North America Trends

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North America Institutional Trends

Bowman’s Go-Shop Is a Two-Deadline Price Test

The most important date in Bowman Consulting Group’s sale process may not be the one that ends the auction. At 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on 13 September, the company’s right to solicit bidders narrows—but a qualified challenger can keep negotiating. The next date, 28 September…

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North America Cloud Services Trends

Finofo keeps existing cards, but approval has two moments

New expense and purchasing modules share an accounts-payable engine. Keeping a bank card removes a migration step, not the distinction between a recorded charge and a proposed commitment.

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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.

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North America Institutional Trends

Genuine Parts Has Two Command Chains Before It Has Two Balance Sheets

Genuine Parts has named the people who will run its future automotive and industrial companies. That makes the separation feel tangible: one chief executive for GPC, another for Motion, two management benches and two investor days. Yet the legal and financial boundary still lies…

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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.

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North America Institutional Trends

Enbridge’s C$2.6bn Equity Raise Does Not Equal Its US$2.55bn Tallgrass Cheque

Two numbers arrived from Enbridge on the same day: C$2.6 billion of gross equity proceeds and US$2.55 billion of cash consideration for Tallgrass crude assets. They look almost made for each other. They are not. The currencies differ, one figure is before fees, the financing…

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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.

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North America Datacenter Trends

Trinovium’s paid coolant pilot puts maintenance in focus

A paying pilot customer gives the new supplier a route into the plant. Staying there will require an answer to who interprets fluid-health data and supports the chosen coolant.

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North America Datacenter Trends

Trinovium secures paid US cooling pilot

Trinovium will supply cooling fluids and analytics for a paid US data-centre pilot, moving its coolant claims into customer testing.

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North America Institutional Trends

CooperCompanies Kept CooperSurgical. Its US$1.5bn Buyback Capacity Must Prove Why.

CooperCompanies has finished a sale process without making a sale. The board says bids for CooperSurgical did not serve shareholders, retained the business and raised the group’s repurchase authorization to US$3 billion. About US$1.5 billion remains. That sequence sounds like one…

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North America National Telecom Trends

Canada opens Indigenous spectrum window

Eligible Indigenous applicants now have first access to unused cellular spectrum, but licences still require a separate application.

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North America Datacenter

Google-Blackstone venture faces data-centre delays

The venture is still targeting 500MW of capacity in 2027, but permitting, equipment availability, and grid reviews are slowing individual US locations.

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North America Institutional Trends

Limbach Replaced Its Lender. US$7m of Guarantees Stayed Behind.

Limbach’s old credit facility ended on 9 September, and roughly US$118.1 million of principal was repaid with money from a new PNC facility. Yet the old bank did not disappear from the financing map. About US$7 million of letters of credit remain outstanding and must be backed by…

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North America Cloud Services Trends

BriteCore separates the portal upgrade from the policy version

Keeping an insurer’s own applications can narrow a core replacement project. It also leaves two change cycles that must agree on the same insurance transaction.

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North America Regional ISP Trends

Clearwave, Visionary agree 17-state fibre merger

The proposed company would reach about 700,000 homes and businesses, expanding Clearwave's footprint into Visionary's western US markets.

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North America National Telecom Trends

FCC sets vote on new satellite spectrum

The FCC will vote on 30 September on proposals to open more than 1,000MHz across the 12GHz and 42GHz bands for satellite connectivity.

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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.

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North America Institutional Trends

WaFd Survives the Merger. EverBank Controls What It Becomes.

The first sentence of this reverse merger says WaFd survives. Nearly every economic sentence that follows points toward EverBank. The listed WaFd shell remains, takes the EverBank name and issues the shares; EverBank’s owners receive 59.175% of the equity, its directors hold…

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North America Cloud Services Trends

Casepoint IQ makes another AI tool a platform expansion

The new framework puts agents, assistants and established analytics under one roof. Its commercial appeal is fewer separate systems to manage, not proof that every new workflow is ready or needs no further scrutiny.

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North America Institutional Trends

John Marshall–Eagle Turns Book-Value Dilution into a Three-Year Test

John Marshall Bancorp is asking its shareholders to accept an immediate subtraction for a future multiplication. On management’s transaction arithmetic, pro forma tangible book value per share falls from $20.23 to $17.32 at closing, while fully phased cost savings are expected to…