Tag: Data Centers
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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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LETTERS: Degraded quality of life; this seems convoluted
A degraded quality of life Palantir leaving Colorado should be a serious wake-up call to Colorado. Will our elected law-makers listen? Sadly, perceptions are the reality. Too many liberal Colorado Democrats are financially and economically illiterate. Their typical hate-Trump/tax-the-rich/anti-business rhetoric and voting bias will eventually lead to a degraded quality of life. Colorado deserves better.…
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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…