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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)

TikTok requests clarification about Ireland's new data center policy statement

In Ireland, the data center expansion debate is bubbling over. A contentious matter in recent years, due to energy grid and environmental concerns, many have called for a moratorium or stricter rules around expansion. There has also recently been confusion around the country's new data center ...

September 06, 2022

Republic of Ireland

California officials declare statewide grid emergency due to continued heat wave

California temperatures have soared to a record high, placing serious pressure on the power grid, and causing state officials to urge residents to limit their power usage. According to reports, the heat wave is most seriously affecting the Central Valley, which is projected to reach 115 degree...

September 06, 2022

California

Atman expands its Warsaw campus

Atman, a Polish data center operator, has announced that it is expanding one of its campuses in Warsaw. This expansion will take place at its Warsaw-1 campus at 21a Grochowska Street, with the addition of the F7 building. Atman F7 will reportedly offer 7.2MW of capacity ac...

September 06, 2022

Atman

Vxchnge ceases operations

US data center operator Vxchnge has quietly ceased operations after selling off a number of sites over the last few years to both Cologix and Element Critical. The news was first confirmed by DCD, who outlined that although there was still one facility in Durham, North Carolina that wasn’t par...

September 05, 2022

United States

iM Data Centers Joins Sustainability Consortium

iM Data Centers, a manufacturer of modular data centers, has announced that it is joining the Infrastructure Masons (iMasons) Climate Accord (ICA), a collaboration between digital infrastructure companies that have come together to push forward carbon neutrality initiatives. According to Dean ...

September 05, 2022

Miami

Galaxy Backbone announces launch Tier IV data center

The Galaxy Backbone (GBB) has announced that it is launching a Tier IV data center into the public and private sector space, in order to boost its digital infrastructure. In a statement, the agency said: “The infrastructure has been specifically built to respond to the desire of its growing b...

September 05, 2022

Nigeria

Vantage Plans To Develop Another Data Center Campus in Sterling

According to BizJournal, Vantage is looking to develop another data center campus in Loudoun County, Virginia. According to Loudoun property records, the company acquired 17 acres of land at 22318 Glenn Drive for $46m in October 2021. Per the documents filed by Loudoun County Economic Developm...

September 05, 2022

Vantage Data Centers

Amazon Web Services Launches UAE Cloud Region

Amazon Web Services has announced the launch of its new cloud region in the United Arab Emirates. The company said the cloud region’s official name is Middle East (UAE). It also noted that the API name is me-central-1. According to AWS, the zone is ready for use to store data and deploy worklo...

September 05, 2022

Amazon AWS

Africa Data Centres To Add 30MW Capacity To Its Johannesburg Data Center

Africa Data Centres (ADC) has announced that it has started expansion work on its Samrand data center. The expansion will see ADC add 30MW of power to one of its Johannesburg data center campuses. Africa Data Centres (ADC) is pan-African technology group business of Cassava Technologies. It ow...

September 05, 2022

Teraco Johannesburg JB1

DigitalBridge and Equinix are The Final Bidders For Time Dotcom's Aims DC Business

According to Bloomberg, Equinix and DigitalBridge are the final two companies looking to buy Time Dotcom’s data center business. The companies are looking to sign an agreement to take over the business called Aims Data Centre within the next few weeks. Per sources, Time Dotcom might also re...

September 05, 2022

DigitalBridge

1547 CSR Has Plans For a 150MW Facility in Pennsylvania

Fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547) has plans for a large data center campus in Pennsylvania. The company partnered with Green Fig Land Company (GFLC), a real estate company, to acquire over 100 acres of land to develop a data center campus. The data center will span 2 million squ...

September 05, 2022

1547 Critical Systems Realty (fifteenfortyseven)

CIM Group Lists a 24MW Purpose-built Data Center For Lease in San Francisco

JLL and CIM Group have listed a new purpose-built data center for lease. The data center is located at 400 Paul Avenue in San Francisco, California. The data center offers 24MW of power across 182,250 square feet of two-story powered shell building on 7.3 acres. Per additional information in t...

September 05, 2022

San Francisco Bay Area

Equinix Expands its M2 Data Center in Melbourne, Australia

Equinix has announced that it has completed the expansion of its second Melbourne data center in Australia. The expansion cost the company $23 million (US$ 15.7m). Equinix first opened the ME2 data center in February 2020. The company acquired 500 new cabinets to increase the data center’s tot...

September 02, 2022

Equinix Melbourne ME2

Microsoft's Staffanstorp, Sweden Data Center Expansion Plan Canceled

Microsoft has announced that it is no longer expanding one of its data centers in Sweden. Instead, it will explore other locations in the country to develop a new data center. Microsoft first announced a new Azure cloud region in Sweden in November 2020. It also officially opened the new cl...

September 02, 2022

Microsoft Sandviken, Sweden

DataVita Announces Expansion Plan For its Fortis Data Center

DataVita has announced that it is expanding its Fortis data center in Scotland. The company plans to invest £8 million ($9.3m) in the facility. The plan is to add 400 racks and 5,380 square feet (500 square meters) of space to its flagship data center. The MD of DataVita, Danny Quinn, said:...

September 02, 2022

DataVita: Lanarkshire DV1

CloudHQ To Develop a 180MW Facility in Minnesota

According to BizJournal, CloudHQ has plans to develop a data center in Chaska, Minnesota. The data center campus will sit on 72 acres of land in Carver County, Chaska. Per the filing, CloudHQ wants to either develop a large 1.8 million square feet (167,225 square meters) building or four build...

September 01, 2022

CloudHQ

Google Gets Land in Bissen, Luxemburg Reclassified For Potential $1B Data Center

Google has announced that its land in Bissen, Luxemburg, has finally been reclassified for data center use. The company confirmed that construction can now begin on the land, which is planned for a €1 billion ($1bn) data center. Once completed, this will be one of the most significant const...

September 01, 2022

Google

Bridge Data Centres Expands into Thailand With Data Center Acquisition

Bridge Data Centres has announced it has expanded its operations into Thailand by acquiring a data center in Bangkok. The data center company acquired the facility from WHA Logistics. The company did not reveal the details of the deal. The data center acquired called BKK01 spans 70,000 squa...

August 31, 2022

Bridge Data Centres

Protests over Amazon's Manassas data center

Amazon’s Manassas data center has come under fire over noise pollution. According to reports, activists in Prince William County, Virginia, have united to protest against the facility, citing that the “area is being overrun with data center development,” and subsequently, the constant noise i...

August 30, 2022

AWS US East (N. Virginia)

Thames Water launches probe into data center water use in London

It has been revealed that Thames Water has launched a probe into the water use of data centers in the UK's capital, following the utility company’s discovery that UK data centers have been using drinking water to cool down their servers. The news of review comes as the UK’s hosepipe ban comes...

August 30, 2022

London

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