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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)

1547 CSR Has Plans For a 150MW Facility in Pennsylvania

Fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547) has plans for a large data center campus in Pennsylvania. The company partnered with Green Fig Land Company (GFLC), a real estate company, to acquire over 100 acres of land to develop a data center campus. The data center will span 2 million squ...

September 05, 2022

1547 Critical Systems Realty (fifteenfortyseven)

Africa Data Centres To Add 30MW Capacity To Its Johannesburg Data Center

Africa Data Centres (ADC) has announced that it has started expansion work on its Samrand data center. The expansion will see ADC add 30MW of power to one of its Johannesburg data center campuses. Africa Data Centres (ADC) is pan-African technology group business of Cassava Technologies. It ow...

September 05, 2022

Teraco Johannesburg JB1

Amazon Web Services Launches UAE Cloud Region

Amazon Web Services has announced the launch of its new cloud region in the United Arab Emirates. The company said the cloud region’s official name is Middle East (UAE). It also noted that the API name is me-central-1. According to AWS, the zone is ready for use to store data and deploy worklo...

September 05, 2022

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Microsoft's Staffanstorp, Sweden Data Center Expansion Plan Canceled

Microsoft has announced that it is no longer expanding one of its data centers in Sweden. Instead, it will explore other locations in the country to develop a new data center. Microsoft first announced a new Azure cloud region in Sweden in November 2020. It also officially opened the new cl...

September 02, 2022

Microsoft Sandviken, Sweden

DataVita Announces Expansion Plan For its Fortis Data Center

DataVita has announced that it is expanding its Fortis data center in Scotland. The company plans to invest £8 million ($9.3m) in the facility. The plan is to add 400 racks and 5,380 square feet (500 square meters) of space to its flagship data center. The MD of DataVita, Danny Quinn, said:...

September 02, 2022

DataVita: Lanarkshire DV1

Equinix Expands its M2 Data Center in Melbourne, Australia

Equinix has announced that it has completed the expansion of its second Melbourne data center in Australia. The expansion cost the company $23 million (US$ 15.7m). Equinix first opened the ME2 data center in February 2020. The company acquired 500 new cabinets to increase the data center’s tot...

September 02, 2022

Equinix Melbourne ME2

CloudHQ To Develop a 180MW Facility in Minnesota

According to BizJournal, CloudHQ has plans to develop a data center in Chaska, Minnesota. The data center campus will sit on 72 acres of land in Carver County, Chaska. Per the filing, CloudHQ wants to either develop a large 1.8 million square feet (167,225 square meters) building or four build...

September 01, 2022

CloudHQ

Google Gets Land in Bissen, Luxemburg Reclassified For Potential $1B Data Center

Google has announced that its land in Bissen, Luxemburg, has finally been reclassified for data center use. The company confirmed that construction can now begin on the land, which is planned for a €1 billion ($1bn) data center. Once completed, this will be one of the most significant const...

September 01, 2022

Google

Bridge Data Centres Expands into Thailand With Data Center Acquisition

Bridge Data Centres has announced it has expanded its operations into Thailand by acquiring a data center in Bangkok. The data center company acquired the facility from WHA Logistics. The company did not reveal the details of the deal. The data center acquired called BKK01 spans 70,000 squa...

August 31, 2022

Bridge Data Centres

Protests over Amazon's Manassas data center

Amazon’s Manassas data center has come under fire over noise pollution. According to reports, activists in Prince William County, Virginia, have united to protest against the facility, citing that the “area is being overrun with data center development,” and subsequently, the constant noise i...

August 30, 2022

AWS US East (N. Virginia)

Thames Water launches probe into data center water use in London

It has been revealed that Thames Water has launched a probe into the water use of data centers in the UK's capital, following the utility company’s discovery that UK data centers have been using drinking water to cool down their servers. The news of review comes as the UK’s hosepipe ban comes...

August 30, 2022

London

AWS Looking To Develop a 900,000 Square Feet Data Center Campus in Bristow, Northern Virginia

Amazon Web Services has plans to develop an 83,600 square meter (900,000 square feet) data center campus in Bristow, Northern Virginia. The company has filed to rezone over 59 acres in Nokesville Road from A-1, Agricultural to Planned Business Development. This is for the sole purpose of devel...

August 29, 2022

Amazon AWS

Edge Centres Developing Edge Data Center in Thailand

Edge Centres has announced expansion into Thailand. The company said it is developing three locations in the country and work has started on the first one. The Australian Edge data center firm will deploy the EC61 Chiang Mai site first. EC62 Phuket and EC63 Khon Kaen will also follow in qui...

August 29, 2022

Edge Centres

Involta Expands its Independence, Ohio Facility

Involta has announced the expansion of its data center in Independent, Ohio. The data center company added 1,300 square meters (14,000 square feet) of space to the facility. It also added 1MW of power to the data center. The facility is located at 7300 E Pleasant Valley Road. The expansion ...

August 29, 2022

Ark: Independence

Google Announces The Launch of its Third Facility in Singapore

Search engineer giant Google has announced opening of a new data center in Singapore. The company said in a statement: "We announced our first data center in Singapore in 2011, our second in 2015, and we recently hit another important milestone - with our third data center facility complete...

August 29, 2022

Google

Rostelecom Announces Plan For a Backup Data Center For Sverdlovsk Government

Rostelecom has announced that it is developing a backup data center for Russia’s Yekaterinburg local government. The vice president and director of PJSC Rostelecom Yekaterinburg said: “Our team has already equipped the premises for the data center, having installed and launched all engineering...

August 29, 2022

Rostelecom

CloudHQ Begins Construction of 80MW 1.5 Million Square Feet Data Center Campus in Illinois

CloudHQ has announced that it has begun constructing a new facility in Mount Prospect, Illinois. Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd), an energy provider, said the (140,000 square meters) 1.5 million square feet data center campus would cost $2.5 billion. The first phase of the development i...

August 29, 2022

CloudHQ

India's data center boom: Growth and projections

India is currently experiencing a data center boom, an expansion that is only expected to grow. According to research, while the industry was previously fragmented, it is now evolving rapidly as the industry becomes more consolidated. Presently, there are 138 data centers spanning India, with ...

August 29, 2022

India / Bhārata

Scala Data Centers Announce The Launch of SP4 in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Scala Data Centers has announced the launch of its SP4 data center in Sao Paulo, Brazil. SP4 is located on the company’s Tambore data center campus in the Barueri area of Sao Paulo. The company told BNAmericas that the data center is at its first stage and will provide up to 6MW of IT power...

August 26, 2022

Scala: SGRUTB01 Tamboré

Canberra Data Centres Opens Two New Data Centers in Auckland, New Zealand

Canberra Data Centres has announced the opening of two new facilities in Auckland, New Zealand. The Australian data center company launched the data centers in Auckland's Hobsonville and Silverdale areas. The Silverdale campus is called Auckland Campus One, while the Hobsonville data center is...

August 25, 2022

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