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Large load tariffs are reshaping data center site selection. Compare minimum bills, collateral, and terms across PJM, MISO, ERCOT, SPP, CAISO, and NYISO.

On October 9, 2026, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rejected the core of PJM's plan for connecting data centers and other large loads, keeping only a 50 MW large load definition and a new large load registry. The decision removes the "connect now, curtail first" fast lane that many developers were counting on, and hands the hardest question (which customers get curtailed when the grid is stressed) back to the states. For anyone siting a data center in PJM, it makes o

Where the hyperscalers build next determines where land and power get expensive, which markets get crowded, where self-build displaces leasing, and where a colocation provider or developer can still win a deal. Hyperscale data center tracking, done well, tells you all of that before your competitors see it.

To check power pricing and grid congestion for a solar or wind site, pull the historical locational marginal price (LMP) at the pricing node (P-node) where the project would inject power, split it into its energy, congestion, and loss components, and compare it with the nearest trading hub. Then measure how often that node clears at negative prices, check curtailment history in the surrounding zone, and pair the price view with substation capacity and interconnection queue da

Environmental blind spots destroy project economics faster than interconnection bottlenecks. See what to check for and how to use LandGate for solar due diligence.

U.S. data centers used about 176 TWh of electricity in 2023 and could use 325 to 580 TWh by 2028, according to a DOE-commissioned report from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The U.S. Department of Energy argues that this surge can be met with clean generation, storage, grid upgrades, efficiency, and flexible demand. For developers, that turns the siting question into a power question: the best sites will be the ones where grid headroom, clean supply, and buildable land

For two decades, Europe's data center map has been drawn around five cities. But the FLAP-D model is running into a hard limit: power.

Demand for data center capacity continues to outpace supply across the United States. Artificial intelligence training and inference workloads are pushing developers toward larger campuses, higher power densities, and markets where energy is both available and affordable. LandGate's national data center database tracks roughly 6,300 facilities as of October 2026: more than 3,100 are operational and roughly 2,800 more are in the development pipeline as planned, proposed, site

LandGate has expanded its map coverage to include European Data Centers. Users can now analyze site-level facility attributes, track project updates, and inspect operational statuses across international markets alongside primary domestic coverage.

On September 23, 2026, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority selected nearly 1.7 gigawatts of clean energy capacity: 950 megawatts of lithium-ion battery storage across eight projects, and 719 megawatts across 13 large-scale solar, wind, and hydroelectric projects. The storage awards range from 4 to 8 hours of duration, with the largest single project, a 150 megawatt, 4-hour system from Key Capture Energy, sited in Suffolk County, and an 8-hour, 140 meg

By serving as anchor subscribers, accelerating distribution-level grid investment, and leaving behind land that doesn't fit their own footprint, data centers are opening up some of the most attractive community solar sites in the country.

Half of the data center projects currently planned in the United States are being delayed or canceled outright, and it's rarely land or capital that kills them. It's power. The country's data centers run on roughly 51 gigawatts of capacity today, developers need about 44 gigawatts more by 2028, and the grid is on track to actually deliver only about 25 gigawatts of that in time, a 19 gigawatt gap between what's needed and what shows up. In markets like Northern Virginia, Phoe

West Texas Intermediate has spent September 2026 trading in the low $90s, its highest level in over a year and up more than 40% year over year, as the ongoing conflict in the Gulf and repeated disruptions near the Strait of Hormuz keep a risk premium baked into every barrel. On September 19, a U.S. commander noted that shipping through the Strait had actually hit a six-month high, a sign of partial stabilization even as prices stay elevated and traders keep watching whether B

On September 21, 2026, Governor Greg Abbott directed the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to stop issuing permits sought by data center projects until the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) completes its audit of data centers in the interconnection process.

On September 30, 2026, PJM Interconnection, the grid operator serving roughly 67 million people across 13 states and Washington, D.C., opens a capacity auction it has never had to run before: a backstop auction with up to $20 billion to spend and a price cap of $555 per megawatt-day, nearly 70% higher than the cap on its regular annual auction. It exists because PJM's most recent base auction, for the 2028/2029 delivery year, came in 6.8 gigawatts short of the grid's 20% rese

After four posts on vocabulary, market forces, colocation strategy, and due diligence, this final post in the series answers the question every developer actually wants a straight answer to: which states currently have the most real, available grid capacity for a large data center, solar farm, wind project, or battery storage site. The ranking below is built directly from LandGate's own platform data, not survey responses or self-reported figures. The colocation ranking The t

The 5-step process for finding and screening community solar sites with LandGate looks like this: sizing up the market and competition, filtering parcels by location and grid proximity, screening each site for physical and legal constraints, drilling into grid-level detail to catch fatal upgrade costs, and finally running the economics to make a clear go/no-go decision.

Whether you're evaluating a parcel for a data center campus or a utility-scale solar, wind, or battery storage project, the underlying question is the same: is this land actually powered, or is it just zoned. Parts 1 through 3 of this series covered the vocabulary and the market forces behind that question. This post turns it into a practical, step-by-step checklist you can run against any real site. Step 1: Confirm substation distance and available capacity Identify the near

Why labor availability belongs on the same site diligence checklist as power and land Texas's data center boom is running into a labor shortage as serious as its power shortage. Contractors report needing up to 6,000 workers on a single large campus, electricians (who account for roughly half of a data center's construction budget) are being pulled between overlapping projects, and the industry needs an estimated 450,000 or more new construction workers nationwide by 2027. Fo

Faced with interconnection queues that stretch past six years in some markets, data center developers have started buying power directly from solar, wind, and battery storage projects instead of waiting on the public grid. This is the piece of the power crisis that connects two audiences who used to operate separately: renewable energy developers, who now have a new class of buyer for their electricity, and data center developers, for whom a well sited solar or storage projec