Denver’s City Council declared a moratorium this week on the city’s proliferating data centers amid mounting public fears — largely unfounded but stoked by activist groups.
Just down the road in Colorado Springs, meanwhile, plans have been unveiled for a large data center that, ironically, moots all the same fears that have been raised in Denver — and that are being recycled incessantly around the country.
Oft-cited concerns about data center water and power use as well as noise? Not a problem at Colorado Springs’ proposed Project Taurus. The same goes for calls for transparency surrounding data center startup and operation…