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- The Wrap
TeraWulf doubles Kentucky data center power contract to 1GW as utility financing tightens
Amazon's 690MW Calvert Cliffs nuclear PPA anchors a hyperscaler for two decades, while U.S. Bank warns utilities are turning to backup bank financing as DOE loans pull back.
- Data centers & fiber
TeraWulf to double Muskie contracted capacity to 1GW; second phase moves into 2029
The amended Kentucky Power agreement would raise contracted capacity at the Muskie Data Campus from 500MW to 1GW and pull the second 500MW phase forward a year, subject to state commission approval.
- Energy Transition
Enagas Emprende takes a stake in Spanish hydrogen software startup digHy with no terms disclosed
The Renewables Now report dated 6 October names the investor and the Spanish startup but gives no sum, shareholding or instrument.
- Data centers & fiber
Firmus and CDC end Project Southgate after building 42MW of planned 1.6GW
The October 2025 Australian buildout was expected to draw up to $47.68 billion; CDC cites Firmus' Asia expansion and Firmus calls the split mutual.
- Data centers & fiber
Axe Compute takes over Columbus GPU SPV, paying off $87.6m asset-backed loan
Duos keeps the Columbus data center and covers the site's colocation and energy costs for five years; the remaining $42.9m is deferred, payable in $715,000 monthly installments.
- Data centers & fiber
Forum Markets forms compute joint venture with Edge Node, holding 51%
Forum Edge AI starts with 2MW in Dallas, a 9MW campus in High Point, North Carolina, and a Texas tower site with power and permits in place.
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- Data centers & fiber
DCD Connect London report puts grid access ahead of capital
The report, drawn from 48 hours and more than 4,000 attendees, names supply chain, grid access and social license as the constraints that now stop European projects.
- Fundraising
U.S. Bank's Tim Keller says rising rates complicate utility capital spending
Utilities are seeking backup bank financing as the Department of Energy pulls back from certain loans, while higher rates add pressure, U.S. Bank's Tim Keller says.
- Energy Transition
Virginia examiner orders Dominion to produce FPL memo in NextEra merger case
Clean Virginia and the Piedmont Environmental Council sought the document in discovery, while Dominion argued the political record has nothing to do with the merger.
- The Wrap
Data center developers turn to legacy industrial sites as permitting tightens
Blackstart Digital's agreement to buy IBM's Almaden campus, with its 25MW substation, is the month's clearest case of a developer paying for power that already exists.
- Data centers & fiber
Data center contractors say new state rules extend permitting without cooling demand
Virginia, Pennsylvania and Texas have each constrained data center permitting since August, and builders describe the friction as entitlement risk rather than a thinning order book.
- Energy Transition
Amazon and Constellation sign 20-year nuclear power purchase agreement for 690 MW at Calvert Cliffs
The agreement covers 690 MW from the 1,790-MW Maryland plant, including 190 MW from an uprate the contract is backing, plus a separate retail supply deal for Amazon's PJM operations.
- Data centers & fiber
Applied Digital completes second Ellendale building, adding 75MW for CoreWeave
Polaris Forge 1 now operates 250MW of a planned 400MW at Ellendale, all leased to CoreWeave.
- Fundraising
Ares secondaries funds lift Sabey data center commitment past $500 million
Sabey and National Real Estate Advisors disclosed the follow-on three months after Ares's July 2026 minority stake; no size or terms were given.
- Transport & public-private
Richmond mayor weighs a social infrastructure P3 with no asset, cost or stage attached
A P3 roundup that includes the Richmond item also lists a $50m World Bank sanitation P3.
- Data centers & fiber
Blackstart Digital to buy IBM's Almaden campus for data center conversion
Blackstart plans to expand the 25MW substation and leave more than 500 acres undeveloped; terms were not disclosed and the deal has not closed.
- Data centers & fiber
Verda raises $189m Series B toward 250MW, with no customer named
Supermicro, MUFG Innovation Partners and Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company joined Emergence Capital's round, which takes total funding past $450m but does not disclose a counterparty for the new capacity.
- The Wrap
P3 Bulletin digest: consultant searches, executive hires, and one $50 million World Bank loan
Consultant and adviser searches dominate the latest file, which also lists three executive moves and a $50 million sanitation P3 in Paraíba.
- Energy Transition
Jera, Dell and Rhaelm sign MoU for 400MW AI campus at Chiba gas plant
Apollo Global Management backs the first project, with operations targeted in or around 2028 and an estimated $15 billion across all phases.
