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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)

Menlo Equities Launches Dedicated Data Center Platform

US private real estate investment and development firm Menlo Equities is doubling down on data centers with a new dedicated platform - Menlo Digital, focused on the acquisition, development, and operation of data centers.Rick Holmstrom, Menlo Equities' founder and executive chairman, said: "We...

July 24, 2025

United States

Microsoft Signs 4.9 Million-tonne Carbon Removal Deal

Microsoft has signed a 12-year carbon offtake agreement with Vaulted Deep that will see the removal of up to 4.9 million tonnes of carbon dioxide and enable Vaulted to expand its operations to new sites across the US."As carbon removal moves beyond pilots and prototypes, there is growing deman...

July 24, 2025

Microsoft Azure

Scala Closes $328 Million Expansion Deal

Scala Data Centers has successfully closed its first international project financing, securing $254 million in long-term financing for the construction of three hyperscale data centers and a critical power substation in Chile. The financing is set to fund the expansion of Scala's presence in t...

July 23, 2025

Scala Data Centers

Activate Capital Invests in Xnrgy

Venture capital firm Activate Capital this week announced a strategic investment in Xnergy Climate System, a North American manufacturer of air handling and liquid cooling technologies. This investment will support Xnrgy's growth, expand its domestic manufacturing presence, and accelerate the...

July 23, 2025

North America

Anthropic to Seek Gulf state Investments

Anthropic will seek Gulf state investments, according to a leaked memo from CEO Dario Amodei.The leaked Slack message sent by Amodei to company staff on July 20 stated: “There is a truly giant amount of capital in the Middle East, easily $100B or more. If we want to stay on the frontier, we ga...

July 23, 2025

United States

Oklo and Vertiv Partner on Nuclear Data Center Power

Small nuclear reactor developer Oklo and data center power and cooling firm Vertiv this week announced a collaboration agreement focused on the co-development of power and thermal management solutions tailored specifically for hyperscale and colocation data centers that will be deploying Oklo’...

July 22, 2025

United States

Krohne Increases Production of Magnetic Flow Meters

Krohne, the manufacturer of instrumentation and measurement tools, is expanding its production for the data center market and will be developing more magnetic flow meters (magmeters) for data centers, "dedicating a significant portion of its annual production capacity to meet escalating demand...

July 22, 2025

United States

Equinix to Pay $41.5m to Settle Malpractice Lawsuit

Equinix has agreed to pay $41.5 million as a settlement with the plaintiffs in a class action that alleged it misled its shareholders. According to Hindenburg’s March 2024 report, Equinix overstated its adjusted funds from operations (AFFO), a key profitability metric for REITs.It claimed that...

July 22, 2025

Equinix

Vertiv Acquires Great Lakes for $200 Million

Vertiv has acquired the Great Lakes Data Racks & Cabinets family of companies, a maker of server racks for $200 million. Vertiv said the acquisition is expected to enhance its capacity to deliver pre-engineered, AI-ready rack solutions optimized for the enterprise, Edge, colocation, and hy...

July 22, 2025

United States

vCompute to Raise $350m for Operations Expansion

Virtual Compute Corporation (vCompute) has said it is looking to raise $350 million in growth capital to expand its data center operations. The planned expansion will increase hosting capacity and support demand for advanced AI and HPC infrastructure solutions."We're seeing exponential demand ...

July 21, 2025

United States

Top Data Center News from 15th- 20th July, 2025

Data center Firms Plan $90bn Investment in PennsylvaniaData center and energy firms have pledged to invest $90 billion in the US state of Pennsylvania to help build out its digital infrastructure following a summit attended by President Donald Trump. Vantage Announces 224MW Data Center Campus ...

July 21, 2025

United States

Princeton Digital Group Receives $1.3bn from Stonepeak

Asia Pacific-focused data center operator Princeton Digital Group has raised $1.3 billion from Stonepeak following its $1.2 billion debt financing deal back in May.“This milestone investment from Stonepeak is a strong endorsement of PDG’s strategy, execution, and sustained value creation,” sai...

July 19, 2025

Princeton Digital Group

Microsoft and CISPE Agree to New Commercial Terms

Microsoft and Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) have made a commercial agreement that the two say will help "reform licensing terms" for Microsoft software on CISPE member cloud infrastructure. This comes after it was decided that the previously required solution being d...

July 19, 2025

Microsoft Azure

Vantage Announces 224MW Data Center Campus in Nevada

Vantage Data Centers this week announced its entry into the Nevada market with a 224MW campus in Storey County just outside of Reno. The campus will include four multi-story data centers totaling more than 1 million square feet. Nearly $3 billion is set to be invested in the project.Vantage sa...

July 18, 2025

Vantage Data Centers

SunRocket Capital Funds $15m Solar and Storage Project in Illinois

US-based private lender SunRocket Capital has closed a $15 million financing package for a solar with battery storage project designed to provide power to the data center sector in Illinois.“SunRocket Capital is proud to facilitate the growth of renewable energy infrastructure that powers the ...

July 18, 2025

Illinois

Rai Way Integrates Cloud Storage Services Across Edge Data Centers

Italian Edge data center provider Rai Way has integrated geo-distributed cloud storage enabler Cubbit's DS3 Composer technology into its data center platform, starting with five data centers in Italy, located in Venice, Turin, Milan, Genoa, and Florence. The solution currently offers a storage...

July 18, 2025

Italy

W Denis Group Launches Division Focused on Insuring Data Centers

Insurance broker W Denis Group this week launched a new specialist division focused exclusively on insuring data centers and their integrated power generation infrastructure. The broker said the new unit will deliver “comprehensive, competitively priced solutions backed by multi-billion capaci...

July 17, 2025

United States

Westinghouse to Use Google Cloud AI Tools

Westinghouse Electric Company is teaming up with Google Cloud to use AI for the construction of nuclear reactors. Under the agreement with Google, Westinghouse will combine its existing HiVE and bertha nuclear AI solutions with Google Cloud technologies to help improve both the construction of...

July 17, 2025

Google

Exa Launches New Fiber Route from London to Brussels

Exa Infrastructure has launched a new European fiber route, including a subsea cable connecting the UK to mainland Europe. The 1,200 km project includes a 115km submarine cable linking Margate in the UK to Ostend, Belgium. Exa is responsible for providing landing party and backhaul services on...

July 17, 2025

Europe

TierPoint Secures $250 Million Financing

US colo company TierPoint this week said its parent company had closed a $250 million term loan, a portion of which is a delayed draw term loan which complements TierPoint’s asset-backed securitization (ABS) and variable funding notes (VFN) program.“Our ability to continue successfully access...

July 17, 2025

United States

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