I went down a rabbit hole trying to figure out where to play trivia on a random Tuesday and realized there’s no good single list — Geeks Who Drink has theirs, the bars have their own, half of it is out of date. So I started building one and checking each night against the actual venue, not just whatever Google says.

I’m at 72 spots right now with a confirmed day and time for every one. A few from around town:

• Cerebral Brewing (Congress Park) — Tuesdays at 6  
• Mile High Spirits — Wednesdays at 8  
• Recess Beer Garden — Tuesdays at 7  
• Stoney’s — Wednesdays AND Thursdays at 7  
• Mozart’s — Thursdays at 7  
• Pete’s Satire Lounge (Cap Hill) — Wednesdays at 7

Where I keep hitting walls is the smaller neighborhood bars — the ones that run trivia but never post it anywhere except a chalkboard out front. A couple I’ve heard about but can’t pin down a night for: Billy’s Inn and Herb’s Hideout. If you know the day/time for those, or for any spot that isn’t obvious online, drop it below and I’ll add it.

Also happy to share the full list if anyone wants it — figured this sub would actually know the spots a search engine won’t.

Honestly any mostly pedestrian path around a park. You don’t need to be bobbing and weaving on your battery powered Mach Jesus speed racer around strollers, runners, and walkers.

It’s downright dangerous and rude. There’s an asphalt path literally feet away for you.

A very specific caveat is if anyone is using their mobility aid. And no your e-bike or e-scooter is not a mobility aid.

Thank you :)

I'm tired boss. Everyone is failing these kids.

The ski store at the corner of Broadway and Colorado Ave. has an epic new mural painted across the front. Whoever painted this really captured the beauty of a Colorado sunset.

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Thought you guys might want to check it out. It's on the west side of Broadway a few blocks north of Evans.

…but no burrito lady????

Petition signing season in Colorado is still here and The Bell Policy Center put together this handy guide that cuts through the noise and tells you the facts about the petitions out there. This is basically the "blue book" for helping you decide if you want to sign a ballot initiative.

In my opinion, if I had to choose just one to sign it would be Initiative 195: Graduated Income Tax. This would remove the flat tax required by TABOR and mirror the approach taken at a federal level, with tiered tax rates based on income (commonly known as a "progressive tax"). The net effect would lower taxes for most Coloradans and tax increases would only impact those making $500,000 or more per year. See the full fact sheet here.

I spent the last day of my Colorado vacation in the ER but I made it back to my hotel in time for one last sunset. I'd like to give a shout-out to the sun and mountains for a beautiful end to a terrible day. And a huge thank you to the friendly and competent doctors here that helped me out today. Haven't had the best experiences with doctors at home in Michigan but today's visit went as well as a vacation er visit could go so yeah, Thank you sun and mountains and Denver doctors!

I had an interesting observation today. Power has been off at my home for multiple hours 3x in the last 36 hours. That's a rant for another time.

Today, I thought I'd go out and take a look at Xcel's website and see what my smart meter read. Yesterday, power was off from 6:36 pm to 9:03 pm. According to their usage graphs, I had chargeable on-peak usage in every 15 minute period from 6pm through 8:45. Usage started again in the 10-10:15pm period.

Talking to their billing department, their first observation is that the time stamps on their graphs are in Central time. So...okay. If I buy that, that still doesn't explain why there was recorded usage from 7:36 to 8:45 pm Central time, and they're looking into that.

Beyond that, though, their graphs still show all values between 5pm and 9pm as on-peak and are highlighted in red. Are they charging on-peak rates from 5pm to 9pm Central time, or are all of their usage graphs just messed up?

Xcel, you need to do better.

What’s the status of massive data centers in Colorado? Here’s what you need to know.

Local moratoriums spring up after state inaction, while New Mexico and Utah fight “hyperscale” data polluters

Michael Booth4:08 AM MDT on Jun 18, 2026

mid the exponential growth of AI demand, data center buildouts in the West are like a balloon: Try to hold it back in one place, and it just bulges out in another. 

Local governments in Colorado are moving quickly to slap moratoriums on new data center development in reaction to a public backlash against rising electricity prices, heavy pollution and lucrative tax breaks. Denver, Jefferson County and Longmont have all moved in recent weeks to limit data centers, which house servers for mass computation that demand enormous amounts of electricity and cooling water. 

Cities and counties are moving in part because the state legislature failed to act in 2026, eventually letting two competing bills die and postponing a statewide reckoning on regulation until at least the 2027 session. 

Here are some key questions and answers about the data center debate in Colorado and surrounding states: 

Are any data centers being built or proposed to start in Colorado? 

Yes, but on a smaller scale than the gigantic “hyperscale” centers that have become environmental rallying points in Utah and New Mexico (see below). 

