North American Blue Energy Partners, the Trump administration-backed driller for Venezuelan oil, plans to more than double crude output in just over two years.
MoneyLIVE North America starts today in Chicago.
Utila will be there meeting banks, fintechs, payment companies, and infrastructure teams building around stablecoins, treasury flows, governance, and digital asset operations.
The North American data center pipeline is now 404 GW.
At current build rates
It would take 13.1 years to clear it, a new high
Also a new high is the stranded capacity (delayed + cancelled + not approved/withdrawn)
It jumped +6.5 GW in August, more than the +4 GW that actually entered construction.
That pushed stranded capacity to 12% of the pipeline.
Power, permits, and politics decide what actually gets built.
The North American data-center building boom has pushed Canadian general contractor Bird to the top of Canada’s S&P/TSX Composite index, beating out tech companies and gold miners