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OGQuick breakdown. DOE just handed Georgia Power a record loan package to unlock grid capacity for AI data centers. Not a press release trophy—this is firm power: substation builds, transmission upgrades, and tune-ups on nuclear and gas units to feed hyperscale loads.
Why it matters: AI data center interconnections aren’t waiting on land—they’re waiting on deliverable megawatts. Georgia now has a federal backstop to move steel on 230/500 kV work and extend baseload from nuclear into the queue. That shortens timelines for 50–200 MW blocks, stabilizes data center power pricing, and de-risks interconnection for NVIDIA GPU clusters running liquid cooling at 30–80 kW per rack.
Operator take: If I were building, I’d target parcels tied to substations benefitting from this spend—within a few miles of 230 kV nodes and any circuits tied to nuclear. Ask for firm service, not best-efforts. Lock water permits early or design for hybrid/dry heat rejection. And if timelines slip, plan a behind-the-meter gas bridge so your interconnection queue date doesn’t kill the campus.
We’re building infrastructure in this space right now. Follow for what we’re seeing.
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