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- Data centers & fiber
Data center construction outruns the nonresidential field again as material and labor costs reemerge
Nonresidential construction spending rose for a fifth consecutive month in August, while ABC's chief economist expects momentum to stay confined to data centers and power.
- Data centers & fiber
Medusa subsea cable will connect to Jordan's Coral Bridge in NaiTel agreement
AFR-IX's Mediterranean system will take colocation capacity at the 12MW Aqaba Digital Hub and connect to a 15km cable into Egypt, though no landing date or capacity was disclosed.
- Data centers & fiber
Xeal launches Laitent to run AI inference on idle EV charging capacity
The company says Laitent can reach more than 200MW of permitted electrical infrastructure across 1,600 US sites and plans 100,000 Nvidia GPUs.
- Data centers & fiber
Amazon signs Uzbekistan's Uztelecom to distribute Amazon Leo satellite service
UZ-SAT, a Uztelecom affiliate, will resell the service in areas where extending the state carrier's fiber is hardest.
- Data centers & fiber
Nation Data Center breaks ground on 7MW AI facility in Vélizy-Villacoublay
The Altarea-owned developer says the hall will run at a power usage effectiveness of 1.2 with direct liquid cooling and send its recovered heat to the town's district heating network.
- Energy Transition
NYPA will own 51% of 240-MW Rich Road Solar with EDF as minority partner
The St. Lawrence County project pairs a 20-year REC contract with a public majority owner and leaves the certificate price unstated.
- Data centers & fiber
Lambda and Sharon AI raise $1.356bn in GPU-backed debt priced 3.17 points apart
Lambda's $1bn facility carries a 6.78% coupon and an investment-grade rating; Sharon AI's $365m SPV debt priced at 9.95%.
- Data centers & fiber
Enetron Park announces 250MW Pyhäjoki zoning approval despite municipal board rejection
The developer says construction begins in early 2028 while board minutes record a 5-2 vote rejecting planning for the project.
- Data centers & fiber
Skybox and Prologis file for fourth and largest Hutto data center
The 846,300 sq ft single-story building would be the biggest at the PowerCampus site, with construction set for January 2027 and $550 million from Skybox.
- Transport & public-private
Knoxville explores P3s with no scope, sector or value disclosed
The Tennessee city is named without a sector, stage or price, while nearby P3 headlines run on consultations, consultant searches and one $50 million World Bank financing.
- Data centers & fiber
Innova opens consultation on 148-acre Cheshire data center as residents object
The Spodegreen proposal on Tatton Estate farmland would draw grid power and include a solar farm, with a planning application expected late this year or early 2027.
- Data centers & fiber
Crusoe files for a $4.8bn data center campus in Jayton, Texas
The two buildings are slated to go live in 2029, and the filings name no tenant, landowner or power source.
- Energy Transition
Ocean Breeze to take over Germany's first offshore wind farm with no price named
Renewables Now's item names a buyer and an asset, and the text that surfaced with it carries no capacity, price or structure.
- Data centers & fiber
CX Tech files plans for 1GW data center campus at Scotland's Chapelcross nuclear site
The Planning Permission in Principle application covers eight buildings, a substation and 55 hectares on land controlled by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority's property arm.
- Energy Transition
EDP begins repowering work on an 18-MW wind farm in Portugal
The Renewables Now item gives only the capacity and start of work; no site, cost, offtake or completion date.
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- Energy Transition
USDA rule change effectively ends REAP solar grants for farmers
The withdrawn federal share pushes on-farm solar toward sponsors that can carry the full construction cost.
- Energy Transition
Newsom signs California energy-affordability bills to expand virtual power plants
The signed package includes two virtual-power-plant bills framed around containing utility spending, but Canary Media's reporting does not name the bills or attach a capacity figure.
- Data centers & fiber
GMI Cloud raises $668m for AI capacity, two-thirds of it as debt
The Taiwanese AI cloud provider's $223m Series B was led by ARCHIV, with a $445m credit facility led by CTBC; Nvidia and several Asian corporates are named among participants.
- Data centers & fiber
ESA selects OVHcloud and CGI for sovereign Earth observation cloud
OVHcloud will supply the platform layer for a federated system ESA expects to hold more than 500 petabytes of Earth observation data by 2035.
