From Babst Calland: Data centers and other large-load customers should monitor PJM’s forthcoming proposal to the FERC around the Large Load Registry, Reliability Backstop Procurement, Interim Resource Adequacy Service, and compensation for reduced load. Stakeholders may also wish to engage with state and federal regulators given PJM’s emphasis that state action will be necessary to implement and regulate the program.

Large energy users in 13 states could see their power curtailed during power shortages under the grid operator’s new plan.

Mudiita Infra’s website states that it is looking to develop a 930-acre data center in Lackawanna County, almost double the size of the parcel it bought earlier this week. The website also says that construction would occur in phases, and that the data center would provide 750MW of capacity.

Nvidia and OpenAI have held talks to spend roughly $500 billion on a data center in southern Ohio, potentially becoming the largest such project by power capacity in the world by far.

The fact that the world's most valuable chip company must serve as lender of last resort for its most prominent customer — is the most important signal in this story.

AES Ohio customers may see about a 1% increase on their bills beginning Jan. 1, 2027, after the energy provider, the Ohio Consumer’s Counsel, the city of Dayton and other parties filed in a settlement of the company’s three-year electric distribution rate case.

As a data center developer finalized a deal to build a massive campus in a small community south of Columbus, the company asked local officials to do more than approve the agreement.

Should the government favor one energy industry over another, particularly when both operate in West Virginia, employ West Virginians and contribute severance-tax revenue to state coffers? These questions are not new. They have been asked time and again in different regions of the country and across different industries.