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Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s proposal for speeding up power grid connections for data centers and advanced manufacturers has excited developers, but policy watchers caution that the way federal regulators execute the plan will make all the difference.
“The devil is always in the details,” said former FERC Chair Mark Christie, who earlier this year unsuccessfully sought to establish policy guidelines for co-locating large data centers with power generation.
Wright is calling on FERC to create standardized rules that would lead to faster project reviews from regional grid operators, while addressing some grid reliability and cost issues hanging over a major electricity expansion tied to the proliferation of supercomputers and data centers for artificial intelligence.
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