The Number That Should Scare Every PJM Ratepayer Here is a number that should stop you cold: 6.3 billion dollars. That is how much data center demand added to PJM Interconnection's latest capacity auction, according to Joseph Bowring at Monitoring Analytics — the grid operator's independent market monitor. In a single auction cycle, data centers accounted for 38 percent of the total...

Georgia: 300 Parcels and Counting Ansley Brown describes it as theft. The surveyors walking her mother's property in rural Georgia. The legal notices. The realization that a billion-dollar utility company was invoking eminent domain to build transmission lines — 70 to 80 percent of whose capacity will go to AI data centers, not to local residents. "It's ours," Brown told CBS News....

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...