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Data center power and grid news
Every dated change we record that involves electricity: utility supply deals, interconnection and transmission, substations, on-site gas or nuclear generation and backup engines. 110 dated changes at 56 tracked projects in 28 states, newest first, each with the source it came from.
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| Date | What changed | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 | Three Siemens gas turbines arrive on site ABC 7 Amarillo | Fermi America Project Matador Amarillo, Carson County, TX · Under construction |
| Sep 18, 2026 | Public Utilities Commission of Nevada approves the two gas plants, subject to environmental permits and Storey County approvals Nevada Current | Fleet Data Centers TRIC campuses (South Valley and Peru Ridge) Storey County, NV · Proposed |
| Sep 14, 2026 | ATC refiles its application for the grid upgrades serving the campus, dropping a Trenton-Saukville line segment and restarting the PSC's six-month review Wisconsin Watch | Port Washington (Lighthouse) Data Center Campus Port Washington, Ozaukee County, WI · Under construction |
| Sep 4, 2026 | Appalachian Power files application with the State Corporation Commission for grid upgrades to serve the campus Cardinal News | Google Botetourt County Data Center Campus Botetourt County, VA · Approved |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Chamber panel addresses resident concerns over housing, power, water and noise KACU | Stargate Abilene Abilene, Taylor County, TX · Operating |
| Sep 2026 | Uinta County commissioners approve a conditional use permit for the project's independent power production facility Wyoming News (via NewsBreak) | Prometheus Hyperscale Evanston Campus Evanston, Uinta County, WY · Approved |
| Sep 2026 | State grants permission to add more natural gas turbines FOX Carolina | Valara Holdings High Performance Compute Center Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, SC · Under construction |
| Aug 28, 2026 | NC DEQ announces final air quality permits for Amazon's 588 emergency engines and Duke Energy's 57 bridge power engines NC Department of Environmental Quality | Amazon Web Services Richmond County data center campus Hamlet, Richmond County, NC · Under construction |
| Aug 27, 2026 | SC Public Service Commission rules the utility siting law does not apply to the facility SC Daily Gazette | Valara Holdings High Performance Compute Center Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, SC · Under construction |
| Aug 12, 2026 | LPSC votes 3-1 to reject an administrative law judge's recommendation to make Meta job and power-demand information available through subpoenas WWNO | Meta Hyperion Holly Ridge, Richland Parish, LA · Under construction |
| Aug 12, 2026 | City issues two stop-construction orders over LNG tank and Bloom Energy fuel cell work done without permits WHYY | Nebius Vineland Data Center Vineland, Cumberland County, NJ · Under construction |
| Aug 11, 2026 | Sailfish commits project to Governor Abbott's audit process and SB 6 interconnection requirements Sailfish Investors (via National Law Review) | Comanche Circle Tolar, Hood County, TX · Approved |
| Aug 10, 2026 | Linn County drops proposal to allow large data centers co-located with nuclear plants in the EU-2 zoning district KCRG | Google Palo data center campus Palo, Linn County, IA · Proposed |
| Aug 7, 2026 | Utility information form filed estimating 894 MW electric load Spotsylvania County | Crossroads Technology Campus Spotsylvania County, VA · Proposed |
| Aug 7, 2026 | PSC requires ATC to restart its application for the $1.3B+ transmission line and five substations serving the campus Wisconsin Watch | Port Washington (Lighthouse) Data Center Campus Port Washington, Ozaukee County, WI · Under construction |
| Aug 2026 | State regulators reviewing draft air permits for backup diesel generators after public hearings Inside Climate News | Amazon Web Services Richmond County data center campus Hamlet, Richmond County, NC · Under construction |
| Jul 30, 2026 | NC DEQ holds joint public hearing on the Amazon and Duke Energy air quality permits in Rockingham NC Department of Environmental Quality | Amazon Web Services Richmond County data center campus Hamlet, Richmond County, NC · Under construction |
| Jul 30, 2026 | Mississippi DEQ sets retirement schedule for 69 temporary turbines at the Southaven plant (Aug. 18, 2026 to July 14, 2027), allowing 13 to run past the original deadline Mississippi Today | xAI Colossus 2 Memphis, Shelby County, TN · Under construction |
