PJM Interconnection, the grid operator serving 67 million people across 13 states and Washington, D.C., asked federal regulators on Thursday to approve rules that would cut power to new data centers ahead of households during supply shortages, Reuters reports.
The filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission follows two consecutive capacity auctions that failed to secure enough generation, and PJM’s board projects roughly 70 GW of new large load by 2038 against roughly 15 GW of generation retired since 2022.
A bit of a guess but I think this is the data centre in the picture: https://maps.app.goo.gl/8MGY8u3cfdPEGDyC8?g_st=ac
Here it is in a zoning map with the data centre circled:
IP is zoning for an industrial park and GI is “General Industry: District for industrial uses that are incompatible with residential uses due to the prevalence of outdoor storage and emissions of noise and odor.”
Sure, zoning changes but given the distribution and proximity to the airport and quarries it seems unlikely it’s all amendments. This very weary engineer is literally begging people to read zoning maps and flood plain maps before buying a house.