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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)

Aligned secures $250 million for sustainability and green growth plans

Aligned has announced that it has secured $250 million in sustainability-linked financing, bringing its total to $1.25 billion. Last year, it became the first data center company to receive a sustainability-linked loan (SLL). These loans are linked to sustainability initiatives, and the inter...

July 28, 2021

Aligned

Piemonte Holding announces agreement to purchase Globo's data center in Rio de Janeiro

RIO DE JANEIRO, July 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The financial group Piemonte Holding, Globo Comunicação e Participações and Drammen Elea Digital, Piemonte's data center holding company, announced this Wednesday (28) that they have signed a sale and purchase agreement concerning Globo's data cent...

July 28, 2021

Elea: Rio AI City RJO1

AWS launches Local Zone in Denver

AWS just announced the availability of local zones in Denver, Colorado. With the new local zones in Denver, customers can now deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency to on-premises installations and end-users in Denver. Amazon Web Services said it is happy to anno...

July 28, 2021

Amazon AWS

Keppel DC REIT to acquire its first data center in China for $98 million

Keppel DC REIT has completed the acquisition of its first data center in China. The firm completed the agreement with Guangdong Bluesea Data Development Co. Ltd. and its parent Company, Guangdong Bluesea Mobile Development Co., to acquire the Guangdong Data Center in Jiangmen. The deal cost...

July 28, 2021

Keppel Data Center REIT

Lumen is selling its Latin American business to Stonepeak for $2.7 billion

Lumen Technologies has announced the sale of its entire Latin American business to Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners. The sale is said to be worth $2.7 billion. Australia’s largest pension fund, AustralianSuper, is also investing funds in the deal with Stonepeak. The current leadership team...

July 28, 2021

Lumen Technologies

Yondr and Everstone forms $1 billion joint venture for developing hyperscale data centers in India

Yondr Group and private investment firm Everstone Group have formed a joint venture to develop data centers in India. The joint venture will operate under the name EverYondr, and it will have its first data center in India. The Companies have already acquired land and power for developing the ...

July 28, 2021

Yondr Group

Antin Infrastructure Partners completes the acquisition of Pulsant

Antin Infrastructure Partners has completed the acquisition of UK data center firm Pulsant. Antin acquired Pulsant from Scottish Equity Partners and Oak Hill Capital who have owned the data center firm since 2014. None of the companies disclosed the terms of the deal. Pulsant operates 10 da...

July 27, 2021

Pulsant

DataBank purchases existing building for fifth data center in Denver

DataBank has announced that it has purchased an existing land and building in Denver. The land and building acquired would be DataBank’s home for its fifth data center in Denver. This facility is located at 6961 S. Quentin Street in Centennial, CO. DataBank says the facility will help it me...

July 27, 2021

DataBank

Round Rock votes to rezone land for Switch data center campus

This week, Round Rock City Council unanimously voted to approve the rezoning of two plots of land for Switch’s 'The Rock' data center, which will span 1.5 million square feet (140,000 sq m).The two plots of land totaL 35.71 acres, and are either side of Dell Technologies' global headquarters, ...

July 26, 2021

Switch Austin "The Rock"

Mitsui and Fidelity Investments form joint venture to build hyperscale data centers in Japan

Fidelity Investments and Mitsui, a Japanese conglomerate, have formed a joint venture to build hyperscale data centers in Japan. The two companies will have an equal share in the joint venture. However, Colt Data Centre Services, a subsidiary of Fidelity Investments, will manage the data ce...

July 25, 2021

Fidelity Investments

Largest Data Center Funding Deals In Q2 of 2021

The data center industry is a multibillion-dollar industry. According to Gartner, end-user spending on data center infrastructure for 2020 was $188 billion, a 10.3% decrease from 2019’s spending. With these figures, we can reach a consensus that there’s a massive market available for data cent...

July 24, 2021

GlobalConnect A / S

Microsoft reportedly in talks with Telangana government over $2 billion data center

Microsoft is reportedly in talks with the Telangana government to construct one of its largest data centers with an investment of around USD$2- 2.25 billion (Rs 15,000 crore). If this goes ahead, it will make it one of the tech giant’s biggest investments outside of the US. According to Busin...

July 23, 2021

Microsoft Azure

Equinix strives to balance expansion with its eco targets

Back in June, Equinix committed to becoming climate-neutral by 2030; however, alongside this pledge, in recent years, it has undergone significant growth. Moreover, its environmental metrics reveal that between 2018-19, the company’s scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions, carbon intensity, and energy ...

July 23, 2021

Equinix

STT GDC collaborates with ABB to create AI energy optimization pilot

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has announced that it is collaborating with tech company ABB to conduct an artificial intelligence (AI) energy optimization pilot in Singapore. The pilot is part of STT GDC’s vision for a greener future, and its pledge to be carbon neutral by 2030.The...

July 23, 2021

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

Gaw Capital announces joint venture for building data center in Batam, Indonesia

Hong Kong-based real estate equity firm Gaw Capital Partners has announced a new joint venture with veteran Wong Ka Vin. The new company is Data Center First Pte Ltd. Gaw says the joint venture will focus exclusively on developing a data center campus in Batam, Indonesia.Kenneth Gaw, President...

July 23, 2021

Batam

Bharti Airtel to expand its data center portfolio by spending $470m

According to India’s Economic Times, Indian telco Bharti Airtel plans a major investment and expansion in its data center portfolio. The report shows that Bharti Airtel will invest Rs 3,500 crore ($470m) to expand its data center portfolio. It will also make this investment over the next three...

July 23, 2021

Nxtra Data Ltd

Merlin Properties to invest €100m ($118m) in its Barcelona data center

Merlin Properties will be having its first data center facility in Barcelona, Spain. The facility will have a capacity of 24MW. In April, Merlin Properties first announced that it would be developing four data center sites in Portugal and Spain. The announcement stated that the Company would b...

July 22, 2021

Merlin Barcelona

Going green: Cyxtera selects NextEra Energy Resources for renewable energy

Cyxtera is joining the industry-wide push for a carbon-neutral future with the announcement of its selection of NextEra Energy Resources to supply its renewable energy. As part of this partnership, NextEra will also “advise, support, and accelerate” Cyxtera’s efforts to increase its use of re...

July 22, 2021

Cyxtera Technologies

Irish Water must insist data centres use technology to reduce energy usage and preserve water supply, say politicians

Irish Water is reportedly under pressure to insist existing data centers in Ireland should upgrade to more efficient cooling systems in an effort to reduce their environmental impact and draining effect on water and energy. According to reports, the cooling systems employed at data centers acr...

July 22, 2021

Northern Ireland

maincubes is opening its second data center in the Frankfurt area

maincubes is building another colocation data center in Schwalbach near Frankfurt. The new data center will have a sustainable design. The sustainable design of the new facility will include efficient UPS systems that use green power and a waste heat recovery system. It will also have an in...

July 21, 2021

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