Plain-English recap of what actually happened at Lakeland City Hall Monday morning. Commissioners were scheduled to hold a first reading and public hearing on a proposed 12-month moratorium covering any data center or 'large load electric customer' using >50...
WFLA — Project Swan debate over Lakeland AI data center moratorium continues + LkldNow — Lakeland Takes First Step Toward Data Center Moratorium + WUSF — Lakeland releases proposed data center moratorium ordinance + Tampa Bay 28 — Lakeland begins drafting one-year moratorium for large-scale data centers + FOX 13 Tampa Bay — Lakeland City Commission to hold first public hearing on proposed data center moratorium + City of Lakeland — Notice of Proposed Moratorium on Data Centers and Large Load Customers ↗
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Read why it matters →Plain-English rollup of what didn't change over the July 4 weekend and what's coming next week.
**ERCOT Batch Zero Form W Part A — T-6 to Thursday July 10.** No change since Thursday. The Interconnecting Large Load Entity (data center operator) must...
ERCOT — Large Load Integration Page + PJM Inside Lines — PJM Capacity Auction for 2028/2029 Delivery Year Opens (Jun 30 2026) + ESAI Power — PJM Capacity Auction Calendar + City of Lakeland — Notice of Proposed Moratorium on Data Centers and Large Load Customers + WUSA9 — Prince George's County debates 2-year data center development moratorium + WJLA — Data center protest held in Prince George's County + Utility Dive — FERC extends comment deadline on PJM data center transmission complaint + Lexington Institute — Gov Hochul's Data Center Moratorium Veto Deliberations ↗
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Read why it matters →Plain-English background on why county moratoriums matter more than they look. A county moratorium is a temporary local ordinance that suspends new development permits or rezoning applications for a specific category of use (in this case, data centers) for a...
Wave3 Louisville — Clark County could consider moratorium on data center zoning (Jul 3 2026) + News and Tribune — Clark County officials considering data center moratorium + Post and Mail — Whitley County putting moratorium on data centers + City of Lakeland — Notice of Proposed Moratorium on Data Centers and Large Load Customers + LkldNow — City Releases Proposed Data Center Moratorium Ordinance + LkldNow — Lakeland Takes First Step Toward Data Center Moratorium + FOX 13 Tampa Bay — Lakeland moves forward with drafting 12-month moratorium on large-scale data centers + WUSF — Zephyrhills City Council puts a one-year moratorium on data centers (Jun 24 2026) ↗
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Read why it matters →Plain-English background on the operational track. Yesterday's newsletter covered the regulatory calendar (VA tax, IL DCIP freeze, FL SB 484, Trump EO 14318, PJM auction open, ERCOT Batch Zero deadlines, Abbott Texas memo). Today's operational read is about...
ERCOT — Large Load Integration Page + ERCOT Market Notice M-B062326-01 Implementation of the Batch Zero Process + ERCOT Trending Topic New Batch Connection Process for Large Electricity Users (Jun 18 2026 PDF) + EPE Consulting — New Pathway and Deadlines in ERCOT's Large Load Batch Zero PCLR + Willkie Farr & Gallagher — ERCOT Approves Implementing New Batch Zero Process for Large Load Interconnections + Foley & Lardner — ERCOT's Proposed Batch Zero Process What Developers of Large Loads Need to Know + Microsoft Source — Microsoft Completes Construction on First Datacenter Facility in Mount Pleasant Wisconsin (Jun 23 2026) + WEDC — Gov. Evers Microsoft Officials Announce New $4 Billion Investment in Mount Pleasant Datacenter ↗
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Read why it matters →Plain-English background. Four separate regulatory clocks all reach 12:01 AM Wednesday July 1, 2026 at the same instant. Three are state-level and point toward friction — they increase cost or reduce access for hyperscalers building in that state. One is...
