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For the electric grid watchdog, the AI era is about moving fast without breaking things (opens the original)
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The watchdog that keeps North America’s electric grid running is working faster than it ever has to keep the lights on as the country’s voracious appetite for electricity skyrockets. The herculean effort by the North American Electric Reliability Corp. comes as a wave of power-hungry data centers, rising cyberattack threats and extreme weather driven by climate change are driving up electricity prices and threatening energy infrastructure. “We’re working at a record-setting pace. We’ve never mov
OpenAI forced to delay plans for $20B data center in Georgia (opens the original)
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OpenAI’s bid to build a sprawling $20 billion data center near the Georgia coast has hit a snag with utility regulators and the state’s largest power provider. Georgia Power on Thursday voluntarily delayed the start date of its 25-year service agreement to supply the creator of ChatGPT with massive amounts of electricity. The move came after state regulators signaled they would object to the contract in its current form. The voluntary delay now gives the utility 12 days to satisfy the Public Ser
North Carolina governor backs challenge to Duke rate hike (opens the original)
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DURHAM, North Carolina — North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein (D) said Wednesday he will help push Duke Energy to lower a proposed rate increase, even after the state’s largest electric utility reduced its request to regulators twice in recent months. Stein told POLITICO that Attorney General Jeff Jackson (D) is planning to challenge the utility’s recent proposed increase of 9.5 percent, which Duke brokered in July with energy advocacy groups, corporations such as Microsoft and the NC Public Staff, wh
Meet the progressive Democrat bucking data center moratoriums (opens the original)
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Washington state Rep. April Berg has a message for her fellow progressives considering moratoriums on artificial intelligence data centers: Don’t do it. The Democratic lawmaker — known for helping enact an income tax this year on her state’s millionaires — made a splash in Chicago this week when she urged her colleagues at a summit hosted by the National Conference of State Legislatures to embrace the resource-hungry facilities. “Data centers are ubiquitous to everything we do in life. Period. F
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp isn’t done with EVs (opens the original)
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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is not giving up his goal of making his state a major player in the electric vehicle space, even as it pivots to grow its electric grid by 50 percent to power a wave of AI data centers. In a conversation with POLITICO’s Energy Podcast, Kemp, a Republican who is approaching the end of his second term, said his calls to attract EV manufacturing plants were never about leveraging the tax credits that were included in former President Joe Biden’s climate law, the Inflation Re
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