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- Data centers & fiber
Cadence launches Munich AI data center with Nvidia chips
The site hosts OnCloud, Reality Digital Twin and the Millennium M2000; OnCloud is available to European customers now.
- Energy Transition
US wind orders hit 2.8 GW in Q2 before tax credit cutoff
Wood Mackenzie keeps a 39 GW onshore outlook through 2030 and says more than half of the 2026–2028 pipeline is operating or under construction.
- Data centers & fiber
Forum Edge signs $94.4M Nvidia B300 reservation with Fireworks
The 36-month Dallas capacity deal is the joint venture's first contracted customer commitment.
- Data centers & fiber
G42 signs Greece AI factory MoUs with Copelouzos and Khazna
Khazna would build the data centers and Core42 would supply cloud and AI compute; no project details were shared.
- Transport & public-private
First schools open under Maryland's $800m P3 program
P3 Bulletin's roundup also lists World Bank backing for a $50 million Paraíba sanitation P3 and Brazil's 2027 transport concession pipeline.
- Energy Transition
MISO 120-day load study draws state, Google objections at FERC
Eleven state utility commissions backed OMS's protest; MISO files a cost-allocation framework next month.
- Data centers & fiber
Verizon signs AWS AI infrastructure deal worth more than $2 billion
The AWS agreement follows a $1 billion dark fiber deal with Google; Verizon puts all signed contracts at about $4 billion.
- Data centers & fiber
Generative Bionics plans 5,000 sqm physical AI facility in Italy
The Liguria site would run on AMD Helios and could be partly operational by the fourth quarter of 2027; IT capacity is undisclosed.
- Energy Transition
Data center power demand nears 20% a year; procurement is the risk
Transparent Energy's Dustin Scarpa says suppliers price load shape, credit, collateral and start-date certainty, not just scale, into a data center's power contract.
- Data centers & fiber
AWS plans up to 15 data center buildings on 890 Missouri acres
The Danville tract has no purchase or start date; Amazon said New Florence will get a $10 billion phased build-out.
- Data centers & fiber
Anthropic S-1 shows $417 billion in data center and cloud commitments
The filing details 20-year leases, escrowed deposits and prepaid rent.
- Data centers & fiber
SWI launches AI cloud unit with 3.6GW of power
The unit will start with 30MW in Cambridge and targets 2.3GW of Nvidia-focused capacity by 2029.
- Data centers & fiber
RBI opens 700-rack Tier IV backup site in Bhubaneswar
The 18.5-acre campus also houses a cybersecurity training institute.
- Data centers & fiber
UK proposes unlimited fines for ship owners who damage cables
Prison sentences of up to 14 years would apply to intentional damage, and telecoms providers would take on new cable-protection duties.
- Data centers & fiber
Microsoft buys 37 Ohio acres for $6.65 million
The Refugee Road parcels take the company's Licking County land holdings past 700 acres, with no data center listed for Pataskala.
- Data centers & fiber
SpaceXAI faces $6.1 million Mississippi stormwater permit claim
MDEQ alleges work began at three sites before stormwater coverage; SpaceXAI disclosed the notice in an SEC filing and is negotiating an agreed order.
- Data centers & fiber
Kao Data to host ARIA-funded AI inference lab at Harlow
The lab will run five GPU systems across two dedicated suites on a campus that already hosts Nvidia's Cambridge-1 supercomputer.
- Energy Transition
250-megawatt Massachusetts battery closes $850 million financing
Canary Media reports a 700-megawatt project is planned just outside Boston.
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- Data centers & fiber
Georgia's Silk Cloud plans Blackwell Ultra GPUs for 2027
Silknet's Tbilisi data center, at 2MW, is due in 2027; GPU counts weren't disclosed. Fuse Energy has 128 GPUs due online in December.
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- Data centers & fiber
TerraWatt proposes up to 1GW Illinois data center on steel site
Alton Steel's 381-acre mill site would be built in 200 MW blocks, with a 2027 closing contingent on rezoning and an Ameren Illinois study.
