GRID WATCHDOG RAISES AI ALARM
E&E News
North America's reliability monitor is preparing its highest-level warning as large data centers test utility planning assumptions.

DEMOCRATS SPLIT OVER AI'S POWER BILL
POLITICO
Party leaders want to talk affordability while critics say the harder fight is whether Big Tech gets the rules it wants.

DATA CENTER BACKLASH GOES BIPARTISAN
Futurism
Rural opposition is turning AI buildout into a rare left-right issue around water, power bills, and local control.

LOCAL CONTROL FIGHT HEADS TO THE BALLOT
Mountain State Spotlight
West Virginia stripped local authority over data centers, and Mingo County residents say the next venue is election day.

GOOGLE'S RATE DEAL STAYS SEALED
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
A $4 billion West Memphis project is moving ahead while key terms of the Google-Entergy power deal stay out of public view.

PJM OPENS THE QUEUE FLOODGATES
Pennsylvania Capital-Star
The grid manager is reviewing more than 800 proposed power projects after years of stalled interconnection fights.

TVA FARM ROUTE COLLAPSES AFTER BACKLASH
TechRadar
A Tennessee farm forced TVA to abandon a power-line route as AI load growth turns transmission siting into a public fight.

OHIO'S GIANT GAS BET GETS A REALITY CHECK
Inside Climate News
A Trump-backed power plant proposal is being pitched as industrial revival, but analysts see major execution and market risks.

REDWOOD SELLS THE BATTERY FIX FOR AI LOAD
Fast Company
JB Straubel's battery recycling company is pitching a grid-support business model as data centers strain power systems.

ENBRIDGE WANTS TO BE AI'S ENERGY FEDEX
Fortune
The pipeline giant is pitching itself as the delivery network that can move enough energy for AI, industry, and geopolitics at once.

BIG TECH FINDS A BLUE-COLLAR DEFENSE
MS NOW
Tech companies are leaning on union workers and construction jobs to answer the politics of AI data center expansion.

DANVILLE WRITES THE RULEBOOK BEFORE THE ASK
Cardinal News
Virginia's latest local fight is about setting guardrails before developers get to define the terms.

NEW JERSEY AIRPORT SITE DRAWS A DATA CENTER FIGHT
NJ.com
A Sussex County town is already facing legal threats over a possible AI data center before a formal proposal has even landed.

HOOVER DAM DROUGHT THREATENS SERVER COUNTRY
TechRadar
More than 500 Southwest data centers could feel the pressure if low water cuts Hoover Dam's power output and forces replacement supply.

BLACKSTONE PREPS $1.7B DATA CENTER IPO BET
Reuters
A new Blackstone vehicle is aiming to raise more than $1.7 billion as investor money keeps chasing data center demand.