Pennsylvania Puts Unpowered Data Centers First in the Curtailment Line; Banks and Blackstone Assemble $60B for Broadcom's Anthropic Build
Saturday, October 3, 2026 · 11 min
Pennsylvania regulators propose interrupting new large loads that haven't brought their own capacity before anyone else during PJM grid events, while a $60 billion debt package forms behind Broadcom's compute for Anthropic. Plus Colossus's 90-day leases, a Microsoft-linked New Jersey site's year of unpermitted NOx, and Amazon's $1 billion community pledge.
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Pennsylvania regulators propose interrupting new large loads that haven't brought their own capacity before anyone else during PJM grid events, while a $60 billion debt package forms behind Broadcom's compute for Anthropic. Plus Colossus's 90-day leases, a Microsoft-linked New Jersey site's year of unpermitted NOx, and Amazon's $1 billion community pledge.
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