| Jul 28, 2026 | Oracle says Bloom fuel cells will power campus; ~700 New Mexicans working onsite Oracle | Project Jupiter Santa Teresa, Doña Ana County, NM · Under construction |
| Jul 24, 2026 | PUCT approves net metering application in Docket No. 59220 for the co-located Armstrong County data center load, with ERCOT curtailment obligations White & Case LLP | Goodnight Campus Claude, Armstrong County, TX · Under construction |
| Jul 16, 2026 | Microsoft signs 15-year electric service contract with We Energies Wisconsin Watch | Microsoft Fairwater Mount Pleasant, Racine County, WI · Operating |
| Jul 8, 2026 | State Office of Administrative Hearings begins testimony on El Paso Electric's proposed McCloud Generation Facility CBS4 / KFOX14 | Meta El Paso Data Center El Paso, El Paso County, TX · Under construction |
| Jul 2, 2026 | California Public Utilities Commission unanimously authorizes Liberty Utilities to seek bids for a new Lake Tahoe power supplier CapRadio | Fleet Data Centers TRIC campuses (South Valley and Peru Ridge) Storey County, NV · Proposed |
| Jul 2026 | Palo passes a data center ordinance; Linn County, which recently began an 18-month data center moratorium, considers allowing data centers as accessories to nuclear plants Iowa Public Radio | Google Palo data center campus Palo, Linn County, IA · Proposed |
| Jul 2026 | CB-3 delivered, bringing AI capacity online to 102 MW TeraWulf | Lake Mariner Somerset, Niagara County, NY · Operating |
| Jun 30, 2026 | CRG unveils refined design: four single-story buildings, ~600 MW, closed-loop cooling The Missouri Times (CRG release) | CRG Festus Data Center Festus, Jefferson County, MO · Approved |
| Jun 26, 2026 | OPSB authorizes the 250 MW Socrates the Younger plant (Case 26-0169-EL-BLN) to serve adjacent Meta data center Ohio Power Siting Board | Meta Prometheus New Albany, Franklin and Licking counties, OH · Operating |
| Jun 18, 2026 | NRG requests withdrawal of its air permit application for the 2 GW Tolar Power Center planned to supply Comanche Circle KERA News | Comanche Circle Tolar, Hood County, TX · Approved |
| Jun 12, 2026 | DNR issues air construction and operation permits for 45 diesel emergency generators Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | Port Washington (Lighthouse) Data Center Campus Port Washington, Ozaukee County, WI · Under construction |
| Jun 10, 2026 | County adopts 180-day moratorium on new data centers and data center power plants; Stratos exempt because it falls under MIDA Utah Public Radio | Stratos Project Box Elder County, UT · Proposed |
| Jun 9, 2026 | Permit documents show two buildings (10 MW and 40 MW) plus generator yards and substation WSMV | DC BLOX Nashville Data Center Nashville, Davidson County, TN · Proposed |
| Jun 9, 2026 | Southaven residents file a federal class action against xAI and MZX Tech over turbine noise. Mississippi Today | xAI Colossus 2 Memphis, Shelby County, TN · Under construction |
| Jun 2026 | Stream Data Centers says on its website that Project Liberty will not move forward, citing utility timing constraints WMBF News | Project Liberty Marion, Marion County, SC · Cancelled |
| May 23, 2026 | Buildings 3-4 become operational, bringing IT power to about 421 MW, per Epoch AI satellite analysis Epoch AI | Stargate Abilene Abilene, Taylor County, TX · Operating |
| May 15, 2026 | NV Energy states data centers did not influence the Liberty decision and it will serve Liberty until Greenlink West is in place KTVN 2News | Fleet Data Centers TRIC campuses (South Valley and Peru Ridge) Storey County, NV · Proposed |
| May 13, 2026 | Planning Commission approves site plan for substation/switching station Planet Detroit | Project Cannoli Van Buren Township, Wayne County, MI · Approved |
| May 12, 2026 | Fortune publishes report linking NV Energy's Tahoe supply exit to data center demand Fortune | Fleet Data Centers TRIC campuses (South Valley and Peru Ridge) Storey County, NV · Proposed |
| May 7, 2026 | Wisconsin Public Service Commission approves a modified version of Alliant Energy's one-off power supply contract with the Meta subsidiary Wisconsin Watch | Meta Beaver Dam Data Center Beaver Dam, Dodge County, WI · Under construction |
| May 2026 | NV Energy enters large load electric service agreement with Fleet subsidiary SV RNO Property Owner 1, LLC This Is Reno / Nevada Current | Fleet Data Centers TRIC campuses (South Valley and Peru Ridge) Storey County, NV · Proposed |
| Apr 24, 2026 | U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright tours campus The Gazette | QTS Cedar Rapids Data Center Campus Cedar Rapids, Linn County, IA · Under construction |