- Data centers & fiber
Nebius signs 50MW, 12-year capacity deal with AIB Data Centers
Tenant prepayments, along with project debt and equity, will fund two data halls at a site already carrying a 65MW electric service agreement.
- Data centers & fiber
Traysar and Armada plan to explore putting sovereign AI compute underground
Traysar's truck-mounted Terminus boring rig would place Armada's modular data centers below ground; the announcement names no site or power figure.
- Energy Transition
Levi's, Marks & Spencer launch Fashion Renewable Collective with Schneider Electric
The Fashion Renewable Collective offers suppliers access to PPAs, certificates and storage, but the launch announcement omits dollar commitments or contracted volume.
- Data centers & fiber
Police say drone struck Moldova communications tower; services uninterrupted
President Maia Sandu said four Russian drones violated Moldovan airspace and at least one exploded in the north.
- The Wrap
Virginia governor bans data-center NDAs as the Senate blocks a power-cost bill
The order also expedites noise rules and orders a review of diesel generator impacts; Dominion Energy and Appalachian Power must file utilization metrics by Oct. 15.
- Data centers & fiber
Tencent signs $7bn five-year lease for 100,000 Oracle GPUs in Southeast Asia, FT reports
The Financial Times says 30 percent of the value would be paid upfront, citing two people familiar with the matter.
- Energy Transition
German renewables hit a record 60.7% share of power use in first nine months
Renewables Now reports the consumption-share figure; the headline carries no breakdown by technology, owner or price.
- Energy Transition
Apex secures financing for 150-MW Illinois solar project, with no terms disclosed
Renewables Now reports the 150-MW Illinois project without naming lenders, financing amount, or offtake counterparty.
- Transport & public-private
P3 Bulletin reports a termination notice on a Miami courthouse P3
The same roundup lists a Florida city weighing P3s for a $2.2bn mobility program and ties the courthouse project's position to politics and community concerns.
- Transport & public-private
Unnamed Florida city eyes P3s for a $2.2bn mobility program
The largest transport figure in P3 Bulletin's latest listing arrives with no named sponsor, no stage, and no timeline.
- Data centers & fiber
Senate blocks Ratepayer Protection Act in 57-43 vote
The House passed it 417-3, but the Senate fell three votes short of the 60 needed; a new bill would make large data centers pay their own incremental power costs.
- Data centers & fiber
Xantaro names Christian Werner CEO as Czermin moves to executive chairman
The German network integrator's disclosed UK footprint is more than 40 altnets, the sole pipeline figure in an announcement that carries no revenue or headcount.
- Energy Transition
Utilize Coalition proposes two grid-utilization metrics before Dominion and Appalachian Power's Oct. 15 filings
Dominion Energy and Appalachian Power must submit proposed utilization metrics to the Virginia State Corporation Commission by Oct. 15 under Virginia's April legislation.
- Energy Transition
Amazon signs 20-year PPA with Constellation for Calvert Cliffs expansion
The agreement covers 690MW and supports more than $3 billion of investment, including about 190MW of new nuclear capacity due online by 2032.
- Fundraising
Plenitude completes €1.56bn capital increase with Eni and Ares
A Renewables Now report confirms the completion but omits the instrument, the split and the use of proceeds.
- The Wrap
Fluor and JGC split $15bn LNG Canada phase-two EPC work
The same week's renewables deals with Meta, Amazon, NZ Clean and Ørsted disclosed no price, offtake, or both.
- Energy Transition
Valar Atomics proposes 456-reactor SMR data center campus in Utah
The Project Beehive filing covers more than 9,000 acres near Price and targets a first reactor in 2028, with no offtake customer named in the coverage.
- Data centers & fiber
SoftBank closes $3.1bn DigitalBridge take-private, de-listing the $108bn manager
Under CEO Marc Ganzi, DigitalBridge remains a separately managed SoftBank subsidiary; its portfolio companies stay outside the transaction.
- Data centers & fiber
Spanberger order bans data center NDAs
The order also expedites noise rules, orders a review of diesel backup generator impacts and creates a state AI task force.
- Energy Transition
Apex Clean Energy and Meta enter a Texas solar PPA; terms are not stated
Canary Media's account frames the contract against Meta's continuing gas use, and gives no capacity, term or price.
- Energy Transition
Globeleq reaches financial close on 40-MW Zambian solar, price undisclosed
The report names capacity and country but no construction cost, lender, tariff or offtaker.