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- 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.
- Data centers & fiber
O-Green plans €7.4bn, 570MW data center campus in Spain
The Oman-affiliated fund's San Mateo de Gállego plan, reported to replace Vantage's €3.2bn project, holds grid permits for only its first 90MW phase.
- Data centers & fiber
Aleria plans 8,640 Blackwell GPUs for 25MW US site
Aleria plans to expand the US build to 16,000 GPUs and calls the UAE Vera Rubin deployment one of the first in the region.
- Energy Transition
Krolmap plans 225MW data center campus in Spain
Six buildings across 25 hectares in the La Legua industrial park; on-site generation would supply power, with capacity and tenants not yet published.
- Fundraising
Nebius secures $3.5bn Citi facility at SOFR plus 2.75 points
The one-year facility funds data center and GPU purchases and can step up to a maximum spread of 3.50 points over Term SOFR.
- Transport & public-private
World Bank backs Paraíba sanitation P3 with $50m financing
Contra Costa Transit Authority is also exploring a P3 for mobility hubs, with no cost or timetable in the report.
- Data centers & fiber
Foresight signs term sheet for 50.01% of Polish data center developer
Warsaw is planned at 130MW on a secured 32,000 sqm plot with an option on a further 22,000 sqm.
- Data centers & fiber
Telefónica, IQM to install Madrid's first quantum computer by end-2026
The IQM Spark system will give Madrid universities, hospitals and startups direct access to quantum hardware.
- Energy Transition
Commerce signs $389m in power-semiconductor R&D letters of intent
Helion is in line for up to $175 million and Commonwealth Fusion Systems up to $85 million for fusion power electronics, Data Center Dynamics reports.
- Data centers & fiber
SpaceX seeks access to 80,000 US cell sites in Crown Castle talks
Crown Castle's CEO says the tower owner is talking to "all parties" on a master lease, without naming SpaceX.
- The Wrap
Google and Voltus expand PJM virtual power plant to 1,170 MW
The expansion adds 1,070 MW to the June 100 MW program, with a three-to-four-year ramp and a 2040 term.
- Data centers & fiber
Endeavour, Trevi claim 200,000 gallons a day per MW of computing
The process has not run at a data center; first units are planned for Endeavour's US sites, with no campus, date or cost named.
- Data centers & fiber
Crusoe plans 106MW Paraguay data center in first Latin America move
The site beside the Itaipú substation would serve Crusoe Cloud, with a first phase targeted for mid-2027.
- Data centers & fiber
Pilot Fiber to buy Boldyn's NY-NJ metro fiber, raises $330m
Terms were not disclosed; Pilot expects both transactions to close in the second quarter of 2027, subject to regulatory approvals.
- Data centers & fiber
KT Cloud breaks ground on 50MW Ansan data center
The site is due live in 2029; no IT capacity figure is given, leaving usable load an open question for underwriters.
- Data centers & fiber
EDB signs $31.2m financing for Akashi's 100MW Astana campus
The first 10MW phase is due in 2027 within a $354 million build.
- Energy Transition
Innio books 620MW gas engine order, contracted capacity hits 1.72GW
The repeat order comes months after a 1.1GW order, with a full maintenance agreement covering the first 500MW of ordered capacity.
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- Data centers & fiber
Vector Core Compute commits $3.5bn to SambaNova chips for edge inference
The Vista- and Cambium-backed neocloud plans low-latency inference on SambaNova's RDU platform; both sponsors already hold SambaNova stakes.
- Data centers & fiber
Microsoft files 422MW Floyd County campus, powered by Georgia Power
The October 20 filing values the 349-acre ATL80 build at $360 million and projects $35 million a year in local tax revenue.
- Energy Transition
Google adds 1,070 MW to Voltus virtual power plant in PJM
The expansion takes the June agreement to 1,170 MW, with Voltus expecting a three- to four-year ramp and a contract running through 2040.
