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<v Sarah>Riot has a massive AI lease.

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<v Sarah>Now comes the awkward part: finding the power.

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<v Matt>On The Data Center Daily: Texas promises, Arizona guardrails, and FERC telling grid operators to explain themselves.

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<v Sarah>First up: Riot Rockdale, and the delivery dates buried beneath the headline.

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<v Matt>Follow the show and the next briefing lands in your feed on its own.

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<v Matt>A children’s hospital and a gigawatt server farm sit in the same interconnection line, and we still call that a functioning system.

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<v Matt>FERC told all six organized markets their large-load rules look inadequate.

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<v Matt>BYOP is what happens when customers stop waiting for permission.

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<v Sarah>meaning the grid’s biggest customers increasingly solve reliability outside the tariff.

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<v Matt>Right, but self-supply still needs equipment, land, permits, and often a wire somewhere.

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<v Matt>You don’t defeat a five-year interconnection queue by printing a brochure that says ‘bring your own power.’

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<v Sarah>Arizona’s co-op process offers another approach: connect the large load, but spell out who pays.

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<v Sarah>FERC is pushing on the queue from above, while state regulators decide who carries the bill.

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