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The unit handles up to 3.5MW from the technical corridor and ships next month in regions the launch does not name, with US pre-orders opening in early 2027.

Vertiv's 22,000-square-meter Slovakia expansion and Michigan's outcome-linked earnings proposal show where reliability money goes while Oklo's 750 MW sits out of PJM's queue after a FERC procedural rejection.

The $1.9 billion SPARK package buys 23 gigawatts on lines that already exist, turning the data center buildout's power schedule into a question of tariff design.

A longer filing calendar is the easy half of the commission's affordability package; outcome-linked earnings are the half that reprices the asset class.

Proparco, Finnfund and CIB disclosed check sizes while withholding the asset terms that would let anyone price the exposure.

Before any offtake is signed, collateral, minimum bills and exit fees are sorting the data center pipeline by balance sheet.

The filings will push machine-learning systems into prudence review, starting with the model that releases interconnection capacity.

California, Texas and Australia are writing water, load and grid-cost terms into local approvals, so capacity gets announced before anyone prices the project.

A $92 million Denton reclamation plant breaks ground seven months after award, making the gap between approval and shovels the variable to watch in Texas water work.

Abbott's August halt folded community and ratepayer support into the same diligence binder as the interconnection agreement; December's audit will show which developers actually did the work.

Most of the file is advisory and unpriced; the one exception is a Maryland sports complex search that names a counterparty.

Georgia Power's 96-megawatt Google subscription turns an uprate into a copyable utility product while merchant deals keep printing capacity with the price column blank.

AB 192 puts state capital into CAISO-solicited transmission at cost, but guidelines land at the end of 2027, which makes the first revenue requirement filed under them the real event.

From Brookfield's $600 million green-molecule check to a Munich fund with no size, the energy transition is now transferring ownership in silence.

Amazon's aluminum order, Hitachi's 2029 transformer plant, and PGIM's Munich permit sale all price the same scarcity: the inputs that decide when a hall energizes.

Unpriced corporate offtakes keep the benchmarks unset and push cost discovery onto regulators, utilities and state procurement.

Blue Acquisition Corp's 15-year CoreWeave lease on a Niagara cryptomine prices a decommissioned power plant's connection at AI rates, making the tenant's contract stack the publicly traded collateral.

Rune's $40 million raise and Microsoft's six-year filing are the same wager from opposite sides: schedule risk has become the thing AI infrastructure buys.

The roundup's capital went to water while its people went to a station whose politics have not cleared.

Serverfarm's $895 million add-on and Vantage's $2 billion borrowing base make the leasing forecast, not a named tenant, the core of the collateral.

Australia will decide whether sold AI megawatts can be underwritten as infrastructure while the quarter's energy deals still trade without numbers.

Naturgy's cheque, Palisade's unpriced pipeline and Bannock County's reversal vote all price the same scarce thing: permission to connect.

Oracle's customers buy the hardware, SpaceX's book rests on four names, and where nobody signs, the Pentagon writes the loan.

The CPUC's rewrite of its general rate case plan puts cost transparency, affordability, and a fresh look at performance-linked compensation into the same docket where regulated returns get decided.

From a shareholder-list loan to 2.7 gigawatts with no capital stack, the week's announcements disclosed position and withheld price.

A 16.2x tower multiple and a $1 billion unnamed hyperscaler contract show the market only finances named offtakers.

As T5 splits operations from construction and Grain assembles a $1.6 billion fiber roll-up, the market separates contracted cash flow from merchant shells.

A EUR600m ceiling is less a capital raise than a forced disclosure of what a transition platform is worth when the owner, the offtaker, and the tariff can no longer stay off the record.

A grandfathered-permit inventory in Loudoun, a council moratorium in Ontario, and a conditional tax holiday in Brazil all point one direction: the right to build has become the scarce asset.

A five-year Jane Street cloud contract and a 20MW mining-to-AI pivot show anchors now come with counterparty risk, not just duration.

A long-duration battery on a reclaimed West Virginia coal mine has landed what no merchant battery in this cycle has had: a hyperscaler willing to pay for time.

Grid access is becoming an underwriting variable, set by customer class and budget line rather than queue position.

Captive solar, municipal PPAs, and repowered wind are shifting the scarcity premium from grid position to self-supply capability.

Grid position and permits are the assets changing hands in this week's milestones, while offtakers and prices stay unnamed.

With the chipmaker's revenue-sharing backstop on hold, Yotta and ESDS are testing whether public markets will underwrite an order book as if it were a hyperscaler contract.

John Laing's first US water deal and a Union Station mirror show sponsors pulling toward quiet assets while Congress widens the financing toolkit.