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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)

Fluidstack Chooses Vast Data Platform for AI Workloads

AI cloud provider Fluidstack is working with Vast Data to power large-scale AI workloads. The Vast Data Platform offers multi-tenant security and reliability while supporting AI workloads, while Vast's DataEngine can provide integrated search capabilities and data processing designed for large...

April 19, 2025

Fujitsu to Launch Data Center Energy Efficiency Initiative

Japanese IT services firm Fujitsu has partnered with US IT solutions provider Supermicro Inc. and Nidec, a Japanese electric motor manufacturer, on the initiative. As part of the collaboration, the partners will combine Fujitsu's liquid-cooling monitoring and control software, Supermicro’s hig...

April 19, 2025

Sharon AI and New Era Helium to expand Texas site

Texas Critical Data Centers (TCDC), a joint venture (JV) between natural gas firm New Era Helium and AI data center developer Sharon AI, has expanded the site of its planned campus in Texas' Permian Basin. According to the partners, they have expanded the plot of land where the data center is ...

April 19, 2025

Applied Digital Looks to Sell Cloud Business

Digital infrastructure firm Applied Digital has announced that it is set to sell its cloud services business as a result of both internal and external pressures. The company appears to pave the way for a potential pivot to becoming a real-estate investment trust (REIT) in the near future.“Afte...

April 18, 2025

Oracle Wins Two US Federal Contracts

Oracle has won two US federal contracts as the US Army’s Enterprise Cloud Management Agency (ECMA) expanded its use of OCI, and the company has been selected by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the STRATUS contract.Oracle US Defense Cloud regions are secure and isolated, specificall...

April 18, 2025

Tencent Cloud Launches Region in Osaka, Japan

Tencent Cloud is launching a new cloud region in the Kansai region of Osaka, which will be the third availability zone in Japan, joining Tencent's two other zones in Tokyo. In addition to the new cloud region, Tencent will open a new office in Osaka to help create more jobs in the region.Dowso...

April 18, 2025

Townsend Group Invests in CleanArc Data Centers

CleanArc Data Centers has secured new investment from a real estate investor, Townsend Group. Terms of the deal were not shared, but existing investor Snowhawk retains a majority share in the data center firm. CleanArc said the investment will support the company’s growth."We're excited to wel...

April 17, 2025

X5 Group Plans 10MW Data Center in Moscow

Russia’s largest food retailer X5 Group last week announced that construction had started on its data center. The 6,000 sqm (64,583 sq ft) 10MW facility is due to go live in Q3 2026. It will use an outside air cooling system. The facility will host the company's own IT systems, including logis...

April 17, 2025

Microsoft Signs 15-year Carbon Removal Agreement in Louisiana

Microsoft has signed the largest permanent carbon removal to date after agreeing to a 15-year deal with bioenergy firm AtmosClear BR for 6.75 million tons of carbon removals. They will be generated from Atmos’ planned bioenergy carbon capture & storage (BECCS) project at the Port of Greate...

April 17, 2025

Data Facilities Data Centers Completes the First Expansion in Hague

Dutch data center firm Data Facilities Data Centers (DFDC) has completed the first expansion of its facility in the Hague. The expansion will boost the site’s rack capacity from 165 to potentially 275, with the new capacity supporting up to 10kW per rack. “We’re excited to share a major milest...

April 17, 2025

Colt Technology Services Sells European Data Centers

Colt Technology Services this week announced the divestment of six facilities in Germany and the Netherlands to DWS-owned NorthC, as well as two in the UK to DWS separately. The NorthC transaction includes data centers across Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Düsseldorf, and Amsterdam, with ...

April 17, 2025

New Data Centers Proposed for Val-de-Marne, France

Two developers have proposed new data center projects in the suburbs of French capital Paris. Segro has proposed to build a data center at the Petits Carreaux business park near Bonneuil-sur-Marne, while another developer, Icade, plans to spend €280 million ($318m) building a new hyperscale da...

April 16, 2025

Northampton Capital Partners Invests in Blueprint Data Centers

US data center firm Blueprint Data Centers has secured investment from an asset management company, Northampton Capital Partners. Scott McBride, founding partner at Northampton Capital Partners, said: “We are excited to work with the Blueprint team and look forward to what we believe will be a...

April 16, 2025

Google Signs Corporate PPA in Taiwan

Google has signed its first corporate Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for a geothermal project in the APAC region. According to Google, the long-term PPA is aimed at catalyzing the geothermal market in the region and involves a direct equity investment in Baseload."This long-term partnership wi...

April 16, 2025

Intel Sells 51% Stake in Altera for $8.75bn

Intel has agreed to sell 51 percent of FPGA chip company Altera to private equity firm Silver Lake for $8.75 billion. Altera will retain a 49 percent stake in Altera, which Intel said will allow it to “participate in Altera’s future success while focusing on its core business.” Intel also anno...

April 16, 2025

atNorth Signs Heat-reuse Agreement in Finland

European data center developer atNorth has signed a heat-reuse agreement with Kesko Corporation, a Finnish retail conglomerate. The agreement will see waste heat generated from atNorth’s FIN02 data center in Sinimäki, Espoo, provided to a neighboring Kesko store."One of the key goals of our am...

April 15, 2025

Vantage Loses Appeal in Dublin

Irish planning regulator An Bord Pleanála this week rejected Vantage’s appeal after it was previously denied permission for a data center. Vantage had hoped to build a single two-story data center totaling 12,895 sqm (138,780 sq ft). As well as 13 emergency backup generators, the application a...

April 15, 2025

Microsoft Signs Carbon Removal Agreement with CO280

Microsoft has signed a carbon removal agreement with CO280, a Canadian based CO2 removal firm which retrofits existing pulp and paper mills with carbon capture units to capture biogenic CO2 from boiler stack emissions for permanent geological storage. Microsoft will purchase 3.685 million tons...

April 15, 2025

Top Data Center News from 7th-12th April 2025

Alphabet has restated its commitment to investing in AI and the necessary infrastructure as its CEO revealed that the company was still committed to spending around $75 billion on building out data center capacity to support AI.Meta has revealed massive plans to bring a new state-of-the-art “A...

April 14, 2025

Sparrow Quantum raises $24m in Funding Round

Sparrow Quantum has raised $24 million in a Series A funding round led by PensionDanmark with participation from the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark, Novo Holdings, and the European Innovation Council.The company has developed Sparrow Core, described as an “on-chip deterministic single-p...

April 14, 2025

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