Data centers shell out for upgrades: In New Jersey, a first-of-its kind program will enable data centers to offset their energy use by paying for households’ demand-reducing resources like electric heat pumps and batteries.
Another pinky promise: Like the White House’s data center pledge, Michigan is pushing its own voluntary agreement for data center developers. Signees assure residents that they won’t pay the price (in cash or in environmental harm) for new data centers. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is also calling on the state legislature to “codify every single one of our guardrails in Michigan law.”
While we’re here: FERC has handed NERC a hard deadline for its reliability standards for large “computational loads” like data centers: Dec. 31, 2026. 🥂
Molly Glick
Energy Central Team
Thu, Jul 16