As states spend millions to woo data centers, Colorado is having a reckoning

By: Jennifer Oldham

Outlets: Colorado Newsline

Published: April 13, 2026

Words: 1,880

Last Updated: 3 months, 2 weeks ago

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This story was originally published by Capital & Main.

Community organizer Alfonso Espino stood near the newest industrial building rising in his north Denver neighborhood, which ranks among the nation’s most polluted ZIP codes. Now it’s the epicenter of a tense debate over data center expansion in Colorado.

Espino raised his voice over construction noise and a train horn and pointed to 14 shipping-container-sized diesel generators that line …

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