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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)

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

Top Data Center News for 8th-13th of June, 2026

OpenAI in Early Talks for 10GW Data Center Lease in Ohio **OpenAI is in advanced talks to lease a proposed 10GW data center in Ohio which could be built in phases starting with an 800MW first stage expected i...

June 15, 2026

Google

Iron County, Utah Data Center Proposal Gets Green Light

Plans for a 640-acre data center in Iron County, Utah, have been approved by local authorities. The Iron County Planning Commission voted in favor of the proposal during a meeting on June 4. The Antelope Data Center campus will include five buildings totaling around 1.35 million sq ft (125,000...

June 13, 2026

Switch

Private Equity Firm Acquires Croatia’s ‘Fort Knox’ Data Center

Gnomon Capital has acquired 100% of Croatian data center DC North, known as the “Fort Knox” facility, in a deal involving former owners Cratis and Muraplast. Court records show the transfer was completed in late May, with Gnomon now listed as the sole shareholder. DC North was launched by Crat...

June 13, 2026

Blue Owl Secures $975M Financing for Northern Virginia Data Center

Corscale Data Centers has secured $975 million in financing from Blue Owl for Project Helios, a newly built data center in Prince William County, Virginia. The funding was arranged by Newmark on behalf of a joint venture between Corscale and Affinius Capital. The facility is fully leased to an in...

June 12, 2026

Amazon AWS

DriverAI Plans 80 MW "Quantum AI" Data Center in Cluj, Romania

Arizona-based technology company DriverAI has announced plans to build an 80 MW data center pairing GPU clusters with quantum computing hardware in Luna, a commune in Romania's Cluj County about 30 minutes from Cluj-Napoca. The company says the facility will roll out in four 20 MW phases on a ...

June 12, 2026

Romania

Microsoft Begins Construction on Alviso Data Center Campus in San Jose

Microsoft has started construction on its Alviso data center campus in San Jose, California. The 48MW facility will be the company's first wholly owned and operated data center in the city and is expected to be completed in 2028. The project is forecast to create around 600 construction jobs and ...

June 12, 2026

Microsoft Azure

Jinko Power Targets 1GW Solar-Backed AI Data Center Project in Western China

Chinese solar developer Jinko Power, a subsidiary of the broader Jinko Solar Group, is planning a 1GW data center project in Ningxia, western China, that will be powered directly by a dedicated solar facility. According to a report by Nikkei, the company has signed a framework investment agreemen...

June 12, 2026

Google

Keel Infrastructure Obtains $458 Million Funding for AI Data Center Buildout

Digital and energy infrastructure provider Keel Infrastructure has completed a $458 million convertible senior notes offering, allocating part of the proceeds toward its data center developments. The offering, consisting of 1.250% convertible senior notes due 2032, closed on June 9. Initial purch...

June 11, 2026

Keel Infrastructure

STT GDC Opens New Jakarta Data Center and Breaks Ground on Two More Facilities

Asia-Pacific data center operator ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) is expanding its Jakarta campus with a series of new developments in Indonesia. The company has launched STT Jakarta 2, completed the topping-out of STT Jakarta 3, and broken ground on STT Jakarta 5 and STT Jakarta 6. Co...

June 11, 2026

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

Sentinel DC Withdraws Maine Paper Mill Data Center Proposal

Sentinel Data Centers has reportedly abandoned plans to develop a data center at a former paper mill site in Jay, Maine. The decision was first reported by the Sun Journal.JGT2 Redevelopment, which had planned to partner with Sentinel on the $550 million project, told Jay officials that the data ...

June 11, 2026

Sentinel Data Centers

Amazon Data Centers Consumed 2.5 Billion Gallons of Water in 2025

Amazon said its data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water in 2025. Water withdrawals at facilities it owns and operates fell 2% from 2024 despite an increase in the number of data centers, while the company did not disclose water use at leased sites. AWS owned about 28.4 million square feet ...

June 11, 2026

Amazon AWS

OpenAI in Early Talks for 10GW Data Center Lease in Ohio

OpenAI is in advanced talks to lease a proposed 10GW data center in Ohio being developed by SB Energy on US Department of Energy land at the Portsmouth Site in Pike County. The project, backed by SoftBank Group, could be built in phases starting with an 800MW first stage expected in 2028, with fu...

June 10, 2026

OpenAI

Switch Expands Debt Facility to $9.5B to Fund AI Data Center Expansion

Data center firm Switch has increased its available debt capacity to $9.5 billion. The company now has access to a more than $6 billion corporate revolving credit facility, alongside an expanded $3.5 billion syndicated uncommitted performance letter of credit facility (LCF). In April, Switch repo...

June 10, 2026

Switch

Meta Signs 168MW Data Center Pact at Reliance Gujarat Campus

Meta and Reliance are partnering to develop a 168MW data center in Jamnagar, Gujarat, India. Reliance will build the facility, which Meta will lease to run AI workloads. The project may be expanded in the future, though no launch timeline has been disclosed. Meta will cover power and water costs,...

June 10, 2026

Crusoe Temporarily Stops 1.8GW Data Center Build in Wyoming

Crusoe has paused development of Project Jade, a planned 1.8GW data center campus in Cheyenne, Wyoming that was announced last year and designed to potentially scale up to 10GW. The project was being developed in partnership with Blackstone-backed energy company Tallgrass. Crusoe said it has paus...

June 10, 2026

Crusoe

Cipher Seeks $810 Million in Senior Secured Notes for West Texas Data Center

Cryptominer-turned-HPC developer Cipher Digital is planning to raise $810 million through senior secured notes due in 2031. Most of the proceeds will fund the remaining costs of its 100MW Stingray data center project in West Texas, with about $63.6 million earmarked to reimburse prior equity cont...

June 09, 2026

Cipher Digital

Ark DC Adds New Building to Longcross Data Center Campus in UK

UK data center firm Ark is expanding its Longcross Park campus in Surrey to support AI cloud provider Nebius. The company has committed £807 million ($1bn) to the site, where Nebius will lease the entire existing facility. Expansion plans include vertical upgrades to current buildings, a new 36MW...

June 09, 2026

Ark Data Centres (UK)

Microsoft Acquires 470-Acre Site on Finland’s West Coast for a New Data Center

Microsoft has acquired 190 hectares (469.5 acres) of land in Finland's GigaVaasa industrial zone for a potential data center project. The site spans the municipalities of Vaasa and Mustasaari on the country's west coast and was selected for its existing industrial infrastructure. “We are pleas...

June 09, 2026

Microsoft Azure

Keppel Plans 60MW Data Center in Seoul as It Expands Into South Korea

Singapore-based real estate investor Keppel will develop a 60MW greenfield data center in Ansan, near Seoul, marking its entry into South Korea’s data center market. The project will be developed through Keppel Data Centre Fund III (KDCF III), which has acquired a majority stake in the vehicle th...

June 09, 2026

Keppel Data Center REIT

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