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Data Centre Power and Permitting
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North America Institutional Trends
FERC Set One Clock, Not One Tariff, for Large Loads
FERC put six regional grid operators on a shared timetable to examine large-load interconnection. The June orders opened separate legal cases, left tariff design to each region’s record and preserved the division between federal transmission rules and state retail decisions.
North America Datacenter Trends
QuantumScape’s PowerBlock makes a data-centre pitch before it names a buyer
The 4× power-density and 5× runtime claims place QuantumScape beside the fast-growing AI-rack market. The October announcement describes controlled prototype and modelling work, however, not a customer deployment, order or disclosed revenue path.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
SoftBank, Grab and PETROS sign a framework, not a build commitment
The 8 October accord sets out a phased roadmap for an AI and digital-infrastructure platform in Sarawak. Its own release says the framework does not require the three parties to sign definitive agreements or implement the project, while land, reliable power, connectivity, finance…
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
Singapore’s Passed Infrastructure Bill Sets Three Different Licensing Tests
Parliament passed Singapore’s Digital Infrastructure Bill on 7 October. Its three numerical tests measure different things: data-centre capacity, the reach of a facility service, and cloud revenue tied to Singapore users.
North America Datacenter Trends
PowerCompute’s 11 MW contract firms only 300 kW at peak
PowerCompute’s Columbus contract names 11 MW of off-peak firm demand and 300 kW of on-peak firm demand. The distinction favours a load that can step down when the tariff says “peak”; it does not by itself establish an 11 MW, around-the-clock power product for high-performance…
North America Datacenter Trends
Duke's tariff prices data-centre connections, not every grid cost
North Carolina’s proposed large-load tariff would make a new data-centre customer fund dedicated facilities, secure network upgrades and accept a minimum demand bill. The harder question—who ultimately pays for shared grid expansion—remains for later regulatory work.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Japan’s virtual hyperscaler still has to become a service
A 12-organization Japanese trial is trying to place AI workloads against data-centre, network and power conditions. Its commercial test is whether those signals can become a customer promise, with measurable value and a clear party accountable when a job fails.
North America Datacenter Trends
A data-centre alliance cannot make its own guardrails binding
The American Infrastructure Alliance wants projects to pay their way and protect water, workers and host communities. Its September launch is a policy campaign—not yet a rulebook. The economics will turn on what gets measured, who verifies it and which public body can enforce it.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
CoreWeave’s 240 MW India plan is a delivery clock, not compute yet
CoreWeave’s planned Taloja campus is large enough to matter to India’s data-centre market. But 240 MW is a development target, not a measure of energized, cooled, accelerator-equipped or billable compute.
North America Datacenter Trends
Nevada’s proposed generation gross-up is not a data-centre power price
Microsoft’s entry into two Nevada utility cases puts a tax-accounting rule beside a large-load investment decision. The proposed 10.7% and 10.6% generation figures apply to a defined construction contribution, not to a campus budget or household electricity bill.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Applied Digital’s Finnish 1 GW headline is an option, not a campus
Applied Digital has secured a route into a large Finnish power opportunity, but the company’s own announcement describes a project still moving through site marketing, customer discussions and future development decisions. The investment question is not how large the campus might…
North America Datacenter Trends
The 2.1-gigawatt promise sits outside Black Hills’ wires
Black Hills’ new Google agreements divide Cheyenne’s planned data-centre supply between shared-grid service and a privately managed resource portfolio. The commercial test is whether that boundary survives a decade-long ramp, not whether a headline 2.7 GW can be announced.
North America Datacenter Trends
TeraWulf’s 1 GW Muskie deal is also a $100m ratepayer test
Kentucky Power says TeraWulf will fund a decade of winter bill credits and pay estimated financing costs for new generation as its Muskie campus doubles its contracted demand. Both promises still sit behind a regulatory filing and approval.
North America Datacenter Trends
Kodiak’s 76 MW deal names the load, not its credit
Kodiak Gas Services has disclosed a six-year, 76 MW gas-power contract for a West Texas data centre, with deployment due to start this quarter. The harder investment question is not whether the campus needs power, but which enforceable promise pays Kodiak: the release describes…
North America Institutional Trends
DOE’s 23 GW grid bet begins as a $5.25bn project pipeline
The Department of Energy’s SPARK selections put $1.9bn of proposed federal support beside $3.35bn in recipient match. The 23 GW headline is a forecast; the harder test is whether selected projects close, build and deliver capacity that changes congestion, reliability or customer…
North America Datacenter Trends
96 megawatts, two ledgers: what Georgia’s Google nuclear deal still has to prove
Georgia Power says Google’s subscription to a proposed nuclear-uprate tariff could produce about $900 million in customer benefits. The agreement separates an environmental claim from grid capacity—but the public record does not yet show the tariff’s price, risk allocation or…
North America Datacenter Trends
ProPetro’s 230 MW Targa deal is not a data-centre order
ProPetro says its PROPWR unit has signed for about 230 MW of behind-the-meter power at a Targa natural-gas processing operation in the Permian, taking disclosed contracted capacity to roughly 510 MW. The award is a substantial midstream win, but it is not a data-centre…
Asia-Pacific Datacenter
NTT Global Data Centers (Thailand) Limited: Reading Bangkok's Capacity Announcements Against the Evidence
Five sites, one 100-megawatt power contract, and two conflicting sets of capacity figures. The public record on NTT Global Data Centers (Thailand) Limited's expansion tells a clearer story about how datacenter growth gets announced than about how much capacity actually runs.
Global Datacenter Trends
Schneider’s switchgear speed claims still need a site-acceptance test
Software-defined medium-voltage gear could reduce project-specific wiring. But Schneider Electric’s speed figures are estimates, so buyers still need a contract that measures commissioning and governs later changes.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Mistral Compute's Megawatt Problem: Contracted, Designed, Financed
A single number dominates coverage of Mistral Compute's French AI-infrastructure ambitions: 1.4 gigawatts. The public record tells a more layered story — an announced 1,400 MW design ceiling, 700 megawatts actually contracted in two dated tranches, and $830 million of debt tied…