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Last week, Bloomberg reported that two massive new data centers are sitting empty and unused in California—some nearly 100 megawatts of capacity going to waste. The local utility simply doesn’t have sufficient power to plug them in. Meanwhile, a report published earlier this month from AEP Ohio, a large electric utility, explained that it had received requests to study 36 new data center sites—and that the necessary regional upgrades to bring them online wouldn’t be ready until the last quarter of 2031 at the earliest. Similar reports have emerged from California, Arizona, Illinois, and elsewhere.
