Colorado index · last changed 12 October 2026

Colorado data centers: what the public record shows.

Name: Colorado data centers: what the public record shows.
Creator: DataCenterData

Selected source-linked records are published below. This is not a complete inventory of Colorado data centers.

7 sourced policy records for Colorado ↓Facility register: 51 records · by county →1 published DataCenterData record · evidence status shown per row25 licensed directory leads · not independently verifiedThese counts overlap and are not added together

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Map, listings and checked facts.

Start with 25 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

25 licensed rows · 15 source localities · 3 map targets

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Source-reported points; some are approximate. Not parcel boundaries. Exact Approximate or representative Bounded nearby groupA number on a marker is the count of licensed rows it holds.Licensed layer only (Compute Atlas, source data through 14 October 2026). The interactive map lists 54 data-center source listings here across licensed, operator and DataCenterData layers (37 with a map point); 63 with government registry records. Source listings are not distinct sites.

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 1.34.1, 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. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).

25 licensed rows15 reported city labels17 eligible organization labels

14source-reported operational 6source-reported proposed 4source-reported under construction 1source-reported permitted

Browse all 25 rows below. Licensed rows are not independently verified and remain separate from the checked public-evidence layer.

Official metro areasDenver-Aurora-Centennial, CO 29 mapped listingsColorado Springs, CO 7 mapped listingsGreeley, CO 2 mapped listingsBoulder, CO 3 mapped listingsPueblo, CO 1 mapped listing

Colorado Springs 4 Aurora 3 Centennial 3 Denver 3 Englewood 2 Brighton 1 Fort Morgan 1 Golden 1 Greenwood Village 1 Longmont 1 Parker 1 Pueblo 1

Counties in the facility registerAdams 1 Arapahoe 6 Boulder 1 Denver 3 Douglas 2 El Paso 4 Huerfano 1 Jefferson 1 Logan 1 Morgan 1 Pueblo 1 Weld 3

Flexential 5 DataBank 2 Prometheus Hyperscale 2 QTS Data Centers 2 BluSky AI Inc. 1 CoreSite 1 EdgeConneX 1 Global AI 1

BluSky AI Walsenburg (Indian Pool Ranch) Modular Data Center
BluSky AI Inc.
1 Hwy 69 / Indian Pool Ranch · Walsenburg · Huerfano County · Colorado · 81089

source-reported proposedReported planned 15 MWSource updated 26 August 2026approximate location

View lead →Facility record →dcd-dir-000203
Brighton Data Center Complex (County Road 4 & 50th Avenue)
Undisclosed developer (Dewberry-planned rezoning application)
Brighton · Weld County · Colorado

source-reported proposedCapacity not statedSource updated 30 September 2026approximate location

View lead →Facility record →dcd-dir-002002

Browse all 25 rows Find sourced answers about Colorado Search all evidence for Colorado

Separate layer

Also listed by operators

Sites that operators list on their own websites and that are not rows in the licensed directory above. They are kept apart and never added to the licensed rows.

18 operator-listed sites (mixed units; not added to licensed rows) in Colorado →

6 of these sites have no supported coordinate. The map does not invent a pin or a metro placement for them.

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: 25 not independently verified
Capacity boundary stated: 0 of 1 published DataCenterData rows
Review timing: Audit through 12 September 2026 · next 21 October 2026

Known coverage gap

Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade incentive award records were not searched.

Browse all 25 Colorado licensed leads → · Why these counts differ →

Projects

1 project record. Names are as they appear on each record page.

Projects published for Colorado
Record / roles	Status	Capacity / scale	Primary evidence
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.

Coverage review was due 21 October 2026; no later coverage review is recorded as of 3 November 2026.

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 and large-load records — 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 and 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
Local planning, assessor and map records — 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 abatements and 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 and 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 licensed directory, state extract · Compute Atlas
Closures, withdrawals and former 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.

Local evidence by place

Licensed and operator listings, reviewed records, answers and local policy for each place. Listings overlap and are not added; a place without a line here has no published local evidence.

Boulder County · local policy: Boulder County: six-month pause on data center and detention center planning applications · no local evidence answer
Denver · 3 licensed · 6 operator-listed · local policy: Denver: one-year pause on data center zoning permits and site plans · no local evidence answer
Littleton · 1 operator-listed · local policy: Littleton: proposed six-month moratorium on data center applications (Ordinance No. 22, Series 2026) · no local evidence answer

No local evidence answer, reviewed record or local policy record is published for Aurora, Brighton, Centennial, Colorado Springs, Englewood, Fort Morgan, Golden, Greenwood Village, Longmont, Parker, Pueblo. Their listings above are source listings to investigate. No statewide evidence answer is published for Colorado either; statewide rules are under Policy tracker below.

Policy tracker

Colorado policy records

7 sourced records are associated with this state context. They are grouped below as current, pending and nonbinding, and history, and each card shows its relevant date. These are not facility counts and do not cover every locality.

Current 2 records

Recorded as in effect on the dataset date. This does not mean every project in a represented state is restricted or approved.

