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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](h...

June 21, 2026

Colorado (CO)

Etix Everywhere Acquires a 67% Stake In Thailand’s Genesis Data Centers

EtixEverywhere has announced that it has bought the majority interest in Genesis data center. The company revealed that it acquired a 67 percent stake in the Thai data center. The cost of the investment is pegged around AU$15.2 million (US$10.8m). Genesis operates a data center in Bang Chalong...

January 26, 2022

Bangkok / Krung Thep

ServerChoice Adds New data hall to Its Stevenage, UK Facility

UK data center company ServerChoice has announced the expansion of its facility in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. The company added a new data hall which hosts 47 racks. In addition, the new hall uses hot aisle containment that ensures greater efficiency. In addition, the racks are backed up by a d...

January 26, 2022

United Kingdom

IXcellerate Secures $190m In Funding

IXcellerate announced this week that it has completed a new round of financing after raising $190 from existing and new investors. Some of the new investors include SberInvest, Mubadala Investment Company, and the Russian Direct Investment Fund. The company says the funds will be used to expan...

January 26, 2022

IXcellerate

Google's Council Bluffs data center complete

Google's Council Bluffs data center is complete, it has announced. This means the giant's investment in the city has now reached $5 billion.Speaking about the company's investment in the area, Council Bluffs Mayor Matt Walsh said in a press release: "Google's $5 billion of capital investment...

January 25, 2022

Google

TINC invests €5 million ($5.6m) in Datacenter United, acquires DC Star

Belgian infrastructure investment company TINC has made investments in Belgian data center firm Datacenter United. TINC says the €5 million ($5.6m) investment in Datacenter United is to fund the acquisition of DC Star. Datacenter United was founded in 2011. It currently operates three data cen...

January 25, 2022

Belgium

DCI To Develop Another Data Center in Auckland, New Zealand

DCI Data Centers has revealed plans for a second facility in Auckland, New Zealand. According to the New Zealand Herald, Australia’s DCI Data Centers has acquired a five-hectare land to develop a 40MW data center. The facility will be called AKL02. DCI also plans to spend up to $600 million (~...

January 25, 2022

DCI Data Centers

Microsoft to develop a $317m Chilean data center region

Microsoft has filed plans to develop a data center in Santiago, Chile. The data center is to cost the company $317 million. Microsoft first revealed its plans for a data center region in the country in December 2020. It is now finally actualizing its plans by filing its SLC03 project for asses...

January 25, 2022

Microsoft Azure

The Dublin City Council Challenges AWS' Plans For Another Data Center

Plans for another Amazon Web Services data center in Dublin, Ireland, are at risk of being stopped by the local council. The council asked AWS for proof that another data center would not over-saturate the area. AWS plans to build some facilities in north Dublin near its existing data center w...

January 25, 2022

Amazon AWS

Jazz opens new Tier III data center in Pakistan

Pakistan-based telecommunication company Jazz has launched a new data center facility in Islamabad, Pakistan. The 3MW data center cost the company $8 million. It currently has 300 racks, with a capacity to be expanded in the future to 450 racks. According to Jazz, the new facility is the large...

January 25, 2022

South Asia

More cryptocurrency data centers to head to North Dakota?

North Dakota is becoming a hotspot for cryptocurrency miners, with its cold temperatures attracting interest. According to John Weeda, director of the North Dakota Transmission Authority, there's lots of interest from a number of parties. Energy Services Manager Josh Schaffner said the company...

January 24, 2022

North Dakota

AIIB to invest $150 million in new data centers

Multilateral bank Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), has announced that it is making a significant investment in new data center development, with $150 million. The Beijing-based company will direct the funds through the Keppel Data Centre Fund II (KDCF II). Current reports outline t...

January 24, 2022

Beijing

Rostelecom to expand one of its data centers in Moscow

Rostelecom has announced that it is expanding one of its facilities in Moscow. Its M9 data center on Moscow's Butlerova Street will span 466 sq m (5,000 sq ft), with a capacity of 840kW and offer standard racks of 5.5 kW.The facility is built to Tier III standard and will reportedly accommoda...

January 24, 2022

Rostelecom

Verizon signs seven Power Purchase Agreements

As it expands its usage of green energy, Verizon, has announced that it has signed seven new Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) for renewable energy representing 910MW. The company's sustainability goals are to have carbon neutrality across all its operations (scope 1 and 2) by 2035.Renewable En...

January 22, 2022

Verizon Enterprise

USDA awards Lumen with a $1.2 billion network services contract

Lumen Technologies has won a $1.2 billion contract from the US Department of Agriculture. Lumen is to deliver a fully integrated wide-area data transport service to over 9,500 US Department of Agriculture locations across the country and around the world. With this contract, Lumen will offer a...

January 21, 2022

Lumen Technologies

Australia's Edge Centres acquires its local Edge rival DC Matrix

Australia-based edge data center firm Edge Centres has completed the acquisition of its rival DC Matrix. DC Matrix is a local edge data center company based in Queensland. DC Matrix planned to roll out six facilities in Queensland before the acquisition. The CEO of Edge Centres, Jonathan Eaves...

January 21, 2022

Edge Centres

ECU students protest potential data center facility in the Greenville area

Students and staff at East Carolina University have voiced significant concerns around the potential arrival of a crypto mining facility in the Greenville area. This week, those opposing the proposed data center, came together to protest, with the slogan "Say No To Crypto." A number of pro...

January 21, 2022

South Carolina

Microsoft is buying 50 acres in Hyderabad, India a data center campus development

According to the Business Standard, Microsoft has agreed to purchase a 50-acre land in Hyderabad, India. The company plans to build a data center campus on the property. Business Standard reports that Microsoft already has a deal in place with the Telangana government of India to develop a Rs ...

January 21, 2022

Microsoft Azure

GI Partners secures $390m refinancing for One Wilshire carrier hotel in LA

JLL’s Capital Markets Group has announced that it has helped GI Partners refinance the One Wilshire carrier hotel in California. The group said it arranged a $390 million refinancing for One Wilshire’s 30-story, multi-tenant, 660,000 square foot data center and office building. Executive ...

January 21, 2022

One Wilshire Building

ColoHouse completed acquisition of US colo firm Steadfast

Valterra Partners and 1547 CSR-owned ColoHouse has completed the acquisition of a bare metal, data center, and cloud provider in the US Midwest named Steadfast. The acquisition sees ColoHouse gain ownership of three colocation data center locations. The locations include 350 E. Cermak and 725 ...

January 21, 2022

ColoHouse

Microsoft buys 17 acres of land in Georgia for further expansion

According to Biz Journal, Microsoft has acquired extra 17 acres of land in Fulton County of Georgia. In addition, the Fulton County property deeds confirmed the purchase by showing that Microsoft bought 10 acres of land from Macq LLC for $1 million and 7 acres from Lit/Hodges Industrial Trust ...

January 20, 2022

Microsoft Azure

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