Colorado Data Center News

Dec 2, 2025

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, posted a monthly roundup of active data center job openings on the Pkaza jobs board.

Main announcement: Data Center Frontier and Pkaza published a list of open roles (examples: Data Center Facility Technician, Electrical Commissioning Engineer, Construction Project Manager, Electrical Engineer, Critical Power Sales Associate, Sr Mechanical Engineer, Site Selection Manager/Director/VP, Electrical Project Manager, MEP Superintendent, Mechanical Commissioning Engineer, Engineering Design Director, Navy Nuke Facility Technician) posted on Pkaza’s jobs board; positions are available across many US cities including Ashburn, VA; Atlanta, GA; Dallas, TX; Chicago, IL; New York, NY; Montvale, NJ; Austin, TX; Charlotte, NC; New Albany, OH; Phoenix, AZ.
Background and details: Roles are for mission-critical data center employers (developers, colo providers, contractors, commissioning firms) and frequently emphasize reliability, energy efficiency, sustainable design / LEED expertise and commissioning; some listings explicitly accept Navy Nuke / military veterans and many positions list multiple alternative locations or hybrid/remote options. Author: Kathy Hitchens (Data Center Frontier).

Dec 2, 2025 · RMI

The Five Types of Electro-Industrial States

Rocky Mountain Institute presents a typology classifying US states into five electro-industrial archetypes.

Main announcement/action: RMI authors classify states into five archetypes — Momentum Hubs (Arizona, California), Fast‑Track Builders (Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Ohio, Idaho), Policy Champions (New York, Michigan, Virginia, Oregon, Washington, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania), Open‑Door Starters (Vermont, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Mississippi, Iowa), and Early‑Stage Starters (Missouri, New Hampshire, Kentucky, Maine, Alabama, Louisiana, Indiana, West Virginia, Montana, Arkansas). The typology is based on policy reliability, regulatory ease, economic capacity, physical infrastructure (power and interconnection), and market momentum.
Background and details: The analysis highlights that market momentum and policy reliability should operate in tandem; low regulatory burdens accelerate short-term investment but may strain local housing and infrastructure without accompanying policy ambition. The authors reference the report GREASE Lightning as a policy playbook for designing investment-led, state-driven electro-industrial strategies.

Nov 24, 2025

The AI infrastructure of the future

Crusoe has announced it is building modular AI data centers powered by stranded and renewable energy, deploying mobile/modular units to capture flare gas and local renewables and accelerating time to market.

Main announcement and project details: Crusoe is deploying mobile and modular data centers that capture on-site flare gas and use local renewables; its Stargate project in Abilene, Texas is sized at 1.2 gigawatts initial capacity with full build-out to occur over 24 months (completion targeted by mid-2026). The company also installed a 350-megawatt gas plant on-site to provide firm power, delivered a 100‑MW RFP project in 11 months (committed 12 months), and reports ~5,800 workers on-site daily in Abilene; Crusoe operates factories in Denver and Tulsa, plans to hire over 1,000 people in Tulsa, and is standing up capacity in Canada.
Background, technical and energy specifics: Crusoe adopts an energy-first approach, targeting stranded sources such as oil-field flare gas, curtailed wind in West Texas (driven by production tax credit-led buildouts), and potential low-cost geothermal/hydropower in Iceland; it emphasizes modular off-site manufacturing for electrical/mechanical/plumbing systems to cut time to market and designs data centers as a data-center-scale computer to support high-density GPUs (racks currently ~140 kW, scaling toward 600 kW–1 MW).

Nov 6, 2025

IonQ och schweiziskt konsortium lanserar det första stadsövergripande kvantnätverket i Genève

IonQ has launched the Geneva Quantum Network (GQN), a city-wide quantum communications network in Geneva connecting academic, government and industry partners using existing fiber-optic infrastructure.

