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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)

Keppel DC REIT Completes Acquisition Of Second Data Center In London

Keppel DC REIT has completed the acquisition of its second data center in London, UK. The Singaporean firm revealed that it acquired the data center in Bracknell for £57 million (S$105.5m/US$76.9m). The data center sits on a 4.7-acre property with three inter-linked two-story buildings. The da...

January 10, 2022

Keppel Data Center REIT

Cordiant Acquires DataGryd and Emitel for $551m

Cordiant Digital Infrastructure has announced the acquisition of Polish digital infrastructure firm Emitel and US data center company DataGryd for $551m. Cordiant revealed that it had already entered a binding agreement to acquire some DataGryd Datacenters LLC assets that constitute its full o...

January 10, 2022

Hudson Interxchange

Internet blackouts in Kazakhstan following protests

Kazakhstan is experiencing internet blackouts as its government implements nationwide cuts. These blackouts follow fuel and anti-government protests; however, president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has called protestors "plotters," arguing that they are "financially motivated".According to NetBlocks,...

January 07, 2022

Kazakhstan

Interxion's Frankfurt data center completed

Interxion's latest data center in Frankfurt, Germany, FRA16, has been completed, it has announced. Located on the company's Ostend campus at Hanauer Landstrasse, the facility spans 4,800 sqm (51,600 sq ft) of white space, with a capacity of 16.5MW. The data center is expected to go live later...

January 07, 2022

Digital Realty Frankfurt Campus

Leeward repowers wind farm supplying Amazon with renewable energy

Leeward Renewable Energy LLC has announced that it has completed the repowering of its 54.4-MW Crescent Ridge wind farm in Illinois, which will provide Amazon with renewable energy. This process involved decommissioning nine turbines, installing Vestas turbines, and replacing 24 legacy turbine...

January 07, 2022

Amazon AWS

Cologix recapitalizes with Stonepeak

Investment firm Stonepeak has revealed that it has recapitalized Cologix. Stonepeak is an Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund, and it has decided to pull out its investment in Cologix. The agreement sees Stonepeak Infrastructure Fund II LP and its co-investors sell Cologix to vehicles managed by S...

January 07, 2022

Cologix

Digital Realty acquires 55% of Teraco and enters South Africa

Digital Realty has bought the majority stake in Teraco. The data center giant announced the acquisition of the South African data center company from a consortium of investors, including Permira and Berkshire Partners. The deal sees Teraco valued at about $3.5 billion. The transaction sees Dig...

January 07, 2022

Digital Realty Trust

Telia Lietuva to invest EUR 10 million Lithuanian data center

Telia Lietuva has announced that it is to invest EUR 10 million in the construction of a data center located in Raisteniškės, next to the Vilnius-Panevėžys highway. This facility will join two Telia Lietuva other data centers in Vilnius, which will mean it will be the largest data center infra...

January 07, 2022

Telia Lietuva Raisteniškės

TAOP to expand its Hong Kong Data Center

Taoping Inc (TOAP) has announced that it is expanding its Taoping G Cloud Hong Kong Data Center (the "Center") in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong. The expansion is expected to be completed by the end of January 2022.The facility, built in May 2021, will have an estimated total hash rate of 700GH/s, and i...

January 06, 2022

Hong Kong

Sustainability goals outlined by Alibaba

Alibaba has announced its sustainability goals to meet the rest of the industry in its push to go green. According to Alibaba's Chairman and CEO, Daniel Zhang, this announcement aligns with the company's aspiration to become a force for "positive, innovative change in society." Zhang says that...

January 06, 2022

China

Orange signs 36MW wind PPA in Poland with Enertrag

In its latest move towards its sustainability pledge, Orange has announced that it has penned a 36MW Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with energy company Enertrag. This deal means that up to 30% of Orange Polska’s needs will be met with wind energy, from an offshore wind farm on the Vistula Rive...

January 06, 2022

Orange

The Netherlands’ climate goals at risk with new Facebook data center?

Controversy is looming around Facebook's new data center in the Netherlands. Critics of the facility argue that Meta's 166-hectare complex at Zeewolde will undermine the country's sustainability targets.This is because the data center is predicted to use around 1,380GWh hours of energy a year....

January 06, 2022

Facebook Zeewolde

DC Blox announces its Greenville data center in South Carolina is 'open for business'

After breaking ground on its Greenville, South Carolina data center in April 2021, DC Blox has announced its Tier III facility is now open and operational.The facility has an initial 25,000 square foot (2,300 sqm), and when fully built, will span 54,000 sq ft (5,000 sqm). Moreover, it can acco...

January 05, 2022

DC BLOX

Cardiff Met Uni announces relocation of campus data center

Cardiff Metropolitan University in Wales has announced that it is relocating its primary data center to L block in the Llandaff Learning Centre. According to the university, the reasoning behind this move is due to its School of Technologies expanding into A block in January. The relocation...

January 05, 2022

Wales

Further danger ahead for Ireland's power grid as data centers continue to sap energy

There is an ongoing power issue in Ireland as the data center industry in the country continues to boom. Being the host of 70 data centers it is now the fastest-growing data center market in Europe. However, with data centers accounting for 11% of Ireland’s total energy supply, there are conce...

January 05, 2022

Republic of Ireland

AWS expands data center footprint in Indonesia with significant investment

Further to AWS announcing that it is establishing its AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region, reports are now circulating that the giant will be investing an estimated $5 billion (IDR$71 trillion) in Indonesia across the 15 years through the region.According to reports, this investment will cover e...

January 05, 2022

Amazon AWS

Amplitude branches out into Germany with new data center

Amplitude has announced that it is expanding its data center footprint into Germany with a facility in Frankfurt. The data center, which is certified in ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, will be hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), for both its “privacy” and “security.”Speaking about its move into ...

January 04, 2022

AWS EU Frankfurt Region (eu-central-1)

Dubai to be home to two new 'state-of-the-art' data centers

Dubai Internet City has entered into a deal with Khazna Data Centers to construct two ‘state-of-the-art’ data centers in Dubai. The two facilities will employ Khazna’s data center pod design for rapid scaling, something which will reportedly offer both partners long-term growth benefits. This ...

January 04, 2022

Dubai

$800 million data center for Temple (Bell County)

Polmer LLC has reportedly signed an economic development agreement with Temple (Bell County) to build one or more new data centers in the area, accompanied by associated facilities. In addition, the company which was recently incorporated has entered into a tax abatement and water and wastewat...

December 31, 2021

Meta: Temple TX

Mining data centers blamed for power deficit in Kazakhstan

In recent years, Kazakhstan has become a hotspot for mining data centers, with the country becoming the second-largest producer of Bitcoin; however, alongside this developmental surge, there has also been a lack of infrastructure to support these energy-hungry coin minting facilities. Reports ...

December 31, 2021

Kazakhstan

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