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Recent New Hampshire data center news

• May 26, 2026

  TeraWulf’s Lake Mariner Campus: How a Retired Coal Plant Became an AI Factory Prototype

  TeraWulf has announced the rapid deployment and integration of power-and-cooling infrastructure at its Lake Mariner campus in Barker, New York.

  • Main announcement: TeraWulf, in partnership with Schneider Electric and Motivair, compressed deployment of over $290 million in mission-critical power and cooling infrastructure into a twelve-month window to repurpose the retired Lake Mariner coal plant into an AI/HPC campus designed to support up to 750 MW of future load; deployments include Galaxy VX UPS systems, lithium-ion battery systems, Motivair CDUs (105 kW to 2.5 MW MCDU-70), ChilledDoor rear-door heat exchangers, NetShelter racks, and EcoStruxure IT monitoring.
  • Background and specifics: The project leverages existing industrial transmission assets (dual 345-kV lines, nearby Niagara hydroelectric and imported Quebec hydropower), long-term tenant commitments from Core42 and Fluidstack (backed by Google), and a brownfield, energy-first strategy focused on sites with pre-existing transmission/substation infrastructure to avoid multiyear interconnection timelines.
• May 18, 2026

  NextEra Will Buy Dominion Energy in Largest-Ever Electric Utility Deal

  NextEra Energy has announced it will buy Dominion Energy in an all-stock deal valued at about $67 billion.

  • Deal terms and governance: NextEra shareholders will own 74.5% of the combined company and Dominion investors 25.5%; the combined company will trade under NextEra on the NYSE as NEE, own 110 GW of generation capacity, and have a board consisting of 10 NextEra and 4 Dominion directors. The announcement was made on May 18; John Ketchum will serve as chairman and CEO and Robert Blue as president and CEO of regulated utilities.
  • Financial and operational details: The transaction value is about $67 billion; NextEra reported an enterprise value of about $303 billion (about one-third debt) and Dominion an enterprise value of about $111 billion (about $50 billion in debt). The companies highlighted commitments including bill credits, continued investments in generation, reliability and storm resiliency, and retention of dual headquarters in Juno Beach, Florida and Richmond, Virginia.
• May 17, 2026

  Reports Say NextEra in Talks to Acquire Dominion Energy

  NextEra Energy is reportedly in talks to acquire Dominion Energy.

  • Deal details and timing: The article reports a potential mostly-stock transaction valuing Dominion at about $66 billion, with analysts saying NextEra would offer about 0.8 of its own shares for each Dominion share plus some cash; the deal could be announced as soon as May 18. Analysts also estimate NextEra shareholders would own about three-quarters of the combined company.
  • Background and financial context: The report includes company valuations and finances: NextEra enterprise value ≈ $303 billion (≈1/3 debt); Dominion enterprise value ≈ $111 billion (≈$50 billion debt); NextEra market cap ≈ $195 billion, Southern Co. ≈ $104 billion; the article references related transactions and infrastructure investments (e.g., Duane Arnold restart investment > $800 million, Crossroads-Hobbs-Roadrunner transmission $291.6 million).
• May 14, 2026

  Land and Expand: NVIDIA, IREN, Coatue, Microsoft, Switch, Cerebras, Core Scientific

  NVIDIA announced two major partnerships to accelerate industrial-scale AI infrastructure deployment with IREN and Corning Incorporated.