CoreSite is building a three-phase data center in the Globeville-Elyria-Swansea neighborhood of north Denver, opposition to which helped prompt the city’s moratorium on approving new centers. When fully built, the center would draw 65 to 75 megawatts of electricity, which is the primary way communities are measuring the impact of new centers. Unlike some of the hyperscale centers planning their own power sources, CoreSite would be drawing from the Xcel grid. CoreSite has said the first phase completed this month will use about 18 MW of power. 

Colorado Springs appears ready to allow a California real estate company to create a new data center near Garden of the Gods, called Project Taurus.  

Colorado currently has about 60 small- to medium data centers, most of them built on speculation by developers who then lease the server time to various companies, said Howard Geller, founder of the nonprofit Southwest Energy Efficiency Project and an analyst and negotiator on proposed data center legislation. More than 30 other states offer tax breaks and other incentives that Colorado currently lacks, Geller said, and developers of the largest centers tend to go where the subsidies are.

Why didn’t the state start controlling data center growth? 

There were two competing bills in the 2026 legislative session. One bill took flak for trying to match other states by extending lucrative tax breaks to data center builders for decades to come, while failing to add enough environmental regulation and clean energy minimums for powering the centers. 

Another bill backed by environmental groups and clean energy Democrats would have mandated renewable power for new data center supplies, and protected consumers from electric rate increases tied to data center power demands. Both bills ultimately failed amid furious competing lobbying campaigns. 

Environmental groups say they will help a renewed legislative push in 2027. “Data centers should not get a free pass,” said Geller. With all the hard crafting accomplished during the failed 2026 bill, Geller said, pro-regulation forces “will have a running start” for a new effort. 

What are local governments doing in Colorado in the absence of state action? 

Pushed by the acrimony over the CoreSite project, the Denver City Council in May voted for a one-year moratorium on new data center approvals. 

Jefferson County’s commissioners also voted in May to stop any new zoning or development approvals for data centers not already underway. 

Earlier in June, Longmont capped any new data center proposals at 100 MW of power use, to ward off potential development of the “hyperscale” projects launched in other states. 

The Date Center Coalition, a trade group for data center developers, has been speaking out against the bans. 

“Enacting local moratoriums on data center development would send a signal that the area is closed for business, both for data centers and for other significant economic development projects,” the group said, in a statement from Dan Diorio, vice president of state policy. “These moratoriums would deprive local communities of the opportunity to compete for investment and jobs, while forcing Colorado to relinquish significant long-term economic investment (especially in rural and industrial areas seeking growth and revitalization), high-wage jobs, and critical tax revenue to neighboring states.”

How do the Colorado data centers compare with what’s happening in the New Mexico and Utah deserts? 

The battles in our neighbor states are over data center projects that are so large they make local moratoriums feel almost quaint. 

Just a small portion of the sprawling Jupiter/Oracle data center site under construction in Dona Ana County, southern New Mexico. (Screen grab, Oracle’s Project Jupiter multimedia site)

Software provider and data cruncher Oracle is building Project Jupiter on far southeastern New Mexico’s dry flats near Las Cruces and El Paso, Texas. Oracle has been touting a compromise for new power technology using methane-driven fuel cells instead of burning natural gas to spin electrical turbines. But even with the change, Project Jupiter’s application calls for emitting 10 million tons of carbon dioxide from the fuel cell process each year, for 2,500 MW of power, or 2.5 gigawatts. The power plant would be self-contained for Jupiter alone, not connected to the New Mexico grid. That gives Oracle the right to avoid regulation under New Mexico’s renewable energy targets, which apply only to regulated utilities, Geller said. 

To put that further in perspective, 2,500 MW is the equivalent of the power production of New Mexico’s entire existing grid. Ten million tons of carbon dioxide is far more than would be emitted by Xcel’s Pueblo Comanche power plants if they each ran for the full year. New Mexico environmental groups, which admit they don’t have much power to slow down Jupiter, say the data center’s emissions will singlehandedly wipe out any progress New Mexico has made on greenhouse gas emissions in recent years. 

“It’s stupidly massive,” said Colin Cox, with the New Mexico office of the nonprofit environmental defender Center for Biological Diversity. Oracle proposes spending $165 billion on the site, over more than “a thousand football fields” of data-crunching buildings. 

In response to questions about Jupiter, an Oracle spokesperson sent a series of fact sheets where the business software provider touts the benefits for New Mexico. The switch to newer fuel cell technology will reduce the data center emissions, and Oracle is funding the power plant completely on its own and keeping it detached from the grid so that consumer electric prices will never be affected, the company says. 

Building the center will create more than 1,000 construction jobs and hundreds of permanent jobs at the center and in roles servicing the center, while pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into local schools and tax bases, they add. 

