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New York · Construction & power moves · 4
full tracker →Land, power, and interconnection moves across New York — each traced to primary filings.
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2025-2044 Outlook Explores Pathways to a Reliable, Cleaner Grid
Source: NYISO · Aug 07, 2026NYISO’s August 7, 2026 “2025-2044 Outlook Explores Pathways to a Reliable, Cleaner Grid” says New York demand is expected to rise over the next two decades, driven by “electrification policies and the emergence of new large loads,” and that “Transmission capability increasingly determines whether new resources can serve load.” NYISO also says the grid will need more transfer capability, including to “Increase transfer capability across the Central East transmission interface” and “Support zero-emissions generation development in Northern New York with bulk transmission upgrades to enable energy deliverability from this region.”
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Large Load Facility Discussion: Data Submission Requirements and Forecasting Method
Source: NYISO · Aug 26, 2022NYISO’s Aug. 26, 2022 Load Forecasting Task Force presentation proposes changes to how large loads are counted in peak forecasting: the definition of Large Load Facilities would be expanded for ICAP forecasting to include 40 MW or more below 115 kV in a Large Transmission District and 20 MW or more below 115 kV in a Small Transmission District, while the current interconnection threshold remains “Greater than 10 MW” at 115 kV or above or “80 MW or more” below 115 kV. NYISO also says “The sum of the forecasted large loads will be computed for each Transmission District and added to its ICAP Market Forecast” and that “The Transmission District Regional Load Growth Factor (RLGF) will not be applied to load changes from the Large Load Facilities.”
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October 2022 Update of Load Forecasting Manual: Large Load Interconnection Reporting and Forecasting
Source: NYISO · Oct 21, 2022NYISO’s October 21, 2022 Load Forecasting Manual update says large-load interconnections can materially change district forecasts: “Changes in the timing of the construction and ramp-up period of Large Load Facilities that are Interconnecting on the system have the potential to significantly alter the load forecast within a Transmission District” (NYISO). It also adds new reporting rules, requiring that “Large Load Facility forecast reports shall include the project status and forecasted load impacts” and that, after an SIS, the Connecting and Affected TOs submit reports quarterly or when forecasts change. NYISO further says “The sum of projected load changes reported for Large Load Facilities will be added to each TOs forecasted peak value as applicable.”
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Transmission Expansion and Interconnection Manual
Source: New York Independent System OperatorNYISO’s 2019 Transmission Expansion and Interconnection Manual explains that the NYISO OATT covers interconnection of new and modified generation, transmission, and load facilities in New York, and that the process includes queue assignment for study requests and interconnection requests. NYISO states that it “adds the request to its list of Interconnection Requests and Transmission Projects (also known as the ‘NYISO Interconnection Queue’) with a queue position based on the date of receipt,” and that new LFIRs and TIAs are also assigned queue position based on receipt. The manual is policy guidance rather than a project-specific filing.
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Forecasts for Reliability Planning Studies
Source: NYISO · May 29, 2025NYISO’s May 29, 2025 “Forecasts for Reliability Planning Studies” says large loads are a meaningful component of future New York demand, with “Projected Large Load impacts from existing and future interconnection of Large Loads” included in the light-load forecast and “Large loads are assumed to contribute over 2,000 MW to the Light Load by 2035.” NYISO also says these reliability studies incorporate EV charging, building electrification, and BTM storage charging into future load shapes.
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Recent New York data center news
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Meta Builds a Nuclear Supply Chain for the AI Era
Meta has announced a package of multi-gigawatt nuclear agreements and related support to secure firm, long-duration power for its AI data center buildout.
- Main announcement: Meta signed a set of deals that together could support up to 6.6 GW of new and existing clean power by 2035, including a 20-year PPA for more than 2,600 MW tied to three Vistra plants (Perry, Davis-Besse, Beaver Valley), an agreement with TerraPower to support up to eight Natrium plants (Meta funding for two Natrium units totaling up to 690 MW with delivery targeted as early as 2032, plus rights to energy from up to six additional units ~2.1 GW by 2035), and a deal with Oklo to enable a prepay-backed, scalable up-to-1.2 GW nuclear power campus in Pike County, Ohio.
- Background and implementation details:DOE announced $2.7 billion to bolster domestic uranium enrichment over the next decade (including HALEU support); Oklo has a DOE Nuclear Safety Design Agreement for an Aurora fuel facility at Idaho National Laboratory; TerraPower’s initial two-unit site is expected to be identified “in the coming months”; many elements remain in early site-selection, licensing, fuel-qualification, and interconnection stages, with explicit timelines ranging from 2026 (Meta’s Prometheus data center) through 2032–2035 for advanced reactor deliveries.
