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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)

Blue Owl Backs Out of Funding Oracle's $10bn Michigan Facility

Blue Owl Capital is not planning to provide financial backing to Oracle's planned data center in Saline Township, Michigan. The data center project, valued at $10 billion, is being developed by Oracle, Related Digital, and OpenAI as part of the latter's Stargate project.The campus is expected ...

January 03, 2026

Oracle

Google to Build Three Subsea Cables in Papua New Guinea

Google will build three subsea cables in Papua New Guinea as part of plans to upgrade the digital backbone of the biggest Pacific Island nation. The build-out of the subsea cables will be funded by Australia under a mutual defense treaty, confirmed the Papua New Guinea government."The entire i...

January 03, 2026

Google

Ground Broken on 30m Square Feet Data Center for Saudi Arabian Gov't

On January 1, the foundation stone of the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority's (SDAIA) Hexagon data center was laid in a groundbreaking ceremony. The data center will host more than 290 government systems, and has been designed to meet "green building requirements."SDAIA wrote: "...

January 03, 2026

Data4 Chosen for €5bn Data Center Project in Northern France

Data4 is leading a €5 billion ($5.86 billion) project to develop a data center campus at a former steelworks in northern France. The company has been selected to deliver the campus at the Soufflantes industrial park in Escaudain, near Denain, which is just outside the city of Valenciennes.A co...

January 03, 2026

DATA4 Group

Georgia-Based Film Studio Considers Converting to Data Center

Athens, Georgia-based Athena Studios is considering converting into a data center, its CEO Joel Harber has said. The film studio has seen a significant decline in movie production demand, according to Harber, which has led to an “oversupply of space and an undersupply of demand.”Athena Studios...

January 03, 2026

Georgia

AWS Gets Greenlight for Three Data Centers in Dublin

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has received planning permission for three data centers in north Dublin, Ireland. The greenlight, awarded by planning appeals body An Coimisiún Pleanála (ACP), comes three years after the application was first filed by Amazon affiliate Universal Developers LLC.The dat...

January 03, 2026

Amazon AWS

Cisco Signs 15-year vPPA with R.Power in Poland

Polish renewable energy firm R.Power has signed a virtual Power Purchase Agreement (vPPA) with Cisco Systems, a US networking firm. Over the term of the 15-year agreement, R.Power will supply approximately 486MWh of power to Cisco for its Polish operations.According to the companies, the contr...

January 03, 2026

Poland

AWS Plans Data Center in Covington, Georgia

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is planning a data center in Covington, just outside of Atlanta, Georgia.The company has made a $100 million agreement with the city to construct a water treatment and cooling facility to support the data center.“This new project is expected to generate significant ne...

January 03, 2026

Amazon AWS

TNE Partners with Data District to Support 1GW Data Center Pipeline in Alberta, Canada

Technologies New Energy (TNE) has partnered with Data District to support the development of AI-ready data centers in Alberta, Canada. According to the partners, the data centers will be designed to support advanced computing workloads, including high-density AI applications.Julio Perez, chief...

January 03, 2026

Evocative Secures Further Funding for AI-driven Data Center Upgrades

Internet infrastructure provider Evocative has secured debt financing from a “large global investment firm” to further its growth driven by AI data center demand. The company said the new financing is in addition to continued equity support from its long-term partner, Crestline Investors.“This...

January 02, 2026

Element Critical announces new data center platform in US

Element Critical this week announced the launch of a new US data center platform backed by 26North Partners, Arctos, Mercuria, and Safanad. Element said with backing from its investors, the new platform will "accelerate acquisitions, development, and strategic expansion across top US markets."...

January 02, 2026

United States

Yondr’s Second Virginia Data Center Ready for Service

Yondr this week announced that the second data center at its Loudoun County campus is ready for service. Yondr has completed the first 12MW of the new facility's 48MW capacity, with the remainder due to come online in 2026.Todd Sauer, VP design and construction for the Americas at Yondr Group,...

January 02, 2026

Verdantas Proposes New Data Center in Newark, Delaware

A new data center has been proposed in New Castle County, Newark, Delaware. The proposed data center would sit just off of Ogletown Road, on a 44-acre site currently occupied by the White Clay Center Industrial Park.The application describes consolidating the seven buildings of the campus into...

January 02, 2026

Delaware

Ares Acquires Land and Data Centers in Virginia

Alternative investment manager Ares Management Corporation has expanded its data center platform Ada Infrastructure into the US, acquiring land in Virginia for a new campus.The Ares Digital Infrastructure business, through an Ares fund, has acquired a 314-acre site along the I-95 South data ce...

January 02, 2026

Virginia

FCDC Plans New Data Center Campus in Vaasa, Finland

Finnish data center FCDC is planning a new campus in western-central Finland. FDFC Corp Oy aims to develop a 66,000 sqm (710,420 sq ft) campus in GigaVaasa, located in the Laajametsä business area near the airport. Two data center buildings are planned."The data center project supports Vaasa's...

December 31, 2025

Finland

Elisa Confirms Plans to Cut 357 Jobs Following Personnel Negotiations

Finnish telco Elisa has confirmed it will cut 357 jobs. The announcement comes after the company launched its transformation program in October, when the carrier hinted up to 450 jobs could be lost."As part of the transformation program, Elisa is streamlining its organization and optimizing it...

December 30, 2025

Finland

Token Cat and Better Now Plan Data Center in New York

Chinese tech firm Token Cat and US-based Better Now have announced that they will collaborate to develop and operate an artificial intelligence data center in New York. The project will see a multi-phase roll-out to build a 30MW data center, with the company already having secured access to 12...

December 30, 2025

New York

What Makes a Data Center Go Down and How Outages Are Prevented

Few places on Earth are as quietly vital as a data center. From the outside, most look like simple warehouses: broad, windowless, and often isolated. However, data centers house some of the most complex environments ever engineered over centuries. Vast rooms filled with servers hum continuousl...

December 29, 2025

United States

SoftBank to Buy Data Center Investor DigitalBridge for $4bn

SoftBank Group plans to acquire digital infrastructure investor DigitalBridge for $4 billion.DigitalBridge had around $108 billion of assets under management at the end of September, including AIMS, AtlasEdge, DataBank, Switch, Takanock, Vantage Data Centers, and Yondr Group. As of August, the...

December 29, 2025

DigitalBridge

Top Data Center News for 22nd - 27th December 2025

AtlasEdge Sells Nine Data Centers Across Europe to Spanish Operator TemplusEuropean Edge data center company AtlasEdge has sold a portfolio of facilities to Spanish operator Templus. The companies announced the deal this week, with nine data centers trading hands. Google to Buy Intersect Power...

December 29, 2025

United States

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