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- Energy Transition
Actis adds 244MW of Polish battery storage from DRI
Kozienice is acquired and construction-ready; Trzebinia is signed and completes once operational.
- Data centers & fiber
LightEdge signs letter of intent for 10-acre Iowa data center campus
The Boone site could draw up to 46MW from utility Alliant, but LightEdge says it will start with a much smaller load and scale over years.
- Data centers & fiber
Nscale's Glomfjord data center six months behind schedule as IPO nears
Only 6.4MW of the Norwegian site's planned 30MW is operational, according to a Bloomberg report relayed by Data Center Dynamics.
- Data centers & fiber
Odisha cabinet approves $18.62m disaster recovery data center in Keonjhar
The Keonjhar site would back up the state's primary data center in Bhubaneswar, with more than $17m covered by a Fifth State Finance Commission grant.
- Data centers & fiber
Vietnam's CMC and Lotte Innovate sign MoU to develop data centers
The memorandum also covers cloud, EV charging, security and offshoring; planned data center projects were not detailed.
- Data centers & fiber
Pure Data Centres completes final Brent Cross transformer ahead of energization
The third 75MVA Hitachi Energy unit brings the LON01 substation to 150MVA; the second building is slated for completion in Q2 2029.
- Data centers & fiber
Modal raises $750m in Series D at $15.75bn, five months after Series C
The AI cloud company says it crossed $1 billion in annualized run rate and works with 13 cloud partners without owning data centers.
- Data centers & fiber
CapitaLand Investment unveils 53MW Chennai data center for end-2026 completion
The Ambattur facility, jointly held by CapitaLand India Trust and CapitaLand India Data Centre Fund, will offer 34MW of IT power in 13 data halls.
- Data centers & fiber
Langenhorn council advances Uniq Land's 150MW data center plan
The August 26 vote opens planning studies, but a 300MW expansion and wind-powered supply depend on regional grid upgrades.
- Data centers & fiber
Uruguay signs $5.7bn Solaria deal for up to 500MW of solar-paired data center capacity
Phase one pairs a 200MW data center with a 350MW solar project and is due in 2029.
- Data centers & fiber
Ooredoo Fibre agrees to buy iQ Networks dark fiber for Iraq-Turkey route
The route would carry Fibre in the Gulf traffic from Iraq's southern coast toward Turkey, subject to regulatory approval.
- Data centers & fiber
UK rejects Drax-backed bid to power 1.2GW data center with biomass
The Selby application failed AI Growth Zone selection criteria; Drax has pivoted to a 100MW project on grid power.
- The Wrap
AEP to buy up to 1.6 GW Mainspring units, plans $4B Cheyenne fuel cells
The eight-year Mainspring agreement has a stated ceiling of up to $4 billion, while the planned 702-MW Cheyenne project pairs Bloom Energy fuel cells with a 20-year Google PPA.
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- Data centers & fiber
DigiCo signs 71MW Sydney data center lease, taking SYD1 to fully leased
The 15-year agreement includes 20MW reassigned from capacity already under contract at the facility.
- Data centers & fiber
NERC stakeholders approve reliability standards for AI data centers, crypto miners
The draft rules would apply to computational loads of 50 MW or more connected at 100 kV and above; they next go to the NERC board and, if adopted, to FERC.
- Data centers & fiber
Meta identified as developer behind nearly 3,000-acre Kentucky data center campus
The agreement includes a 40-year property tax abatement and a $10 billion first phase, plus $115 million for local infrastructure.
- Data centers & fiber
Colt DCS and RMZ start 64MW Mumbai 3 build after hyperscaler lease
Once online, the campus will total 86MW, with 148MW possible at full build-out.
- Fundraising
Fink warns a US data center construction pause would cause recession
JLL estimates capacity through 2030 needs $3 trillion in investment; 77 percent of the construction pipeline is already pre-committed to tenants.
- Energy Transition
Greece drafts rules requiring data centers to source 60% of power from renewables
The same draft would impose a €200,000 per megawatt bank guarantee on grid connection requests and create a €2.3 billion island decarbonization fund.
- Data centers & fiber
Digital Realty tops out 64MW Seoul data center, targeting H2 2027
The facility was announced in 2021 and originally expected online in the first half of 2023.
- The Wrap
SoftBank asks PJM to study 10-GW Ohio data center complex under state agreement
The filing pairs 9.6 GW of added load with 10.2 GW of SB Energy gas-fired generation through 2032 and three new AEP Ohio 765-kV lines.
