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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)

vXchnge sells its Austin data center to Element Critical

According to multiple reports, vXchange has sold its Austin, Texas data center to Element Critical. The data center has a 104,000 square feet space, and it is located in the middle of an 18-acre campus. Besides, the facility also has the capacity to expand to up to 26MW of power. The sale o...

August 23, 2021

Element Critical Austin

Embratel to invest $9 million in 15 edge data centers across Brazil

Embratel has announced its plans to expand across Brazil with 15 Edge data centers. Work will commence on the first three data centers this year, while construction on the other 12 will continue in 2022. The company expects to invest 50mn reais (US$9.2mn) in these projects.The facilities will ...

August 20, 2021

Embratel

Facebook pledges a "water-positive" future by 2030

As the climate crisis reaches breaking point and the number of water-stressed regions across the US increase, Facebook, whose data centers consume huge amounts of water in areas plagued by water scarcity, has promised to reverse its environmental impact.According to Sylvia Lee, Facebook’s sust...

August 20, 2021

Cologix releases its first ESG report

Cologix recently released its first Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) report. Within the report, the hyperscale company made a number of commitments, including a pledge to improve its energy efficiencies and harness renewable energy options "where available." Currently, Cologix powe...

August 20, 2021

Cologix

Equinix completes expansion of its SY5 data center in Sydney

Equinix has completed the expansion of its SY5 data center in Sydney. The expansion cost the Company $48 million (AU$66 million). Equinix started the expansion in February. Moreover, Equinix has added a total colocation space of 11,300 square meters (121,000 square feet) with this expansion...

August 20, 2021

Equinix Sydney SY5

Google to expand its New Albany data center campus in Ohio

Google has announced that it will expand its New Albany data center campus in Ohio with an injection of $1 billion. It first broke ground on the campus back in 2019, and the project has seen $600 million of investment already. On top of its capacity expansion at the New Albany campus, the tec...

August 20, 2021

Google

Lendlease to build $600m hyperscale data center in Japan

Lendlease is penetrating the Japan data center market by announcing that it is developing its first data center in Japan. It will be making this development through its Lendlease Data Centre Partners (LLDCP) joint venture. This will be an hyperscale facility, and it will be on 33,000 sqm (355,...

August 18, 2021

NTT to expand its Zurich 1 data center

According to Zuercher Unterlaender, NTT has broken ground for expanding its Zurich 1 data center in Rümlang, Switzerland. The facility currently has 70,000 square feet (6,500 sqm) of space, and the expansion will see the Company add a new building B to the site. This new building will give the...

August 18, 2021

NTT Zurich 1

Green goals: Korea Telecom (KT) tests AI system to reduce energy use

Korea Telecom (KT) has announced that it is pushing forward to a greener future with an investment in an AI Internet data center (IDC) operator. This technology reportedly minimizes energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. It is testing this AI system at its Mokdong IDC 2 facility, and its rec...

August 18, 2021

KT Corporation

Equinix secures a cheaper, green future

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) recently granted a group of businesses led by Equinix the right to form a renewable energy purchasing group. This formation will allow the group, which includes Nike, H&M, HSBC Bank, and Goldman Sachs, to negotiate access to cheaper...

August 18, 2021

Equinix

Mapletree acquires Lumen’s Minnesota data center for $26 million

As part of its acquisition of Sila Realty Trust’s data center portfolio, Mapletree Investment Trust has also acquired a Lumen data center in Minnesota. The facility is at 5400-5500 Feltl Road inside the Opus Business Park, Minnetonka. It is reported that Sila paid $26 million for the facility....

August 18, 2021

Lumen Minnetonka

Microsoft plans to build 980,000 square feet data center in Douglasville, GA

As part of its East US 3 Azure data center region, Microsoft wants to develop close to 1 million square feet of data center buildings in Douglasville, Georgia. Earlier in the year, Microsoft announced its plans for a new US Azure region. At the time of the announcement, the Company said it wou...

August 17, 2021

Microsoft Azure

AWS buys 17 acres in Loudoun County, North Virginia for $32.5m

According to BizJournal, Amazon Web Services is looking to expand its data center footprint in Loudoun County, North Virginia, by acquiring more land in the county. The report states that AWS bought 17.15 acres of land in the county for $32.5 million. The plot of land is currently empty, an...

August 17, 2021

AWS US East (N. Virginia)

Vocus to close its Melbourne data center, to be replaced by $1.5bn office complex

Vocus has announced that it is closing its data center in the Melbourne central business district in September. The facility is going to be demolished and replaced with a massive office complex. Vocus noted that arrangements had been made with customers to move to other facilities. It has a...

August 17, 2021

Vocus Melbourne (55 King) [Site Closed]

EdgeConneX agrees to acquire Israel's Global Data Center

EdgeConneX will be acquiring Israeli-based Global Data Center (GDC). Global Data Center was founded in 2013, and it operates two data centers in Petah Tikva and Herzliya, near Tel Aviv. The Petah Tikva and Herzliya facilities have 64,600 square feet and 48,400 square feet, respectively. GDC...

August 17, 2021

EdgeConneX

Facebook revealed as the company behind $800m Mesa project

Last week, Facebook announced that it is the tech company behind the data center in Mesa. The 960,000 sqft facility will see a projected $800 million investment, and an estimated 100 operational jobs and 1,500 construction jobs. That said, the tech giant's plans haven't been without opposition...

August 16, 2021

Apple Mesa

Data center merger and acquisition activities in Q2 of 2021

2021 has been an eventful year in the data center industry as we’ve seen some major merger and acquisition activities as these firms look to expand their capacities. We are going to shine the spotlight on the top five merger and acquisition activities in Q2 of 2021. We’ll be able to see wh...

August 16, 2021

Mapletree Redwood Data Centre Trust

Latvia's Tet formally opens data center in Riga

Tet has announced the formal opening of its sixth data center in Riga, in accordance with expansion plans to grow the business by 15% each year. A €1.4 million investment went into its latest facility, adding another 60 racks to support demand. Speaking about the development of ICT in Latvia, ...

August 16, 2021

Tet

Brookfield acquires 30-acres of land in Navi Mumbai for data center

Brookfield Infrastructure has announced that it acquired a 30-acre land in Navi Mumbai with plans to build a data center on the site. The Company bought the land from real estate developer K Raheja Corp for Rs 600 crore ($81 million). Earlier in July, Brookfield and Digital Realty formed a joi...

August 16, 2021

Brookfield (BIP): Navi Mumbai

Extinction Rebellion fights against €1.2bn data center expansion in Ennis

Art Data Centres is facing backlash from climate protests over its plans to expand facility proposals in Clare, Ireland. The Ennis data center was first proposed back in 2019, at which point it was estimated to be a €450 million project. This has now jumped massively to €1.2 billion, encompass...

August 13, 2021

Art DC: Ennis Campus

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