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⚖️ POLICY & REGULATION
Delaware Makes Data Centers Bring Their Own Clean Power: Gov. Matt Meyer signed four bills Wednesday requiring large data center developers to pay all of their own infrastructure costs and barring data center energy costs from landing on Delaware ratepayers. One makes Delaware a “bring your own power” state: a facility that cannot generate or procure power meeting the state’s renewable portfolio standard cannot operate, and a share of backup power must come from clean sources rather than diesel. Another strips data centers from a state program granting tax incentives and credits. Link
Florida Would Require AI Policies at All 28 State Colleges and Bar Companion Chatbots in K-12: Education Commissioner Henry Mack approved the proposed rule Monday; the State Board of Education takes it up September 16 at Polk State College in Winter Haven. Every Florida College System institution would have to publish AI policies covering academic integrity, assignments and grading. In K-12, any AI tool for grades PreK-5 gets an extra review before approval, and no instructional tool may meet a student’s social or emotional needs, simulate an emotional relationship, or use anthropomorphic design features “for the purpose of encouraging a student to continue interacting with the system.” Districts must notify parents when a tool is approved, and parents can opt a child out. Link
California’s AI-for-Lawyers Bill Has Four Days to Clear the Assembly: SB 574, from Sen. Tom Umberg, passed the Senate 39-0 on January 29 and dies if the Assembly does not pass it by August 31, when the 2025-26 session ends. It would require attorneys to protect nonpublic information at the prompt stage, guard against discriminatory AI use, and personally read and verify every source cited in a filing they sign, whether or not AI generated it. Arbitrators would have to own their decisions and disclose their use of generative AI. Link
Georgia’s regulators just approved the contract. This bill would put the ratepayer protection in statute.
SB 34, Public Service Commission; prohibit data center costs from being included in rates, sponsored by Sen. Chuck Hufstetler, would bar utilities from putting the fuel, generation and transmission costs of serving large-load customers into general rates unless those rates recover the costs from the large customers themselves, and would require specific terms in every large-load contract. It carries 21 cosponsors and was favorably reported by substitute out of Senate committee on February 25, where it has sat since. Today’s Georgia Power–OpenAI approval rests on a PSC contract review; SB 34 would make that protection statutory rather than case-by-case.
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STATES
Georgia Regulators Approve Georgia Power’s 3.2-Gigawatt OpenAI Contract: The Public Service Commission cleared the agreement to serve OpenAI’s Effingham County campus, Georgia Power announced Wednesday. OpenAI fully funds the infrastructure the project requires and commits up to 1,000 megawatts of flexible demand response, letting the utility cut deliveries during statewide peaks. Georgia Power puts its large-load contract portfolio at roughly $950 million in annual system savings beginning in 2029, raising the projected benefit for a typical residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt-hours a month to about $15 a month, or $180 a year, up from a previously projected $102 a year. Link
Oklahoma Voters Reject SQ 844 by Nearly Three to One: 73.75% voted no Tuesday on the measure that would have handed the Legislature authority over the methodology and levels by which the state reimburses local entities for manufacturing property-tax exemptions. Pryor Public Schools, whose district hosts an ever-expanding Google data center generating millions in exemptions, was the case in point; Superintendent Lisa Muller opposed the change, while House Speaker Kyle Hilbert and Senate President Pro Tem Lonnie Paxton backed it as a fix for a reimbursement system concentrated in a handful of counties. Link
Dan Patrick Calls for a 10-Month Statewide Data Center Moratorium: “The data centers have to be dealt with,” the lieutenant governor said on his Rural City Bus Tour, pitching a pause “through 10 months, which gets us through the session” alongside property-tax relief. That goes past Gov. Greg Abbott’s August order, which paused approvals for new projects pending Public Utility Commission and ERCOT audits rather than halting them outright. Patrick has already named data centers a Senate priority for 2027 and has joined legislators urging the PUC to reject a proposed $33 billion transmission plan. Link
Pinal County Rejects Arizona’s Largest Proposed Data Center, 4-1: Supervisors denied the rezoning for the La Osa Energy Center outside Eloy, 11 data center buildings, a 500-megawatt natural gas plant and battery storage, after hours of public comment that filled five overflow rooms across three buildings. Developer Vermaland had already cut the project 80%, imposed its own water-use limits and offered to shoulder all energy costs. Supervisor Stephen Miller, the lone yes, said “individuals have a right to use their property the way they want.” Link
Tallahassee Votes Down a Pause 3-2 While Leon County Moves the Other Way: City commissioners rejected Jeremy Matlow’s moratorium motion Wednesday, the majority citing City Manager Reese Goad’s position that existing rules already foreclose the question: “Local law does not allow for data centers. They cannot exist in Tallahassee today based on the comp plan and land use ordinances.” Matlow disputes the reading, “Our land code doesn’t define data centers at all”, and notes projects nationally are sited on any industrial-zoned land. County Chairman Christian Caban is pressing a one-year countywide pause. Link
💰 POWER & CAPITAL
Anthropic Commits $45 Billion to the West Virginia Campus Microsoft Walked Away From: The six-year agreement to rent compute from Nscale covers roughly 460 megawatts, enough to power about 345,000 U.S. homes at any one time, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. Nscale will run Nvidia’s Vera Rubin chips, which start coming online late in 2027. It follows compute deals with AMD, SpaceX, Google and Broadcom, and lands while Anthropic lines up capacity ahead of an IPO the company has signaled could come this fall. Link
Nvidia’s Quarterly Profit Doubles on AI Spending: Revenue for the quarter ended July 26 came in at $96.2 billion, up 18% from the prior quarter and 106% from a year ago, with GAAP earnings of $2.46 a share against $1.08 a year earlier and guidance of roughly $108 billion for the current quarter. The figure is the demand signal behind every rate case, moratorium and tax-break fight in this issue. Link
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