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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)

QScale secures C$195 million ($155.2 million) funding for its large-scale data center campus

The Quebec Government, along with local private investors and Deszardins Capital, will invest a total of C$195 million ($155.2 million) in QScale, a Quebec-based data center firm. QScale first announced its plans to build a large-scale data center campus in Quebec in June. It said the data ...

July 21, 2021

QScale

A carbon-neutral future: Which companies are committing and delivering?

In 2021, data centers are responsible for 2% of the world’s CO2 emissions, equivalent to the entire airline industry worldwide. It has also been forecast that by 2025, data centers could consume up to one-fifth of Earth’s power.Increasingly, data center companies are waking up to the fact that...

July 21, 2021

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft makes pledge to run all data centers carbon neutral by 2030

Microsoft is the latest company to pledge carbon-neutrality by 2030. Within the next 19 years, the tech giant promises to run all its global data centers and offices with zero-carbon energy.In a recent blog, written by Lucas Joppa, chief environmental officer and Noelle Walsh, CVP, cloud oper...

July 21, 2021

Microsoft Azure

Logistics park and data center to go ahead in Winchester, Virginia, despite backlash

In Winchester, Virginia, local officials have voted to rezone more than 277 acres for a new data center and logistics park despite significant public backlash. The development project is known as One Logistics Park and has received. The land rezoned for the park The Winche...

July 21, 2021

Northern Virginia

Kao Data becomes first data center company to use vegetable oil to fuel generators in the UK

Kao Data has announced a huge step towards its net-zero ambitions by switching from diesel to HVO (hydrotreated vegetable oil) fuel to fuel its backup generators at its Harlow campus. Koa Data is now the first data center company in the UK to make this change and has achieved this through its...

July 21, 2021

KAO Data

DigitalBridge in advanced talk with PCCW to buy its data centers

According to Bloomberg, DigitalBridge Group is in talks with Hong Kong tech firm PCCW to buy its data centers. DigitalBridge data center REIT used to be Colony Capital until it rebranded to form DigitalBridge in June 2020. The Company already has a large portfolio of data centers, but it is no...

July 21, 2021

DigitalBridge

Netrality Properties acquires Indy Telcom Center

Netrality Properties has completed the acquisition of Indianapolis-based carrier hotel provider, Indy Telcom Center. The deal involves Netrality acquiring a nine-acre campus on West Henry Street. Indy Telcom’s campus has 205,000 square feet of space spread across eleven buildings. The build...

July 21, 2021

Netrality Properties

Web Werks and CapitaLand sign MoUs to build data centers in Chennai, India

Web Werks and CapitaLand have signed Memoranda of Understandings with the Tamil Nadu government in India to build data centers in Chennai. The MOU will see CapitaLand, a Singapore-based real estate firm, invest 1200 crore ($160.7 million) in a data center facility in Ambattur, west of Chenn...

July 21, 2021

Ascendas Reit (CapitaLand)

Stro acquires office and data center building belonging to Bank of New York Mellon in New Jersey

Stro Companies has acquired an office and data center building owned by Bank of New York Mellon in Florham Park, New Jersey. It is reported that the Company acquired the buildings for $7.3 million. The acquired building also has 141,000 square feet of space. Jack Shulman, director of acquisiti...

July 21, 2021

BNY: 19 Vreeland Rd

Ark’s new data center shows commitment to a zero carbon future in the UK

Ark Data Centres is pushing towards a carbon-neutral future with the announcement of its Longcross facility, located in Chertsey South West. Due to come online in 2023, it is designed to minimize carbon emissions and reduce waste and water consumption.According to Ark, its new facility will b...

July 21, 2021

Ark: Longcross

Azrieli Group acquires Green Mountain

Azrieli Group, an Israeli real estate firm, has acquired 100% of Green Mountain, a Norwegian data center Company. The acquisition cost Azrieli NIS 2.8 billion ($849.2m). Azrieli noted that the acquisition would be self-financed, and it will be through debt raising and through an unsecured l...

July 21, 2021

Green Mountain AS

Sophos sets its sights on expansion

As part of Sophos ongoing expansion, it has moved into Montreal, Canada, meaning the company now has a presence in the U.S., Germany, and Ireland, as well as Sydney, Australia and Tokyo, Japan. In a statement speaking about the rollout of these new data centers, the company said: "We're deligh...

July 21, 2021

Canada

Amazon in negotiations to build data center in Ceará, Brazil

Amazon has announced that it is in negotiations with officials in Ceará, Brazil, to build a data center and a logistics warehouse in Maracanaú, in the region of Fortaleza. According to Diario do Nordeste, it is expected that an agreement with the state government will be closed in the sec...

July 20, 2021

Amazon AWS

Telkom Indonesia and Etisalat to develop $100m data center in Batam, Indonesia

According to Indonesia’s Coordinating Ministry for the Economy, Telkom Indonesia and Etisalat are joining forces to develop a new data center in northwest Indonesia. This announcement comes as the country undergoes a data center construction boom and is expected to reach a value of USD$ 3.07 b...

July 20, 2021

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GDS plans 54MW hyperscale data center campus in Johor, Malaysia

GDS has announced plans to build a 22,500 sqm (242,200 sq ft), 54MW hyperscale data center campus in Johor, Malaysia. This move follows the firm acquiring land in the Nusajaya Tech Park, Johor. According to the company, it plans to complete the project's first phase in early 2024, with a capa...

July 20, 2021

DayOne: Nusajaya Tech Park

Rack Centre doubles its Lagos data center campus capacity

Rack Centre has doubled the capacity of its data center campus in Lagos through expansion. With the expansion, the facility now has 1.5MW of capacity. The expansion also sees Rack Centre add 6,500 square feet of white space to the facility. Rack Centre is also looking to expand the facility...

July 19, 2021

Rack Centre Limited

Digital Realty and Brookfield team up to develop data centers in India

Digital Realty has announced that it has entered into a 50/50 joint venture agreement with Brookfield Infrastructure to develop data centers in India. The brand name of the joint venture is BAM Digital Realty.Although precise details around the project are yet to be released, reports indicate...

July 16, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

Facebook's Eagle Mountain data center moves online

Facebook has announced that its data center in Eagle Mountain, Utah is now up and running. Although officially serving traffic, the site is still under construction, with a view to span to 1.5 million square feet (140,000 sq m). At the peak of construction, the site employed a total of 1,250 ...

July 16, 2021

Meta: Eagle Mountain Utah Campus

New data center for Macquarie Data Centres in Sydney

Macquarie Data Centres has announced plans for a new data center in Sydney, Australia. Based at the Macquarie Park campus, the facility, 3 Super West, if it goes ahead, will have a capacity of 32MW. The company expects the data center to be completed by 2023 The construct...

July 16, 2021

Macquarie Data Centres

Digital Realty is meeting green targets according to third annual ESG report

According to its latest ESG report, Digital Realty is meeting its sustainability targets in the push for carbon-neutrality. The company, as part of the Science-Based Target Initiative (SBTi), has committed to reducing its Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 68% and Scope 3 emissions by 24% by 2030. It...

July 16, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

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