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According to Catcher Predict monitoring, the event "Indiana Data Center Shutdown Order Implementation Date" is currently among the hottest trades on the prediction market Polymarket, with a cumulative pool size reaching 2.44 million dollars. The option with the highest market consensus is "December 31, 2028," corresponding to a winning probability of approximately 21.5%.

LG Electronics will invest 150 billion won in the artificial intelligence data center cooling business.

Jacobs Engineering Consulting will deploy data center digital twin technology for the NVIDIA Research Center.

According to The New York Times, Meta is leveraging the U.S. research and development tax credit policy to apply for billions of dollars in tax benefits for its artificial intelligence data centers. Last year, this policy helped Meta reduce its tax burden by nearly $4 billion, but internal accountants warned that this move carries legal risks.A partner at the tax consulting firm BPM stated that classifying AI data centers as research and development projects is "beyond the norm."

According to TheEnergyMag, Bitcoin mining company MARA announced that it has paid a $100 million power deposit for its data center project in Matagorda County, Texas, and has adjusted the payment and exit terms of its deal with sustainable fuel developer HIF USA.The project is located southwest of Houston, covering over 1,200 acres, with a planned power capacity of up to 2 gigawatts. MARA plans to use it to build a facility supporting high-performance computing and Bitcoin mining. According to the revised agreement, some payments originally tied to regulatory approval will be adjusted to be paid in two installments, and if all milestones are met, the total acquisition price for the project will still be capped at $600 million.

LG Electronics has joined NVIDIA's official partner program for AI data center cooling solutions and has been recognized as the preferred partner in the "Power and Cooling" category.LG aims to expand its presence in the hyperscale data center and colocation market, particularly in North America. Currently, over 60% of the demand for new data center capacity globally is concentrated in North America.

Bitcoin mining company CleanSpark announced the completion of a $2.276 billion debt financing for its data center project located in Sandersville, Georgia, USA.The bond has an interest rate of 7.875%, and the raised funds will be used for project construction and to repay previously invested equity funds. The Sandersville project comes with a 20-year lease.

Market news indicates that Anthropic is negotiating a data center capacity deal of up to 1 gigawatt, with an expected investment scale of at least 40 billion dollars.

A data center developer supported by an affiliate of Blue Owl Capital announced a bond issuance to raise $1.1 billion, betting on AI computing power, to fund the Digital Drive data center project near Richmond, Virginia. This data center has an IT capacity of 76 megawatts and will be fully leased by CoreWeave under a 15-year, $2.94 billion contract, expected to be operational from 2027 to 2028.

According to Bloomberg, a data center developer supported by an affiliate of Blue Owl Capital announced a bond issuance to raise $1.1 billion to bet on AI computing power, funding the Digital Drive data center project near Richmond, Virginia.The data center has an IT capacity of 76 megawatts and will be fully leased by CoreWeave under a 15-year, $2.94 billion contract, expected to be operational from 2027 to 2028.

According to court documents, the Bitcoin mining company Hut 8 has made a bid of $140 million to become the winning bidder for the two data center sites of the bankrupt mining company Poolin located in Texas. The bid includes cash and other considerations, covering Poolin's Pyote and Tarbush sites. The transaction must be approved by the bankruptcy court in New Jersey before it can be completed, with a sale hearing scheduled for September 29.Hut 8's bid is nearly three times the initial bid of $52 million from Thor CALAP, which offered $15 million for the Pyote site and $37 million for the Tarbush site. Additionally, DigiPower X bid $36.5 million for Pyote, while Pecos Industrial Development, designated by the AI infrastructure company Fluidstack, bid $100.5 million for Tarbush. Poolin and its two U.S. affiliates filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July after shutting down mining and hosting operations at the Texas sites. Court documents indicate that its debts amount to approximately $173.1 million, of which about $163.7 million are unsecured promissory notes owed to Poolin Wallet users after withdrawals were frozen in 2022.This acquisition will further expand Hut 8's data center footprint. The former Bitcoin mining company is deeply investing in AI infrastructure, with its second-quarter financial report released in August showing a development pipeline of approximately 8.7 gigawatts, an increase of about 300 megawatts quarter-over-quarter.

