LandGate's new Data Center Moratorium data layer puts every tracked moratorium on the map alongside its power, land, and infrastructure data.

The looming "AI real estate" reality check has officially arrived, but make no mistake: this is far from the end of the AI boom. It is the beginning of its most mature, institutional phase.

The 2026 midterms sent a clear message about data centers. Democrats took majorities in both chambers of Congress, flipped governor's offices in Texas, Georgia, Ohio, Iowa, and Nevada, and won on platforms that put data center costs front and center.

A cluster study is how a grid operator studies a batch of interconnection requests together instead of one at a time. Every project that applies in the same window is modeled as a group, the grid upgrades the group needs are identified at once, and the cost of those upgrades is shared among the projects that cause them.

On paper, the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) has the fastest interconnection timeline in 2026. Its new Consolidated Planning Process targets a signed generator interconnection agreement 180 days after the queue window closes.