Wednesday, September 23, 2026
6:49 PM EDT · New York desk · United States edition
Desk
Campuses, megawatts, cooling, and the grid connections the buildout actually needs.
United States items are filed first. Stories from other regions stay on this desk, marked with their place.
41 items in this edition
New Jersey officials said that the natural gas-powered generators, each the size of a tractor-trailer, were operating without permits.
The New York Times
Water has shifted from a background utility to a core constraint for data centers, requiring site-specific resilience planning that addresses peak stress, local hydrology, and community impact, not just average efficiency metrics.
Data Center Knowledge
The Verge
Data Center Dynamics
Data Center Dynamics
Financial Times
Data Center Dynamics
Data Center Dynamics
The Information
The Information
BBC
Data Center Knowledge
Utility Dive
IEEE Spectrum
Data Center Knowledge
Financial Times
Data Center Knowledge
Data Center Knowledge
Data Center Knowledge
Data Center Knowledge
Data Center Knowledge
IEEE Spectrum
Data Center Knowledge
Data Center Knowledge
Data Center Knowledge
Data Center Knowledge
Data Center Knowledge
Data Center Knowledge
Data Center Knowledge
Data Center Knowledge
Data Center Knowledge
Data Center Knowledge
The Next Platform
Data Center Knowledge
Asia-Pacific
Tom's Hardware
Asia-Pacific
Financial Times
Asia-Pacific
BBC
Asia-Pacific
BBC
Asia-Pacific
Data Center Dynamics
Asia-Pacific
CNBC
Europe
Data Center Knowledge
Commodity tape
How this is pricedCompute
A100 80GB
$1.97
$/GPU-hr
6 of 8 houses · $1.38–$2.79
H100 SXM
$4.06
$/GPU-hr
9 of 11 houses · $2.89–$6.16
H200
$5.21
$/GPU-hr
3 of 5 houses · $4.59–$6.30
B200
$6.65
$/GPU-hr
4 of 6 houses · $6.25–$6.89
B300
$7.54
$/GPU-hr
3 of 5 houses · $6.60–$8.12
Gas
Henry Hub
$3.170
$/MMBtu
+0.258 on the day
Power
ERCOT North
$78.49
$/MWh
Dallas · real time
ERCOT West
$73.87
$/MWh
Abilene · real time
ERCOT Houston
$98.33
$/MWh
Houston · real time
CAISO NP15
$37.17
$/MWh
Silicon Valley · real time
CAISO SP15
$24.95
$/MWh
Los Angeles · real time
MISO Illinois
$34.21
$/MWh
Central Illinois · real time
MISO Indiana
$35.97
$/MWh
Indiana hub · real time
Columbus
$109.70
$/MWh
AEP Ohio PTC · to Sep 30
Waterford
$109.70
$/MWh
AEP Ohio PTC · to Sep 30
NYC Zone J
$39.50
$/MWh
New York · real time
Long Island
$39.46
$/MWh
NYISO LONGIL · real time
Palo Verde
$37.90
$/MWh
Phoenix · peak Sep 15
Mid-Columbia
$56.63
$/MWh
Oregon & Washington · peak Sep 15
Mass Hub
$46.93
$/MWh
New England · peak Sep 15
PJM West
$117.40
$/MWh
Eastern hub · peak Sep 15