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Interconnection queues, tax credits and the pipeline — the constraints that bind after zoning clears.
Market Trend · 28 August 2026
Provo, East Vincent, Naperville, San Marcos, Rochelle. Every recent data-center refusal we can point to was handed down by a city council or a township — inside counties that look unremarkable from a county-level screen.
Market Trend · 20 August 2026
Governor Abbott froze roughly 250–300 grid-connection requests representing about 200 GW — more than twice ERCOT's record peak. For the first time the binding constraint on a data center isn't a county board. It's the queue.
Quarterly Recap · 4 July 2026
The second quarter of 2026 was the quarter Virginia stopped being a county-by-county story and became a statewide one.
Weekly Analysis · 4 July 2026
If you develop utility-scale solar, two dates have been circled on your calendar all year. This week, both of them passed within seventy-two hours of each other — and they push you in opposite directions.
Field Note · 21 June 2026
Virginia's state budget — normally a fight about schools and Medicaid — has become, this month, a fight about data centers. Two threads are converging on the same deadline.
Eleven denials in ten thousand records is not a measure of how often projects get stopped. Most are stopped earlier — by a moratorium that means no application is ever filed, or by a developer who walks away before a vote and leaves no document behind.
Latest publicly stated status for each facility, read 27 August 2026. A project can sit in "announced" for years without either a refusal or a shovel.
| Category | Value |
|---|---|
| Operating | 8,632 |
| Announced | 999 |
| Approved, not built | 184 |
| Under construction | 146 |
| Cancelled | 72 |
| Suspended | 42 |
| Withdrawn | 29 |
| Denied | 11 |
What The Scoop is. A weekly read on where energy and data-center projects are getting waved through, slowed down, or stopped cold — written from the ordinances, board votes, dockets and filings themselves. Every figure traces to a primary document. If a value cannot be verified against one, it does not run.
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