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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)

Hscale has Acquired another Site Outside Milan

Hscale is expanding its presence in Milan after closing on a second large-scale data center campus in the city’s northwest area near Settimo.VBacked by Bain Capital, the company said the acquisition increases its committed capacity in the region to 250MW, with service launch dates targeted for...

May 27, 2026

hscale

25MW AI Data Center Planned for McMinnville

A new 25MW AI data center campus is planned for McMinnville in Warren County. Known as Hixson Data Center, the facility will span 96,065 square feet (8,925 square meters) across two levels and is being purpose-built for high-density AI workloads, including support for Nvidia’s GB200 NVL72 plat...

May 27, 2026

Tennessee

TeraWulf Buys Site in Kentucky for 1GW Data Center Campus

TeraWulf is expanding its presence in Kentucky with the acquisition of a second planned site for hyperscale high-performance computing. The Nasdaq-listed cryptomining and AI infrastructure firm announced it has acquired the Muskie Data Campus in Eastern Kentucky from Industrial Equity Partners...

May 27, 2026

Terawulf

Digital Edge Raises $575 Million to Expand APAC Data Centers

APAC data center firm Digital Edge has secured new debt financing. The company last week announced the successful closing of its inaugural $575 million holding company (HoldCo) financing. Proceeds from the facility will support the continued expansion of the company’s campus footprints across ...

May 26, 2026

Digital Edge DC

SoftBank to Roll out “AI Data Center GPU Cloud” Platform in Japan

SoftBank Corp. is set to launch an “AI Data Center GPU Cloud” service in Japan starting October 2026. The offering will form part of SoftBank Corp.’s neocloud business and will be built on its Infrinia AI Cloud OS stack. A beta version is already available. The service will run on SoftBank’s A...

May 26, 2026

Softbank Corp.

Kasi Cloud & Data Centers Opens Initial Phase of 100MW Facility in Nigeria

Kasi Cloud & Data Centers has launched the first phase of its planned 100MW data center campus in Nigeria. Kasi LOS1 is the first building to become operational at the site. The company has not disclosed the IT capacity of the facility. Located in the Maiyegun area of Lekki near Lagos, Kas...

May 26, 2026

Nigeria

Polish Operator Emitel Acquires 2MW Data Center Outside Poland

Polish tower operator Emitel has acquired a 2MW data center located just outside Warsaw. The Cordiant-owned company is entering the data center market with plans to offer colocation, cloud computing, and data processing services. The facility is reportedly built to Tier III standards and has p...

May 26, 2026

Poland

First Building at Stack’s 1GW Data Center Campus in Virginia Tops out in Stafford County

Stack Infrastructure has completed external construction work on the first building at its new campus in Stafford County. The company announced the topping out of the first building at the Stafford Technology Campus (STC). In just over a year, project teams have recorded more than 425,000 hour...

May 25, 2026

Virginia

Hochtief Begins Construction on New Data Center in Herne

Yorizon and ACS-owned construction firm Hochtief have broken ground on a new data center in Herne, located in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The facility will be the third ‘Yexio’ data center the companies are developing in the region and the fourth across Germany. The project forms part...

May 25, 2026

Germany / Deutschland

Top Data Center News for 18th-23rd May, 2026

Italy Plans Europe’s Largest Data Center at Former Trino PlantThe mayor of Trino in northern Italy has revealed plans to develop what could become Europe’s largest data center with a €4 billion ($4.65 billion) investment in the project, which is expected to bring regional benefits, including ...

May 25, 2026

United States

Kio Data Centers Signs 10-year PPA with Celsia to Power its Data Center Operations in Panama

KIO Data Centers, a Mexico-based operator, has signed a 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Colombian energy company Celsia to supply electricity for its data center operations in Panama. First reported by Bnamericas, the agreement marks KIO Data Centers’ first recorded PPA in Panama. ...

May 25, 2026

Panamá

Nscale and Vattenfall Finalize PPA to Power Kvandal Facility in Norway

European neocloud Nscale has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Swedish state-owned energy company Vattenfall in Norway. The agreement will support the first phase of Nscale’s data center development in Kvandal. While the exact capacity has not been disclosed, the companies say it wi...

May 25, 2026

Nscale

A Data Center is Planned in Wilhelmshaven, Germany

A large, unnamed developer is planning a data center and energy park near Wilhelmshaven in Sengwarden, Lower Saxony, with project costs estimated in the billions of euros. The exact scale and purpose of the facility have not yet been disclosed.Few additional details have been released by the m...

May 23, 2026

Germany / Deutschland

Huawei Launches a Full-Stack AI Data Infrastructure

Huawei has launched a full-stack AI data infrastructure platform, unveiled at its Innovative Data Infrastructure Forum 2026. The offering includes the OceanStor Pacific scale-out storage system, delivering up to 11PB of capacity in a 2U form factor and aimed at reducing total cost of ownership...

May 23, 2026

China

EdgeConneX Plans a €3 Billion Investment in Data Centers in Italy

The government of Italy has described EdgeConneX’s €3 billion investment as being of “national strategic interest.” The EdgeConneX Campus Italia program, announced on May 14 during a council of ministers chaired by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, will develop three data center campuses in the L...

May 23, 2026

EdgeConneX

PDC Breaks Ground on Three Buildings at Phoenix Campus

Prime Data Centers has broken ground on three of five buildings at its 240MW PHX01 campus in Phoenix. Each 267,000 sq ft facility will deliver 48MW of IT capacity, while the campus’ new 250MW substation is expected to provide 144MW of IT load in Phase I.The campus is being developed on a 66.5-...

May 22, 2026

Prime Data Centers

PDG is Seeking to Sell its Data Center Assets in China

Princeton Digital Group, backed by Warburg Pincus, is reportedly planning to sell its data centers in China, according to the Financial Times. The deal could be valued at up to $1 billion, based on sources familiar with the process. PDG currently operates about 286MW of capacity in China acros...

May 22, 2026

China

Oregon Public Utility Commission Approves New Rate Class for Large Data Centers

Regulators in Oregon have approved a new electricity rate class requiring data centers and other large loads to pay for the grid infrastructure they use. The Oregon Public Utility Commission approved the rules under the POWER Act, signed into law in August 2025.The act establishes a new rate c...

May 22, 2026

United States

Data Center Operators are Hiring Laid-off Meta Platforms Workers

Several data center operators have pointed to open roles after Meta Platforms began laying off around 8,000 employees, about 10% of its workforce. The cuts affected staff across all levels, including some in data center roles. On LinkedIn, multiple data center firms expressed support for affec...

May 22, 2026

U.S. Department of Energy Launches Data Center rid Test-bed at National Laboratory of the Rockies

U.S. Department of Energy’s National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) in Applewood, Colorado has launched “Agora,” a data center grid integration test bed aimed at improving grid reliability. Funded by the DOE’s Office of Electricity and industry partners, it is described as the only dedicated ...

May 21, 2026

United States

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