Power & ratepayers
Whose grid this load lands on, and what it does to the households on the same wires.
- the campus load is a screening bracket — the demand-pressure read is withheld until an instrument grounds it
Every megawatt figure about a data center sits over a denominator, and that denominator is somebody's grid. A real impact study names the grid and cites the source. It then states what the campus load does to the households on the same wires.
Whose grid this is
| Link | Identification | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Serving retail utility | AEP Ohio (Ohio Power Company) | [reference] |
| Holding company | American Electric Power (AEP) | [reference] |
| Balancing authority | PJM Interconnection | [reference] |
| Wholesale market (RTO/ISO) | PJM Interconnection (RTO/ISO) | [reference] |
| Retail rate regulator | Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) | [reference] |
What those systems already carry
| System | Annual load | Campus share |
|---|---|---|
| AEP Ohio (Ohio Power Company) | 48,653 GWh/yr | 10.74% |
| PJM Interconnection | 815,056 GWh/yr | 0.64% |
| State retail sales | 161,934 GWh/yr | 3.23% |
The disclosed campus draws ~663 MW — at a 0.9 load factor, ~5,223 GWh/yr, the
numerator of every share above. The draw is itself an [inference].
The campus against consumer prices
The demand → consumer-price read needs an instrument-grounded campus load — an air permit or a filed disclosure. This site's load is a screening bracket, so the read is withheld rather than computed off an inference — the gap panel below names the instrument that would ground it.
- Grid foundation layer (#94). The state, AEP Ohio (Ohio Power Company), and PJM denominators are now all connector-sourced — Ohio retail from EIA (shared with #91), per-utility retail from the EIA-861 file, and PJM annual demand from EIA-930. The campus is a single load equal to a material fraction of its serving utility's entire retail sales. Denominator vintages differ (utility EIA-861 2024 / BA EIA-930 2024 / state EIA 2025 (1-year spread)): the EIA state seriesid route publishes ahead of the EIA-861 bulk file and the EIA-930 annual sum, so the three shares are not struck against one common year.
The cited service chain with its full citations, the cohort-price qualification, and the load report's inference chain are in the grid annex.
The record behind this chapter
What this chapter stands on: the records it reads, the inputs its modeled figures rest
on, and the reference data behind its baselines — the same pages the record screens
serve, not a second copy. A figure the record does not support stays [open] and links nothing.
- Grid & consumer energy (US EIA)Reference dataset