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US ROUNDUP: Duke Energy, Elevate, Fluence with BrightNight and Cordelio progress BESS projects
Duke Energy has brought online a 50MW/200MWh BESS at the former Allen coal plant in North Carolina.
- Main announcement: Duke Energy commissioned a 50MW/200MWh battery energy storage system at the former Allen coal plant on Lake Wylie, North Carolina, costing around US$100 million, finished under budget and ahead of schedule, began serving customers in November with final testing ongoing; construction of a second 167MW/668MWh BESS will start in May on a 10-acre site, and both systems are eligible for federal ITCs covering 40% (including an additional 10% for reinvestment into an energy community).
- Additional project actions and timelines: Fluence Energy will supply its Gridstack Pro BESS (US-made cells/modules/enclosures/thermal systems) for BrightNight and Cordelio Power’s 300MW/1,200MWh Pioneer Clean Energy Centre in Yuma County, Arizona (PPA with APS; commercial operations expected April 2027); Elevate Renewables has acquired the 150MW/600MWh Prospect Power BESS in Virginia (scheduled operations mid-2026).
- Energy Storage Summit USA: 24-25 March 2026, Dallas, TX; agenda includes FEOC challenges, power demand forecasting, and BESS supply chain management.
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Soluna Expands Texas Campus With 100 MW AI-Ready Data Center
Soluna Holdings has signed a co-development partnership with Metrobloks to build Project Kati 2 in Willacy County, Texas.
Partnership structure & project specifics: Soluna and Metrobloks intend to form a project company to own and operate Project Kati 2. Metrobloks will lead design, development, leasing, and day-to-day operations, while Soluna will provide site control, power entitlements, electrical equipment, and development expertise. The initial development for Kati 2 is a 100+ MW AI and HPC data center, as the first phase of a roadmap supporting more than 300 MW of total capacity. A target completion date has not been confirmed.
Background & related assets: Project Kati is a 166 MW wind-powered campus in Willacy County that broke ground in September 2025 and is being developed in two phases (Kati 1 expected to open later this year supporting Bitcoin hosting alongside AI/HPC; Kati 2 planned as dual-purpose for cryptomining and AI/HPC). The site has a non-binding letter of intent from a potential Neocloud tenant. Soluna’s broader portfolio includes the 25 MW Sophie data center, Project Dorothy 1A/1B (50 MW), Project Herdy (120 MW collocated with a 200 MW wind farm), and Project Annie (75 MW colocated with a 114 MW solar farm).
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NY Environmental Advocates Urge Bolder Clean Energy Action After State of the State Address
Environmental Advocates New York urged bolder clean energy action following Governor Kathy Hochul’s State of the State address.
- Highlights from the announcement: Governor Kathy Hochul proposed a $3.75 billion, five-year clean water plan; Environmental Advocates NY praised the water investment and urged the governor to commit an additional billion dollars for the Sustainable Future Program as part of their 2026 agenda.
- Background and additional details: Advocates said the address lacked a near-term plan for utility-scale solar and offshore wind, cautioned against overreliance on nuclear (noting it will cost billions more and take years to deploy), and called for binding clean energy and storage requirements to manage rapid energy demand growth from data centers.
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Microsoft Shifts to Community-First Model for Scaling AI Infrastructure
Microsoft has published a new Community-First Infrastructure framework for how it will build and run AI data centers in the United States, and said it will begin applying the framework in new and expanding US markets in the first half of 2026.
- Main announcement: Microsoft published the Community-First Infrastructure playbook authored by Vice Chair and President Brad Smith, committing to apply the framework in new and expanding US markets in H1 2026, pay full local property taxes on data center developments, contract for new generation and fund grid upgrades (including 7.9 GW contracted in the MISO market), and set a data center water-use intensity reduction target of 40% by 2030.
- Background and concrete details: The framework pledges tariffs that reflect full cost of serving large data center loads (supporting rate models that charge “very large customers” for infrastructure), funding transmission and substation upgrades, adoption of closed-loop cooling and funding local water system upgrades where needed (example: work with the Quincy Water Reuse Utility), expanded workforce pipelines with North America’s Building Trades Unions and Microsoft Data Center Academy, and community AI literacy and small-business training programs.
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What do we lose when we use AI? | Environmental Business
Abigail McHugh-Grifa (Executive Director, Climate Solutions Accelerator) published an opinion column urging resistance to unchecked AI development and offering concrete strategies to limit harms.
