Data Center Build-Out Network
The Data Center Build-Out: Capital, Power, Policy & Opposition Network. Traces who finances, builds, powers, lobbies for, regulates and opposes the 2024-2026 AI data-center build-out: hyperscalers (OpenAI/Oracle/SoftBank/MGX Stargate, Meta Hyperion, xAI Colossus, Google, Microsoft, Amazon), operators and REITs (Equinix, Digital Realty, QTS, AirTrunk, EdgeConneX, CoreWeave), private capital and pension/sovereign funds (Blackstone, EQT/Salata/EdgeConneX, Brookfield, KKR, CPP Investments, Saudi PIF/HUMAIN, MGX), the power chain (NextEra-Dominion $67B merger, Constellation/Microsoft Crane nuclear restart, Vistra-Meta 2.6 GW PPAs, Google-Kairos SMRs, AWS-Talen Susquehanna, Entergy/Meta Louisiana, GE Vernova 116 GW turbine backlog, Chevron-Engine No.1 4 GW gas JV), regulators (FERC Order RD26-7000, NERC, LPSC, PJM), the Harvard funding web behind the Sept 2026 Elhai-Zhou grid-externality paper (HEEP sponsors Chevron/Enel, Salata Institute, LEAP, Chae-Blackstone and Griffin-Citadel grants, Aterio data vendor), the policy fight (15-state moratorium wave, Data Center Coalition lobbying), and the opposition (Data Center Watch $200B H1-2026 disruption, Annenberg 61% opposition poll, Sierra Club/UCS/EIP litigation).