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Speculative load requests are flooding utilities, creating delays and confusion. A standardized and transparent load connection process could help. Getting power used to be easy. Jason Carolan, chief innovation officer at U.S. data center developer Flexential, remembers that just a couple of years ago, his company could get access to electricity almost anywhere in the country within a year. “It wasn’t a big deal,” he told Latitude Media. Now, though, things have changed. “We are selling our facilities two or three years in advance, because the demand is so high,” Carolan said. “And we’re asking our power partners to give us their roadmaps, which need to be five to seven years out.” The competition is stiff, so Flexential is often in talks with multiple power providers at the same time, in an attempt to gauge which load request will pan out first. The habit — logical from an individual company’s perspective — has become almost the industry standard for large load customers such as data

Getting power used to be easy. Jason Carolan, chief innovation officer at U.S. data center developer Flexential, remembers that just a couple of years ago, his company could get access to electricity almost anywhere in the country within a year. “It wasn’t a big deal,” he told Latitude Media. Now, though, things have changed. “We are selling our facilities two or three years in advance, because the demand is so high,” Carolan said. “And we’re asking our power partners to give us their roadmaps, which need to be five to seven years out.” The competition is stiff, so Flexential is often in

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