Related Digital secures $16B financing for Oracle data center, AbbVie announces a $1.4B campus coming to North Carolina, Bechtel breaks ground on America’s first next gen nuclear plant in Wyoming and Ferrara invests $675M in South Carolina for a candy plant. Meanwhile, Google is confirmed to be developing a second campus in Georgia, a $4.6B highway job breaks ground near Atlanta and a new AI powered bid intelligence platform goes live. Let’s dive in!

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Related Digital has secured financing for a $16 billion data center campus in Saline Township, Michigan, purpose built for Oracle.

The deal brings together equity from Related Digital and Blackstone, with long term fixed rate debt anchored by PIMCO managed funds. Bank of America served as structuring agent, with Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo also advising.

The project was announced in October 2025 and broke ground in February 2026, with Detroit based Walbridge serving as general contractor. The campus is targeting completion in Q4 2027.

Nicknamed "The Barn" after a historic red barn at its entrance, the campus will house three single story buildings with more than a gigawatt of capacity. It is being developed as part of Oracle's partnership with OpenAI to expand AI compute infrastructure nationwide.

DTE Energy will supply 100% of the project's power, with battery storage financed entirely by Oracle. The project will create 2,500 plus union construction jobs and 450 plus permanent on site positions.

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AbbVie is investing $1.4 billion to build a 185-acre pharmaceutical manufacturing campus in Durham, North Carolina, near Research Triangle Park.

It marks the company's largest ever capital investment in a single campus and its first major footprint in the state. Construction begins this year, with completion expected by end of 2028.

The campus will support production of AbbVie's immunology, neuroscience and oncology medicines, integrating advanced manufacturing and lab technologies with AI.

The first phase includes small volume parenteral drug manufacturing facilities, next generation laboratories, a warehouse, and administrative and wellness facilities.

Over the next four years, AbbVie plans to hire 734 people including engineers, scientists and lab technicians. The project will also generate more than 2,000 construction jobs during development.

The investment is part of AbbVie's broader $100 billion commitment to U.S. research, development and manufacturing over the next decade.

TerraPower has broken ground on Kemmerer Unit 1 in Kemmerer, Wyoming, the first utility scale advanced nuclear power plant in the United States. Bechtel is serving as EPC contractor on the project. The plant features a 345 megawatt sodium cooled fast reactor with a molten salt energy storage system capable of boosting output to 500 megawatts at peak demand, enough to power around 400,000 homes. Approximately 1,600 construction workers will eventually work on the site with a 2031 operational target.

Ferrara Candy Company is investing $675 million to establish its first South Carolina operation in Orangeburg County, projected to create 1,000 jobs over the next 10 years. The Chicago based confectioner plans to build a 750,000 square foot facility at Highway 21 and Rowesville Road in Orangeburg. The facility will include processing, packaging, warehousing, and administrative areas. First production lines are expected to be operational in Q1 2029.

Google is developing a data center at 411 Pegasus Parkway in LaGrange, Troup County, Georgia, roughly 70 miles southwest of Atlanta. The 270 acre site marks the company's second data center in the state, joining its existing Douglas County campus. Google will cover all power and infrastructure costs for the new facility. Construction was already underway before the announcement, first surfacing publicly after the LaGrange Fire Department responded to an injured worker on site.

Georgia's SR 400 Express Lanes project broke ground April 22, covering 16 miles north of Atlanta from the North Springs MARTA Station to McFarland Parkway in Forsyth County. The $4.6 billion construction contract sits within a $10.8 billion total investment under a 56 year public private partnership awarded to consortium SR 400 Peach Partners. FlatironDragados and Acciona Construction lead the build, with Parsons as design engineer. The SR 400 Express lanes open in 2031.

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Azabudai Hills is a mixed use urban development in the heart of Tokyo, developed by Mori Building Company and Japan Post at a cost of approximately 640 billion yen.

The project covers 8.1 hectares and took more than 30 years from initial planning to completion, with construction beginning in August 2019 and the complex officially opening in November 2023.

The centerpiece is the Mori JP Tower, a 330 meter, 64 floor supertall designed by Pelli Clarke and Partners, making it Japan's tallest building. The tower incorporates multiple layers of seismic protection, including tuned mass dampers, viscous dampers, and a foundation anchored deep into bedrock.

Shimizu Corporation served as general contractor for the main tower and Residence B, with Sumitomo Mitsui Construction delivering Residence A and Obayashi Corporation handling the C District.

Fujitec installed 71 elevators and 39 escalators across the complex, including 16 double deck units designed to handle the high passenger volume of the development.

BidIntell, an AI powered bid intelligence platform built for commercial construction specialty subcontractors, has launched publicly out of Overland Park, Kansas.

The platform helps estimators and company owners decide which incoming bid invitations are worth pursuing before any takeoff work begins.

The platform reads each incoming bid invitation and produces a single BidIndex score on a 100 point scale, built around four components: Location Fit, Contract Terms, GC Relationship history, and Trade Match.

It also flags eleven categories of contract risk, including pay-when-paid clauses and liquidated damages, surfacing them in plain language within seconds of upload.

Every bid decision is logged as structured outcome data, building a private intelligence layer that tracks win rates by general contractor and identifies which project types actually convert.

The platform was founded by Ryan Elder, a 20 plus year commercial construction veteran.