Main announcement: IonQ, together with UNIGE, CERN, Rolex SA, HEPIA and OCSIN, implemented the Geneva Quantum Network (GQN) using hundreds of kilometers of existing fiber-optic infrastructure; the architecture uses IDQ’s QKD and quantum detection systems, White Rabbit timing (from CERN), Rolex optical rubidium atomic clocks for precise timing, and HEPIA-installed distributed temperature sensors. Early experiments will distribute entangled photons between UNIGE, CERN and HEPIA to test long-distance quantum information transfer.
Background and other details: The initiative builds on IonQ’s recent partnerships including Q-Alliance with the Italian state, IonQ’s designation as primary quantum partner to South Korea’s national quantum center, and establishment of an Oxford EMEA office; company technical milestones cited include 99.99% two-qubit gate precision in 2025 and a goal to deliver 2 million qubits by 2030.

Nov 5, 2025

Vantage Data Centers Names Christophe Strauven Chief Commercial Officer, North America

Vantage Data Centers has appointed Christophe Strauven as chief commercial officer (CCO) for North America.

Main announcement: Vantage Data Centers named Christophe Strauven as Chief Commercial Officer, North America, responsible for commercial strategy, capital allocation, partnerships, commercial deal structuring and portfolio management; the announcement was issued via Business Wire from Denver.
Background and details: Strauven brings 30 years of experience, previously served as CFO for North America and SVP, Capital Markets at Vantage; earlier roles include Managing Director at Digital Colony (now DigitalBridge Group, Inc.), over a decade at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey in Atlanta, and roles at Goldman Sachs (London) and Boston Consulting Group (Brussels, Paris).

Nov 4, 2025

Power, Proximity, Policy: The Legal Landscape of Siting Data Centers Near Natural Gas Resources

Michelman Robinson partners Warren Koshofer and Seth Leibenstein analyze the legal and regulatory considerations for siting data centers near U.S. natural gas resources.

Main announcement/action: The article provides a legal and practical guide on siting data centers adjacent to natural gas infrastructure, noting concrete facts such as data center loads often exceeding 100 megawatts per site and that natural gas supplies more than 40% of U.S. electricity. It identifies regional hubs (Texas/Permian Basin; Appalachian Basin — Marcellus & Utica; Midcontinent/Great Plains; Rockies — DJ and Powder River basins; Gulf South — Louisiana & Mississippi) and highlights relevant regulators like ERCOT and FERC, plus contractual vehicles such as PPAs and gas tolling arrangements.
Background and details: The piece outlines regulatory and compliance requirements (Clean Air Act permitting, Section 401 water quality certifications, state environmental reviews), flags evolving ESG and carbon disclosure pressures (SEC proposals, IRA incentives), and lists states considering restrictions on fossil-fueled generation for new data centers (Oregon, Virginia, Illinois). Contact details for the authors are provided: Warren Koshofer (212-730-7700; wkoshofer@mrllp.com) and Seth Leibenstein (212-730-7700; sliebenstein@mrllp.com).

Nov 4, 2025

New Data Center Developments: November 2025

Data Center Knowledge published a monthly roundup summarizing recent global data center developments and investments across North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Middle East & Africa.

Main roundup details: The report aggregates announcements including a $70 billion Pennsylvania initiative launched at the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit; Amazon’s $8 billion Project Rainier (30 interconnected data centers in Indiana); Google’s multi-billion-dollar West Memphis campus plan; Meta’s >$1.5 billion GW-scale data center in El Paso (expected launch 2028); and a collaboration where OpenAI, Oracle, and Vantage will deliver almost a GW of AI capacity in Port Washington, Wisconsin, with campus construction starting soon and completion targeted for 2028.
Energy and implementation details: Highlights include deployment of a 31 MW, 62 MWh BESS by Aligned Data Centers and Calibrant Energy to accelerate site commissioning; DOE opening the Oak Ridge Reservation for private AI data center development; Blue Energy planning a gas-to-small-reactor plant supplying up to 1.5 GW to Crusoe Energy Systems with a planned reactor transition by 2031; and Google committing €5 billion in Belgium plus new PPAs with Eneco/Luminus/Renner. Timelines specified in the article include 2026–2030 for Google’s $15 billion India hub and 2028 targets for several GW-scale facilities.

