Bank of America, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley have begun syndicating a record-sized financing package tied to Anthropic’s Broadcom-Google compute stack, according to multiple reports. The structure is reported to include roughly $42 billion of senior secured …

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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin signed a final partial repeal of the 2024 Carbon Pollution Standards for fossil-fuel power plants and paired it with a proposal to rescind remaining greenhouse-gas standards for the sector under Clean Air Act Section 111. EPA fram…

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The Internet Was Wild: From AOL to AI, How 25 Years Built the Digital Control Layer

In 1999 the internet was something we logged into. Twenty-seven years later, phones, cars, cameras, satellites, databases, artificial intelligence and increasingly autonomous machines are becoming parts of one connected information environment. This is not a …

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Vertiv Turns Microgrids Into an AI-Data-Center Time-to-Power Stack

Vertiv agreed to acquire UtilityInnovation Group for about $1.45 billion in cash at closing, with up to $1.15 billion more tied to EBITDA targets over 12- and 24-month periods. The deal adds microgrid controls, onsite generation and storage orchestration, mic…

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