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11/11/2025•The Information•high impact

OpenAI’s Stargate Project Gets $3 Billion Blue Owl Investment

The Information reports that Blue Owl Capital’s technology lending arm is committing $3 billion to finance OpenAI’s Stargate supercomputer campus, providing structured capital for land, power, and GPU buildout so the startup can accelerate dedicated infrastructure outside of Microsoft’s shared Azure estate.

OpenAIBlue Owl CapitalAI data centersStargate projectInfrastructure financing
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11/10/2025•Financial Times•high impact

The State of AI: here comes the energy crunch

Financial Times warns that accelerating AI workloads are colliding with a shortage of utility-scale power, as U.S. hyperscalers face multi-year grid upgrade queues and scramble for cleaner generation deals while regions investing in new transmission and renewables pull ahead.

AI energy demandData center powerGrid infrastructureUnited StatesRenewable energy
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11/10/2025•Bloomberg•high impact

AI's $5 Trillion Data Center Boom Will Dip Into Every Debt Market, JPMorgan Says

JPMorgan credit strategists estimate the generative AI data center build-out could require roughly $5 trillion of capital this decade, pushing hyperscalers, utilities, and developers to raise funds across investment-grade bonds, high-yield loans, securitizations, and municipal debt to cover land, power, and equipment expansion.

JPMorgan ChaseAI data centersDebt marketsInfrastructure financingPower grid
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11/5/2025•Financial Times•medium impact

Deutsche Bank explores hedges for data centre exposure as AI lending booms

Deutsche Bank executives are evaluating hedging strategies to manage the bank's growing exposure to AI data centre financing, discussing options such as shorting baskets of AI equities or using derivatives to transfer risk as deal volume accelerates.

Deutsche BankAI data centersRisk managementDerivativesBank lending
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11/4/2025•Bloomberg•high impact

Amazon Says Berkshire Utility Failing to Power Data Centers

Bloomberg reports that Amazon Web Services asked federal regulators to intervene after Berkshire Hathaway Energy's PacifiCorp repeatedly missed deadlines to energize new AWS campuses in Oregon, forcing the cloud operator to buy replacement megawatts on the open market, delay planned AI capacity, and warn that wider grid constraints are undermining hyperscale expansion plans.

Amazon Web ServicesPacifiCorpGrid constraintsData center power
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10/27/2025•The New York Times•high impact

Saudi Arabia, Rich With Oil, Wants to Be Known as the A.I. Exporter

The New York Times reports that Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund is accelerating a multi-billion-dollar compute buildout across NEOM, Riyadh, and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology to position the kingdom as a supplier of advanced A.I. services. Officials are pairing long-term GPU procurement deals with U.S. chipmakers and venture stakes in Western start-ups while launching the Alat industrial platform to assemble servers and cooling gear locally. The push is intended to export Saudi-trained models and cloud capacity to partners in the Gulf, Africa, and South Asia as part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's strategy to diversify beyond oil.

Saudi ArabiaAI export strategyPublic Investment FundCompute infrastructureNEOM
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10/25/2025•CNBC•medium impact

AI spending is boosting the economy, but many businesses are in survival mode

CNBC highlights JPMorgan data showing AI-related capital expenditures added 1.1 percentage points to U.S. GDP growth in the first half of 2025 and propelled trillion-dollar tech valuations, even as small firms like Norton's Florist grapple with tariffs, weak consumer demand, and cost cutting. Surveys from KeyBank and Deloitte plus layoffs at Target, Starbucks, and Wyndham underscore that much of Main Street remains in survival mode despite $100 billion-plus AI infrastructure commitments from Nvidia, OpenAI and their partners.

AI spendingUS economySmall businessTariffsConsumer demand
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10/24/2025•Bloomberg•high impact

Trump Administration Moves to Accelerate AI Power Hookups

Bloomberg reports that Energy Secretary Chris Wright has asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to fast-track data center grid interconnection reviews, proposing a new 60-day deadline to connect AI-led projects that now wait years for approval. The push signals the administration's bid to relieve a mounting power bottleneck for hyperscale and AI developers by cutting federal permitting delays and coordinating utilities on expedited hookups.

AI data centerGrid interconnectionFederal policyFERCUnited States
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10/23/2025•Yahoo Finance•medium impact

AI boom is making utility bills climb, BofA warns

Yahoo Finance reports that Bank of America Institute economist David Tinsley links a 3.6% year-on-year rise in average U.S. utility payments in Q3 2025 to surging electricity demand from AI data centers, noting that massive buildouts like the $500 billion Stargate program and hyperscaler expansions are straining grids and pushing pass-through costs onto households.

