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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)

DigitalBridge and Brookfield Want to Purchase Compass Datacenters

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and DigitalBridge are both interested in purchasing Compass Datacenters. A transaction could value the company over $5.5 billion, including debt. The auction for privately held Compass is being led by Brookfield and DigitalBridge, with a decision expected wit...

June 02, 2023

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners

nLighten takes over Euclyde Data Centers

The European data center company nLighten has acquired the French data center provider Euclyde Data Centers. The newly established corporation has acquired Euclyde and assumed control of six facilities in Sophia Antipolis, Lyon, Strasbourg, Besançon, and Paris. This agreement signifies nLighte...

June 02, 2023

Airtel Intends for Nxtra to Establish Five Data Centers in Africa

Bharti Airtel plans to construct five data centers in Africa under the Nxtra brand. Nxtra Data Centers is one of the largest operators of data centers in India but has yet to expand internationally. Last year, Carlyle acquired a 24 percent stake in Nxtra for $325 million, creating a joint vent...

June 02, 2023

Nxtra Data Ltd

Batelco announces Bahrain data center now 100% solar powered

Batelco, Beyon Group's telecoms unit, has announced that one of its facilities is now Bahrain's first 100 percent green-energy-powered data center.This news follows the completion of Phase 2 of the Solar Park at the Beyon Data Oasis at Hamala. The facility in Bahrain is now entirely powered by...

June 01, 2023

Bahrain

Airtel plans to take data center arm Nxtra to Africa

Airtel has announced that it will be taking Nxtra, its data center arm, to Africa. Vani Venkatesh, Chief Executive Officer at Airtel Global Business, explained that the company already has 40 edge data centers in Africa, used for internal uses, as well as two submarine cables to Africa, 2Afri...

June 01, 2023

Bharti Airtel

STT GDC Will Make a $242m Investment in a Pair of Data Centers in Pune, India

STT GDC is adding two new data centers to its Pune, India campus. The company intends to invest $241.9 million in the expansion, which will add 40MW to the campus' total capacity of 80MW across five buildings. The new data centers are anticipated to go live in phases over the next 12 to 24 mon...

June 01, 2023

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

Missouri Globe Building Data Center Property For Lease

Data center space is available for lease at the Globe Building carrier hotel in St. Louis, Missouri. The fourth floor of the structure at 710 North Tucker Blvd. has 28,700 square feet of floor space available, of which 16,000 square feet is built-out data center space, according to a listing b...

June 01, 2023

Missouri

SZZT Electronics to build new facility for Henan Digital

According to MarketScreener, SZZT Electronics has signed a 263.2 million yuan contract to work on a new data center building for Henan Digital Central Plains Data located in Zhengzhou City, China.As per the deal, construction will run for 420 days and operations at the data center will not beg...

June 01, 2023

Pittsburgh Data Center up for Sale or Lease

A data center for sale or lease is available in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Colliers and Five 9s Digital are offering the McKees Rock facility located at 615 McMichael Road. The site is listed for lease in Colliers' materials, but Five 9s claims it can be purchased or leased. The circa 1980-cons...

June 01, 2023

Pittsburgh

KIO aims to double capacity of data centers by 2025

KIO has shared its plans to double its data center capacity over the next two years. "Our growth plan involves creating over the next two years the same capacity we have accumulated in the last 22 years. It will be a significant investment," commented Kio chief executive officer, Jorge Sapien...

May 31, 2023

KIO Data Centers

Pure DC launches new facility in Jakarta, Indonesia

Pure Data Centres has launched a facility in Jakarta, Indonesia, its Director for Indonesian operations, Chandra Irawan, announced on LinkedIn this week. This is the company's first in the region. The facility will have a 20MW IT load capacity, spanning 20,000 square metres and will support d...

May 31, 2023

Indonesia

Equinix to open its third International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Dubai

Equinix has announced that it is opening its third International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Dubai, which, at full build-out, will offer 1,800 cabinets of capacity across two phases or a total footprint of 12,000 square meters (135,000 square feet). The facility will support the co...

May 31, 2023

Equinix

CtrlS Plans to Invest $18.1m on a Data Center in Odisha, India

CtrlS Datacenters will invest $18.1 million in a greenfield Edge data center in Odisha, India. On May 30, the corporation began work on the data center in the capital city of the state, Bhubaneswar. It is anticipated that approximately 110 jobs will be created in the city of Bhubaneswar as a r...

May 31, 2023

CtrlS Dubai

SoftBank and NVIDIA Partner for AI Data Centers all through Japan

SoftBank Corp has partnered with the American multinational technology firm NVIDIA to set up a platform for dynamic artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G/6G products. It is built on the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip, and SoftBank intends to deploy it in Japan's new distributed AI data cent...

May 31, 2023

Japan

Rackspace Experiences Disruptions in London, Sydney and Hong Kong

Rackspace is presently experiencing an outage across its European and Asia-Pacific data centers. In their SYD2, LON5, LON3, and HKG5 data centers, they encountered connectivity issues. Later, Rackspace announced that it had been discovered that any affected Linux VMs (virtual machines) would r...

May 31, 2023

Rackspace

Megatelecom will Install a Fiber and Edge Data Center Network All Through Brazil

Megatelecom, a Brazilian telecommunications provider, intends to deploy scores of Edge data centers nationwide and expand its fiber backbone. Following the fiber expansion, the company will construct a data center at the site. Megatelecom plans to repeat this process until 2028 when the compan...

May 31, 2023

Brazil / Brasil

1.8 million-square-foot Data Center Campus Planned on RV site in Gainesville, Virginia

Prince William County, Virginia, is considering the development of a new data center park. A developer has submitted designs for an 82-acre data center campus in Gainesville's Hillwood Camping Park. The 'Gardner Property' development could bring up to 1.8 million sq ft of data facilities and a...

May 31, 2023

Virginia

HRW reissues call to halt Microsoft's Saudi Arabia plans, along with 17 other human rights organisations

Following Human Rights Watch’s call for Microsoft to suspend plans in Saudi Arabia, 17 more groups have now joined the campaign, citing human rights concerns. The human rights groups have highlighted the government’s track record of infiltrating technology programs for spying purposes and its ...

May 30, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Rolling blackouts continue in South Africa, difficult winter ahead

In South Africa, state power utility Eskom has warned that energy issues will endure and even get worse by winter as the power crisis continues. According to Calib Cassim, Eskom’s acting chief executive, while the country is currently facing outages for more than 10 hours a day, going forward,...

May 30, 2023

South Africa

Criticisms launched at Amazon's $1 billion subsidy in eastern Oregon

Amazon's contentious $1 billion subsidy in Oregon is coming under fire from critics. The massive break was given the go-ahead following a unanimous vote by Port of Morrow's five commissioners which enabled the giant to secure the enterprise zone incentives. Locals were given just one day's no...

May 30, 2023

Amazon AWS

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