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Recent Colorado data center news

• Aug 14, 2026

  Supply challenges boost value of existing data centers, enterprise deployments: JLL, Morningstar

  JLL and Morningstar have released commentary and a midyear report saying North American data center capacity remains extremely constrained, with tenants leasing small fragmented blocks and many deals now contracting for 2028 deliveries.

  • JLL’s 2026 North America Data Center Midyear report says North America roughly doubled net new demand in H1 2026 to 25GW, while vacancy stayed at 1% for a third straight year; stabilized assets are seeing stronger pricing and renewals.
  • Morningstar said existing data centers are insulated by binding utility agreements, but still exposed to curtailment, demand response, and load-shedding risk; the article also cites Texas rules for loads over 75MW and U.S. Department of Energy action involving PJM Interconnection.
• Aug 13, 2026

  Wichita Internet Exchange Point Set to Begin Operations in Coming Weeks

  Connected Nation and IXP.us said Wichita’s first internet exchange point is nearing operation, with network operators expected to begin building into the site within weeks.

  • Brent Legg said the physical facility is nearing operation and operators will start building into the site in a couple of weeks; the Wichita pilot was funded by a $5 million grant from the Capital Projects Fund.
  • IXP.us, the joint venture between Connected Nation and Hunter Newby, aims to expand to 135 cities in 47 states; it is also partnering with Moonshot to add compute resources for lower-latency AI use cases, and Newby said they have discussed tenant opportunities with Cox and Lumen.
• Aug 13, 2026

  One Team, Two Rounds of Giving: Backpacks for Local Students

  DataBank has announced that its employees, vendors, and customers completed a backpack drive for Bluffdale Elementary students and teachers, delivering 60 backpacks stocked with school supplies. - Over $1,250 was donated to purchase backpacks and supplies, and 27 employees helped pack them at the Salt Lake City data center.

  • The backpacks included items such as a water bottle, notebook, ruler, crayons, pencil pouch, pencils, eraser, pencil sharpener, glue stick, and kid scissors; extra school supplies were also set aside for teachers.
  • The article is a community relations / CSR recap, not a first-time product or infrastructure announcement, and it also references several past DataBank community activities at other data centers.
• Aug 12, 2026

  BEAD Weariness and AI Ambition Collide at Mountain Connect

  Broadband Breakfast reported on panel remarks from the Mountain Connect conference in Denver about BEAD broadband deployment challenges and how AI compute may shift between cities and rural areas.

  • Panelists said the BEAD program remains stalled by unsigned sub-grant agreements, rising costs, federal liens on equipment, easement risk, compliance burdens, and FCC broadband fabric updates that removed locations from approved areas.
  • They also discussed AI infrastructure economics, saying data centers and IXPs have moved toward cheap land, power and water outside metros, while latency-sensitive inference may push compute back toward population centers; Stephen Rose said sub-6 millisecond connections imply compute within about 12 miles of users, and rural passings of $10,000 to $15,000 per home versus $1,200 to $1,500 in cities make deployment difficult.
• Aug 10, 2026

  AI’s volatile power demand is damaging its own data centers

  This article explains that AI data centers are causing new reliability and grid-stability problems, based on interviews and reported observations rather than a single new company announcement.

  • Power equipment strain: Rapid AI workload swings are reportedly damaging batteries, generators, turbines, cooling systems, transformers, and flywheels; examples include cracked gas-fired turbines at xAI’s Colossus site in Memphis, Tennessee, and batteries needing replacement within weeks or months.
  • Grid and project impacts: The story says the issues are delaying or curtailing operations, including a 2.67-gigawatt AI campus in West Texas developed by Joulent Inc. with Chevron Corp., where power delivery is now expected in 2028 instead of 2027; NERC also issued a level-three alert for big data centers to address immediate grid risks by Aug. 3.
• Aug 6, 2026

  The 50 States of Power Decarbonization: States Pull Back on Clean Energy Commitments While Governors Step In to Address Large Load Additions in Q2 2026

  The NC Clean Energy Technology Center has released its Q2 2026 edition of the 50 States of Power Decarbonization, summarizing state and utility actions on clean energy, emissions targets, large load customers, and resource planning.

