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

SHARED TOPICS / RESEARCH ATLAS

Land & permits

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

New evidence · 19 October 2026

NEW2026 National Green Computing Facilities Recommendation Notice (工信厅联节函〔2026〕433号)

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

LAW

21 documents

United States · 1.1.9

Executive Order 14318

United States · 1.1.20

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

United States · 1.4.1

Texas S.B. 6 large-load statute

United States · 1.5.1

Data Centers in Virginia

United States · 1.5.2

Va. Code § 10.1-1322.6 — Data-center engine-generator permit limits

United States · 1.5.3

Va. Code § 15.2-2209.5

United States · 1.5.4

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

United States · 1.5.5

Amazon Data Services IAD-870 Campus Stationary Source Permit to Construct and Operate

Classified Management Catalog for Environmental Impact Assessment of Construction Projects (2021 Edition)

Energy Law of the People's Republic of China

China · 2.2.12

Special Action Plan for Green and Low-Carbon Development of Data Centers

China · 2.2.13

Implementation Opinions on East Data–West Compute and the National Integrated Computing Network

China · 2.2.18

Measures for Energy Conservation Review and Carbon-Emissions Evaluation of Fixed-Asset Investment Projects

China · 2.2.19

Administrative Reconsideration Law of the People’s Republic of China

Beijing Provisions on Strengthening Energy Review of Data-Center Projects

Fuzhou public-complaint transfer and inspected-entity disposition table, Batch 15

Acceptance notice for the EIA report form for the Gui'an Huawei Cloud Data Center AZ3 Machang Area Phase I 220 kV substation project (nuclear and radiation)

Public notice of social-stability risk assessment for the 330 kV substation and export line of the Datang Zhongwei Cloud Base Data Center green-power supply 500 MW wind project

China · 2.10.1

Public notice of proposed EIA approval decision for ICBC Xi'an Data Center Xixian Campus Project (Phase I)

China · 2.10.2

Public notice of production-construction-project water-and-soil-conservation plan approval results, July 2026

China · 2.11.1

Xinjiang's first multi-user green-power direct-connection projects announced

PROJECT

8 documents

United States · 1.1.2

Microsoft / Constellation Crane Clean Energy Center

United States · 1.1.3

Switch Citadel Campus (Tahoe Reno)

United States · 1.2.1

Meta Richland Parish / Hyperion

United States · 1.4.1

xAI Colossus

GDS Kunshan Guojin Data Center REIT

Chindata Huailai / Taihang Campus

China Telecom Qingyang Intelligent-Compute Center

Tencent Qingyuan Qingxin Cloud Data Center

CONTRACT

6 documents

United States · 1.1.2

TeraWulf–Fluidstack 378 MW leases with Google credit support

United States · 1.1.3

Alliance Cloud Services–neocloud 20 MW MSA

United States · 1.3.1

TerraVolt 55,000 MMBtu/day firm natural-gas supply agreement

United States · 1.4.1

SEI 600+ MW power-equipment rental agreement

China Mobile–SPIC Qaidam microgrid and EPC package

NDRC/NEA 2025 single-user green direct-connection architecture

ACADEMIC

10 documents

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 · 1.1.5

Revisiting the Relationship Between Demand Growth and Electricity Prices

United States · 1.2.1

The Law of Energy Abundance

United States · 1.5.1

Environmental Burden of United States Data Centers in the Artificial Intelligence Era

United States · 1.5.2

Clouds on the Horizon: An Integrative Review of Data Centers and Local Governance in the United States

United States · 1.6.2

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

United States · 1.7.1

Grid Reliability Through Clean Energy

A New Indicator for a Fair Comparison of Data-Center Energy Performance

Prediction of Overall Energy Consumption of Data Centers in Different Locations

Five Key Problems and Governance Strategies in the Integrated Construction of China's National Computing-Power System

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