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AI buildouts shift bottleneck risk into long-term power contracts

SIG/003Opened 02 SEP 26Updated 02 SEP 26TickersBEMSFTCVX

Thesis

Author: Freeman Lewin

AI data-center expansion is shifting from ordinary utility procurement to long-duration, capital-heavy power agreements, making contracted megawatts and counterparty risk the new gating variables. The claim is falsified if these agreements fail to produce rising financed capacity and delivered megawatts, or if grid-connection lead times fall despite continued buildout growth. Test it with project-level power-contract terms, committed and delivered megawatts, generation technology, financing status, interconnection dates, commissioning slippage, and offtaker-supplier exposure.

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Events

2 supporting
  1. 02 SEP 11:05Yahoo Finance

    Brookfield Quintupled Its AI Power Framework to $25 Billion. Bloom Gets the Opportunity, but Who Takes the Risk?

    Our read

    Brookfield's fivefold expansion to $25 billion indicates that AI power supply is becoming a dedicated infrastructure-financing stack rather than a routine operating input. Bloom's involvement highlights where technology, delivery, and financing risks migrate.

    BEcapex-expansion eventfinance.yahoo.com

  2. 02 SEP 10:58Yahoo Finance

    Microsoft Signed a 20-Year AI Power Deal With Chevron. Is Power Becoming the New Chip Shortage?

    Our read

    A 20-year Microsoft-Chevron agreement shows hyperscalers locking in electricity supply and transferring duration, construction, and operating risk far beyond normal power-purchasing cycles.

    MSFTcapex-expansion eventfinance.yahoo.com

Datasets

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    [withheld] — Proprietary hyperscale data center credibility and power-buildout database — project-level records scoring 1,000+ announced US data center projects (>50MW) on 8 credibility factors, linked to power generation/storage projects, equipment contracts, permits and filings. ~49 employees, $28M total funding (Seed stage) — mid-size specialty B2B data/research vendor. Use cases: Utility/IPP generation planning and underwriting, project finance/lender bankability assessment, OEM/supplier market sizing and pricing, hyperscaler/developer site-economics benchmarking

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    [withheld] — Proprietary compiled U.S. data center delay/interconnection tracking database — merges public dockets, litigation filings, ISO interconnection queue rows (32,326 total), utility PUC actions, and local moratorium/zoning records into one structured, continuously-updated tracker with project-level metadata (location, MW, status, cause, sources). Very small team (1 employee per company profile) but a large compiled dataset: 224 tracked delayed/cancelled projects, 658 local restriction records, 227 utility actions, 39 active lawsuits, 32,326 interconnection queue rows. Use cases: …

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    [withheld] — Proprietary global data-center infrastructure intelligence database — tracks 20,100+ distinct facilities, 126K+ substations, and 94K+ transmission lines across 170+ countries, with a proprietary '[withheld] Power Index' (DCPI) scoring methodology, real-time grid telemetry across 7 ISOs/NERC regions, fiber, M&A activity, and market analytics, delivered via a documented REST + MCP API with a free tier and paid scalable plans. Very small team (2 employees per company profile, Phoenix, AZ, US) operating a globally-scaled dataset (20,100+ facilities across 170+ countries, 126K+ substations, 9…

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    [withheld] — Normalized U.S. & Canada grid and utility data API — unifies transmission interconnection queues (7 ISOs/RTOs), distribution/DG interconnection queues, data-center and large-load demand tracking, and FERC/state PUC regulatory filings into one cross-linked entity graph, delivered via REST API with daily snapshots and event streams. Early-stage API startup (no employee/funding data found via standard provider lookup); product covers 7 ISOs/RTOs plus distribution queues across many states/utilities and U.S. + Canada regulatory filings — broad technical scope for a likely small team.…

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    [withheld] — Proprietary construction-intelligence signal feed for the data center / AI infrastructure sector — aggregates permits, EPC contractor awards, interconnection filings, and construction-start events from 45+ primary sources into a structured, continuously-updated signal database with per-project/per-developer tagging. Small/early-stage vertical SaaS (sector-specific tracker with a 'Start trial' funnel); tracks 1,800+ signals across 45+ sources for the data center sector alone, suggesting a lean but data-intensive operation. Use cases: Construction market intelligence for EPC contrac…

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