Anthropic reportedly took over OnePWR Solutions' Caterpillar orders for about 1.7 GW of gas-fired data center generators in a roughly $3.4 billion deal (per the Financial Times; neither company commented and sites are undisclosed), putting tenant-owned generation into powered-land math. Nvidia has reportedly proposed converting 130+ Apollo-backed Brightspeed telecom buildings, with about 1 GW of available power across up to 20 states, into small AI inference sites (a proposal, not a deal). Harwood, North Dakota voters rejected a data center review and hearing charter amendment 325 to 105, the only pro-data-center result of 45 ballot measures per Redbud Consulting, as Applied Digital's roughly $3 billion Oracle campus is built.

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