Greenberg Traurig — Virginia Legislature Approves Tax on Data Center Electricity Consumption (Jun 2026) + Data Center Knowledge — Virginia Approves First-Ever Data Center Power Tax + Illinois Governor's Newsroom — Gov. Pritzker Pauses New Data Center Tax Incentives + Capitol News Illinois — Gov. JB Pritzker to Suspend Tax Breaks for Data Centers, Urging More Discussion + The Hill — Pritzker Pauses Data Center Tax Incentives in Illinois + MultiState — State Data Center Policy Shifts as Governors Impose New Restrictions (Jun 22 2026) + Whitehouse.gov — Executive Order 14318 Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security (Jun 2026) + AI Governance Institute — EO 14318 Accelerating Federal Permitting Data Center Infrastructure 2026 + Henrico Citizen — Virginia Has a New Two-Year Budget. Here's What Lawmakers Now Require of Data Centers + Kiplinger — Virginia Approves First Data Center Power Tax ↗
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Read why it matters →Plain-English background. Minnesota sits in MISO (Midcontinent Independent System Operator) — the same RTO that just received FERC's June 18 show-cause order on large-load tariff design. Minnesota's data center growth had been more measured than...
CBS Minnesota — Minneapolis City Council approves 5-month pause on data center development (Jun 25 2026) + Fox 9 — Inver Grove Heights City Council votes to pass data center moratorium despite developer threatening lawsuit (Jun 26 2026) + MPR News — Inver Grove Heights approves one-year moratorium on data centers + KSTP — Inver Grove Heights council pauses data centers amid lawsuit threat + Star Tribune + Bring Me The News + Audacy / WCCO Radio ↗
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Read why it matters →Plain-English version. On June 18, 2026, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC, the federal regulator with jurisdiction over the interstate transmission grid) used Section 206 of the Federal Power Act to issue what are called 'show-cause orders'...
FERC — FERC Launches Aggressive Targeted Action to Speed Large Load Integration (Jun 18 2026) + Mondaq + Day Pitney summaries of the six Section 206 orders + Akin Gump abeyance analysis ↗
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Read why it matters →Plain-English version of what happened. New York has a part-time state legislature that adjourns in mid-June; in the last 72 hours of the 2026 session, both the Senate and Assembly passed S.10642/A.11560, the 'Responsible Data Center Development Act,'...
NY State Senate / Sen. Kristen Gonzalez press release — Passes Data Center Moratorium, First in the Nation If Signed (Jun 23 2026) ↗
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Read why it matters →Plain-English version. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) filed the AI Data Center Moratorium Act in the Senate (S.4214) earlier in 2026 as the first federal statutory pause on data-center construction. The bill has been a marker statute — designed to lay down a...
Office of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — Ocasio-Cortez Introduces House Version of the AI Data Center Moratorium Act (Jun 24 2026) ↗
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Read why it matters →Plain-English version. House Energy & Commerce is the committee with jurisdiction over the FERC Act, the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA), and most federal electricity policy. The ranking member of that committee is the most senior Democrat on...
Office of Rep. Frank Pallone — Pallone Supports National AI Data Center Moratorium (Jun 24 2026) ↗
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Read why it matters →Plain-English version of what happened. Tuesday, June 23 was the single most active moratorium day Florida has had — three county boards moved separate ordinances forward in a coordinated wave. Clay County (just south of Jacksonville, ~220,000 residents) gave...
Florida Politics — Three counties moving forward with one-year data center moratoriums (Jun 24 2026) ↗
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Read why it matters →Plain-English version of what SB 484 does. On May 7, 2026, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 484 at a ceremony in Lakeland, calling it the 'first of its kind in the nation.' The law has four operative provisions, and unlike most data-center state...
Office of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — Governor Ron DeSantis Signs Law to Protect Floridians from Subsidizing Data Centers (May 7 2026) ↗
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Read why it matters →Plain-English framing. Nassau County is the far northeast Florida county adjacent to Jacksonville, with Jaxport and St. Marys River frontage. The 12-month moratorium is a 'study moratorium' — it freezes new applications while the County does the research...
First Coast News / Yahoo News / Nassau County Chamber / News4Jax / Jax Daily Record ↗
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Read why it matters →Plain-English framing. A regulated utility (Xcel) signed a one-off contract with a single very large customer (Google) instead of running the cost-allocation through a new public tariff. In a state with a regulated monopoly utility, every cost the utility...
