Tag: Data Centers
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EDITORIAL: Coloradans embrace AI, need data centers
As some Coloradans wrestle with the advent of artificial intelligence and the data centers that support it, it’s worth recounting how such new technology already is embedded in our daily lives. Vice President J.D. Vance placed AI in perspective in his address to cadets at May’s Air Force Academy commencement in Colorado Springs. The way…
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Appeals filed against Project Taurus data center development; what’s next?
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story indicated Raeden is a contracted Colorado Springs Utilities customer. The company has not yet signed an agreement with Utilities and is still a prospective customer. Multiple appeals challenging the administrative approval of Project Taurus, an AI data center planned in the commercial corridor along Garden of the…
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EDITORIAL: Project Taurus passes muster, addresses concerns
It’s likely no other business investment in Colorado Springs has been vetted so thoroughly with the public as the intensively scrutinized, exhaustively reviewed — and ultimately innocuous — data center that will occupy a shuttered, former Intel chip plant on Garden of the Gods Road. And probably no local project’s developers ever have been more…
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Data Center moratoriums take hold along Front Range, but not Colorado Springs
Data centers have been thrust into the limelight in the past 12-18 months as more companies seek to build them while concerns grow about their use of natural resources. That’s led some Colorado communities to reject data centers, while others welcome them in hopes of economic gains. As Colorado Springs forges ahead with Project Taurus,…
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EDITORIAL: The oblivious drumbeat against data centers
Denver’s City Council declared a moratorium this week on the city’s proliferating data centers amid mounting public fears — largely unfounded but stoked by activist groups. Just down the road in Colorado Springs, meanwhile, plans have been unveiled for a large data center that, ironically, moots all the same fears that have been raised in…
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Denver stops new data centers for 12 months
Denver just slammed on the brakes on new data centers Monday after members of the Denver City Council voted unanimously to impose a one-year moratorium on permits and site development plan applications for data centers as the proposed primary use. Close to 60 individuals signed up for the required public hearing preceding the vote. The moratorium will…
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EDITORIAL: Data center will be a quiet, considerate and much-needed neighbor
As neighbors of a proposed data center in northwest Colorado Springs will learn this evening at a community meeting on the project, it poses none of the problems foreseen by some residents and resolves all of their reasonable concerns. Project Taurus — planned at the decades-old, former Intel chip plant at Garden of the Gods…
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Proposed AI data center in Colorado Springs spurs talk on its merits, amid concerns
Weeks after a packed community meeting concerning a proposed AI data center off Garden of the Gods Road, former city and national leaders are speaking out on its merits, citing its potential to prime the economy for explosive growth. Former Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers has said data centers like Project Taurus are a critical…
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Peterson, Schriever Space Force bases expected to need AI data centers
As the Space Force prepares for its workload to expand, Colorado Springs should expect to see military-centric data centers move to town. Hundreds of military satellites are expected to be sent into orbit to track threats, such as hypersonic missiles. The satellites will generate a tremendous amount of data that local Space Force guardians and…
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LETTERS: Data centers; suppression by exhaustion
Questions on data center I’d like to register my opposition to the data center proposal, Project Taurus and here are a few reasons and unanswered questions that inform my opposition; I’m a long-time resident of the Springs, and I remember the last project that came in on time (and under budget) was our current airport,…