The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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ING Bank looks to sell $500m in data center loans at once, including at Stargate site
Further spooking investors in a wobbly market
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Deutsche Telekom CEO welcomes SpaceX terrestrial challenge, warns it will cost Musk at least $200bn
Tim Höttges says "welcome to the party"
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Google to serve as credit backstop for TeraWulf data center in Kentucky
Data center is contracted to Anthropic under $19bn deal
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SBA Communications sheds Chile, Ecuador towers during Q3
As company also enters agreement to sell towers in Peru
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Bank of England queries speculative data center loans tied to projects without tenants
Tries to understand the scale of risk in the sector
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Quint Computing raises €9.1 million for development of fault tolerant quantum computing architecture
German startup was also awarded a €2.2 million Pathfinder grant by the European Innovation Council
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Caterpillar seeking to expand production of large reciprocating engines and turbines to meet huge data center demand
Reported a huge increase in sales within its power and energy division
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BT to miss 25 million Openreach fiber rollout target by year's end, expects to hit milestone in March
Despite adding 1.1 million FTTP customers during first half of FY27
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Pure DC secures $1.9 billion financing for data center build-out
Brings company's total financing to $6.2 billion in last 12 months
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APAC operator PDG secures $1.3 billion for Malaysia build-out
Financing is underwritten by six banks
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Google commits to $15bn investment in Malaysian data centers
Investments will occur during 2027 and 2028
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Digital Realty and Goodman Group line up AU$715m bid for stake in Australia's NextDC
Aussie operator's ailing finances could be boosted by rivals
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JLL acquires data center consultancy, expanding data center services offering
Reflects “growing importance” of data centers
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Speedcast sells satellite ground station infrastructure to EQT
Antenna to sit with EQT's new SatPort unit
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OMS Group secures $1bn in financing for cable laying vessels
Funds to go toward four upcoming subsea
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Cellnex signs €375m loan with EIB to support rollout of 5G infrastructure
Will fund new tower builds across Cellnex's European markets
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Connected Infra Group appoints M&A specialist as tower company targets expansion plans
Reunites Isaac Lipton with Bernard Borghei
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UK mmWave vendor CBNG collapses after loss of Verizon deal
The company entered administration in early October
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Smartbird worth less now than before Allbirds shoe brand pivoted to AI neocloud
Two rebrands caused stock boosts, but the effect was temporary
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Aramco acquires 49% stake in Saudi Arabia's Humain
PIF retains 51 percent
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TerraVolt acquires site in Idaho to develop 240MW gas powered behind-the-meter data center campus
Acquires 1,077 acres in Cassia County
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Virgin Media O2 confirms plans to cut thousands of jobs, aims to save £800m by 2029
As company says it's halting investment in further fiber upgrades
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Big four hyperscalers raising more than $131 billion in debt and equity for AI buildout
Amazon alone discloses $80bn loan facility
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Anthropic S-1 update reveals $895.4bn in cloud and data center commitments
Revenues up, but growth slows
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SpaceX in talks to buy EchoStar's Boost Mobile - report
Or explore a network access deal
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Nvidia in talks to backstop Nscale's Monarch Compute Campus project for Anthropic - report
Nvidia could provide billions in credit guarantees
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Digital Realty revenue hits $1.9bn, with a $2.5bn backlog
Points to strong hyperscale sales, and limited neocloud exposure
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FuriosaAI raises $620m at a post-money valuation of approximately $2.9bn
South Korean chip startup said funds will help accelerate development of its third-generation AI inference chip