Daily Briefs
A daily scan of the energy and data-center beat — the developments worth your attention, named-source attribution, threads to watch. Briefs are published every weekday Development Docket has new coverage to surface; for full-length stories with conversions and action sections, see the archive.
April 28, 2026
The state-policy menu on data centers came into clearer focus today. Wisconsin's nonpartisan fiscal bureau finally put a price on the hyperscaler sales-tax exemption. Dayton, Ohio became the largest Ohio city to pause data-center applications. And Tennessee's legislature passed a bill that lets data centers self-power with gas turbines outside state or local oversight — the deregulated answer to the cost-allocation question Wisconsin and Indiana are still arguing about.
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April 27, 2026
Three pieces of the cost-allocation argument moved at once on Sunday-Monday. Wisconsin's Public Service Commission strengthened the data-center tariff against the utility's own proposal. Ohio's local-moratorium wave widened with a unanimous Ravenna vote and a constitutional petition now circulating. And Virginia's budget remains stuck on the $1.9 billion data-center sales-tax exemption, with the Senate's Pro Tempore pushing to end it eight years early.
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