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Friday, February 20, 2026

Big Tech is going off the grid โ€” literally. States are fighting back with new laws to stop cost-shifting. FERC cleared an $11.5 billion utility deal. And Texas is about to plant a 2-gigawatt data center the size of a small city.
 

๐Ÿ”ฅ Top Stories

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

 

๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Data Centers

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

 

โšก Power & Grid

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

 

โšก Quick Hits

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

 

๐Ÿ“Š 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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