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AEP will buy up to 1.6 GW of Mainspring linear generators through 2034. Only the first 190 MW, due from 2027, is a firm order. No price was disclosed.

SWI Group raised €800M at a €6.1bn valuation for AI infrastructure. Its CEO reportedly plans to turn ex-FTX-backed miner Genesis Digital into AI sites.

The Energy Incident Register now lists 178 data-centre fires and power failures, up from 93 on 12 October as older cases were added. 21 are from 2026.

AZIO AI says Power Champion contracted 10 MW at its Atlas One campus in Texas, with rights to 50 MW. Nothing is energized and no start date is set.

Three firms launch a 'generator-to-chip' route to faster US data-centre power. Faster delivery is their claim; no MW, customer, cost or time saved given.

BUZZ HPC says it will privately fund the grid connection for its proposed C$3.5bn, 320MW Oakville AI campus. No application is filed, nothing is approved.

T5 Data Centers wants to build a fuel-cell-powered data centre in Chantilly, Virginia. The figures and claims are the applicant's, and the county has not ruled.

Taylor's council voted 5-0 on a 664-acre data-centre and power-plant deal. The land is not yet annexed; the 1 GW and 2028 figures are the developers' claims.

Bloomberg reports, citing people familiar, that nuclear startup Atlas Atomics has raised about $400 million in a Series A at around a $1.9 billion valuation, led by General Catalyst with Andreessen Horowitz. The company has not confirmed it. Who Atlas is, what its own letter says, and what is not known.

The NRC has published a draft environmental impact statement for Fermi America's four proposed AP1000 reactors in Carson County, Texas, with comments due 23 November 2026. It is a draft, not a licence. Separately, Wood Mackenzie estimates four-hour battery storage is "65% to 75% cheaper" than new gas peakers in the US.