By Laila Kearney
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Talen Vitality has requested U.S. regulators to reject a problem to its current Amazon (NASDAQ:) knowledge heart deal, which is being opposed by a gaggle of electrical utilities that say the settlement might increase energy payments for most people, in response to a submitting on Friday.
Talen stated the problem, introduced by utilities together with American Electrical Energy (NASDAQ:) and Exelon (NASDAQ:), was inaccurate and that its interconnection settlement for the Amazon knowledge heart website wouldn’t trigger grid reliability issues or spiking energy prices for the utility prospects.
“It’s an illegal try and hijack this restricted interconnection service settlement modification continuing that they don’t have any stake in and switch it into an advert hoc nationwide referendum on the way forward for knowledge heart load,” Talen stated in its submitting with the Federal Vitality Regulatory Fee.
Know-how firms are in a race to entry huge quantities of electrical energy provides to energy and funky the info facilities, or large laptop warehouses, wanted to roll out applied sciences like generative AI. Nuclear vitality, which is just about carbon free and gives around-the-clock energy, has change into a prime decide for the info heart business.
Talen introduced in March that it had entered into an settlement to promote electrical energy and a knowledge heart campus positioned at its Pennsylvania nuclear energy plant to Amazon Internet Providers. The deal would offer Amazon’s laptop warehouses with an electrical capability of as much as 960 megawatts, or sufficient to energy about one million properties.
A handful of electrical utilities, together with American Electrical Energy and Exelon, final month requested FERC to carry a listening to to extra deeply scrutinize Talen’s interconnection settlement with Amazon or deny it outright. The group stated the interconnection settlement for the info heart might lead to a $140 million per 12 months value shift to on a regular basis ratepayers.
