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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)

Lenovo announces new liquid-cooled Nvidia Blackwell server

Lenovo has announced new liquid-cooled AI hardware powered by Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs at its Tech World ‘24 event in Seattle, Washington this week. “For more than a decade, Lenovo has pioneered liquid cooling innovations, with the goal of bringing the power of high-performance computing to eve...

October 16, 2024

Dept of Commerce announces funding agreement with WolfSpeed

The US Department of Commerce has provisionally agreed to provide silicon carbide semiconductor manufacturer Wolfspeed with up to $750 million in direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act. The proposed funding would support the construction of a new silicon carbide wafer manufacturing fac...

October 16, 2024

Vertiv and Nvidia collab on 7MW

Vertiv and Nvidia have released a 7MW reference architecture for the GB200 NVL72, a liquid-cooled platform supports up to 132kW per rack. "We are proud to deepen our collaboration with Nvidia to enable AI-driven data centers of today and tomorrow," Giordano Albertazzi, CEO of Vertiv, said. "As...

October 16, 2024

Canada announces $362m funding for SREPs

The Canadian Ministry of Energy has announced up to CAD$500 million ($362.1m) in funding for its Smart Renewables and Electrification Pathways program (SREPs) Utility Support Stream. The program received nearly CAD$2.9 billion ($2.1bn) in the Canadian government's 2023 budget to support clean ...

October 16, 2024

Canada

UK fire suppression firm Alpine Fire has acquired DAS Fire

DAS Fire is a supplier of fire detection and suppression solutions for data centers. DAS Fire’s offerings include the design, installation, and maintenance of data center fire suppression systems. “This acquisition enables us to accelerate our diversification strategy into sectors that complem...

October 16, 2024

United Kingdom

80MW data center planned in Newham, East London

An 80MW data center planned for the London Borough of Newham has been given the go-ahead in the UK. Legal & General is spearheading the project, working with specialist digital infrastructure investment firm Goldacre and data center development company sineQN.Matteo Colombo, managing direc...

October 16, 2024

Ansys and TSMC to partner with Microsoft for silicon photonic simulations

Ansys and TSMC have teamed up with Microsoft to enhance the simulation and analysis of silicon photonic components. Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) technology is a type of optical communication that speeds up data transfer speeds and is used in data centers and IoT applications.“The ...

October 15, 2024

Microsoft Azure

Intel X AMD form x86 ecosystem advisory group

Intel and AMD have formed an x86 ecosystem advisory group to ensure consistency on the instruction set architecture (ISA) alongside other founding members: Microsoft, Google, Meta, HP, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lenovo, Broadcom, Dell, Oracle, and Red Hat. Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney and Linux cr...

October 15, 2024

DataBank completes $2 billion equity

DataBank has completed a $2 billion equity raise led by Australian superannuation fund, AustralianSuper. AustralianSuper has committed $1.5bn in equity which will see it become a significant minority owner of DataBank and join the company's board of directors."We are delighted to have Australi...

October 15, 2024

Australia

Google Quantum AI invests in QuEra

Google Quantum AI has invested an undisclosed sum in quantum startup QuEra. In a statement, the neutral-atom quantum computing company said the investment will help it “accelerate technology advancements” such as developing scalable and fault-tolerant quantum computers. Commenting on the inves...

October 14, 2024

Google

Flex partners with JetCool for liquid cooling offerings

Manufacturing firm Flex has partnered with JetCool to expand its liquid cooling offerings. The company this week announced new reference platforms for liquid-cooled servers, racks, and power products."Flex delivers integrated data center IT and power infrastructure solutions that address the g...

October 14, 2024

Crusoe signs joint venture with Blue Owl

Data center firm Crusoe has joined a multi-billion-dollar joint venture (JV) to build out a data center campus in Texas. The company, along with alternative asset manager Blue Owl Capital and data center advisory and investor firm Primary Digital, this week announced the $3.4 billion JV to fun...

October 14, 2024

NV5 acquires Kisebach Consulting and Senergy BCS

Engineering and consulting firm NV5 has acquired two data center commissioning and energy management companies, Kisebach Consulting and Senergy BCS. This acquisition aims to support NV5's growth within the data center market, which has been expanding following a spate of agreements over the la...

October 14, 2024

AMD launches new CPU server line

AMD has launched its latest server CPU line, the 5th Gen Epyc family, previously known as Turin. The company claimed that the new architecture provides up to 17 percent better instructions per clock (IPC) for enterprise and cloud workloads and up to 37 percent higher IPC in AI and high perform...

October 14, 2024

Denvr Dataworks expands with cloud-based Nvidia cluster

Denvr Dataworks has expanded its Denvr Cloud with a Nvidia H100 GPU cluster which features Nvidia HGX H100 servers with 1,024 Hopper architecture-based SXM5 GPUs which are connected with Nvidia Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking. According to the company, the expansion is designed to better serve...

October 12, 2024

Supermicro introduces liquid cooling offering

Server maker Supermicro this week announced a "complete liquid cooling solution," which is said to include coolant distribution units (CDUs), cold plates, coolant distribution manifolds (CDMs), cooling towers, and end-to-end management software."Supermicro continues to innovate, delivering ful...

October 12, 2024

NTT Data and Gaia-X partner on Digital Clearing House deployment

NTT Data has partnered with Gaia-X to deploy a testbed for a Gaia-X Digital Clearing House in Japan, which is the first outside of Europe, which is the first outside of Europe. Gaia-X is a European initiative seeking to establish a federated European cloud platform that is big enough to challe...

October 11, 2024

NTT Data

Dutch economy minister floats idea of EU chips coalition

The Dutch economy minister told attendees of a G7 meeting in Rome that he believes a European Union (EU) "coalition of the willing" to strengthen the political bloc’s semiconductor industry. Dirk Beljaarts said: “To have a stronger EU, between the other global players, to get leverage, it's im...

October 11, 2024

Rome

Eviden partners with IQM to install a quantum computer in France

Atos-owned Eviden has partnered with IQM to install a quantum computer in France which will be housed at Eviden’s flagship factory in Angers, with both physical and remote access to be made available to users, the latter via an Eviden private cloud. IQM Spark is a 5-qubit superconducting quant...

October 11, 2024

France

HPE introduces new liquid cooling architecture

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has introduced a new liquid cooling architecture which it describes as the industry’s first 100 percent fanless direct liquid cooling (DLC) systems architecture. HPE said the new architecture was designed to enhance the energy and cost efficiency of large-scale...

October 11, 2024

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