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Latest data center news, projects, power and policy across North Carolina — updated daily.
Recent North Carolina data center news
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White House Warns PJM to Reform Grid Governance ‘Before It Is Too Late’
The White House has warned PJM Interconnection to overhaul its governance and stakeholder process, while PJM says it is still on the administration’s previously announced timeline.
- The White House spokesperson said PJM has failed to implement the bipartisan Statement of Principles provided in January and urged reforms to stakeholder process, board governance, and implementation “before it is too late.”
- PJM said it has worked with the White House Energy Dominance Council and the 13-state region’s governors, completed its stakeholder process on backstop procurement, and expects the Board to act in very short order.
- FERC is scheduled to hold a technical conference on PJM governance and stakeholder process, with remarks from Peter Lake of the White House’s National Energy Dominance Council.
- The debate is tied to rising power demand from AI data centers, cloud providers, and other large industrial customers, with concerns about interconnection queues, transmission expansion, and capacity costs.
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Patented: Cardio Voyage Innovations’ Dual Heart Valve Device and 172 More Inventions Across North Texas
Dallas Innovates reports that Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 in U.S. patent production for the week of June 23, 2026, with 173 patents granted.
- 173 patents granted across the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area; the region ranked No. 8 among 250 metros for the week of June 23, 2026.
- The article is a news roundup/commentary on granted patents, not a first-time product or funding announcement; it highlights patents spanning medical devices, AI, transportation, energy, HVAC, networking, and manufacturing.
- No contact emails or phone numbers are provided in the text.
- The story references multiple local inventors and assignees, including Cardio Voyage Innovations, DFW International Airport Board, BNSF Railway, Texas Instruments, Toyota, Halliburton, and Lennox.
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A Year Later, Trumps OBB Act Caused 468,000 Mostly Green Job Losses, Claims E2 BW Research
E2 and BW Research have released an analysis claiming that Trump-era clean energy policy reversals and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act caused major project cancellations and job losses in the United States.
- The report says 216 abandoned projects led to $68.2 billion in foregone capital investment, $48.4 billion in annual operational spending, and 468,000 lost jobs across construction, manufacturing, supply chain, and induced effects.
- It attributes the fallout to the January 20, 2025 executive order freezing IRA and IIJA disbursements and the OBBA signed on July 4, 2025, and says the lost energy buildout includes about 10 GW solar, 3.75 GW wind, and 9.08 GW battery storage.
- The article is a commentary-style report summary based on E2/BW Research modeling using IMPLAN and NREL JEDI frameworks, and it references project cancellations involving companies such as GM, Ford-CATL, Toyota, VinFast, Honda, Freyr, Kore Power, Natron, Li-Cycle, NorSun, and Ebon Solar.
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The New Large-Load Compact
The article argues that AI data centers should be treated as active participants in grid planning rather than passive customers.
- It says FERC’s June 2026 large-load tariff actions directed the six jurisdictional regional grid operators to justify or reform rules for data centers and advanced manufacturing facilities.
- It also cites Berkeley Lab, ESIG, NERC, and ERCOT as examples and frameworks for reforming interconnection, cost responsibility, flexibility, and resource adequacy; this is commentary and analysis, not a new standalone company announcement.
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DELTa Turns 1 — 100+ Tariffs Tracked and Counting!
The NC Clean Energy Technology Center and the Smart Electric Power Alliance have announced a quarterly update and one-year anniversary milestone for the Database of Emerging Large Load Tariffs (DELTa).
- DELTa added 21 new proposals and recorded 15 approved tariffs/rules in the Q2 2026 update, bringing the database to 104 total approved and proposed large-load tariffs and service rules.
- The database now covers 37 states and over 70 electric utilities; it tracks tariffs and service rules affecting data centers, manufacturing, and other energy-intensive facilities across the U.S., and has exceeded 1,400 downloads.
- The article also says DELTa won a Reuters Events: Energy Industry Awards 2026 R&D Achievement award and is used in regulatory filings, industry analyses, white papers, and large-load media coverage.
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White House plans new pledge to shield ratepayers from data center related bill hikes - report
The US government is expected to bring together data center firms and utility companies to announce a voluntary pledge aimed at preventing data center power demand from raising electricity costs for regular ratepayers.
- The pledge is expected to be announced at an event in the coming weeks; no company names were disclosed for the new pledge, though several major firms are expected to join.
- The story references earlier Ratepayer Protection Pledge signatories — Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI — and notes that states including Oregon, Oklahoma, Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, and Virginia have adopted or proposed rules making large-load data centers pay for new infrastructure costs.
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Tract looks to develop 900MW data center park outside Richmond, Virginia
Tract has announced a pre-application filing to develop the Tuckahoe Technology Park, an 872-acre master-planned data center campus in Goochland County, Virginia.
- Filed a pre-application for a conditional use permit (CUP) through VALCO Goochland, LLC for land in the county’s technology overlay district (TOD West).
- The proposed campus would include 12 buildings, reach 900MW at full build-out, and require more than $3 billion in investment; a community meeting is scheduled for July 23.
- Tract says it aims to make sites zoned, powered, and shovel-ready for other developers, and county officials said negotiations have been ongoing since late 2023.
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NC Ends Data Center Power Tax Break, Keeps Capital Incentives
North Carolina has announced a budget change narrowing its data center tax incentives by repealing the electricity sales and use tax exemption while preserving exemptions for qualifying equipment and other capital investments.
- The change was enacted when Gov. Josh Stein signed the state’s 2026 budget; Stein said it “eliminates tax exemptions for data centers’ electricity use.”
- The North Carolina General Assembly’s Fiscal Research Division said the repeal will raise $21.4 million in General Fund revenue in fiscal year 2026-27, increasing to $28.6 million annually by fiscal year 2030-31.
- The article quotes Neil Osnato of Persistence Analytics Group on the economics of AI campuses and Dan Diorio of the Data Center Coalition on preserving certainty for future investment.
- It also notes pending legislation, Senate Bill 730 (Ratepayer Protection Act), which would require special utility service agreements for qualifying large-load customers and add requirements for future data center development.
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Patented: Topgolf’s Newest Award and More Inventions Across North Texas
Dallas Invents has reported a weekly roundup of patents granted in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, highlighting Topgolf’s new patent among other local assignees and inventors.
- Topgolf International, Inc. received U.S. Patent No. 12649095 for a Galton configuration in golf ball receiving apparatus and systems that uses RFID tags and an antenna reader to identify golf balls while avoiding jams.
- The article is a news roundup/commentary on patent activity, not a first-time corporate announcement; it also lists other grants to entities including Texas Instruments, Toyota, Samsung, Bank of America, Citibank, USAA, Halliburton, and Akamai.
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The Data Center Water Problem Is Soluble
ITIF has published a policy report arguing that data center water use can be managed through state-led regulation, standardized disclosure, watershed-based review, and targeted federal support.
- The report says states should require facility-level water disclosures, use watershed-specific performance standards, and establish joint water-energy review for large data center loads.
- It also recommends federal action on standardized metrics, procurement, and R&D rather than a national water mandate; examples cited include Nvidia Rubin liquid cooling and Microsoft zero-water cooling designs.