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Tesla Signs Major Arizona Power Deal – Gary Black Expects TSLA Stock To Fall Below $300
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Fusion42 · 28 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Tesla signs a 10-15 year power purchase agreement to buy 90% of output from Project Sterling, a 509 MW solar plus 1.4 GWh battery storage facility in Arizona developed by ContourGlobal and backed by KKR, marking a strategic shift as electricity demand from AI data centres and manufacturing scales. The deal comes as analyst Gary Black flags Tesla's valuation concerns and expects the stock to fall below $300.
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Tesla has just locked in a decade-plus energy supply at predictable cost for its compute and manufacturing expansion, signalling that AI infrastructure demand is now forcing even vertically integrated manufacturers into long-term utility contracts. If you build power generation, storage, or grid integration tech, the playbook has shifted: multi-gigawatt customers now negotiate PPAs years before they build factories or data centres—you need to be in the deal pipeline, not waiting for the RFQ.
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