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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)

The UK government to commit an additional $51 million for 5G

The British government has committed $51 million to nationwide 5G innovation. The government announced on July 31 that funding applications are now being accepted. According to the government, the investment is intended to accelerate innovation in industries such as advanced manufacturing, tra...

July 31, 2023

United Kingdom

Greenpixie awarded £50,000 grant to track data center emissions

Greenpixie, a London-based startup that calculates emissions data for companies that use cloud computing in data centers has been awarded a £50,000 ($64k) grant to track data center emissions. The UK Government grant is provided through Innovate UK, the UK's national innovation agency. The com...

July 31, 2023

WeTransfer cut server emissions by 78 percent in 2022

WeTransfer has said it cut its server emissions by 78 per cent in 2022. This comes following the company's 2020 pledge to reduce its emissions by 30 percent by 2025, and its migration to AWS in 2011. The company reportedly achieved "carbon-neutral certification," after using AWS' Customer Carb...

July 31, 2023

Amazon AWS

Since 2019, GoDaddy has left 29 data centers

GoDaddy has closed 29 enterprise data centers since 2019 to streamline its data center footprint. The company said it consolidated its presence to reduce Scope 1 and 2 emissions. GoDaddy pledged to cut Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 50% by 2022 from a 2019 baseline. Data centers drove GoDaddy'...

July 28, 2023

Google data center initiatives postponed, but increases in AI compute expenditure made

Alphabet reported quarterly sales of $74.6 billion, an increase of 7% from the same period last year. Profits increased by 15% to $18.4 billion. While advertising sales drove the majority of the company's development, cloud sales increased by 28 % to $8 billion. Google Cloud reported its seco...

July 28, 2023

Google

Costs projected to rise as meta capex for data centers, servers, and networks reaches $6.4 billion

In the last quarter, Meta's capital expenditures reached $6.4 billion due to investments in data centers, servers, and network infrastructure. This is a decrease from the $7.1 billion the company spent in the previous quarter, but the Facebook proprietor is now done with a data center restruct...

July 28, 2023

Meta

KPMG will invest $2 billion with Microsoft in AI and cloud services

KPMG plans to invest $2 billion over the next five years in artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud services in partnership with Microsoft. The global expansion of the 'Big Four' accounting firm's relationship with Microsoft is anticipated to generate up to $12 billion in revenue over the next ...

July 28, 2023

Microsoft Azure

ABB touts big winn data centers as sector sales hit $1.3 billion

In its most recent quarterly earnings report, Swedish-Swiss multinational ABB highlighted the expansion of its data center sales. In addition to developing data center power and cooling solutions, the company sells to various industrial sectors. Timo Ihamuotila, the company's CFO, stated on an...

July 28, 2023

Microsoft increases data center and AI compute capex

This past quarter, Microsoft's capital expenditures increased to $10.7 billion as the company reported spending significantly on data centers, computing, and networking. The company announced that spending would increase each quarter throughout fiscal 2024, already higher than the $7.8bn capit...

July 28, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Proximus considering €300m data center purchase

The Belgian telecommunications company Proximus is contemplating the sale of its data center unit for approximately €300 million ($329 million). According to Reuters, the company has hired bankers to start working on a sale, which could be used to finance the rollout of 5G and fiber networks. ...

July 28, 2023

Microsoft intends to invest $230 million in an additional data center in San Antonio, Texas

Microsoft intends to construct another data center in the San Antonio, Texas, region. The corporation stated in applications with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, initially reported by the San Antonio Business Journal, that the project would cost $230 million.The company inten...

July 28, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Digital Realty sells TPG Real Estate 80% of Northern Virginia data centers stake for $1.3bn

TPG Real Estate now owns 80% of three Digital Realty data centers in the US state of Virginia's Northern Virginia. Digital will continue to oversee the daily operations of the joint venture's facilities. The data center business aims to utilize the $1.3 billion in proceeds from the transaction...

July 28, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Thames Water considers restricting London data centers' water usage

Thames Water has announced that it is considering restricting data center water-use in London. The measure could reportedly include charging operators more at peak times and adding flow restrictors to pipes.Initially, the private utility undertook an assessment to get insight into how much wat...

July 27, 2023

London

Mitsubishi teams up with FNT to boost data center sustainability

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and FNT Software have announced the signing of an MoU to construct sustainable data centres to support decarbonization efforts. Through the MoU, MHI’s analysis and energy management solutions will be integrated into FNT’s data center infrastructure management (DCIM)...

July 27, 2023

Japan

Four-way MoU signed in Saudi Arabia to explore development of digital infrastructure hub

Integrated Telecom Co. Ltd., Khazzan Information Technology Co., Cinturion Corp Ltd and Emaar, The Economic City (EEC) have signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) agreement to explore the development of a digital infrastructure hub. This will reportedly comprise data centers, an...

July 27, 2023

QTS acquires 400 acres in South Carolina's York County

A new campus for its data centers is being built by QTS on 400 acres of land in York County, South Carolina. Citing York County real estate documents, BizJournal reports that two entities linked with QTS Realty Trust LLC have acquired nearly 400 acres off S.C. Highway 274 for more than $11.2 m...

July 27, 2023

QTS Data Centers

Google’s Water Consumption in Data Centers Soars by 20%

The 2023 Google environmental report shows a considerable increase in data center water consumption. The company consumed an astounding 5.6 billion gallons of water in 2022, of which 5.2 billion were used solely for data centers. Compared to the previous year, this is 20% higher. Large data ce...

July 27, 2023

Google

CoreWeave intends to construct a $1.6bn AI cloud-based facility in Plano, Texas

CoreWeave, a cloud company specializing in GPUs, intends to invest $1.6 billion in a data center in Plano, Texas. To qualify for a tax credit approved this week by the Plano City Council, the company will need to invest at least $800 million each year for the following two years. In 2025 and 2...

July 26, 2023

CoreWeave Plano

Europe's Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact (CNDCP) publishes its first Certifications of Adherence

Europe's Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact (CNDCP) has published its first list of certifications since being set up in 2021. Over 80 service providers have now promised to be climate neutral by 2030. Further, it shared that 95% of the first cohort of signatories, which represent nearly 75% of ...

July 26, 2023

Reliance joins Brookfield and Digital Realty's Indian data center JV

Reliance Industries, the largest business group in India, revealed that it would join Mercury Holdings SG Pte, the current joint venture between Brookfield Infrastructure and Digital Realty, to construct data centers in India. By acquiring a 33,33 % stake in the existing JV, Reliance Industrie...

July 26, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

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