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- Data centers & fiber
Alibaba Cloud names Turkey, Finland and the Netherlands as next regions
The Netherlands was also on last September's list, and Malaysia, Germany, the UAE, France and Hong Kong are slated for added capacity.
- Data centers & fiber
Infineon to supply silicon carbide devices for Eaton's 800VDC transformer platform
The two firms say silicon carbide will cut conversion losses in Eaton's MVSST 2.0 platform; no customer, site or delivery date is attached.
- Data centers & fiber
Global Switch to host Nvidia Blackwell deployment in Paris, tenant unnamed
Global Switch names no tenant or scale for a liquid-cooled Nvidia DGX-ready build it calls one of Europe's biggest Blackwell deployments.
- Data centers & fiber
Google wins Dublin planning appeal for a third Grange Castle data center
An Coimisiún Pleanála cleared the 72,400 sqm building two years after South Dublin County Council refused it over grid capacity and unclear power contracts.
- Energy Transition
Energy Vault wins New South Wales approval for 1-GWh battery project
Renewables Now reports the state sign-off on the storage project, and the coverage names no offtaker, capex or commissioning date.
- Data centers & fiber
Ericsson to upgrade Cellnex's Polish tower RAN; no contract value disclosed
The sites serve Plus, Polkomtel's mobile brand, and the equipment list is detailed while the economics go unstated.
- Data centers & fiber
Meta agrees to lease AI capacity from Firmus in Southeast Asia
The hyperscaler adds its name to Firmus's Indonesian and Malaysian build-out, but the announcement carries no price, no megawatt figure for the tranche and no energization date.
- The Wrap
Pittsburgh targets one-day approval for simple building permits and adds virtual inspections
The city counts roughly 20,000 vacant homes and an 11,000-home affordable shortfall as it reworks its permit queue.
- Energy Transition
SPP's Western adequacy stop-gap draws protests, including from its own market monitor
WAPA, Basin Electric and Guzman Energy seek changes to the Sept. 4 proposal, which would run until mandatory adequacy rules take effect on June 1, 2027.
- Energy Transition
New York awards 950 MW of batteries in first bulk storage round
NYSERDA says the first bulk storage round more than doubles all utility-scale storage awarded, contracted and installed in the state, and payments begin only once projects run.
- Data centers & fiber
Australia Post signs three-year Telstra connectivity deal across 4,000 sites
About 300 of the postal operator's locations move to fiber-to-the-premises, with regional sites shifting to Telstra satellite over the next twelve months.
- Data centers & fiber
Eaton agrees to buy COL Group from Oaktree for €810 million
COL Group forecasts €250 million of 2027 sales, putting the deal at about 3.2 times forward revenue.
- Data centers & fiber
Colovore files for $430 million liquid-cooled data center in Fort Worth
The Denton County project is scheduled to run from December 2026 to December 2028, with the landowner listed as a likely Hillwood Properties affiliate.
- Transport & public-private
World Bank backs Paraíba P3 with $50m as DFC approves Jordan water financing
No dollar figure appears for the DFC package, leaving the World Bank's $50 million as the only sized financing in the roundup.
- Data centers & fiber
Submer launches Corenix, a modular data center unit built on Nvidia reference designs
Martin Renkis, most recently of Johnson Controls, will lead a business that ships factory-tested IT, power, cooling and networking modules to project sites.
- Data centers & fiber
Amazon agrees to buy two Hong Kong data centers for at least HK$2.18 billion
The Fanling properties include one already leased to Amazon and one still under construction; up to HK$265.8 million more is payable depending on fit-out and construction scope.
- Data centers & fiber
Poste Italiane holds 85.82% of Telecom Italia, below the 90% take-private threshold
TIM's chief executive and other managers tendered their own shares into the voluntary tender and exchange offer.
- Data centers & fiber
Unnamed developer submits data center plan in Piedmont as region prepares law
The four-building Moncalieri project lists 576MW of planned electrical capacity, which a councillor says would likely make it Italy's largest.
- Data centers & fiber
Equinix and Schneider pilot software-defined switchgear at an undisclosed data center
Schneider says the configuration uses 87 percent less control wiring and 91 percent fewer terminals, with broader availability set for 2028.
- Data centers & fiber
Samsung commits $1bn to KKR's Helix data center platform
The commitment comes from a long-duration fund and extends a platform that has raised more than $10bn without a disclosed site, tenant, or delivery date.
- 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.