Tag: Data Centers
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EDITORIAL: Innovation paves way for Colorado data centers
As lawmakers consider legislation regulating data centers, it seems advancing technology is changing the terms of the debate — and perhaps rendering some key concerns moot. If contrarian politicos have their way, Colorado risks leaving itself behind in building out AI and quantum computing — which heavily depends on scaling data centers to meet demand.…
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LETTERS: Dangerous dogs; data centers
Dangerous dog attacks The story about the dogs attacking and killing sheep and goats at the Wishing Star Petting Zoo (2-26-26) was heartbreaking and it brought back the terror I experienced when my little dog, Smokey, and I (an 81 year old woman) were walking in the afternoon at the park in back of the…
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Energy constraints loom larger than water for Colorado AI boom, experts say
As artificial intelligence reshapes almost every sector of the economy, experts at this year’s Colorado Climate Week gathering in Boulder said it is also reshaping local physical infrastructure. From grid demand and water use to data center construction, scaling the necessary framework to support AI, they said, will be a challenge as experts and policymakers…
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EDITORIAL: A winning formula for a Springs data center
Kudos to the Colorado Springs city officials for putting in the legwork on what promises to be the state’s largest data center, which will open at an unused microchip manufacturing plant on the city’s northwest side. The Gazette reported last week California-based Raeden, a Bay Area real estate and tech firm, has been working with…
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AI data center plans baffle small southern Colorado town
In the nondescript business parks of the Front Range’s largest metros, data centers are cropping up. According to the industry catalog Data Center Map, there are currently 46 planned or built in the Denver area, while Colorado Springs has the second most at six. The map has one outlier, however, deep in the heart of…
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Proposed data center regulation in Colorado draws critics, backers
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A packed marathon hearing at the state Capitol in Colorado highlighted the sharp divide between two competing approaches to the effects of data centers, one of America’s fastest-growing technology sectors. Data centers are the physical facilities that host the servers, networking equipment and storage systems — the backbone of the world’s digital infrastructure. Senate Bill…
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Colorado lawmakers mull competing bills on data centers
A Colorado coalition of data center developers and operators is urging lawmakers to pass a proposal that offers tax breaks to attract large facilities, while calling a competing bill a major obstacle to new investment. Meanwhile, proponents of the latter proposal have maintained they don’t intend to ban, via regulation, the building of new data…
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GUEST COLUMN: Colorado’s once-in-a-generation opportunity — if we don’t regulate it away
Colorado is at an inflection point. As lawmakers debate how to regulate data centers, which are the backbone infrastructure powering everything from cloud computing to artificial intelligence, we face a simple but consequential question: will Colorado help shape the next phase of America’s economic growth, or will we watch it happen on the sidelines? My…