“The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which oversees the U.S. electricity and natural gas grids, voted 2-1 on November 1 to deny the expansion of an existing data center power agreement that would have allowed Amazon to connect directly to the power plant.”
Amazon wanted to wire a hyperscale data center straight into the Susquehanna nuclear plant and take a big share of its output. FERC said no because the rest of the region would eat the brownouts and the higher bills. Meta’s reactor-side AI campus ran into a rare bee. FERC has at least eight more co-location requests waiting, and each one asks the neighbors to share their power plant with a data center.