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Meta’s ‘Project Walleye’ Ohio data centre is seeking $3bn in loans where lenders will fund both construction and power — a historic first in hyperscale project...
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There was a moment, somewhere in the fog of mid-2025, when the prevailing consensus on Wall Street and in the marble corridors of multilateral institutions was...
Nguyen Thi Lan still remembers the WhatsApp messages that flooded her factory floor in Bac Ninh on the morning of April 3, 2025. The production manager...