Tag: Data Centers
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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,…
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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…