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• Jul 30, 2026

  El-Sayed, Stevens debate climate, health care questions ahead of Democratic Senate primary

  Michigan Senate candidates Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed debated climate, utility, and data center policy during a televised primary debate in Southfield, Michigan.

  • Haley Stevens said she would push strong climate legislation, cut utility rates or federal funding, and cited her Stop Unfair Electricity Prices Act, which would strip federal funding from investor-owned utilities that raise rates under specified conditions.
  • Abdul El-Sayed attacked DTE Energy over political spending and said it helped the company gain fast-tracked approval for Oracle and OpenAI data center contracts in Saline Township; the article also references a contested case for a planned Google data center in Van Buren Township.
  • The piece is news analysis / campaign coverage, not a new policy announcement, and it also includes upcoming MPSC meetings and debate context on air quality, wildfires, Medicare for All, and campaign financing.
• Jul 30, 2026

  Sarvam Ropes In Mistral AI Founding Team Member Devendra Chaplot As Advisor

  Sarvam has announced the appointment of Devendra Singh Chaplot as an advisor and the opening of a new San Francisco office. - Devendra Singh Chaplot was named advisor at Sarvam’s first developer conference, Epoch 2026, as the company pushes to build frontier AI models in India.

  • Sarvam said it plans a foundational model with more than one trillion parameters; Chaplot said a 3 Tn parameter model could be trained in India using 10,000 Blackwell GPUs over four to six months.
  • The company also announced a San Francisco office as part of its expansion.
  • The article says Chaplot was a founding team member at Mistral AI, worked at Thinking Machines Lab, and previously led pre-training at xAI.
• Jul 30, 2026

  Hyperscalers Say AI Race Has Entered a New Phase

  This article is an analysis/commentary on second-quarter earnings, not a first-time announcement from a single company.

  • Microsoft emphasized execution speed, saying it opened 31 data centers in the quarter, 88 during fiscal 2026, and added roughly 1 gigawatt of AI capacity while cutting dock-to-live times by nearly 50%.
  • Alphabet raised its 2026 capex outlook to $195 billion-$205 billion and said about 60% of capex goes to servers, with the rest to data centers and networking; Meta said it spent $31.1 billion on capex in the quarter and kept full-year guidance at $130 billion-$145 billion while building capacity through 2027.
• Jul 29, 2026

  The AI data center boom is sparking fierce competition for skilled labor

  The New York Times reports that the rapid expansion of AI data centers is increasing demand for electricians and prompting companies to invest in workforce training and apprenticeship programs.

  • Google, Meta, and BlackRock are investing hundreds of millions of dollars in apprenticeship programs, community colleges, and workforce training initiatives to expand the skilled labor pipeline.
  • OpenAI has committed to working with unions to staff its projects; the article also notes debate over training methods, including Meta’s four-week training course versus traditional four-year apprenticeships.
  • The story says data center construction is drawing workers away from other projects due to high wages, bonuses, and overtime, while industry experts question what happens after the construction boom ends.
• Jul 29, 2026

  Brookfield, NextEra to Develop $100B Data Center Campus at DOE’s Paducah Site, Paired With 4.6 GW of Dedicated Generation

  Brookfield and NextEra Energy have announced a $100 billion plan to develop a privately funded AI data center campus at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Paducah Site in Kentucky, paired with up to 4.6 GW of dedicated generation.

  • The campus is expected to be fully built out in 2032 and support up to 1.8 GW of utility capacity and more than 1.2 GW of compute load; Brookfield will lease land from DOE and develop and operate the campus.
  • NextEra Energy will own and operate up to 2 GW of natural gas generation and up to 2.6 GW of BESS added in stages; the project also involves Big Rivers Electric, Jackson Purchase Energy Cooperative, and Paducah Power System, with KPSC approval still required for the power service agreement.
• Jul 24, 2026 · Outsourcing Today

  Infosys: AI Revenues at 8.2% in Q1; Resilient Operating Margin of 21.1%

  Infosys has announced its Q1 FY27 results and disclosed multiple client and technology partnerships. The article is a news report summarizing company performance and recent collaborations, not a standalone primary company release.

  • Q1 financial results: Infosys reported $5,082 million in revenues, 21.1% operating margin, $3.6 billion in large deal wins, and $955 million in free cash flow for the quarter ended June 30, 2026.
  • Partnerships and AI focus: The company said it is expanding AI-led transformation work with clients including Mercedes-Benz, Nokia, Bendigo Bank, DNB, Sentara, GlobalFoundries, Spark New Zealand, Cox Communications, Ventura Foods, Sterling Bank of Asia, Bank of Sydney, OpenAI, and Harness; guidance for FY27 is 1.5%-3.0% constant-currency revenue growth and 20%-22% operating margin.
• Jul 23, 2026

  White House Expands Data Center Ratepayer Pledge as Congress Moves to Codify Protections

  The White House expanded its voluntary Ratepayer Protection Pledge to 187 utilities, electric cooperatives, and data-center developers, while Congress advanced the bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act from committee 52-0.

  • The White House said the pledge now covers 187 organizations plus 23 governors, and the coalition “protects” 263 million Americans; signatories commit to fund generation and grid upgrades for their data-center loads without shifting costs to other ratepayers.
  • The House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced H.R. 9340 on July 21; the bill would require state regulators and nonregulated utilities to consider a large-load standard for sites with at least 100 MW peak demand and recover the full incremental cost of grid upgrades. New York’s Executive Order 62 separately put permits for 50 MW+ data centers on hold pending an environmental review.
• Jul 21, 2026

  Time to Power: Sage Geosystems CEO Cindy Taff on Geothermal’s AI Infrastructure Moment

  Data Center Frontier published an interview-style article in which Cindy Taff, CEO of Sage Geosystems, argues that next-generation geothermal can help meet AI data center power demand.

