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Colombia pulls Amazon fiber tender after risk review

The withdrawn 1.14 trillion-peso Amazon fiber tender tried to be a rural connectivity program and an international corridor on one balance sheet.

Wind developer Vapat to build 160MW data center campus

The Spanish wind group is betting its own turbines and substation connection can anchor a data center campus.

Nvidia takes minority stake in powered-land firm Cloverleaf

Nvidia's Cloverleaf stake ties powered-land projects to its DSX spec as the chipmaker spreads capital across the power queue.

Latos files plans for Newton Heath edge data center

The developer's 40-node 'neural Edge' network faces its first planning test in Manchester.

Baltica 2 clears a monopile milestone; offtake terms stay out of sight

A 1.5-GW offshore wind project clears a construction hurdle while its commercial terms remain out of view.

Renewables M&A roundup says who, not how much

A weekly M&A roundup from Renewables Now names four companies and no prices, which is how private energy deals get announced.

Meta files for 497 Tbps U.S.-Denmark subsea cable Aurora

The Aurora system would add an open cable to a crowded Atlantic, with a dark-fiber option that lets Meta sell capacity into the secondary market.

Charter closes $34.5bn Cox deal; Cox stays for 26%

The combined cable giant reaches 38 million customers across 45 states, and Cox Enterprises keeps a quarter of the equity.

Charlotte's stalled I-77 is repricing road P3 risk

The Tennessee Choice Lanes award proves demand, but the stuck Charlotte project is showing what political risk now costs.

HTS feeders swap a crowded trench for a 24/7 cryogenic plant

The technology can unlock 50 to 100MW where the corridor is full; the test is whether operators run the refrigeration plant with mission-critical discipline.

MassDOT's quiet rest-area P3 outruns the road fights

A low-profile Massachusetts concession advances as I-77 and Tennessee's Choice Lanes battle for political air—the new play in transport P3s is staying out of the spotlight.

GE Vernova books Supernode 3 equipment order, price not disclosed

The 260-MW storage order moves Supernode 3 forward; the report says nothing about how it will be paid for.

Sol Systems buys 200-MW Texas solar project from DESRI

A 200-MW solar asset moves to Sol Systems in Texas, with no price, timeline, or financing terms disclosed.

Haventus and Dajin consider European offshore wind partnership

Renewables Now reports exploratory offshore wind talks; no asset or financial detail is public.

Harworth's second powered land deal sets up an 800MW UK pipeline

The exclusivity pact with an unnamed hyperscale provider sets up a second land sale, part of a six-site, 800MW data center pipeline.

TotalEnergies exits Lillebaelt Syd, partners search for new backer

The departure changes the project's ownership and sends partners looking for new capital.

AWS expands UK region, adds Las Vegas Local Zone

The launches extend a hyperscaler buildout that keeps private capital busy in data centers, power, and edge sites.

Hindustan Power lines up IREDA debt for 300 MW Uttar Pradesh solar

The lender and capacity are public. The loan amount and rate are not, so the economics remain unstated.

Telia Towers breaks ground on a satellite Earth station in Finland

The tower unit's Pyhäjärvi site links satellites to terrestrial networks, but the economics stay hidden.

Macquarie sells Polish fiber to fund data center push

Fiber is now both exit capital and the AI buildout's tightest input.

Prometheus and Istmo plan a grid-free Texas data campus

The Pecos project will generate its own power behind the meter, using pipeline gas and methane from a fractionation plant on site — no ERCOT queue.

TVA's data center rate hike prices capacity upfront

The utility's new rate structure removes data centers from the manufacturing class and imposes a $1.5 million per megawatt capacity charge on new connections.

Telecom Argentina offers fiber to unlock $1.245bn Movistar deal

A proposed fiber divestiture to Metrotel is the regulatory remedy that could let Telecom Argentina close its Telefónica acquisition.

Macquarie sells its Polish fiber duo to Deutsche Telekom for €1bn

The two Polish networks fold into T-Mobile Polska while Macquarie puts the proceeds to work in data centers and towers.

