Luke Vargas

Talk us through this.

John, with all of this build out underway, is there a risk of overcapacity here?

It sounds like based on your report, another potential risk here is local pushback, resistance in various communities to new and existing projects, which would then in turn trigger regulation.

And this could stem from anything from the amount of power these facilities are drawing to something else that Moody's Ratings has been highlighting lately, water usage.

You mentioned big tech companies should be able to find a use for these data centers, and most of them also have quite robust balance sheets.

So is the credit risk then here primarily among the developers or financiers of these projects, especially with more of them being backed by debt?

John Medina is Senior Vice President of Moody's Ratings Global Project and Infrastructure Finance Group.

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