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AI-Gen Daily: AI News by AI

AI-Gen Daily: AI News by AI

Avi Hacker 232 Episodes Oct 13, 2026

AI-Gen Daily is a daily podcast that delivers the latest artificial intelligence news, generated entirely by AI. Each episode offers concise updates on breakthrough algorithms, industry changes, and tech innovations, presented with a touch of humor. The show uses advanced language models to curate and present news in a no-fluff style, making it ideal for AI professionals and tech enthusiasts during a commute or coffee break. It provides an entertaining and informative take on AI, as AI itself reports on AI developments.

Episodes

Digi Power X Lands $200M Goldman Debt for 40 MW Alabama AI Campus - CRE AI Briefing, Oct 13, 2026
Digi Power X Lands $200M Goldman Debt for 40 MW Alabama AI Campus - CRE AI Briefing, Oct 13, 2026 Oct 13, 2026 00:01:47 Digi Power X said it received a commitment letter for $200 million in project-level debt, syndicated by Goldman Sachs, to complete its 40 MW AI data center in Columbiana, Alabama, with closing targeted inside 90 days if definitive documents and lender diligence clear. The structure uses a project SPV and an unsecured company guarantee through completion, while the company reported about $135 milli
Indiana Clears $1.3B Google Power Plan Under New Cost Law - CRE AI Briefing, Oct 12, 2026
Indiana Clears $1.3B Google Power Plan Under New Cost Law - CRE AI Briefing, Oct 12, 2026 Oct 12, 2026 00:01:51 Per AES Indiana, Google will cover 100% of its incremental energy and new infrastructure costs for a 390 MW data center in Monrovia under a roughly $1.3 billion power plan the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission approved unanimously, the first case under the state's 2025 large-load cost law. In North Carolina, a Duke Energy settlement backed by Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft would set
Hillsboro Moves to Cut Data Center Land 90%, to 608 Acres - CRE AI Briefing, Oct 11, 2026
Hillsboro Moves to Cut Data Center Land 90%, to 608 Acres - CRE AI Briefing, Oct 11, 2026 Oct 11, 2026 00:01:50 Hillsboro, Oregon data centers got $84 million in local property tax breaks last year (per The Oregonian), and the council just advanced an ordinance capping primary-use data center land at 608 acres, down from about 6,600, ahead of an October 20 final vote. In Hudspeth County, Texas, a roughly $15 billion self-powered data center surfaced on private land with no abatement request and limited coun
Taylor, Texas: 500 MW Data Center Approved With $28.2M in Strings - CRE AI Briefing, Oct 10, 2026
Taylor, Texas: 500 MW Data Center Approved With $28.2M in Strings - CRE AI Briefing, Oct 10, 2026 Oct 10, 2026 00:01:49 Big Watt Digital and PowerHouse Data Centers won a 5-0 Taylor City Council vote on a 664-acre, gas-powered data center campus, with no tax abatements, reclaimed-water cooling and a developer-projected $1.38 billion in city tax revenue over 20 years. The same Thursday night, Lexington, Kentucky's council voted 11-0 to extend its data center moratorium through October 2027, freezing development plan
Firmus: $5B IPO Pulled With Just 46 of 912 MW Live - CRE AI Briefing, Oct 9, 2026
Firmus: $5B IPO Pulled With Just 46 of 912 MW Live - CRE AI Briefing, Oct 9, 2026 Oct 9, 2026 00:01:49 Nvidia-backed AI data center operator Firmus withdrew its planned ASX listing this week, a raise reported at about US$5 billion, amid investor concerns over its price, roughly US$30 billion of expected build-out debt and only about 5% of contracted capacity running. Separately, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs are marketing a $5 billion Volta loan at about an 11% yield, with $1.3 billion set to cash-col
Manatee County: 12-Month Freeze on Data Center Permits, Rezonings - CRE AI Briefing, Oct 8, 2026
