Texas and Georgia elected governors who want data center pauses. Amazon (AMZN) and Microsoft (MSFT) rose more than 6%.
Both new governors campaigned on pausing data center construction. Investors sold the companies building and powering those sites and bought the cloud companies paying for them.
TeraWulf (WULF) gets Wall Street backing as shares fall 15% in a week
Morgan Stanley says TeraWulf is mispriced, while Cantor cut its target and still called the stock a generational buy.
Anthropic's $35 billion Lambda deal runs through Hut 8's (HUT) mystery Texas campus, WSJ reports
The Wall Street Journal reports Anthropic signed a $35 billion cloud deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda. Nvidia is leasing the 704MW Hut 8 (HUT) campus in Texas that carried a $19.6 billion lease with no named tenant, and HUT rose about 3.5% after hours.
Hedge Fund Citadel already held every stock in Leopold Aschenbrenner's book before buying it
Citadel's own quarterly filing, out Friday, already listed every stock in Leopold Aschenbrenner's book, about a month before it bought the book. The catch is what those holdings actually mean.
Riot Platforms (RIOT) postponed its earnings call. Six days later it announced a $9.1 billion AI lease
Riot pulled its August 5 call with no reason and no date, and the stock got punished for it. The rescheduled call landed a 20-year, 191 MW Rockdale lease with an unnamed frontier AI lab worth $9.1 billion, on interconnection Texas already approved before it froze the queue.
Texas froze new data center grid connections pending an audit of 474 gigawatts in requests. Bernstein says Cipher (CIFR) and CleanSpark (CLSK) are the most exposed.
Governor Greg Abbott ordered the PUCT and ERCOT to audit every data center seeking a grid connection, and new approvals are frozen until it is done. Bernstein says already-approved megawatts just got more valuable, and named Cipher (CIFR), CleanSpark (CLSK) and Core Scientific (CORZ) as the most exposed.