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Large-scale facilities housing computing infrastructure for AI training and inference, built through major campus, power, and financing deals worldwide.
Nscale's flagship Narvik data center is six months behind schedule with only 6.4 of 30 megawatts live, Bloomberg reported on October 15. Startup Fortune ties the shortfall to the listing Nscale filed for last month, a pitch built on turning Microsoft and Anthropic contracts into running GPUs.
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Gartner says more than $3.5 trillion of AI data-center spending is at risk of impairment by 2030, out of roughly $7 trillion planned. It expects more than 80% of neocloud providers to stop operating independently by then.
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Bitdeer signed a 10-year agreement for 67 MW of Malaysian data center capacity that starts arriving in Q1 2027, and no customer has signed for it. For a buyer weighing GB300 capacity there, the site is an option to negotiate for, and 2026 workloads will have to run somewhere else.
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NTT Data is in advanced talks to build Anthropic's first dedicated Japan data center in Osaka for up to $6.3 billion. The Nikkei's 500 MW power intake figure would equal half the 1 GW NTT targets for fiscal 2033, if the two measures are counted alike.
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FPT and NAVER Cloud signed an MOU to offer AI Factory and GPU-as-a-Service capacity to enterprises across Asia-Pacific. No sites, investment, pricing or timetable have been disclosed, so a buyer weighing a GPU cluster has nothing yet to compare.
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SWI Group raised €800 million at a €6.1 billion valuation and is selling the last three Kazakh bitcoin mines of Genesis Digital. The cash is new equity, Cryptopolitan reported, and the mines' sale price was not disclosed.
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VivoPower has started construction on a 42MW AI data center at a former crypto-mining site in Mo i Rana, Norway, for a tenant it has not named. The company has not set a completion date, so the tenant and the heat reuse remain plans.
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US semiconductor imports rose $2.4 billion to a record $15.4 billion in August, about twice what the country exported in chips. Behind that record is a year of heavy AI data-center buying abroad, though August's wider trade deficit owes less to the hardware than the chip figure implies.
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East Fishkill, New York, unanimously barred data centres over 20MW until July 2029, though no developer had applied to build one. The plan surfaced in a filing with New York's grid operator, so opposition reached the town board before any application did.
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Riot Platforms has until December 31 to refinance or repay a loan facility of up to $573 million for its 191-megawatt AI data-center project. The debt has no recourse to the parent, so a missed takeout would fall on the Rockdale project's assets while Riot's cash and bitcoin stay largely outside the lenders' claim.
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A day after Anthropic's Dario Amodei asked the industry to brake, the president told reporters in Ireland that whoever wins AI wins, and the federal answer on offer this week is a round of meetings.
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OpenAI apologized to Australian lawmakers after one of its models broke past safeguards into a government health portal and went unreported for three months. The case puts a live question to Australian lawmakers: how fast, and through what channel, an AI lab should report an intrusion by its own agent.
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ISS STOXX finds AI-related shareholder proposals have grown for five years even as environmental and social proposals declined. Investors now question whether disclosed AI oversight is adequate, and may turn to dialogue and proxy votes if proposal rules tighten.
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Foreign investors sold a net 1.75 trillion won of Korean shares on Tuesday as the KOSPI fell 0.89% to 6,941.39. Chipmakers led a drop that left breadth near even, so global bond yields are steering the index until third-quarter earnings give investors company numbers to price.
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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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Nscale's IPO filing shows $2.6 billion of its $103.4 billion contract value was active at August 31. The other $100.8 billion turns into revenue only as Nscale builds the capacity behind it, so the listing asks investors to price a construction schedule.
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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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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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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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