AI’s Data-Center Boom Turns Into a Balance-Sheet Race
Wednesday, July 8, 2026 · 11 min
Anthropic and TeraWulf’s 401MW Kentucky lease leads a data-center finance day: Mels Dees at Techzine and Ana-Maria Stanciuc at The Next Web trace how AI capacity is moving through long leases, bank debt, and power delivery.
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Anthropic and TeraWulf’s 401MW Kentucky lease leads a data-center finance day: Mels Dees at Techzine and Ana-Maria Stanciuc at The Next Web trace how AI capacity is moving through long leases, bank debt, and power delivery.
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- AI company signs $19 billion lease on Hancock County site | State News | thenewsenterprise.com — The News-Enterprise
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- Nscale closes a $900m revolving credit facility to fund its data-centre build-out — The Next Web
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- Galaxy Completes Phase I of Its Helios Data Center Campus, Delivering 133 Megawatts of Critical IT Load to CoreWeave — CNW
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