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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](h...

June 21, 2026

Colorado (CO)

GIC seeks to raise capital for South Korean data center initiative

The sovereign wealth fund GIC of Singapore is soliciting funds for a data center outside Seoul, South Korea. According to Business Korea, institutional investors, such as GIC, are working with indigenous institutional investors, securities companies, and asset management firms to build a data ...

July 24, 2023

Singapore

Cambodia starts construction on its national data facility

The government of Cambodia has begun construction of a new national data center. Chea Vandeth, minister of post and telecommunications in Cambodia, attended the groundbreaking event in Phnom Penh last week. The new center, according to Vandeth, not only provides secure storage but also seeks t...

July 24, 2023

Google's data center plans in Uruguay spark outrage as country faces water crisis

Uruguay is currently battling a water crisis, facing its worst drought in more than 70 years. The country has now experienced years of low rainfall, something which is likely to only continue as climate change exacerbates the issue. However, it's not just the result of climate change, accordin...

July 21, 2023

Google

Hyperscalers set capture half of data center capacity in the next five years

According to Synergy Research Group, hyperscalers and colocation companies are dwarfing on-premise data center capacity. Its research revealed that hyperscalers now account for 37% of the worldwide capacity of all data centers, with the number of large data centers operated by hyperscalers re...

July 21, 2023

Moveworks expands with Canadian data center

Moveworks has announced that its first regional data center in Canada has opened, a move which the company said signifies its move toward promoting greater data center privacy and residency, in line with the evolving regulatory landscape in Canada.The company noted that data privacy is a “cruc...

July 21, 2023

Canada

Liberty Global raises its stake in Telenet to 93.23 percent

Liberty Global has taken on a larger majority stake in Belgian telecommunications provider Telenet and will recommence its efforts to acquire the company outright. The company will increase its ownership stake in the telecommunications company to 93.23 percent and is scheduled to reopen its op...

July 21, 2023

Compass will soon buy Sears' 2.4 million-square-foot Chicago facility

Compass Datacenters, which was recently taken over, is planning to purchase a former Sears office complex in Chicago, Illinois, presumably for a new data center campus. The data center constructor and operator are "poised" to acquire the Sears site in the Hoffman Estates neighborhood, as first...

July 21, 2023

Compass Datacenters

SEB Bank provides DEAC and DLC a $33 million loan

The DEAC of Latvia and the Data Logistics Center (DLC) of Lithuania have received a $33.4 million loan to finance the expansion of their respective data centers. The two companies announced this week that they had secured a 10-year loan from SEB Bank to expand Baltic telecommunications systems...

July 21, 2023

Delska (DEAC, DLC Data Logistics Center)

Datum has completed a 1 MW data hall upgrade in Farnborough

Datum Datacentres has completed the development of a 1MW data hall at its Farnborough data center. The development project at Datum's FRN1 has been concluded as part of a $9 million investment program.The new data hall on the first floor, Hall 4, has space for 380 racks, a cooling framework fo...

July 20, 2023

Datum Datacentres Limited

Equinix Sofia data center's phase 2 development completed

The expansion of one of Equinix's Bulgarian data centers in Sofia has been concluded. This week, the company announced the completion of the second phase of its SO2 data center in the capital of Bulgaria. The development, which doubles the site's capacity to 700 servers, cost $12 million, acco...

July 20, 2023

Equinix Sofia SO1

Edged Energy intends to construct an 18MW data facility in Kansas City, Missouri

A data center is being built by Edged Energy in Kansas City, Missouri. According to BizJournal, the Northland of Kansas City will soon see the start of construction on a data center by engineering and construction company Burns & McDonnell. The company is constructing an 18MW waterless-coo...

July 20, 2023

Kansas

Microsoft was permitted to operate its Dublin data center on gas

According to reports, Microsoft has been granted permission to construct a 170MW gas power facility for its Dublin data center expansion. As per a report from Business Post, the cloud giant applied in December to construct a gas power facility for its $1 billion Dublin data center campus curre...

July 20, 2023

Microsoft Azure

EdgeConneX announces deployment of AWS Direct Connect in Phoenix data center

EdgeConneX has announced the deployment of AWS Direct Connect with both 10Gbps and 100Gbps capability at the Phoenix Edge Data Center (PHX01). The company shared that this will enable customers to establish direct edge cloud on-ramps. This, it shared, can reportedly reduce costs, improve oper...

July 19, 2023

EdgeConneX

ClickUp announces localised data hosting at its EU data center in Ireland

ClickUp has announced that it is expanding its investment in Europe with localised data hosting in its European data center. Operated by Amazon Web Services, ClickUp's European data center is based in Ireland, and following this announcement, customers subscribed to its Enterprise plan will ha...

July 19, 2023

Europe

Spencer Building Carrier Hotel to begin work on data center

Spencer Building Carrier Hotel has shared that it has obtained the permits to begin work on its new data center in the heritage section of Vancouver's Harbour Centre. The company shared that the project is still in its preconstruction phase, but that construction will commence in August 2023, ...

July 19, 2023

Canada

Remov announces 7.2MW heat-sharing data center

Remov has announced it is set to begin work on the construction of a new 7.2MW data center. The facility will be powered entirely by renewable energy, have a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.1, an "energy flow ratio" of 1.0, and will recover 96 percent of its waste heat. According to the c...

July 19, 2023

Finland

Amazon plans to convert a former Ford facility in Wales into a data center

Amazon is reportedly interested in purchasing a former Ford plant near Cardiff, Wales. According to BusinessLive and WalesOnline, AWS is in talks to purchase the former Ford engine facility in Bridgend. However, it may be a distinct Amazon division that is interested in the site.According to r...

July 19, 2023

Amazon AWS

Tonomus establishes data center in Saudi's Neom city

Tonomus, a digital corporation within the new Neom city in Saudi Arabia, opened a data center. Neom is a plan to build a massive new smart metropolis on the coast of the Red Sea in the northwestern Saudi province of Tabuk. The Public Investment Fund, the nation's sovereign wealth fund, owns 10...

July 19, 2023

Saudi Arabia

Asterion and Telefónica are looking into an acquisition of the Nabiax unit

Asterion and Telefónica are reportedly considering the sale of Nabiax, a Latin American data center company. According to Reuters, infrastructure fund Asterion Industrial Partners, which owns 80 percent of Nabiax, has enlisted the services of bankers from BBVA BBVA.MC and Citigroup C.N. to eva...

July 19, 2023

Australia's DUG obtains a $3.4 million grant to establish the Geraldton HPC campus

DUG, an Australian high-performance computing (HPC) company, has secured government aid for a Geraldton, Australia, campus. This week, the company announced receiving $3.4 million in government funding for its long-planned campus in Geraldton, Western Australia, approximately 250 miles north o...

July 19, 2023

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