Phantom Data Centers Didn’t Break the Power Grid—They Proved It Was Already Broken
by Tom Bailey from POWER Magazine on (#75N3H)
The requests flooding interconnection queues come from data center developers, private equity funds, land brokers, and shell companies, many of whom lack site control, a construction timeline, or even a signed customer. They secure a queue position, bet that powered land will attract a buyer, and wait. The industry calls them "phantom data centers," and the grid isn't prepared to handle them.
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