The power bill behind the AI build-out
Every AI data centre lands on a grid, an aquifer or a neighbourhood that was not consulted. We follow the interconnection queues, the power purchase agreements and the local cost where somebody has actually measured it.
Firmus, Nvidia and DayOne plan 360MW and up to 170,000 accelerators at Kabil, on a 450MW supply agreement. Batam's installed capacity was around 900MW when last counted.
3 Sep 2026 Texas Froze a 474-Gigawatt Data-Centre Queue on a 91-Gigawatt GridAbbott has halted new ERCOT interconnection agreements and ordered an audit of the queue. Three recent cases show what happens when a queue position is made to cost something.
2 Sep 2026 Southeast Asia's First Data-Centre Protest Was About Dust, Not WaterNikkei reports data-centre opposition spreading across Asia. The region's first protest was in Johor in February, and the grievance there was dust and proximity rather than water.
1 Sep 2026 Eight Data-Centre Turbines, 2.5 Million People and US$53m to US$99m a YearData centres are installing on-site gas turbines to bypass multi-year grid connection queues. That makes the emissions the mechanism of the build-out rather than a side effect of i...