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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)

Datum Datacentres Acquires Teledata

Teledata has been acquired by Datum Datacentres. Datum Datacentres announced the acquisition of the Manchester-based colocation data center. Interestingly, Datum was also acquired last year by UBS. According to the company, the acquisition is a part of its regional expansion strategy. Detai...

September 28, 2022

Datum Datacentres Limited

Cyxtera To Adopt REIT Status

Cyxtera has announced that it is adopting a real estate investment trust (REIT) status. This move provides better tax status while making steady and consistent dividends available for its shareholders. However, the company needs to make most of its revenue from income-producing real estate. Th...

September 28, 2022

Cyxtera Technologies

Yondr To Develop a 42MW Facility in Berlin, Germany

Yondr Group has announced plans to develop data centers in the municipality of Ragow, outside Berlin, Germany. Upon full build-out, the data center campus will offer 42MW of power. Phase 1 of the development will deliver 10MW of power. This phase is also scheduled to be in operation in 2024. U...

September 28, 2022

Yondr Group

Oracle Launches First Cloud Region in Madrid, Spain

Oracle has announced that it has launched a cloud region in the capital of Spain. The launch sees Oracle's total cloud region across the globe hit 40. This is the country's first region in the country. The general manager of Oracle Spain, Albert Triola, said: "Local organizations and public in...

September 28, 2022

Oracle

AQ Compute To Develop a 50MW Data Center in Barcelona, Spain

AQ Compute has announced a partnership with CBRE that will see the company develop a new data center in Barcelona, Spain. The data center will have a capacity of 50MW and is scheduled to come online before the end of 2024. In addition to the 50MW facility, AQ Compute plans to develop more data...

September 27, 2022

AQ Compute

QScale starts work on second building at Quebec Lévis campus

QScale has reportedly commenced construction of Phase 2 of its campus in Lévis, outside Quebec City, a year ahead of schedule. The construction is one of the largest in the greater Quebec City region, and the project has seen an injection of $1 billion. QScale Speaking a...

September 27, 2022

QScale

Yandex expands in Russia with new 63MW facility

Yandex has announced that it is expanding in western Russia, with the addition of a new 63MW facility in the Grabtsevo industrial park in Kaluga, around 100 miles south of Moscow. According to reports, the data center is expected to span 130,000 square meters and house more than 3,800 server ...

September 27, 2022

Yandex NV

South Africa faces unprecedented power cuts

South Africa is reportedly facing unprecedented levels of nationwide power blackouts. These blackouts come as a result of state-owned power utility Eskom, which produces 95% of the country’s electricity, implementing Stage 6 load shedding, which means that homes and businesses go without elect...

September 26, 2022

South Africa

Safaricom to expand footprint in Ethiopia

Safaricom is to build a new data center outside Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, it has been announced. This comes following the signing of a developed land sublease agreement with Industrial Parks Development Corporation (IPDC) to build a new Tier-III quality ‘telco-cloud data center’. The facility wil...

September 26, 2022

Ethiopia

China's energy challenges, climate change, and what it means for data centers

Back in May 2021, Greenpeace said that China's data center emissions were to double, with its energy usage expected to nearly quadruple by 2035 (increasing by an estimated 289%). "Explosive growth" in digital infrastructure was identified as a major contributing factor to this. Considering the...

September 26, 2022

China

Cargill moves into the bio-industrial business with its plant-based immersion cooling

Cargill, an American food producer giant and the third largest meat producer in the world, has announced that it has created the world's first plant-based dielectric fluid for immersion cooling fluid in data centers. Named NatureCool 2000, the cooling liquid was designed for the data center an...

September 26, 2022

United States

Weserve Completes Acquisition of Datacenter Groningen

Dutch company Weserve has acquired colocation firm Datacenter Groningen. Weserve was founded in 2003, and it operates and provides fiber optics. It also manages its own hardware and network from 25 data centers across the country. On the other hand, Datacenter Groningen owns and operates one d...

September 26, 2022

Datacenter Groningen BV

OVHcloud Develops Facility on Strasbourg Site Ravaged By Fire in 2021

OVHcloud has announced opening of a new facility on the Strasbourg site ravaged by fire in 2021. The new data center named SBG5 cost the company €30 million ($30.5m). SBG5 data center is equipped with an automatic fire extinguishing system. Although this system is standard among modern data ce...

September 26, 2022

OVH Strasbourg Campus

T-Mobile Sells Data Center and Wireline Business to Cogent for $1

Cogent Communications Holdings has acquired T-Mobile’s wireline business for $1 billion. In addition, T-Mobile expects to have a pre-tax charge of $1 billion from selling the unit to Cogent. T-Mobile will also pay Cogent $350m in the first 1 year of closing the deal and another $350m over the ...

September 26, 2022

Cogent Communications

Work on Meta's data center in Sarpy County halted following racist graffiti being found

Meta’s Sarpy County data center has once again found itself in the headlines following another racist incident on site. The primary contractor Turner Construction had shut down work on the Utah site regarding three other racist incidents, which included racist graffiti on a portable toilet an...

September 23, 2022

Verne and Volta announce they're team up

Verne Global and Volta Data Centres have announced that they have teamed up and will now be operating under the Verne Global brand, spanning from Iceland to the UK. Speaking about the decision to merge, Dominic Ward, CEO of Verne Global, said: “With two complementary, best-in-class data cente...

September 23, 2022

Verne: Keflavik Campus

Amazon invests in more renewable energy projects

Amazon has announced that it has invested in another wave of renewable energy projects, totaling 71. Altogether, these projects will take the giant total renewable energy production to 50,000GWh, the same amount required to power 4.6 million homes in the US annually. These projects include th...

September 23, 2022

Amazon AWS

Bosung Group to expand in South Korea

Bosung Group is expanding its data center footprint in SolaSeaDo, South Korea, with the addition of a new 200MW data center campus in SolaSeaDo, to the south of the country in Jeonnam Province. These expansion plans come following the company partnering up with The Green Korea (TGK), a joint v...

September 23, 2022

South Korea

NEC to expand its green data centers in Kanagawa and Kobe

NEC Corporation has announced that it is establishing two new green data centers, in response to the growing demand. The first is the "NEC Kanagawa Data Center: Phase 2 Building" which is scheduled to open in the second half of 2023, and the second is "NEC Kobe Data Center: Phase 3 Building," ...

September 23, 2022

Japan

Borealis Data Center Buys Data Center For Undisclosed Fee in Reykjavík, Iceland

Icelandic data center company Borealis Data Center has completed the acquisition of a data center just outside Reykjavik, Iceland. According to Visir, the company purchased the facility from Islandsbanki. However, the terms of the acquisition weren’t revealed. Borealis currently operates tw...

September 23, 2022

Iceland

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