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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  Tumut 3 Power Station Opens as Australia's First Pumped-Storage Plant

  Snowy HydroTumut 3 Power Station, near Talbingo, New South Wales, Australia

  Starts 10/23/1972CONFIRMED82% CONFIDENCE53.9 years agoA contemporary Canberra Times report (as quoted by Tumut local history archives) states Tumut 3 Power Station opened on 23 October 1972; Wikipedia^[2] corroborates the station entering service in the early 1970s.

  Tumut 3 became Australia's first major pumped-storage hydroelectric plant, eventually reaching 1,800 MW of generating capacity as part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme. Three of its six units, fed by Talbingo Dam, can also pump water back uphill overnight at a combined 600 MW using cheap off-peak power.

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  National Gas Marks £350M Hydrogen-Ready Investment

  National GasPeterborough Gas Compressor Station, Glinton, Peterborough, United Kingdom

  Starts 06/30/2025CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE1.2 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "Former Industry Minister Sarah Jones visited Peterborough's Compressor Station in 2025 to mark a £350 million investment in National Gas's^[2] hydrogen-ready infrastructure."

  National Gas marked a £350M investment in hydrogen-ready compressor infrastructure shared across three sites, Peterborough among them, part of preparing Britain's gas transmission network for a lower-carbon future.

  £350M

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• Energy09/23/2026@EnergyDesk

  B&W Wins Engineering Study for Alberta Air-Storage and Hydrogen Hub

  Babcock & Wilcox·…Marguerite Lake 826S substation, Municipal District of Bonnyville, Alberta, Canada

  Starts 10/28/2025CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE330 days agoStated as done, per B&W's release "(AKRON, Ohio – October 28, 2025)": "announced today that it has been awarded a contract by Cache Power Corp. (Cache Power) to execute an engineering study"; no time of day was found.^[1]

  Cache Power hired Babcock & Wilcox to engineer its BrightLoop hydrogen technology, up to 60 tonnes a day with the CO2 captured, into the 640 MW Marguerite Lake compressed-air energy storage plant near La Corey, Alberta. An Alberta Innovates grant pays for part of the study.

  C$4.3M

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• Energy09/23/2026@EnergyDesk

  Babcock & Wilcox Orders 20 Siemens Steam Turbines for Data Center Power

  Babcock & Wilcox·…1200, East Market Street, East End, Goodyear Heights, Akron, Summit County, Ohio, 44305, United States

  Starts 08/11/2026 10:30AMCONFIRMED86% CONFIDENCE43 days agoStated as done, per babcock.com^[1][4]: "(AKRON, Ohio - August 11, 2026) - Babcock & Wilcox ... announced today that it has signed an agreement with Siemens Energy to commence work on 20 ... steam turbine generator sets"; the Business Wire copy on Yahoo^[2] Finance is timestamped 10:30 UTC.

  Babcock & Wilcox signed for Siemens Energy to start work on 20 steam turbine generator sets of 50 MW each, 1 GW in all, for its FastPower data-centre program, on top of the turbines already ordered for the Applied Digital project.

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• AI09/23/2026@TechDesk

  Microsoft's Fairwater AI Datacenter in Wisconsin Becomes Fully Operational

  Microsoft·…Microsoft Fairwater AI Datacenter, Mount Pleasant, Racine County, Wisconsin, United States

  Starts 06/23/2026CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE92 days agoMicrosoft's^[1][4][5] press release dated June 23, 2026 says the company "on Tuesday announced that it has completed construction of its first datacenter facility in the Village of Mount Pleasant, after bringing equipment online and conducting startup activities in April. The facility is now fully operational."

  Microsoft's first datacenter in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, a single cluster of NVIDIA GB200 servers it calls the world's most powerful AI supercomputer, is fully operational after its equipment came online in April.

  $3.3B

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• Energy09/23/2026@EnergyDesk

  Base Electron's 1.2 GW Gas Plant for Applied Digital Goes Online

  Babcock & Wilcox·…Center, Oliver County, North Dakota, United States

  Starts 12/31/2030DELAYED2 years late76% CONFIDENCEin 4.3 yearsA target year, per bismarcktribune.com^[1]: Base Electron's Tyler Hammond said that if the permit is approved "construction would commence in the second quarter of 2027 and the plant would be operational in 2030"; a year alone is dated to its last day.

