million in long-term financing for the construction of three hyperscale data centers and a critical power substation in Chile. The financing is set to fund the expansion of Scala's presence in t...

July 23, 2025

Scala Data Centers

Activate Capital Invests in Xnrgy

Venture capital firm Activate Capital this week announced a strategic investment in Xnergy Climate System, a North American manufacturer of air handling and liquid cooling technologies. This investment will support Xnrgy's growth, expand its domestic manufacturing presence, and accelerate the...

July 23, 2025

North America

Anthropic to Seek Gulf state Investments

Anthropic will seek Gulf state investments, according to a leaked memo from CEO Dario Amodei.The leaked Slack message sent by Amodei to company staff on July 20 stated: “There is a truly giant amount of capital in the Middle East, easily $100B or more. If we want to stay on the frontier, we ga...

July 23, 2025

United States

Oklo and Vertiv Partner on Nuclear Data Center Power

Small nuclear reactor developer Oklo and data center power and cooling firm Vertiv this week announced a collaboration agreement focused on the co-development of power and thermal management solutions tailored specifically for hyperscale and colocation data centers that will be deploying Oklo’...

July 22, 2025

United States

Equinix to Pay $41.5m to Settle Malpractice Lawsuit

Equinix has agreed to pay $41.5 million as a settlement with the plaintiffs in a class action that alleged it misled its shareholders. According to Hindenburg’s March 2024 report, Equinix overstated its adjusted funds from operations (AFFO), a key profitability metric for REITs.It claimed that...

July 22, 2025

Equinix

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