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Siemens Energy AG is a global energy technology company making gas and wind turbines, grid equipment, and power generation systems, spun off from Siemens.
Base Electron, the power company Applied Digital formed, confidentially filed for a U.S. IPO on October 9 around a planned 1.2-gigawatt North Dakota gas plant. The draft registration is not public, so investors cannot yet see the plant's revenue, margins or financing.
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Friedrich Merz took 10 defense and energy executives to Kyiv as Berlin prepared to unveil about 1bn euros in military aid and 350m euros for energy repair. How much of that money turns into orders for German or other European suppliers depends on terms that have not yet been published.
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QTS, NextEra and Siemens Energy formed a Texas coalition to win local consent for data centres after nearly $200 billion of US projects were blocked in six months. For their investors, a county commission's vote now sits beside financing and equipment as something a project timeline depends on.
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Vishal Sikka's four-month-old startup added $53 million five weeks after a $32 million seed. It says two to four engineers can deliver what once took about 30 people, with customers or third parties still running the final quality checks.
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Dario Amodei's slowdown essay and Sam Altman's remark that a listing would be ill-advised took ASML down 6%, about EUR 33.6 billion of market value, while Nvidia fell 2.5% and TSMC 1.2%. The drops grew with distance from current revenue.
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AI stocks fell worldwide on Sept 14 after Dario Amodei asked the industry to slow model progress and Sam Altman ruled out a 2026 IPO. The deepest single-day drops landed on chip equipment and power suppliers.
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China supplies close to 30% of some transformer and switchgear categories and more than 40% of US battery imports, so the Energy Department's new power to condition those purchases lands on a buildout planning to go from 62 GW to 152 GW.
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Google committed to 200 MW from Commonwealth Fusion's first plant and RWE put EUR 25m behind Proxima Fusion next to a shut-down reactor site, deals where the access mattered more than the valuation. Only one of them involves a signed purchase.
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The gas power book grew 16 GW in a single quarter. Annualised, one supplier's order intake matches what every turbine plant on earth can build in a year.
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