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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.

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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.