Alamance County Passed A 12-Month Data Center Moratorium
More than three dozen residents asked for two years. What happened in the room is the story — a county government losing control of its own draft in a single evening.
Aug 18, 2026

More than three dozen residents asked for two years. What happened in the room is the story — a county government losing control of its own draft in a single evening.
Aug 18, 2026

Two days after the pre-announcement reporting put Nvidia's equity at $3bn, the actual announcement halved it — and attached a credit facility 70 times larger that only converts to cash if the tenant stops paying.
Aug 18, 2026

A 47% rise in five years explains why the AI story has become a financing story. Korea's contractors are pivoting into it anyway.
Aug 16, 2026

The equity cheque is the small number in the room. The same negotiation covers about $100bn of credit support — a guarantee already marked down once.
Aug 16, 2026

Energy Transfer moved the in-service date for a 17-mile gas lateral from this Saturday to February 2027 — a six-month slip on the fuel supply for Project Jupiter.
Aug 16, 2026

ERCOT is pulling 250 to 300 projects to the front of its interconnection queue to check whether the demand behind them is real.
Aug 16, 2026

Police called the threat against Marshall's council members credible on Thursday. On Friday they declined to charge anyone. The job pays $300 a year.
Aug 16, 2026

Best quarter in the company's history on adjusted numbers — revenue up 43%, AI revenue up 60% — with the reported line pointing the other way.
Aug 14, 2026

TensorWave takes the first building at Project Matador with rights to expand past 650MW. The binding part is 222MW; the rest is an option.
Aug 12, 2026

Riot leased 191MW at Rockdale to "one of the world's leading frontier AI labs" through 2048. Riot's release does not say which one.
Aug 12, 2026

Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR will build compute-financing platforms targeting more than $500bn. They are memorandums of understanding.
Aug 12, 2026

A 956 billion won order for reciprocating generators — the company's largest ever. Someone is buying a power plant rather than waiting in an interconnection queue.
Aug 10, 2026

A 7.65 GW gas plant in West Texas, cleared to emit 33 million tons of CO2 a year. The permit was issued in January; Amazon's name surfaced last week.
Aug 9, 2026

Governor Abbott's letter tells the state utility commission and ERCOT that no data-centre project moves forward until a comprehensive audit is done. ERCOT has paused its "batch zero" review. Nobody can say how much of the queue is real.
Aug 4, 2026

A 2.5-trillion-won facility in Haenam, led by Samsung SDS, with 40 megawatts approved. That is roughly a fiftieth of the gigawatt campuses the phrase "national AI centre" invites you to picture.
Aug 3, 2026

The demand crossed party lines on Saturday and reached the Senate President Pro Tem for the first time. The trigger was groundwater rather than electricity — and not a single number was attached to it.
Aug 2, 2026

Crusoe and Aalo Atomics plan a reactor-powered data centre at Idaho National Laboratory. The test reactor produces 10 megawatts of electricity, the commercial version 50, and the deployment target is the end of 2029.
Jul 30, 2026

The Energy Department picked Brookfield and NextEra to develop a data centre campus on 3,556 acres at Paducah. Nothing is contracted yet — no executed lease, no named tenant, no state approval and no construction.
Jul 30, 2026

EuroHPC's call went live on Thursday morning with a 12 November deadline. The public half of the money depends on a 2028–2035 budget member states have not agreed, and the chips will come from AMD, Nvidia and Qualcomm.
Jul 30, 2026

Revenue hit a first-quarter record of $1.29 billion, free cash flow rose 343%, and infrastructure royalties more than doubled year over year. Then Arm cut its full-year royalty growth outlook to the high teens, and the market priced that instead.
Jul 30, 2026

Revenue topped $60 billion. Operating margin fell from 43% to 31%, net income dropped 14%, and free cash flow — normally around $12 billion a quarter — came in at $784 million, against $24.9 billion of newly issued debt.
Jul 30, 2026

An energy intelligence firm went looking for construction activity behind the announcements and found roughly a third of what is scheduled to open this year.
Jul 28, 2026

The neocloud landlord's backlog grew while its losses deepened. Both facts are in the same release, and only one of them is in most of the headlines.
Jul 28, 2026

Generating units built to serve data centres and never connected to the public grid do not have to comply with Clean Air Act Title IV. It arrived as guidance, not a rule.
Jul 28, 2026

Land-registry records show another 37.5 hectares next to its Middenmeer campus — plus a grid-connection application for a data centre the company says is still hypothetical.
Jul 27, 2026

Tritax Big Box cleared a judicial review and secured planning permission at Manor Farm in the Slough availability zone — with the pre-let still sitting with the lawyers.
Jul 27, 2026

A third-party share allotment makes the chipmaker Korea's dominant internet company's third-largest shareholder, tied to an AI campus that starts at 55 megawatts and is meant to reach a gigawatt.
Jul 27, 2026

The chipmaker is in talks to backstop the lease and debt financing on a 10-gigawatt campus rising on a former uranium-enrichment site in southern Ohio — and separately, to finance up to $350 billion of OpenAI's chip purchases.
Jul 27, 2026

India's third-largest IT services firm is building its first AI data center with a domestic model startup and a state government — and the headline figure includes the state's own money.
Jul 25, 2026

SK Telecom will build one of the largest single-operator AI facilities ever committed, running Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin compute on SK hynix HBM4 memory, with a 2027 target.
Jul 25, 2026