- Data centers & fiber
European Commission accuses KKR of misleading €22bn TIM NetCo merger review
The Statement of Objections alleges KKR misstated whether FiberCop's wholesale access terms were locked in place; KKR says it stands by the information it gave.
- Data centers & fiber
Memphis City Council rejects 18-month data center moratorium, sets 135-day pause
The 18-month ban failed on a 6-6 vote with one member absent; the 135-day pause is tied to Mayor Paul Young's 90-day review.
- Energy Transition
House Democrats, SEEC Institute release 2027 energy and climate policy menu
The Sept. 15 agenda includes climate disclosure, data-center and clean-energy finance proposals; Latham says many recommendations would likely require legislation.
- Fundraising
L&G and NTR raise €330m at Clean Power IV first close
Four returning cornerstone investors anchored the vehicle; its predecessor Fund III raised more than €640 million by March 2025.
- Fundraising
Dalrymple Finance values Csquare shares at $0
Csquare listed in July at $21, below its marketed range, and trades at $14.90 after raising $1 billion against a $1.35 billion target.
- Energy Transition
NextEra secures $5.7B for three federal energy hubs
The Texas and Pennsylvania hubs carry Japanese and U.S. Commerce backing and up to 10 GW of gas-fired generation, slated for completion in 2032.
- The Wrap
Innio adds 620MW of gas engines as DOJ targets wind permits
The 1.72GW contracted book includes a maintenance agreement covering the first 500MW, while three offshore wind projects face revocation motions.
- Energy Transition
PG&E pegs wildfire policy inaction at $4 billion interest cost
Fitch keeps PG&E at BBB- with a negative outlook as CEO Patti Poppe seeks a permanent liquidity source beyond California's Wildfire Fund
- Energy Transition
Trump opens 180-day wind turbine talks, forgoing new tariffs
A Section 232 proclamation spares turbines and components from fresh levies while leaving steel, copper and aluminum duties in place, Utility Dive reports.
- The Wrap
O-Green's €7.4bn Spain campus has permits for 90 of 570MW
The Oman-affiliated fund's San Mateo de Gállego plan is reported to replace Vantage's €3.2 billion project, leaving 480MW without a described permit path.
- The Wrap
Umatilla permit freeze threatens $5 billion in data center investment
City says projects could be set back two years as BLM weighs 35 data center applications on western public land.
- Data centers & fiber
O3 Group plans Benghazi data center for March 2027
The Libyan operator gave no capital figure, capacity or named customer; international connectivity would use the Medusa cable.
- Fundraising
Actyus, Adequita and Nethits plan €20 million Edge fund
Andbank will distribute the venture capital vehicle to high-net-worth and institutional investors once Spain's CNMV authorizes the launch.
- Fundraising
Core Stack and Green Arrow plan 13 Italian data centers
More than €1 billion backs the joint venture, with first construction targeted for late 2027.
- Data centers & fiber
Meta has converted Ohio Facebook site into first phase of AI campus
The New Albany site is planned to scale to a gigawatt with roughly one million GPUs; it has already trained Meta's Muse models.
- Data centers & fiber
Umatilla declares emergency over $5B data center permit freeze
The city resolution says the block could delay more than $5 billion in investment and set projects back two years.
- Data centers & fiber
Switzerland publishes up to CHF 7bn government cloud tender
Two public-cloud tiers cap at CHF 2 billion each and the private lot at CHF 3 billion; awards due summer 2027.
- Data centers & fiber
gFiber to take over Ting's Colorado Springs dark fiber lease
Terms were not disclosed; Ting will keep serving Colorado Springs customers until the transition completes, no later than June 30, 2027.
- Fundraising
Vertical Semiconductor signs $73m CHIPS letter with Commerce stake
Up to $73 million supports US development and production of vertical GaN power transistors; Commerce gets a minority, non-voting equity stake.
- Data centers & fiber
STTGDC to host up to 9,000 Neysa GPUs in Noida
Neysa's Velocis AI cloud platform will run training and inference workloads at the 22 MW Noida 2 facility.