Legalectric

We’re hearing a lot about potential data center demand for electricity. MISO recently released its “Expedited Project Review Results and Recommendation,” plans that, well, one could be a data center, and one is for sure.

On page 4-5, there’s a new 40MW load for West Glencoe. As you know, or should know, Glencoe is the site of “Bit 41” data mining which has been a problem for neighbors due to the noise.

Bit 49 crypto-currency in the news October 1st, 2022

The West Glencoe new substation is for a new 40 MW load, not much for a data center, so is it? No clue. Note the “N-1-1 low voltage concerns.”

On pages 5-6, there’s one that is expressly for a data center, 20 MW load (which isn’t much in the data center world). Look at the red star on the map, and granted it’s vague, but it looks to be the same location.

This new 1,000 MW load, across the river from St. Louis, what could that be???

Another new 1,000 MW load in same area, on the Missouri side of the river:

Those last two are from pages 12-27 of this Expedited Project Review Results and Recommendation, a cluster of projects all in the same area on both sides of the Mississippi River.

DOH: Kremlin hails Trump’s national security strategy as aligned with Russia’s vision

Here it is, you MUST read this, it’s beyond Project 2025, a horrific statement that is an extreme shift in U.S. policy, extreme shift in the most basic U.S. assumptions — such blatant white supremacist ideology:

The Trump administration has announced its intention to invade Minnesota this week.

Report: ICE headed to Twin Cities targeting Somali immigrants

Trump targets Minnesota’s Somali community with harsh words and policies

Claims that Somali immigrants “contribute nothing,” “have caused a lot of trouble,” and repeatedly calling Somalis “garbage,” including Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar.

Abandoning all subtlety, Trump calls Somalis ‘garbage’ as part of a racist rant

Trump calls Ilhan Omar ‘garbage’ and says Somalis should ‘go back to where they came from’

From that article:

And about Rep. Ilhan Omar:

And planning an operation here in Minnesota this week:

How to deal with this ugliness? Obscene isn’t a strong enough word — and this guy is “President?”

Missed all the “open houses” for “Power On Midwest?” I did… sigh… It’s a big project, to put it mildly:

Info from the “POWER ON MIDWEST” website.

Keep an eye on it for additional info. There were a LOT of open houses announced in October, way too many to cover. I wasn’t here in October, and by happenstance learned of the last one on the 14th of November when in Cannon Falls… arrrrrgh, I could have shown up at that one.

They’ve divided it up into segments consistent with the initial filings with the Public Utilities Commission:

• Big Stone South-Brookings County-SD/MN Border (South Dakota)
• SD/MN Border-Lakefield Junction
• Lakefield Junction-MN/IA border
• Lakefield Junction-Pleasant Valley-North Rochester
• Pleasant Valley-North Rochester-Hampton

Do note that all the Commission dockets are now consolidated under CN-25-117 (adding CN-25-118, CN-25-119, and CN-25-120).

FYI, aren’t these 765kV structures decorative?

I must admit that I appreciate their mention of “Buy the Farm” at this stage of the process, and hope they continue. From their boards at the open houses:

Here’s their link to all those boards.

Keep an eye on that CN-25-117 docket. To do that, go to eDockets HERE at the PUC, click on eDockets again, and enter the docket number as below, click “search” and there ya are:

Onward…

This last week, I’ve been seeing official governmental fb pages with utterly false, skewed, irresponsible fb postings. I’m reporting, reporting, posts and pages, not that it’ll do any good… It started with Dept. of Labor, and spread like a virus.

You get the point. Check it out for yourself.