Ohio Supreme Court Unanimously Rules Submetering Companies Must Be Regulated Like Utilities — AEP Ohio Wins, Nationwide Energy Partners Loses

The Ohio Supreme Court ruled unanimously that submetering companies — the third-party middlemen who buy electricity wholesale from the utility and resell it to apartment and mobile-home tenants — must be regulated under Ohio's public-utility …

Mississippi Developer Files PSC Declaratory Opinion to Carve Private On-Site Data-Center Power Out of "Public Utility" Definition — a Regulatory Workaround Other States Will Watch

Jackson-based Gabriel Prado's PraCon Global Investment Group, acting through affiliate Prado AI Industrial, has filed a Request for Declaratory Opinion with the Mississippi Public Service Commission asking the commission to confirm that private …

Maine's Nation-First Data-Center Moratorium Sits on Gov. Mills' Desk — While Central Maine Power's Rate Case Nets Households a Temporary $4/Month Decrease

Two Maine energy stories are converging this week, and both are worth understanding together. LD 307 — the statewide data-center moratorium — passed both chambers of the Maine Legislature on April 14 without Gov. Janet Mills' requested carveout for …

Ravenna Passes Unanimous Data-Center Moratorium — Joins a Six-City Portage/Summit Bloc Forming Ohio's Most Coordinated Regional Resistance

Ravenna City Council voted unanimously on April 20 to bar data-center construction across the city for twelve months while it drafts zoning rules. The ordinance was written to also cover "server farms" and "cryptocurrency mining facilities" so the …

Port Washington's $15 Billion Vantage Data Center Seeks Air Permits for 45 Diesel Backup Generators — 87 MW of On-Site Combustion That Could Exceed NOx Standards

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is reviewing air-quality permit applications for 45 diesel-fired backup generators at the Cloverleaf/Vantage $15 billion data center under construction in Port Washington. Per the DNR application …

Louisiana's Energy Boom Produced a Jobs Bust — 11 Years, $90 Billion Invested, 0.18% Employment Growth, 30% More Toxic Spills

A new longitudinal analysis from The Data Center, a New Orleans-based research nonprofit, delivers the single most useful empirical rebuttal in circulation to the "transformative-investment-equals-transformative-jobs" pitch that data-center and …

Buffalo, WV Residents Hold Town Hall Tonight on Google's 1,700-Acre Data Center — the Ohio Valley's First Organized Hyperscale Fight

A town hall meeting convenes at Buffalo Town Hall tonight at 6:30 PM to coordinate opposition to Google's proposed 1,700-acre data center in Putnam County. The site is roughly 2.7 square miles — about twice the area of New York City's Central Park …

DeSantis Signs Florida Bill Barring Local Governments From Adopting Net-Zero Policies — the Energy Clause Buried in an Anti-DEI Measure

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed SB 1134 / HB 1217 on April 22 at a Jacksonville ceremony. The bill's headline provisions are anti-DEI measures — prohibiting certain diversity, equity, and inclusion programs at state and local levels — but the energy …

Wisconsin PSC Votes Today on We Energies' First-in-Nation Data-Center Tariff — a Template the Utility Says Other States Will Copy

The three-member Public Service Commission of Wisconsin convenes at 10:30 AM today at the Hill Farms State Office Building in Madison to rule on We Energies' proposed Very Large Customer (VLC) tariff — a special electric rate structure designed …

Pennsylvania Extends Its Two Largest Coal Plants Four Years Past Retirement — Shapiro Explicitly Cites Data Center Demand

Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection has proposed a consent decree that would allow the commonwealth's two largest coal-fired power plants — the Keystone Generating Station in Armstrong County and the Conemaugh Generating Station in …

Signals — April 23, 2026

NERC Will Issue a May Alert on Data Center Load Volatility — The Grid's Reliability Overseer Says the Current System Can't Handle What's Being Built

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation — the federal-designated body responsible for keeping the U.S. bulk power system reliable — will issue a new alert in May escalating its previous warnings about data center load behavior. The short …

North Carolina's Short Session Opens With Bipartisan Push to Repeal Data Center Tax Breaks — Up to $450 Million a Year on the Line

The North Carolina General Assembly returns to Raleigh today for its 2026 short session, and one of the few measures with visible bipartisan momentum is a proposal from Gov. Josh Stein (D) to modify or repeal the state's sales tax exemptions on data …

The Big 3 — April 22, 2026

Today's throughline: everyone else is being asked to pay. The grid's federal reliability body says the current system can't absorb what's being built. A Southern governor is moving to stop absorbing the tax cost. And in Allen County, Ohio, a utility …

Amwell Township to hold public hearing May 14 on proposed data center zoning ordinance

Amwell Township in Washington County, Pennsylvania will hold a public hearing on May 14, 2026, at 4:00 p.m. on a proposed zoning amendment that would, for the first time, define "data center" in township code and set out where such facilities could …