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FERC required PJM to keep grid obligations visible when large loads co-locate with power plants.
A December 2025 FERC order directed PJM to create service paths for large co-located loads, require payment for grid services, and assign specified reliability-upgrade costs before existing generation can redirect capacity.
- AI’s role
- AI-related computing demand accelerated large-load co-location proposals; the documented result is a federal grid order, not a computing or customer-bill outcome.
- Documented result
- On December 18, 2025, FERC directed PJM to establish new service options for co-located large loads. The order requires co-located load to pay for grid services it uses and sets conditions for reliability upgrades when an existing generator proposes to redirect capacity, including specified upgrade responsibility before capacity is removed from general service.
- Important limitation
- This is a policy and tariff-development order, not evidence that a household bill fell.