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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Raeden Project Taurus.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Raeden
- Address and locality
- 1565 High Tech Way · Colorado Springs · El Paso County · Colorado
- Official metro area
- Colorado Springs, CO
- Source-reported status
- permitted
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 50 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 26 August 2026
- Location precision
- approximate (provider label: exact; the provider's own note describes an approximate location)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001245
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Electric utility
- Colorado Springs Utilities
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Closed-loop
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
- AI-use label (provider)
- likely
Provider notes
Energy. Raeden's co-founder says the project is cleared to use a maximum of 50 MW — about half what the building was rated to draw as an Intel chip plant — against a Colorado Springs Utilities peak-day output of 976 MW per its 2025 report. Backup only: 30 standby generators are planned, sited near Garden of the Gods Road and screened by sound walls.
Water. Air-cooled closed-loop system with 36 chillers (34 typically running at 75%); the developer says the roughly 200,000 gallons in the loop are not replenished because there is no evaporation, leaving only domestic water use for occupants.
Community. Colorado Springs Planning Commission voted 6-2 (July 2026) to deny five appeals of the project's staff-level administrative approval — filed by a resident and an advocacy group — after a marathon public hearing, attaching conditions (a 50MW power cap and low-frequency infrasound monitoring).
What the source record says
50 MW data center at the former Intel plant in Colorado Springs, El Paso County. Coordinates are the Colorado Springs area centroid.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2026 · source-reported permitted
A 50 MW data center approved at the former Intel plant in Colorado Springs
Sources and attribution
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- 50MW data center could be built in Colorado Springs · Data Center Dynamics
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
- SoCoDigest
- Colorado Springs administratively approves data center on Garden of the Gods Road (read via Internet Archive) · Colorado Springs Gazette
- Large data center may be heading to former computer chip facility in Colorado Springs (read via Internet Archive) · Colorado Springs Gazette
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID raeden-taurus-colorado-springs-co. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. 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).
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-001245
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): likely
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- 1565 High Tech Way, Colorado Springs, CO · El Paso (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Raeden
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported permitted
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Status history: 2026 · source-reported permitted
Status history supplied by the source.
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 50 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: Colorado Springs Utilities
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Closed-loop
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Community response: Provider label: contested
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-08-26
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Area, acreage and buildings · Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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