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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 India Opens New Chennai Data Center, Eyes Potential IPO

APAC data center firm ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has launched a new facility in Chennai, India. It made the announcement this week with the opening of its second campus in the city, at Siruseri.Bimal Khandelwal, STT GDC India CEO, said: “The launch of our fourth data centre in ...

February 20, 2026

India / Bhārata

DG Matrix Secures $60m to Scale Solid-State Transformer for Data Center Market

US solid state transformer developer DG Matrix has raised $60 million as part of its Series A funding, led by Engine Ventures.“This Series A marks our transition from breakthrough technology to scaled infrastructure deployment,” said Haroon Inam, CEO of DG Matrix. “We are working with hypersca...

February 19, 2026

United States

OpenAI Teams up with Tata to Expand Data Center Capacity in India

TCS’ HyperVault unit and OpenAI have agreed to a multi-year partnership to develop AI infrastructure in India. In the initial phase, TCS will develop AI infrastructure with 100MW of capacity, with an option to scale to 1GW.Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI, said: “India is already leading the way in AI ...

February 19, 2026

OpenAI

Plans Unveiled for Data Center on 60-hectare site in Finnish Lapland

Finnish energy company Pohjan Voima is looking to develop a project in Keminmaa. In other Finnish news, Compute Nordic is expanding its landholdings in Mikkeli, while another company is targeting a development in Närpiö on the country's west coast.“The project would be of great importance to K...

February 19, 2026

Finnish Lapland

Cryptominer NFN8 Files for Bankruptcy after Data Center Fire and Bitcoin Slump

Cryptominer NFN8 Group has filed for bankruptcy protection in Texas, with all of its assets put up for sale. The company pointed to a number of business challenges that had put pressure on its revenue line, but blamed a late 2025 data center fire for causing bankruptcy."For lessors whose miner...

February 18, 2026

United States

Zeo Energy to Supply 280MW of Power for Creekstone Energy's up to 10GW Data Center Campus in Millard County, Utah

US clean energy company Zeo Energy Corp has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with AI data center company Creekstone Energy to develop 280MW of solar and storage capacity for Creekstone’s data center campus in Millard County, Utah.“AI workloads are driving unprecedented demand for pow...

February 18, 2026

Utah

Kevin O’Leary Targets 7.5GW Data Center Development in Utah

TV’s Kevin O’Leary is plotting a second “Wonder Valley” development, this time in the US state of Utah, and says the scheme could offer up to 7.5GW of power for hyperscale data centers."We have under development approximately 26,000 acres across two jurisdictions with the infrastructure necess...

February 18, 2026

Utah

50MW Data Center Proposal Progresses in Certosa di Pavia, Italy

Plans by Italian real estate developer GSM to build a 50MW data center outside the town of Certosa di Pavia in Italy’s Lombardy region have advanced.“We consider this project an affront to our territory and, for this reason, we are carefully analyzing the technical documentation, which has onl...

February 18, 2026

Italy

Oklahoma House Committee Moves Forward Bill on Data Center Grid Costs

An Oklahoma House budget subcommittee has approved legislation aimed at protecting residential ratepayers from having to foot the bill for new infrastructure driven by rising data center demand.“This would make sure that regular ratepayers aren’t having to pay for those really high energy cost...

February 17, 2026

Oklahoma

Adani Plans to Develop 5GW of Data Center Capacity Across India

Indian conglomerate Adani is more than doubling its data center development pipeline. The company this week announced plans to invest $100 billion in developing renewable-energy-powered, hyperscale AI-ready data centers by 2035."The world is entering an Intelligence Revolution more profound th...

February 17, 2026

AdaniConneX

xAI faces legal action from SELC over gas turbine use at Memphis facility

The US environmental non-profit Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), alongside other environmental groups, is preparing to sue xAI over the deployment of unpermitted gas turbines powering its Colossus 2 data center in Memphis, Tennessee.“xAI has once again built a polluting power plant wi...

February 17, 2026

xAI

Muhlenberg, Ohio, Imposes One-year Moratorium on New Data Center Projects

The Ohio township of Muhlenberg has introduced a 12-month moratorium on planning applications for new data centers after residents voiced concerns about a digital infrastructure and energy campus being planned nearby.In comments reported by the Circleville Herald, trustee Jeff Wippel said the ...

February 17, 2026

Ohio

ABB Buys Premium Power to Strengthen Data Center Advisory Services

Global electrification firm ABB has acquired Irish electrical engineering consultancy Premium Power to expand its advisory capabilities within the data center market.“For more than two decades, Premium Power has built its reputation by helping customers solve complex electrical challenges with...

February 16, 2026

Dublin

Anthropic CEO Cautions on Risks of Poorly Timed AI Data Center Investments

The CEO of generative AI firm Anthropic warned that the purchase of escalating data center compute costs could be "ruinous" for the company if timed wrong."I really do believe that we could have models that are a country of geniuses in the data center in one to two years," he said."One questio...

February 16, 2026

United States

Top Data Center News for 9th-14th February, 2026

Meta Unveils Plans for a 1GW Data Center Campus in Indiana Meta is building a gigawatt-scale data center campus near Indianapolis, Indiana which represents an investment of over $10 billion in data center infrastructure and the surrounding community, one of Meta’s largest infrastructure invest...

February 16, 2026

NeevCloud and Agnikul Cosmos Unveil Plans for Space-based Data Centers

India's space tech company Agnikul Cosmos and AI cloud provider NeevCloud are planning to launch data centers in space. The latest of numerous companies to have expressed a desire to bring compute to space, the two have signed an agreement that will see a data center launched in orbit by the e...

February 14, 2026

India / Bhārata

Legrand Completes Acquisition of Data Center Power Specialist Kratos Industries

The company this week announced the acquisition of Kratos Industries, a manufacturer of low-voltage (LV) and medium-voltage (MV) power equipment. Terms of the deal were not shared.“Data centers are facing unprecedented pressure to build out digital infrastructure at scale and with extreme reli...

February 14, 2026

United States

Tract’s Fleet Data Centers Seeks $3.8bn to Fuel Nevada Build-out

Fleet Data Centers, the data center development arm of Tract, is seeking to raise billions of dollars to build out a campus in Reno, Nevada, for a major tenant.The project has been 100 percent leased to an unnamed “AA- investment grade rated tenant with a market cap in excess of $3 trillion” o...

February 14, 2026

Tract

Ukrainian Forces Hit Data Center in Russian-occupied Prymorsk

Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) branch struck three targets across Russian-occupied lands, including a data center. The drone division said that it attacked the facility in Prymorsk, a city in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine."Every day Russian occupying forces make living more difficult. ...

February 13, 2026

Ukraine

nLighten Will Feed Waste Heat From its Stuttgart Data Center Into the Local District Heating Network

European Edge data center developer nLighten has signed a deal to connect one of its data centers in the German city of Stuttgart to the city’s district heating network.“The excess heat project with nLighten creates an added value for everyone involved: it delivers climate-friendly heat for ou...

February 13, 2026

nLighten

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