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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…
North America National Telecom
Verizon prepares Hawai‘i network for Hurricane Lowell
Verizon has positioned backup power, satellite assets and field equipment across Hawai‘i before Hurricane Lowell, preparing for possible network disruption.
North America Datacenter Trends
WEC’s data-centre return sits outside earnings sharing
Wisconsin Electric’s special tariff for very large customers does not merely assign the cost of a new power plant to a new data centre. It gives that investment its own return, capital structure and exit rules—and then removes the resulting economics from the mechanism that…
North America National Telecom Trends
SpaceX launches 27 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg
SpaceX's 80th Starlink mission of 2026 flew from Vandenberg, where the company is currently concentrating its Falcon 9 constellation launches.
North America Datacenter Trends
HCWC’s Four-Percent Stub Is Not a $1.25 Billion Lease
Host Digital’s long lease, the board’s $425 million merger price and the fraction left for HCWC’s existing shareholders are three different numbers. Collapsing them into one valuation story hides the transaction’s real transfer of control and execution risk.
North America Regional ISP Trends
GigaBeam switches to backup after Ashburn fibre cut
GigaBeam's fibre network remained online on backup capacity after a primary-circuit cut near Ashburn degraded service across three counties.
North America Cloud Services Trends
KIDZ AI Priced Five Years of GPU Time While the Room Remained Non-Binding
A fee schedule precise to the dollar can make a new compute business look settled. KIDZ AI’s US$44,626,944 order instead reveals how much still has to happen between pricing GPU time and delivering it.
North America Regional ISP Trends
LSC’s Second Tenant Changes the Risk, Not the Delivery Gate
A second hyperscale signature can improve the economics of a fibre corridor before it improves the network. The missing evidence lies between contracted demand and a route that is built, accepted and billable.
North America Datacenter Trends
Judge dismisses Edgerton suit against data-centre petitioners
A Johnson County judge dismissed Edgerton’s case against residents, while their data-centre petition remains under separate court review.
North America Institutional Trends
Kymeta’s US$20m DoD Order Needs Four Ledgers, Not One Headline
The order matters, but its commercial and operational meaning will be decided later—when named terminals move through delivery, activation, billing and actual multi-network use.
North America Datacenter Trends
Cerv warns of maintenance gaps in new data centres
Cerv says some new data centres are entering service with preventable site-care gaps as North American construction reaches a record 7.48GW.
North America Datacenter Trends
US data-centre land purchases reach $6bn
US spending on land for future data centres rose sharply in the first half of 2026 as developers competed for sites with access to power and water.
North America Institutional Trends
Hornbeck’s US$75m Synergy Award Is Not a Single-Gate Scorecard
Hornbeck Offshore has attached a large share opportunity to the work of combining two offshore-service businesses. The conspicuous number is US$75 million of annualized gross synergies. The less conspicuous fact is that this is only one rail in a contract that also measures the…
North America Institutional Trends
Cineverse’s Pan’s Labyrinth Loan Has Three Receipt Claims, Not One Film Budget
A US$3.125 million facility for a re-release can look like a compact production-finance headline. Cineverse’s disclosure describes something more layered: reimbursement of an older advance, a payment toward a senior credit facility, film-specific collateral, a capped corporate…
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.
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.
North America Institutional Trends
PDS Biotech’s Equity Proceeds Face Two Debt Waterfalls
PDS Biotechnology may still sell shares to fund a clinical-stage business, but a newly amended promissory note determines where the cash goes first. ATM proceeds and a separate equity financing now follow different repayment routes. The distinction between capital raised and…
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.
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…
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…