| Apr 20, 2026 | Fleet files PUCN applications for South Valley (Docket 26-04026) and Peru Ridge (Docket 26-04027) self-generation plants The Nevada Independent | Fleet Data Centers TRIC campuses (South Valley and Peru Ridge) Storey County, NV · Proposed |
| Apr 20, 2026 | Monarch Cloud Campus LLC submits air construction permit application to WVDEP for 2.16 GW on-site generation Charleston Gazette-Mail | Monarch Compute Campus Point Pleasant, Mason County, WV · Under construction |
| Apr 16, 2026 | LPSC votes 4-1 to fast-track Entergy's plan for seven new gas plants for the campus Louisiana Radio Network | Meta Hyperion Holly Ridge, Richland Parish, LA · Under construction |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Environmental Hearing Board denies Homer City Generation's motion to consolidate the two permit appeals Lehigh Daily | Homer City Energy Campus Homer City, Indiana County, PA · Under construction |
| Mar 20, 2026 | CalMatters reports NV Energy will not renew power supply to Liberty Utilities' ~49,000 Lake Tahoe customers (contract ending May 2027), citing its own resource needs CalMatters | Fleet Data Centers TRIC campuses (South Valley and Peru Ridge) Storey County, NV · Proposed |
| Mar 20, 2026 | DOE, SoftBank and SB Energy announce 10 GW data center campus and 9.2 GW gas generation at the Portsmouth site U.S. Department of Energy | PORTS-Pike Technology Campus Piketon, Pike County, OH · Under construction |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Google and DTE Energy confirm Google as the company behind the project; Google commits to a contested case at the MPSC Michigan Advance | Project Cannoli Van Buren Township, Wayne County, MI · Approved |
| Mar 16, 2026 | KMUW reports Monarch Energy and NextEra Energy are pursuing 1,000+ acres in western Sedgwick County KMUW | West Sedgwick County data center land acquisitions Sedgwick County, KS · Rumored |
| Mar 14, 2026 | Date of Amazon's air construction permit application cover letter; the application covers 483 generators Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Air Pollution Control Program | AWS Project Green New Florence, Montgomery County, MO · Approved |
| Mar 10, 2026 | Mississippi DEQ board approves 41 turbines (1.2 GW) to power Colossus 2 and planned Colossus 3 DatacenterDynamics | xAI Colossus 2 Memphis, Shelby County, TN · Under construction |
| Mar 2026 | Wind-powered portion of the campus sold to Ensign Infrastructure, which becomes the large load in the co-location application Latitude Media | Goodnight Campus Claude, Armstrong County, TX · Under construction |
| Mar 2026 | Valara asks SCDES to add natural gas combustion turbines to its air permit SC Daily Gazette | Valara Holdings High Performance Compute Center Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, SC · Under construction |
| Feb 12, 2026 | Google says it 'will cover the full energy costs associated with powering both of the Google data center campuses' KSHB 41 | Google Kansas City Data Center (Hunt Midwest Business Center) Kansas City, Clay County, MO · Under construction |
| Feb 3, 2026 | DCD reports Aligned plans natural gas-powered data center buildings at the 660-acre Shippingport Industrial Park owned by Frontier Group of Companies DatacenterDynamics | Project Phoenix Shippingport, Beaver County, PA · Under construction |
| Jan 27, 2026 | The Department of Energy ordered the data center to cut 50 MW from the grid; backup diesel generators ran and cold weather disrupted pollution controls on five of them InkFreeNews.com (Indianapolis Star / Notre Dame Gallivan Program) | Project Rainier (AWS New Carlisle campus) New Carlisle, St. Joseph County, IN · Operating |
| Jan 18, 2026 | El Paso Electric proposes $473M McCloud gas plant to serve the data center KVIA (El Paso Matters) | Meta El Paso Data Center El Paso, El Paso County, TX · Under construction |
| Jan 14, 2026 | Alliance for Affordable Energy and Union of Concerned Scientists ask the LPSC to investigate Meta's new financing arrangement for Hyperion and review Entergy's prudence Alliance for Affordable Energy and Union of Concerned Scientists (Earthjustice) | Meta Hyperion Holly Ridge, Richland Parish, LA · Under construction |
| Jan 14, 2026 | Application filed with Mississippi regulators for 41-turbine permit Southern Environmental Law Center | xAI Colossus 2 Memphis, Shelby County, TN · Under construction |
| Jan 13, 2026 | Commissioners conditionally approve concept plan 4-1, requiring more detail on drainage, wastewater, landscape and power generation KERA News | Comanche Circle Tolar, Hood County, TX · Approved |
