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Horizontal pressure vessels move through fabrication stages in an industrial hall, with an unfinished factory bay and data-centre cooling plant beyond.

North America Datacenter Trends

Argan's 2,000 data-centre vessels have no disclosed contract value

Argan has put a physical count on one of the less visible components of data-centre construction: roughly 2,000 pressure vessels for thermal-energy storage and chilled-water buffer cooling. It has not put a price on that order. The difference matters because unit count, segment…

Sep 7, 2026
A detached high-voltage substation package sits beyond a bright transfer line, while three translucent gates separate the unfinished land and data-centre site.

North America Datacenter Trends

Plug got $40 million from Texas. The other $50.5 million is still conditional

Plug Power’s sale of its Graham, Texas project was announced as a source of up to $90.5 million of liquidity. The August closing delivered $40 million for a defined package of high-voltage equipment. Land, grid rights, an earnout and the expected release of collateral remain on…

Sep 7, 2026
Editorial illustration of solar panels, battery storage and utility infrastructure serving The Red Sea development in Saudi Arabia

Europe and Middle East Institutional

ACWA-led Red Sea utilities reach commercial operation

ACWA-led Red Sea utility system begins 25-year operations with 340MW of solar, 1,227MWh of battery storage, and integrated water, cooling, and waste services.

Sep 7, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of solar panels and battery storage in West Virginia representing the MN8, Google and Eos energy portfolio.

North America Datacenter Trends

MN8 pairs solar and storage for Google in West Virginia

MN8 is developing 86MW of solar and two battery systems for Google's West Virginia energy needs, with the three projects due between 2028 and 2030.

Sep 7, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of FuelCell Energy fuel-cell power systems beside a Texas data centre, representing the planned 75MW project.

North America Datacenter Trends

FuelCell Energy signs 75MW Texas data-centre reservation

An unnamed data-centre operator has paid to reserve manufacturing capacity for a planned 75MW FuelCell Energy project in Texas.

Sep 7, 2026
An unbranded electrical-equipment warehouse separates prepared cable crates and a closed folder from empty staging bays behind frosted glass.

North America Datacenter Trends

Shoals’ US$801m Order Pool Has a Signed Ledger and a Documentation Ledger

The useful question in Shoals’ record order figure is not how impressive US$801.4 million sounds. It is which part has been contracted, which part is still being turned into a contract, and what must happen before either becomes a profitable delivery.

Sep 7, 2026
An unbranded data-centre wall with a completed warm cable connection faces empty prepared plinths and a separated generic power island behind frosted glass.

North America Datacenter Trends

Fermi’s 222MW TensorWave Lease Has Three Clocks Before It Becomes an Operating Receipt

Fermi’s first disclosed customer lease is more concrete than a memorandum of understanding: a named tenant, a 15-year initial term, a stated 222MW Phase 1 and an estimated US$6.5bn initial-term revenue figure. Yet the same filing places closing conditions, project-level…

Sep 7, 2026
A small active row of generic data-centre racks stands beside empty prepared bays behind a transparent barrier and a locked dark hall.

North America Datacenter Trends

Corvex Has 1.5MW Today, Expects 8MW and Holds a 12.5MW Right—not 20MW of Operating Capacity

Corvex’s expansion announcement contains a real closing, executed site agreements and a useful capacity plan. It does not place all of those facts in the same state. The company reported approximately 1.5MW of current critical IT capacity, expects about 8MW by year-end, and holds…

Sep 6, 2026
A generic industrial energy module ready for dispatch stands before larger sealed modules held behind a transparent safety partition in a manufacturing hall.

