2G Energy, the German maker of gas engine power plants, has received a 275 MW order from Energy Vault for AI and data center projects in the US, including hyperscaler sites. Deliveries run from the fourth quarter of 2027 through the third quarter of 2028. The value wasn’t disclosed. Power that doesn’t wait for the grid The reason for the deal is simple. Data centers need power now, and grid connections in many US regions take years.

CGI, the Canadian IT services giant, has formed a strategic partnership with D-Wave Quantum to move enterprise clients from quantum experiments to production. It builds on more than a year of joint work. Under the deal, CGI adds D-Wave’s quantum platforms to its advanced technology services. It will help clients find use cases worth pursuing, test them, and then deploy them. The two will also co-develop quantum-enabled solutions. Where quantum is earning its keep The focus is optimization, the kind of problem where the number of possible answers explodes, like schedules, routes and allocations.

Texas has stopped connecting new data centers to its grid. The order came from Governor Greg Abbott in late August, and ERCOT acted within hours, suspending the study process that developers had been waiting on. The Public Utility Commission now has to audit what is sitting in the queue before anything else moves. What’s in the queue is the story. Requests from data centers and other large loads have gone from roughly 48 gigawatts in 2023 to more than 474 gigawatts.

Russia thought it had a windfall coming. When the Iran war effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz and sent oil prices surging, Moscow was positioned to pocket around $760 million a day from energy exports. War elsewhere was becoming a revenue stream. Ukraine had other plans. In the span of five days, Ukrainian drones struck Russia’s two largest Baltic oil export facilities — Ust-Luga and Primorsk — three separate times. Then came a fourth hit: the KINEF Kirishi refinery, one of Russia’s largest, processing around 350,000 barrels a day.