Data Center Industrials


October 7, 2026

Behind the Meter: Q3-2026 Earnings Sneak Peek; Data Center Delays – The Pipeline Is Leaking. The Guidance Isn’t. Yet.

By Gordon L. Johnson II

Mapping twelve weeks of project slippage (mid-July to October 6) onto GEV, VRT, MOD, TLN and peers, and asking whether any of it reaches 2026 guidance Set-Up. Since the Q2-2026 reports, the news on data…

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October 1, 2026

Behind the Meter: Musings from this Week’s Yotta Conference in Las Vegas

By Gordon L. Johnson II

We spent two days at Caesars Forum with roughly 6,000 people who build, finance, power, and cool AI data centers. We went in with four worries: politics, the grid, the AI safety debate, and speculation…

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September 24, 2026

AI Complex Round Up Daily: Oracle/Project Jupiter – Not a Cancellation, Not “Just a Delay”; the Read-Across Is Bearish for Turbines and Chips

By Gordon L. Johnson II

Semantics matter here. Bloomberg reported this morning that Oracle (ORCL) served Blue Owl (OWL), developer of Project Jupiter in Doña Ana County, NM, with a force majeure notice designed to defer lease payments should the…

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September 23, 2026

AI Complex Round Up Daily: Plenty of Chips, “Short on Checks”

By Gordon L. Johnson II

The buildout is still physically tight. The money behind it is not. After three months of dead money, the signal has moved from the order book to the capital stack. What happened. SB Energy, SoftBank’s…

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September 23, 2026

Behind the Meter: AI Data Centers – Texas and Loudoun County, VA Hit Pause. Do “the Slots” Follow?

By Gordon L. Johnson II

Two of the largest U.S. data center markets now have the brakes on at the same time. The market is reading it as a zoning story. Could it become an equipment story? What happened. Texas…

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September 17, 2026

Behind the Meter: Musings from Morgan Stanley’s 14th Annual Laguna Conference – Siemens Sold Out Through 2031, and the Seller is the Most Careful Person in the Room

By Gordon L. Johnson II

Siemens Energy at Laguna: delivery slots, capacity discipline, the service tail nobody was asking about, and why a rocket company wants to make turbine vanes. Notes from the session, which GLJ was privileged to join…

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September 16, 2026

Behind the Meter: “Scalpers” Emerge in the Turbine Queue

By Gordon L. Johnson II

A resale market for gas-turbine delivery slots has opened. The first price tells us the line is real. The sellers tell us how the “night is going to go”. Bottom Line Someone just sold their…

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