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Global AI data center (Weld County)
Weld County Commissioners prepared to vote on a Global AI data center permit, and the county opened an investigation into the facility for three violations. It is approved, as reported September 16, 2026.
How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.
How to read this page. Every fact links to the source it rests on; a number in brackets is its place in the source list. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed, and nothing is estimated. Where sources give different figures, each is shown with who gave it, and another source's figure never stands in for the record's own. Entries are added and never overwritten; corrections are listed under What happened.
What is known
Each figure as its source gave it. The number in brackets is its place in the source list.
- Land
- Not disclosed
- Power it would draw
- Not disclosed
- Water
- Not disclosed
- Who leads it
- Global AI
- as stated by the source
- Who would use it
- Not disclosed
- Jobs once it runs
- Not disclosed
- Tax each year
- Not disclosed
Every field, with who said it and when (Researcher view)
Impact figures
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
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| How much power it needs | Not disclosed | |||
| How much water it would use | Not disclosed | |||
| How loud it would be | Not disclosed | |||
| Jobs once it runs | Not disclosed | |||
| Tax it would pay each year | Not disclosed |
The record's fields
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is building it | Global AI | as stated by the source | September 17, 2026 | |
| Who is constructing it | Not disclosed | |||
| How much land | Not disclosed | |||
| Where its power comes from | Not disclosed | |||
| Grid connection | Not disclosed | |||
| How it is cooled | Not disclosed |
The developer's figure is what the company said; what a permit allows is the ceiling a permit sets; measured means observed. Water is in gallons a day or a year, whichever the source stated; a tax claim given as a range shows both ends, each linked to the source that gave it.
Still not public, and where it would show up
The record adds each the day a source gives it. Why these documents.
- Water useA state water right filing or a water supply agreement.
- Who would use itA lease announcement or a tenant named in a filing.
- Power the campus would drawA utility or public service commission docket, an interconnection filing, or an air permit for an on site plant.
- Jobs and taxAn incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.
What was decided
Acts of Weld County and the cities in it about data centers, on the record with their source. A rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
| Date | Who | Decision | Source |
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| Weld County | Weld County commissioners approved Global AI's USR26-0019 permit for a proposed 41 acre data center near Windsor on a 5-0 vote | news.constructconnect.com | |
| Weld County | Public opposition to data center projects in Weld County focused on water, power, farmland, community impact and lack of transparency | greeleytribune.com | |
| Weld County | Weld County commissioners considering approval of massive AI data center projects | greeleytribune.com | |
| Weld County | Weld County Board of County Commissioners approved a permit 5-0 for Global AI to operate a data center on a former Kodak/Carestream industrial campus | i2i.org | |
| Weld County | Ordinance required proof of electricity and water service, implemented tighter noise regulations, and prohibited data center construction in agricultural zones | coloradoan.com | |
| Weld County | Weld County passed code ordinance in March establishing use for special review process for data center projects in I-1 industrial zones | coloradoan.com |
8 earlier decisions on the county's rows
| Date | Who | Decision | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weld County | Weld County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to approve the zoning permit for Global AI's data center. | coloradonewsline.com | |
| Weld County | Weld County adopted a regulatory framework in April requiring evidence of water availability and electricity provider commitment, imposing noise limits and prohibiting data centers on agricultural land | theminermag.com | |
| Weld County | Weld County approved Global AI's 41 acre data center project in a 5-0 vote | theminermag.com | |
| Weld County | Weld County Board of Commissioners voted 5-0 to approve a 41 acre data center near Windsor | denver7.com | |
| Weld County | Weld County Board of County Commissioners unanimously approved a permit for Global AI on Sept. 9 with a 5-0 vote | yahoo.com | |
| Weld County | Weld County commissioners unanimously approved GlobalAI's plans with a 5-0 vote on September 9 | cbsnews.com | |
| Weld County | Agreement requires Global AI to petition for annexation by March 31, 2028, or Greeley will stop providing water to the property | greeleytribune.com | |
| Weld County | Greeley City Council will review a pre annexation agreement with Global AI data center developer | greeleytribune.com |
What happened
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Permit conditions require submission of a decommissioning plan and bond within six months, ambient noise monitoring, and use of closed loop cooling system [8]
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Global AI's application anticipates 27.5 megawatts for the first phase, with Poudre Valley Rural Electric Association prepared to deliver 35 megawatts [8]
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Permit conditions require closed loop, air cooled cooling system with initial fill of approximately 65,000 gallons and annual top offs of about 6,500 gallons [8]
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· Status: approved (source date; the content gives no date of its own)
Global AI's proposal reuses a vacant industrial facility on the former Carestream Health/Eastman Kodak property, 41 acres within a 438 acre site in unincorporated Weld County [8]
The full Global AI data center (Weld County) timeline, in order
34 corrections to this record
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Every correction on the record is on the corrections page.
