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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)

The Rise of Data Centers in West Africa: Why Nigeria Is Leading the Digital Infrastructure Boom

In recent years, West Africa has been seen to emerge as a promising frontier for digital infrastructural investments. This has spotlighted West Africa to global technology firms, investors, and policymakers alike. At the center of this transformation is Nigeria, where a surge in data center de...

April 29, 2026

Nigeria

Data Center Plans in Wales Turned Down by Council

A proposal to convert a former chemical plant into an AI data center in North Wales, UK, has been rejected by the local council. Anglesey County Council turned down the planning application for the site of the former Octel factory at Amlwch Port, according to the North Wales Chronicle. Carbon3...

April 28, 2026

Wales

I Squared Capital Buys Brazil-Based Elea

Investment firm I Squared Capital has acquired a majority stake in Brazilian data center operator Elea. Announced this week, financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Elea operates nine data center campuses across Brazil, including in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Brasília. The company ...

April 28, 2026

Brazil / Brasil

Google Launches $15bn Data Center Build in India

Google has broken ground on its $15 billion data center project in Visakhapatnam (Vizag), Andhra Pradesh, India. The company held a groundbreaking ceremony on April 28 to mark the start of construction. The event was jointly hosted by Google, AdaniConneX, and Nxtra by Airtel, and was attended ...

April 28, 2026

Google

Core Scientific Locks in 300MW at Pecos Data Center in Texas

Core Scientific has secured additional capacity for its AI and HPC data center development in West Texas. The company is transitioning its Pecos campus from Bitcoin mining to AI and high-performance computing hosting. Currently operating with 300MW of mining capacity, Core Scientific said this...

April 28, 2026

Core Scientific

Maine Governor Rejects Statewide Data Center Moratorium Bill

capacity, which would have remained in place until November 1, 2027. Maine Governor Janet Mills has vetoed a bill that would have introduced the first statewide moratorium on data centers in the US. LD307 had passed both legislative chambers, gaining approval from the House of Representatives ...

April 27, 2026

Maine

Oracle Lands Financing for Michigan Data Center Project

Oracle has secured financing for its planned $16 billion data center project in Michigan, bringing months of negotiations to a close. To fund the development, Bank of America sold $14 billion in bonds tied to the project, with Pimco acquiring $10 billion, according to Bloomberg. The remaining ...

April 27, 2026

Oracle

Top Data Center News for 20th-25th April, 2026

Meta Begins Construction on Tulsa Data CenterMeta has broken ground on its first data center in Oklahoma, beginning construction on a 340 acre campus in Tulsa dubbed Project Anthem, expected to involve around $1 billion in investment.Google Starts Work on New Data Center in AustriaGoogle has b...

April 27, 2026

United States

Amazon, Veolia Collaborate on Water Reuse at US Data Centers

Amazon has partnered with French utility company Veolia to reduce water use and expand water-reuse technology across its data center operations in Mississippi. The collaboration will focus on using reclaimed water for cooling, with the first facility expected to come online in 2027. As part of...

April 27, 2026

Amazon AWS

Pace to Develop 100MW Data Center in Glasscock County, Texas

A “Texas-first” data center with an initial 100MW of capacity is being planned in the Lone Star State. New developer Pace is proposing the facility at a site in Glasscock County. The scheme, dubbed the Lone Star Project, is described as “reflecting a Texas-first development philosophy from sta...

April 27, 2026

Texas

Naver Raises $270m for AI Data Center Project in Sejong

South Korean AI cloud company Naver has secured a 400 billion won ($270 million) loan from the country’s Public Growth Fund to support the development of its AI data center in Sejong. Approved by the Financial Services Commission (FSC), the financing will fund the expansion of Naver’s Sejong f...

April 24, 2026

Naver Corp.

Nobles County Rejects $4bn Data Center Proposal

A $4 billion data center project has been rejected by local officials in Nobles County, Minnesota. Renewable energy developer Geronimo Power had been considering a 959-acre site between 200th Street and 190th Street for the development of eight data center buildings totaling 2.5 million sq ft ...

April 24, 2026

Minnesota

Pure DC Plans 7MW Expansion of Abu Dhabi Data Center

Pure Data Centres is set to expand its Abu Dhabi campus by 7MW. The company this week announced it has received final approvals from TAQA to increase IT capacity at its AUH01 site from 41MW to 48MW, alongside plans to fully decarbonize its operational energy use in Abu Dhabi. Located on a 16-a...

April 24, 2026

Pure Data Centres Group

Google Starts Work on New Data Center in Austria

Google has broken ground on its data center development in Kronstorf, Austria. The facility will be the company’s first self-built and owned data center in the country. Set to span 42,000 sqm (452,000 sq ft) on a 70-hectare site in central Austria, Google received planning permission for the p...

April 23, 2026

Google

Thor Equities Plans 460,000 Sq ft Data Center Near Urbana

Real estate firm Thor Equities is looking to build a 460,000 sq ft (42,735 sqm) data center campus near the city of Urbana in western Ohio. Urbana residents began speculating about a potential data center proposal after a local newspaper reported that Thor Equities had bought a 47.6-acre land ...

April 23, 2026

Thor Equities Group

Certarus lands 135MW onsite gas supply deal for US data center

US natural gas firm Superior Plus Corp, through its subsidiary Certarus, has secured a supply contract with an undisclosed data center customer in the US. The agreement covers a two-and-a-half-year term to provide compressed natural gas (CNG) to a hyperscale data center currently under develop...

April 23, 2026

United States

Harford County weighs 90-day data center moratorium

Local authorities in Harford County, Maryland, are considering a 90-day moratorium on data center development in response to a proposal to build a facility at a local golf course. Councilman Jacob Bennett, who introduced Bill 26-005, said the pause would give the county “plenty of time to rese...

April 23, 2026

Hartford

Yondr Brings 27MW Toronto Data Center Online

Data center firm Yondr has energized its facility in Toronto, Canada. DigitalBridge-owned Yondr Group this week powered up the 27MW data center, which is expected to be ready for service in mid-2026. The project marks Yondr’s first development in Canada. Announced in 2024, construction on the ...

April 22, 2026

Yondr Group

NextDC Begins Construction on 4.4MW Edge Facility in Geelong

Australian data center firm NextDC has broken ground on a new Edge facility near Melbourne. “It's begun! Work on NextDC's GE1 4.4MW data center in Geelong has commenceIn thid, bringing new capability to the region,” Adam Gardner, head of Edge at NextDC, said on Linkedin this week.The 4.4MW fac...

April 22, 2026

Edge Centres

DataBank Raises $2bn for Dallas Data Center Buildout

US data center firm DataBank has secured new financing to support the build-out of three data centers in Dallas, Texas. The company this week announced it has obtained a $2 billion loan to fund construction of the first three facilities at its new Red Oak campus. DataBank said the deal represe...

April 22, 2026

Dallas

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