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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)

Philippines on the road to become an APAC data center hub

The Philippines (PH), recognized as one of the world's emerging data center markets, is pinned to become Asia's next data center hub. While other hubs in Southeast Asia, such as Hong Kong and Singapore, have taken a hit due to geopolitical risks and governmental restrictions, PH's impressive d...

May 31, 2021

Philippines

STT GDC launches 72MW data center joint venture with Triputra and Temasek Holdings in Indonesia

ST Telemedia Global Data Centers (STT GDC), a Singapore-based center service provider, has announced a partnership with an Indonesian firm, Triputra Group, and an investment company, Temasek Holdings, to launch a new data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. Construction of the first phase of the 72...

May 28, 2021

STT Jakarta 1

AWS announces a new region, AWS Middle East (UAE)

Amazon Web Services has announced plans to build a new data center region in UAE. The new zone will have three Availability Zones, and it will be open before the mid of 2022. Upon completion, the region will be AWS’s second region in the Middle East after opening a Bahrain region two years ago...

May 28, 2021

Amazon AWS

Facebook announces another data center expansion in Altoona, Iowa

Facebook has announced that it would be expanding its Altoona data center campus. The expansion will see Facebook add two more buildings to its existing eight buildings at the facility. The expansion will also see the total area space to 4.1 million square feet. Facebook initially announced it...

May 28, 2021

Facebook Altoona Iowa

Facebook releases Renewable Impact Study

A new study into the impacts of Facebook's renewable energy projects was recently released. The report, commissioned by Facebook, and conducted by RTI International, a nonprofit research institute, revealed the social media company's renewable energy efforts have had widespread positive econom...

May 27, 2021

EPH proposes data center at Kilroot Power Station, Northern Ireland

EPH has announced that it is looking into the prospects of building a data center in Kilroot, Northern Ireland (NI). The company has commissioned TechRE to conduct a study to assess the feasibility of construction at NI’s last coal-fired power station due to close between 2023 and 2024. EPH ha...

May 27, 2021

Northern Ireland

Digital Realty opens new Toronto facility and broke ground in Marseille

Digital Realty has announced that it has opened its new YYZ12 data center in Toronto, Canada, while breaking ground on its Marseille facility.The new facility, located at 151 Front St (Toronto's carrier hotel), is DRT's third data center in the metro and will be fully interconnected with redu...

May 27, 2021

Digital Realty 151 Front

Orange and Capgemini team up to launch French cloud company, Bleu

Capgemini and Orange will be setting up a new cloud Company called Bleu to meet the strict sovereignty requirements of the French state. The new Company will offer both Microsoft Azure and 365 cloud services. However, both Capgemini and Orange will manage the data centers. Worthy of note is t...

May 27, 2021

Orange

Raxio opens Tier III data center in Uganda

Raxio Data Center just opened a new data center in Kampala, Uganda. The new facility was built to Tier III standards, and it has a colocation space of up to 400 racks. Plans were already in place for a data center in Uganda since 2018 and the data center general manager, James Byaruhanga, ...

May 27, 2021

Raxio Uganda

American Tower acquires Cyber Wurx

American Tower just announced its Metro Data Center expansion at 55 Marietta, Atlanta, by acquiring the 16th-floor collocation space from Cyber Wurx. The acquisition sees American Tower Metro Data Center now occupying four floors of 55 Marietta with a total capacity of 6MW. This follows an in...

May 26, 2021

Hanley Energy expands in Virginia, will base US headquarters in Loudoun County

Hanley Energy has decided to expand its operations in Loudoun County, Virginia. The Irish company will be leasing a 36,600 square foot building from Merritt Properties for this purpose. Merritt initially bought the 6.7-acre site with plans to build a light industrial building over it. Besi...

May 26, 2021

Northern Virginia

365 Data Centers Appoints Steve Oakie as Chief Revenue Officer

365 Data Centers has announced that it has appointed Steve Oakie as Chief Revenue Officer. With over 20 years of experience leading technology sales and marketing teams, Oakie will be responsible for revenue generation and retention and driving long-term customer and partner relationships. He...

May 26, 2021

365 Data Centers

icolo.io announces new data center in Mombasa, Kenya

Icolo.io, part of Digital Realty, has announced that it is constructing a new data center based in Nyali, Mombasa. The MBA2 facility will span 1,200 sq m of floor space, with a capacity of 1.6MW. It is the company’s second data center in the city, and it’s third in total.Expected to be comple...

May 26, 2021

Digital Realty: Mombasa MBA2

Tesla establishes a data center in China to store car data locally

Tesla has announced the establishment of its data center in China. The data center opening comes as a response to the criticisms from Chinese authorities that the cameras on Tesla vehicles may be used for spying. In April, the Chinese Government published some rules about data collection by sm...

May 26, 2021

China

DUG plans 200 petaflops supercomputing center in Western Australia

DUG Technology just announced that it plans to build the world’s first carbon-free High-Performance Computing (HPC) data center in Geraldton, Australia. The Company said that the new facility would have an earlier compute capacity of over 200 petaflops. It will also have space for multi-exafl...

May 26, 2021

DUG Geraldton

39 human rights groups call on Google to cancel Saudi Arabian data center

Thirty-nine human rights groups, including Amnesty International, have called on Google to stop building data centers in Saudi Arabia. They also said Google should stop its plans to open a cloud region in the country in partnership with Saudi Aramco. These groups noted that Google should at le...

May 26, 2021

Saudi Arabia

$800M Data Center Coming To Mesa, Arizona Amidst Water Concerns

The Mesa City Council just approved the development for a Company that plans to build a data center on Elliot and Ellsworth roads in the northwest corner of Eastmark. Although the Company remains in mystery, the Mayor of Mesa City said the mystery Company would be investing $800 million to bri...

May 26, 2021

Phoenix

Ethio telecom launches Huawei-built modular data centre in Ethopia

Ethio telecom has announced the launch of its new Tier III-ready modular data center based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. According to the operator, the facility, located in the Gola Sefer area, is the largest in Ethiopia, capable of holding up to 800 servers. The data center has a power usage eff...

May 25, 2021

Africa

BIT Mining Limited to Invest in a Cryptocurrency Data Center in Kazakhstan

BIT Mining Limited, has announced that it has joined forces with a Kazakhstan-based firm in a binding investment sheet, to invest in a cryptocurrency mining data center in Kazakhstan. The company is investing $9.33 million to construct the facility, which will have an expected 100MW of capacit...

May 25, 2021

Kazakhstan

DataBank expands SLC5 data center in Salt Lake City

DataBank has announced its recent expansion, adding a third data hall at its SLC5 data center. Based in Bluffdale, Utah, at its Granite Point North campus complex, the new addition takes its current capacity to 30,000 sq ft (2,790 sq m), with a 6MW of critical IT load.The center first opened ...

May 25, 2021

DataBank SLC5

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