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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)

Microsoft officially announces Kemps Creek campus, drops Lane Cove project

Microsoft has announced further expansion in Sydney, with plans for a new data center campus. Located in Kemps Creek in Western Sydney, the facility will be designed in collaboration with Indigenous-owned Indigital, to shape the site’s exterior artwork and landscape design in a way that “supp...

July 10, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Thor's Form8ation begins Madrid data center campus construction

Form8tion has begun construction on its first data center in Madrid, Spain. Thor Equities established a new digital infrastructure division, Thor Digital, in April 2022, before rebranding it as Form8tion this year. In October 2022, the company acquired a former Coca-Cola bottling facility in t...

July 10, 2023

High investor demand for LatAm edge data centers increases land values

Latin American land prices have risen rapidly due to investor demand for edge computing and data center decentralization. CBRE reports investors are looking for new metropolitan locations until the pricing cycle changes. Due to rising land prices, Brasília, Fortaleza, and Porto Alegre are see...

July 10, 2023

EdgePresence, a data center company, acquired by Ubiquity

Ubiquity has acquired EdgePresence, a provider of custom-built Edge data centers that recently claimed DataBank as one of its investors. The acquisition terms were not disclosed. Doug Recker, the founder of EdgePresence, and its current personnel will be supported by Ubiquity's leadership team...

July 10, 2023

Google submits plans for a three-building data center facility in Belgium

Initially announced by the mayor of Farciennes, Hugues Bayet, the search and cloud company intends to construct three facilities in the Ecopôle business park in Wallonia. The campus will encompass 570,500 square feet. The project will begin construction by the end of the year and be completed ...

July 10, 2023

Google

Infratil pays $160m for majority stake in Console Connect

Infratil has acquired a dominant stake in the network provider and interconnection company Console Connect. This week, the company announced that it had finalized an interim contract with HKT to acquire 80% of Console Connect for $160 million.As part of a strategic partnership with HKT, the tw...

July 10, 2023

Stream DC files for 200MW campus expansion in Phoenix

Stream Data Centers has submitted plans to build a 2 million-square-foot data center campus in the Goodyear neighborhood of Phoenix, Arizona. Last week, the Goodyear Planning and Zoning Commission approved Stream's request to rezone 104 acres on Litchfield Road and Lower Buckeye Road from I-1 ...

July 10, 2023

Stream Data Centers

Amazon purchases 25 acres for a data center in Chantilly, Virginia

Amazon has purchased a 25-acre parcel of land in Fairfax County, Virginia, close to several of the company's current and planned data centers. BisNow reports that Amazon Data Services Inc. recently paid $34.44 million to acquire a 24.6-acre property at 44150 Wade Drive in Chantilly from Firefo...

July 10, 2023

Amazon AWS

Peterson Companies plans Culpeper County data center facility

A sizable campus of data centers will be built in Culpeper County, Virginia, according to plans made public by real estate development company Peterson Companies. The Culpeper County Board of Supervisors approved a rezoning request to construct a new data center campus. Peterson stated that th...

July 10, 2023

Wells Fargo relocates, exiting office and data center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Wells Fargo has announced that it is exiting its lease at the Philadelphia Plaza building at 101 N. Independence Mall, leaving its office and data center and relocating to offices in Two Logan Square and Commerce Square.According to the company, no layoffs are set to take place, and there will...

July 07, 2023

Philadelphia

Shapoorji Pallonji signs MoU to build data center in Gabon

Shapoorji Pallonji has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Gabonese state for a national data center project.Reports note that the project has been underway for a number of months, with the company first visiting Gabon in March 2023. While further details ...

July 07, 2023

Africa

CyrusOne announces plans for new Frankfurt data center

CyrusOne has announced its plans to build its next data center in Frankfurt, Germany. Named FRA6, the facility is located in Germany’s “Digital City” and will offer a total IT capacity of 72 MW delivered over four floors, with each level offering 18 MW. The company shared that the acquired Eu...

July 07, 2023

CyrusOne

University of Houston will establish a new energy-focused data facility

On Friday, July 7, UH Energy will host an educational symposium with a focus on hydrocarbon basin analysis, policy changes, and hydrocarbon opportunities in India to mark the opening of the new University of Houston (UH) - Directorate General for Hydrocarbon (DGH) Center for Hydrocarbon Explor...

July 07, 2023

Houston

Navégalo plans to build data facility in San José, Costa Rica

Navégalo, a Latin American data center company, will soon open a new facility in Costa Rica. This week, the company announced that the 300-rack facility will launch on August 15. Phase one will provide 5MW, and the data center will be expandable to 15MW. The new facility is ANSI/TIA-942 Rated ...

July 07, 2023

North America

IIJ inaugurates its second facility on Japan's Shiroi campus

Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ) has established a second data center on a Tokyo-area campus. This week, the company revealed that the second phase of its Shiroi Data Center Campus in Shiroi-shi, Chiba Prefecture, has begun operations. The facility, which has been under construction since ...

July 07, 2023

Vantage appeals application rejection in Dublin, Ireland

Vantage Data Centers is appealing to An Bord Pleanála over the decision to refuse its data center application in Dublin, Ireland. The application for a two-story, 12,893 sqm development in the West Dublin area of Clondalkin was rejected on both power capacity and environmental grounds, with t...

July 06, 2023

Vantage Data Centers

Telenor signs PPA for wind energy Finland

Telenor has announced the signing of a 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Statkraft for wind energy in Finland. Through the deal, the company will procure the output of the energy firm's Palokangas wind farm.According to the company, the agreement will cover 80 percent of Telenor's F...

July 06, 2023

Telenor Group

Brazil's V.tal purchases land for the construction data center in Fortaleza

V.tal, a Brazilian data center company, has acquired land in Fortaleza, Brazil, to construct a data center. The facility, which will have 20MW of IT capacity, has been named Mega Lobster. It will also be the first hyperscale-oriented initiative for the company. The size, cost, and construction...

July 06, 2023

Brazil / Brasil

Mubadala of Abu Dhabi, together with KKR, invested in CoolIT

The Mubadala Investment Company of Abu Dhabi disclosed earlier this year that it had invested in liquid cooling company CoolIT. In May 2023, the company invested alongside KKR in the Canadian company, with the latter acquiring the majority of the cooling business. The terms of the acquisition ...

July 06, 2023

Abu Dhabi

Supply chain drawbacks exacerbate data center outages

According to AFCOM's annual State of the Data Center 2023 report, data center disruptions are related to supply chain shortages. AFCOM conducts market analysis in the IT and data center industries by polling its members. According to the report, 44% of data center administrators who were surve...

July 06, 2023

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