- Main announcement/action: Abigail urges readers to abstain or limit AI use, oppose data center build-out, and advocate for regulation; she cites Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory energy projections (data centers used 4.4% of U.S. energy in 2023, projected to 6.7%–12% by 2028) and Bloomberg’s water estimate (an average 100-megawatt data center consumes ~2 million liters/day, “equivalent to the water consumption of about 6,500 households”).
- Background and details: The piece is an opinion column dated January 15, 2026, referencing sources including MIT Technology Review, Bloomberg, and interviews/books (Nate Soares; Sarah Wynn-Williams); it recommends actions (develop acceptable use policies, state-level advocacy, oppose local data-center projects) and provides the author’s contact abby@climategfl.org.
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Idled California Biomass Power Plant to Be Rebuilt as Carbon-Negative AI Factory
NewYork GreenCloud has acquired the idled Buena Vista Biomass Power facility and announced plans to convert it into a 41-MW carbon-negative AI factory.
- Main announcement: NYGC (NewYork GreenCloud) acquired the Buena Vista facility in Ione, CA and plans to repower the legacy 18-MW biomass plant into a 41-MW carbon-negative AI factory, replacing combustion with pyrolysis, integrating on-site immersion-cooled GPU compute, and pairing generation with Tesla Megapack battery storage; the announcement was made on Jan. 14.
- Project structure & details: Impact Capital Partners advised on capital strategy; project materials estimate total capital expenditures of $156 million, note the site is interconnected to CAISO, currently permitted and located on fiber routes, describe a two-phase delivery (refurbishment/repowering then conversion to carbon-negative pyrolysis), and cite a 2026–2028 rollout evaluation window and specific agreements (e.g., a $6 billion Atlas Cloud AI / NYGC partnership with an initial $250 million deployment to host 288 HGX B300 systems with full deployment by February 2026).
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Powering Progress: How Leaders Build on Dell Storage
Dell promotes its industry-leading storage platforms and showcases customer deployments across sectors.
- Main announcement/action: Dell highlights its industry-leading storage portfolio—PowerStore, PowerFlex, PowerMax, PowerScale, and PowerEdge—as the foundation for scalable, reliable data infrastructure used by customers such as The Bank of New York Mellon (using PowerMax and PowerEdge) and Drogaria Araujo; the article cites PowerStore’s 5:1 data reduction guarantee and PowerMax’s multi-site replication as key product capabilities.
- Background and details: The post provides customer examples and use cases: KiTZ (Hopp Children’s Cancer Center Heidelberg) using PowerScale for genomic research in Germany, Lightstorm Entertainment and Cosm for media/entertainment workloads, Fulgent Genetics combining PowerStore and PowerEdge for AI-enabled genetic data processing, University of Missouri modernizing with PowerStore/PowerMax/PowerFlex and PowerEdge, and Texas Christian University adopting PowerScale with PowerEdge for its AI² initiative; links to product pages, case studies, and customer stories are provided.
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Elevate Renewables Acquires Major Battery Storage Project in PJM
Elevate Renewables has announced the acquisition of the Prospect Power battery storage project.
- Acquisition details: Elevate Renewables (an Arclight portfolio company) has acquired the Prospect Power project: a 150-MW / 600-MWh standalone battery storage installation in Rockingham County, northern Virginia; the project is under construction and is expected to enter commercial operation mid-2026 (this summer). It is fully contracted under a 15-year PPA with Dominion Energy Virginia.
- Background and strategy: The project sits within PJM Interconnection’s Data Center Alley and is positioned to support grid reliability amid rising load from data centers, AI, and electrification; Elevate says it will continue to scale battery storage across PJM and uses a co-location strategy with thermal generation to accelerate deployment and lower costs.
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IBM Introduces New Software to Address Growing Digital Sovereignty Imperative
IBM announced IBM Sovereign Core, a purpose-built, AI-ready sovereign-enabled software foundation to let enterprises, governments and service providers build, deploy and manage sovereign AI environments under customer control.
- Main announcement: IBM introduced IBM Sovereign Core as the industry’s first AI-ready sovereign-enabled software; it is built on Red Hat open source foundations, provides customer-operated control plane, in-boundary identity and keys, ongoing compliance enablement with generated audit evidence, and supports governed AI inference including local GPU clusters and local inference execution. Tech preview starts in February 2026, with general availability (GA) planned for mid-year 2026.
- Background and rollout details: IBM will support deployment in on‑premises data centers, in-region cloud, or via IT Service Providers; initial European rollout partners are Cegeka (Belgium, Netherlands) and Computacenter (Germany), enabling local operational independence and compliance management.
- Event: IBM Tech Summit (virtual) — January 27, 2026; agenda includes product announcements and technical sessions about IBM Sovereign Core.