Tag: Project Taurus
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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…
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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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What’s ahead in long process after data center gains first approval in Colorado Springs?
Project Taurus, an AI data center planned at an industrial park along Garden of the Gods Road, has driven weeks of debate in Colorado Springs since the first community meeting to discuss it in April. The development plan for the project was administratively approved by the city’s planning staff Thursday but that will likely be…
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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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Colorado Springs administratively approves data center on Garden of the Gods Road
The city of Colorado Springs administratively approved a controversial proposed AI data center near Garden of the Gods Road, but the fight over the project might continue if residents appeal the decision. The decision announced Friday could allow California-based Raeden to build the data center in the old Intel chip manufacturing facility just southwest of…
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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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Second community meeting around proposed AI data center in Colorado Springs happening Thursday
As a proposed artificial intelligence data center continues to worry residents who live nearby, the developer is hosting a second neighborhood meeting around the project. Raeden, a California-based company, announced plans roughly a month ago to build the data center roughly a month ago in an old Intel microchip manufacturing facility off Garden of…