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Grid Transition Radar · Edition Nº 002 · Site Selection & Ops · Free Read

The queue is a mirage. The next gigawatt lands where the power is already spilling.

1,762 GW sits in U.S. interconnection queues — more than the entire installed U.S. fleet — yet the grid AI most wants to build on has the longest wait in the country. This is the free read: the thesis, and two of the numbers. The full brief goes deeper.

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U.S. interconnection queue
1,762GW
More generation is waiting in line than the entire installed U.S. fleet. Volume isn't deliverable.
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Ashburn time-to-power
24.2months
The longest queue of any major U.S. grid — sitting under the world's #1 market.
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Ashburn zone load, right now
—MW
Live PJM telemetry under Data Center Alley — refreshed within ~15 minutes, every visit.
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Ashburn real-time power price
$36.94/MWh
The live locational price the world's densest data-center cluster is paying this hour.

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Featured grid: MISO

One full scoreboard row, unlocked for everyone — a different U.S. grid every day. The other six rows, with verdicts, are in the complete brief.

Time-to-power
19.4mo
Queue depth
224.2GW
Renewable share
6.8%
Curtailment
6.2%

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The line of the day

“Two markets clear every screen we run — power, fiber, water, tax — and neither is on a coast. The first is sitting on
Nº 002 · Site Selection & Ops · the sentence finishes in the full edition

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What's in the complete brief

The argument is free. The decision-grade detail — every ISO row, the buildability map, the live provenance envelope — is in the full edition.

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SPP curtailment & the build frontier
11.2%
Where clean power is spilling for want of load — the arbitrage, with the markets named.
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ERCOT queue & large-load
438.4 GW
The deepest queue in the nation, and how much of it is data-center driven.
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Full 7-ISO scoreboard
7 rows
Renewable mix, queue depth, time-to-power & verdict for every U.S. grid.
Pro
The 3 operator moves
Read-through
Exactly where to build, where to wait, and where to walk — this week.
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Northern Virginia cluster ledger
10,663 MW
Ashburn + Sterling + Manassas: 206 facilities across 57 operators — the full cluster read.
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Ashburn congestion component
$—
How much of the live price is pure congestion — the stress signal under Data Center Alley.

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The buildability map

Where the next gigawatt can actually land
U.S. ISOs · time-to-power vs spilled clean power · bubble = queued capacity
The full interactive map is in the complete brief
Seven grids, positioned and named — hover any one for its record.
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Tomorrow: Nº 003 — Agents & Developers

The Radar rotates through four audiences on a four-day cycle — same live data core, a different decision lens each morning. Today's numbers refresh within ~15 minutes all day.

Nº 001
Capital Allocators
Nº 002
Site Selection & Ops
Nº 003
Agents & Developers
Nº 004
Infra Press

Today is Nº 002 · Site Selection & Ops. Free readers get the preview of every edition; the full ledgers are pro.

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Source: DC Hub — dchub.cloud · CC-BY-4.0 Retrieved: 2026-09-11 19:42 UTC This is the free preview. Full edition rotates daily across four audiences.
SINCE YESTERDAY  ▲ +2.4 GW U.S. interconnection queue (1760 → 1762.4)▲ +1.2 GW MISO queue depth (223 → 224.2)▼ -18.4 months Ashburn time-to-power (42.6 → 24.2)
PROVENANCE
Live this build: U.S. interconnection queue (total + per-ISO depth) (2026-09-11) · per-ISO time-to-power (DCPI) · NoVA cluster ledger (canonical fleet DB)
Offline this build (showing last reference value): Ashburn zone load & real-time LMP
Calibrated reference: per-ISO curtailment & renewable share (no live per-ISO feed yet).
Content revision c3924ca7d202 — changes only when a figure changes, not when the stamp does.
Data: DC Hub (dchub.cloud) · CC-BY-4.0 · cite as "DC Hub, dchub.cloud".