- Energy Transition
DOJ asks courts to revoke offshore wind permits, citing review of Biden approvals
The three motions target Revolution Wind, US Wind's Maryland project and Avangrid's New England Wind; a Senate permitting-bill sponsor calls it 'how you blow up a permitting deal.'
- Energy Transition
Google and Voltus expand PJM virtual power plant to 1GW from 100MW
The roughly three-year agreement pays participating homes and businesses for cutting demand at peak and builds on a June deal.
- Data centers & fiber
Nvidia hires former OpenAI data center head Chris Malone as VP, DSX Platform
Data Center Dynamics reports the move; Nvidia this week launched DSX POD, a containerized version of its Vera Rubin-powered reference design.
- Data centers & fiber
Uniserve plans 1MW Vancouver data center for Q4 2026
The leased space spans about 10,000 sq ft next to its existing VAN-1 site, with a second megawatt reserved and BC Hydro upgrades due by 2028.
- Fundraising
Sosteneo Fund II completes first external close above €150m
The Generali Investments unit says Fund II vintage commitments now exceed €450 million, with Fund I beginning distributions in the second quarter.
- The Wrap
Anthropic in talks for second 460MW lease at Nscale's West Virginia campus
The reported $45 billion contract would double Anthropic's committed capacity at Monarch to 920MW; Microsoft already holds 1.35GW there.
- Data centers & fiber
Nebius takes up to 50MW as anchor customer at Neom's Oxagon
Humain and DataVolt signed the agreement on October 21, with capacity due online in phases from the fourth quarter of 2027.
- Data centers & fiber
Zain and Ooredoo close first phase of tower JV with 4,000 towers
The Kuwait and Qatar combination was reported at $2.2 billion when the agreement was signed nearly three years ago; each carrier holds 50%.
- Energy Transition
Google and Voltus target one gigawatt of virtual power plant capacity in PJM
The companies described the plan Thursday as a way to free space on an energy-strapped grid for data centers.
- Data centers & fiber
Nvidia in talks to invest in Firmus after neocloud scrapped its IPO
The Information reports talks, not an agreement; a several hundred million dollar ticket would be a fraction of the $2bn–$3bn private raise Bloomberg reported Firmus was seeking.
- Data centers & fiber
BLM weighs 35 data center-related applications on western public land
Seventeen filings are for campuses and 13 for AI-supporting infrastructure, per a Center for Western Priorities tracker built on BLM land records.
- Data centers & fiber
Soluna and Applied Digital agree 50MW Texas data center joint venture
Applied is expected to hold 51% and supply capital; ChronoScale has signed a non-binding letter of intent to lease the capacity.
- The Wrap
Solar PPA prices rise 5% in Q3 as Section 232 tariffs near
LevelTen estimates the tariffs could add $3 to $7 per megawatt-hour once they take effect later this year.
- Data centers & fiber
Era4 details 1GW Newport AI campus with first GPUs due next year
The 230-acre former Liberty Steel site is slated for as many as 400,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs at full build, though the power available when the first stage opens next year is not clear.
- Data centers & fiber
Crusoe and Polar DC to build 40MW second building at Norway campus
The Tørdal project sits beside a live 12MW facility hosting Crusoe Cloud AI infrastructure, though no construction timeline is given.
- Energy Transition
OVHcloud wins Lille approval to pipe Roubaix data center heat into district heating network
The European Metropolis of Lille voted unanimously to connect the campus to R Énergies' 105MW thermal network, ten years after study began.
- Data centers & fiber
General Compute commits to Positron AI chips for Q1 2027 launch
The neocloud will start with Positron's Intel-fabricated Atlas systems and has committed to Titan; financial terms were not disclosed.
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- Energy Transition
Trump administration sides with groups seeking to strip New England Wind approvals
Canary Media reports the 2-gigawatt Massachusetts project is the latest target as federal pressure widens to approvals already granted.