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July 2, 2026

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FERC Orders Six Grid Operators to Defend the Rules or Rewrite Them

In Wisconsin, Oracle sued to overturn We Energies collateral requirements, but the challenge is weaker than it looks: Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio use the same A-/A3 rating floor Amazon, Google, and Microsoft already accepted.

June 30, 2026

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Home-Rule Authority Faces Its First Real Test in San Marcos

Ohio paused new sales-tax exemptions on May 27 with 210 facilities already operating.

June 29, 2026

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Washington Set the Deadline. Texas Already Wrote the Playbook.

Contrast the out-of-state signals: Ohio's Gov. DeWine paused new sales-tax exemptions on May 27, Arizona's Gov. Hobbs backed a penny-a-gallon water fee against a possible 77% Colorado River allocation cut, and 69 US jurisdictions had construction restrictions by May 2026.

June 16, 2026

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

Off-grid gas (57 plants, 73,000 MW nationwide per CleanView, including Meta's Apollo station permitted in under three months in Ohio).

June 7, 2026

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Permits Hit a 49-Year High as 70% Push Back. Texas Tightens Instead.

Ohio's DeWine paused a $1.6B annual credit.

June 4, 2026

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

Wärtsilä booked 300 MW for an Ohio facility.

June 1, 2026

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Tax Abatements Lose the Room. Power, Water, and Cost Causation Take Over.

Ohio lawmakers opened hearings this week on a state that hosts 200+ data centers with 77 more planned by 2030.

May 26, 2026

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Disclosure Is Coming. Developers Tracking Water Now Won't Break Stride.

TotalEnergies signed a 15-year, 1.5 TWh PPA with Google in Ohio while sitting on a 4 GW ERCOT portfolio.

May 25, 2026

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Texas Ranks First on Power. A 5,500-Person Town Decides the Water.

Texas, Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania already require formal load-interconnection review for large electricity users.

May 15, 2026

AEP separately projects doubling to 63 GW by 2030, with Ohio and Texas accounting for 53 GW of new load.

April 20, 2026

Wärtsilä booked a 412 MW order for an Ohio data center (40 units of its 34SG engine, first U.S. data center deployment), pushing its U.S. data center engine book past 1.6 GW.

March 27, 2026

Ohio activists are pursuing a constitutional amendment banning facilities over 25 MW.

March 16, 2026

In Ohio, Canton's water department flagged $3.7 million in costs just to extend service to DAMAC's 277-acre site, with no funding mechanism agreed.

March 10, 2026

From San Marcos, Texas (where a $1.5 billion campus was killed by a 5-2 council vote) to Virginia (where voters elected a governor who campaigned on forcing the sector to pay more) to Ohio (where moratoriums are spreading), the pattern reflects a resource-driven political realignment.

March 9, 2026

States like Virginia, Ohio, and Minnesota already have large-load tariff frameworks.

March 2, 2026

Jerome Township outside Columbus became the first U.S. locality to impose a moratorium, and Ohio's PJM territory saw wholesale capacity prices spike 22% in July, translating to a projected $16 monthly increase for average residential customers.

February 27, 2026

She amplified polling from First Solar and American Energy First, a newly formed coalition that explicitly surveyed likely voters in Texas alongside Arizona, Florida, Indiana, and Ohio.