The Globe and Mail reports Anthropic is negotiating to lease Beacon Data Centers' Sturgeon County campus near Edmonton. Alberta approved a co-located 920 MW gas plant on Oct 23: 200 Jenbacher engines in 40 modules, construction expected this quarter, in service late 2027. No lease is signed. Another AI load pairing the plant with the campus.
Foxconn Industrial Internet chairman Brand Cheng told Reuters more than 10 humanoid robots are deployed for internal use at Houston facilities, with wheeled models for lifting and assembly work using NVIDIA's GR00T. The company is testing robots on its own Texas AI-server lines first, before any wider rollout.
Chevron CFO Eimear Bonner said Project Kilby, a 2.67 GW behind-the-meter gas plant for Microsoft in West Texas, remains on track for first power in 2028 and full energization in 2031 despite Governor Abbott's data center permit pause. An oil major acting as power developer for a tech customer, off the grid queue.
Emro won a contract to build a procurement agent for GS Caltex covering about 2,700 small-value material purchases a year, The Elec reported. The agent is meant to run from request through quotation, supplier pick and purchase order, with unclear cases handed back to staff. Low-dollar, rule-heavy buying is where agents earn trust first. Separate from the GS Caltex troubleshooting agent already on the Feed.