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Last updated May 17, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

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Monday, May 18, 2026 pre-market.

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Monday, May 18, 2026 pre-market.

GPU

AWS adds B200 capacity in GovCloud

AWS says EC2 P6-B200 instances with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs are available in AWS GovCloud (US-West), expanding the official regional footprint to monitor.

Source: AWS

Power

FERC large-load action is due by June

FERC says it will act by June 2026 on large-load interconnection reforms, a key policy lane for data-center and AI infrastructure growth.

Source: FERC

Power

ERCOT forecast highlights large-load pressure

ERCOT's preliminary long-term forecast points to rapid Texas demand growth, keeping power availability central to AI compute deployment timing.

Source: ERCOT

Cloud

OCI pushes Blackwell workstation-class compute

Oracle announced general availability of OCI Compute with NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell 6000 GPUs, adding another official Blackwell product lane to track.

Source: Oracle

Terafab

Terafab stays on watch, not the tape

Track filings and official disclosures, but keep proposed capacity separate from delivered capacity until source-backed milestones exist.