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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)

STT GDC Begins Construction on its Third Data Center Campus in Mumbai, India

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has broken ground on a new campus in Mumbai, India. STT GDC India this week announced construction has begun on the first facility at its Palava campus.Spanning 46 acres, the campus is planned to scale to 400MW of IT load, with an initial phase delive...

March 18, 2026

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

Iron Mountain Plans a Seven-building Data Center Campus Outside Austin, Texas

Iron Mountain is targeting a new data center development outside Austin, Texas. First reported by BizJournal, the company is targeting a campus outside the city of Hutto in Williamson County.The Hutto City Council last week reviewed a presentation from Iron Mountain on its Taylor Meadows data ...

March 18, 2026

Iron Mountain

OpenAI Reshuffles Leadership Amid Data Center Strategy Reset

OpenAI has reorganized its leadership as it shifts toward leasing more AI capacity from cloud providers. The company is still pursuing its global Stargate data center buildout with Oracle and SoftBank, but recent reports suggest it may scale back expansion plans in favor of rented infrastructu...

March 18, 2026

OpenAI

200-acre “Project Azalea” Data Center Approved Near Augusta, Georgia

Local authorities have approved the 200-acre ‘Project Azalea’ data center in McDuffie County, Georgia. Commissioners backed the project in a 4–1 vote; officials estimate it will be worth $1 billion and generate about $25 million in annual local tax revenue. The project will include six data ce...

March 18, 2026

Georgia

Plans are Underway for a 360MW Data Center Campus on Germany’s Eastern Border

Stadtwerke Lübeck has launched its first self-operated data center in the northern German city of Lübeck. Built to strengthen the city’s digital sovereignty, the facility will support business-critical and sensitive applications for local companies and features multiple layers of redundancy.Wh...

March 17, 2026

Germany / Deutschland

648-acre Data Center Proposed in Clarksdale, Mississippi

A 648-acre data center has been proposed in Clarksdale, northern Mississippi. On Monday, city officials held an informational meeting on a potential project planned for agricultural land between the Sunflower River and Tallahatchie Street.The city’s board of commissioners had considered a rezo...

March 17, 2026

Mississippi

Sunly Plans Estonia Data Center Set to be the Baltic Region’s Largest

Renewable energy company Sunly has applied for planning permission to develop a 180MW AI data center near the village of Risti in Lääne-Nigula municipality, Estonia. If approved, the facility would become the country’s largest single electricity consumer and the biggest data center of its kind...

March 17, 2026

Estonia

Østfold Energi Eyes Data Centers South of Oslo

Another data center may be on the way in Norway. Østfold Energi is preparing sites in Sarpsborg and Våler in partnership with local municipalities, with Google likely to take the Våler location.“We have extensive experience with project development in collaboration with landowners, local commu...

March 17, 2026

Oslo

€1.6B Irish Data Center Proposed in 2019 Finally Approved

A €1.6 billion ($1.8 billion) data center project finally received approval on Friday, March 13, after six years of permitting hurdles and legal challenges. Developer Art Data Centres secured planning permission in 2022, won an appeal in 2024, and successfully defended against a judicial revie...

March 16, 2026

United States

Switch Adopts Nvidia Omniverse DSX Blueprint for EVO AI Data Center Design

Data center operator Switch has integrated Nvidia’s Omniverse DSX Blueprint into its EVO AI Factory architecture and LDC EVO operating system. The company introduced EVO last year, describing it as a new data center design capable of supporting up to 2MW per rack.LDC EVO is Switch's answer to ...

March 16, 2026

Switch

Armada Secures 11MW Data Center Deployment with WinDC in Australia

Australian data center company WinDC is partnering with US edge data center firm Armada to deploy containerized compute across the country. This week, the two companies announced a partnership to roll out a network of portable, renewable-powered “AI factories” across Australia.WinDC aims to pl...

March 16, 2026

Edge Centres

Top Data Center News For 9th - 14th March, 2026

Microsoft and Meta Commit to $50bn in New Data Center Leases in Latest QuarterMicrosoft and Meta have each committed around $50 billion to additional data center leases in the latest quarter, thee new deals pushing total future data center lease commitments by cloud companies and hyperscalers ...

March 16, 2026

United States

Canadian Data Center Firm Virtual Grid Unveils Modular Prototype

Canadian data center company Virtual Grid has launched a prototype modular “compute node.”The unit is designed to function as both a virtual data center and a virtual power plant, and is set to be deployed across Western Canada, including British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. ...

March 16, 2026

Canada

Gigawatt Scale Data Center in North Lincolnshire, UK, Approved

A proposed 1GW data center campus at a former RAF airbase in North Lincolnshire, UK, has received planning approval. North Lincolnshire Council’s planning committee approved the Elsham Tech Park project during a meeting on Wednesday.The data center campus would be built on land south and east ...

March 14, 2026

United Kingdom

Apto Eyes 240MW Data Center Campus in Madrid

Apto is developing a new data center campus in Madrid, Spain. The company this week announced plans to develop a 195,000 sqm (2.1 million sq ft) campus in Fuenlabrada. The project has secured building permits, with construction expected to begin soon. Apto said it has already comp...

March 14, 2026

Apto

3i Infrastructure Buys Majority Stake in Norway’s Lefdal Mine Datacenter

Investment firm 3i Infrastructure has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Norway’s Lefdal Mine Datacenter (LMD). Announced this week, 3i plans to invest €300 million ($347.3 million) in the deal, which is expected to close in summer 2026.The data center company is being acquired from a fund ...

March 14, 2026

Norway

US Real state Firm Comstock Launches Data Center Unit

US real estate company Comstock has launched a dedicated data center unit and partnered on two development projects. The Nasdaq-listed firm announced the creation of its Data Center Platform (DCP) and said it has entered into two separate partnerships to pursue large-scale data center campuses...

March 13, 2026

United States

Plans Announced for 40MW Data Center in Industrial Park Near Butzbach, Germany

A 40MW data center is proposed for an industrial park near Butzbach, about 35km (22 miles) north of Frankfurt, Germany.The project is in its early stages and will involve multiple partners, including energy company RheinEnergie.The first phase of the facility will require up to 10MW of electri...

March 13, 2026

Germany / Deutschland

Bridge Data Centres Plans $2.3B–$4B Investment in Singapore’s Digital Infrastructure

Bridge Data Centres plans to invest S$3–5 billion ($2.3–4 billion) in Singapore’s next-generation digital infrastructure.In an announcement, the company said it is “uniquely positioned to support hyperscaler customers and global technology companies seeking high-performance, sustainable and s...

March 13, 2026

Bridge Data Centres

Korea Zinc Eyes Rare Earth Recovery from Old US Data Center Gear

Smelting company Korea Zinc is discussing plans with US tech firms to extract and recycle rare earth minerals from retired data center equipment, according to Chairman Yun B. Choi in a Reuters interview. Trade tensions between Beijing and the US, exacerbated by President Donald Trump’s threat...

March 13, 2026

United States

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