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Harold Chen

Harold Chen

Senior Director in Fitch Ratings' Complex Credit Group, focused on data center project finance.

Sep 10, 2026

2:04
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.
2:13
I'm a senior director here at Fitch on the complex credit group within our infrastructure and project finance function.
2:18
And you're right.
2:20
Most of these transactions are really being structured on the project finance side in these special purpose vehicles.
2:25
When we rate them, we have access to sort of the relevant documents, the lease documents.
2:31
The draft debt documents, lender's technical advisor, independent engineer reports.
2:36
So we can really understand like what exactly is happening at this site.

7 MINS LATER

9:43
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?

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