North America Datacenter Trends

FuelCell’s US$2.6bn Headline Has a 30MW Order, a 350MW Option and a 75MW Reservation

FuelCell Energy’s data-centre-power announcement is not one 380MW sale in one economic state. Its public documents describe a 30MW initial phase with an effective payment obligation, 350MW that Fit Energy may elect later, and a separate 75MW manufacturing-capacity reservation.…

Sep 6, 2026
RCNTEC-branded equipment room with a conceptual ten-outlet smart PDU, two power inputs and a separate management cable

Europe and Middle East Regional ISP Trends

RCNTEC’s smart PDU moves outage recovery into the rack—but not beyond its control boundary

When a remote rack loses its preferred power input, the decisive question is not whether a device carries a “resilient” label. It is which recovery actions remain executable, observable and safe without an engineer on site. RCNTEC’s RPCM places several of those actions at the…

Sep 6, 2026
Conceptual editorial illustration of the Z Squared conditional Paradox Data capacity ledger: a small powered AI data-centre module, staged consideration tokens and unconnected future expansion frames.

North America Datacenter Trends

Z Squared’s US$25m Paradox Ledger Is Not a 150 MW Delivery

Z Squared’s agreement to acquire Paradox Data is easy to describe too quickly: a US$25m deal for a 150 MW AI campus. The filed agreement says something more conditional. At closing, which has its own unsatisfied conditions, Z Squared is to issue US$5m of Series A preferred stock.…

Sep 6, 2026
A completed gas metering skid faces unfinished generation pads, a separate substation and distant data-centre halls at dusk.

North America Datacenter Trends

Cipher has started the gas link; its 2.5GW power terms remain undisclosed

A buried pipe can become a committed asset before the generator, grid connection or tenant it is meant to serve has public terms. Cipher Digital’s latest expansion plan makes that middle stage—not the headline capacity—the part investors need to price.

Sep 5, 2026
Editorial illustration of a substation and 150kV transmission infrastructure representing PLN's planned Gorontalo grid links

Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends

PLN prepares 150kV Gorontalo transmission links

PLN is preparing new 150kV lines and a Marisa–Moutong interconnection, while the 30MVA Marisa substation extension is reported complete.

Sep 4, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of rental generators and electricity infrastructure in Selayar, Indonesia, representing PLN’s 5MW generation addition.

Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends

PLN adds 5MW to Selayar power system

Six rental generators are now operating in Selayar, lifting the island system's total generation capacity to 16MW.

Sep 4, 2026
Editorial illustration of a US data centre, electricity substation, transformer, generator and control equipment under a security review

North America Datacenter Trends

US order tightens scrutiny of foreign grid equipment

New federal powers could affect how US data-centre projects procure covered transformers, batteries, generators and control equipment before installation.

Sep 4, 2026
Editorial illustration of Texas data centres being screened before proposed loads enter ERCOT grid and transmission planning

North America Datacenter Trends

Texas Batch Zero load is twice ERCOT peak

ERCOT is auditing about 200GW of large-load projects after Texas data-centre demand overwhelmed a grid whose July peak reached 91.3GW.

Sep 4, 2026
AI-generated illustration of fibre construction in rural Maine, with workers, an excavator and underground conduit representing Fidium’s BEAD-funded broadband project.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

LS Electric, KT Cloud partner on AI data-centre power

LS Electric will work with KT Cloud from the design stage on power systems for modular AI data centres, with equipment supply planned for future projects.

Sep 4, 2026
AI-generated illustration of modular biomass generation equipment supplying electricity and chilled water to a data centre alongside a grid connection.

Europe and Middle East Institutional

Haffner launches biomass power-and-cooling offer for data centres

Haffner Energy has launched a modular biomass system that combines onsite power generation with cooling for data centres operating alongside the grid.

Sep 4, 2026
A conceptual data-centre planning model with separate battery modules and a raised tracing-paper overlay for an undecided power area.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

DayOne’s 1.5-GW power study is not a supply commitment

The developer and TNB GenCo are examining on-site generation for Selangor. That option sits alongside a separate renewable-energy procurement programme, with different units, obligations and unanswered questions.

Sep 3, 2026
Water-treatment vessels and pipes stand beside an unfinished data-centre building in an arid landscape, in an architectural watercolor illustration.

North America Datacenter Trends

Gradiant’s Texas water deal puts the treatment plant on the critical path

A new data-centre contract combines drinking-water supply and wastewater treatment. Its zero-surface-discharge design leaves a separate question: how much water the campus will need.

Sep 3, 2026