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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)

Foxconn opens globe-shaped data center at Wisconsin facility

Foxconn has just opened its Globe Data Center in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. The data center building is 34,000 square feet in size and, it includes a 100 feet steel sphere as part of its design. The facility’s steel globe frame was initially completed in September 2020 before the installation ...

May 18, 2021

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Odata To Build a $217 Million Data Center In Chile

Odata has announced that it is planning to build its first data center in Chile. This new data center will sit on a 6-hectare site, and it will house over 40,000 square meters of data center buildings. Upon completion, the data center will have a capacity of 28MW. Odata also says it will be in...

May 18, 2021

ODATA Chile ST01

Google to use Geothermal Energy for Nevada Data Center Campus

Google has announced that it would soon start using geothermal energy to power its Nevada data center. The announcement will see Google become the first hyper-scale cloud operator to use the earth’s heat to power its servers. Fervo Energy, a clean energy startup, will be helping Google develop...

May 18, 2021

Google Henderson NV

GDS Holdings reportedly considering acquisition of GLP’s data centers

According to a report by Bloomberg, GDS Holdings is considering acquiring GLP Pte’s data centers business. The value of the assets is substantial and estimated to be between $8-10 billion. If the prospective deal goes forward, it will enable the Chinese firm to expand its footprint, while GLP ...

May 18, 2021

China

Google plans to use greener energy by moving workloads between data centers

Google will be moving workloads to data centers where renewable energy is available to boost renewable energy usage. Ross Koningstein, Co-founder of Google’s Carbon Intelligence Computing program, said that shifting compute tasks across locations is the Company’s first step in carbon-aware ...

May 18, 2021

Google

Google buys 30 hectares to build data center in Uruguay

Google has announced that, through its subsidiary, Eleanor Applications SRL, it has acquired 30 hectares of land in Canelones, Uruguay, to build a data center. According to El Observador, the company may have spent $818,000 on the plot, with a view to invest up to $100 million.The tech compan...

May 17, 2021

Google Canelones Uruguay

ERG To Provide Italian Telco TIM With 3.4 Terawatt Hours of Green Energy

TIM, an Italian Telco, has announced its new ten-year deal with ERG. The deal will see ERG provide TIM with 3.4 Terawatt hours of green energy across the country through its wind farms. The deal is expected to start next year, and it would see 20% of TIM’s total energy usage come from renewab...

May 17, 2021

TIM Group

KT Corporation opens data center in Seoul, South Korea

KT Corp has just launched its new data center in Guro, Seoul, South Korea. The new data center would be its 14th one and would accommodate 335 racks. Although KT Corp usually operates its own data centers, KT Corp would be leasing the new facility from Dreammark One, a local colocation provid...

May 15, 2021

KT Corporation

Google Cloud and SpaceX's Starlink to Deliver Secure, Global Connectivity

Google Cloud and SpaceX have announced that they have entered a new partnership which will see SpaceX's Starlink begin to locate its satellite ground stations within Google data centers. Together, through the partnership, the two firms will deliver cloud services, data and applications to cus...

May 15, 2021

Google

LG Uplus plans to build a new data center in South Korea for $267.9 million

LG Uplus Corp, a South Korean telecom operator, has announced its plans to build a new data center. The new facility is expected to cost over $267.9 million. Plans are in place for the construction of the data center to start in June of this year and to be completed by December 2023. The new d...

May 14, 2021

LG CNS

Rolls-Royce set to power Madrid data center in outages

Rolls-Royce has announced that it has installed and commissioned eight mtu emergency gensets with 9.2MWe power output at a major bank in Madrid. The installation was made to secure power supply in case of a public power grid failure in the region. Rolls-Royce will ensure power s...

May 14, 2021

Madrid

Questions raised over Loudoun County data center proposal

BlackChamber Group’s application to build a 530,000 sq ft (49,000 sq m) data center in Loudoun County has split the county’s board of supervisors. According to a report published in Washington Business Journal, the group’s proposal to build two facilities on the 23-acre plot could be rejected ...

May 14, 2021

Northern Virginia

China Telecom inaugurates data center in Jinchang, China

China Telecom has just opened its new data center in Jinchang, in China’s Northeastern Gansu province. The Company invested $10.8 million for this data center. The data center would be supporting 203 racks, 34,000 core VCPU, and 260 servers at the moment. It can also be expanded in the future...

May 14, 2021

China Telecom: Jinchang

Frankfurt to restrict and regulate data centers

Frankfurt has proposed a development plan to regulate data centers in the area. The plan, it says, will prevent the “uncontrolled growth” of data centers. The city is the hub of the data center industry in Germany, and one of the four largest hubs in Europe, taking up 64 hectares (640,000 sqm...

May 14, 2021

Frankfurt

QTS expands its connectivity ecosystem with Telia Carrier

Telia Carrier has announced that it has deployed its full suite of connectivity services in QTS' Piscataway, New Jersey and Irving, Texas data centers. Telia is also deployed to QTS Richmond, Chicago, Miami, Hillsboro, and Atlanta.The 'full suite' of network services includes DWDM, DDoS, IP Tr...

May 13, 2021

QTS Irving

Scottish data center firm DataVita acquires Fortis data center

DataVita has announced the acquisition of the Fortis Tier-III certified data center, based in Glasgow, Scotland, after operating the facility since 2016. The acquisition was made with £45 million ($63.1 million) of support by HFD Group, and Datavita will now take full ownership.Built by HFD gr...

May 13, 2021

DataVita: Lanarkshire DV1

Google to build new data center in Québec, halts plan to build 3 data centers in the Netherlands

Plans are in place for Google to acquire a property in Beauharnois, Quebec, and turn it into a data center. The proposed data center is estimated to cost $600 million. The 62.4 hectares plot of land is owned by Hydro-Québec, and is currently zoned as agricultural land, the provincial governm...

May 12, 2021

Google Beauharnois

Zayo Group to connect to Netwise's new London East data center

Netwise, A data center firm in the UK, has announced that Zayo Group would be the first major Tier 1 carrier to connect to its new London East data center officially. The new data center is 13,000 square feet in size with a 1.5MW capacity. Netwise also claimed that its new data center would u...

May 12, 2021

Netwise London East (NLE)

Stack Infrastructure Acquires More Land To Expand Its Data Campus In Manassas, Virginia

Stack Infrastructure has purchased additional 25 acres of land in Manassas, Virginia. The land is next to its Prince William county campus, which is still under development. The plan is to use the new land to build additional two 36MW facilities. The CEO of Stack Infrastructure commented that ...

May 12, 2021

STACK Northern Virginia

Digital Fortress announces new data center campus in Richmond, VA

Digital Fortress has announced a new wholesale data campus in Richmond, Virginia. This 75-acre campus is now the largest data center in Digital Fortress’ eastern United States portfolio. The new data campus is Gold LEED-certified, and it is designed to Tier III standards with access to 4.2MW o...

May 12, 2021

Digital Fortress: Richmond

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