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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)

Singtel to form new data center company, forms JW with Gulf Energy

Singaporean telco Singtel is planning to form a new data center company with a focus on Southeast Asia. The firm has also signed a new joint venture with Gulf Energy. The joint venture between the two companies will have a focus on Thailand. Singtel already has a rich portfolio of 10 data c...

October 01, 2021

Singtel

AWS buys 42-acre of land in Warrenton for $40 million

According to Fauquier Now, Amazon Web Services has acquired a 41.7-acre land in Warrenton, Fauquier County, for $39.7 million. The land it acquired is on Blackwell Road, Lee Highway. With each acre costing $952,000, this is reportedly the biggest real estate transaction in the history of No...

September 30, 2021

Amazon AWS

Element Critical breaks ground on expansion project at Houston One facility

Element Critical has started its first expansion project on the Houston One data center it acquired earlier in the year. The US colo provider acquired the facility for an undisclosed fee from Skybox Datacenters in March. The first phase of the expansion will see Element Critical extend the ...

September 30, 2021

Element Critical Houston One

Helsinki to become home to new Digita data center

Digita Oy has announced that it is expanding its data center footprint and is branching out to Helsinki, which will be home to a brand new data center. While specific details around investment are yet to be released, according to the company, it is "significant." In a statement, Digita COO Ma...

September 30, 2021

Digita Oy

Bharti Airtel to invest Rs 5,000 cr in new data center

Airtel has announced that to meet customer demand in and around India; it is expanding its data center business. An injection of ₹ 5,000 crore ($673 million) will facilitate this growth, and initial plans are to create a "data centre economy" across 80 Indian cities, tripling its installed cap...

September 30, 2021

Bharti Airtel

Energy strategy talks in Loudoun as data centers continue to dominate

On Wednesday, Loudoun county supervisors came together to discuss the county's energy strategy. This discussion has come following a surge of data centers in the area over the past 15 years. The county's "Data Center Alley" is pinned as the world's largest concentration of data centers, totall...

September 30, 2021

Northern Virginia

Google announces expansion plans in The Dallas, Oregon

According to Oregon Live, Google plans to build more data centers in The Dalles, in Oregon’s Wasco County. The report shows that the search engine giant wants to build two more data centers in The Dalles. It is also looking to get access to more water and tax breaks. Google will be building...

September 29, 2021

Google

Microsoft opens Availability Zones in Norway East Azure Cloud region

Microsoft has announced the launch of its Availability Zones in its Norway East Azure Cloud region in Oslo. However, it has also canceled its plan for the region in Stavanger, which is to the west. The Company first revealed its plans to open two Azure Cloud regions in the country in 2018. ...

September 29, 2021

Microsoft Azure

CyrusOne exploring the sale of its company

According to Reuters, CyrusOne is considering the sale of its business. It is said to be exploring some strategic changes that might include a sale. CyrusOne is a real estate investment trust that has a market cap of up to $9 billion. The Company is exploring its options with investment ban...

September 29, 2021

CyrusOne

Liquid opens fifth mega data center in South Africa

Liquid has announced that it has opened its fifth mega data center in South Africa, which has a capacity of 20MW. Going forward, the company is targeting a further 10 data centers across Africa's largest cities. Liquid's founder Strive Masiyiwa made the announcement. These projects are being f...

September 29, 2021

Africa Data Centres

Chindata Group holds strategic dialogue with the Climate Group

Chindata recently held a ‘strategic dialogue’ with the Climate Group, where the two explored digital infrastructure in supporting global growth and the role internet technology companies must play in reducing carbon emissions. In addition to this, the meeting saw Alex Ju, founder and CEO of Ch...

September 29, 2021

Chindata Group

Hexatronic enters US data center market

Hexatronic has reportedly entered the data center market by acquiring 100% of the shares of Data Centre Systems (DCS). This latest acquisition follows a number of other acquisitions outside of the industry, including Optical Solutions Group, The Fibre Optic Shop, and Rehau Group.According to D...

September 29, 2021

United States

Westfield Data-Center Project on the verge of closing

Westfield Data-Center Project is reportedly almost at the finish line as it enters the local approval phase. The $2.7 billion proposal of a hyperscale data center would make the region a big player in big data. Demetrios Panteleakis, the principal commercial broker with Springfield-based M...

September 29, 2021

Massachusetts

Data center moratorium on the horizon for Ireland?

The Irish Social Democrat Party has announced that it is calling for a moratorium on new data centres in Ireland in response to grid constraints and sustainability concerns. This proposed moratorium would be an "interim measure" that would allow the government to fully grasp how many data cent...

September 28, 2021

Republic of Ireland

AWS plans to open data center design facility in Zagreb, Croatia

Amazon Web Services has revealed that it wants to open a data center design facility in Zagreb, Croatia. The facility will support the development and operation of AWS Cloud services while focusing on product development, research, and data center design. AWS said it would be using local ta...

September 28, 2021

Amazon AWS

BentallGreenOak completes the acquisition of two Canadian IBM data centers in sale-leaseback deals

A Canadian property manager called BentallGreenOak has acquired two IBM data centers in Canada in sale-leaseback transactions. BGO announced that it bought the two facilities. One of the facilities it acquired is in Montreal, while the other is in Markham. The facility in Montreal is at 275...

September 28, 2021

Kyndryl

Nethits Telecom to build 20MW data center in Valencia, Spain

Spain’s Nethits Telecom has revealed plans to construct a data center in Valencia, Spain. The firm said it would be investing €241 million ($281m) into the facility to make it the largest data center in Valencia. According to the Company, the facility will be built to Tier IV standard. It will...

September 28, 2021

Spain

Irish committee hear about the significant grid impact of data centers

Irish data centers are back under the microscope at the Oireachtas Committee on the Environment and Climate Change. According to the Irish Times, Dr Patrick Bresnihan of National University of Ireland, Maynooth, will be bringing forward some concerning figures. Bresnihan will put to the commit...

September 28, 2021

Republic of Ireland

Sustainable Finance: New way to address the environmental footprint of data centers

Much has been said about how data centers adversely affect the environment. However, more data centers have begun to become 'Greener.' Besides, in order to leave a better environmental footprint, many data center companies are now spending more on green energy. Investors and data center fin...

September 27, 2021

Aligned

NetActuate expands its footprint Warsaw, Poland

NetActuate has announced that it has expanded its data center footprint into Warsaw, Poland. The facility is a business hub for more than 350 companies, and the location features state-of-the-art security and operating standards. It is also certified compliant for ISO 22301, ISO 27001, ISO 90...

September 27, 2021

NetActuate

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