FERC Load Orders Reshape AI Data Center Hookups

Podcast: The Innovation Attorney Podcast · The Innovation Attorney

Opublikowano: 2026-10-11

An AI data center gets interconnected quickly after the FERC large load orders of June 18, 2026 only by accepting curtailment or bringing its own power supply. PJM’s capacity auction on July 14, 2026 cleared 6,831 megawatts short of the reliability requirement, and PJM’s August 13 filing names the new data center without its own capacity as the first customer to be switched off in an emergency. Developers who read the June orders as a promise of faster connections are reading half of the record. The June orders are real and they matter. In docket RM26-4, FERC began with a dire...