Data Center Registry
Raeden Project Taurus
Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado · All 3 Raeden sites
Raeden Project Taurus is a permitted data center in Colorado Springs, Colorado (El Paso County), operated by Raeden. The public record puts it at 50 MW planned. It is the subject of active public debate, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition on record.
Every line on this page traces to a public source listed at the bottom. Where a figure was looked for and not found, the row says so. A blank is never a zero.
Facility record
Permitted
- Operator
- Raeden
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use likely
- Location
- 1565 High Tech Way, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, CO
- Coordinates
- 38.8339, -104.8214
- Power capacity
- 50 MW planned
- Land
- Not established from a public source
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- Colorado Springs Utilities
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Closed loop
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- Contested
- Source confidence
- Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation
Timeline from the record
Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.
- 2026PermittedA 50 MW data center approved at the former Intel plant in Colorado Springs Source: Data Center Dynamics
Opposition and litigation at this site
Yes. Raeden Project Taurus in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record. Colorado Springs Planning Commission voted 6-2 (July 2026) to deny five appeals of the project's staff-level administrative approval, filed by a resident and an advocacy group, after a marathon public hearing, attaching conditions (a 50MW power cap and low-frequency infrasound monitoring).
How the community has taken it
Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: contested means active public debate is on record, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition, without litigation.
Colorado Springs Planning Commission voted 6-2 (July 2026) to deny five appeals of the project's staff-level administrative approval, filed by a resident and an advocacy group, after a marathon public hearing, attaching conditions (a 50MW power cap and low-frequency infrasound monitoring).
Power and water
Raeden's co-founder says the project is cleared to use a maximum of 50 MW, about half what the building was rated to draw as an Intel chip plant, against a Colorado Springs Utilities peak-day output of 976 MW per its 2025 report. Backup only: 30 standby generators are planned, sited near Garden of the Gods Road and screened by sound walls.
Air-cooled closed-loop system with 36 chillers (34 typically running at 75%); the developer says the roughly 200,000 gallons in the loop are not replenished because there is no evaporation, leaving only domestic water use for occupants.
Notes on the record
50 MW data center at the former Intel plant in Colorado Springs, El Paso County. Coordinates are the Colorado Springs area centroid.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
- Land area
Which document closes each gap
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
- Land area
- The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.
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Other sites within 30 miles
Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.
- Novva Colorado Springs Data Center · Colorado Springs · Novva Data Centers12 mi · Operating · 40 MW
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Raeden Project Taurus data center in Colorado Springs?
Yes. Raeden Project Taurus in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record. Colorado Springs Planning Commission voted 6-2 (July 2026) to deny five appeals of the project's staff-level administrative approval, filed by a resident and an advocacy group, after a marathon public hearing, attaching conditions (a 50MW power cap and low-frequency infrasound monitoring).
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Raeden Project Taurus data center?
The reception note on this record refers to a court proceeding. Read it in full under opposition and litigation above, and check the sources at the foot of the page for the filing itself.
How much water does Raeden Project Taurus use?
No water withdrawal figure for Raeden Project Taurus is on record here. Cooling is recorded as closed_loop, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Raeden Project Taurus, and how big is it?
Raeden is the operator on record. We hold 3 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 50 MW.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Raeden Project Taurus," updated August 26, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/raeden-taurus-colorado-springs-co.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/raeden-taurus-colorado-springs-co, retrieved September 14, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.50MW data center could be built in Colorado Springs · Data Center Dynamics · retrieved July 7, 2026
- 2.HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD · retrieved July 23, 2026
- 3.SoCoDigest · retrieved July 26, 2026
- 4.Colorado Springs administratively approves data center on Garden of the Gods Road (read via Internet Archive) · Colorado Springs Gazette · retrieved August 26, 2026
- 5.Large data center may be heading to former computer chip facility in Colorado Springs (read via Internet Archive) · Colorado Springs Gazette · retrieved August 26, 2026
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