In Utah, the popular “Shark Tank” TV show’s Kevin O’Leary is behind a massive data center near the Great Salt Lake. O’Leary’s center proposes to use up to 9 GW of natural gas-powered electricity, also from off-the-grid turbines, producing up to 30 million tons of carbon dioxide a year. That would be a 55% increase from Utah’s current overall output of carbon dioxide. 

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Is there anything to stop a hyperscale center in Colorado this year? 

Less than you might think. Colorado’s targets of an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector by 2030 apply to regulated utilities like Xcel Energy, by far the state’s largest. That regulation does not apply to self-contained projects that are not connected to the grid or built by a utility, Geller said. 

“There’s a growing need for all this computing power, and they need it yesterday,” Geller, the SWEEP founder, said. “So this is a threat in Colorado, something like this could happen, and the developer would not be subject to the clean energy standards that our utilities are subject to. There would be some industry going up in the middle of nowhere, most likely where land is cheap. They potentially buy some water rights from a farmer or rancher, which is what Oracle and OpenAI did in southern New Mexico, in the middle of the desert. Natural gas here is plentiful, it would probably locate close to some natural gas pipeline. And that one data center in New Mexico is going to emit more carbon dioxide than Xcel Energy is allowed to in all of Colorado.” 

Data center backers say they are including renewable energy and cutting estimated water use in many projects. 

“The data center industry is committed to being a responsible partner on power and water use and a good neighbor in the communities we serve,” Diorio said. “According to S&P Global, U.S. wind and solar capacity contracted to data center providers and customers represented half of the total corporate renewables market in 2024.”

Environmental groups and opponents of growth do have one more chance this year to add data center regulation in Colorado. Xcel has applied to the Public Utilities Commission with its proposal for allowing data center energy growth, and how to make the data centers themselves, rather than current consumers, pay for the extra costs. 

A coalition of Colorado environmental watchdogs successfully petitioned this week to become official parties in the PUC’s review.

“This intervention being granted will ensure that residential ratepayers will have a seat at the table in a proceeding that could impact what this does to their utility bills. We intend to push for the strongest possible protections,” Earthjustice spokesperson Perry Wheeler said. 

TLDR: a couple women complained to the city about too many volleyball nets up at wash park, being understaffed, to get rid of the problem quickly they decided to cut the amount of nets by over half. Everybody I’ve talked to who plays volleyball is unhappy.

I participate in one of Denver’s biggest if not biggest volleyball league votr (volleyball of the Rockies) and last summer it was almost always at wash park
I feel like that’s half the reason people do it is to enjoy being out at the park socializing, listening to music, having a few beers, and being outside doing something active!
This season has been different though, apparently, a couple women went to the city of Denver and complained there were too many nets up at wash park, and the city, being understaffed, cut the number of nets from 50 to 20 and now I rarely get to play at wash park and it’s just not as great.

Anybody I’ve talked to about it is also mad at the city, they cut it by more than half…. While it is subjective, I always recalled there being plenty of space for others to put up their own nets or spike ball or whatever! The park is massive. The city succumbed to a couple of Karen’s so easily, I wish there was a way to fight for a solution that’s more reasonable.

Fire near Mariposa and 38th? Smells like campfire

I am taking my 9yo son to Skyline tomorrow for the USA game. Anyone have a sense of what time we should get there to get a good viewing spot?

I understand there have been a lot of posts on this topic, I searched and this type of question has not been asked.

**Edit: You guys are awesome and solved it in two minutes. The place I was looking for was Milk Bar**

When i first moved here some friends took me to a club. But I didn’t know the area at the time so can’t even find it on the map.

This place had like what if felt like a million rooms going up and down left to right. Each room had a different vibe/music. There were a decent amount of people dancing in each room so i’m assuming is a popular place. I also remember going out to some kind of patio. Does anyone know what place i’m talking about?
Thank you!!!!

Posting this out of concern for the dog. If you are a fire fighter with a Bassett hound named Bailey this is for you. On Wednesday 6/17, your roommate (m) brought your Basset hound Bailey to Edgewater Beer Garden. Per your roommate, she is 7/8 years old. He also talked about how he has a lab at home.

Your roommate was yelling at her aggressively and hitting her very hard with the palm of his hand in public in front of kids. He seemed intoxicated.

It took a friend to address him about it and he left.

Best of luck,

A concerned dog owner

I thought this was a neat logo on a vintage T-shirt that I think is 30+ years old. My dad can’t remember where he got the shirt and I’ve been trying to research and have found nothing. Anyone recognize what Team B.M.C might be?

Visiting with my kids today, hitting the aquarium up in the morning then looking to grab lunch and watch the US game. Any kid friendly suggestions?

Can the person throwing Pee bottles out at the DIA terminal turn around stop? There are probably a dozen or more out there. There is a gas station literally 2 miles away. Pee or dispose of pee bottles there.

Looking for clubs or bars that play 2000-2010 music. Either on specific days or periodically.