Quantum computing hardware and software company IonQ announced that it will introduce the first quantum processor to the NVIDIA Accelerated Quantum Research Center to advance the development of quantum supercomputing.

According to The Information, citing informed sources, the artificial intelligence company Anthropic is in talks with data center operator Stream Data Centers to directly lease up to 1GW of data center computing power. The two parties are still in early negotiations, and the final scale has not yet been determined, with the deal possibly not being finalized.If signed, Anthropic will directly become a tenant of the data center and deploy its own servers and chips. The related equipment may include TPUs from Google and Broadcom, and may also use NVIDIA GPUs. Google is also discussing providing credit guarantees for some projects. This is different from renting servers from AWS or Google Cloud, as Anthropic can control the chips, racks, and network equipment itself, paying less in cloud vendor profits but needing to bear the costs of equipment procurement and data center operations.Data center developers interviewed by The Information estimate that a complete computing infrastructure of 1GW scale requires at least $40 billion in capital investment. Anthropic has already directly leased approximately 401MW of data center from TeraWulf this year and announced a partnership with Fluidstack last year to invest $50 billion in building a custom data center. If the deal with Stream reaches 1GW, it will become one of Anthropic's largest direct data center leases to date.

The WeChat Security Center has released a governance announcement regarding the crackdown on organizers and promoters of illegal activities such as pyramid schemes and fraud. Recently, some black and gray market accounts have falsely claimed to be "national projects," "ethnic asset unfreezing," and "blockchain virtual currencies, stablecoins," using high returns as bait to lure users into groups and implement pyramid-style "referral" schemes. Subsequently, they induce users to input their account passwords and download fraudulent imitation apps through forged links, ultimately committing property fraud or account theft.WeChat officials stated that once verified, they will take tiered penalties against violating accounts based on the severity of the circumstances, in accordance with relevant laws and platform regulations. This includes banning community functions, restricting feature usage, and permanently banning accounts. They also remind users to be wary of Ponzi schemes that claim to be associated with blockchain but lack substantive technology and applications, and to avoid participating in paying entry fees, developing downlines, and downloading applications from unofficial channels.

Alibaba is accelerating the expansion of its data centers in Europe and the Middle East, driving its 20 gigawatt global infrastructure development.Alibaba will establish its first cloud regions in Turkey, Finland, and the Netherlands within the next 12 months, and expand its data center layout in Malaysia, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, France, and Hong Kong.

Alibaba CEO Wu Yongming stated at the Yunqi Conference that the current demand for AI from customers is strong, and the company will fully invest in AI infrastructure construction, aiming for the scale of global data centers operated by Alibaba Cloud to exceed 20GW by 2032. Meanwhile, Pingtouge released the strongest domestic AI chip Zhenwu V900, with computing power increased to three times that of Zhenwu M890, and the annual shipment volume is expected to increase significantly.

Data Center Watch data shows that from April to June, approximately 45 data center projects in the United States were halted or delayed due to opposition from local residents and communities, with a total value of $68 billion. The agency added that communities across the country are now pushing for bans on new data center construction, often taking action even before developers apply for relevant permits.In the first quarter of this year, a total of 75 data center projects in the United States faced opposition, involving approximately $130 billion. The 45 projects affected in the second quarter accounted for more than half of all large new projects tracked during the same period. This year, state legislatures in about 30 states have proposed or passed regulations related to data center siting, electricity, and water usage. Currently, there are 843 groups opposing data centers across 49 states in the U.S., excluding Hawaii.Miquel Vila, Chief Analyst at Data Center Watch, stated: New opposition groups are continuously emerging, and opposition actions are appearing in more and more states and local government jurisdictions, with the number of signatures on online petitions also steadily increasing. A petition opposing a data center project in Tennessee has garnered over 500,000 signatures on Change.org. The agency reported protests against data centers outside the United States for the first time, specifically mentioning several countries in Europe, as well as Australia and South Africa.