Tag: Data Centers
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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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Denver plans moratorium on new data centers
As artificial intelligence drives the data center construction boom, building one in Denver is poised to get more complicated after Mayor Mike Johnston and members of the Denver City Council announced plans to impose a moratorium on new facilities. Under the plan, the city will review additional data-center-specific regulations targeting “responsible land, energy, and water…
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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…
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Colorado’s energy crunch: Can renewables keep pace with data center demands? | ANALYSIS
Colorado faces mounting pressure on its electrical grid as data centers and advanced manufacturing drive up power needs, even as the state moves away from coal and natural gas, in favor of wind and solar energies, and battery systems. At the same time, Colorado is competing with surrounding states to attract data centers and technology…
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Tri-State electric co-op seeks FERC approval for new heavy-load regulations
In a bid to tame the energy appetites of large power users, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association filed a regulatory tariff proposal with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission intended to manage massive power demands without sparking chaos on the grid or hiking bills for ratepayers. The nonprofit wholesale power supplier, serving 42 member cooperatives across…