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- Data centers & fiber
Lefdal Mine buys Titan Group and its 40-acre data center site in Norway
Lefdal aims to invest a reported NOK 9 billion on the 40-acre Moskog site, 120km from its mine-based facility at Måløy.
- Data centers & fiber
Amazon Data Services agrees to buy 1.98m sq ft in Sepang from Sunsuria
The conditional deal values the vacant freehold parcel at about RM316.84 million ($77.6 million), against the RM145.97 million Sunsuria paid in 2015.
- Data centers & fiber
Energa Obrót, CGE and Konin sign LOI for a 100MW data center in Poland
CGE estimates the staged project at just under €3 billion and says capacity could reach 260MW with municipal approval; no tenant or offtake terms are disclosed.
- Data centers & fiber
Telefónica weighs a Venezuela exit within a year, report says
The carrier has operated in the country since 1991, and its Movistar brand there carries close to nine million mobile subscribers.
- Energy Transition
Subsea Micropiles invests GBP 5m in Scottish floating wind supply chain
The report names a company, country and GBP 5m sum, but not the site, counterparty or structure of the investment.
- Energy Transition
Net Zero Atlantic to share offshore wind expertise with unnamed European groups
The Renewables Now headline does not identify the European participants or describe what the arrangement covers.
- Fundraising
Clean Max raises $261m in Indian green debt, with no lender or terms disclosed
Renewables Now reports the amount without naming an instrument, tenor, use of proceeds or counterparty.
- Energy Transition
Navaris orders Nordex turbines for a 42 MW German wind project
The 29 September order is the latest Navaris disclosure in Germany to name megawatts without a price.
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- Energy Transition
New York's 1GW storage contract round tests a 2040 fossil-free mandate
Canary Media reports scant progress toward the 2040 fossil-free target and puts a 1GW storage contract round at the center of whether that changes.
- Transport & public-private
Fluor-Balfour Beatty JV opens $677 million Oak Hill Parkway in Austin
The Texas DOT project widened about seven miles of U.S. 290 and Highway 71 and is at least the third award the two contractors have shared.
- Energy Transition
Fervo Energy begins selling power from Cape Station's initial 33-MW unit
Canary Media reports the Utah project is the first utility-scale next-generation geothermal plant to sell power; Google has contracted 396 megawatts at the site.
- Transport & public-private
InfraRed agrees to buy Hector Rail from Ancala at SEK2.61bn
The deal values the Scandinavian freight operator, which runs about 100 predominantly electric locomotives, at roughly €229.6m with no earnings figure disclosed.
- Transport & public-private
AP Moller Capital agrees to take Euroports majority stake with no price disclosed
The infrastructure manager takes control of more than 50 terminals in ten European countries and China, alongside existing Belgian shareholders SFPIM and PMV.
- Data centers & fiber
Goodman withdraws 90MW Sydney data center application, citing policy shift
The AU$1.2 billion Lane Cove campus, in planning since March 2025, leaves the New South Wales queue while four other Sydney sites stay in development.
- Data centers & fiber
European Commission proposes data center efficiency ratings; industry groups seek climate nuance
The package would grade facilities above 500kW on energy, water, grid support and renewables, as association leaders caution a single scale may not fit the whole bloc.
- Data centers & fiber
Virtus Data Centres closes £2.45bn financing from 13 banks for UK and Europe data centers
The package includes a £1.2 billion green capex facility, funds the 78MW Saunderton campus and future Slough investment, and comes with no named tenant against the megawatts.
- The Wrap
Schneider Electric launches Motivair WCDU for data centers mixing air and liquid cooling
The unit handles up to 3.5MW from the technical corridor and ships next month in regions the launch does not name, with US pre-orders opening in early 2027.
- Data centers & fiber
Digital Realty to build a cable landing station at its El Segundo data center
The Los Angeles landing point is expected to support subsea cables in 2028, and the company has not said how many cables it will host.
- Transport & public-private
DFC approves Jordanian water carrier finance; only World Bank deal carries a figure
The World Bank's $50 million for Paraíba is the lone priced entry, and no transport item carries a figure.
- Energy Transition
CGN commissions a 2-GW offshore wind farm in China using 18-MW turbines
Renewables Now reports the commissioning; at 2,000 MW and 18 MW a machine, a uniform array would work out to roughly 111 turbines.
