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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)

Plans for a new data center in Buckinghamshire, UK return following legal challenge

Following a successful legal challenge, Link Park Heathrow’s plans for a new data center in Buckinghamshire are going ahead. First filed in December 2020, the company was seeking to demolish the existing buildings at its site on Thorney Mill Road in Iver to develop a 55,000 sqm (592,000 sq ft)...

June 19, 2023

United Kingdom

Cisco announces new plan to build Saudi Arabia data center

Cisco has announced its plans to establish a new data center in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The facility, the company said, will help customers protect their users, infrastructure, and investments against threat actors. Dedicated to cloud-delivered security, the facility is pegged to p...

June 19, 2023

Cisco Systems

In light of Ireland's inaction on data center expansion, Ireland's Labour Party calls for hault

Following concern being raised over the dangers posed by continued data center expansion, Ireland’s Labour Party has joined the call to halt data center building and, instead, introduce a temporary surcharge.Speaking about this, Labour leader and climate spokesperson Ivana Bacik, said that the...

June 19, 2023

Republic of Ireland

Sify to expand data center capacity in response to increasing demand

Sify has announced that it is expanding its data center capacity, outlining that it will add around 350 MW over the next few years. Already the company already has 11 facilities located in Chennai, Mumbai, Noida, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Kolkata, together totaling 100 MW. However, now, in re...

June 19, 2023

Sify Technologies

Brazilian company Petrobras issues a tender for data center operation

Petrobras, a state-owned oil and gas corporation in Brazil, has issued a request for proposals worth $17.2 million for the running and maintenance of its data center facilities. The company is accepting bids until August 11, and per Petrobras, the winning bidder will be the one with the finest...

June 16, 2023

Brazil / Brasil

Wingu.Africa opens a data center in Ethiopia

Wingu.Africa, a data center corporation based in Djibouti, launched its data center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. When fully functional, the data center will be located in the Ethio ICT park, constructed on a 161,500-square-foot tract of land, with a capacity of 10MW across 800 racks. Minister of...

June 16, 2023

Africa

The founders of Chayora introduce a digital infrastructure investment

The co-founders of China-focused data center developer Chayora have established Accelerated Infrastructure Capital (AIC), a new investment platform. Oliver Jones and Jonathan Berney established AIC to invest in and offer access to venture capital for digital infrastructure programs in second a...

June 16, 2023

Chayora

Microsoft's Mount Pleasant data facility projected to produce 200 jobs during the first phase

200 people are anticipated to work at the Microsoft facility in Mount Pleasant during its initial phase, according to an executive summary provided to the village's Plan Commission. When completed, the data center will provide 460 employees, including 330 first-shift positions and 130 second-s...

June 16, 2023

Microsoft Azure

AirTrunk begins the 70MW expansion of the SYD2 facility in Sydney, Australia

AirTrunk, an APAC data center developer, has begun constructing a 70MW expansion to one of its Sydney, Australia campuses. The organization announced this week that construction has begun on the final two stages of its SYD2 facility. The two-phase development is anticipated to be completed in...

June 16, 2023

AirTrunk Sydney SYD2

Google signs PPA with Kronos Solar EDPR in the Netherlands

Google has signed a new PPA for solar energy with Kronos Solar EDPR. The 15-year PPA will see the giant offtake part of the output from the company's four photovoltaic plans currently in the works in the municipalities of Smallingerland in the province of Friesland, Lochem and Berkelland, bot...

June 16, 2023

Google Eemshaven Netherlands

Cologix completes its Scalelogix Data Center

Cologix has announced the completion of its new 120 MW facility in Data Center Alley, Ashburn, Virginia. The three-story data center spans 455,000 sqft, and has already been pre-leased, to a tenant described as a 'major global technology company.'According to reports, the Scalelogix ASH1 faci...

June 16, 2023

Cologix

Sabey Data Centers announces completion of its Quincy data center expansion

Sabey Data Centers has completed the expansion of its Quincy data center, it has announced. The facility now features two buildings, offering over 85 MW; it also incorporated construction methods that reportedly reduce reliance on carbon-intensive concrete. Spanning 525,000 sqft across five b...

June 16, 2023

Sabey Data Centers

Scotland continues to pursue data center developers and suggests five possible locations

The Scottish authorities are still trying to attract data center developers to their country. Twenty potential data center sites in the nation have been identified in a report created by Host in Scotland in support of the Scottish Authorities, including five additional spots not mentioned in a...

June 16, 2023

Scotland

Pantheon Infrastructure raises revolving credit to $146m

The management board of Pantheon Infrastructure (PINT), based in the United Kingdom, has authorized a $66.56 million increase to the company's revolving credit facility (RCF). This increase will bring the total to $145,8 million, allowing PINT's investment platforms to offer additional liquidi...

June 15, 2023

External construction work on Digital Realty’s latest Frankfurt data center now complete

Digital Realty’s new data center, FRA33 facility in Hattersheim, Frankfurt, Germany, has now been completed, it has been announced. The new facility will reportedly offer 40MW of IT capacity spanning 16,000 square meters (172,222 sq ft) of white space. The construction firm that worked on the...

June 14, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Havering Friends of the Earth raise concerns over data center plans

Havering Friends of the Earth has voiced concerns over an application to build a data center on Green Belt land. Digital Reef is proposing a huge data center campus in East Havering, within a new 500-acre site, with 67% of the land dedicated to an "ecology park." The company has offered the co...

June 14, 2023

London

As amber energy alert is issued in Ireland, government has no plan to pause data center growth

Startling new figures released by the Central Statistics Office have revealed that in just a year, data center power consumption in Ireland has increased by 31 percent; 18 percent of all electricity used in 2022. Yet, Ireland's government is not intending to reduce the number being built in th...

June 14, 2023

Republic of Ireland

Macquarie Technology Group is attempting to raise $88 million for a new data facility

Macquarie Technology Group is raising 88 million dollars to finance its Sydney data center. The company is raising capital through a non-underwritten institutional placement to increase its liquidity and free float. The business offers 2.22 million additional fully paid shares at $39.61 per sh...

June 14, 2023

Macquarie Infrastructure Partners (MIP)

NTT and Prestige to develop 100MW data center in Bangalore

NTT has announced that it has partnered with Prestige Group for a new 100 MW data center in Bangalore, India. The deal will see the company develop a one million square feet area spread across multiple buildings and constructed in three phases. According to the companies, the first building i...

June 13, 2023

NTT

Quantum Loophole Maryland campus paused amid environmental concerns

Quantum Loophole has confirmed that it has agreed with state officials this week to pause construction of its data center campus in Maryland, having racked up "numerous environmental violations" over the past five months. According to a report by Frederick News-Post, the Maryland Department o...

June 13, 2023

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