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- 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.
- Data centers & fiber
Skanska's $84 million Georgia award buys a shell and a clock
At $343 a square foot, the contract is a construction number; the risk sits in the calendar and a power arrangement the release never mentions.
- Data centers & fiber
Korea's 'sensitive tier' would wall US clouds out of government work
A pending National Intelligence Service guideline could turn a cybersecurity standard into a residency mandate, and Rep. Carol Miller argues it would break two decades of US-Korea trade commitments.
- Energy Transition
Vattenfall names 429 MW in England, and little else
The English portfolio arrives with no site, no consent status and no counterparty, extending a pattern that turns sector milestones into financing hooks rather than infrastructure proofs.
- Data centers & fiber
Prince William cuts by-right data center zoning by two thirds
Shrinking the by-right overlay by two thirds turns Northern Virginia entitlement into the scarce asset and hands the buildout to whoever can afford a public hearing.
- Transport & public-private
Development banks are writing this market's only priced deals
The DFC's Jordanian water package joins the World Bank's Paraíba financing as the file's only money items, leaving the domestic pipeline in mandate form.
- Data centers & fiber
Google's first orbital data center is four chips and one kilowatt
The test that matters on Project Suncatcher is radiation tolerance, and mission life is the number orbital compute has to earn.
- Energy Transition
ERG puts Glencore on the record and withholds the price
A named buyer does the underwriting work in Polish wind, and the economics stay unpublished.
- The Wrap
Development capital now writes checks on blank term sheets
Proparco, Finnfund and CIB disclosed check sizes while withholding the asset terms that would let anyone price the exposure.
- Energy Transition
A $33m Colombian solar check arrives without a stake or a pipeline
Finnfund and Proparco have made public the size of their Erco commitment and none of the terms a lender or underwriter could act on.
- Data centers & fiber
SFR's €20.35bn breakup has a labor bill the term sheet misses
The three-carrier carve-up takes France from four mobile operators to three, and the redundancy plan it triggers is the cost the consortium has yet to underwrite.
- Energy Transition
First power proves the drill; the 900MW is still a claim
Google signed 396MW before Cape Station produced a kilowatt, making the January 2027 commissioning date the number that carries Fervo's valuation.
- Data centers & fiber
Applied Digital prices Tuscaloosa consent at $270m, tenant still unnamed
The Alabama site prices local permission at $13.5 million a year; the credit that sets the asset's value stays out of the document.
- Energy Transition
Queensland's Bungaban approval lands without a number, an owner or an offtake
The Bungaban sign-off clears one gate and leaves the two that price the asset, connection and offtake, unanswered.
- Energy Transition
DOE's $1.9 billion buys grid speed, not new corridors
The SPARK package funds conductors and grid-enhancing technology on lines that already exist, moving the marginal federal transmission dollar off greenfield corridors and onto assets the data center buildout can actually schedule.
- Energy Transition
Oyster names a steelmaker for its 48-MWp park and leaves the rest blank
An industrial offtaker makes the missing tariff a private term. The connection point is what prices the plant.
- Energy Transition
Websol's 4-GW West Bengal land deal arrives without the numbers
A land title is the cheapest milestone in a solar factory, and the coverage attaches no capex, no offtake and no date to the 4 GW.
- Energy Transition
Nexgen drops 160 MW of Philippine wind, unexplained
A capacity figure and a country, with nothing attached that would let anyone price either one.
- Energy Transition
CIB prices the loan and leaves the mine unnamed
A USD 14.4m loan to a Canadian gold mine arrives with a lender and two technologies, but no project size, owner, or power price.
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- Energy Transition
A $1.9B down payment on grid capacity
The federal government is funding the cheapest capacity available—more throughput from existing lines—but 31 projects won't resolve the grid's binding constraint.
- Data centers & fiber
Onsemi's GaN window makes a power semiconductor the bottleneck behind the meter
The company expects mass production in 2026/27, which would let racks get denser while leaving the grid queue untouched.
- Data centers & fiber
Airports are becoming private wireless's anchor tenants
Ontario International is buying a private network across 1,700 acres, and Boldyn is selling the managed security platform. The build rides the airport's credit; the price stays off the page.
- Energy Transition
Exelon turns a venture check into grid-planning procurement
Exelon deploys Optioneer across five states, turning a venture check into first call on transmission planning and a proving ground for Continuum.
- Energy Transition
DOE's $1.9 billion buys grid capacity on lines already permitted
Thirty-one projects add 23 gigawatts without a single new right-of-way, which is a price signal to every greenfield corridor sponsor still counting on federal backing.
- Data centers & fiber
Oracle moves a permitting failure onto Blue Owl's books
A New Mexico pipeline denial has become a payment dispute, and how it resolves will tell the market what a 2.5GW hyperscaler lease is actually worth.
- Energy Transition
Small solar's best argument on the Hill is local consent
Edward Yim's case for preserving distributed clean-energy credits is really a permitting argument, and it's the one Congress can most cheaply ignore.
- The Wrap
The utility tariff is now the data center credit screen
Before any offtake is signed, collateral, minimum bills and exit fees are sorting the data center pipeline by balance sheet.
- Data centers & fiber
Large-load tariffs are becoming the data center credit screen
Collateral, minimum billing demand and exit fees are turning utility rate schedules into the first test every project in the queue has to clear.
- Data centers & fiber
Japan buys a quarter of Tower's $4bn optical chip bet
The $1bn state grant puts Tokyo inside the AI supply chain's narrowest layer and leaves Tower's 2029 wafer line to find its own customers.
- The Wrap
New York orders utilities to inventory AI, buying the map first
The filings will push machine-learning systems into prudence review, starting with the model that releases interconnection capacity.
- Data centers & fiber
Virginia draws its data center line at 25 megawatts
The aid cutoff is the cheap half of the order; the disclosure ban and the 240-day rulemaking clock are what will reprice the pipeline.
- Data centers & fiber
T-Mobile's 6G test filing is a cheap option on 2028 spectrum
Two years of coexistence testing buys influence over the sharing rules that will price the 2.7GHz auction, and the rooftop is where the build lands.
- Energy Transition
Qair lands a 15-year offtaker; the price column stays blank
A Polish telecom's 15-year offtake is the underwriting fact Qair's September announcements never delivered, even with price and capacity still blank.
- Energy Transition
Hep takes a 35.7-MWp German solar project into construction
The milestone names the capacity and country; the owner, the offtake, and the price stay off the page.
- Data centers & fiber
Microsoft's $10 billion Gulf plan buys capacity, not partners
Two of the three platforms Microsoft names get support without equity, most of the capex lands on lessors, and every Gulf megawatt now carries a war-risk question the announcement answers with paperwork.
- Data centers & fiber
One public programme pays for SiPearl's first chip order
The samples prove Europe can build server silicon; the offtake that would prove it can sell the stuff still belongs to a budget cycle.
- Energy Transition
Woodway is selling a 2028 delivery date, not molecules
The offtaker is unnamed and no term is disclosed, which is the point: what a data center buys when the queue runs to the 2030s is time, and it is priced in the dark.
- Energy Transition
Pacifico's 1.3-GW Vietnam survey licence prices only the option
The announcement names no offtaker, connection right, or sponsor, leaving the 1.3-GW figure to be weighted as an option.
- The Wrap
The permit is now the power contract
California, Texas and Australia are writing water, load and grid-cost terms into local approvals, so capacity gets announced before anyone prices the project.
- Transport & public-private
The transit P3 pipeline is all consultants and no capital
The file's only money went to sanitation, leaving transport to advance on studies, tenders and new org charts.