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Large-scale facilities housing computing infrastructure for AI training and inference, built through major campus, power, and financing deals worldwide.
Donald Trump defended AI data centers to a muted Ohio rally crowd a month before a Nov. 3 Senate race Republicans call dead even. Both candidates are telling voters households should not pay the power bills, so data-center lenders face a tariff risk.
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Samsung and SK Hynix are committing about $518 billion to new Gwangju memory fabs, the largest line in South Korea's roughly $900 billion decade plan. Company balance sheets supply much of that capital, so the two chipmakers will set how fast the new supply actually arrives.
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JERA will feed a 400-megawatt AI data center costing more than $15 billion directly from its Chiba gas plant, with Apollo lined up to finance it. A 15-to-25-year supply contract gives JERA a long-dated buyer while the developer and its backer carry the construction bill.
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Kazakhstan's July decree lets oil producers supply flared-gas power to crypto miners, as Crusoe did before assembling 10 gigawatts of AI projects. Crusoe sold those flare operations to NYDIG, so AI demand in Kazakhstan more likely lands on new grid capacity.
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California's Gavin Newsom and New York's Kathy Hochul are exploring an AI kill switch as 39 governor races go to voters on November 3. Positions on AI cross party lines, so operators siting capacity face rules likely to differ state by state.
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Meta treats its AI data centers as research "pilot models" to claim federal tax credits, the New York Times reported, in a year its credits totaled $3.912 billion. Meta has not said how much of that came from the data centers, and tax practitioners doubt that whole facilities of chips can pass the IRS test for research supplies.
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Meta cut $3.9 billion from its 2025 tax bill with research credits after classing AI data-center chips as pilot models, The New York Times reported. A reserve that grew alongside the credits suggests an IRS win would cost Meta more in cash than in reported profit.
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LG Electronics will make air-cooled chillers in Windsor, Virginia, under a 150 billion won program that also expands two Korean plants. It is a small, early stake in a data center market Omdia sees reaching 420 gigawatts by 2030, made before LG's Big Tech supply deals are signed.
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Crusoe confirmed on September 28 that Google is the end user of its Goodnight campus near Amarillo, a site wired to two 265.5MW wind farms. The deal takes Crusoe's power-first model past Abilene, with the same customer whose request halted a 2.7GW Crusoe build in Wyoming in June.
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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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Lambda plans a Chouteau, Oklahoma data center meant to cut some computing at peak grid demand, alongside a roughly $500 million, ten-year tax pledge. Teams renting its GPUs need to know whose jobs get dialed back before they place live workloads there.
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Six Samsung companies are committing $1 billion to Helix, lifting the KKR- and Nvidia-backed platform above $11 billion in secured capital. Helix plans to build generation, transmission and fiber alongside the data centers, though no project has yet been assigned any of the money.
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Riot Platforms repaid its $200 million Coinbase Credit loan early, freeing 5,821 bitcoin, about 51% of its holdings, from collateral. Skipping seven months of 6.15% interest saves about $7 million and leaves its bitcoin unpledged while it expands data centers for AI tenants.
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Oracle shares fell more than 6% on Thursday after it sent a force majeure notice to Blue Owl over Project Jupiter, its New Mexico AI data center. The notice protects Oracle's cash if the site runs late and makes its 2028 date the one lenders and investors now watch.
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Nscale raised $3.36bn in convertible notes that become shares at its IPO, which is more than the up to $3bn the listing is reported to raise. The offer price will set what the stakes held by Third Point, Nvidia and the other noteholders are worth.
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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 London builder is reportedly seeking $3 billion while telling investors it can go from 831MW to about 11GW. Anyone booking 2027 compute should price the gap, not the headline.
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Duquesne's second-quarter filing pairs $64.7 million of Bitdeer with $23.1 million of Hyperliquid Strategies, and part of the funding came from leaving traditional semiconductors.
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Nvidia put $2 billion into CoreWeave stock at $87.20 a share, and both companies committed to more than 5 gigawatts of AI factories by 2030. The equity comes to about $400 million per promised gigawatt.
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