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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)

Maryland denies use of diesels for data center backup

The Maryland Public Services Commission has told Aligned, which has bought space on the 2GW Quantum Loophole site in Adamstown, Frederick County, that diesel generators are not an acceptable form of backup in 2023.Aligned applied to have 168 diesel generators, each with 3MW generating capacity...

August 06, 2023

GDA, a Bitcoin miner, establishes three data centers in South Carolina

Genesis Digital Assets (GDA), a Bitcoin mining corporation, launched three data centers in South Carolina with a total capacity of 33MW. One data center is located near the community of Anderson, while the other two are between Union and Lockhart. The Anderson facility has been active since Fe...

August 04, 2023

Converge ICT plans to invest $60m in 3 new data centers.

CEO Dennis Uy stated that the Philippines-based telecommunications company Converge ICT Solutions plans to invest $60 million in creating three new data centers in the Philippines. In the following 18 to 24 months, the Internet service provider plans to build data centers in Pampanga, Quezon C...

August 04, 2023

Converge ICT Solutions

New campus facility with a data center is constructed at Hardin-Simmons University

Abilene Hall, Hardin-Simmons University's main structure, has been enlarged, and a data center has been added. Abilene Hall's new 7,000-square-foot extension will be dedicated to the university's engineering faculty on August 29. The building will consist of three stories, with lab space on th...

August 04, 2023

Irish government data center initiative costs double

Irish government's new data center has reached an all-time high price tag of €80 million ($87.4m). While initial estimates placed the cost of building the data center at €30 million and the completion date at 2020, the project has been plagued by delays and cost overruns.The completion date wa...

August 04, 2023

Europe

ESR secures Sustainability-Linked Loan (SLL) for Hong Kong data center development

ESR has secured a Sustainability-Linked Loan (SLL) to develop a data center in Hong Kong, it has announced. It has closed the first SLL in Hong Kong, worth HK$1.6 billion (US$205m), which will be used to convert a building in Kwai Chung into the 21.3MW ESR Kwai Chung Data Centre HK1.The compan...

August 03, 2023

Hong Kong

SCC installs solar panels on its Birmingham data center

SCC has installed solar panels on its data center in Birmingham, it has announced. Its flagship CV1 facility will have a 737kWp roof-mounted solar-PV system attached that will cover just over five percent of the facility's total energy needs. This new development has been made possible in part...

August 03, 2023

Birmingham UK

Hill International to support building of two Digital Realty data center projects in Greece

Hill International, Inc. has announced it will work with Digital Realty to support the construction of two new data centers in Greece. The first will be in Heraklion, Crete, while the second will be located in Athens. The latter location is where the company's Greek data center campus is based...

August 03, 2023

Digital Realty: Athens ATH1

Hyundai, Kia, and Samsung invest $100m in AI and RISC-V chip firm Tenstorrent

Tenstorrent, a maker of AI chips, has raised $100 million from investors, including the Hyundai Motor Group, Kia, and a fund run by Samsung. The investment in the RISC-V and AI startup was set up as a debt that will eventually convert to stock. Tenstorrent will not have an official new valuati...

August 03, 2023

Lumen, a US telco, loses $8.74bn due to non-cash impairment

In the second quarter, Lumen Technologies reported a loss of $8.74 billion, a significant decrease from the $344 million profit in the same quarter last year. The company, formerly CenturyLink Enterprise, has lost more than 66 percent of its value this year, reducing its market capitalization ...

August 03, 2023

Lumen Technologies

Microsoft has submitted plans to construct two data centers in San Jose, California

Microsoft has applied to construct two data centers in San Jose, California. On August 17, the San Jose Council Planning Division will convene to discuss Microsoft's plans for a 65-acre site at 1657 Alviso-Milpitas Road. The company seeks permission to remove 79 trees to construct two single-s...

August 03, 2023

Microsoft Azure

Data center for sale in Topeka, Kansas

There is a data center building available for purchase in Topeka, Kansas. Topeka's 400 SE Jefferson Street is up for sale through Colliers for a price that has not been disclosed. The 16,350-square-foot building in Shawnee County contains a 10,500-square-foot data center and a 5,850-square-foo...

August 03, 2023

Kansas

Texas-based Valero payments data center for sale

Energy company Valero's office and data center space is up for sale in Texas. Williams & Co Real Estate has the Valero Credit Card Ops Center at 7201 Canyon Drive in Amarillo listed for sale with a Triple Net Lease (NNN) tenant. The price listed is $6,295,000. The 2003-built, 34,585-square...

August 03, 2023

Texas

George Mason University and AWS jointly develop a data center engineering course

A data center engineering course is being created by George Mason University in Fairfax County, Virginia, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The faculty of Mason's College of Engineering and Computing will offer the course, which will be titled ME/ECE 499: Data Center Engineering. It will be acces...

August 02, 2023

Amazon AWS

Markley Group seeks $80 million in data center litigation with Zayo

The Markley Group has filed a $80 million lawsuit against networking company Zayo Group over a data center lease in a Boston carrier hotel. The filing is a response to the case raised by zColo in April 2023, in which it was alleged that the Markley Group had engaged in a years-long campaign of...

August 02, 2023

Zayo

Stack Infrastructure concludes its second $250 million debt financing of 2023

$250 million in securitized notes have been issued as part of Stack Infrastructure's second round of structured debt financing for 2023. The funding round began a month ago with an initial goal of raising $100 million, which has since more than doubled. Since 2019, Stack has raised $2.3 billio...

August 02, 2023

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

GTR will construct a 16MW data facility in Barcelona, Spain.

A data center will be built in Barcelona, Spain, by Global Technical Realty (GTR). The company, backed by KKR's third global infrastructure fund, has acquired its first data center building site in Spain. The location is Parc de l'Alba in Cerdanyola del Vallès, just outside of Barcelona. Accor...

August 02, 2023

Mubadala makes an investment in Aligned Data Centers and acquires a minority stake

Mubadala Investment Company, the sovereign investment branch of Abu Dhabi, has invested in Aligned Data Centers. Mubadala will become a minority shareholder in the U.S. company, although the scale of the investment was not disclosed. Macquarie Asset Management remains the majority shareholder ...

August 02, 2023

Aligned

Cirion intends to construct a 20MW data center in Santiago, Chile

Cirion Technologies, a developer of digital infrastructure and technology, plans to construct a 20MW data center in Santiago, Chile. The facility, known as SAN2, will be the company's second data center in the country and is anticipated to be operational by early 2025.The data center will be l...

August 02, 2023

Ireland's low tax advantage boosts data center construction

Despite repeated calls from different parties in Ireland to halt data center building, a recent report has shown that Ireland's low tax advantage is stimulating further growth in data center construction. According to a recent market review, Ireland's corporation tax rate, being one of the lo...

August 02, 2023

Republic of Ireland

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