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Data Centre Power and Permitting
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Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Indonesia’s AI data-centre boom tests power delivery
Indonesia has power and a large digital market, but AI data centres still need dependable grid capacity and sites where that electricity can be delivered.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Finnish opposition seeks national data-centre permits
Opposition parties want Finland to review data-centre power needs nationally after Google announced €13bn of investment across four Finnish locations.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
India flags 59 coal plants with critically low stocks
India’s low coal stocks at power plants show why data-centre operators must look beyond national inventories to fuel delivery.

North America Datacenter Trends
Oklo Finished One $1 Billion ATM and Opened Another
Oklo closed one billion-dollar pipe into the equity market on 10 September and installed a new pipe with the same diameter a day later. The repeated number makes the sequence look like a replenished cash balance. It is not. The first billion is a record of shares already sold…

North America Datacenter Trends
AIB's Texas closing leaves $6m tied to utility readiness
The land transactions have closed. The seller's remaining payment and the utility's performance security still answer to different milestones—and neither certifies an operating data centre.

North America Datacenter Trends
Sangha puts its solar-linked site before a different kind of buyer
A conditional grid classification and a financial adviser advance the Texas opportunity. The harder commercial question is what an AI customer would acquire from a site developed around flexible bitcoin mining.

North America Datacenter Trends
Ionic Digital's next 466 MW still has a different clock
Ward County already has a cash-paying operating phase. Provisional Base Load treatment advances the next phase's administrative position, but does not switch on its electricity.

Global Datacenter Trends
Energy Vault Has Financed 275MW of Engines Without Naming the Load
Energy Vault has reserved a meaningful block of long-lead generation and matched it with a purpose-built loan. That moves 275MW from a supplier conversation into a financed manufacturing schedule. It does not yet put the engines at a site, behind a permit or under a customer…

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Friesen Elektra seeks data-centre approval
Friesen Elektra is seeking permission for a data centre at its planned hydrogen site near Sande, where power and cooling infrastructure could be shared.

North America Datacenter Trends
Georgia Power wins approval for 1,137MW solar
Georgia Power's seven approved solar contracts add 1,137MW to its CARES programme, with projects expected online from 2029.

Latin America and Caribbean Datacenter Trends
Atlas 1GW Paracatu plan faces water scrutiny
Atlas is studying a 1GW data centre beside its renewable-energy assets in Paracatu, where existing pressure on water supplies adds another test for the proposed site.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Philippines outlines power plan for AI expansion
The Philippines plans to expand AI computing capacity to 1.5GW by 2033, with gas providing nearer-term power and renewables targeted for 40% of demand.

North America Datacenter Trends
EIA forecasts record US electricity generation
The EIA expects US electricity generation to set records in 2026 and 2027 as demand grows from data centres, manufacturing and other users.

Global Datacenter Trends
Dimaag, Toshiba develop batteries for AI load swings
Dimaag and Toshiba are developing a battery system designed to handle frequent changes in AI computing demand as well as provide backup power.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
CDC submits A$200m Beard 2 data-centre plan
The Canberra proposal brings CDC's closed-loop cooling into a new planning application, where Beard 2's own water demand will matter.

North America Datacenter Trends
Island Roadhouse outlines Missouri heat-reuse plan
Island Roadhouse plans to sell recovered heat from its Missouri data centre while keeping cooling independent of outside demand.

North America Datacenter Trends
Creekstone commissions Utah water-recovery study
University of Utah researchers will test Creekstone's exhaust-water recovery process, with its projected 4,000 acre-feet annual output still unproven at scale.

North America Datacenter Trends
Oracle seeks 2GW of renewables in New Mexico
Oracle is seeking new renewable projects that can begin supplying energy between 2027 and 2031 for its Project Jupiter data centres.

North America Datacenter Trends
HGP’s $800 Million Valuation Arrives Before the Qualification Ledger
HGP Intelligent Energy is asking the market to value three nuclear propositions as one company. The missing bridge is a public record showing which software, pump and campus milestones can turn illustrative economics into significant revenue.

North America Datacenter Trends
Massachusetts makes data-centre commitments count
The new executive order ties state permits to community benefits and environmental conditions. The commercial test is whether a developer can make those promises credible before construction money is committed.
