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The large-scale construction and financing of data centers for AI compute, spanning capital spending, power, siting, and delivered capacity.
Contract assemblers have warned of increases above 15% on Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell systems shipping from early next year. Every AI capacity budget written before that is now short.
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Michael Burry's latest Substack post puts Oracle's off-balance-sheet data centre lease commitments at $261bn, which is 2.9 times the revenue the company has guided for the full year. He is short the stock.
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Larry Ellison has skipped Oracle's earnings calls this year and is off next month's keynote billing. The product his successors have to explain is separated EU regions and borrowed data centre capacity.
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Oracle spent $28bn on construction and equipment last quarter, which is $5bn more than a record quarter of cash generation. Customers renewing GPU capacity into 97.9 percent utilisation are paying about 20 percent more.
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Reuters reports that the single Abu Dhabi campus is becoming a network of smaller sites, with underground halls, blast-resistant concrete and air defence under discussion and no cost or schedule attached. The first phase is still going ahead.
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Rebellions, FuriosaAI and Mobilint want Seoul to orchestrate domestic deployments they can quote to foreign buyers, which is a procurement request wearing industrial-policy clothes, arriving just as Korea made exporting the chips harder.
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The $60.9bn of AI orders equals 64% of the $95bn backlog Dell carried out the door, so the book is fresh rather than deep, and the raised $192bn guide needs the quarters still to come to grow faster than 70%.
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The federal Responsible Data Centre Development Principles carry 23 signatures and no enforcement, which leaves the price of a Canadian siting decision to whichever province is collecting the levy and clearing the application queue.
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Commerce's report on whether the 25% advanced-chip tariff should keep sparing American data centres was due on 1 July and has not appeared, so every US capacity plan is priced against an assumption.
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The UK grid connection queue went from 41GW to 125GW while land and planning gates were already in force. Ofgem's answer is a nonrefundable fee, at a price not yet set.
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A Hyderabad order puts Rubin-class capacity in India by Q1 2027 at a 40-80% premium over Blackwell. The break-even on that premium is 1.4x, not 10x.
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Johor holds roughly 89% of the approved value, and from February 2026 Kuala Lumpur will ration permits and power in favour of AI workloads. Approvals are not concrete.
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