  • Main announcement: NVIDIA partnered with IREN to target deployment of up to 5 gigawatts of NVIDIA DSX-aligned AI infrastructure (focus on IREN’s 2-gigawatt Sweetwater campus in Texas) and separately partnered with Corning Incorporated to expand U.S. optical connectivity manufacturing (10x optical connectivity capacity increase; >50% domestic fiber production increase; construction of three new advanced manufacturing facilities in North Carolina and Texas). The IREN deal includes a five-year right for IREN to sell NVIDIA up to 30 million ordinary shares at $70 per share (potential consideration up to $2.1 billion).
  • Background and details: The article details additional industry moves into powered land, gigawatt campuses, crypto-to-AI conversions, and domestic supply-chain expansion, including Coatue/Next Frontier & Fluidstack’s 430 MW Indiana campus backed by $5.7 billion in senior secured notes (first 65 MW online by July 2027), Digi Power X’s 10-year MSA with Cerebras for a 40 MW Columbiana, AL campus (initial contract ~$1.1 billion, potential $2.5 billion, Phase 1 ready-for-service targeted Dec. 15, 2026), CloudBurst’s Texas campus ($14.5 billion investment; 1.2 GW planned), and Core Scientific’s acquisitions and campus expansions (e.g., $421 million cash acquisition of Polaris DS LLC; Muskogee and Pecos expansions to ~1.5 GW gross power).
• May 12, 2026

  Delta Electronics and the Rise of the AI Infrastructure Stack: How Chip-to-Grid Thinking Is Reshaping AI Data Center Design

  Delta Electronics (Senior Director Kelly Gray) presented the company’s “chip-to-grid” strategy and outlined product and architectural priorities — including 800 VDC distribution, a 2.4 MW CDU for 800 VDC environments, modular/prefabricated delivery, digital twins, microgrids, and planned solid oxide fuel cell shipments around mid-2027 — during a Data Center Frontier podcast episode published May 12, 2026.

  • Main announcement/action: Delta detailed its chip-to-grid strategy and active push toward 800 VDC architectures (rack- and facility-level), highlighted a recently introduced 2.4 MW Cooling Distribution Unit (CDU) designed for 800 VDC, and said it expects to begin shipping solid oxide fuel cell on-site power generation systems around mid-2027. The company also emphasized microgrids, SSTs, energy storage integration, and BYOP (bring-your-own-power) approaches as implementation paths where on-site generation and battery systems supplement strained grid capacity.

  • Background and details: Delta described multi-year overseas deployment experience and telemetry for DC distribution, argued that power and thermal are now the primary drivers of facility architecture (with rack densities rising toward ~100 kW), and promoted Nvidia Omniverse digital twins (claimed ~99% accuracy for pre-deployment efficiency modeling), modular/prefabricated infrastructure to compress typical 24-month builds toward 12 months, and community-facing low-emission generation strategies to support grid interaction.

  • Podcast episode information:

    • Date: May 12, 2026
    • Format: The Data Center Frontier Show podcast (interview with Kelly Gray, Delta Electronics)
• May 4, 2026

  U.S. Must Improve Response to Subsea Cable Sabotage, Lawmakers Warn

  Senators warned of growing national security risks tied to undersea cables.

  • Main announcement: Senators, led by Sen. Jim Risch (Chair, Senate Foreign Relations Committee), warned of rising risks from subsea cable sabotage, noting at least eight incidents in the Baltic Sea since 2022, and that subsea cables carry more than $10 trillion in daily financial transactions; they called for a coordinated international effort to improve resilience, attribution, sanctions, monitoring, redundancy, and repair capacity.
  • Background and details: Witnesses including Dr. Benjamin Schmitt (University of Pennsylvania) and James O’Brien (former senior State Department official) described a “shadow war” targeting energy and critical infrastructure, cited alleged involvement by Russian and Chinese vessels, urged expanded sanctions and greater access to commercial satellite data for faster attribution, and highlighted Taiwan’s legal framework as a model for prosecuting sabotage regardless of location.
• May 1, 2026

  DCF Poll: Risks in the Data Center Pipeline

  Matt Vincent (Editor in Chief, Data Center Frontier) outlines that coordination failures across power, capital, land, engineering, and demand are creating a growing gap between announced and deliverable data center capacity.

