Power and energy
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Thailand proposes 100MW hyperscale threshold
Thailand is preparing national data centre rules that could classify facilities using 100MW or more as hyperscale and impose new controls on location and electricity use.
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Senate route reopens US data centre cost bill
The US Ratepayer Protection Act is back in Senate negotiations after an expedited attempt failed, keeping data centre electricity-cost allocation in play.
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AGL pushes brownfield route for data centres
AGL wants New South Wales connection reforms to recognise existing high-capacity industrial grid connections as AirTrunk plans a major former-smelter data centre.
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Oracle-linked $18bn data centre debt pressured
Loans tied to Oracle-leased Project Jupiter infrastructure are trading below par as lenders confront financing, permitting, and power risks around a huge AI campus.
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NERC advances computational-load reliability standards
NERC says its first foundational reliability standards for large computational loads have passed an initial ballot as grid operators respond to data centre behaviour.
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IMF warns AI growth will strain Europe’s grids
The IMF says AI could lift European productivity while increasing pressure on electricity grids serving the continent’s largest data centre markets.
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Wärtsilä and TGES assess AI data centre power
Wärtsilä and Tokyo Gas Engineering Solutions will assess gas and dual-fuel generation for Japanese data centre projects facing constrained grid and power-delivery timelines.
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Infineon targets dense AI server power conversion
Infineon has launched a compact 120V dual-channel gate driver designed for high-density AI server power conversion and increasingly space-constrained multilevel architectures.
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Drax advances 100MW data centre planning
Drax is continuing development work on a roughly 100MW first-phase data centre at its North Yorkshire power station site, with a planning application expected next.
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Magnora joins 400MW Estonian data centre project
Magnora Data Center has acquired a 50% interest in Estonia’s Risti Kampus, planned for 180MW initially and expandable to 400MW.