What was said
Canon proposes five conditions: complete cost causation, public contracts, closed loop cooling with hard caps, newcomers must bring generation, and strategic siting near airports
Every statement about data centers in Colorado, by speaker
1 more statement on this page
The site
Where in Weld County is not in the public record. The pin marks the county seat, not a building, and the outline is the county.
Tap a pin for the data center, the parcel for its record
- This record: Proposed, ringed
- data center
- Dashed edge: the exact site is not in the public record
- Smaller pins: 12 other published records in Colorado
Details
- this record's location, ringed
- parcel outline, from the county parcel record
- city limits, U.S. Census Bureau, on a town level record
- county boundary
The other pins are the published projects in the same state, each in its stage color. The imagery beneath is the USGS national orthoimagery, public domain, shown so the land around the site can be read.
- Where
- Weld County, Colorado
- How exactly it is located
- County level, the county seat
- The parcel
- No parcel outline in the public record
- Nearest homes
- Not computed for a record placed at a place center
- Nearest records
- Nearest records are not computed for a record placed at a county seat.
Questions about this project
4 questions answered from the record
Who is building Global AI data center (Weld County)?
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Global AI is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
How much power and water does Global AI data center (Weld County) say it needs?
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Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.
Where does Global AI data center (Weld County) stand today?
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It is approved, as reported September 16, 2026. The newest entry, reported September 16, 2026: Permit conditions require submission of a decommissioning plan and bond within six months, ambient noise monitoring, and use of closed loop cooling system [8].
What has Weld County decided about it?
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Weld County: Weld County commissioners approved Global AI's USR26-0019 permit for a proposed 41 acre data center near Windsor on a 5-0 vote (reported September 16, 2026, source); and Weld County: Public opposition to data center projects in Weld County focused on water, power, farmland, community impact and lack of transparency (reported September 12, 2026, source). 14 events are on the county's rows; a rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
Sources
Reporting
- Weld County group collecting petition signatures to block Global AI data center - Colorado Newsline, Colorado Newsline, September 29, 2026, query feed
- Weld County Commissioners prepare to vote on Global AI data center permit - 9News, 9News, September 1, 2026, local outlet
- Large data center project in Weld County clears its first hurdle - The Business Journals, The Business Journals, September 2, 2026, local outlet
- Weld County commissioners approve permit for Global AI data center - Colorado Newsline, Colorado Newsline, September 10, 2026, local outlet
- Northern Colorado county unanimously approves new GlobalAI data center - CBS News, CBS News, September 11, 2026, local outlet
- What's next after Weld County approves permit for what could be largest Colorado AI data center - 9News, 9News, September 11, 2026, local outlet
- Proposed Weld data center clears big hurdle in path to development - The Coloradoan, The Coloradoan, September 11, 2026, local outlet
- Global AI Clears Weld County, Colorado Zoning Hurdle, Project Could Be State's Largest Data Center - ConstructConnect News, ConstructConnect News, September 16, 2026, local outlet
- Weld County commissioners approve permit for Global AI data center, www.kunc.org, September 12, 2026, local outlet
- Global AI data center under investigation by Weld County for 3 violations - Greeley Tribune, Greeley Tribune, August 17, 2026, local outlet
- Data center pre annexation agreement to go before Greeley City Council - Greeley Tribune, Greeley Tribune, September 7, 2026, local outlet
- Weld County commissioners approve proposed 41 acre data center - denver7.com, denver7.com, September 10, 2026, local outlet
1 more source
- Global AI Wins Colorado Data Center Permit Amid Power, Water Disputes - TheEnergyMag, TheEnergyMag, September 10, 2026, local outlet
13 sources on file.
Cite this record
Data Center Record, "Global AI data center (Weld County)", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/global-ai-data-center-weld-county-co, last verified September 17, 2026.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Global AI data center (Weld County)", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/global-ai-data-center-weld-county-co. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
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For researchers
- Slug
- global-ai-data-center-weld-county-co
- Status value
- approved
- Stage
- Proposed
- Tier
- skeleton
- Tags
- skeleton
- Place id
- us/co/weld-county
- Coordinates
- 40.41667, -104.7
- Location precision
- county
- Location source
- County seat (Greeley), Wikidata, placed at county level
- Coordinate source
- wikidata county seat
- Location source number
- Not disclosed
- Location last verified
- September 16, 2026
- EPA registry id
- Not disclosed
- Use type values
- not_disclosed
- Tenancy value
- not_disclosed
- Cooling type value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity basis
- not_disclosed
- Water basis
- not_disclosed, gallons_per_day
- Acreage basis
- Not disclosed
- Interconnection value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity, if disclosed
- Not disclosed
- Rating of the county's rows
- Not disclosed
- Published
- 2026-09-05
- Last verified
- 2026-09-17