Samsung C&T, Hyundai E&C and Doosan Enerbility are weighing a 5% to 10% stake in Westinghouse, the Korea Herald and Seoul Economic Daily reported. Seoul Economic Daily put the cost near $2.8 billion, a price that depends on Westinghouse going public.
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HD Hyundai reported first-half operating profit of 6.96 trillion won, up 187%, on revenue of 42.01 trillion won. Its 1.4 trillion won spent or set aside for data-center engines, servicing and a reactor facility is about a fifth of that.
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Microsoft unveiled Maia 300 on October 12 and plans multi-gigawatt Azure Maia deployments from 2027, according to theneuron.ai. Its 40% tokens-per-megawatt target comes without a stated baseline, so teams cannot yet size agent workloads against it.
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HD Hyundai Electric traded up 8.83% at 530,000 won, the biggest gain among Korea's 50 largest stocks, after an LG CNS memorandum on AI data center power. The memorandum covers joint marketing and data sharing, so the gain is a bet on contracts not yet won.
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South Korea's FKI and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce urged both governments to clear visa and permit problems so $350 billion in U.S. investment can proceed. It came at the first joint business meeting since the governments announced three U.S. projects on the 1st.
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SWI Group paid $500 million for about 77% of Genesis Digital Assets, which controls 1.3 GW of grid connections across 15 sites. That works out to about $500,000 per attributable megawatt, paid ahead of the AI conversion SWI plans.
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UBS starts Core Scientific and Applied Digital at Buy on a 19 GW power shortfall for 2027
UBS began coverage of Core Scientific and Applied Digital at Buy, citing 57 GW of data center capacity needed in 2027 against 38 GW with confirmed power. Its forecast of about 80% annual EBITDA growth through 2029 needs sites that already have grid connections, because new requests take years to clear.
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Gaon Cable plans a nuclear power cable line at its North Carolina unit LSCUS for US reactor and small modular reactor projects. The only budget reported, $50 million by April next year, is for data-center cable.
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buildOne report1 publisher Applied Digital's power company Base Electron files confidentially for a U.S. IPO
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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Oracle is trucking compressed gas to AI data centers with late pipelines and weighing the same fix for its 2.45 GW Project Jupiter, Bloomberg reported. One analyst puts trucked gas at about four times the cost of pipeline supply, though at Jupiter's scale the number of trailers an hour is the tighter limit.
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- Evidence55
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South Korea's first agreed US investment project is a $23.3 billion gas-fired power plant in Encinal, Texas. Japan's March batch has the same tilt, putting allied money into US generation next to data-center clusters that are short of power.
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- Evidence55
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Doosan Enerbility shipped a 380-megawatt gas turbine to SpaceXAI, the first gas turbine the Korean maker has sent to the United States. The unit gives Doosan a delivered US reference while AI data-center growth pushes up demand for the steady power gas turbines supply.
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- Hype gap+10
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Utah residents fight Kevin O'Leary's fast-tracked 9 GW Wonder Valley data center
Kevin O'Leary's 9-gigawatt Wonder Valley data center won a unanimous county vote in Utah, then ran into residents its backers had not told. For an AI tenant comparing sites, the date the neighbors found out belongs in the approval file next to the vote.
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buildConfirmed2 publishers New Jersey fined DataOne $1.07 million, its largest data-center penalty, for running 62 unpermitted gas generators, about 123 MW, at the Vineland AI site. Until the permits clear, that power runs on a regulator's timetable at a campus built to deliver GPU capacity to Microsoft.
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The AI Energy Management Alliance, founded with Nvidia and Emerald AI plus 18 partners, argues that cutting grid draw for under 100 hours a year beats waiting 5-7 years for upgrades. The record behind it is Google's own 1GW across six named utilities.
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HD Hyundai Heavy builds 3 gigawatts of engine capacity in Ulsan for AI data centers
The Ulsan memorandum splits more than 1 trillion won between a HiMSEN power engine plant sized at 3 gigawatts and a line for small modular reactor components. The city's contribution is faster permits.
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DeepSeek weighs 160,000 Huawei Ascend chips for a 1GW inference site in Ulanqab
CEO Liang Wenfeng said in investor discussions that Huawei starts delivering AI training chips around Q4 2026 or Q1 2027, and the Inner Mongolia fleet under consideration is 160 times the Ascend cluster DeepSeek ran in June 2026.
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Bloom says DC-native design could cut $3.6 billion in capex for a one-gigawatt AI data center
Bloom's own percentages imply a $13.3 billion non-compute capex baseline and a $61 billion five-year cost of ownership for that gigawatt, with two thirds of the claimed saving arriving before the plant burns any gas.
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buildOne report1 publisher SovAI's $6M offering funds the engineering that comes before a 100-megawatt campus
A Form D filed on September 18 shows one investor and $1.5 million sold out of $6 million. At the $0.04 per kilowatt-hour SovAI advertises, one 100-megawatt site would invoice about $35 million of electricity a year.
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Onsemi's 1MW rack argument rests on a single circuit-breaker measurement
Onsemi says racks draw about 60kW today and will need 1MW by the end of the decade, and its Embedded Power Platform puts power dies inside the silicon wafer to fit that load into the same rack space. Samples go out this year, revenue in 2027.
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