Local construction moratorium · Boulder County only (local rule)

Boulder County: six-month pause on data center and detention center planning applications

In effect · Unincorporated Boulder County, Colorado · Local

Effective: 2 June 2026

Issuing authority: Boulder County Board of County Commissioners

At their 2 June 2026 business meeting, the Boulder County Commissioners unanimously put in place a temporary moratorium, effective that day, on accepting planning applications for data centers and detention centers in unincorporated Boulder County.

Read the sourced record · Primary source

Local construction moratorium · Denver only (local rule)

Denver: one-year pause on data center zoning permits and site plans

In effect · Denver, Colorado · Local

Effective: 21 May 2026

Issuing authority: Denver City Council

Denver City Council passed Council Bill 26-0431 on 18 May 2026 and the Mayor approved it on 20 May 2026.

Read the sourced record · Primary source

Pending or nonbinding 1 record

Adopted measures with unverified effect, adopted future measures, open proceedings, proposals, drafts and nonbinding context stay separate from current rules.

Legislation introduced (any outcome) · Littleton only (local rule)

Littleton: proposed six-month moratorium on data center applications (Ordinance No. 22, Series 2026)

Proposed · City of Littleton, Colorado · Local

Source document: 21 October 2026

Issuing authority: Littleton City Council

On 20 October 2026 the Littleton City Council passed Ordinance No. 22, Series 2026, on first reading by a vote of 7 to 0, according to the city's legal notice of 21 October 2026.

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History 4 records

Expired, repealed, vetoed, failed, blocked, superseded and completed measures remain visible without being presented as current.

Legislation introduced (any outcome)

House Bill 26-1030 data center incentive program (did not pass)

Did not pass · Colorado · State

Ended: 7 May 2026

Issuing authority: Colorado General Assembly

Colorado House Bill 26-1030, the proposed Colorado Data Center Workforce, Clean Energy, Grid Modernization, and Consumer and Environmental Protection Act, would have created a certification program offering certified data center operators a 100% state sales and use tax exemption on qualified purchases, plus a utility process for acquiring resources for emerging large-load customers.

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Legislation introduced (any outcome)

House Bill 26-1246 consumer-regulated electric utilities (did not pass)

Did not pass · Colorado · State

Ended: 30 April 2026

Issuing authority: Colorado General Assembly

Colorado House Bill 26-1246 proposed letting privately built generation and supply systems serve new industrial, commercial, data center or other nonresidential loads outside Public Utilities Commission regulation unless they interconnect with a regulated utility's grid, and allowed them to build in public rights-of-way subject to permits.

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Legislation introduced (any outcome)

Senate Bill 24-085 data center sales and use tax rebate (did not pass)

Did not pass · Colorado · State

Ended: 30 April 2024

Issuing authority: Colorado General Assembly

Colorado Senate Bill 24-085 proposed a state sales and use tax rebate for construction materials and equipment bought for eligible data centers certified through the Colorado office of economic development and the Colorado economic development commission, with up to 3 certifications a year for fiscal years 2026-27 through 2033-34.

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Legislation introduced (any outcome)

Senate Bill 26-102 on large-load data centers (did not pass)

Did not pass · Colorado · State

Ended: 11 May 2026

Issuing authority: Colorado General Assembly

Colorado Senate Bill 26-102 proposed requirements for large-load data centers, defined as new data centers with a peak load of more than 30 megawatts or existing data centers adding more than 30 megawatts (with 60-megawatt aggregate tests).

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Federal and multistate

Federal and multistate instruments that cover all or part of Colorado

These federal, reliability-organization and multistate grid or utility instruments are stored once and listed for every jurisdiction they name. They do not add to the record count, in-effect total or map shading for Colorado. Territorial coverage does not establish that an instrument applies to any particular site, utility or project.

Enacted legislation or regulation · Listed coverage: part of Colorado

Southwest Power Pool: Conditional High Impact Large Load Service accepted by FERC (ER26-1323)

In effect · Southwest Power Pool region (multistate) · Regional grid

Effective: 1 July 2026

Issuing authority: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

On 5 June 2026 the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission accepted Southwest Power Pool tariff revisions, effective 1 July 2026, that add Conditional High Impact Large Load Service, a non-firm transmission service that can serve a large load such as a data center before long-term firm service is available, for up to seven years and subject to curtailment.

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Enacted legislation or regulation · Listed coverage: part of Colorado

Southwest Power Pool: High Impact Large Load study processes accepted by FERC (ER26-247)

In effect · Southwest Power Pool region (multistate) · Regional grid

Effective: 15 January 2026

Issuing authority: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

On 14 January 2026 the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission accepted Southwest Power Pool tariff revisions, effective 15 January 2026, that add a High Impact Large Load study process and a generation assessment for those loads.

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Open the Colorado policy comparison

Review dates: the 7 Colorado records were last checked 23 September 2026 to 3 November 2026. No scheduled review is overdue as of the tracker date 3 November 2026. No single record, and not this list, establishes complete statewide policy coverage.