Weekly Brief — State of the Buildout

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A data-grounded read across power, facilities, policy, capital & compute — drafted from our live data each week and published here after review. Distinct from the hand-authored analyst research below.

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The Power Wall: U.S. Power Demand Outlook

A forward view of where AI data-center electricity demand is heading across the major ISOs, and what clears the interconnection and generation bottlenecks first.

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Policy & riskMembers

Northern Virginia: The Bill Comes Due

The world’s densest data-center market is hitting physical and political limits. A deep-dive on transmission constraints, ratepayer politics, and where the next builds go.

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Capital & marketsMembers

Off the Books: Hyperscaler Capex & Financing

How the largest builders are funding the buildout — capex trajectories, off-balance-sheet structures, PPAs, and the financing strategies behind the headline numbers.

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Power & gridMembers

The Two Queues: Interconnection Pressure by ISO

The grid has two interconnection bottlenecks, not one — a supply queue of power plants and a fast-growing demand queue of data centers. A scorecard of where each is most likely to stall, and where capacity clears fastest.

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Frontier computeMembers

The Memory Wall: HBM and AI’s Second Bottleneck

Power is the buildout’s most-discussed constraint; memory is its least-appreciated one. HBM is sold out, its makers are diverting capacity from ordinary DRAM, and the packaging that assembles it is itself a bottleneck.

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Power & gridMembers

Nuclear & Gas: Powering the Next 50 GW

Behind-the-meter gas, SMRs, and nuclear restarts are reshaping how data centers get firm power. Ranked by time-to-power: what is real, what is hype, and what comes online this decade.

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State of the U.S. AI Data-Center Buildout

The national snapshot — mapped facilities and geography, live power demand by ISO and the generation mix, the state-by-state policy landscape, capital & SEC filings, and frontier compute. Built from the same data behind the dashboards and refreshed as sources update. Download / print to PDF.

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Our research turns the same sourced, regularly-refreshed data behind the dashboards into readable reports: a national State of the Buildout report and a report for each of the 51 U.S. states, all free to read. Premium analyst research — demand outlooks, regional grid-risk deep-dives, hyperscaler capex models, and interconnection-queue analysis — is included for paid members.

Reports build on our live power, policy, markets, and facility data, with sourcing documented in the methodology. Research is informational only and not investment advice — see our disclaimer.