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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)

Microsoft’s First Data Center at Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin Campus Now Operational

The first data center at Microsoft’s Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin campus is now officially operational, the company confirmed on June 23. Construction was completed just over two years after the project was first announced. The site is part of Microsoft’s “Fairwater” data center design and will form...

June 23, 2026

Microsoft Azure

SpaceXAI to Resume Work on Memphis Data Center Wastewater Facility by Q1 2027

SpaceXAI plans to resume construction of its Memphis wastewater treatment facility by Q1 2027, nearly a year after the project stalled. The company has informed local officials that the $80 million plant will support its nearby data centers. First announced in February 2025, the facility describe...

June 23, 2026

Memphis

60MW Data Center Planned in Närpiö, Finland

A 60MW data center is being planned in western Finland by renewable energy firm Aurinkokarhu. Reported by local media including Yle and Vasabladet, the project would be located in Närpiö (Närpes), in the Ostrobothnia region. The company has signed a preliminary agreement to acquire 18 hectares of...

June 23, 2026

Finland

EdgeMode Plans 300MW Natural Gas Data Center Campus in Toledo, Spain

EdgeMode is expanding in Spain with plans for a 300MW “Malpica AI” data center project in Mora, Toledo province. The company is partnering with hydrogen fuel cell developer Bloom Energy to build a campus focused on AI workloads. The initiative represents an estimated €3 billion ($3.42bn) investme...

June 23, 2026

EdgeMode

Amazon Employees Back Data Center Regulations, Allege Workplace Retaliation

Three Amazon employees have alleged that the company retaliated against them after they testified in support of a Seattle data center moratorium. According to reports, the employees—Darius Irani, Patrick Schloesser, and Liesl Wigand, all members of Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ)—were...

June 22, 2026

Amazon AWS

Tesla Files Trademark Application for Modular Data Center Solution

Tesla appears poised to enter the containerized data center market, according to a new trademark filing. Reported by Electrek and others, the company has submitted an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a modular data center product called “Megapod,” described as a hardware ...

June 22, 2026

Tesla

Wyoming Approves Prometheus Hyperscale’s Gigawatt Data Center Campus

Prometheus Hyperscale has secured planning approval for its flagship Wyoming data center campus near Evanston. The Uinta County Board of Commissioners unanimously granted a conditional use permit for the 506-acre site. The project is expected to deliver an initial 1.25GW capacity, with plans to e...

June 22, 2026

Prometheus Hyperscale

Proposed Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Campus Planned for Kansas

A proposed gigawatt-scale data center campus in Kansas could cover up to 1,000 acres in Emporia’s Industrial Park IV. The Flint Hills Digital Campus plans to use a combination of dedicated grid infrastructure and on-site power generation, though further details have yet to be released. A prop...

June 22, 2026

Kansas

Alibaba Cloud Opens Fifth Data Center in Japan

Alibaba Cloud has launched its fifth data center in Japan, further expanding its infrastructure footprint in the country. The new facility comes just months after the company added a fourth availability zone to its Japan region in March 2026. Alibaba Cloud first established its Tokyo region in 20...

June 20, 2026

Alibaba Cloud

Firmus Plans 288MW Data Campus in Tasmania

Australian AI cloud and data center company Firmus is expanding its presence in Tasmania, with plans for a campus in Bell Bay and a potential second site in Wesley Vale. A development application has been lodged for the Bell Bay project, which the company describes as an “AI factory” to be built ...

June 20, 2026

Firmus Technologies

Equinix Trials Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology at Data Center in Ireland

Equinix has launched its first trial of hydrogen fuel cell technology as a replacement for diesel backup generation at a data center in Ireland. Working with ESB and GeoPura, the company has deployed two hydrogen-powered generators at its DB3 Data Center facility. The 12-week trial will support c...

June 19, 2026

Equinix

Verne Breaks Ground on New Data Center in Mäntsälä, Finland

Verne has begun construction on a new data center in Finland, marking the first phase of development at its Mäntsälä campus. The company announced this week that work is underway on the initial 70MW phase of its data center campus in the Kapuli area of Mäntsälä, further expanding its footprint in...

June 19, 2026

Finland

Aston Power Raises $20M to Expand Private Power Platform for Data Centers

US power delivery platform Aston Power has raised $20 million in a funding round led by TDK Ventures and JLL Spark Global Ventures to expand its presence in the data center sector. The company said it will use the funding to grow its operations across North America and accelerate deployment of it...

June 19, 2026

United States

Microsoft Begins Construction of La Porte Data Center Campus

Microsoft has broken ground on a new data center campus in La Porte, Indiana. Brad Smith, Microsoft vice chair and president, announced in a LinkedIn post that the groundbreaking ceremony took place on June 17. Smith wrote: "Today we broke ground in La Porte, Indiana, alongside Mayor Tom Dermo...

June 18, 2026

Microsoft Azure

Firstcolo Breaks Ground on New Data Center in Rosbach vor der Höhe, Germany

Firstcolo has started construction of FRA7, a 24MW data center in Rosbach vor der Höhe, near Frankfurt, Germany. The facility will span 11,555 sqm (124,360 sq ft) and support cloud, AI, and high-performance computing workloads. The €250 million ($290 million) project is scheduled to open in early...

June 18, 2026

FirstColo GmbH

Galaxy DC Secures $250 Million to Fund Data Center Platform Expansion

Singapore-based Galaxy DC has raised $250 million to fund its data center platform in an initial strategic financing round from a global investment institution. The company did not disclose the identity of the investor. Galaxy DC said the funding will support “GW-scale AI data center campuses ...

June 18, 2026

Galaxy Data Center (GDC)

UK Government to Decide on Data Center Planned for Former Bedfordshire Quarry

UK government ministers will decide whether to approve plans for a data center campus at a former quarry in Bedfordshire after the project was designated a development of national significance. Real estate firm Questpit is proposing the Quest Park Data Center campus on a 143-acre site at Ampthill...

June 18, 2026

United Kingdom

Tritax Big Box Moves Forward with 125MW Essex Data Center Project

Tritax Big Box is moving forward with plans to develop a 125MW data center in Chelmsford, UK. The company has entered into a development management agreement with Tritax Management LLP for the project, which will be constructed on a greenfield site along Beaulieu Parkway in Beaulieu Park. Earlier...

June 17, 2026

Tritax Big Box

Rackspace to Deploy 30MW of AMD AI Infrastructure Across Data Centers

Rackspace has signed an agreement with AMD to deploy 30MW of AI infrastructure across its data centers, targeting customers in regulated sectors such as healthcare. The rollout will begin later this year and continue through 2028, with the capacity intended to support AI training and inference wo...

June 17, 2026

Rackspace

Mayor of London Commits to Joint Effort on Data Center Growth Challenges

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has pledged "coordinated action" to address the challenges posed by rising data center demand across the capital, particularly growing pressure on power infrastructure. A report commissioned by the Greater London Authority and prepared by Buro Happold found that while Lond...

June 17, 2026

London

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