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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)

$1.7bn Lebanon County Data Center Plan Withdrawn by Developer

A proposal for a $1.7 billion data center campus in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, has been withdrawn by developer Inch & Company. The project included plans for five data centers spanning roughly 640,000 square feet on a 100-acre site near Mt. Pleasant Road, including the rezoning of 58 ac...

May 15, 2026

Pennsylvania

Digital Halo has topped out its Data Center in Johor

Digital Halo, a Singapore-based data center developer, has topped out the first building at its campus in Johor. The company recently marked the topping out of its JHB1 facility with the installation of the final steel beam. Announced last year and targeted to go live in Q4 2026, the first pha...

May 14, 2026

Digital Halo

Azio AI has Delivered a 5MW Modular Data Center to Envirotech Vehicles in Texas

Azio AI is set to deliver 5MW of modular data center capacity to a site in South Texas. The modules will be supplied to Envirotech Vehicles for its campus, which will run on behind-the-meter natural gas power. The companies previously announced a non-binding LOI in January for a $480 million m...

May 14, 2026

Texas

Cloverleaf Proposes 633-Acre Data Center Project in Canadian County

Cloverleaf Infrastructure is proposing a 633-acre data center project, known as Project Open Sky, in Canadian County. The company has submitted an annexation petition and rezoning application to the City of Piedmont for a 633-acre site located between Azalea Road NW, Richland Road NW, and Moff...

May 14, 2026

Cloverleaf Infrastructure

Goldman Sachs has Acquired Canadian Data Center Firm QScale

Goldman Sachs has acquired Canadian data center firm QScale. The firm announced this week that its Infrastructure unit within Goldman Sachs Alternatives has completed the acquisition in partnership with QScale’s founders and management team. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.Mar...

May 14, 2026

Goldman Sachs

DataBank Plans to Install a 3.1MW Rooftop Solar Array at its HOU3 Data Center in Houston

U.S. data center operator DataBank has revealed plans to install a 3.1MW rooftop solar array at its HOU3 facility in Houston, Texas. Once completed, the installation is expected to become the largest rooftop solar project in the Houston metropolitan area, producing around 4.5 million kilowatt-...

May 13, 2026

Texas

Developer Pulls Proposed Data Center Project in Pekin, Illinois

Developer Western Hospitality Partners (WHP) has officially withdrawn its proposal to develop a data center in Pekin, Illinois, roughly two months after Mayor Mary Burress announced publicly that the city would not proceed with the project. “This letter shall serve as purchaser’s notice to ter...

May 13, 2026

Illinois

Developer Abandons 160-Acre Prince William County Data Center Project

Developer Highland Properties Manassas LLC has withdrawn its proposal to develop Quantico Ridge, a roughly 160-acre data center project in Prince William County, Virginia. The company also pulled its application to rezone land parcels at 14854 and 14900 Dumfries Road for industrial use. The pr...

May 13, 2026

Virginia

Prime Plans to Construct Two Data Centers Outside Austin, Texas

Prime DC has submitted plans to build two data centers near Austin, Texas. The company has registered with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation to construct the facilities in Lockhart, Caldwell County. The projects, named AUS01 and AUS02 and located at 1395 Bob White Road, will eac...

May 13, 2026

Prime Data Centers

Alceon has Launched a Data Center Fund and Invested in Insite DC

Australian investment company Alceon is backing local data center developer Insite DC through its newly launched Data Centre Catalyst Fund. The firm said it plans to invest at least AU$100 million (US$72m) in initial capital to support site acquisitions and data center developments across Aust...

May 12, 2026

Australia

Amazon Purchases Leased Virginia Data Center for $65 Million

Amazon has purchased a data center in Manassas, Virginia, that it had previously been leasing. According to local property records cited by BizJournal, an affiliate of Menlo Equities sold the property at 7505 Mason King Court to Amazon Data Services for $65 million. The 110,000-square-foot (10...

May 12, 2026

Amazon AWS

Ex-Walmart Site in Milwaukee Could Become a Data Center

A former Walmart property in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, could be redeveloped into a data center. The city’s plan commission is reviewing two proposals that would permit the development of an “indoor self-storage facility and data processing/computer services/computer research facility” at 5825 W. H...

May 12, 2026

Walmart

Equinix is Building its Fourth Data Center in Malaysia

Equinix will build its fourth data center in Malaysia, KL2, in Kuala Lumpur. The US$190 million facility will house over 2,200 cabinets at full build-out, though its size and IT capacity were not disclosed. Equinix said the new data center will be located less than 1 km from its KL1 facility i...

May 12, 2026

Equinix

Concerns Grow Over Proposed 300-acre Land Sale for Data Center Project in Hillsboro

Residents in Hillsboro gathered in large numbers at a public meeting to raise concerns about a proposed data center that could be developed in the city. The project may be built on a 300-acre property currently owned by the Hillsboro Economic Development Corporation. Real estate company Provid...

May 11, 2026

Texas

A Utility in Ypsilanti has Placed a One-year Freeze on Providing Electricity to New Data Centers

The primary utility serving Ypsilanti has approved a one-year moratorium on providing water and sewage services to new data center developments. The decision was backed by both the Ypsilanti City Council and the Charter Township Board of Trustees, which voted in favor on March 3 and April 15, ...

May 11, 2026

Michigan

Florida Passed a Data Center Law on Rates, Water, and Zoning

Ron DeSantis has signed a new law in Florida regulating how large data centers are built, powered, and financed. The law, SB 484, prevents utilities from shifting data center infrastructure costs onto residential and small-business customers, requires large users to pay their full service cost...

May 11, 2026

Florida

ABB Invests $200m in Europe to Boost Medium-Voltage Production for Data Centers

ABB has unveiled a $200 million investment plan to expand its medium-voltage manufacturing capacity across Europe over the next three years, aiming to strengthen power infrastructure supply for utilities, industrial operators, and data centers.“This $200 million investment will strengthen ABB’...

May 11, 2026

Europe

Top Data Center News for 4th-9th of May, 2026

706-Acre Data Center Development Approved Near San Antonio, TexasCloudBurst has received approval for a 706-acre data center development outside San Antonio, Texas, where it plans to invest $14.5 billion to construct between 10 and 12 data center buildings in the project expected to span aroun...

May 11, 2026

United States

Two Data Centers with 5MW Combined Capacity Planned in Nepal

A pair of data centers with a combined capacity of 5MW is planned for development in Nepal. Local operator Bichuten Data Vault announced that the facilities will also represent Nepal’s first Tier IV hyperscale data center. The two planned facilities will be located in Kathmandu, Nepal’s capita...

May 09, 2026

United States

Algeria and Oman Governments Partner to Develop Data Centers

Oman and Algeria are set to collaborate on developing data centers, alongside broader initiatives in artificial intelligence and digital government, according to Algerie Direct. The agreement focuses on exchanging expertise and exploring opportunities in digital transformation and innovation, ...

May 09, 2026

Oman

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