Microsoft has pulled out of its planned role at Nscale’s Loughton, Essex AI data-center project, according to Reuters, the Guardian and BBC-backed reporting. The project had been announced in 2025 as…
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Google and Constellation announced a long-term PJM power package on October 6, 2026, centered on 890 MW of new nuclear capacity from uprates at existing reactors and 2,700 MW of additional supply. Th…
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Senate energy and environment leaders introduced the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act on September 30, 2026, a permitting package aimed at faster federal reviews for energy, transmissio…
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Oracle issued a force-majeure notice tied to Project Jupiter, a New Mexico AI data-center campus being developed by Blue Owl-owned STACK Infrastructure to support OpenAI. Reuters reported the notice …
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South Korea has identified a Texas gas-fired power project as the first investment under its $350 billion U.S. package, according to Yonhap, KBS, Kyunghyang and Reuters reporting. The project is tied…
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Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee said on September 21, 2026 that policymakers should watch whether AI data-center construction is spilling beyond its sector and pushing aggregate output above ca…
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A new ECOnorthwest and University of Virginia assessment, reported by Oregon outlets and presented to state advisers, puts Oregon data centers at about 23% of statewide retail electricity sales in 20…
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Google, Nvidia and Emerald AI have launched the AI Energy Management Alliance to promote flexible AI data centers that can adjust electricity demand in response to grid conditions. The coalition is p…
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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin signed a final partial repeal of the 2024 Carbon Pollution Standards for fossil-fuel power plants and paired it with a proposal to rescind remaining greenhouse-gas standa…
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Vertiv agreed to acquire UtilityInnovation Group for about $1.45 billion in cash at closing, with up to $1.15 billion more tied to EBITDA targets over 12- and 24-month periods. The deal adds microgri…
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Residents protested outside an August 29 Effingham County work session as officials fielded questions about OpenAI’s Project Camellia. The dispute now centers on whether Georgia’s large-load framewor…
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California lawmakers reached a late-August compromise on data-center energy legislation as AI infrastructure growth collides with utility-bill politics. Official Aug. 28 amendments to SB 886 and AB 2…
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EPA has proposed removing minimum federal public-participation requirements for minor New Source Review permits and leaving those choices to state and local air agencies. Advocates are now framing th…
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AI data centers are moving from economic-development trophy to midterm liability. AP reported that President Donald Trump continues to champion data centers as strategic infrastructure while candidat…
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PJM’s proposed Interim Resource Adequacy Service framework would treat some new 50 MW-plus data centers and other large loads as curtailable unless they secure qualifying capacity. The move follows a…
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Amazon has confirmed that its planned Pecos County, Texas data center will use new on-site generation, while reporting and project documents point to a 7.65 GW gas-fired power platform with major per…
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AI data-center buildout is moving from a power-and-capex story into a political-consent story. Local opposition has delayed or blocked projects, New York has imposed a statewide pause on large facili…
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Virginia’s State Corporation Commission ordered Dominion Energy to develop a tariff framework that assigns more transmission costs directly to data centers and other large-load customers when upgrade…
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott directed PUCT and ERCOT on August 3, 2026 to conduct a comprehensive verification and audit of data centers advancing through ERCOT’s interconnection process before those proje…
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The Justice Department moved to intervene in and dismiss an NAACP Clean Air Act citizen suit targeting gas turbines used to support xAI-linked AI data center operations in Mississippi. DOJ argues the…
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Reuters reported that at least 57 off-grid U.S. power plants are proposed or under construction to serve individual data centers, totaling about 73,000 MW. Cleanview, The Washington Post and industry…
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Surging data-center demand is pushing PJM from a reliability problem into a governance problem. Bloomberg reporting carried by the Los Angeles Times says American Electric Power has threatened to lea…
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Google and Intersect Power announced construction of the Meitner Energy Center in Gray and Roberts Counties, Texas, pairing a new Google data center with dedicated new energy generation. Independent …
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Reuters reported on June 5, 2026 that several large data centers and crypto facilities seeking to connect to the Texas grid failed key voltage reliability tests. ERCOT’s May 21 assessment found eight…
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Small modular and micro-reactors are being wired directly into the AI power stack. A full Pattern Nexus deep dive on SMR technologies, timelines, and who will actually power the next wave of data cen…
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A single map of U.S. data centers reveals the real AI-industrial build-out: clustered power demand, a 40–50 GW grid shortfall, forced nuclear restarts, and a new liquidity regime that makes QE-style …
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