- Data centers & fiber
BT announces plan to acquire TalkTalk and PlatformX in £400m rescue
The deal would cover 2.5 million customers and secure 900 jobs, with BT expecting a regulatory review over the coming weeks.
- Data centers & fiber
Rightfiber completes purchase of Fastwyre's Nebraska broadband operations
The fiber platform Grain Management formed weeks earlier says integration has begun; the purchase price was not disclosed.
- The Wrap
Three advisor teams land at Cetera, LPL and Wells Fargo FiNet
The October 5 moves pulled a $185 million team from Commonwealth, a three-advisor team from Cambridge and a seven-advisor team from UBS.
- Data centers & fiber
Anthropic hires Google's data center design chief to lead EMEA capacity
John M. Wilson spent six years at Google and previously ran European design and construction at Amazon.
- The Wrap
Lambda and Sharon AI price GPU-backed debt 317 basis points apart
Lambda's $1bn facility is rated investment grade and priced at 6.78%; Sharon AI's $365m of SPV debt came at 9.95%.
- Data centers & fiber
atNorth plans €2 billion Salo data center with 75MW first phase
Power for the opening phase is secured and the grid connection could reach 230MW, with the campus due online in the third quarter of 2028.
- Data centers & fiber
AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon sign satellite spectrum joint venture and name interim CEO
The new entity pools spectrum and writes common device and interface specifications, with Paul Roth running it while the carriers search for a permanent CEO.
- Data centers & fiber
Continent 8 opens first Africa data center in Johannesburg, adds New York site
The iGaming hosting provider has not disclosed the Johannesburg location or a colocation partner; its Tioga Downs facility reportedly offers 24 racks.
- Energy Transition
Utility Dive publishes sponsored report on hidden grid capacity and $100 billion savings claim
The piece, labeled a sponsorship, cites NERC's consumption projection and an estimate of more than $100 billion in decade-long savings that the passage attributes only to recent analysis.
- Energy Transition
Origin Energy plans to scale Eraring battery storage to 8.6 GWh
Renewables Now reports the capacity target; no cost, schedule, or counterparty is disclosed in the available text.
- Energy Transition
GenusPlus wins a USD 94m construction contract on an Australian wind farm
A Renewables Now report gives the price but no project name, capacity, developer or grid arrangements.
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- Data centers & fiber
New York's hyperscale data center moratorium pushes developers to on-site power
Data Center Dynamics reports the statewide order and points to behind-the-meter generation, fuel cells and storage as the industry's answer.
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- Energy Transition
Ares lifts Plenitude stake to 26.24% in a €1.56bn capital increase
The deal values Plenitude's equity at €10.75bn and gives Ares three of nine board seats, though the report does not say who funded the balance of the raise.
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- Fundraising
Granite and Super Excavators win $324.8 million Cleveland sewer tunnel contract
The Big Creek Tunnel is the seventh and final large-diameter storage tunnel in the sewer district's $3 billion Project Clean Lake.
- Transport & public-private
Paslay Group plans infrastructure expansion with an InfraStrategies co-founder
The same P3 Bulletin roundup lists a former Metrolinx chief bound for Alto, an Equitix appointment, and project entries that remain studies and tenders.
- Data centers & fiber
Intro Group plans $270m for first phase of Egypt's Kemet Data Center
The Suez Canal Economic Zone facility is planned at 80MW across two phases and partly on solar; the report names no tenant or interconnection terms.
- Data centers & fiber
Karlsruhe Institute plans a €24 million AI data center for 2030 with a 10MW power option
The university has not fixed the compute capacity, but the power envelope runs to 2MW and the heat loop stays on campus.
- Data centers & fiber
Dline.ua's Kyiv data center goes offline after a Russian strike
Dream Line says customer data moved to backup sites, but the report does not say where those sites sit.
- Data centers & fiber
Poland's three-site national data center wins PLN 1.56bn EU grant
The Ministry of Digital Affairs and NASK-PIB project is now slated for 2029 completion, after a cancelled procurement round and a first-phase cost ceiling of PLN 1.6bn.
- Data centers & fiber
Kasey Fowler-Finn's data center noise guidance recommends 1,500-foot setbacks over 4.5-foot walls
The Saint Louis University biologist says the 63-hertz hum of cooling systems passes through ordinary walls, leaving distance as the practical mitigation.
- Data centers & fiber
Nvidia taps Jacobs for a three-year data center digital twin at an R&D facility
The three-year software-as-a-service contract covers dynamic power load balancing, energy forecasting, liquid coolant leak detection, predictive maintenance and operator training, and the release puts no price on it.