New York became the first state to
freeze hyperscale data center construction:
Hochul's executive order pauses permits above
50 MW for up to a year while a stricter 20 MW
bill waits on her desk. Hours later, PJM's
capacity auction cleared at the $325 price cap
for the third consecutive year, a $16.4 billion bill
for 67 million people, and came up 6,831
megawatts short of its own reliability target.
Also this morning: IBM's worst day since before
1987 as AI infrastructure eats enterprise
budgets, Meta's Iris chip gets a September
production date on the road to 14 gigawatts,
North Carolina quietly ends its data center
power subsidy, and Indianapolis advances its
moratorium. Plus a correction on yesterday's
cap claim, because we keep our receipts.
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