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The bill would pause new AI data center construction and approvals in New Jersey for six months. It is a state-level siting and community fight about whether projects can move forward at all, not a project approval itself.

Property owners have pulled back an annexation request tied to a proposed Amazon data center, which means the siting path for the project is now less certain. The filing does not say whether the project is dead, only that this land step has been withdrawn.

FERC is telling New York’s grid operator to change its tariff so data center projects can move through interconnection more quickly. The filing is about power access and the rules that govern it; it does not say which projects will get built, what they will cost hosts, or whether any specific site has been approved.

The piece is about a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission order that would require grid operators to rewrite interconnection and tariff rules for large data center loads. It concerns how new data center demand is handled on the power side, not a specific site, land deal, or water commitment.

PJM is broadening its response to growing data center load as capacity problems in its region worsen. The piece points to power-system planning and interconnection pressure on large loads, not to a specific project filing or local siting deal.

Pennsylvania regulators are asking whether the state’s grid can absorb more data center load without hurting reliability. The piece centers on power planning for a proposed buildout, with the public utility commission and PJM in the background, and it does not say that any specific project has won final approval or secured power.