  • The report says all 50 states and Puerto Rico took 564 actions in Q2 2026, with about 650 introduced bills also under consideration; planned capacity additions in recent IRPs totaled 77,810 MW gas, 72,193 MW solar, 43,017 MW storage, 12,615 MW nuclear, and 12,327 MW wind.
  • It highlights policy trends including pullbacks on clean energy policies, governor actions on large load customers, and requirements that large load customers contribute to programs such as low-income support and energy efficiency; top developments included New York delaying an emissions target, Georgia Power‘s BYONCE program, and Pennsylvania adopting a statewide model large load tariff.
• Aug 4, 2026

  Data Center Jobs: Engineering, Construction, Commissioning, Sales, Field Service and Facility Tech Jobs Available in Major Data Center Hotspots

  Data Center Frontier, in partnership with Pkaza, has posted a roundup of current data center job opportunities on the Data Center Frontier jobs board.

  • The article highlights multiple roles including CFD Engineer, Electrical Commissioning Agent, Critical Power Sales Associate, Architect, Electrical Project Manager, Commissioning Project Manager, Owner’s Rep - Construction Cost Controls Director, Project Executive, Data Center Construction Project Manager, Mechanical Commissioning Engineer, Mechanical Controls Engineer, Critical Facilities Systems Manager, Principal Electrical Engineer, and Director of Project Deliverables.
  • Listings span remote and on-site roles across the United States, with repeated references to enterprise, colocation, hyperscale, and mission-critical data center facilities; no compensation or investment figures are provided.
• Jul 30, 2026

  Aalo, Crusoe Plan 2027 INL Demonstration Pairing Nuclear Power and AI Data Center Load

  Aalo Atomics and Crusoe have announced a strategic partnership to develop a nuclear-powered AI Factory data center, beginning with a proof-of-concept deployment at Idaho National Laboratory in 2027.

  • Aalo will initially power a Crusoe Spark modular data center running Crusoe Cloud at INL in 2027.
  • The companies intend to deploy Aalo Pods and 50-MWe Aalo XMR power plants at Crusoe data centers by the end of 2029.
  • The article also says Aalo’s Critical Test Reactor (CTR) reached criticality at INL on July 4, and that Aalo-X is planned as a 30-MWth/10-MWe sodium-cooled demonstration plant.
  • Crusoe said its contracted AI infrastructure capacity was approaching 5 GW and cited other projects including a 900-MW campus in Abilene, Texas, a 1-GW campus in Childress, Texas, a roughly 750-MW U.S. power agreement, a 12-GWh battery agreement, and a 5-GW AI UPS deployment agreement.
• Jul 27, 2026 · Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

  Mobilizing for Techno-Economic War, Part 6: From Free Trade Agreements to Strategic Techno-Economic Agreements

  ITIF has published a policy report proposing Strategic Techno-Economic Agreements (STEAs) as a new framework for U.S.-led trade deals aimed at strengthening allied industries and constraining China.

  • The report argues that the free trade era is over and calls for binding, reciprocal agreements with allies that include zero-for-zero tariffs, digital trade rules, defense production cooperation, investment screening, export-control alignment, and counter-IP theft measures.
  • It also cites several recent or existing policy precedents and announcements, including USTR’s March 2026 Section 301 investigations, the U.S.-U.K. critical minerals MOU, and the Pax Silica initiative; the report itself is an original ITIF publication, not a news report of a single transaction.
• Jul 23, 2026

  White House Expands Data Center Ratepayer Pledge as Congress Moves to Codify Protections

  The White House expanded its voluntary Ratepayer Protection Pledge to 187 utilities, electric cooperatives, and data-center developers, while Congress advanced the bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act from committee 52-0.

  • The White House said the pledge now covers 187 organizations plus 23 governors, and the coalition “protects” 263 million Americans; signatories commit to fund generation and grid upgrades for their data-center loads without shifting costs to other ratepayers.
  • The House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced H.R. 9340 on July 21; the bill would require state regulators and nonregulated utilities to consider a large-load standard for sites with at least 100 MW peak demand and recover the full incremental cost of grid upgrades. New York’s Executive Order 62 separately put permits for 50 MW+ data centers on hold pending an environmental review.