| Jan 13, 2026 | EGLE issues the air quality permit for 14 diesel backup generators and a diesel firewater pump. Planet Detroit | Saline Township Stargate Data Center Saline Township, Washtenaw County, MI · Under construction |
| Jan 12, 2026 | Pecos County Commissioners Court agenda includes a tax abatement agreement with CoreWeave, LLC within the Longfellow Renewable Energy Reinvestment Zone Pecos County, Texas | Project Horizon Fort Stockton, Pecos County, TX · Proposed |
| Jan 2026 | OpenAI and SoftBank each invest $500M in SB Energy, which will build and operate the site DCD | Stargate Milam County Burlington, Milam County, TX · Under construction |
| Dec 17, 2025 | Hut 8 signs 15-year, 245 MW lease with Fluidstack; state and Entergy announce $10 billion project Louisiana Economic Development | Hut 8 River Bend Campus St. Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, LA · Under construction |
| Dec 15, 2025 | Memphis and Shelby County Air Pollution Control Board dismisses appeals of the turbine permit as moot Action News 5 | xAI Colossus Memphis, Shelby County, TN · Operating |
| Dec 5, 2025 | Fermi America announces electric service agreement with Southwestern Public Service Company for up to 200 MW Fermi America (PR Newswire) | Fermi America Project Matador Amarillo, Carson County, TX · Under construction |
| Dec 2025 | Google details plans for the 550-acre campus and says utilities and foundation work will begin in February WISH-TV | Google Morgan County Data Center Monrovia, Morgan County, IN · Under construction |
| Nov 26, 2025 | KOMU reports AWS plans a data center near New Florence, with power from Ameren Missouri KOMU 8 | AWS Project Green New Florence, Montgomery County, MO · Approved |
| Nov 24, 2025 | Phase II ready for service; Building 1 fully energized at 100 MW Applied Digital | Polaris Forge 1 Ellendale, Dickey County, ND · Operating |
| Nov 2025 | Cloverleaf presents the proposal at a public meeting; residents raise water, power and noise concerns FOX 2 Detroit | Project Cherry Blossom Frenchtown Township, Monroe County, MI · Proposed |
| Oct 17, 2025 | EGLE issues a permit waiver allowing Related Digital to begin installing generators before the final air permit. Planet Detroit | Saline Township Stargate Data Center Saline Township, Washtenaw County, MI · Under construction |
| Oct 15, 2025 | Poolside announces Project Horizon with CoreWeave as anchor tenant under a 15-year, 250 MW lease Poolside | Project Horizon Fort Stockton, Pecos County, TX · Proposed |
| Aug 29, 2025 | CoreWeave signs additional 150 MW lease, bringing Polaris Forge 1 to 400 MW Applied Digital | Polaris Forge 1 Ellendale, Dickey County, ND · Operating |
| Aug 25, 2025 | Beale and TEP file special power agreement with Arizona Corporation Commission AZ Luminaria | Project Blue Tucson, Pima County, AZ · Under construction |
| Aug 20, 2025 | LPSC approves Entergy Louisiana's three combined-cycle gas plants (~3,000 MW) and transmission for the data center Entergy | Meta Hyperion Holly Ridge, Richland Parish, LA · Under construction |
| Aug 18, 2025 | Fluidstack adds 160 MW CB-5 lease; Google backstop rises to about $3.2 billion TeraWulf | Lake Mariner Somerset, Niagara County, NY · Operating |
| Aug 14, 2025 | TeraWulf signs 200+ MW, 10-year hosting agreements with Fluidstack; Google backstops $1.8 billion TeraWulf | Lake Mariner Somerset, Niagara County, NY · Operating |
| Jul 16, 2025 | xAI affiliate MZX Tech buys former Duke power plant site in Southaven, MS Southern Environmental Law Center | xAI Colossus 2 Memphis, Shelby County, TN · Under construction |
| Jul 15, 2025 | Agreement in principle announced for EQT to supply up to 665,000 MMBtu/day of gas Homer City Redevelopment (via Seeking Alpha) | Homer City Energy Campus Homer City, Indiana County, PA · Under construction |
| Jul 2, 2025 | Shelby County Health Department approves permit for 15 gas turbines through Jan. 1, 2027 (DCD reports July 1 meeting) Tennessee Lookout | xAI Colossus Memphis, Shelby County, TN · Operating |
| Jun 11, 2025 | Talen and AWS sign a 1,920-MW PPA; the existing 300-MW co-location arrangement moves to a front-of-the-meter framework Utility Dive | Salem Township Innovation Campus Salem Township, Luzerne County, PA · Under construction |
Showing the 80 most recent of 110 changes. Older entries stay on each project page.
Where it is happening
| State | Changes |
|---|---|
| Texas | 20 |
| Tennessee | 11 |
| Nevada | 7 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 |
| Wisconsin | 5 |
| Louisiana | 5 |
| Michigan | 5 |
| South Carolina | 4 |
| Iowa | 4 |
| Missouri | 4 |
| North Dakota | 4 |
| Virginia | 3 |
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