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AEP just threatened to walk away from two power grids over connection delays as AI data-center demand buckles the nation’s largest utilities

American Electric Power, a utility serving more than 5.6 million customers across 11 states, has warned that it may abandon interconnection agreements with two regional power grids, citing years-long ...
Power Engineering

AEP projects 24 GW of new load by 2030, mostly from data centers

Source: The Roar. Creative Commons License. American Electric Power (AEP) is projecting 24 gigawatts (GW) of new load to come online by 2030, all backed by signed customer agreements, the utility said ...
Nasdaq

Big Beat, Bigger Plans: AEP Stock Powers Up on Data Center Boom

Shares of American Electric Power Co., Inc. (NASDAQ: AEP) are up more than 3% on July 30 after the company delivered a double beat in its second quarter earnings report. That pushes the stock’s ...
WOSU Public Media

AEP Ohio proposes onsite fuel-cell power generation for AWS, Cologix data centers

The desire for computing power at data centers is growing faster than the grid can supply it. AEP Ohio is proposing a new way to bring electricity to two large data centers that won’t tax the grid in ...