- Energy Transition
Iberdrola to acquire Contigo Energia's Spanish power retail business
Renewables Now names the buyer, seller and asset but reports no purchase price, customer count or expected close.
- Data centers & fiber
SubCo announces three Indo-Pacific cables totaling more than 40,000km
All three systems are specified at 24 fiber pairs and due live in 2029; full landing-point details have not been shared.
- Data centers & fiber
Pat Gelsinger-backed PicoJool raises $27.5 million to scale VCSELs for AI links
The Series A, led by Socratic Partners, brings the Palo Alto startup's total funding to $39.5 million as it works toward qualifying its optical modules with customers.
- Data centers & fiber
GreenSquareDC signs Sharon AI for first stage of Sydney data center campus
Sharon AI expects to deploy about 8,200 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs at SYD1, with initial operations targeted for the fourth quarter of 2026.
- Data centers & fiber
Akamai signs seven-year, $11.6bn compute lease with Anthropic
The CPU capacity deal includes up to $9bn of potential expansion, $5.5bn of capex, and a warrant for about 5% of Akamai's common stock that vests as the customer buys more.
- Energy Transition
Saint-Gobain signs 60 GWh-a-year UK power deal with TotalEnergies
The announcement omits price, contract length and the generating asset, so the same 60 GWh could be financing for new build or a hedge on existing output.
- The Wrap
How 230-kW AI racks are shifting data center capital to switchgear and rate design
Vertiv's 22,000-square-meter Slovakia expansion and Michigan's outcome-linked earnings proposal show where reliability money goes while Oklo's 750 MW sits out of PJM's queue after a FERC procedural rejection.
- Data centers & fiber
Siemens webinar puts AI racks at 230 kilowatts, recommending scenario-based planning
A Siemens Grid Software webinar recap published on Utility Dive cites Dominion Energy's Northern Virginia experience on early coordination for large loads as high-density AI projects arrive.
- Energy Transition
Lirion Power is acquiring a 77-MW Irish wind portfolio from GIP
Renewables Now names buyer, seller and capacity, but no purchase price, offtake counterparty or completion date
- Energy Transition
ACEN sells 10% of 250-MW Indian solar project without naming buyer or price
The Renewables Now report names neither buyer nor valuation, leaving the implied price per megawatt unstated.
- Data centers & fiber
Vertiv plans 22,000 sqm Slovakia expansion for AI power and cooling gear
The two-year buildout at Nové Mesto nad Váhom adds switchgear and liquid cooling lines, with hiring set for 2027 through 2029.
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- Data centers & fiber
AI load swings are outrunning the redundancy playbook
A DCD opinion piece separates the failure modes an engineer can name from the interactions between healthy systems that millisecond AI load swings can set off.
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- Transport & public-private
The funding deadline moved to Dec. 11; the letting calendar did not
Congress gave surface transportation programs ten more weeks, leaving state DOTs and their bidders carrying the schedule risk they began hedging in July.
- Energy Transition
Rural America holds the megawatts; the counties hold the veto
An 87% rural generation share turns county boards and interconnection dockets, not land, into the binding constraint on the next tranche of clean capacity.
- The Wrap
Washington's grid money stops buying new corridors
The $1.9 billion SPARK package buys 23 gigawatts on lines that already exist, turning the data center buildout's power schedule into a question of tariff design.
- Data centers & fiber
Vocus's 4,000km Darwin fiber has no tenant, cost, or contract named
The Brisbane-Darwin route lands in 2030 with up to 3,456 strands, and the announcement names none of the commitments that would make it financeable.
- Energy Transition
Low Carbon's 500-MW Oxfordshire plan arrives without a buyer
A second Low Carbon headline in a month carries capacity and a county but no counterparty, which makes it a financing document before it is an infrastructure one.
- Data centers & fiber
Nscale's $3.36 billion raise is a bet on 5 percent energized GPUs
The notes convert to ordinary shares at listing, so the pre-IPO money is a wager on the public price, not on a data center fleet that is 5 percent switched on.
- The Wrap
Michigan's ratemaking push puts capex compounding on the table
A longer filing calendar is the easy half of the commission's affordability package; outcome-linked earnings are the half that reprices the asset class.
- Energy Transition
FERC keeps Oklo's 750-MW Virginia project out of PJM's queue
A procedural rejection leaves Oklo's three-technology plant at least 18 months behind and hands five similar complaints the same reasoning.