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July 12, 2026

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

Virginia's $0.011-per-kilowatt-hour consumption tax took effect July 1.

July 8, 2026

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Ratepayers Come Off the Hook. Developers Underwrite the Wires Themselves.

Ken King told a Texas Farm Bureau panel that ERCOT and the PUC are examining over 400 GW of proposed generation, and that if even 20% builds out, Texas surpasses Virginia as the nation's data center hub.

July 7, 2026

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The Permian Gets Texas's First 765 kV Backbone, and CREZ Wrote the Playbook

The cautionary contrast sits out of state: Utah's Stratos collapsed from 40,000 acres after bypassing county zoning, and Virginia's Q

July 5, 2026

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Self-Supply Is Now the Floor for Political Viability in Texas

In Virginia, a Blackstone subsidiary walked from the 2,100-acre Prince William Digital Gateway over a zoning notice defect.

July 2, 2026

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

Virginia already codified the direction of travel.

July 1, 2026

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Batch Zero Sorts 445 GW of Load Into Winners and Waiters

Virginia shows where captive-hub politics leads. Its General Assembly passed a 1.1 cent/kWh levy on datacenter electric use, projected at $600 million annually, with Gov. Spanberger calling it "only the beginning."

June 24, 2026

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Reeves County Banks 6,000 Jobs as the Behind-the-Meter Model Scales

Virginia approved a $0.011/kWh consumption tax on all data center power, behind-the-meter generation included, projected at $600 million annually, with a 500 MW facility owing roughly $48 million a year.

June 4, 2026

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

Risk: Orrenius flagged "more challenges for ERCOT" ahead, and Virginia retail prices are already edging up.

June 2, 2026

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Ride-Through Becomes the New Phase I Discipline for Texas Sites

Contrast that with Illinois, where the POWER Act missed its May 31 deadline and Governor Pritzker is moving to suspend $983 million in tax credits, and Virginia, where a Prince William County appeals court halted the Digital Gateway project on public-notice grounds.

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 17, 2026

A Union of Concerned Scientists analysis found utilities across seven PJM states approved $4.356 billion in local transmission projects in 2024 alone to connect datacenters, with over 95% of costs assigned to ratepayers. Virginia led at nearly $2 billion.

May 3, 2026

Carnegie Mellon's Nicholas Muller pegs annual U.S. pollution and health costs from 2,800 facilities at roughly $25 billion, with Texas and Virginia together accounting for 30%.

April 24, 2026

The American Farm Bureau Federation notes Texas ranks second nationally with 546 active or under-construction facilities behind Virginia's 706, with Goldman Sachs projecting a 10.4 GW supply gap persisting into 2028.

April 16, 2026

Virginia's appeals court just invalidated the Digital Gateway rezoning

April 6, 2026

A University of Scranton panel warned that Pennsylvania and West Virginia are the only PJM states currently exporting energy, with Virginia's 35% share of global hyperscale data centers drawing heavily on imports.

April 4, 2026

Virginia leads in siting rules and water disclosure requirements, with its legislature sending Governor Spanberger a "high use energy facility" permitting bill.

March 13, 2026

Virginia hosts 575 data center facilities, more than any other state or nation besides the U.S., and any weakening of its tax framework will redirect capital flows to competitor states, Texas chief among them.

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 8, 2026

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

March 6, 2026

Virginia's already at 25% state share and could hit 41-59%.

March 4, 2026

The move arrives as data shows datacenter-heavy states like Virginia (15.94 cents/kWh) and Texas (16.04 cents/kWh) already charge below the national average of 17.24 cents/kWh, undermining the narrative that datacenters drive rate hikes.

March 2, 2026

Virginia's proposed 2,100-acre Digital Gateway complex remains in state appeals court.