  • Taff says the industry has shifted from focusing on low emissions to securing enough energy and that time to power is now the most important metric for AI data centers.
  • She says Sage’s hot dry rock geothermal approach could be built where needed, and that a 5 GW geothermal buildout would require about 500 wells annually, compared with roughly 30,000 wells per year drilled by the U.S. oil and gas industry.
  • The piece frames geothermal as a dispatchable, firm baseload resource and notes that AI campuses may increasingly rely on behind-the-meter generation, storage, and dedicated infrastructure.
• Jul 20, 2026

  NVIDIA Wants To Solve India’s GPU Compute Problem, But At What Cost?

  NVIDIA has launched a new global revenue-sharing financing model for AI cloud providers, and the article says Indian neoclouds are considering it.

  • The model is described as combining revenue sharing with credit support so providers can procure NVIDIA infrastructure with less upfront capital pressure; NVIDIA would earn from GPU sales and a share of cloud revenue.
  • The article cites related deals as precedent: Gorilla Technology financing and supplying more than 5,000 NVIDIA GPUs for Yotta’s Navi Mumbai AI data centre, later expanded by 20,736 Blackwell GPUs worth about $2.8 Bn; ESDS also signed a $1.25 Bn agreement with Sharon AI for an 8,000-GPU cluster.
  • Indian providers named as potential users include NeevCloud, Utho Cloud, Yotta Data Services, NxtGen, E2E Networks, and Neysa; the piece notes NVIDIA has not yet disclosed full details of the programme.
• Jul 17, 2026

  As AI spending surges, return-on-investment questions mount

  The New York Times reports that rapid AI infrastructure spending is creating financial risk for major technology companies, with Oracle especially exposed due to heavy AI-related investment and dependence on customers such as OpenAI.

  • Oracle is under financial pressure as it builds AI infrastructure, contributing to a debt downgrade and a decline in Larry Ellison’s holdings.
  • The article says major tech firms including Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle are investing hundreds of billions of dollars in AI data centers, while spending is increasingly outpacing free cash flow and forcing more reliance on debt.
• Jul 15, 2026

  🤖 La Machine #85: RAISE Summit and AI’s Megawatt Moment

  The article is a recap and commentary on the 3rd edition of RAISE Summit in Paris, highlighting a shift in AI discussion toward infrastructure, power, chips, data centers, and networks.

  • 9,000 people attended the summit at the Carrousel du Louvre on July 8 and 9; President Emmanuel Macron opened with a video address arguing Europe needs its own AI infrastructure.
  • The piece frames the event as a buildout and megawatts moment, with agenda topics including energy, chips, data centers, networking, storage, inference, and security.
  • It also quotes Grant Lee, CEO of Gamma: “AI is the steel of our generation,” and notes the crowd was focused on whether enough infrastructure can be built to keep up with AI demand.
• Jul 15, 2026

  New York becomes the first US state to establish a moratorium on data centres

  New York has announced a one-year moratorium on new hyperscale data centres while state regulators develop a new framework for the sector.

  • Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order pausing State environmental permits for new hyperscale data centres for up to one year and directing agencies to assess electricity demand, water resources, and local community impacts.
  • The order requires DPS to prepare a Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS), Empire State Development to publish a Community Investment Framework within 60 days, and DEC to review water withdrawal rules within 12 months; it also sets a 50 MW threshold and proposes a New York Grid Acceleration Fund and a Data Center Interconnection Working Group.
• Jul 14, 2026

  Hitachi Energy to deliver 110kV grid connection for Kauri CAB data center in Frankfurt, Germany

  Hitachi Energy has announced a contract to deliver a new grid connection solution for a Kauri CAB Digital Infrastructure data center in Frankfurt, Germany.

  • Hitachi Energy will supply a dedicated 110kV grid connection designed for high reliability and a compact footprint to help integrate the data center into a constrained urban environment.
  • The company said the solution will reinforce the interface between the transmission and distribution grids and support stable accommodation of growing electricity demand; no deployment timeline was provided. The article also says the project may relate to a 55,000 sqm parcel in Hochheim that Kauri acquired in April for €24 million ($28.2 million) and that the completed data center is expected to offer about 40MW.
  • The piece additionally references prior Hitachi Energy deals: an April partnership with Samsung Engineering & Construction Group on HVAC grid infrastructure, a reported partnership with OpenAI on power transmission and distribution equipment, and a partnership with Southwest Power Pool on an Nvidia-powered AI tool for interconnection studies.
• Jul 14, 2026

  Yotta’s AI Infra Play, BUILT Bags $2 Mn & More

  Yotta Data Services has announced a major AI infrastructure expansion and financing plan, alongside a potential public listing filing.

  • Yotta plans to invest $7 Bn in AI infrastructure by FY27 and deploy 40,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs over the next four months, taking total capacity to about 85,000 chips by FY27-end.
  • The company recently raised $150 Mn at a $3.9 Bn valuation, partnered with US-listed Gorilla for GPU financing, and is preparing to file its DRHP for a $1.5 Bn public listing; the article also says most compute will be redirected to overseas markets.