Colorado Springs, CO Data Centers & Crypto Mining: Data Center Zoning & Siting (2026)

The data center rule sits inside § 7.3.303D, the Heavy Commercial, Storage, and Industry section of Commercial and Industrial Uses, under item 6, Light Industrial. Rather than creating a standalone data-center use, the UDC folds a data center office use into this broader Light Industrial classification and attaches two specific conditions to it. First, whenever the site is adjacent to Attached and Detached Single-Family and Two-Family Dwelling zoning or use, the operator must meet the Buffer 2 landscaping standards spelled out in Table 7.4.9-C: the UDC's tiered buffering table that scales screening and planting requirements to how sensitive the neighboring use is. Second, parking for the data center office component is fixed at one space per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area, a notably light ratio compared to retail or general office uses elsewhere in the same parking table, reflecting that data centers are largely unstaffed floor area rather than employee-occupied space.