Colorado
DataCentersExposed tracks 15 AI data centers in Colorado — 5 operating and 1 in the pipeline — across 7 counties, drawing 578 MW of reported power demand from 4 tracked corporate operators.
Sources: Methodology, Coverage scorecard
DataCentersExposed tracks 15 data centers in Colorado — 5 operating and 1 proposed. The 7 Colorado facilities with disclosed electrical capacity account for 578 MW of demand on the grid — power that competes with homes and businesses for the same generation and transmission.
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated May 29, 2026
Colorado at a glance
The largest footprint in Colorado belongs to Flexential Corp., behind 4 tracked facilities. Aligned Energy Holdings, LP, Alphabet Inc., and QTS Realty Trust, LLC round out the most active operators in the state. Many of these sites are filed under shell or project names rather than the parent's — our operator column resolves them back to the real corporate parent wherever the chain is documented.
Geographically, the buildout clusters: Weld County leads Colorado with 1 facility and a composite risk score of 20/100. Arapahoe County and El Paso County follow. Our county risk score weights project exposure (40%), power demand (30%), water draw (15%), and land footprint (15%); the full breakdown is shown on each county page.
Colorado is not done growing. 1 facility is in the pipeline — proposed, permitted, or under construction — which is where residents still have a say at zoning hearings and in rate cases. Each pending project is a decision about land, water, electricity prices, and tax revenue that hasn't been finalized.
We also surface the accountability trail: 2 state bills mentioning data centers and 6 recent news items are tracked for Colorado below, pulled from LegiScan and GDELT and refreshed automatically. Legislation is linked to the counties and operators it names; news is classified by community sentiment.
Top operators in Colorado
County risk leaderboard
| County | Facilities | Pipeline | Risk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weld County | 1 | 1 | 20 |
| Arapahoe County | 6 | — | 12 |
| El Paso County | 3 | — | 7 |
| Denver County | 2 | — | 7 |
| Douglas County | 1 | — | 4 |
| Adams County | 1 | — | 4 |
| Broomfield County | 1 | — | 4 |
Pipeline & proposals
All tracked facilities
| Facility | Operator | Status | County | MW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aligned Weld County Campus (proposed) | Aligned Energy Holdings, LP | Proposed | Weld | 500 |
| Flexential - Denver - Aurora | Flexential Corp. | Arapahoe | — | |
| Flexential - Denver - Centennial Data Center | Flexential Corp. | Arapahoe | — | |
| Flexential Denver - Downtown | Flexential Corp. | Denver | — | |
| Flexential Denver - Englewood | Flexential Corp. | Douglas | — | |
| Google - Thornton | Alphabet Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Adams | — |
| Insurance Exchange Building | — | Mapped (unverified) | Denver | — |
| JPMorgan Chase | — | Mapped (unverified) | Broomfield | — |
| QTS | QTS Realty Trust, LLC | Mapped (unverified) | Arapahoe | — |
| Sap Cos02 | — | Mapped (unverified) | El Paso | — |
| T5@Colorado Springs | — | El Paso | — | |
| Time Warner Datacenter | — | Mapped (unverified) | Arapahoe | — |
| Walmart Colorado Data Center | — | Mapped (unverified) | El Paso | — |
| Xfinity/Comcast Data Center | — | Mapped (unverified) | Arapahoe | — |
| zColo by Zayo | — | Mapped (unverified) | Arapahoe | — |