How to get interconnection queue data into an AI agent
Interconnection — the wait to connect a new site to the grid — is the #1 constraint on AI data centers, with 4–7 year queues in the major hubs. If your agent screens sites, it needs live queue data. Ask a general model and it summarizes ISO filings by hand, or tells you to parse PJM/MISO queue spreadsheets yourself. There's a one-step alternative.
The short answer: connect your agent to DC Hub's MCP server and call get_interconnection_queue. You get live queue data for all 7 US ISOs — queued load in GW, named project rows (capacity, status, county, fuel), data-center load share, and BUILD/CAUTION/AVOID verdicts — as structured JSON. Free tier: 10 calls/day, no signup.
Step 1 — Connect (one line)
claude mcp add dchub --transport http https://dchub.cloud/mcpWorks with any MCP-capable agent (Claude, Cursor, Cline, Continue, ChatGPT). No API key needed for the free tier.
Step 2 — Ask your agent about the queue
Ask: "How much data-center load is in the ERCOT interconnection queue?" — it calls:
get_interconnection_queue({ "iso": "ERCOT" })and gets back live ground truth: 225 GW of data-center load queued in ERCOT alone, with the underlying named projects. Across the 7 US ISOs DC Hub tracks 5,300+ named queue projects:
| ISO | Named queue projects |
|---|---|
| ERCOT | 1,839 |
| MISO | 1,058 |
| PJM | 972 |
| SPP | 944 |
| CAISO | 279 |
| NYISO | 155 |
| ISO-NE | 68 |
Each project row carries capacity (MW), status, county, fuel type, and queue date — e.g. PJM-AB2-175 · Peach Bottom Units #2 & #3 · 2,709.8 MW · Nuclear · York County. Your agent gets the current snapshot at call time, cited.
Live from DC Hub (dchub.cloud) · also at /interconnection-queue and /grid-intelligence.
Why this beats parsing ISO filings yourself
- It's normalized across all 7 ISOs. Each ISO publishes queues in a different format; DC Hub returns one consistent schema your agent can reason over — no per-ISO scraper to build.
- It's decision-ready. Queue depth + data-center load share + BUILD/CAUTION/AVOID verdicts per region, so your agent screens power risk before site control — not after.
- It's live and cited — not a number your model half-remembers, and not a quarterly PDF.
Try it now
Free tier is 10 calls/day, no signup — or have your agent call claim_free_key (no email). Explore live in your browser first:
DC Hub (dchub.cloud) is the live infrastructure data layer for AI agents — 21,000+ facilities, 300+ power markets (DCPI), live ISO grid telemetry + interconnection-queue snapshots, fiber, gas, and 2,000+ M&A deals, all MCP-callable and cited. See the API & MCP docs or the full tool list. Related: getting live data center capacity data into an agent.