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Colorado Springs Delays Data Center Decision After Intense Public Opposition
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Colorado Springs Delays Data Center Decision After Intense Public Opposition

By Michael Booth | The Colorado Sun Public overwhelmingly against massive computing warehouse, as 3 protesters are arrested and 1 hit with stun gun. Colorado Springs City Council voted Thursday night to delay a hotly controversial data center proposal near Garden of the Gods, after a raucous daylong hearing with speakers overwhelmingly and profanely shouting down the concept. A scuffle broke out between police and speakers who claimed they had been denied a time slot and grabbed a megaphone to denounce the project. Social media and local TV stations showed one man being hit with a stun gun while he was being handcuffed, as police and at least two protesters wrestled between the theater-style seats. Colorado Springs Police said on X.com they had “three people in custo...
Is Raeden setting a new data center standard in Colorado Springs?
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Is Raeden setting a new data center standard in Colorado Springs?

By Shaina Cole | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice Jason Green will take the hard questions. That is the pitch. The co-founder and president of Raeden says his industry has never done a good job showing up to answer for itself, so he has. "I've just kind of held the mantle of that," he said. In interviews before his data center goes to the Colorado Springs City Council, he made himself available for whatever anyone wanted to throw at him. Whether that adds up to a new way of building data centers, or a well-argued case for a project a lot of his neighbors still do not want, is the question Colorado Springs has to settle on Sept. 17. The project Project Taurus would put an artificial intelligence data center in the old Intel chip plant at 1565 High Tech Way, off Gard...
Pikes Peak Library District board seat draws high interest ahead of May 19 decision
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Pikes Peak Library District board seat draws high interest ahead of May 19 decision

By Brennan Kaufmann | Denver Gazette Nearly five months after the term expired for the Pikes Peak Library District's former Board of Trustees director, city and county officials will meet to discuss who to appoint to the open seat. The library liaisons for the Colorado Springs City Council and the El Paso County Commissioners are in charge of narrowing down the list of applicants and recommending who to appoint to the entire body. Lynette Crow-Iverson and Nancy Henjum oversee the process on the city side, while Carrie Geitner and Holly Williams serve on the county side. The four officials of the Joint Appointment Committee will meet May 19 at Colorado Springs City Hall to review the final list of applicants for the library and recommend the next board member. The appointment ...