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Abbey O’Brien is senior manager of market intelligence at Ulteig.

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In Big Tech’s race to build new data centers, decades of essentially flat load growth are now being upended by gigawatt-scale interconnection requests. While owners and regulators alike work to clear large load backlogs and provide reliable, affordable electricity, price-conscious customers can nevertheless still feel caught somewhere in between.