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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
AI-generated illustration of distributed energy assets connected through a central grid-balancing software platform in Denmark.

Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends

North Media buys BEAM grid-balancing platform for DKK 9m

North Media has acquired BEAM, a software platform designed to aggregate distributed energy assets for Denmark's grid-balancing market.

Sep 3, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of Powerlink transmission construction in Central Queensland with towers, substation equipment and a 500MVA transformer

Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends

Powerlink awards 20km Queensland transmission contract

Powerlink has awarded CPP a contract covering 20km of transmission line, Calliope River substation upgrades and a 500MVA transformer.

Sep 3, 2026
Editorial illustration of a proposed 330MW data centre in Imperial County with court documents, power infrastructure and environmental-review imagery.

North America Datacenter Trends

California judge tentatively orders 330MW data-centre review

The tentative ruling would put a project-level environmental review ahead of grading and construction for IVCM's proposed Imperial County campus.

Sep 3, 2026
Editorial illustration of a ballot box beside a large data centre and power infrastructure, representing Grove City’s proposed public vote requirement

North America Datacenter Trends

Grove City may require votes on large data-centre projects

Grove City may require a public vote before large data-centre projects can enter the city’s normal planning process.

Sep 3, 2026
Data centre and electricity transmission infrastructure in Texas, illustrating ERCOT's Batch Zero review of large-load grid connections

North America Datacenter Trends

ERCOT delays Texas data-centre grid classifications

ERCOT has missed a second Batch Zero classification deadline as verification work pushes Texas data-centre grid decisions further into 2027.

Sep 3, 2026
A tabletop scale model links unfinished foundations, a substation and modular power equipment, with a data-centre model in the background.

North America Datacenter Trends

Solaris Brings Construction In-house as Its Power Contracts Expand

Solaris Energy Infrastructure’s acquisition of Omega Foundation Services reaches into the work that must happen before a power plant can earn its keep: preparing the site, building the foundations and assembling the electrical infrastructure. Together with July’s GESA…

Sep 3, 2026
Two 50% threshold gates stand between a microgrid control yard and a data-centre hall, above separate measured, storm-restoration and utility-infrastructure ledgers.

Global Datacenter Trends

Vertiv’s UIG earnout has two 50% EBITDA cliffs

Vertiv has put approximately US$1.45 billion of cash on the closing table for UtilityInnovation Group. Another US$1.15 billion sits behind two performance tests whose dollar targets are not public. The filed agreement nevertheless reveals the machine: fall just short of half a…

Sep 2, 2026
An unlit surveyed greenfield parcel sits apart from an illuminated existing substation and industrial compute compound near Rockdale, with an unfinished conduit trench stopping at the land boundary.

North America Datacenter Trends

Bitdeer’s $100m Rockdale Land Deal Adds No Disclosed Megawatts to Its 742MW Plan

Bitdeer has converted a leased-land risk into fee-simple control over roughly 200 acres near Rockdale. That is a real asset change. The power headline is different: 563MW online plus 179MW planned already appeared in the company’s site tables before the purchase. The disciplined…

Sep 2, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of a 100MW data-centre development at Oxagon with construction cranes, cooling equipment and electrical infrastructure.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends

HUMAIN, DataVolt start 100MW NEOM AI data-centre build

HUMAIN and DataVolt are developing 100MW at Oxagon as DataVolt begins construction on its wider 360MW first phase, targeting service from 2028.

Sep 2, 2026
Four geothermal generation modules lead toward a separate unfinished expansion field behind a copper threshold.

North America Datacenter Trends

Fervo’s 396 MW Google PPA Has a 600 MW Offer Gate

Fervo Energy and Google have signed for 396 MW of enhanced geothermal power from Cape Station. The same contract also requires Fervo to offer roughly 600 MW more—but Google still has to accept, and both sides still have to sign another agreement. That distinction turns a…

Sep 2, 2026
A powered data-centre site is separated by an open coupling from unfinished structures and translucent future sites.

North America Datacenter Trends

AIB's 570 MW Label Contains 65 MW of Contracted Power—and No Signed AI Lease

AIB Data Centers has identified 570 MW of potential AI and high-performance-computing capacity. The total sounds like one portfolio. It is not. Most of it remains attached to sites under evaluation; the one binding power position still lacks a signed customer lease, commissioned…

Sep 1, 2026
Editorial illustration showing a Texas political figure beside a data-centre campus, transmission lines and graphics explaining the state's review of proposed electricity demand.

North America Datacenter Trends

Abbott says data-centre reporting fell below 10%

Texas is auditing projects seeking grid connections after Governor Greg Abbott said fewer than 10% of data-centre companies supplied requested information on future electricity demand.

Aug 29, 2026
An energised data-centre hall stands beyond a power substation while adjacent halls progress through construction and commissioning.

North America Datacenter Trends

Core Scientific Leased 1.1 GW; Only 437 MW Was Billing

Core Scientific's July headline joined approximately 1.1 gigawatts of leased customer power to more than US$24 billion of potential contracted revenue. The operating base was smaller: 437 MW was billing by mid-July. The difference is not failed demand. It is the construction…

Aug 29, 2026
A solid illuminated power-grid construction corridor sits beside a wider field of translucent prospective infrastructure outlines.

North America Datacenter Trends

Quanta's US$53.44bn Backlog Contains a US$19.89bn Estimate Layer

Quanta Services ended June with a record US$53.44 billion backlog, but that headline does not describe one kind of commitment. US$33.55 billion sat in remaining performance obligations. The other US$19.89 billion came from estimated MSA orders, estimated renewals and certain…

Aug 29, 2026
A capped high-voltage cable stops short of an empty substation connection bay beside an unfinished data-centre building.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends

A data-centre connection has no date at Gate 1

A site can have land, drawings and an impressive megawatt number while still lacking the one fact that makes its power plan schedulable: a confirmed grid-connection date.

Aug 28, 2026