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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)

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

GI Partners acquires the majority stake in 2 Chicago data centers from Digital Realty

GI Partners has acquired a majority stake in two data centers in Chicago, Illinois, from Digital Realty. This week, the business announced that it had formed a joint venture with GI Partners to sell a 65 percent stake in two stabilized hyper-scale data center facilities and their associated ma...

July 18, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Port of Valencia gives up data center proposals for docks building

The municipal council of Valencia has abandoned plans to construct a data center in a port docks building. More than a year had passed since the local government began considering multiple proposals for establishing a data center in a building on the Marina de Valencia. Nevertheless, this week...

July 18, 2023

Spain

NorthC purchases a data center in Switzerland from Kyndryl

NorthC Group purchased a new data center near Zurich, Switzerland, through a sale/leaseback transaction. This week, the Dutch colocation company announced the opening of a new data center in the Winterthur neighborhood of Zurich. However, the company announced on LinkedIn that it had acquired ...

July 18, 2023

NorthC Datacenters

Microsoft buys a 14-acre plot for data centers in Sterling, Virginia

Microsoft has plans for data centers in Sterling, Virginia. BizJournal reports that Microsoft purchased a 14-acre parcel at 23540 Pebble Run Place for approximately $15 million last month, citing Loudoun County property records. Data centers are already legally permitted on the property, which...

July 17, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Equinix to connect to new district heating scheme in Frankfurt, Germany

Equinix has announced that, through a partnership with a number of different companies, it will connect to a new district heating scheme in Frankfurt, Germany. In collaboration with Vonovia, AS Enterprise, and EB-SIM, the group aims to build a heating network for the bizonal residential area ...

July 17, 2023

Equinix

Circularity in action: Obit shares data center/vertical farm plans

Obit has shared plans for a new data center in St. Petersburg, which will be located on a land plot home to a complex of vertical farms. The company is set to invest around two billion rubles ($22.1m) in the project, which will offer a capacity for 512 racks, with excess heat released from the...

July 17, 2023

Russia / Россия

Data center to be built by Edged Energy in Mesa, Arizona

Edged Energy intends to construct a new data center in the Phoenix, Arizona, neighborhood of Mesa. Edged Energy has submitted applications to Mesa's design review board and development and zoning board to construct a 126,000-square-foot data center on a 14-acre site near the Loop 202 interstat...

July 17, 2023

Arizona

Modul'Data Center provides Solvay with a containerized facility

Solvay has received a containerized data center module from the French company Modul'Data Center. Modul, along with Rosenberger OSI and Eaton, recently delivered the container-sized module, as first reported by DCmag.fr. Remy Febvre, CEO of Modul's parent company IPenergy, stated on LinkedIn t...

July 17, 2023

AtlasEdge enters strategic partnership with Northshore

AtlasEdge, has entered into a strategic partnership with Northshore to implement an operational sustainability strategy and execution plan. According to the company, the technology-enabled engineering company will assist it in ensuring that data collection and validation processes are streaml...

July 17, 2023

AtlasEdge

India's PowerGrid to build data facility in Manesar

PowerGrid, an Indian transmission corporation, plans to construct a data center on a substation site outside of Delhi. This week, PowerGrid's board authorized a revised investment proposal for the 'establishment of an experimental data center at PowerGrid Manesar Substation,' according to an a...

July 17, 2023

India / Bhārata

Google breaks ground on Mesa data center campus

Google has announced that it has begun work on a new data center in the Mesa area of Phoenix, Arizona. A $1 billion project, the facility will span 750,000 square feet (70,000 sqm) once fully built out.Previously known as "Redhawk," the project's first 288,530 sq ft (26,805 sqm) phase is due ...

July 14, 2023

Google

New green Panama data center launched by Sparkle

Sparkle, Telecom Italia's infrastructure unit, has launched the Panama Digital Gateway, a 3.5MW site offering the first "green data center" in Panama. Located in the Corozal area of Panama City, the site spans 5,500 square meters (59,200 sq ft) of space for up to 650 equivalent racks across fi...

July 14, 2023

Panamá

Ericsson sets up a 5G site in Texas powered by solar energy

Ericsson has announced that it has set up a 5G site in Texas powered by solar energy. Located in Plano, Texas, the site can be fully operated by solar energy and supported by integrated Lithium-ion batteries, for up to 24 hours. The Plano site includes Ericsson's Massive MIMO radio configurati...

July 14, 2023

Texas

Bain denies China Merchants acquisition of ChinData

Bain Capital has informed ChinData that it will not sell the company to China Merchants because it is pursuing its own deal to take the data center operator private. Last week the company verified in an investor disclosure that it had received a preliminary non-binding acquisition proposal let...

July 14, 2023

Chindata Group

Switch Inc. receives $500m investment from Aware Super

The Australian pension fund Aware Super has invested in the data center company Switch Inc. This week, Switch proprietor DigitalBridge announced that Aware Super will make "a significant investment" in Switch. The deal's value wasn't made public in the initial publication, but DigitalBridge's ...

July 14, 2023

United States

Icelandic hydroelectric plant receives a micro data center installation from Japan's IIJ

Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ) has installed a micro data center (MDC) at an Icelandic hydroelectric power station. In April 2023, IIJ announced intentions for a data center trial project in Iceland in collaboration with Landsvirkjun, the country's national power company.From April until...

July 14, 2023

Iceland

Equinix, AirTrunk, Microsoft, and GDS are chosen by Singapore for an 80MW data center experiment

As Singapore looks to end a years-long prohibition on new developments, four data center operators have been given 80MW of capacity for new facilities. Since 2019, Singapore has imposed a ban on the construction of new data centers; however, previously authorized facilities were permitted to b...

July 14, 2023

Equinix

Despite the rise of the cloud, on-premise data centers and computing remain stable

According to a new report by Synergy Research Group, hyperscale businesses now operate nearly 900 large data centers, constituting approximately 37 percent of the worldwide capacity. As per the research firm, non-hyper-scale colocation capacity covers approximately 23% of global capacity, whi...

July 14, 2023

Cologix reveals a new data space at the 511 carrier hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Cologix is expanding its data center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by adding a new data hall. With the new MIN5 data center now available for pre-leasing, the company has increased its presence in the Minneapolis, Minnesota, market. Located in the 511 Building carrier hotel, also known as the Min...

July 14, 2023

Cologix

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