Xcel Energy Newsroom / Q1 2026 8-K / 24/7 Wall St ↗
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Read why it matters →Plain-English framing. A 'moratorium' is just a local time-out on issuing new permits — typically 60-day, 180-day, or 1-year. The county uses the pause to write new zoning or impact-fee rules; if the rules don't get written before the moratorium expires, the...
WHQR / WRDW / 10TV / Arkansas Times / WALB ↗
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Read why it matters →Plain-English framing. The Florida bill is structurally similar to the Wisconsin / Oregon / PA pattern (the data center pays its full cost of service) but adds two Florida-specific provisions worth tracking. The aquifer-permitting clause is the under-noted...
Florida Gov / Central Jersey / MultiState / Climate Law Blog ↗
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Read why it matters →HB 2992 is structurally different from the other four state-level ratepayer-protection actions in the May cluster. Pennsylvania's May 8 PUC model tariff is regulator-issued guidance (binding on the four PA investor-owned utilities only after...
Oklahoma House of Representatives / Oklahoma Senate / KGOU / OKCFOX / Fox23 / Oklahoma Energy Today ↗
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Read why it matters →Three more entries in the local-moratorium tape, each illustrating a different sub-pattern. Penn Township MI: pure preemptive moratorium with no land sold and no developer named. The Diamond Lake Association (the local lake-property-owner organization) drove...
WNDU / WSBT / IPM News / Washington Times-Herald / News4Jax / Seehafer News ↗
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Read why it matters →PJM's 'Powering Reliability Through Market Design' paper is the most significant single regulatory-process document in the PJM footprint since FERC's December 18, 2025 order on co-located generation (which Cliff has been tracking via the pjm-er26-1088 page)....
PJM Inside Lines / Utility Dive / Modo Energy / PR Newswire / ROI-NJ / Daily Caller (yournews) ↗
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Read why it matters →Two updates on the local-moratorium tape that fill in the May 11 picture. (1) Kingsland GA: the City Council votes tonight on a 90-day moratorium that City Manager Lee Spell publicly recommended on April 24. The political context shifted last week when...
Georgia Public Broadcasting / The Current GA / Marengo Township / Bridge Michigan / WKAR Public Media ↗
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Read why it matters →Three regulatory events in the same 24-hour window on May 8 — Pennsylvania PUC's model-tariff vote, PPL Electric's pending rate-case settlement (filed March 13, ALJ recommendation April 17, effective July 1), and Oregon PUC's PGE Schedule 96 directive —...
WHYY / WESA / Utility Dive / KGW / KOIN / Beaver County Radio / RTO Insider ↗
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Read why it matters →Three distinct state-level instruments and their May status: (1) Ohio Prohibition of Data Center Construction Amendment — a citizen-initiated state constitutional amendment that would write a 25 MW cap into Ohio's constitution. AG Dave Yost certified the...
Ballotpedia / Ohio Capital Journal / 13abc / Indiana General Assembly / Maine Governor's Office ↗
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Read why it matters →SB 484 (sponsored by Sen. Bryan Ávila with companion in the Florida House) cleared both chambers earlier in the 2026 session and was signed at a Lakeland press conference May 7 alongside several other technology-related bills. The statute directs the Florida...
WFSU / Florida Politics / Tallahassee Reports / Florida Senate (SB 484 bill text) ↗
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Read why it matters →Kirk Tovey, the Florida businessman behind a planned data center on a 682-acre tract in Kingsland GA, withdrew his rezoning application (industrial-park rezone + partial annexation by Kingsland) hours before the city's planning and zoning board was set to...
The Current GA ↗
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Read why it matters →The Camden County (GA) Board of Commissioners is set to vote Tuesday May 6 on adopting a 9-month moratorium on data centers. The proposal is driven by speculation that a Florida-based businessman has requested rezoning of land in Kingsland and the county for...
The Current GA ↗
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