AI data centerElectricity demandUtility ratesUnited States
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10/22/2025•Financial Times•high impact

The fallout from the AI-fuelled dash for gas

The Financial Times details how AI cloud and chip companies are buying up heavy-duty gas turbines so quickly that GE Vernova, Siemens Energy and Mitsubishi Heavy now face multi-year backlogs, pushing developers in the US and Europe to lock in equipment years ahead to power new dedicated natural-gas plants for data centers. The scramble is straining LNG supply chains, raising emissions concerns for regions from Texas to Germany, and intensifying permitting and geopolitical risks as governments weigh grid reliability against climate goals.

AI data centerGas turbinesNatural gasGrid reliabilityClimate risk
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10/20/2025•The New York Times•medium impact

AI data center backlash builds in Mexico and Ireland

The New York Times reports that rapid AI data center expansion in Querétaro, Mexico and across Ireland is triggering community and political pushback over water consumption, grid stress, and land use, forcing operators to offer new infrastructure investments and conservation commitments.

AI data centerCommunity backlashWater usageGrid constraintsMexicoIreland
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10/16/2025•The Wall Street Journal•high impact

AI data centers build on-site power plants to beat grid bottlenecks

The Wall Street Journal details how hyperscale and AI developers including OpenAI-Oracle's $500 billion Stargate campus in West Texas, xAI's Memphis buildout, Equinix sites, and Meta's Ohio expansion are installing their own natural-gas turbines and fuel cells to secure multi-gigawatt capacity amid transformer shortages, permitting delays, and U.S. grid congestion.

AI data centerOn-site generationNatural gasFuel cellsGrid constraints
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10/16/2025•Bloomberg•high impact

Nvidia backs Firmus' $2.9B renewable AI data center push in Australia

Bloomberg reports that Nvidia is partnering with Firmus Technologies on the A$4.5 billion Project Southgate, building 150MW of renewable-powered AI data centers in Melbourne and Tasmania that will run on GB300 chips and start coming online by April.

NvidiaFirmus TechnologiesAustraliaAI data centerRenewable energy
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10/15/2025•Financial Times•high impact

BlackRock, GIP and MGX in $40bn data centre takeover to power AI growth

Financial Times says BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Partners and Abu Dhabi-backed AI platform MGX will acquire Aligned Data Centers in a $40bn deal, injecting capital to accelerate hyperscale campuses and AI-ready capacity across North and Latin America while relieving prior owners such as Macquarie Asset Management.

BlackRockMGXAligned Data CentersAI infrastructureM&A
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10/15/2025•The Wall Street Journal•high impact

A Giant New AI Data Center Is Coming to the Epicenter of America’s Fracking Boom

The Wall Street Journal reports that Poolside and CoreWeave will build the Horizon campus on more than 500 acres of the Mitchell family’s Longfellow Ranch in West Texas, pairing on-site natural gas generation with modular construction to bring 2GW of AI compute online in phases starting with 250MW by late 2026. Poolside, backed by Nvidia, is lining up a $2 billion raise at a $14 billion valuation and will tap CoreWeave GPUs by December to accelerate delivery while reserving another 500MW for future expansion through 2027.

PoolsideCoreWeaveWest TexasAI data centerNatural gas power
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10/14/2025•TechCrunch•high impact

Google to invest $15B in Indian AI infrastructure hub

Google will invest $15 billion over five years to build a 1GW AI data center hub in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, partnering with Bharti Airtel and AdaniConneX for subsea cable connectivity. The campus will host Google's TPUs, Gemini models, and regional consumer services while scaling to multiple gigawatts for Asia-wide workloads.

GoogleIndiaAI infrastructureData center investmentSubsea connectivity
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10/10/2025•Financial Times•medium impact

Are data centres a setback for the green energy transition?

Financial Times reports that hyperscale and AI operators such as Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Google are demanding so much round-the-clock power for new campuses that US and European utilities are extending fossil generation plans even as they sign multi-gigawatt renewable contracts, underscoring how grid bottlenecks, permitting delays and long build timelines are slowing efforts to run data centres purely on clean energy.

data centersrenewable energygrid capacityAI infrastructure
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10/6/2025•The Wall Street Journal•high impact

Elon Musk Gambles Billions in Memphis to Catch Up on AI

WSJ reports that Elon Musk’s xAI is pouring billions into its Colossus supercomputer campus in Memphis, locking in long-term TVA power delivery measured in hundreds of megawatts, fast-tracking new substations and water upgrades with Memphis Light, Gas and Water, and promising thousands of high-paying technical jobs so the project can start training Grok models at scale by mid-2026.

xAIMemphisAI infrastructurePower supply
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10/6/2025•Financial Times•high impact

European private capital firms target €17bn in data centre deals

Financial Times reports that European private capital groups including Oaktree Capital, Partners Group, and EQT have lined up roughly €17 billion of data centre acquisitions and developments to capitalise on surging AI infrastructure demand, signaling more competition for power-secure sites across the region.

data center investmentprivate equityAI infrastructureEurope
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10/5/2025•Tom's Hardware•high impact

AI data centers squeeze global memory and storage supply

Tom's Hardware reports AI hyperscale buyers are locking up most NAND, DRAM and HDD production, with OpenAI's Stargate deal securing up to 900,000 DRAM wafers a month, Samsung's next-gen V9 NAND nearly sold out, and TrendForce warning nearline HDD shortages that already forced Western Digital's 5-10% price hikes and Raspberry Pi memory surcharges.