Manatee County: 12-Month Freeze on Data Center Permits, Rezonings - CRE AI Briefing, Oct 8, 2026 Oct 9, 2026 00:01:50 Florida's Manatee County adopted Ordinance 26-42 on Oct. 8, a 12-month moratorium on new building permits, site plans, rezonings and comprehensive plan amendments for data centers and other large-load facilities. In California, Indio extended its data center moratorium through Oct. 16, 2027 while staff draft a ban in mixed-use, non-residential and public institutional zones. For CRE owners and dev
Meta's $27B Hyperion Bond Hits Record Low Near 91 Cents - CRE AI Briefing, Oct 7, 2026
Meta's $27B Hyperion Bond Hits Record Low Near 91 Cents - CRE AI Briefing, Oct 7, 2026 Oct 7, 2026 00:01:52 Bonds financing Meta's Louisiana Hyperion AI data center, held off balance sheet by Beignet Investor LLC, fell to about 91 cents on the dollar on Oct. 7 as investors weighed 2049 maturities against Meta's four-year initial lease. The Wall Street Journal reports Oracle is in talks with Apollo and Goldman Sachs on a similar off-balance-sheet chip lease-back for a 1 GW data center. For CRE lenders an
Google: 3.6 GW Deal, Only 890 MW New Under PJM Cutoff Plan - CRE AI Briefing, Oct 6, 2026
Google: 3.6 GW Deal, Only 890 MW New Under PJM Cutoff Plan - CRE AI Briefing, Oct 6, 2026 Oct 6, 2026 00:01:48 Google has contracted 3,590 MW (about 3.6 GW) from Constellation Energy in the PJM grid, but only 890 MW of it is new capacity: a 20-year deal funding upgrades at 11 nuclear units in Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, backed by more than $4.3 billion of Constellation investment, with the first uprate expected by 2028. The other 2,700 MW is a 15-year supply agreement from Constellation's existi
TeraWulf: $100M Bill Credits for 1 GW Still Unapproved - CRE AI Briefing, Oct 5, 2026
TeraWulf: $100M Bill Credits for 1 GW Still Unapproved - CRE AI Briefing, Oct 5, 2026 Oct 5, 2026 00:01:41 TeraWulf has amended its electric service agreement with Kentucky Power, doubling contracted capacity at its Muskie Data Campus in eastern Kentucky from 500 MW to 1 GW and moving the second 500 MW phase up from 2030 to 2029. Kentucky Power says TeraWulf will fund $100 million in winter bill credits for residential customers over the first 10 years (roughly $25 a month for a typical home in heating
Google Pine Island: $1B Ratepayer Cost Fight - CRE AI Briefing, Oct 4, 2026
Google Pine Island: $1B Ratepayer Cost Fight - CRE AI Briefing, Oct 4, 2026 Oct 4, 2026 00:01:45 Minnesota's attorney general is challenging the Xcel Energy electric service agreement behind Google's Pine Island data center. Xcel says the deal delivers more than $1.1 billion in net benefits to its other customers; the attorney general's office says the value is closer to $1 billion in net costs and warns ratepayers could face billions in costs after the 15-year term ends. Xcel disagrees and s
Fermi: $6.5B 222 MW Lease Still Unclosed - CRE AI Briefing, Oct 3, 2026
Fermi: $6.5B 222 MW Lease Still Unclosed - CRE AI Briefing, Oct 3, 2026 Oct 3, 2026 00:01:40 Fermi's TensorWave lease on Project Matador is still unclosed: about $6.5 billion in expected revenue over a 15-year term for a 222 MW phase one. The lease is binding but not effective until closing, extended to October 31, 2026, while Texas Tech's December 31 notice to proceed needs a signed Phase 1 tenant lease of at least 200 MW or the ground lease can terminate. Jayton, Texas filings put two b
Apollo: $15B Japan Campus Needs 400 MW - CRE AI Briefing, Oct 2, 2026
Apollo: $15B Japan Campus Needs 400 MW - CRE AI Briefing, Oct 2, 2026 Oct 2, 2026 00:01:42 Apollo is backing more than $15 billion for a Japan AI campus that taps up to 400 MW behind the meter at JERA's Chiba thermal plant, with operations targeted around 2028. Michigan's PSC locked Google into a 20-year DTE contract with an 80% minimum demand charge and Google funding up to 1,600 MW of renewables plus 480 MW of storage so other ratepayers do not carry the risk. Oracle's Project Jupiter

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