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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)

PowerHouse Completes Structure of First Irving Data Center in Texas

US operator PowerHouse has topped out a new data center in Dallas, Texas. The company announced the topping out of the first building at its Irving campus over the weekend."Reaching this point is the result of strong coordination across teams on-site. Thank you to Brasfield & Gorrie, LLC f...

March 30, 2026

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Equinix Begins Construction on DB7x Data Center in Dublin

Equinix has begun construction on a new $92 million data center in Dublin, Ireland. The DB7x facility will be located in Blanchardstown, near the company’s existing sites in the city. Equinix is allocating $78 million toward high-performance infrastructure for AI workloads and $14 million for ...

March 30, 2026

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Starcloud Raises $170M Series A for Space Data Centers

Space data center company Starcloud has raised $170 million in a Series A round, valuing the firm at $1.1 billion. The round was completed in two tranches, with Benchmark leading the initial raise alongside EQT, and both firms co-leading the extension. Additional investors include Macquarie C...

March 30, 2026

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Research Institutions Collaborate on New HPC Data Center in Berlin, Germany

The Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB) and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) have partnered to build an AI and HPC data center in Berlin’s Adlershof area. Announced by Adlershof Technology Park on March 27, the facility will be developed in multiple phases to support high-performance computing and AI ap...

March 30, 2026

Germany / Deutschland

Data Center Energy Efficiency Startup Niv-AI Emerges from Stealth with $12m Fundraise

Data center energy efficiency startup Niv-AI has emerged from stealth with $12 million in seed funding. The company says its technology can analyze GPU power spikes based on the type of workload being processed.This allows the company to “actively synchronize energy and compute” and safely “un...

March 28, 2026

United States

CyrusOne Starts Construction on First Italy Data CenterI Outside Milan

CyrusOne has broken ground on its first data center in Italy. The company this week announced it has officially broken ground on MIL1 in Milan. The three-story facility will deliver 27MW of IT capacity across 7,000 sqm (75,345 sq ft) of technical space, with the first phase expected to go live...

March 28, 2026

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Major Players and Competition in the Data Center Market

The global data center market is shaped by a complex and rapidly evolving competitive landscape, where a handful of powerful players coexist with hundreds of specialized operators spread across regions and niches. Rather than being controlled by a single dominant force, the industry is structu...

March 27, 2026

United States

Baker Hughes, Google Cloud Team on Data Center AI

US energy firm Baker Hughes has partnered with Google Cloud to develop AI tools aimed at optimizing power use and improving data center sustainability. The collaboration targets growing energy demand driven by AI and cloud expansion, with both companies exploring how to better leverage industr...

March 27, 2026

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Google Buys Land for Data Center in West Virginia for Billion Dollar Project

Google plans to build a data center in Putnam County, West Virginia. Governor Patrick Morrisey announced that the company has purchased land and received approval for a multi-billion-dollar “High Impact Development Project.”The project is still in its early stages, with Google set to meet loca...

March 27, 2026

Google

LCL Opens New Data Center in Brussels, Belgium

LCL Data Centers has opened a new facility in Belgium, unveiling its largest data center yet at the Brussels-North site in Diegem, east of the capital. Laurens van Reijen, founder and CEO of LCL Data Centers, said: “With this new location, we are taking an important next step in building a tr...

March 27, 2026

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Prime Data Centers Plans 550MW Campus in Esbjerg, Denmark

US data center firm Prime is expanding into Europe with a new development in Denmark. The company announced plans this week for a campus in Esbjerg in partnership with Brunswick Real Estate.The company is aiming to develop a 640,000 sqm (6.88 million sq ft) campus – known as ESB01 – on land al...

March 27, 2026

Prime Data Centers

Maincubes Breaks Ground on Second Berlin Data Center

German data center company Maincubes has begun construction on a new Berlin campus. The company this week held a groundbreaking ceremony in Nauen for its BER02 site. “With the official start of construction for the substation and the cable route, we have reached an important milestone for our...

March 26, 2026

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Aligned Secures $2.58bn Credit Facility for US Data Center Expansion

US operator Aligned Data Centers has secured new financing to support its data center build-out. The company this week today announced the closing of a new $2.58 billion credit facility to support the continued expansion of its US data center portfolio.Backed by insurance firms, pension funds,...

March 26, 2026

United States

Arbor, GridMarket Target 5GW for US Data Centers

US power firm Arbor Energy partners with GridMarket to supply up to 5GW to data centers starting in 2029. The agreement will serve data center operators and other industrial clients, offering faster deployment than conventional power solutions.Arbor is using a modular approach with its 25MW ...

March 26, 2026

United Kingdom

Tetracore and Huawei Plan 20MW Gas-powered Data Center in Nigeria

West African energy firm Tetracore Energy Group plans a $400 million data center in Nigeria in partnership with Huawei and Inspirive Technologies.The planned 20MW facility will be located at Tetracore’s energy park in Atakobo, Ogun State, southwestern Nigeria, and is designed to meet Tier III ...

March 26, 2026

Nigeria

US Army Selects Carlyle and CyrusOne to Build Data Centers on Army-owned Land

The US Army has chosen two companies to develop data centers at military bases across the country. Global investment firm Carlyle and data center operator CyrusOne will build facilities on Army-owned land in Texas and Utah.“AI is a strategic asset for the army,” said Secretary of the Army Dan ...

March 26, 2026

CyrusOne

Samsung Electronics Leases Space at Digital Realty Data Center in Seoul, South Korea

Samsung Electronics has become a colocation customer at Digital Realty’s data center in Seoul, South Korea.Samsung Electronics, the technology division of South Korean conglomerate Samsung, will host its enterprise IT workloads at Digital Realty’s ICN10 colocation data center in Sangam Digital...

March 25, 2026

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PDG Plans Two New Data Center Campuses in India, Totaling 210MW

APAC data center company Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has acquired additional land in India for development. This week, the firm announced a multi-site acquisition in Mumbai and Hyderabad, adding 210MW of capacity.The sites reportedly have power and land approvals secured. PDG’s website lists...

March 25, 2026

India / Bhārata

RealVantage Invests in $7million in Minnesota Data Center

Singapore-based real estate firm RealVantage is entering digital infrastructure, investing $7 million in a 21MW data center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The data center was acquired earlier this year by US firm Cloud Capital and Bahrain’s Arcapita, who plan to expand the site to 31MW. “The acq...

March 25, 2026

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Digital Realty Plans New Data Center in Milan

Digital Realty is expanding in Italy with plans to develop a data center campus in Milan.The colocation giant this week announced its entry into the Milan market with the acquisition of two plots in Abbiategrasso, southwest of the city center.The company plans to develop an initial 8MW facilit...

March 24, 2026

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