Nov 3, 2025 · Tech Xplore

FSNet finds feasible power grid solutions in minutes, outperforming tried-and-true tools

MIT researchers developed FSNet, a feasibility-seeking neural-network tool that finds deployable power-grid optimization solutions orders of magnitude faster than conventional solvers.

Main announcement: MIT (Priya Donti and lead author Hoang Nguyen) unveiled FSNet, a two-step framework that combines a neural-network predictor with a feasibility-seeking optimization step to ensure solutions meet equality and inequality constraints; the paper is open-access on arXiv (DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.00362) and will be presented at NeurIPS 2025 (Dec. 2–7, San Diego). The team reports FSNet cut solving times by orders of magnitude versus baseline approaches and sometimes produced better solutions for very complex problems.
Background and details: FSNet uses the neural network prediction as a starting point and an incorporated traditional solver to iteratively refine until constraints are satisfied; it is designed to be plug-and-play with different solvers, handle both constraint types simultaneously, outperformed pure ML approaches on feasibility, and the authors plan to make FSNet less memory-intensive and scale it to more realistic problems.

Nov 1, 2025

KKR-backed ContourGlobal seals $350-mn funding package for US solar project

ContourGlobal has secured a funding package worth more than $350 million to support its Black Hollow Sun solar project in Colorado.

Funding details: The package is worth more than $350 million initially and could exceed $421 million upon completion of the project’s second phase; it includes a tax equity investment from Tyr Energy (part of ITOCHU Corporation) and debt arranged by a club of international lenders. The financing backs the Black Hollow Sun solar project in Colorado.
Project and timeline: The Black Hollow Sun project is expected to reach a peak output of 324 megawatts when its second phase is completed by end-2026; the debt financing was arranged by a lender group including Credit Agricole CIB, ING Capital LLC, Intesa Sanpaolo, Mizuho, and MUFG.

Oct 29, 2025 · Hensel Phelps

Hensel Phelps: ABC’S Top Perfromers 2025

Hensel Phelps announces recognition in ABC’s 2025 National Contractor Rankings, highlighting sector-specific placements and portfolio scale.

Main announcement: Hensel Phelps earned #6 among ABC’s Top General Contractors and #9 in ABC’s Top 250 Performers in the ABC 2025 National Contractor Rankings; notable sector placements include #1 Airport Contractors, #3 Government Contractors, #3 Hospitality Contractors, #6 Office Contractors, #6 Healthcare Contractors, #7 High-Tech/Data Center Contractors, #9 Education Contractors, and #18 Infrastructure Contractors. The company cites a portfolio of more than 380 aviation projects at over 40 airports totaling more than $29 billion in value and 55 million square feet, more than $4 billion delivered across education projects, more than 230 office buildings, and more than 280 healthcare projects; data center projects with individual sizes from 30,000 sq ft to 1,200,000+ sq ft and capacities exceeding 200 MW are also highlighted.
Background and details: The release describes project types and examples (e.g., San Ysidro Land Port of Entry – Phase 2; Travis County Civil and Family Courts Facility; Kilolani Spa at Grand Wailea Maui; Four Seasons Resort Hualalai; Montgomery/Meta data center project; UC and Caltech university projects) and lists repeat clients and partners such as Four Seasons, Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt, Universal Parks & Resorts, Disney Parks & Resorts, Kaiser Permanente, UCHealth, City of Hope, Banner Health, Sharp Healthcare, and the National Institutes of Health. The statement emphasizes operational capabilities (working in active airports, live healthcare environments, mission-critical data centers), use of BIM and VDC, formal Methods of Procedure (MOPs), and compliance with security and sustainability standards. No implementation timelines or monetary commitments beyond portfolio/value figures are provided.

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