AI data centersstorageDRAMNANDHDD
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10/3/2025•The Wall Street Journal•high impact

AI Unicorn Groq Charts Data-Center Expansion Plan

The Wall Street Journal reports that Groq will deploy a dozen new GroqCloud data centers in 2026, including its first Asia-Pacific site, after raising $750 million at a $6.9 billion valuation to meet runaway demand for its AI inference stack while continuing builds in Helsinki and a $1.5 billion Aramco Digital campus in Dammam.

GroqAI inferencedata center expansionAramco DigitalAsia Pacific
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10/1/2025•Axios Pro•medium impact

Phaidra raises $50M+ from Nvidia and Collaborative Fund to scale AI data center agents

Axios Pro reports that Phaidra secured more than $50 million in Series B funding led by Collaborative Fund with Nvidia, Helena, Index Ventures and Sony Innovation Fund to accelerate its autonomous control agents that cut energy and cooling loads across hyperscale data centers while expanding global operator partnerships.

PhaidraNvidiaAI data centersenergy efficiencySeries B funding
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9/29/2025•Bloomberg•high impact

Bloomberg maps how AI data centers send US power bills soaring

Bloomberg's nationwide LMP analysis finds wholesale electricity prices have spiked as much as 267% near dense AI data center clusters, forcing utilities in PJM, Oregon and Wisconsin to seek billions in new transmission and generation investments and shift more of those costs onto hyperscale customers to shield households from rate shock.

AI data centerselectricity pricesPJMgrid infrastructureutilities
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9/29/2025•Reuters•high impact

CenterPoint unveils $65 billion capital spending plan over next 10 years

CenterPoint Energy outlined a $65 billion capital plan for 2026-2035 to harden its Houston-area grid, add high-voltage lines and substations for surging AI data center load, and expand electrification programs for fleets and industry, positioning the utility for faster rate base growth while improving resilience to Gulf Coast storms.

CenterPoint Energygrid modernizationcapital spendingAI data centersTexas
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9/26/2025•Bloomberg•high impact

Bloomberg calls for tradable AI compute market to unlock infrastructure buildout

Bloomberg argues the AI compute crunch needs commodity-style markets, noting CoreWeave’s $50 billion valuation despite projected $650 million losses and Oracle’s $250 billion market-cap jump after disclosing its AI order book; standardized contracts and futures would give investors and customers price signals to finance new GPU campuses.

compute marketAI infrastructureCoreWeaveOracle
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9/25/2025•Bloomberg•high impact

Ares aims to raise $8 billion to back AI-fueled data center boom

Ares Management is targeting more than $8 billion of near-term equity commitments to finance data center developments across London, Japan and Brazil, positioning the Los Angeles-based investor to capture fee growth from the accelerating AI infrastructure build-out.

Ares ManagementAI data centersinfrastructurefundraising
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9/22/2025•Semafor•medium impact

Kenya's $1B Olkaria AI data center stalls amid US-China tech rivalry

Semafor reports that Microsoft and UAE-based G42 have yet to break ground on their $1 billion geothermal-powered data center in Kenya's Olkaria region, leaving the US-backed project languishing months before its 2026 launch target as partners struggle to justify demand for Azure services beyond government workloads and geopolitical momentum shifts away from Africa.

KenyaMicrosoftG42AI data centergeothermal power
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9/23/2025•Financial Times•high impact

OpenAI expands Stargate AI project with five US sites

OpenAI has lined up agreements for five U.S. locations to host its Stargate AI supercomputing campus, lifting the project's expected outlay to about $400bn and signaling a massive infrastructure build to support future model training.

OpenAIStargateAI infrastructureUnited States
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9/23/2025•Bloomberg•medium impact

Microsoft taps microfluidic cooling prototypes for AI chips

Microsoft is testing microfluidic prototypes that pump small amounts of dielectric fluid through channels etched directly into server processors and AI GPUs, a systems technology effort overseen by Husam Alissa to cut cooling power needs and boost rack density for Office cloud and AI workloads.

Microsoftmicrofluidic coolingAI data centerliquid cooling
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9/22/2025•CNBC•high impact

Nvidia to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI data center buildout

Nvidia will invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI to finance a 10-gigawatt rollout of GPU data centers, equivalent to between 4 million and 5 million of its accelerators, making the chipmaker the preferred supplier for the lab's infrastructure build. The phased program begins bringing Vera Rubin systems online in the second half of 2026 and complements OpenAI's collaborations with Microsoft, Oracle, SoftBank and the Stargate project as Nvidia deepens its broader AI investments.

