In this episode, Perkins Coie Partner Jane Rueger and Associate Attorney Jacob Neeley join Kaitlin Fallowfield to discuss a 14-page preview recently released by PJM Interconnection detailing its plans for the new rules for data centers seeking to bring their own generation to the grid.

The grid operator has been trying to come up with a framework to manage data center load and create more accurate forecasting measures. In December 2025, FERC ordered PJM to write its rules for co-location to include three key services, which include both firm and non-firm capacity contracts, and interim network service contracts.

The 14-page plan marked a preview of what PJM’s future FERC filing will include, teasing the idea of a separate, albeit limited, expedited queue for large load additions.

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On this week’s podcast, we sat down with Giles Hanglin, CEO of the UK-based energy and data centre developer Apatura to discuss its impressive development pipeline and the case for building data centres in Scotland.

Hanglin discusses the role of government policy — including Scotland’s designation as an AI growth zone — as well as the ongoing challenges around grid access and regulatory reform.

Despite broader market constraints, Hanglin remains confident in Scotland’s competitiveness relative to other UK and Irish markets. He points to ‘serious interest’ from a US-based data centre operator, backed by a major private equity firm, in Apatura’s six-site portfolio, for which Alantra worked as investment banking advisor.

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On this week's episode, Pure Data Centres Group CEO Dame Dawn Childs DBE joins Madeline Sherratt to discuss her entrance into the data centre landscape following an exciting career spanning the Royal Air Force to engineering at London Gatwick Airport, the National Grid, and now Pure.

The conversation includes a discussion on Pure's developments in FLAP-D markets, new opportunities following disruptive data centre moratoriums and the need for developers to become “power generation people” by interweaving renewables into their plans, as well as ongoing cost and regulatory constraints across Europe.

Childs also discusses the race against the Middle East as a frontrunner, and how fraught EU regulation allows developers there to “steal a bit of a march”. She also addresses the need for clarity on what “Sovereign AI” means and suggests that developers are on tenterhooks about the next UK Government location announcement for another AI Growth Zone.

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