FERC's Order Signals Transformative Change While Navigating Jurisdictional Limits: While FERC recognizes the urgent need to address co-location arrangements (particularly given the AI/data center boom), the intricate...more
3/28/2025
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Modern data centers are the foundation of our information society and now use artificial intelligence to generate new forms of machine intelligence and learning – though at the cost of considerable energy consumption. Their...more
2/27/2025
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) has been active in recent weeks considering issues relating to co-located large load customers, being driven primarily by the announcements of planned investments by data...more
The permitting process has been identified by numerous commentators as a major cause of delays in the development of energy, infrastructure, and mining projects in the United States. ...more
8/1/2024
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