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October 24, 2026 5 min read

California SB 886: Who Pays for Data Center Transmission

California SB 886 sets a January 2028 CPUC tariff deadline and assigns transmission upgrade costs to data centers. What the statute requires.

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October 21, 2026 6 min read

New York Data Center Moratorium: No End Date Yet

New York's data center moratorium runs on two clocks: an executive order with no end date and a bill not delivered to the Governor as of Oct. 21, 2026. What each covers.

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October 19, 2026 4 min read

NERC Computational Load Standards Pass Final Ballot

NERC's computational load standards passed final ballot Oct. 14. What CLO-003-1 asks of whoever owns the main power transformer at a 50 MW-plus, 100 kV-plus data center site.

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October 11, 2026 5 min read

Large Load Contract Terms: Kentucky Power's 1 GW Deal

Large load contract terms in Kentucky Power's amended TeraWulf deal: customer-funded bill credits, plant financing and collateral, pending PSC review.

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October 9, 2026 4 min read

Data Center Construction Equipment Constraint: 3 Risks

CBRE flags a data center construction equipment constraint, Ceres counts power-plant water withdrawals, and a noise suit targets operating gear.

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September 10, 2026 8 min read

Virginia Makes Data Centers Pay for Their Own Substations

Virginia's SCC ordered a mandatory CIAC so large loads fund the substations built to serve them. What Case PUR-2026-00056 changes for equipment buyers.

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September 9, 2026 9 min read

Pennsylvania Data Center Executive Order 2026-05 Decoded

Pennsylvania data center executive order 2026-05 closes the permit fast lane and names both PJM cost dockets. The procurement read for equipment buyers.

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September 3, 2026 8 min read

TVA Data Center Rate Lands Oct 1 on 153 Distributors

The TVA data center rate takes effect October 1 above 153 municipal and cooperative distributors that deliver 99% of the load it prices.

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September 1, 2026 4 min read

CAISO Large Load Requirements: Reading the September Draft

CAISO’s September 24 drafts separate monitoring, tariff responsibilities and future technical work. What equipment buyers can establish from the record.

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August 31, 2026 6 min read

The First Data Center Utility Contract Disclosure Is Due

Georgia Power owes the PSC a public summary of its 3,200 MW OpenAI contract. The first data center utility contract disclosure tests what load is real.

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August 29, 2026 4 min read

PJM Bilateral Capacity Contracting: What Buyers Lose

PPL disclosures separate turbine reservations, load agreements and construction. Use those stages without treating them as equipment orders.

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August 27, 2026 8 min read

Data Center Islanding Interconnection Is the Harder Case

Data center islanding interconnection looks like less work for the utility. It is more. The protection scope nobody puts in the interconnection budget.

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