Data Center Power & Behind-the-Meter Generation
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Generation and storage sited at or next to AI/cloud campuses so the load does not wait on a transmission queue. Common stacks pair gas turbines or engines with on-site BESS; some designs add behind-the-meter solar. Hyperscalers and developers announced multi-hundred-megawatt gas+BESS campuses in 2025–2026 to serve rack-scale AI halls.
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Data Center Power & Behind-the-Meter Generation
AGent Energy $11M Series Seed
Series Seed co-led by Spero Ventures and MassMutual Ventures; Intrepid, CIV and ZIP participated. Brings stated total funding to $17M in first 12 months /PR Newswire / AGent Energy AGent Energy Closes Series Seed to Unlock 200+ GW of Behind-the-Meter Generation Across Commercial, Industrial, and Institutional Sectors/.
CoreWeave completes first Vera Rubin NVL72 bring-up
CoreWeave completed the industry's first bring-up and validation of NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 on CoreWeave Cloud, standing up the rack-scale system with power, cooling, networking, and compute verified and running /CoreWeave CoreWeave Completes Industry-First Bring-Up and Validation of NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72/ /CoreWeave NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 on CoreWeave: 10x More Tokens Per Megawatt Than Blackwell/.
Constellation–Microsoft 20-year PPA to restart TMI Unit 1 (Crane CCEC)
20-year PPA with Microsoft; TMI Unit 1 restart as Crane Clean Energy Center; expected online 2028 /Constellation Energy Constellation to Launch Crane Clean Energy Center/.