Weekly roundup 2026 · Week 29
AI Buildout Roundup — 2026 · Week 29
545 public construction-phase signals tracked this week across the AI infrastructure buildout.
The week of July 13, 2026 recorded 545 verified construction signals across 17 sectors. Power led with 167 signals; the most active companies were totalenergies, hanwha, and wartsila.
Signals this week
545
Sectors
17
By sector
Power · 167Data Center · 122Oil & Gas · 45Midstream (Oil & Gas) · 44Industrial Manufacturing · 28LNG · 26Semiconductor · 20Battery Supply Chain · 18Alternative Fuels · 16Metals & Mining · 15Upstream (Oil & Gas) · 13Terminals · 11Chemical · 10Food & Beverage · 6Downstream (Oil & Gas) · 2Pharmaceutical & Biotech · 1Pulp, Paper & Wood · 1
Signals
Jul 19
TOTE, Hanwha Philly Shipyard Selected to Build New U.S. Missile Defense Vessels
Jul 19
Navigator Gas JV selects Wärtsilä ammonia engines for two new gas carriers
Jul 19
Louisiana Governor Issues Order for Data Center Tax Exemption Framework
Jul 19
Google to purchase power from new Steel River solar project in Mississippi County
Jul 19
Applied Digital expands in North Dakota, eyes Oliver County for third data center
Jul 19
Anthropic in early talks with Meta to acquire compute power
Jul 19
Township changes course, nixing cap on tax break for $43B Oracle, OpenAI data center near Ann Arbor
Jul 19
This permit, common for dry cleaners, is now being used to build AI power plants
Jul 19
Google buys solar power in Arkansas
Jul 19
Google agrees to purchase 100% of power from largest solar-plus-storage project in U.S.
Jul 19
Duos Edge AI secures $111M data center contract in Georgia
Jul 19
Navy Puts Commercial Firm Above Defense Shipyards in $2.2B LSM Contract
Jul 19
Aecon consortium awarded contract for the Winnipeg North End Sewage Treatment Plant Upgrade – Biosolids Facilities progressive design-build project
Jul 18
Philippines Energy Company Junk Coal Plant & Break Ground on Latest BESS
Jul 18
New AI tool brings transparency to the solar buying process
Jul 18
Apple briefly tops Nvidia as world's most valuable company in AI shift
Jul 18
SpaceXAI Provides Near IMMEDIATE Gigawatt Scale AI Data Center Capacity
Jul 18
Project Jupiter air quality permit hearing set for October in Sunland Park
Jul 18
SLB OneSubsea awarded major umbilical contract by Eni for offshore Indonesia project
Jul 18
TSMC eyes 4 more Arizona chip plants after $100B expansion
Jul 18
TSMC boosts Arizona fab investment by $100B after strong second quarter
Jul 18
Meta, Anthropic in talks for potential $10 billion compute lease deal, NYT reports
Jul 18
Anthropic is in early talks to lease $10 billion in compute from Meta
Jul 18
Vulcan Energy Hits 52-Week Low as Lionheart Construction Begins — Can Citigroup’s Entry Stem the
Jul 18
Construction begins for second data center in the Angelina County area
Jul 18
Masdar Achieves Financial Close On $6.1 Billion 24/7 Clean Energy Project
Jul 18
Northrop Grumman Holds Groundbreaking Event for New Utah Facility
Jul 18
Aecon consortium awarded contract for the Winnipeg North End Sewage Treatment Plant Upgrade – Biosolids Facilities progressive design-build project
Jul 18
The Bull Case For SLB (SLB) Could Change Following Baleine Phase 3 Subsea Award And New Hubs
Jul 18
SLB Wins Multi-Well EPC Contract for the Baleine Phase 3 Development
Jul 18
SLB OneSubsea Awarded EPC Contract for Eni’s Baleine Phase 3 Project Offshore Côte d'Ivoire
Jul 18
Lodestone Energy Breaks Ground on KES 4.2 Billion Agrivoltaic Solar Farm
Jul 18
Sierra Club North Carolina Reacts: NextEra & Dominion File Application to Merge, Form Country’s Largest Utility
Jul 18
New Jersey Opens Door to New Nuclear Plant Development
Jul 18
Energy Transfer seeks to expand gas plant with history of problems in Washington County
Jul 18
DePoly inaugurates first-of-its-kind depolymerization facility in Switzerland
Jul 18
Key Milestone for the H2med Corridor: BarMar Maritime Pipeline Project Moves Into the Detailed Engineering Phase (FEED)
Jul 18
IDF and Oaktree back $1.7bn Bloom Energy project for AI infrastructure
Jul 18
TotalEnergies and partners open hybrid renewable project in South Africa
Jul 18
Baker Hughes wraps up $13.6bn Chart Industries acquisition
Jul 18
TotalEnergies and partners open hybrid renewable project in South Africa
Jul 18
Balbec Raises $930M For Fund To Target Commercial, Residential Debt
Jul 18
Brookfield's Csquare Misses IPO Target As Data Center Cost Skepticism Rises
Jul 17
DATA CENTERS: Data Centers And Local Labor Markets
Jul 17
Quality Companies expands manufacturing footprint in Louisiana
Jul 17
SC PSC Won’t Reconsider Its Approval of Edisto River Gas-Fired Plant
Jul 17
Coal Miners Show Up at WV Gas Plant Hearing to Oppose Project
Jul 17
Amazon’s Bucks County Data Center to Use 280 Gas Backup Generators
Jul 17
Dominion Advances Plan for New 3 GW Gas-Fired Power Plant in Va.
Jul 17
Texas LNG export terminal project secures $500 million investment
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