CoreWeave (CRWV) and seven other AI infrastructure borrowers see bond spreads widen as a Goldman note says credit is ahead of stocks
We compared the same AI borrowers' bonds from Oct. 8 through Oct. 16, and every one widened while JNK barely moved. Now updated with what new debt would cost each borrower.
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.
TeraWulf (WULF) signed a deal to double power at its Kentucky AI campus to 1 GW. No customer is named.
The utility deal would move the Muskie campus's second phase up a year. The campus is separate from TeraWulf's Anthropic site in Kentucky.
JPMorgan double-upgrades IREN Ltd (IREN) as AI slowdown rattles peers
JPMorgan moved IREN two notches to overweight and lifted its target to $65 from $46, hours after co-CEO Daniel Roberts posted a long rebuttal to the calls for an AI slowdown. Every comparable name we checked fell on Monday. IREN did not.
TeraWulf (WULF) director Ted Carter sold $1.98 million of stock, his first sale in five years on the board
Ted Carter, a TeraWulf director since 2021 and its audit committee chair, sold 130,626 WULF shares on August 31 for $1.98 million. The Form 4 shows no trading plan, and it is his first sale since joining the board.
Anthropic is reportedly leasing an Nscale data center in West Virginia for $45 billion
Financial news wires report Anthropic will lease an Nscale data center in West Virginia for $45 billion, taking 460 megawatts, as Nscale is expected to spend about $71 billion to develop the site. Here is what is confirmed and who benefits.
Four states now publish how much announced data center demand they actually expect. All four throw out most of it.
Between December 2025 and August 2026, utilities and grid operators in four states each published their own count of how much announced data center demand they expect to serve. Seven filings, no shared method, and every one of them removes most of what it was asked for. None of the figures are new; the pattern across them is.
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.
Bitdeer (BTDR) filed to sell up to $1 billion of stock six days after its $4.7 billion Norway lease. Its remaining cost to finish the site is $500 million.
Bitdeer registered up to $1 billion of Class A shares on Monday, six days after announcing a 16-year, $4.7 billion colocation lease at Tydal. The tenant can walk at 10 years with no fee.
Meta (META) is giving $1 billion to its data center towns. Its capex budget this year runs to $145 billion.
Zuckerberg announced the Future Is For Everyone Fund inside his superintelligence essay on Monday. Meta put the size at $1 billion, against 2026 capex guidance of $130 billion to $145 billion.
Meta backed Texas's data center audit. Its $10 billion El Paso project sits outside the grid Abbott froze.
Governor Abbott's office said Meta will comply with the state's data center standards. Meta's largest Texas campus is not on the ERCOT grid, and the Texas Tribune reported the same day that its Fort Worth and El Paso abatements ran through Delaware shell companies. CleanSpark, whose entire 885 MW Texas portfolio is inside ERCOT, backed the audit on its own.
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.
Anthropic is paying $10 billion over six years for compute at a Norway data center owned by bitcoin miner Bitdeer (BTDR). The startup reselling it was founded in January.
Anthropic will pay $10 billion over six years for capacity at a hydro-powered Norway campus, Bloomberg reported. Bitdeer signed a separate 16-year, $4.7 billion lease with the seven-month-old startup running the site.
All seven Magnificent Seven stocks fell today. Here's where that money actually went (July 23, 2026)
All seven Magnificent Seven stocks were red by late morning Thursday, led by Tesla's 14% drop on an earnings miss and Alphabet's close-to-7% slide despite beating estimates, on another capex raise. Amazon and Meta sold off too ahead of next week's reports. The money didn't just leave, it rotated: into defense on Lockheed's earnings beat, and out of quantum, SaaS and space.
Cipher Digital (CIFR) is up 39% in two sessions, and its own AI news hasn't landed yet
Cipher Digital (CIFR) gained 39% in two trading sessions, but most of the credit belongs to Hut 8 and IREN's AI infrastructure deals. Cipher's own catalyst, its first AWS rent payment, doesn't land until August.
IREN signed $2.8 billion in AI contracts, and bitcoin miner stocks rallied with it
IREN closed up 19.6% after announcing $2.8 billion in new AI cloud contracts. Hut 8 and CleanSpark had data center lease news of their own, while CIFR, SLNH and KEEL rallied in sympathy. The fuel: Moonshot AI is turning away paying Kimi K3 subscribers because it ran out of GPU capacity.
Meta (META) is in talks to lease $10 billion of computing power to its rival Anthropic
The New York Times reports Meta is negotiating to lease AI rival Anthropic up to $10 billion in computing power, following the path SpaceX and TeraWulf already blazed.
Nebius (NBIS) signed a $1 billion deal this week. Its stock is down 14% today anyway, worse than the chipmakers.
Nebius signed a $1 billion, multi-year AI compute deal with Reflection AI, and its stock is still down about 14% today. The pressure has spread well past chips: CoreWeave, crypto miners like IREN and Cipher Mining, power stocks like Talen Energy and Vistra, and now New York's data-center moratorium and a Trump-Hochul clash are all weighing on the same trade.
Big tech is about to spend $725 billion on AI data centers. That's not what a bubble looks like.
Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet and Meta are guiding to roughly $725 billion in combined AI capex for 2026, up 77% from last year. States are moving to regulate the data centers that money builds, but the real risk to watch is that spending now outpaces free cash flow.
The Close, July 14: IBM lost a quarter of its value, and SK Hynix's Nasdaq stock jumped 27%
IBM lost about a quarter of its value in a single session after a weak preliminary report, and the damage spread across enterprise software. SK Hynix's brand-new Nasdaq stock went the other way, jumping 27% on a day chips broadly rallied.
Bitcoin miners are becoming AI landlords. Here's how far each one has actually gotten.
Eight bitcoin miners are pitching the same AI pivot, but they're nowhere near equally far along. IREN, TeraWulf and Core Scientific now earn more from AI than from mining. Hut 8, Cipher and Applied Digital have tens of billions in signed leases that haven't started billing. CleanSpark, the last to sign, now has Meta as its tenant. Updated September 20, 2026.
New York froze new data centers for a year, and TeraWulf just became the day's biggest loser because of it. Nebius, close behind, has nothing to do with New York.
Governor Hochul signed a first-in-the-nation moratorium on new hyperscale data centers today, and TeraWulf (WULF) fell 6.7%, the hardest hit in the group, because it owns exactly the kind of project the order targets. Nebius (NBIS) fell almost as much, and Digital Realty (DLR) also dropped on real New York exposure, but Nebius and CoreWeave (CRWV) have nothing to do with Albany.
Inflation fell for the first time since 2020, the Kospi closed green, and IBM still crashed 23% (July 14, 2026)
June CPI fell 0.4%, the first monthly decline since 2020, and chips bounced. Then IBM missed on preliminary results, lost roughly 23%, and dragged Workday, ServiceNow and Adobe down with it. CleanSpark jumped 8% on a $6.6 billion AI data center lease, and the Kospi closed green before the CPI number even existed.
TeraWulf is borrowing $3.5 billion for its Anthropic data center. Here's what that means for the stock (WULF)
TeraWulf is raising $3.5 billion in debt, its first-ever leveraged loan deal, to build the Kentucky campus behind its $19 billion Anthropic lease. The stock is up again today, but the move is more complicated than it looks.