- Data centers & fiber
Oracle asks FERC to expedite New Mexico gas pipeline for Project Jupiter
The 17.8-mile Green Chile line would carry about 400 million cubic feet of gas a day to on-site fuel cells, according to the report.
- The Wrap
Oregon pauses data center permits until July 2027
Oregon's pause covers air-quality permits and municipal wastewater applications, while Taylor, Texas, approved a 1GW gas-backed campus from PowerHouse and Big Watt.
- Energy Transition
Siemens invests in Skeleton Technologies, signs exclusive data center power pact
Skeleton says its supercapacitors absorb grid load swings in under a millisecond; the investment amount and exclusivity terms are not given.
- Data centers & fiber
Russia weighs AI data center sites in Belarus and Kazakhstan amid power constraints
Consultations are under way in Russia's digital development ministry and no location has been chosen, per RBC's reporting.
- Data centers & fiber
CtrlS signs non-binding LOI for 150MW Bihar data center
The $1 billion letter of intent covers a Bodh Gaya hyperscale campus; CtrlS's Rs 400 crore Patna facility is live with 12MW of IT capacity.
- Data centers & fiber
Virginia senator Russet Perry proposes three-year data center moratorium
Senate Bill 843 would stop state agencies from approving data center planning applications for three years from July 1, 2027.
- Data centers & fiber
Air Force seeks design-build contractor for $4bn Space Command facility in Alabama
The notice covers a command-and-control facility and its supporting data center at Redstone Arsenal, with applications due Dec. 15, 2026.
- Data centers & fiber
SubCo to build 850km Sydney–Melbourne fiber route by June 2028
The greenfield SM-1 system is specified at a minimum of 96 fiber pairs, and founder Bevan Slattery says he will decide by year-end whether to buy a cable-laying vessel.
- Data centers & fiber
Colliers lists Austin data center leased to Lumen and LightEdge
The 31,960 sq ft Semicon III building carries $508,000 in annual rent on triple net leases running to 2030 and 2031, with no asking price disclosed.
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- Data centers & fiber
OpenAI names Uday Ruddarraju to run compute and Stargate, replacing Katti
Sachin Katti, who took over the Stargate effort in March, is expected to remain as an adviser.
- Data centers & fiber
3 G Investments files application for 3.34m sq ft Augusta data center campus
The proposed Nixon Technology Center would occupy 388 acres near Augusta Regional Airport, with no data center developer or end user named in the report.
- Energy Transition
PJM to study SoftBank's 10-GW Ohio data center complex under state agreement approach
The filing covers 9.6 GW of added load and 10.2 GW of SB Energy gas-fired generation through 2032, with AEP Ohio to build three 765-kV lines.
- Energy Transition
Planned U.S. natural gas capacity comparable to solar and wind on capacity-factor basis: EDF
Clean energy still accounts for the largest share of planned U.S. power sector development, but nearly 5% of a planned 281.7 GW of clean energy deployment was canceled in 2025, EDF says.
- Data centers & fiber
Orange, Equitix and MDM form joint venture for Pisces subsea cable
The 3,125km, 16-fiber-pair system connecting Galway to France, Spain and Portugal is expected to be deployed during 2028.
- Energy Transition
IURC approves AES Indiana's $1.3bn solar and storage project for Google data center
Google will cover all project costs, exceeding the 80% minimum Indiana's 2025 large-load data center law sets.
- Data centers & fiber
Iren targets 900MW Redbank data center campus near Wagga Wagga with 2029 grid connection
The New South Wales project is in early assessment and falls outside Iren's previously announced 5GW secured-power portfolio.
- Energy Transition
Google signs 20-year power purchase agreement with American Electric Power for 702MW Wyoming fuel cell plant
AEP owns 92% of Cheyenne Fuel Cell and funds advised by Basalt Infrastructure Partners own 8%; the power price is not disclosed.
- Fundraising
Ares and Astatine file SEC registrations for three pooled infrastructure vehicles
The vehicles list an undisclosed offering amount and $0 sold to date; SWI raised €800 million for data-center buildouts.
- Data centers & fiber
Soluna files for 112MW Kati II data center in Willacy, Texas
The Texas filing estimates $471.8 million for a single 471,884 sq ft building and gives no construction timeline.