Friday, February 20, 2026
SHADOW GRID: Silicon Valley building private power plants โ walled off from the utility system... Washington Post
ILLINOIS WAR: New bill would ban cost-shifting, force data centers to bring their own power... WSIU / Illinois Public Media
FERC CLEARS: Blackstone's $11.5B TXNM Energy acquisition approved... PR Newswire / Reuters
OHIO: Proposed data center could be one of state's biggest power guzzlers... Springfield News-Sun
8,000 ACRES: West Texas off-grid data center would consume more power than Chicago... The Independent
TEXAS SUPERSITES: 2GW monster campus eyes Uhland โ could reshape state's grid... Post Register
STATES CRACK DOWN: New laws force data centers to pay full grid connection costs... MultiState
5-YEAR WAIT: Data centers can't get grid connections โ storage boom follows... Tech News Vision / Redwood Materials
BLACKSTONE WINS: FERC says $11.5B TXNM deal 'consistent with public interest'... FERC / PR Newswire
ILLINOIS POWER ACT: 'Bring your own clean capacity' mandate could reshape market... WSIU
SUPERCYCLE: Comfort Systems surges on data center 'industrial supercycle' profits... Financial Content
โ New report: 1,135 existing + 491 upcoming US colocation data centers tracked
โ Redwood Materials pivots to data center energy storage as grid wait times hit 5+ years
โ State legislatures in 2026: Energy, tax, and demand-response mandates for data centers
๐ Stat of the Day
8,000
acres in West Texas โ the footprint of an off-grid data center that would consume more power than the entire city of Chicago
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