December 11, 2025· 46 min

This Is What It Takes to Get a Data Center Financed

Travis Wofford

Orality

Model

55%

Mixed oral/literate (blogs, casual essays)

Speaker Breakdown

HostJoe Weisenthal(2,403 words)

M:29%

HostTracy Alloway(4,429 words)

M:29%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic29%

literally, completely, obviously

Engagement61%

you, our, your

Memory Aids100%

listen, now, so

Repetition100%

like (88x), data (70x), about (67x)

Parallelism68%

And I'm Tracy Alloway...., But they really are this sort ..., And then they have to figure o...

Sound Patterns100%

112 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"

Formulaic Phrases6%

at the end of the day, you know what, i mean

Literate Indicators

Hedging6%

may, maybe, could

Passive Voice7%

being financed, be filled, be released

Abstract Nouns21%

investment, recommendation, business

Subordination8%

although, because, until

Sentence Length33%

Avg: 13.3 words/sentence

Word Complexity49%

investment, analyze, anticipate

Academic Markers0%

Impersonal Style39%

597 personal pronouns found

Descriptive Style78%

literally, completely, apply

Description

Data centers are weird things. They're partly real estate assets. They're partly extremely advanced technological products. And they have to find a way to consume a tremendous amount of electricity from the grid -- or they increasingly have their own power plants on site. And beyond that, they've become extremely controversial, with more and more communities pushing back on their development. So how do you get all your ducks in a row when a new project is proposed? Who provides the financing at which stage of the agreement? What are the legal complications that arise? On this episode, we speak with Travis Wofford, a partner at the law firm Baker Botts, who works in the firm's AI practice. We discuss all the intricacies of these projects, the challenges that arise, and how things have changed in this space just since the beginning of the year. Read more: Oracle Earnings May Not Be Enough to Assuage Debt, AI Deal Fears NextEra Shares Fall Amid Push to Move Into Data Centers and Gas Only Bloomberg - Business News, Stock Markets, Finance, Breaking & World News subscribers can get the Odd Lots newsletter in their inbox each week, plus unlimited access to the site and app. Subscribe at bloomberg.com/subscriptions/oddlots See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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