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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)

Nordik DC Partners with Accelsius for New Data Center

Direct-to-chip cooling specialist Accelsius has partnered with Nordik Data Centers to build an AI data center in Montreal, Canada. The company said it has more than two million sq ft (185,800 sqm) of “ready to develop land," fully equipped with infrastructure and redundant fiber connectivity. ...

February 21, 2025

AREP Closes $309 Million Data Center Investment Fund

American Real Estate Partners (AREP), an institutional real estate fund manager and operating company, this week announced the closing of its fourth real estate GP fund, AREP Strategic Opportunity Fund IV with $309 million in equity commitments.“This $309 million raise signals both tremendous ...

February 21, 2025

STMicroelectronics Unveils New Data Center Photonics Chip

STMicroelectronics has launched a new data center photonics chip, developed in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS). The PIC100 chip was developed to support incoming 800Gbps and 1.6Tbps optical interconnects across all workloads, including artificial intelligence (AI).“AI is changing ...

February 20, 2025

Vantage to Rezone Farmland in Indiana for Data Center

Vantage Data Centers is asking to rezone the Smith Family Farms land, a 618 acres of farmland as "warehouse industrial," and intends to use 285 acres of the parcel for data center development. Plans for the remaining land have not been shared.At least three data center buildings will be develo...

February 20, 2025

Fluidstack Signs MoU for 1GW AI Supercomputer

GPU cloud provider Fluidstack has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the French government to build an AI supercomputer in the country which will be one of the world’s largest low-carbon AI supercomputers. The facility set to house the system will offer 1GW of dedicated AI compute and w...

February 19, 2025

Infleqtion Demonstrates UK’s Largest Quantum Neutral Atom Array

Quantum component manufacturer Infleqtion has successfully demonstrated a 16x16 neutral atom array, the largest reported array of its kind in the UK, a step which the company notes is crucial toward building scalable quantum processors capable of supporting fault-tolerant quantum computing.“We...

February 19, 2025

The Associated Press used Baxtel's data for Malaysian article

The Associated Press used Baxtel's data on the size of the Johor data center market for an in-depth article on Malaysia's growing market located near the tapped-out Singapore market. Read the article on the AP website

February 19, 2025

Colovore Begins Work on Reno data center

Liquid-cooled data center provider Colovore this week announced it has broken ground on its RN01 facility in Reno, Nevada. The 20MW site is set to launch in late 2025/early 2026. The site will offer densities of up to 250kW per rack through direct-to-chip and rear-door cooling. "Colovore was b...

February 19, 2025

Wa'ed Ventures Invests in AI Cloud Provider Ori

Aramco's venture capital arm Wa'ed Ventures has invested in UK AI cloud provider Ori to support Ori's expansion into the Middle East market over the next 12 months. The investment follows Ori's recent £140 million ($176.23m) raise, and the AI cloud provider has another larger raise underway th...

February 19, 2025

Amazon to Expand Data Center Presence in Oregon

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking to expand its data center footprint in Oregon and is in the process of securing 400 acres in Arlington for the project. According to the company, it could still be many years until it is actually operating a site in Arlington due to the process of getting p...

February 18, 2025

Microsoft to Invest $704m in Polish Data Centers Expansion

Microsofthas announced that it intends to spend PLN 2.8 billion ($704m) by June, 2026 to expand its hyperscale cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in Poland. The company will also collaborate with Polish National Defense to establish a framework to strengthen national cyberse...

February 18, 2025

Google Appoints Juli Johnston as Data Center Energy Strategic Negotiator

Google has appointed Juli Johnston most recently worked as part of the charging leadership team at Tesla as a data center energy strategic negotiator. She is the latest in a number of hires from the division to find a job in the data center sector. The hire has not been previously reported. "I...

February 17, 2025

Top Data Center News for 10-15th February 2025

The UK government says it will work with power companies to make up to 500MW of electricity available for new data center developments in each of its planned AI growth zones. They aim to create areas with favorable conditions for building AI infrastructure, with streamlined planning rules to e...

February 17, 2025

Google Goes Back on Word Not to DFevelop AI weapons

Google's parent company Alphabet has ditched its promise to not use artificial intelligence (AI) in weapons systems or surveillance tools. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai wrote a blog post outlining the company's "AI principles," in which he listed AI applications that the company would not pursue,...

February 17, 2025

Synopsys Extends Hardware-Assisted Verification Portfolio

Synopsys has expanded its Hardware-Assisted Verification (HAV) portfolio to support advanced semiconductor design. The updates include adding HAPS-200 prototyping and ZeBu-200 emulation systems to its product line and enhancing its ZeBu Server 5 to support scalability beyond 60 billion gates t...

February 15, 2025

Iron Mountain Invests in Ooredoo's Data Center Unit

Qatari telco Ooredoo and Iron Mountain have announced a partnership for data center growth across the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region. The deal will see Iron Mountain take a minority stake in Ooredoo’s data center company, MENA Digital Hub. “We are delighted to partner with Ooredoo ...

February 14, 2025

Zoom and Center3 to Deploy Node in Saudi Arabia

Zoom has partnered with data center provider Center3 to deploy a node in Saudi Arabia, it's first in the Kingdom, which will provide infrastructure to help address demand for its low-latency conferencing platform. "As part of our mission to provide seamless and reliable communications globally...

February 14, 2025

EU Allocates €20bn to Developing Four “AI gigafactories”

The European Commission is to spend billions of Euros on developing new AI supercomputing clusters. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the launch of InvestAI, an initiative to mobilize €200 billion ($209bn) for investment in AI, including a new European fund of €20bn ($20.9bn)...

February 14, 2025

Alibaba Cloud Launches New Data Center in Thailand

Alibaba Cloud has launched a second data center in Thailand today to meet increased demand in the country. The dual data centers will enable Alibaba Cloud to provide "scalable, elastic, and highly available cloud computing products with enhanced disaster recovery capabilities tailored to Thail...

February 13, 2025

Patrizia and CenterSquare Invest in Aligned Data Centers

Patrizia and CenterSquare have invested an undisclosed amount in Aligned data center which will support the previously announced $5bn primary equity and $7bn in debt commitments raised in January of this year. James Muir, head of Patrizia’s investment division, said: “This investment is a prim...

February 13, 2025

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