Janesville, PJM, and the Three Emergency Orders That Changed the Grid Forever What the Janesville Fight Actually Reveals PBS NewsHour ran a piece yesterday that should be required viewing for every tech executive, every data center developer, and every state regulator in this country. The segment covers Janesville, Wisconsin — a town that became a symbol of the Great Recession when GM...

The Grid Emergency That Wouldn't End: Data Centers on Diesel as the Heat Dome Arrives On June 30, with temperatures already pushing past 100°F across the Northeast, Energy Secretary Chris Wright signed the third emergency order of 2026 under Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act. The directive authorized PJM Interconnection to order any customer drawing 50 megawatts or more at a single...

The 1935 Law That Now Controls AI Data Centers Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act was written in 1935, during the Great Depression, when the biggest strain on the U.S. electrical grid was a steel mill firing up at shift change. Ninety-one years later, Energy Secretary Chris Wright has signed three emergency orders under that same statute in 2026 alone — each one forcing AI data centers...