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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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

Circe Energy Lands 2GW Gas Capacity Deal for Texas Data Center Development

Circe Energy has secured 2GW of natural gas generation capacity from Cummins to support its planned West Texas AI Infrastructure Campus. Located in the Permian Basin, the project is expected to launch with 150MW in 2027 and scale to 1.1GW by 2030, using behind-the-meter gas generation and microgr...

June 17, 2026

Texas

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

Meta Veteran Sham Parmar Joins Anthropic Supply Chain Operations

Meta’s Sham Parmar has joined generative AI company Anthropic. Parmar previously served as senior manager for supply chain and engineering, overseeing electrical, mechanical, and fiber connectivity systems. "I'm excited to share that I've joined Anthropic as a supply chain lead, power and coo...

June 16, 2026

Meta

Nostrum Acquired by Iren in Completed Deal

Iren has completed its acquisition of Spanish data center developer Ingenostrum. The deal adds 490MW of secured power capacity in Spain and marks Iren’s first expansion into Europe, with Nostrum continuing under the Iren brand. Ingenostrum has a development pipeline across Spain, including 214...

June 16, 2026

Nostrum Group

Google Plans $1.5 Billion Expansion of Alabama Data Center Campus

Google will invest an additional $1.5 billion to expand its data center campus in Jackson County through 2027. The site, built on the former Widows Creek coal plant, has been operational since 2019. According to Baxtel, it currently includes two 135,000 sq ft (12,540 sqm) data center buildings, t...

June 16, 2026

Google

NFD Korea to Develop 300MW Campus Near Seoul

NFD Korea is planning a 300MW data center campus in Dangjin, a city south of Seoul. The 43,188 sqm (464,871 sq ft) facility will include six buildings, each with 50MW of capacity. The company has secured construction permits and a power agreement with Korea Electric Power Corporation, with ground...

June 16, 2026

Seoul

Data4 Unveils Plans for €5bn, 700MW AI Data Center Project in Northern France

Data4 has confirmed plans for a €5 billion ($5.8 billion), 700MW data center campus in Escaudain, set to be the company's largest facility to date. The campus will be developed on the site of the former Usinor steelworks in the Hauts-de-France region. “We are delighted to bring our project to ...

June 15, 2026

France

Iowa Data Center with 1.6MW Capacity Hits Market for $4M

A 1.6MW data center in Ames, Iowa, has been put on the market for $4 million. The 15,510 sq ft (1,440 sqm) facility sits on a 63,655 sq ft (5,915 sqm) site at 1205 Buckeye Avenue and includes two data halls and two diesel generators. Built in 1990, the data center is owned by Employers Mutual ...

June 15, 2026

Iowa

AiOnX Completes $500 Million Genesis Digital Assets Deal and Transitions Facilities to AI

AiOnX has acquired a 77 percent stake in cryptomining firm Genesis Digital Assets for $500 million, gaining access to 15 data centers across the US and Sweden with 1.3GW of power capacity. The facilities will be converted to support AI and HPC workloads, increasing AiOnX’s total data center footp...

June 15, 2026

Genesis Digital Assets

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