Colorado index · last changed 13 September 2026
Colorado data centers: what the public record shows.
Selected source-linked records are published below. This is not a complete inventory of Colorado data centers.
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Map, listings and checked facts.
Start with 22 licensed source leads, then inspect the separate public-evidence layer below. Licensed rows are not independently verified and are not a statewide census.
Colorado map
Reported locations in Colorado
22 licensed rows · 13 source localities · 3 map targets
Browse 3 mapped areas as links
Map sources and method
The state outline is adapted from the U.S. Census Bureau 2025 cartographic boundary file. Facility coordinates are adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Outline and markers use one geographic projection before any explicitly disclosed readability offset. Exact singleton source anchors are never moved. A one-kilometre boundary tolerance prevents the simplified 1:20,000,000 outline from hiding legitimate border-area source points; farther conflicts are disclosed, not clamped. DataCenterData groups source-reported city coordinates only within a bounded map radius; the outline does not validate a facility record.
Browse all 22 rows below. Licensed rows are not independently verified and remain separate from the checked public-evidence layer.
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BluSky AI Walsenburg (Indian Pool Ranch) Modular Data Center
1 Hwy 69 / Indian Pool Ranch · Walsenburg · Huerfano County · Colorado · 81089
source-reported proposedPlanned 15 MWSource updated 26 August 2026approximate locationView facility →dcd-dir-000203 -
source-reported under constructionPlanned 60 MWSource updated 26 August 2026exact locationView facility →
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Colorado evidence at a glance
A few checked sites
Selected public evidence, not a statewide census. Each row shows whether it is independently source-linked, attributed, or unresolved; licensed leads remain separate.
- Published project / campus
- 1
- Published facility / building
- 0
- Attributed or unresolved rows
- 0
- Licensed directory leads
- 22 not independently verified
- Capacity boundary stated
- 0 of 1 published DataCenterData rows
- Review timing
- Audit through 12 September 2026 · next 12 March 2027
Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade incentive award records were not searched.
Browse all 22 Colorado licensed leads → · Why these counts differ →
Projects
1 project record. Names are as they appear on each record page.
| Global AI (Colorado), LLC Data Center Project | approvedproject · land-use approval only | UnknownNo independently supported figureThe opened County decision publishes no critical-IT, facility-load, utility-service, utility-request, generation or measured-load figure. | Weld County Commissioners approve Global AI data center permit →Gov. record |
Where the records were checked
Statewide audit pending
A few checked sites
This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.
Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.
State research audit window ended 12 September 2026. Individual records and claims below show their own evidence dates and may be newer.
Next scheduled review: 12 March 2027.
1 independently source-linked project/campus record; 0 independently source-linked facility/building records; 0 attributed or unresolved rows. These counts use different units and must not be added together.
Source families checked, selected records and remaining gaps
These notes name selected records, say which kinds of public evidence were checked and show what remains missing. They do not add anything to the published counts.
- economic development incentives — Checked
- Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade incentive award records were not searched.
- Local incentive agreements were not obtained from any city or county clerk.
Selected records
- HB26-1030 Data Center & Utility Modernization · Colorado General Assembly
- SB24-085 Sales & Use Tax Rebate for Digital Asset Purchases · Colorado General Assembly
- utility commission large load — Partly checked
- The PUC E-Filings docket system itself was not searched; individual filings and testimony in 26AL-0137E, which may name specific large-load customers, were not read.
- Black Hills Energy and Colorado Springs Utilities large-load filings were not searched.
- No interconnection or large-load queue naming specific Colorado sites was reached.
Selected records
- Electric Rate Cases — Colorado Public Utilities Commission (Xcel Large Load Tariff, Proceeding No. 26AL-0137E) · Colorado Public Utilities Commission
- SB26-102 Large-Load Data Centers · Colorado General Assembly
- environmental construction permits — Partly checked
- environmentalrecords.colorado.gov could not be opened (SSL certificate subject-name mismatch), so no issued air permits or permit numbers were retrieved.
- Closed and archived notice periods were not reviewed.
- Water, stormwater and local building or grading permits were not searched at all.
Selected records
- Colorado air permit public notices — current public notice periods · Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Air Pollution Control Division
- Colorado environmental records search (air permit documents) · Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
- municipal planning assessor gis — Checked
- No assessor or GIS parcel record was queried for any Colorado site.
- Logan County's new agenda centre was not searched item by item, so the Granite Renewables file was not found.
- Arapahoe, Adams, Douglas, El Paso and Pueblo county land-use case systems were not searched.
- Denver, Boulder County, Broomfield and Jefferson County moratorium ordinances were not retrieved from the jurisdictions themselves.
Selected records
- City Council Special Meeting – Project Taurus Appeal · City of Colorado Springs
- Planning Commission Special Appeal Hearing — Corporate Ridge File No. 1 Lot 4 Development Plan Modification · City of Colorado Springs
- Weld County Commissioners approve Global AI data center permit · Weld County, Colorado
- tax abatement development agreements — Partly checked
- No Aurora ordinance or Arapahoe County resolution granting the QTS incentives was retrieved.
- No Colorado urban renewal authority, PILOT or development agreement was searched.
- operator disclosures — Checked
- Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Oracle and Apple location pages were not checked for Colorado sites.
- CoreSite, DataBank, Iron Mountain, EdgeConneX and Novva location pages were not yet reviewed directly.
Selected records
- QTS Denver 1 data center location page · QTS Data Centers
- The Facts About RAEDEN's Colorado Springs Data Center (Project Taurus) · RAEDEN
- open datasets directories — Checked
- Nine Compute Atlas Colorado records (DataBank DEN2 and DEN5, EdgeConneX DEN01, four other Flexential Denver-area sites, Iron Mountain DEN-1, QTS Colorado Springs and Prometheus Hyperscale Fort Morgan) were listed but not examined individually and are not research leads.
- No commercial directory was consulted.
Selected records
- Compute Atlas state extract for Colorado (snapshot 71df145) · Compute Atlas
- historical closures withdrawals names — Partly checked
- Colorado Newsline's moratorium article could not be retrieved during review.
- No archived operator page or rename/acquisition record was checked for Colorado colocation sites.
Selected records
- Logan County Commissioners Work Session minutes, October 14, 2025 · Logan County, Colorado
- news and other discovery — Partly checked
- Colorado Public Radio and Colorado Newsline articles could not be opened; their content is not relied on.