The Data Center Daily

Digital Realty’s Power Path Meets Local Grid Pushback

Tuesday, June 30, 2026 · 8 min

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Digital Realty put a 600-megawatt-by-2028 power timeline on Astra Enterprise Park near Kansas City, while local moratoria and Duke Energy’s North Carolina rate case show AI load growth pushing power, water, and cost-allocation fights deeper into permitting and regulation.

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Digital Realty put a 600-megawatt-by-2028 power timeline on Astra Enterprise Park near Kansas City, while local moratoria and Duke Energy’s North Carolina rate case show AI load growth pushing power, water, and cost-allocation fights deeper into permitting and regulation.

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  1. Digital Realty disclosed a utility-power agreement for Astra Enterprise Park near Kansas City: 600 megawatts of utility power by early 2028, with two gigawatts expected at full capacity. — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

    Digital Realty disclosed a utility-power agreement for Astra Enterprise Park near Kansas City: 600 megawatts of utility power by early 2028, with two gigawatts expected at full capacity. The Kansas City thread was already a land-position story; this filing adds the power path for a development site, which is the key infrastructure signal for whether acreage can become campus-scale data center…

  2. Digital Realty agreed to buy out Blackstone’s blended 64% interests in the Digital Carver Dulles 9 and Digital Carver Brickyard joint ventures, moving three Northern Virginia hyperscale developments toward wholly owned Digital Realty status. — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

    Digital Realty agreed to buy out Blackstone’s blended 64% interests in the Digital Carver Dulles 9 and Digital Carver Brickyard joint ventures, moving three Northern Virginia hyperscale developments toward wholly owned Digital Realty status. The filing identifies the assets as three hyperscale data centers totaling 288 megawatts in Northern Virginia, calls that market the world’s largest data…

  3. DeSoto County Moves Toward Data Center Moratorium as DCIP Group Project Sparks Water and Power Concerns — TMC Insight

    # DeSoto County Moves Toward Data Center Moratorium as DCIP Group Project Sparks Water and Power Concerns Published: 2026-06-29T11:22:39.970000+00:00 Source: insight.tmcnet.com (insight.tmcnet.com) Language: en ## Story DeSoto County directed its attorney to draft a one-year moratorium on new data center applications after residents raised environmental concerns. • DCIP Group's proposed…

  4. Grid expectations: Re-wiring Duke Energy's rate case for a clean energy future - Climate 411 — Environmental Defense Fund

    # Grid expectations: Re-wiring Duke Energy's rate case for a clean energy future Published: 2026-06-29 Author: Alison Wenzel The battle over the future of North Carolina’s electric grid is heating up in front of the North Carolina Utilities Commission. At the center of the debate is Duke Energy Carolinas’ 2026 general rate case, a multi-billion-dollar request that initially sought a staggering…