Amazon announced more than $1 billion over five years for U.S. data-center communities on October 2. Its Built Together framework covers education and workforce pathways, energy and water solutions, and locally chosen priorities. Rollout is planned; benefits delivered to residents remain to be verified.
Emerging · Amazon / Amazon Web ServicesDISCOVERY · 2026-10-01
JERA, Dell and RHAELM signed an October 1 memorandum to coordinate power and AI infrastructure in Japan. Their first planned Chiba project would have power capacity of up to 400 MW. The campus is a development plan; commissioned computing capacity and customer outcomes are still ahead.
Emerging · JERA / Dell Technologies / RHAELM / Apollo Global ManagementDISCOVERY · 2026-09-23
Maryland ordered project ratings and monthly public power-and-water disclosure for certain data-center proposals of at least 25 megawatts that seek discretionary state engagement.
Emerging · State of Maryland / Office of Governor Wes MooreDISCOVERY · 2026-09-17
Duke Energy says an AWS agentic workflow reduced data preparation for interconnection studies from two weeks of manual work to hours by coordinating existing models and scripts.
Deployed · Duke Energy / Amazon Web Services / Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryDISCOVERY · 2026-05-27
Pennsylvania’s May 2026 GRID standards make investment, workforce, energy, water and community commitments conditions of Commonwealth support; the thresholds are commitments, not jobs or savings already delivered.
Emerging · Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development / Commonwealth of PennsylvaniaDISCOVERY · 2026-05-07
Google DeepMind reported that AlphaEvolve improved a trained graph neural network's ability to find feasible solutions to the AC Optimal Power Flow problem from 14% to more than 88%.
Demonstrated · Google DeepMind / Google ResearchDISCOVERY · 2025-12-18
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.
Emerging · Federal Energy Regulatory Commission / PJM InterconnectionDISCOVERY · 2025-10-28
Google DeepMind and Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced a partnership in which CFS uses the open-source TORAX plasma simulator in daily workflows to test and refine SPARC operating plans before the tokamak is turned on.
Emerging · Google DeepMind / Commonwealth Fusion SystemsDISCOVERY · 2025-08-27
Mäntsälä’s utility has circulated recovered server heat into the town-centre district-heating network since 2015. Nivos said in 2025 that it supplied about one-third of the network’s heat.
Deployed · Nivos / Nordic Investment Bank / Municipality of MäntsäläDISCOVERY · 2025-07-09
An AEP Ohio tariff effective July 23, 2025 requires a load study for new or expanding data-center requests of at least 25 megawatts and creates minimum-demand, collateral and cancellation obligations.
Deployed · Public Utilities Commission of Ohio / AEP OhioDISCOVERY · 2025-05-14
Google DeepMind reported that an AlphaEvolve-discovered scheduling heuristic had been in production for more than a year and continuously recovered an average 0.7% of Google's worldwide compute resources.