Topic
Data Centers
238 published works
China Law Insight
浮云任来去——海南自由贸易港“来数加工”的机遇与挑战
By King & Wood
作者：宁宣凤 吴涵 方禹 2024年11月29日，海南省通过了《海南自由贸易港国际数据中心发展规定》（以下简称《自贸港数据规定》），并于2024年12月1日起实施。《自贸港数据规定》旨在促进国际数据中心发展，支持开展国际数据中心业务，为促进数据跨境流动和提升数据治理能力提供保障，进而增强海南自由贸易港数据服务产业的国际竞争力，充分发挥数据要素对数字经济的引领作用。 海南自贸港自成立以来，就始终在持续推进发展具有国际竞争力的数据服务产业，探索培育国际化数据产业。如，全国首个数字保税区落户海南儋州洋浦，先行先试开展来数加工业务。所谓“数字保税”，即在特定区域内通过国际互联网专线进行数据交互，在确保数据安全的前提下，为产生于境外的数据要素提供收集、存储、加工、治理、交易等增值服务，服务产品用于境外市场或经审批后用于境内市场的商业模式，涉及数据的确权、保护、加工、应用和交易等完整产业链，是数字产业化和承接国际数据服务外包的重要业态。 阅读更多
Climate Solutions Legal Digest
Co-Location of Data Centers with Renewable Energy Projects: Legal, Environmental, and Operational Considerations
By Former Attorney Blake Hansen
The dramatic increase in the use cases for data storage, artificial intelligence and cloud computing have resulted in an atmospheric level rise in the demand for data centers, and the…
Climate Solutions Legal Digest
Renewable Energy and AI Data Centers
Although artificial intelligence (“AI”) dominated financial, technological, and even social conversations in 2024, less attention was paid to the reality that AI’s emergence entails substantial increases in energy demand, specifically…
Renewable + Law
PG&E Proposes New Electric Rule No. 30 for Transmission Level Electric Retail Service in Response to Rapid Increase in Transmission Level Demand and Data Centers
By Seth Hilton, Lilly McKenna, Meghan O’Brien
On November 21, 2024, Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) filed an application at the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC or Commission) seeking approval of a new Electric Rule No.…
Washington Energy Report
FERC Holds Technical Conference on Large Loads Co-Locating at Generating Facilities
By Alex Spratley, Ben Duwve, Elizabeth McCormick
On November 1, 2024, FERC Commissioners led a technical conference at their headquarters in Washington, DC, on issues pertaining to co-locating large loads at generating facilities. FERC Commissioners asked questions…
Washington Energy Report
FERC Rejects Co-Located Load Increase Proposal at Nuclear Facility
By Alex Spratley, Russell Kooistra
On November 1, 2024, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) rejected an amended Interconnection Service Agreement (“ISA”) filed by PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. (“PJM”) that proposed increasing the co-located data center…
McNees Land Use Blog
Artificial Intelligence and the Expansion of Data Centers
By Rachel Rowe
As artificial intelligence booms and our digital world grows, so does the demand for data centers. In August, Liz Young of The Wall Street Journal published an article about the…
Gravel2Gavel
Anatomy of a Data Center
By Robert A. James, Matt Olhausen
by Robert A. James and Matt Olhausen Traditional and social media are thick with reports and predictions of the remarkable increase in size, power consumption and significance of data centers.…
Inside Energy & Environment
New Sustainability Reporting Requirements for Data Centers in the EU
By Cándido García Molyneux, Max Jerman, Lasse Luecke
In March this year, the European Commission adopted the Delegated Act on a common rating scheme for data centers (“Delegated Act”) in the European Union (“EU”). The Delegated Act implements…
Inside Energy & Environment
As Interest Grows, FERC Announces Technical Conference Regarding Co-Locating Data Centers
On August 2, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) issued a notice of a Commissioner-led technical conference this fall to discuss issues related to co-locating large loads, such…