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INDEPENDENT RESEARCH · LAW / ENERGY / INFRASTRUCTUREUS × CHINA / FIELDNOTES No. 01

SHARED TOPICS / RESEARCH ATLAS

Cost & risk

One question, across law, projects, contracts and research.

New evidence · 19 October 2026

Grid access Cost & risk Power supply Flexibility & reliability Land & permits Environment & efficiency Finance & ownership Research methods

LAW

31 documents

United States · 1.1.1

PJM co-location order

United States · 1.1.8

Order directing computational-load reliability standards

United States · 1.1.10

Large Loads Action Plan

United States · 1.1.13

NERC announcement of the CEO letter on large-load actions

United States · 1.1.15

10 U.S.C. § 2921

United States · 1.1.16

FERC Order No. 1920 — long-term regional transmission planning and cost allocation

United States · 1.1.17

DOE emergency order on PJM backup resources

United States · 1.1.18

Federal Power Act jurisdiction, rates, adequacy, emergency authority and review

United States · 1.1.20

Southwest Power Pool, Inc., Order Accepting Tariff Revisions Subject to Condition

United States · 1.1.21

Southwest Power Pool, Inc., Order Accepting CHILLS Tariff Revisions Subject to Condition

United States · 1.1.24

PJM Interconnection, L.L.C., Order Rejecting Amended Interconnection Service Agreement

United States · 1.1.28

Level 3 Computational Load Alert

United States · 1.2.1

Georgia Public Service Commission Compliance Order Approving Tariff Revision and Large-Load Contract Framework

United States · 1.3.1

AEP Ohio data-center application and tariff implementation guidance

United States · 1.3.2

Operative AEP Ohio Data Center Tariff

United States · 1.4.1

Texas S.B. 6 large-load statute

United States · 1.4.2

ERCOT Batch Zero process

United States · 1.5.1

Data Centers in Virginia

United States · 1.5.4

Virginia SCC Final Order adopting large-load Rate Schedule GS-5

United States · 1.5.6

Rider T1 Final Order

United States · 1.5.7

Microsoft notice of appeal from July 31 Rider T1 final order

Basic Rules for Electricity Market Operation

Interim Measures for Power Reliability Management

Notice on Orderly Development of Single-User Green-Power Direct Connection

China · 2.2.14

Action Plan for High-Quality Development of Computing Infrastructure

China · 2.2.26

Notice Improving Pricing Mechanisms to Promote Nearby Consumption of New-Energy Generation

State Council General Office Notice on Standardizing Urban Utility Charges

Notice issuing Measures to Promote Green, High-Quality Development of Data Centers in the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area

Nanjing Operating Measures for Government-Enterprise Shared Electricity Connection Works

China · 2.12.1

Notice issuing Yunnan's Implementation Plan for Promoting Green-Power Direct-Connection Construction

China · 2.13.1

Zhengzhou Implementing Rules for Electricity Connection Works (Trial)

PROJECT

6 documents

United States · 1.1.1

AWS / Talen Susquehanna Data Campus

United States · 1.1.3

Switch Citadel Campus (Tahoe Reno)

United States · 1.2.1

Meta Richland Parish / Hyperion

United States · 1.3.1

Google The Dalles Data Center

United States · 1.4.1

xAI Colossus

GDS Kunshan Guojin Data Center REIT

CONTRACT

9 documents

United States · 1.2.1

TeraWulf–Kentucky Power 500 MW ESA and 1 GW LOA

United States · 1.6.1

AEP Ohio large-load service architecture

United States · 1.6.2

Dominion large-load tariff architecture

United States · 1.6.3

Georgia PSC data-center contract review and minimum-bill framework

United States · 1.6.5

DTE Electric-Green Chile Ventures 1,383 MW primary supply package (Oracle-guaranteed)

United States · 1.6.7

Evergy 2026 data-center ESA portfolio

United States · 1.6.8

Xcel/NSP >100 MW large-load tariff

VNET 100 MW customer cooperation framework

VNET–CGN Solar 2023 green-power purchase agreement with five-year supply-guarantee clause

ACADEMIC

17 documents

United States · 1.1.2

Extracting Profits from the Public: How Utility Ratepayers Are Paying for Big Tech's Power

United States · 1.1.3

Policy and Cost Allocation Considerations for Large Electric Load Interconnections: Emerging Policy Trends in Rate Structures, Interconnection, and Cost Impacts on Other System Users

United States · 1.1.4

Electricity Rate Designs for Large Loads: Evolving Practices and Opportunities 2026 Update

United States · 1.1.5

Revisiting the Relationship Between Demand Growth and Electricity Prices

United States · 1.1.6

Have Data Centers Raised Your Electric Bill? Causal Evidence from the United States

United States · 1.3.1

Cutting the Electric Bill for Internet-Scale Systems

United States · 1.6.1

Speed to Power: Solutions for Accelerating Large Load Connections

United States · 1.6.2

The Role of the U.S. Electric Distribution System in Serving Data Center and Other Large Loads

United States · 1.6.3

Governing the Energy Bottleneck

United States · 1.7.1

Grid Reliability Through Clean Energy

United States · 1.7.2

Climate Resilience and Private Law's Duty to Adapt

United States · 1.8.1

Financing the AI Buildout

Government Provision of Artificial Intelligence Factors: Jurisprudential Foundations and Institutional Responses

Optimization Strategy for Spatiotemporal Cooperative Operation of Multiple Data Centers Considering Load-Response Characteristics

Prediction of Overall Energy Consumption of Data Centers in Different Locations

Regulatory Dilemmas in the Development of China's Artificial Intelligence Computing-Power Industry and Paths for Resolution

Bidirectional Collaborative Optimization Scheduling of Adjustable Resources in Computing and Power Nodes

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