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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)

Vertiv to acquire E&I Engineering Group for $2 billion

Vertiv is acquiring E&I Engineering Group, maker of busway, switchgear, and modular power solutions, for $2 billion. Vertiv announced that it would pay $1.8 billion upfront, which will consist of $630 million in stock and $1.17 billion in cash. There’s also a potential of $200 million c...

September 09, 2021

Vertiv

Chinese authorities push ahead with plans underwater data centers

Underwater data centers are increasingly being looked to solve the industry’s sustainability issue. Submerging data centers underwater is reportedly more energy-efficient, addresses space scarcity, and sees facilities encounter fewer failures. Now, authorities in China are planning to invest ...

September 08, 2021

China

Ireland's data center boom continues as Vantage files application to build two facilities near Dublin

Ireland's data center boom shows no signs of slowing, as Vantage Data Centers signs an application to build its first two data centers in the country, just outside of Dublin. Its initial application outlines plans for two facilities with a gross floor area of 40,589 sqm on an 8.7-hectare plot....

September 08, 2021

Vantage Data Centers

Rostelecom signs data center service deals with Russian Post and mining company Petropavlovsk

Russian telco Rostelecom has announced the signing of a new data center deal with Russian gold mining company Petropavlovsk and Russian Post. Rostelecom signed a five-year contract worth RUB13.5 billion ($184.3 million) with Russian Post to provide IT services. The agreement will see Rostel...

September 08, 2021

Rostelecom

Lendlease selects Google as primary cloud provider, plans to exit its data centers by 2022

Lendlease has selected Google Cloud as its primary cloud provider. Aside from that, it is also planning to exit all of its on-premises data centers by 2022. The news comes as a shock since it has a $1 billion data center fund and is in the process of developing a $600 million hyperscale fac...

September 08, 2021

Lendlease Data Centre Partners

CyrusOne awarded for net water positive efforts

CyrusOne's commitment was recently recognized by The Environment + Energy Leader Awards program, which awarded the company with the Top Project of the Year Award. The program highlights products and services that provide companies with environmental and energy benefits. CyrusOne secured the a...

September 08, 2021

CyrusOne

Lumen pays $275,000 to DoJ for contacting former customers it divested

Lumen Technologies, formerly known as CenturyLink, has agreed to pay $275,000 to resolve a Civil Contempt Claim by the Department of Justice for its acquisition of Level 3 Communications Inc in 2016. The Justice Department accused Lumen (formerly CenturyLink) of violating the terms designed...

September 07, 2021

Lumen Technologies

PLDT is considering selling its data centers for $500m

One of the biggest telcos in the Philippines, PLDT, is considering selling its data centers for approximately $500 million. PLDT has a total of ten data centers with a combined capacity of 72MW. Bloomberg reports that the Company is taking advice on a deal to sell these facilities potentially....

September 07, 2021

ePLDT

Africa Data Centres to invest $500m inbuilding 10 data centers across Africa

Africa Data Centres has announced its plans to spend $500 million building 10 data centers across the African continent in two years. It hopes to double its data center footprint with this investment. Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt are some of the countries it plans to invest in. The Company r...

September 06, 2021

Africa Data Centres

Keppel DC REIT acquires data center in Netherlands

Keppel Data Center REIT has acquired a data center in the Netherlands. The data center firm acquired 100% of the property, which has two data center buildings in De Hurk business Park, Eindhoven. Keppel paid €37.2 million ($44.1m) to a fund affiliated with MCAP Global Finance (UK) for the p...

September 06, 2021

Keppel Eindhoven Campus

Digital 9 acquires Verne Global as it strives for sustainability

Verne Global, which operates a 100% renewable powered data center campus in Iceland, has been acquired by Digital 9, following an investment of £231m (€271m).The purchase of the 40-acre, 24MW campus, is a first for Digital 9, being the only deal to involve a data center operator to date. Acco...

September 06, 2021

Verne: Keflavik Campus

China's data centers and climate change

China's data center market has seen incredible growth over the last few years. Back in 2019, the market was valued at USD 13.01 billion but is forecast to reach a value of USD 36.18 billion by 2025. It is also registering a CAGR of 19.2% from 2020 to 2025. While this is good news economically...

September 06, 2021

China

The importance of geographical diversification for Indian data centers

India's data center market is forecast to grow by a CAGR of around 12% between 2020−2026, which means the country is undoubtedly witnessing a data center boom. That said, as the country's data center footprint grows, industry veterans have warned that India must learn from the past mistakes o...

September 06, 2021

India / Bhārata

Prince William County officials to decide on data center in Northern Virginia

Prince William’s Board of County Supervisors is going to hold a public hearing on a proposed data center facility in Northern Virginia later this week. The purpose of the meeting is to decide whether to rezone the 196.28 acres of land across three properties from agricultural to industrial use...

September 06, 2021

Northern Virginia

GlobeNet expanding in Brazil by building second data center in Fortaleza

Globenet is going to build another data center in Fortaleza, Brazil. The facility is scheduled to be in operation by 2022. The Company says the new facility will triple the racks and power available in its existing Fortaleza data center. However, Globenet didn’t reveal the exact specificati...

September 03, 2021

Globenet

Equinix completes acquisition of GPX India

Equinix has finally completed the acquisition of the Indian operations of GPX Global Systems for $161 million. The purchase sees Equinix add two data centers in Mumbai to its portfolio. These facilities named Equinix MB1 and MB2 provide a combined 1,350 cabinets, with an additional 500 cabi...

September 03, 2021

Equinix Mumbai MB1

Interxion opens PAR12 on the East side of Paris

Interxion has announced the opening of its new data center outside Paris, France. Besides, the data center is also the Company’s 12th in the French capital region. The PAR12 facility is located 30km to the east of Paris in Ferrières-en-Brie. It has up to 12MW of IT capacity. It also has over 6...

September 03, 2021

Digital Realty: PAR12 Ferrières-en-Brie

Google plans to invest €1 billion ($1.18bn) in Frankfurt and Berlin

Google is looking to expand its data center operations in Germany with €1 billion ($1.18bn) worth of investments. The tech giant announced that it would launch a new region in Berlin-Brandenburg. It would also expand its Cloud Region in Frankfurt in a new facility in Hanau. The Company reveale...

September 02, 2021

Google

NTT plans to grow its data center footprint by 20% in the next 18 months

NTT ltd has announced it plans to increase its data center footprint in the next 18 months by 20%. The Company would be expanding some of its existing data centers and adding 300MW of capacity and 600,000 sqm (6.5 million square feet) of space within 18months. This expansion will be in 20 c...

September 02, 2021

NTT

Keppel DC REIT sells iseek data center in Brisbane, Australia for AU$34.5 million

Keppel DC REIT has completed the sale of its iseek-operated data center in Brisbane, Australia. Amber Infrastructure Group first acquired the majority stake in iseek in June. In July, Keppel announced that it had granted the Australian data center company iseek the option to purchase its 10...

September 01, 2021

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