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SoftBank subsidiary handling development of the 10-gigawatt Piketon, Ohio AI computing facility.
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Anthropic is aiming for a November IPO after its draft prospectus showed an operating loss of about $8 billion on $4.6 billion of revenue last year. OpenAI is staying private until 2027, so Anthropic's listing puts a frontier lab's finances in front of public investors first.
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Campuses in Texas and Ohio are pursuing up to 27 gigawatts between them, against an average draw of about 36 gigawatts for all US data centers in 2025. For buyers of that capacity, the open budget line is the new-generation cost Indiana lawmakers want developers to share.
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Oracle issued a force majeure notice on Blue Owl's Jupiter campus, whose reported $18bn of bank loans already trade below 90 cents on the dollar. Lenders who priced Oracle's credit now also have to price who pays when the power arrives late.
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Nvidia is putting $1 billion into Nscale's $3.36 billion pre-IPO round, funding a customer still building most of its capacity. Buyers signing multi-year capacity deals should check how that build-out is paid for before they check the price.
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The guarantee that made a $500bn Ohio campus financeable is under half its old size, three weeks after the market marked Nvidia down 5% for offering it.
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Memorandums with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman and KKR carry no terms or timetable, and NVIDIA has reserved an option to backstop up to $125 billion of the deals.
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The long end and the front end rose together while equity volatility sat near its lows for the year. Anyone with floating-rate debt or a refinancing window should reprice assumptions now.
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The chipmaker has taken a minority stake in Cloverleaf Infrastructure, reportedly several hundred million dollars, and its reference design now enters at land assembly.
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The first year-ahead forecast in Nvidia's history implies about $673 billion in fiscal 2028, roughly $103 billion above consensus, and hands every capacity planner a figure to hold it to.
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The head of data centers has left, the brief has been divided, and the part growing fastest is leasing capacity that somebody else already paid to build.
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The Fed's first increase since July 2023 was 25 basis points. Korea's five-year AA- corporate yields are up 110 basis points this year, and the share of new paper maturing inside three years jumped from 24.7% in August.
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SoftBank's data centre arm filed on September 1 to raise $5bn to $7bn on Nasdaq, and the price under discussion works out at about 180 times an annualized half-year revenue of $139m against $439bn of contracted backlog.
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The July figures OpenAI showed to win a computing deal describe a build that costs more while taking less cash out of the company, because partners are financing it. The obligations sit on their accounts.
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CoinShares marks stabilised data centre capacity at $27m a megawatt and energised mining capacity at $3m, and the conversion cost in between explains why Core Scientific, Keel, Cipher and IREN are walking away from hashrate.
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Twelve Korean power equipment firms will meet about 50 American buyers on a KOTRA-organised trip that drew 10 firms and 12 buyers last year, with a Silicon Valley leg added to the Dallas itinerary.
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Bank of America puts the AI buildout's external funding need at $1.2 trillion through 2030, and Nvidia's August partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, KKR and three others target more than $500 billion of it.
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Gavin Baker's checks say the same hardware costs half again more than it did seven months ago, so the number worth modelling is the price at which end customers finally cover compute, power and financing.
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The warrants cost the developer nothing today and have already gained $1.9bn, which is a fair measure of what a twenty-year commitment from an underwritable tenant is worth to a company heading for an IPO.
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The guarantee covers part of the lease and power bill plus a floor on what the Pike County site is worth, which makes eight gigawatts of Ohio interconnect the collateral and Nvidia's credit the thing lenders are buying.
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Private holdings ran from $22.3bn to $47.9bn in under a year, with another $18bn committed. Anyone reading Nvidia's demand signal is partly reading capital Nvidia itself supplied, though its CFO rejects that framing.
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