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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)

Google Cloud Signs Agreement with UK gov't to Reduce Legacy Tech Reliance

Google Cloud and the UK government are teaming up to tackle the UK's reliance on legacy IT as both parties hope to save taxpayer money by replacing old technology. Google has also teamed up with the Imperial War Museum to digitize and transcribe its oral history collection, and is working with...

July 11, 2025

Google

Aon Launches $1.5 Billion Data Center Insurance Product

Insurance firm Aon this week announced the launch of its Data Center Lifecycle Insurance Program (DCLP), a proprietary multi-line insurance facility designed to help clients manage risk across every stage of data center development and operations.“Today’s data centers are the backbone of the g...

July 11, 2025

United States

AST SpaceMobile Secures $100m Funding for Manufacturing

AST SpaceMobile has secured a $100 million equipment financing facility to support the satellite operator's manufacturing and network deployment goals during 2025 and 2026. The satellite provider revealed that the non-dilutive financing facility has been led by alternative asset manager Trinit...

July 10, 2025

Adriatic DC Announces Plans for Three Data Center Campuses in Italy

Adriatic DC this month announced plans for multiple data center campuses across Puglia in the southeast of Italy. The company claims the 'Puglia Data Center Valley' will total more than 2GW of capacity at full build-out, but few details have been shared."The Puglia Data Center Valley was creat...

July 10, 2025

Italy

Ascenty Plans More Facilities in São Paulo, Brazil

Latin American data center firm Ascenty, a joint venture between Digital Realty and Brookfield Infrastructure, recently celebrated 15 years in the Latin American market by announcing a new 47MW, 40,000 sqm (430,555 sq ft) facility.“We’ve seen strong demand from clients for space in our data ce...

July 10, 2025

Legrand Acquires More Companies in Data Center Push

Legrand this week announced the acquisition of Amperio Project and Quitérios to further its data center capabilities. Amperio Project is a Swiss specialist in busbars. Based in Murten, the company employs around 20 people and has annual sales of more than €4 million ($4.7m). Quitérios is a Por...

July 09, 2025

SiPearl Closes €130m Series A Financing Round

French chip designer SiPearl has closed a €130 million ($152m) Series A financing round, having raised €32m ($38m) in a third and final tranche which saw participation from existing investors, European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund and the French State, via French Tech Souveraineté, and new in...

July 09, 2025

SambaNova Launches Turnkey AI Inference Offering

AI solutions provider SambaNova has launched a turnkey AI inference data center product, dubbed "SambaManaged," which can be deployed in just 90 days and enables existing data centers to begin offering AI inference services with "minimal infrastructure modification."“Data centers are strugglin...

July 09, 2025

Oracle Database@AWS Now Generally Available

Oracle's Database@AWS offering has been made generally available, launching in two Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud regions, placing Oracle hardware within Amazon data centers. T“Customers have been putting their most valuable data in Oracle databases for decades,” said Karan Batta, senior vice...

July 09, 2025

BluSky AI Secures site for Utah Data Center

New data center firm BluSky AI Inc. this week announced the acquisition of the land lease and secured a total of 9.3MW of power to support its debut data center project in Utah.Under the agreement, DAM has assigned BluSky AI its exclusive right to utilize 9.3MW of solar and grid-interconnected...

July 09, 2025

Microsoft Buys 2.95m Tons of Carbon Removal Credits in Denmark

Microsoft has signed a carbon removal agreement with Gaia, a joint venture between Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and Vestforbrænding, for 2.95 million tons of carbon removal credits.The credits will be generated from Gaia’s Energy from Waste (EfW) carbon capture storage (CCS) retrof...

July 09, 2025

CareSuper to Leave AWS for Microsoft Azure

Australian superannuation fund CareSuper is migrating its applications and data from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to Microsoft Azure. Macquarie Cloud Services is to head the program, which will see the fund exiting VMware Cloud on AWS to a "Managed Edge Azure Local Offering."“Our goal is to optim...

July 08, 2025

ICS Arabia and XDS to Deliver Immersion Cooled Facilities in Saudi Arabia

ICS, a data center operator and manufacturer based in Saudi Arabia and XDS which is based in the UK and the UAE and specializes in cooling have signed a deal to construct two immersion-cooled data centers in Saudi Arabia.Arabia Abdullah Ayed Al Mazny, general manager of ICS, said: “Our partne...

July 08, 2025

MOL Partners with Kinetics for Floating Data Center Platform

Japanese shipping giant Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has partnered with Kinetics, an energy systems provider, to develop a floating data center platform. Both companies are to collaborate on the design, construction, and deployment of a data center hosted on a retrofitted vessel.The partnership w...

July 07, 2025

Japan

Imran Latif Joins Johnson Controls from Brookhaven

Imran Latif has joined Johnson Controls as vice president, global technology and innovation, data centers after spending the last 14-and-a-half years at Brookhaven National Laboratory, most recently as its chief operations officer (COO) for data center infrastructure."Having had the opportunit...

July 07, 2025

United States

Top Data Center News for 30th June - 5th July 2025

DigitalBridge and La Caisse Acquire YondrInvestment manager DigitalBridge and Canadian pension fund La Caisse have acquired data center firm, Yondr, assuming joint control of the firm after completing the purchase from its previous owner Cathexis Holdings for an undisclosed sum.Hut 8 Launches ...

July 07, 2025

Ofgem Approves £24bn in Transmission Upgrades

UK energy regulator Ofgem has provisionally approved a £24 billion ($32.7bn) investment package into the country’s gas and electricity transmission system.The funding will back the construction of 80 electricity transmission projects aimed at connecting more than 120GW of clean energy capacity...

July 05, 2025

United Kingdom

Alibaba Cloud Launches Third Data Center in Malaysia

Alibaba Cloud is continuing its global rollout of data centers, announcing the launch of a third site in Malaysia and also revealed that it will launch a second data center in the Philippines in October this year.In addition to the new data center locations, Alibaba Cloud has launched an AI Gl...

July 05, 2025

Alibaba Cloud

DigitalBridge and La Caisse Acquire Yondr

Investment manager DigitalBridge and Canadian pension fund La Caisse have completed their acquisition of Yondr, and appointed a new CEO for the hyperscale data center company. They now have joint control of Yondr, having purchased the firm from previous owner Cathexis Holdings for an undisclos...

July 04, 2025

DigitalBridge

Kao Data CEO Doug Loewe Steps Down

The CEO of UK data center company Kao Data, Doug Loewe, has stepped down. The company claimed that Loewe had "decided to dedicate more of his time" to philanthropic work, a cause with which he has a long history. Loewe was CEO for a year and a half.“On behalf of the Board and the entire team a...

July 04, 2025

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