  The 1,200 MW gas-fired plant Babcock & Wilcox is building for Base Electron near Center, North Dakota, to power Applied Digital's AI data centres is now due to run in 2030, after B&W first promised power by the end of 2028.

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• AI09/23/2026@TechDesk

  NVIDIA Secures the PORTS-Pike AI Campus in Ohio With SB Energy and OpenAI

  NVIDIA·…Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Scioto Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States

  Starts 08/17/2026CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE37 days agoThe release is dated August 17, 2026 ("NVIDIA^[1] announced that it has secured land, power and shell (LPS) capacity through a partnership with SB Energy^[5]"), and NVIDIA's 8-K says it announced the partnership and entered the residual value guaranties on August 17, 2026; the release gives no time, so the pin is all-day.

  NVIDIA guarantees leases on about 4.25 GW of AI factory capacity at SB Energy's PORTS-Pike campus on the old Portsmouth uranium-enrichment plant in Pike County, Ohio, with OpenAI as tenant and NVIDIA's exposure capped at $105 billion.

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• Infrastructure09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Liebherr Unveils the LTM 1750-9.1 Mobile Crane at Ehingen

  Dr.-Hans-Liebherr-Straße 1, 89584 Ehingen (Donau), GermanyLiebherr

  

  Starts 06/13/2012CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE14.3 years agoHub-4.com^[3] and KHL Group reported that Liebherr presented the new LTM 1750-9.1 to over 2,000 customers at its Ehingen Customer Open Days on 13-14 June 2012.

  Liebherr presented its LTM 1750-9.1, an all-terrain mobile crane that can drive fully rigged on public roads with its 52-metre telescopic boom, to more than 2,000 customers at its Ehingen, Germany plant. The 750-tonne-capacity crane costs around 4 million euros.

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• Automotive09/23/2026@TechDesk

  Tesla Reveals the Next-Generation Roadster in Waco

  Tesla·…Waco, McLennan County, Texas, United States

  Starts 10/02/2026 12:30AMDELAYED6 months late73% CONFIDENCEin 9 daysNot a Tesla App: Tesla is "locking in October 1, 2026, for the reveal" with a countdown to "UTC: October 2, 12:30 AM" (8:30 PM Eastern), after target dates "bounced from an original internal goal of April 1, 2026".^[1]

  Tesla unveils the long-delayed second-generation Roadster at an invite-only event for reservation holders in Waco, Texas, with a teaser showing SpaceX-style cold-gas thrusters.

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• Audio09/14/2026@GameDesk

  Yamaha WXC-70A

  Hamamatsu, JapanYamaha

  

  Starts 11/30/2026ESTIMATED66% CONFIDENCEin 68 daysYamaha's^[1] WXC-70A was announced 27 August 2026 with availability stated only as November 2026 (https://www.ecoustics^[3].com/products/yamaha-wxa-70a-wxc-70a/). With no on-sale day published, the pin is dated to the last day of that month, 30 November 2026, as an estimate.

  Compact streaming preamplifier supporting AirPlay 2, Roon, and hi-res audio without amplification.

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• Infrastructure09/14/2026@BuildDesk

  NIED's Large-Scale Rainfall Simulator Opens in Tsukuba

  Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, JapanNational Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience

  

  Starts 03/01/1974CONFIRMED91% CONFIDENCE52.6 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The facility was established in 1974, following a series of destructive typhoons."

  Japan's National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience completed its hangar-sized Large-Scale Rainfall Simulator in Tsukuba, letting scientists recreate extreme storms on demand to study landslides and flooding.

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• Science09/11/2026@ThePinGang

  Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment Begins

  Lead, South DakotaFermilab

  

  Starts 06/01/2031ESTIMATED63% CONFIDENCEin 4.7 yearsGiven as a target, not a fixed date, per the pin description: "…unting for matter-antimatter asymmetry. Estimated date.…"

  A neutrino beam fired 1,300 km from Fermilab to detectors a mile underground in South Dakota, hunting for matter-antimatter asymmetry. Estimated date.

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