Nearly 500 communities across the country have paused data centers. Denver is part of the growing trend.

Source Scout · Denver7 reports: DENVER — On one side of 49th Street is one of the only parks in one of the most underserved communities in the city. On the other sits what Alfonso Espino describes as the “exact opposite.” Watch the full story in the video player below: During the past year, a 180,000 square-foot CoreSite data center went up across the street from Elyria Park in the Elyria Swansea neighborhood in northeast Denver. “It's still shocking,” Espino, a neighborhood activist, said. “I grew up a block away on the same street, Vine Street, at my grandpa’s house and this has always been industrial, but nothing of this scale.

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