
Harold Chen
Senior Director in Fitch Ratings' Complex Credit Group, focused on data center project finance.
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Sep 10, 2026
What Might 'Throw a Wrench' Into Data Center Financings?
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David SnowHOST
Maybe you could just give us a quick intro to your practice and how it is that you're able to observe the terms and conditions around some of these big data center financings.

Harold ChenGUEST
I'm a senior director here at Fitch on the complex credit group within our infrastructure and project finance function.

Harold ChenGUEST
Most of these transactions are really being structured on the project finance side in these special purpose vehicles.

Harold ChenGUEST
When we rate them, we have access to sort of the relevant documents, the lease documents.

Harold ChenGUEST
The draft debt documents, lender's technical advisor, independent engineer reports.
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David SnowHOST
But how usual is that to break up what are typically longer-term contracts into these shorter-term contracts where there's this renewal happening every few years?