Itochu enters data center development with ten sites in Japan

The trading house plans to lease the facilities to U.S. tech giants, then sell them, with 500MW of capacity coming by 2030.

Most 2026 governor candidates have staked out a data-center stance

A Data Center Dynamics analysis finds 80 percent of Democratic and Republican candidates have taken a position, and even the friendly ones are wary of making ratepayers pay for grid upgrades.

Tendercapital-backed Cobra Green wins Colleferro approval for 150MW AI data center

The municipal vote moves the project toward a 2027 start, but the Italian government has yet to sign off and no tenant or compute capacity has been disclosed.

Singapore allocates 200MW to four data center developers

Digital Realty, Equinix, Keppel, and STT GDC each take 50MW in the city-state's second capacity call, which mandates low-carbon fuel, liquid cooling, and a Jurong Island site.

Perdaman taps Electric Hydrogen for Australian green hydrogen project

A technology pick for Australia names the vendor and leaves the financing unstated.

DOE puts $500 million behind seven battery projects

A $500 million federal storage commitment, with no word yet on who gets it.

A 114 MWp solar park in Germany goes live, supplying Shell and Finanz Informatik

The capacity and the two corporate offtakers are public. The ownership, tariff, and financing are not.

Scatec's strong D&C quarter arrives with no capital news

The segment result is solid, but the record offers no financial specifics to underwrite it.

Egypt grants a golden licence, and little else

The permit and the scale are public; the developer, site, and money behind it are not.

UK offers GBP 28m for ultra-long duration storage

A small public sum with no project attached reads as a directional policy statement.

Solar and storage still rule US power construction

The 2026 policy turn against renewables has not yet caught up with the projects already being built.

Saudi Arabia awards 8 GWh of battery storage

The award's size is clear. The commercial terms that would underwrite it are not in the public record.

Aquila Clean agrees 20-year Taiwan solar-fishery PPA

The 20-year offtake anchors revenue, but capacity, buyer, and price remain undisclosed.

Scatec locks Romanian wind financing; terms stay off the wire

The financing is confirmed; the lender, size, and price that would let the market underwrite it are not on the wire.

BBT Group powers up 78kW data center at German hospital

BBT Group spent €3.6 million to open a data center at Caritas Hospital. The 78kW facility is owned AI compute, not rented cloud capacity.

Nextpower patent and 2 GW backlog headline the wire

The headline carries two claims; the supplied record carries nothing else, so the commercial read is inference.

Zayo locks in Corning fiber for 15,000-mile AI buildout

A tripled route-mile target gets the supply-chain certainty to match its ambition.

J.G. Petrucci files 100MW Allentown data center plan

The project's substation-first structure is a bet on power scarcity.

Hudson River Trading signs multi-billion-dollar AI cloud deal with CoreWeave

The trading firm will run AI research on Nvidia systems, with no dollar figure, capacity number, or schedule made public.

Swift Current's $750m credit facility leaves terms undisclosed

Renewables Now reports the size, but not who is lending or at what rate.

InfraTech plans $2.7B Texas data center and fiber buildout

A 5,000-acre site in the Texas Panhandle and a fiber manufacturing bet, with no tenant or manufacturing partner named.

Kyivstar and Ukrtelecom share fiber to stop parallel network builds

An open-access deal lets two Ukrainian carriers sell internet over each other's fiber.

Atesh claims three Kursk comms towers destroyed

Atesh's Telegram post is the only account of the strike, and it fits a year-long pattern of attacks on Russian military communications.

Microsoft's Qcells pact ties data center load to virtual power plants

The expanded deal pairs data center load with dispatchable batteries, putting data center capital behind a new layer of flexible grid capacity.

Enercon secures EUR 1bn guarantee facility, Renewables Now reports

The trade outlet confirms the facility's existence and purpose, but the terms that would let the market price it have not been disclosed.

Keel decommissions all four US Bitcoin mines in AI pivot

The former Bitfarms has the cash and the sites. It still needs a signed tenant contract.

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