data centers

ICF EnergyInsite
ICF Paper Shows Where New Data Centers Can be Sited Quickly
ICF International has released a new paper discussing where data centers could be sited.
xAI
NAACP Event Examines Data Center Impact on Environmental Justice
Data center developers’ imperative of speed to market not only stresses the power grid but also is felt on the ground as the giant facilities — often paired with onsite generation — spring up in neighborhoods overburdened by pollution.
NYISO
NYISO Meeting Briefs: Dec. 10-11, 2025
NYISO's Business Issues Committee and Operating Committee both endorsed tariff changes ahead of the completion of the Champlain Hudson Power Express.
ERCOT
ERCOT Board Approves $9.4B 765-kV Project
ERCOT’s Board of Directors has approved staff’s proposed 765-kV Eastern Backbone project and its $9.4 billion capital cost price tag, making it the most expensive project in the grid operator’s history.
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Energy Policy Debates Take Center Stage at gridCONNEXT Conference
Attendees at the gridCONNEXT conference, including the acting under secretary of energy and U.S. representatives, debated federal energy policy.
Google
ANOPR Reply Comments Offer Differing Paths for FERC Action on Large Loads
Reply comments to the Department of Energy’s Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to FERC on large loads offered differing paths for the commission to potentially take.
Meta
NextEra Energy Pursues Gas-fired Data Center Deals
NextEra Energy’s annual investor event featured a goal to power 15 to 30 GW of data center hubs by 2035 and a series of nearer-term agreements in the technology sector.
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Rosner Voices Support for Large Load ANOPR
FERC Commissioner David Rosner was supportive of the Department of Energy’s request that the commission assert authority over the interconnection of large loads while emphasizing the importance of collaboration and consensus-building in response to concerns raised by state regulators.
Grid Strategies
Grid Strategies: Pace of Load Growth Continues to Speed up
The power industry’s own demand forecasts expect national summer peak to swell by 166 GW by 2030, Grid Strategies said in its latest load growth report.
ACC
TEP Wins Approval for Data Center Energy Supply Agreement
Arizona regulators approved a 286-MW energy supply agreement between Tucson Electric Power and the developer of an embattled data center project near Tucson.

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