  • Main announcement/action: Matt Vincent argues the critical determinants for whether a data center project gets built are committed, deliverable power, access to capital and financing structure, ability to execute (land, permits, construction timeline), and customer pre-leasing / demand certainty; he highlights that “gigawatts are spoken for” on paper while power agreements can fail when confronted with interconnection reality.
  • Background and details: The piece reframes the industry issue from headline capacity announcements to deliverability, calling out risks including power vs interconnection, construction scale and complexity, and utility timelines that differ from AI capital cadence; author affiliation and contact are provided (Matt Vincent, Data Center Frontier; email: mvincent@endeavorb2b.com).
• Apr 28, 2026

  The Power Certainty Premium: GPC Infrastructure CEO Jim Summers on Delivering Gas-Powered Compute at AI Scale

  GPC Infrastructure CEO Jim Summers argues on-site gas generation and mobile PPAs offer guaranteed timelines and risk transfer for AI data center power.

  • Main announcement/action: GPC Infrastructure (CEO Jim Summers) positions behind-the-meter natural gas generation and a mobile PPA structure as a solution that provides speed to market, date-certain delivery, and risk transfer for hyperscalers; the mobile PPA amortizes costs over long-term agreements while allowing equipment relocation or reassignment as grid capacity becomes available.
  • Background and details:Supply chain is the new critical path with prime mover lead times exceeding five years; GPC favors modular systems and air-derivative/reciprocating engines sized 100 MW to 1 GW. Summers cites that ~10% of U.S. generation is already on-site, baseline thermal-to-electric conversion is 35–40% (potentially approaching ~85% with waste heat capture), and batteries are essential to manage AI’s volatile instantaneous loads.
• Apr 27, 2026

  TD Cowen: AI Adoption Is Already Here. Infrastructure Demand Is What Comes Next.

  TD Cowen’s GenAI Adoption Survey shows enterprise AI is embedded and shifting from assistive copilots to autonomous agents, driving sustained, power-intensive data center demand.

  • Main finding: Across 689 U.S. enterprises, 92% now use at least one major AI platform; roughly one-third already run semi-autonomous AI agents in production and more than three-quarters expect to run multi-step autonomous workflows by 2027. The survey reports three-quarters of respondents see positive ROI, signaling durable AI budgets rather than experimental spend.
  • Context and details: Adoption is moving from front-end productivity tools into horizontal enterprise SaaS and centralized data platforms (data lakes/warehouses), producing more continuous, data-intensive workloads that require dense compute, high-speed interconnects, and faster power delivery; primary barriers cited are security, compliance, and governance, with formal governance accelerating production deployments.
• Apr 24, 2026

  Data Center World 2026: Innovation Spotlight

  Data Center Frontier reported on innovations showcased at Data Center World 2026, highlighting product launches and partnerships from XL Batteries, STL, Belden + OptiCool, and ABB.

  • Main announcement/action: XL Batteries introduced non-toxic, non-flammable organic flow batteries for long-duration energy storage (6 hours to more than 250 hours, 20+ year lifetime) as a data-center-focused solution; STL launched the Neuralis connectivity platform (pre-terminated, ultra-high-density fiber with ~7,000 strands and designs to support transitions from 400G to 800G+); Belden and OptiCool announced integrated rack-level systems with OptiCool RDHx supporting up to 120 kW per rack (with 60 kW demonstrated) and modular swap capability in ~5 minutes; ABB promoted HyperGuard, a medium-voltage static UPS configurable in 25 MW blocks and expandable to 50 MW via parallelization, citing a 400 MW Applied Digital facility as a deployment example.
  • Context and additional details: The coverage is a show-floor summary (not a single coordinated announcement) emphasizing practical execution, offsite pre-termination to reduce labor and deployment time, non-flammability and supply-chain advantages for organic flow batteries, modular cooling to serve the AI “middle market” (10–60 kW scalable racks), and a grid-to-chip approach (800VDC pathways, solid-state breakers) aimed at reducing stranded capex and enabling last-mile flexibility.