This story was originally published on Utility Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Utility Dive newsletter. New year, same theme: data centers. The PJM Interconnection’s market monitor is once again blaming data centers for the results of its latest capacity auction. Meanwhile, Texas’ large load queue exploded last year, largely due to — you guessed it! — data centers. Here are those and other numbers that caught our eye in the early days of 2026. ►40% How much reven ...

This story was originally published on Utility Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Utility Dive newsletter. Dive Brief: Data center load accounted for $6.5 billion, or 40%, of the $16.4 billion in costs from the PJM Interconnection’s December capacity auction, according to the grid operator’s independent market monitor. About $6.2 billion of those costs is related to data centers that haven’t been built but could come online by PJM’s 2027/28 delivery year that begins on ...