North Carolina

July 12, 2026

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North Carolina Repeals Its Power Tax Break. Texas Never Had One to Lose.

North Carolina's 2026 budget repealed the sales and use tax exemption on datacenter electricity purchases, projected to add $21.4 million in FY 2026-27, while keeping equipment and capital incentives intact.

June 16, 2026

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Developers Foot 100% of the Wire. Ratepayers Get the Discount.

North Carolina's SB 730 would largely prohibit evaporative cooling and force developers to contractually cover infrastructure costs.

June 4, 2026

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Monterey Park Bans Datacenters by Ballot. Texas Cities Write Rules Instead.

North Carolina's SB 730 bans local tax incentives for datacenters while fast-tracking Duke's nuclear build.

May 29, 2026

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Denmark Rations the Queue. Texas Developers With Land, Water, and Power Move First.

Boom Supersonic's "Superpower" 42 MW gas turbine in a 40-foot container runs without water cooling, and the company says Texas and North Carolina are courting it as Denver and Jefferson County imposed datacenter moratoriums in May.

May 27, 2026

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The 445 GW Queue Gets a Gate. Capital Commitment Is the New Credential.

North Carolina's SB 730 advances three levers at once for facilities above 100 MW: long-term contracts, minimum billing commitments, and a closed-loop cooling mandate.

May 22, 2026

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Dallas Wins #1 Globally as Corpus Christi Shows the Real Constraint

Risk: Virginia's framework will likely travel to Maryland, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.

May 5, 2026

Wisconsin's revised We Energies tariff and North Carolina's proposed Ratepayer and Resource Protection Act both require large loads to fund their own infrastructure, with North Carolina adding a 25% on-site clean generation mandate that bars credits and virtual PPAs.

April 25, 2026

Rep. LaMonica McIver introduced the AI Data Center Site Selection Transparency Act, requiring developer disclosure to communities before deals close, with co-leads from North Carolina and Indiana.

March 18, 2026

North Carolina lacks even a statewide inventory of operating or proposed facilities.

March 8, 2026

A 6 GW-plus pipeline across Virginia, Texas, North Carolina, Kentucky, Indiana, Nevada, and Pennsylvania positions PowerHouse as a national player.