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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)

Equinix tests hydrogen fuel cell power

Equinix is the latest company in the industry to trial hydrogen fuel cells as a power source for data centers. The company will be working in partnership with the Centre for Energy Research & Technology (CERT) under the National University of Singapore's (NUS) College of Design and Engine...

September 30, 2022

Equinix

NTT to build new 30MW data center in Kansai region of Japan

NTT is building a new 30MW data center in the Kansai region of Japan, it has been announced. The facility, which is being constructed in Soraku-gun, Kyoto Prefecture, will be a four-story, seismic-isolated structure. Model image of the completed data center The building wi...

September 30, 2022

NTT

The Uptime Institute’s 2022 Global Data Center Survey reveals the industry must evolve its sustainability reporting practices and prevent costly outages

On September 20th, Uptime released its 12th Annual Global Data Center Survey, which analyzed the growth and sustainability efforts of the industry, as well as the challenges it is facing. The report noted that the industry is “growing, dynamic and increasingly resilient” but largely failing on...

September 30, 2022

Europe

Evocative Announces The Close of The Acquisition of INAP's Data Center

Evocative has announced that it has completed and closed the acquisition of the majority of INAP’s data center facilities. The acquisition also covers colocation and related network services. With the acquisition, the Evocative data center portfolio reaches nine. In addition, the company’s emp...

September 29, 2022

Evocative

Enovum launches its phase 1 in Montreal

Enovum Data Centers has announced that the first phase of its Montreal facility has been launched. It will soon begin its second phase.With 70,000 sqft of infrastructure and move-in space availability for a total of 187,500 sqft, the facility's first phase also has a capacity of 1.5 MW. Once c...

September 29, 2022

Montreal

Microsoft signs nuclear carbon credits deal with Ontario Power Generation (OPG) as part of strategic partnership

Microsoft has signed a new energy deal with Canadian energy firm Ontario Power Generation (OPG) as part of a strategic partnership targeted at tackling climate change and “driving sustainable growth” in Ontario. According to Microsoft, the giant will procure Clean Energy Credit sourced from OP...

September 28, 2022

Microsoft Azure

Digital Realty files to build data center in Chicago

Digital Realty has reportedly filed to construct a new data center in Chicago, Illinois. The application for construction on the facility outlines that it would span 565,000-square-foot (52,500 sqm) as a 13-story building at 321-337 E. 21st Street, which is opposite 350 E Cermak carrier hotel...

September 28, 2022

Digital Realty Trust

Bulk announces it is expanding its facilities in Oslo and Kristiansand and prioritizing sustainability

Bulk is expanding both of its Norwegian data centers in Oslo and Kristiansand. The company outlined that it has already completed the installation of an on-site substation at its NO1 campus in Kristiansand, adding 100MW and has commenced work on the second data center at its NO1 campus. This ...

September 28, 2022

Bulk Infrastructure AS

Oracle Launches First Cloud Region in Madrid, Spain

Oracle has announced that it has launched a cloud region in the capital of Spain. The launch sees Oracle's total cloud region across the globe hit 40. This is the country's first region in the country. The general manager of Oracle Spain, Albert Triola, said: "Local organizations and public in...

September 28, 2022

Oracle

Datum Datacentres Acquires Teledata

Teledata has been acquired by Datum Datacentres. Datum Datacentres announced the acquisition of the Manchester-based colocation data center. Interestingly, Datum was also acquired last year by UBS. According to the company, the acquisition is a part of its regional expansion strategy. Detai...

September 28, 2022

Datum Datacentres Limited

Cyxtera To Adopt REIT Status

Cyxtera has announced that it is adopting a real estate investment trust (REIT) status. This move provides better tax status while making steady and consistent dividends available for its shareholders. However, the company needs to make most of its revenue from income-producing real estate. Th...

September 28, 2022

Cyxtera Technologies

Widespread internet outages in Iran amid protests around the killing of Mahsa Amini

Amid mounting protests over the killing of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, the Iranian government recently expanded its internet shutdown. Amini had been held in the custody of Tehran’s morality police for allegedly violating the country’s strict Islamic dress code by wearing her headscarf too loosel...

September 28, 2022

Middle East

Yondr To Develop a 42MW Facility in Berlin, Germany

Yondr Group has announced plans to develop data centers in the municipality of Ragow, outside Berlin, Germany. Upon full build-out, the data center campus will offer 42MW of power. Phase 1 of the development will deliver 10MW of power. This phase is also scheduled to be in operation in 2024. U...

September 28, 2022

Yondr Group

QScale starts work on second building at Quebec Lévis campus

QScale has reportedly commenced construction of Phase 2 of its campus in Lévis, outside Quebec City, a year ahead of schedule. The construction is one of the largest in the greater Quebec City region, and the project has seen an injection of $1 billion. QScale Speaking a...

September 27, 2022

QScale

AQ Compute To Develop a 50MW Data Center in Barcelona, Spain

AQ Compute has announced a partnership with CBRE that will see the company develop a new data center in Barcelona, Spain. The data center will have a capacity of 50MW and is scheduled to come online before the end of 2024. In addition to the 50MW facility, AQ Compute plans to develop more data...

September 27, 2022

AQ Compute

Yandex expands in Russia with new 63MW facility

Yandex has announced that it is expanding in western Russia, with the addition of a new 63MW facility in the Grabtsevo industrial park in Kaluga, around 100 miles south of Moscow. According to reports, the data center is expected to span 130,000 square meters and house more than 3,800 server ...

September 27, 2022

Yandex NV

South Africa faces unprecedented power cuts

South Africa is reportedly facing unprecedented levels of nationwide power blackouts. These blackouts come as a result of state-owned power utility Eskom, which produces 95% of the country’s electricity, implementing Stage 6 load shedding, which means that homes and businesses go without elect...

September 26, 2022

South Africa

Safaricom to expand footprint in Ethiopia

Safaricom is to build a new data center outside Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, it has been announced. This comes following the signing of a developed land sublease agreement with Industrial Parks Development Corporation (IPDC) to build a new Tier-III quality ‘telco-cloud data center’. The facility wil...

September 26, 2022

Ethiopia

China's energy challenges, climate change, and what it means for data centers

Back in May 2021, Greenpeace said that China's data center emissions were to double, with its energy usage expected to nearly quadruple by 2035 (increasing by an estimated 289%). "Explosive growth" in digital infrastructure was identified as a major contributing factor to this. Considering the...

September 26, 2022

China

Cargill moves into the bio-industrial business with its plant-based immersion cooling

Cargill, an American food producer giant and the third largest meat producer in the world, has announced that it has created the world's first plant-based dielectric fluid for immersion cooling fluid in data centers. Named NatureCool 2000, the cooling liquid was designed for the data center an...

September 26, 2022

United States

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