Tag: data center
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Colorado Springs City Council sets special meeting for Project Taurus data center decision
The Colorado Springs City Council will consider the appeal for the hotly debated Project Taurus data center at a special standalone meeting on Sept. 17. In an announcement Tuesday, City Council spokesperson Michael Montgomery said the meeting will be held at the Pikes Peak Center for the Performing Arts beginning at 9 a.m. The larger…
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Parker data center could get $19M tax rebate from Douglas County
At a time when Denver and Front Range governments are restricting or banning data center development, Douglas County commissioners are poised to approve a $19.3 million tax rebate agreement Tuesday for a new data center under construction in Parker. The contrasting approaches are occurring as the debate over data centers has taken center stage in…
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Appeals filed to send Project Taurus decision to the Colorado Springs City Council
At least one appeal has been filed over the proposed large-scale data center in Colorado Springs, sending the final decision to the Colorado Springs City Council. The filing seeks to overturn the Planning Commission’s decision on July 23 to deny five previous appeals and allow the proposed Project Taurus data center to move forward. The…
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After Planning Commission hearing, what’s next in Project Taurus data center saga?
The Colorado Springs Planning Commission on Thursday evening denied five appeals against a proposed artificial intelligence data center off Garden of the Gods Road. The decision means the planning commission found city staff did not violate rules as they worked through and administratively approved the development plan. Citizen groups, like Integrity Matters, filed their appeal…
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Planning Commission rejects appeals of proposed data center
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect comment from District 11 clarifying that it has not conducted a financial review of Project Taurus. The Colorado Springs Planning Commission rejected appeals Thursday night against a proposed artificial-intelligence data center off Garden of the Gods Road. The vote of the commission was 6-2, but residents…
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Project Taurus / Planning Commission public meeting: Live updates on proposed Colorado Springs data center; Raeden CEO speaks
The Colorado Springs Planning Commission is meeting Thursday as it considers a proposal to build a 50 megawatt data center off the Garden of the Gods Road corridor. The meeting, which started around 9 a.m., is happening at the Shockley-Zalabak Theater at the Ent Center for the Performing Arts, 5225 N. Nevada Ave. The proposal,…
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Resident who appealed Project Taurus decision indicted over ‘Cop City’ protest in Atlanta
Nearly two weeks before Katie Kloth wrote to the Colorado Springs Planning Department challenging the approval of a proposed data center, she was indicted by a federal grand jury in Georgia. City planning staff administratively approved the development plan for the controversial Project Taurus data center in an industrial park off Garden of the Gods…
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How a 14-year-old joined the fight against the Project Taurus data center
Kyle McGuffey is four years away from being able to vote, but he’s become deeply involved in the debate over a proposed data center in Colorado Springs. The 14-year-old heard about the Project Taurus data center from a TikTok video he saw in the spring. The data center, which California-based company Raeden plans to build…
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Colorado Springs sets location, ground rules for data center hearing at Planning Commission
The stage has been announced for the debate over the proposed Project Taurus data center before the Colorado Springs Planning Commission. The city announced Thursday that a special appeal hearing for the data center will be held July 23 at the Shockley-Zalabak Theater at the Ent Center for the Arts to accommodate the expected high…
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Five Project Taurus data center appeals meet requirements, city says
Five appeals filed against the proposed Project Taurus AI data center have met the minimum requirements to move through the process, Colorado Springs officials announced Tuesday. The appeals are challenges to the city planning staff’s June 11 approval of the development plan for a data center from the California-based technology company Raeden. The data center…