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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)

Dycom Acquires Data Center Focused Critical Power Firm Power Solutions for $1.95bn

Dycom Industries, a US-based specialty contractor for digital infrastructure, is set to acquire Power Solutions, an electrical contractor serving data centers, for $1.95 billion.“This is a milestone acquisition for Dycom that diversifies our business and significantly enhances our potential to...

November 29, 2025

United States

Scala Data Centers Secures R$200 Million Financing

Brazil's National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) has approved financing of R$200 million ($37.2m) for Scala Data Centers to invest in the acquisition and installation of equipment and materials for the infrastructure of its data centers.The financing approved by the BNDES is ...

November 28, 2025

Scala Data Centers

University of Bristol to Build Data Processing Facility

The University of Bristol has announced plans to develop a National AI Data Facility to support large-scale data processing efforts. The multi-million-pound data repository will be housed at the National Composites Centre (NCC) at the Bristol and Bath Science Park, next to the UK’s Isambard-AI...

November 28, 2025

United Kingdom

Amazon Announces $15bn Data Center & AI Investment Plan

Amazon is to invest $15 billion in data center & AI infrastructure in Indiana. This is in addition to the $11 billion investment announced last year in St. Joseph County. The company said it aims to add 2.4GW of capacity in the region, expanding to new sites in the Hoosier State.“These fac...

November 28, 2025

Amazon AWS

Ethiopian Electric Utility Leases Space at Wing Ddata Center

Ethiopian Electric Utility (EEU) has signed an agreement with Wingu.Africa to lease space at the latter's data center in Addis Ababa. EEU hopes to improve the reliability, security, and efficiency of its operations through the deployment, enabling it to better serve its customers across Ethiop...

November 27, 2025

Addis Ababa

Optical Data Storage Company SPhotonix Raises $4.5m

Optical data storage company SPhotonix has raised $4.5 million in a pre-seed funding round, led by Creator Fund and XTX Ventures, the venture capital arm of XTX Markets. The funding would allow it to scale up its photonics and engineering teams, expand its R&D efforts across the US and Eur...

November 27, 2025

Digital Realty Breaks Ground on Latest Data Center in Frankfurt, Germany

Digital Realty this week announced the start of construction on FRA20, located at Digital Park Fechenheim. The facility is expected to deliver approximately 16MW of IT capacity across more than 8,100 sqm (87,188 sq ft). The first phase of FRA20 is expected to be operational in spring 2027.“Our...

November 27, 2025

Digital Realty Trust

Google Cloud Secures Sovereign Cloud Contract with NATO

The NATO Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) has signed an agreement with Google Cloud that will see the latter delivering sovereign cloud capabilities. The NCIA will use Google Distributed Cloud (GDC), Google's on-premises offering that sees Google hardware deployed in a customer's da...

November 26, 2025

Google

Fossefall Acquires Data Center in Telemark, Norway

Fossefall this week announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Fyresdal Datacenter from Norwegian holding company Norsk Data AS to establish its first AI factory in Norway. stment firm Valinor, AI startup WAIYS, and renewable energy company Norsk Solar."The establishment of Fossefa...

November 26, 2025

Norway

Vodacom to Migrate Data Assets to Google Cloud

Pan-African telco Vodacom is set to partner with Google Cloud, migrating its data platforms to Google Cloud, as well as adopting Google's AI capabilities. The migration will enable Vodacom to unify its data assets and use AI to improve its operational efficiency and offer new AI-powered servic...

November 26, 2025

Google

National Development Files to Redevelop Former Intel Campus

Real estate company National Development has submitted plans to redevelop a 148-acre property at 75 Reed Road in Hudson, Massachusetts, that previously housed Intel’s HD2 campus. National said it is seeking to transform the site into a “state-of-the-art industrial campus,” totaling approximate...

November 26, 2025

Massachusetts

Frontier to Purchase Carbon Removal Credits from Reverion

Carbon credit purchasing consortium Frontier, which counts Google and Meta as founding members, has signed a deal with German biogas carbon capture firm Reverion to remove 96,000 tons of CO2 between 2027 and 2030.“Reverion’s approach is a smart upgrade to a well-known industrial process—turnin...

November 26, 2025

United States

Solaria Launches European Data Center Platform

Spanish energy firm Solaria Energia has formally launched its European sustainable data center platform. The platform includes approximately 3.4GW of secured grid power across 400 hectares (990 acres) spanning Spain, Italy, Germany, and the UK. In addition, the company has reportedly requested...

November 25, 2025

Spain

Center3 Signs Colo Deal with Sahara Net

Center3 and Saudi ICT company Sahara Net have entered a strategic colocation partnership, under which Sahara Net will establish dedicated hosting services within Center3’s data center facilities across the Kingdom.“Our partnership with Sahara Net reflects Center3’s commitment to building an op...

November 25, 2025

Saudi Arabia

UAE to Invest $1bn in AI Infrastructure across Africa

The UAE has said that it will invest $1 billion in AI infrastructure across Africa. The announcement was made on Saturday at the G20 leaders’ summit in Johannesburg by UAE Minister of State Saeed Bin Mubarak Al Hajeri, who said that the funds would “provide access to AI computing power, techni...

November 24, 2025

Africa

Google to Build Australia-Thailand Subsea Cable

Google this week announced TalayLink, a new subsea cable connecting Australia and Thailand to “significantly increase the reach, reliability, and resilience of digital connectivity across Asia Pacific and around the world.”As part of the project, Google is also planning new connectivity hubs i...

November 24, 2025

Google

Penzance Secures AWS as Tenant for Virginia Facility

Real estate firm Penzance this week announced that Amazon will lease the 45MW, 240,000 sq ft (22,296 sqm) facility, located at 4151 Autopark Circle in Chantilly. Construction work has started and is expected to be completed in the first half of 2027. The facility will utilize air-cooled system...

November 24, 2025

Amazon AWS

Top Data Center News for 17th-22nd November, 2025

xAI and Humain to Build 500MW Saudi Arabia Data CenterElon Musk’s xAI is partnering with Humain to build a 500MW data center in Saudi Arabia, set to become one of the most advanced AI compute hubs globally.ESR Partners with Wide Creek for 80MW Incheon FacilityAPAC real estate firm ESR this wee...

November 24, 2025

United States

Majestic Labs Raises $100m for All In One Servers

An AI server startup founded by former Google and Meta executives emerged from stealth earlier this month following a $100 million Series A funding round. According to the company, its all-in-one server is capable of handling the largest AI workloads that currently require multiple racks of se...

November 22, 2025

Google

xAI and Humain to Build 500MW Saudi Arabia Data Center

Elon Musk’s xAI is partnering with Humain to build a 500MW data center in Saudi Arabia. As part of the agreement, xAI’s Grok models will be deployed in Saudi Arabia. A location for the first data center has not been revealed, but an announcement from the two firms said it will “become one of t...

November 22, 2025

Saudi Arabia

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