NvidiaOpenAIAI data centerGPU supplyInfrastructure investment
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9/22/2025•Rest of World•high impact

Khazna data centers drive UAE AI and cloud expansion

Khazna, which now controls more than 70% of the UAE's data center capacity, is rolling out AI-optimized campuses including a 100 MW GPU-focused Ajman site and a 32 MW facility in Masdar City while deploying liquid cooling to manage heat loads. Backed by G42 partnerships with Nvidia, the operator is pushing into Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Europe to make the UAE a regional hub for AI and cloud services.

UAEKhaznaG42AI data centerliquid cooling
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9/15/2025•Rest of World•high impact

Rising AI demand is outpacing energy supply worldwide

Rest of World reports Microsoft is running its new Colón, Querétaro data center on seven gas generators for 70% of its energy for 12 hours daily through mid-2025 because Mexico's grid won't connect the site until 2027, driving emissions equal to 54,000 households. Mexico already hosts 150 sites after $7B of investment since 2020, yet faces a 48,000 MWh power deficit and 1.5GW demand by 2030 as more than $18B in planned hyperscale projects outpace transmission upgrades.

EnergyMexicoMicrosoftAI datacenter
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9/18/2025•Microsoft Official Blog•high impact

Inside the world’s most powerful AI datacenter

Microsoft unveiled its Fairwater AI datacenter in Wisconsin, a 315-acre, 1.2 million sq ft campus engineered as a single supercomputer with flat networking to run hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs—delivering 10x today’s fastest supercomputer while requiring 46.6 miles of deep foundations, 26.5 million pounds of steel, and 120 miles of medium-voltage cabling. The company said identical Fairwater facilities are under construction across the US and announced nScale partnerships in Narvik, Norway, and Loughton, UK to extend tens of billions of dollars in global AI infrastructure investments.

MicrosoftFairwaterAI datacenterNVIDIA GPUsGlobal expansion
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9/19/2025•Yahoo Finance (Bloomberg)•high impact

Meta pushes power trading as AI boom sends demand soaring

Meta's Atem Energy LLC applied to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for authority to sell energy, capacity, and ancillary services in U.S. wholesale markets, letting the company trade power directly as electricity needs for its AI-heavy data centers surge and industry demand is forecast to quadruple over the next decade.

MetaEnergyAI
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9/10/2025•OpenAI Blog•high impact

OpenAI Reveals Infrastructure Strategy

OpenAI announces plans to offer compute infrastructure services using spare capacity from their 150MW AI training clusters.

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8/27/2025•DataCenterKnowledge•high impact

Meta’s Louisiana Data Center to Cost $50B, Trump Says

Former President Trump said Meta’s Hyperion campus in Louisiana will require a $50 billion investment, highlighting the escalating capital needs for AI infrastructure.

Data CentersInvestmentMetaLouisiana
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1/10/2025•Reuters•high impact

Meta Files Permits for 500MW Louisiana Datacenter Expansion

Meta has filed construction permits for a 500MW expansion of its Louisiana datacenter campus, representing a $5B investment. The project will require new 230kV transmission lines and is expected to be operational by Q3 2026, positioning Meta ahead of competitors in the region.

LouisianaMetaPermitsConstructionInvestment
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1/10/2025•PUCO•high impact

Ohio Utility Commission Approves New Datacenter Tariff Structure

Ohio PUC approved a new tariff structure requiring datacenters over 50MW to maintain 85% minimum utilization or face penalty rates. This follows similar measures in Texas and Virginia, signaling a shift in how utilities manage explosive datacenter growth.

OhioRegulatoryTariffsGrid
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1/10/2025•Google Sustainability•medium impact

Google Announces Liquid Cooling Retrofit for Oregon Facilities

Google will retrofit its Oregon datacenters with advanced liquid cooling systems to support next-gen AI workloads, reducing PUE from 1.12 to 1.06. The $200M project demonstrates the growing importance of cooling efficiency as GPU densities increase beyond 100kW per rack.

OregonGoogleCoolingTechnology
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11/5/2024•The Wall Street Journal•high impact

What Happened When Small-Town America Became Data Center U.S.A.

The Wall Street Journal describes how Pryor Creek, Oklahoma rebranded its MidAmerica Industrial Park as "Data Center U.S.A." after Google, Microsoft, and other hyperscalers committed billions for new campuses, driving demand for high-voltage grid upgrades, workforce training, and housing even as residents weigh water use, land loss, and rising costs against the tax revenue and tech jobs flooding the town.

Pryor CreekOklahomaHyperscale data centersGrid infrastructureWater usage
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