Data Center Alley
xAI
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.
PJM
PJM staff plan to recommend an $11.6 billion package of transmission projects intended to address rising load growth in the east of the RTO’s footprint.
Duke Energy
The North Carolina Utilities Commission spent several days diving into the issues of meeting new demand from large loads like data centers.
FirstEnergy
PJM presented several non-competitive projects it plans to recommend be included in the 2025 Regional Transmission Expansion Plan Window 1.
ICF
ICF International is projecting another rise in the rate of demand growth as more data centers seek to plug into the grid in the coming years, with a 25% increase from 2023 levels by 2030 and 78% by 2050.
© RTO Insider
Experts in the data center field discussed the challenges of meeting accelerating computational load during the PJM Annual Meeting, held in the core of Northern Virginia’s Data Center Alley.
Dominion Energy
Dominion Energy reported that Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind has already seen slight cost impacts from President Trump's tariffs, which could grow as the project is still on track for completion in 2026.
Aurora Energy Research
Columnist Peter Kelly-Detwiler writes about the explosion of data center load requests and the enormous risks to utilities and ratepayers of overbuilding assets.
NERC
FERC heard details about recent reliability incidents caused by data centers tripping offline in Virginia and Texas and NERC's efforts to address them.
PJM
The PJM Board of Managers approved a $6 billion package of grid upgrades that includes expanding the 765-kV backbone east to meet rising demand, particularly in Northern Virginia’s Data Center Alley.
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